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I agree we should all inform ourselves and vote but this statement may be taking it too far.

If I'm presented with two candidates, neither of whom I agree with, what am I to do? If I can't trust a word of any politician, how can I make an informed decision?

What do you mean by responsibility? I assume you don't mean every American civilian should be prosecuted for the crimes of their government? If you don't mean this, please clarify what you mean.

Which country are you from? Are you responsible for all of their actions?
I studied IT security quite a lot, and implement Windows patches for dozens of companies. While you are technically right, Microsoft releases broken patches _constantly_. If we pushed out every single patch the moment they were released, we would constantly be down and fighting fires. Most small and mid-sized companies don't have hacking campaigns run against them most times. Given this, it just doesn't make sense to push out every single patch immediately. Microsoft's patches are a whole lot more stable when they're a couple months old.
Big props to cart (and of course everyone contributing!) for putting a huge focus on community development after release. It can be challenging to set aside the fun work but it looks like it has paid off so far. The async task system and WASM work are particularly exciting community contributions -- Bevy is much closer to being a viable web-game engine now thanks to those.
Well, there are other options but for some reason the market stolidly keeps on being centred around two platforms while ignoring the alternatives. For most people those alternatives - whether they be Linux distributions, browser-centred platforms like Google's Chromebook, large-screen keyboard-controlled mobile platforms like Android or iOS or otherwise - seem to be off the radar even though they often would work better than Windows or MacOS for their application.
In my opinion mainstream software will be abstracted away to the point where you are working on defining and refining requirements. And will likely look very different.

Interestingly I feel software construction might become more craft man like in some areas. And in others a little more workman like.

To be open I feel my vision is very far away, maybe 40-50 years
If you’re not an expert, you can quickly improve your thinking using some of these concepts. For a variety of reasons, it’s not possible for most people to only do things they have mastered.
Indeed, though thinking about it people living in "whales" would probably have low vitamin D levels as well.
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Even though they must have pushing the limits of the plane, 738 km all electric is definitely a significant accomplishment. I wonder just how light their plane is!
Twitter consistently centers image previews on whiter faces
Probably whatever TLS or GPG needs
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That joke appears in a lot of Microsoft memes though. Not sure if posting some is appropriate here. Probably not.
Many, if not all, lives are as rich as this and would benefit from as romantic a retelling.
While the interpretation of the Berne Convention will vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, Chief Justice McLachlin of Canada's Supreme Court offers significant guidance https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/scc/doc/2004/2004scc13/2004scc1...

> In addition, an original work must be the product of an author’s exercise of skill and judgment. The exercise of skill and judgment required to produce the work must not be so trivial that it could be characterized as a purely mechanical exercise.

We should check the German Supreme Court as well https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=347fb9e3-0348...

> for the protection of works of applied art under copyright law “a degree of creativity which allows, from the view of a public open to art and sufficiently skilled in ideas of art, to be called an ‘artistic’ performance”

In both of your examples and your further question alas there is nothing clear cut here. If someone copied Example 2 and decided to sell it to a museum as a piece of modern art and the museum decided to accept it as such, there's a very high chance of a successful lawsuit of infrigement. In most cases, however, you might find it extremely challenging to prove in a lawsuit that something made from LEGO reaches the treshold of originality.

And can you sell instructions and LEGO pieces? Sure, why not. You own the LEGO pieces, under the first sale doctrine, LEGO has exhausted their rights to them. Creating new instructions are free speech and as such, they are absolutely impossible to stop. Even in jurisdictions where free speech is more limited in the United States, legislators have been extremely careful on setting those limits. (Even where lockpicking is not legal, lockpicking videos absolutely are. Agatha Christie novels are sold despite they could be viewed as recipes on how to commit murder. And so forth.) Now, if someone produces a different set of instructions that results in the same thing, there's nothing you can do to stop them as ideas are not copyrightable. You could patent it should it rise the level of patentability.
At the exec level, a good 70-80% of your time is probably unable to budge, so 25 hours of discretionary time _is_ a big investment - probably most of your discretionary time for a calendar month. It sounds like it was well worth it though.
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Yeah, by price controls, I was referring primarily to the Medicare Fee Schedules: https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare-Fee-for-Service-Paymen...

Every payer (public & private) has “fee schedules”, which is just the list of prices for all treatments and/or drugs (in the case of PBMs), and Medicare’s fee schedules are often (but not always) lower than those of private payers. The “Medicare is more efficient” argument is essentially predicated on the idea that physicians would be forced to accept the lower fee schedules for everyone, which essentially amounts to “price controls”.

Re: Medicare Part D, the federal government is actually not permitted to negotiate drug prices directly (unlike the VA), and that’s a really contentious issue on its own. Medicare doesn’t actually pay for Part D drugs. Ironically, with Part D, the opposite happens: Medicare doesn’t do the negotiating, and Part D providers rely on private insurer leverage.
> We claim that reasoning did not evolve to allow the lone reasoner to find the truth. We think it evolved to argue.

Argue over what?

One can easily argue (npi, and I will) that reasoning evolved in the individual to aid understanding, to comprehend. You first need to hold a point of view before you can argue that position and collectively reason about an object.

You seem to give legs to your position by substituting "truth" for "understanding". A reminder that we humans collectively have "understood", "communicated", and wrote tomes on all sorts of falsehoolds. Reasoning has nothing to do with "truth" in principle.
Thanks for the interesting first link. Now I understand your earlier comment
Apple has federal government granted monopolies on patents, copyrights, and trademarks that forward their plan of eliminating a free and open Internet and make it illegal to compete with them.

So no I don't think there is a real distinction.
I am 69, so I will chime in here: I now spend much more time dedicated to the food I eat, exercise, and meditation.

A good thing is that I mostly no longer care much about changing other people's opinions on things. I certainly enjoy talking and expressing myself but if someone listens to me then that is sufficient - they don't have to agree with me. It works the other way also: even if I disagree with someone, I can enjoy hearing what they say.

I retired 1 1/2 years ago and have been enjoying having lots of time to read, write books, spend time with friends and family, and hiking. That said, just yesterday I verbally agreed to a job offer for work that was just too interesting to pass up. Assuming that the employment contract looks good, then I am all-in.

My advice is to not worry about getting old, just make sure that you enjoy your life as much as possible. There are sayings about living life one day at a time, but that seems too coarse grained. I would suggest enjoying every minute of your life, and if you are not happy right now, this instant, then file a bug report with yourself. You can't do good work if you are not totally into the moment of what you are doing. You can't enjoy listening to someone if you are inside your own head and not giving that person your full attention. Play time and family/friend time are wasted if you are thinking about wanting to be doing something else.

Thanks for posing a good question.
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I wouldn't say "national security" are the magic words. When Trump tried the Muslim ban it was overturned, same for building the wall which was justified by "national security".

I think the magic happens when the issue is bipartisan, which is the case here as both parties are anti-China. When an issue is supported by both parties then it will pass 100% with no obstacles from the constitution or any laws.
Well I mean all it takes is a better offer, and all you need for that is more money. Wouldn't necessarily call it influence but yeah, it's still crazy either way.
That sounds similar to virtual lego building, though perhaps with more degrees of freedom.

Indeed that might be more natural than any “natural language” ever could be.
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SCons is the worst experience I've had with a build system. No one, even its advocates, ever really understood what was going on. Things became so much simpler and orