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Picture this : My side hustle requires me to be available to perform it at 6PM on wednesdays. So outside of my normal work hours.

This was always OK before the pandemic. Everyone stopped working at 5, and I got to get ready for my hobby at 6. All good.

Now, parents need to be available for their children at 5. So they have to leave at 4. Someone has to stay until 6 to "make it up". It's a priority that we allow them to be available for their children. So I will have to let go of my hobby, so they can be with their children.

They might even justify it by saying "I will come early on thursdays to compensate, and you can start later". The thing is that I don't care about starting later on thrusdays. I want to be free at 6 on wednesdays.

And because my calendar does not include the magic "children" word, I automatically get the lowest priority when discussing schedules. Holidays during thanksgiving ? No sir, you don't have children, you would probably be sad and alone anyway! Those nice summer days ? Well, Henry wants to take his gasp children hiking during summer break, you can have a week in november, while his son is at school! And so on...

The children word is systematically used as an argument to justify some kind of priority for parents when defining schedules over those who don't have any children. And COVID made that really visible because people with children suddenly had even more constraint than those without - and you can guess who had to be even more flexible. And because non-parents are systematically being shown that they matter less, this creates resentment.
I'm saying that I can imagine a realistic scenarios where an extra extrajudicial execution could be seen as the lesser of two evil by reasonable people.

Yes, there should be oversight before the act and scrutiny after. Yes, it should be formalized.
A Python bot that attends your online classes and meetings
the Bunk Bot is built on Python and its main purpose is to attend your online meetings/classes for you.

This bot gets the meeting ID of your meeting from Google Docs (note: your friend can upload this for you if you can't) and opens Google Meet and logs in on your behalf.

It can use both Speech Recognition and Image Processing techniques to interact with other people in the meeting.

Once the meeting is done, it closes the Google Chrome page and this process continues every time you have an online class to attend.
All products even with ownership come with rules and regulations.

Houses can’t be arbitrarily changed. Cars have governors. Scissors shouldn’t be run with.

Ownership of an iPhone is not different. It just has special rules attached.

If you don’t mind breaking the warranty, please jailbreak your iPhone and install whatever apps you’d prefer.
Quickly skimming the site, it seems like Idena validates identity by having all users solve a turing test at the same time.

I fail to see how this ever scales. Surely as the user count increases it becomes extremely difficult to get all the users to be ready to validate themselves at the same time?
No, and what oblio wrote completely does not apply to NZ and Aus.

Japan is completely different from NZ and Australia, which are two very multicultural countries. I've heard that Japan tries to get people in on work visas to do stuff like aged care, but will never ever let them become citizens/permanent residents. Maybe they are struggling, I don't know.

I'm a NZer, and like the USA we certainly don't struggle to attract immigrants, and even so, non-European immigrants are not just welcome, they're the majority. I'm not aware that immigration settings are that way to keep the population growing; rather the aim is to bring in people with skills that are in shortage or to do low-paid jobs that locals don't want, especially aged care and fruit picking (equivalently: keep wages and prices low). The fertility rate is 1.81, but the population is growing fairly quickly.

Same in Australia. In fact, Australia is even more desirable (probably because of the higher wages).
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I'm not a big fan of this article, but I don't think it's advocating reading less. Rather, it advocates rereading a few core works more. There's something to be said for knowing a few things well instead of trying to know everything, but I also think getting exposed to new ideas is important.
It's probably a request from the affiliates program. They may have to acquiesce in order to participate. I'm assuming, if this was out of the blue it would be absurd.
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> Lol, most suggested here are garbage. Childish 'solutions' designed to just suck money from people pretending to help.

> Grab I also think is an amazing one

Could you elaborate?
The genre wouldn't exist without those add-ons. Since the market for grand strategy games is small this is their way to be profitable. That is how paradox sells all its titles.
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okay, so giving him 50 weeks (i think it was) in maximum security for a crime that normally gets a fine. holding him in solitary confinement (against human rights act) and not allowing him to meet with his lawyers/solicitors is how it should work?

I personally think that we can find people with less conflicts of interest - but in the UK we traditionally don't as we are normalised to the concentration of power that exists in a heavily class based society.

Would love to hear your comments on the article i linked to (https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikilea...) as it seems a bit tautological to just say it must be right because thats what the UK machinery does.

edit: Apologies i need to stop commenting as the article was linked in another response - its a VERY good read though and i think that when it comes to a potentially precedent setting situation like this the specifics are vitally important.
No, because the model is smaller.
Nothing against this specific post but with the massive influx of productivity YouTubers and Medium morning routine gurus I increasingly feel like blacklisting the word “productivity” entirely.
I thought they have a free tier from October? https://twitter.com/hardmaru/status/1301362995356774401

Not sure what the 100k tokens translates to in terms of query limit
out of the box probably not. gpt-3 is pretrained on a much larger corpus and is a much higher capacity model, which is why its been performing very well in zero-shot learning examples like the one above. That being said you should try it.

Note the huggingface library is a python library, so you'd technically be writing some code, though the library API is super user friendly and the community is very helpful.
This one really annoys me because they’re asking people to talk like idiots so that people can stop and think for a second, “Is this person an idiot?” to generate more interest in their product.
Thanks again for your comments. I also own a SaaS related to SEO and I can confirm what you see. Some bots request URLs that don't exist by trying to guess them. One the other hand, I also often see errors in links where the HTML contains for example <a href="www.example.com/another-page"> and is resolved as "https://www.example.com/www.example.com/another-page".
FYI, note that SingleFile is supposed to resolve all the links and that this should be reliable since it delegates this resolution to the browser.
Manufacturers could also use this to segment their product lines, i.e. prevent you from running a 'server' CPU in a workstation by using different keys or only use different keys for a 'value' line of products.
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We are currently beta testing India's 1st gaming platform (doofy.in) & would love to know what your internet speeds are if you based in India.
Your comment about your dog reminded me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uflTK8c4w0c

A mother meeting her dead daughter again through VR. It's a video that fills me with all sorts of emotions. It feels so wrong but at the same time it is very touching and beautiful.
>operated things like AWS at a loss for long periods

They are spending billions of dollars to expand into new markets and improve existing offerings. They are definitely spending more than they make. Of course, it would be ludicrous to suggest AWS is not insanely lucrative. But, technically correct is the best kind of correct, right?

>There is no way Amazon has echo / alexa out there just so it can develop a language recognition model.

Google famously did it with goog411, Amazon's claim here is the best kind of lie: it's not technically a lie

>These companies will OWN consumer loyalty.

Im locked into alexa. and now, i'm digging my way out. I fell into the trap!
> doesn‘t work in: Opera, Chrome for Android, IE and a couple more[1]

Are we looking at the same compatibility tables? Caniuse lists it as working in android chrome and opera with the exception of <thead> elements, which are not relevant here because OP's example was about <h1>, not <thead>. I'll give you IE, but that's already ignored by many.

> If you want anything more than a static site, you‘ll need JavaScript.

Forms are still a thing. Then there's hover animations, summary/details, video elements and a few other interactive things that don't need javascript.

There also is a middle ground between "static page" and "huge JS bundle". A little javascript usually isn't what makes web pages slow.
Outlook has a setting to automatically capitalize the beginnings of sentences. I turned that off. But it's been long ago, I forgot where that setting is. But I recall it was near the setting that enables smart quotes.
> If the average person is getting any of that it should cause inflation, shouldn't it?

That seems to be roughly correct. And yet, we are not seeing inflation.

The conclusion seems easy to me (perhaps too easy). The average person is not seeing much of that money being printed.
Instead, all of that money seems to be causing massive inflation in the stock market. The S&P500 and other similar indexes are incredibly high.

This is not caused by their expected cash flows growing. Instead, it is is caused by the expected returns of other money falling. Hence the expected 'time discounted cash flows' are increasing, simply because the discount rate is falling.
Or, in simpler terms, stocks prices are rising because people with a lot of money to spare need to put that money somewhere. And these people are getting a lot of extra money.

This effect is not a total waste. It should mean it becomes easier for new ventures to raise money on the markets. This could enable the creation of new businesses and innovation.

However, it could be a lot more effective to give this money to people who would do more with it than try and find a place to store it where they can still make some money of off it.
I still use Office 2003 as it is the last version without the ribbon. The ribbon is still a really bad idea and I can't wait for it to go out of fashion again.
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> only programmers care if they have access to the source code, and most people aren’t programmers. and i am a programmer, and i don’t give a shit.

What a horribly short sighted view...

What happens when the company stops developing the software for your device?
Would be nice to see a benchmark on large scale deployment overall and individual cost, reliability, etc.

I also think that fast(er) internet without relying on governments could be interesting for many people in presumably developed countries like France and Germany and make living outside of large cities much more attractive to many.
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Less expensive? Could you please elaborate? I looked at their website and there is no pricing at all. Only 'Contact sales'. Even the 'sign up for free' does not explain what I could possibly get 'for free'. If they are cheaper than it would beneficial to them to write that in a headline ;-)
For foreign readers, the income tax in France is a secondary tax that more than half of workers do not pay at all (it's low compared to other taxes and it's divided by the number of children). Don't be mislead when hearing that there is no income tax, France has many taxes.

What you say is misleading. (1) That's not quite right for a single parent because they get more allowance but can't claim tax credit with no tax. (2) That's not quite right for a couple each around minimum wage because they get no allowance but may claim some tax back. (3) That's not quite right for a couple with good dual income or extra revenues because they're not eligible to any benefits but may be able to claim a good chunk of the child care in tax credit.

France has extremely strong threshold effects. A penny less and there's more allowance, a penny more and benefits are cut while taxes are increased. It's really hard to generalize.

In all cases though, it's tough for a household to pay for childcare. My sister is a childcare worker so I'd know, all parents are dual income earners, like the equivalent of the high earning engineer/lawyer household making $300k+ a year in the valley. They earn enough to pay for childcare upfront and get a fair chunk back in tax credits.
As someone using iOS, does Chrome really update multiple times a week for security patches? Am I overestimating how often security fixes go in?
> Now consider that 18 hours of work for Waterluvian right now would be an 18 hour holiday. It's all relative.

It really wouldn't though, or they'd happily work 18 hours a day, just to enjoy the holiday, and then retire in a year or two, to enjoy their permanent holiday. They don't, obviously, because it's just a thing to say that sounds cool.
I've found responding to customers very quickly often generates extra work for very little benefit. Slowing the cadence seems to encourage more thoughtful messages on both sides.
It’s not about advertising. It’s about trust building.

Apple has earned trust with me as a user. When I download an app from Apple’s stores it extends its trust to those apps.

I feel more comfortable spending money on iOS because of that trust. Take away the trust, and I promise there is significantly less money to be made.
Would it be a good time to take holiday leave? Work on some side projects or hobbies?
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Funny, how those that don't have children most likely do expect to have their pensions paid for by the children of the people that do have children.
In many jurisdictions the product has to be 'fit for purpose', should the PSP be cracked and a hacker able to use it to assist malware wouldn't that make AMD's product not fit for purpose???
He wasn't really held prisoner though. He was being tortured.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/may/31/julian-assange...

Democratic IMO means: the majority of people in a country take all political decisions that matter to them. They decide about the creation and alteration of all laws that matter to them. The majority of people in a country is well informed by free press.

With that in mind I would argue there isn't really any country in the world that comes close to being democratic (with the exception of maybe Switzerland).
> But when you say "current versions", which current operating nuclear plant achieves this ramp speed?

IIRC that 5% figure I read was wrt EPR and AP1000, presumably older generation LWR's are slower, by how much I'm not sure. France has run older generation PWR's in load-following mode for decades, but I'm not sure which ramp speeds they achieve; fast enough in practice in any case it seems. CANDU reactors in Canada have steam bypass and can apparently ramp at >10%/min.

In any case, my point is that ramp speed is in practice not a technical limitation. Of course you want to run a generator with high capital cost but very low marginal cost at 100% as much as possible, but if you now and then need to ramp (say, if the wholesale price goes negative) you can do it.

> Also, it means you have to run your reactors regularly at below 100%, so you still can react on additional demand, which increases further the cost of a very expensive technology.

To be clear, I'm not advocating a 100% nuclear grid. I'm just pointing out that the "nuclear can't ramp and is thus unsuited for the grid of the future" isn't correct. In particular, I think solar and a moderate amount of storage is very well suited to cover the daily variation in many parts of the world. I also think that dispatchable low-carbon sources (which could be hydro, or nuclear, or something else like geothermal where available, CCS where geological formations for storing CO2 are available, etc.) have a role to play in least-cost deep decarbonized grids. See e.g. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2018.08.006
local papers are not always your best source of news in many areas, investigative television news is where its at and because there can be multiple of these in an area they tend to cover stories that printed media won't or don't always slant the same way.

The idea that news is only printed media long ago passed.

edit : the idea here is at the local level the source of news is flipped when compared to what is valuable at a national level.
That's 3 month max though
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That depends. Cars are on the verge of being pretty cheap to electrify. Long-haul airliners, not so much. The smart thing would be to put a substantial price on carbon, give credit for sequestering, and let the market do the rest.

In the long term, we're going to need net negative emissions anyway. CO2 is already too high and is still rapidly increasing.
1. I write mostly about happenings in quantum information and quantum computing. Ranges between dives into interesting papers and commentary on recent funding/start-up developments.

2. Whenever I feel inspired. Sometimes that means several posts within a week or two, sometimes it means months without posting. I realized I can’t force myself to do it unless I’ve got something on my mind. I just can’t write about something that I’m not obsessed with.

3. I host it on netlify as a static site. Seemed easiest at the time.

4. https://whirlwind.netlify.app/
formally the answer to the question of "is shared pointer thread safe" is "no": modifying a shared pointer (for example by assigning to it) while another thread is reading (or writing) is UB (unless all accesses are done via the now deprecated std::atomic_* operations.

It is true that the ref count is kept atomically, which allows accessing two distinct shared pointers that happen to point to the same object from different threads. This is pretty much a requirement to support the baseline
distinct object thread safety (aka "as safe as int), but it is not what the unqualified "thread safe" normally refers to.

/pedantic

Anyway, it is true that with shared_ptr sometimes you might end up paying for what you do not use, but doing otherwise would have made any use of shared_ptr in threaded applications extremely unsafe so it was felt that in this case the cost was worth it for a vocabulary type object.
I’m never going tie my money to a voice activated anything. The last thing I need is to have a prankster on YouTube say “Alexa buy 1000 rolls of toilet paper” at March 2020 prices.
> However, the root of trust is embedded to the CPU. So, you can't hammer the CPU on another board for keys.

I guess that's the key point here.
It's really more diffuse than that. These measures drive down corporate bond yields across the board, giving them access to capital to use less wisely, or to operate in zombie mode, being unprofitable but never defaulting due to perpetually cheap debt.

The corollary of this situation is that the Fed must not allow debt rates to rise, otherwise an enormous wave of corporate defaults within a short timeframe would ensue.

This also explains why markets keep rising even when the economy is in shambles. The Fed will be a buyer of last resort for everything (the "Powell Put"). Yields are near zero for everything "safe", the money in the funds has to go somewhere, so it goes to assets like stocks and corporate bonds. Stock prices go up, bond yields go down. Corporations can get cheap debt to buy back their own stock.

Meanwhile, the Fed can act like there's no inflation because the CPI doesn't reflect these capital flows, at least not in the average. However, if you split up the CPI, you see significant inflation in some areas, whereas you see natural deflation (due to better productivity/technology) in other areas.

The individual or the mom-and-pop store indeed do not have access to this capital, they are footing the bill.
I still think it’s rather interesting as an approach. In fact with that, the potential of creating a DIY ND filter out of welding-glass [1, 2] becomes a little more unnecessarily involved :D.

[1] https://petapixel.com/2016/06/23/use-welders-glass-1-nd-filt...
[2] https://www.diyphotography.net/use-welding-glass-as-10-stops...
There's a degree of purpose to artificial scarcity though. If construction is completely unchecked, then the demand, and load on infrastructure can reach a point where it becomes unusable to everyone,old and new residents.

I've lived in Toronto for a long time, and after pockets of th city got rezoned and high-rise construction was allowed, it created a situation where it was not possible to get onto public transit during peak hours, and people resorted to walking to work for 45 min instead of their planned 15 min commute when they brought their condos pre-construction. Similarly the growth of immediate Toronto suburbs has been so immense, that it is not possible to get a seat on the subway if you don't board at the terminus station (as suburbanites fill them). The city is addressing these problems through transit expansion, but it is taking decades for each project to complete (example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_5_Eglinton).

The main point is, zoning in a vacuum is not evil, or if more palatable, a necessary evil.
I agree 100%. I never said it’s the total purpose of a life. There are infinitely many ways to find purpose. Not having kids (or having them) doesn’t make anyone’s life better or worse or necessarily have more or less purpose. That’s up to the individual.

Perhaps my language was too strong. I do believe it’s important we make accommodations (extra time off when having or adopting a child for both parents, accommodations during Covid and work from home, etc) that those of us (myself!) don’t get.

I feel like more and more society is penalizing people for having kids and I feel like that’s a sickness in a society.
What would it look like if this wasn't a problem?

More specific topics? More credibility?
Was anyone actually selling software over the internet in the 80's/early 90's at scale?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_Realms#The_Apogee_Model_(19...
> Imagine further if these sectors had a 30% inefficiency rate

This is just the if Microsoft made cars joke -

http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/lists/progsoc/1996/0033.html

The articles solution seems to be magic -

"Deep learning systems can enable us to better exploit expanding health datasets"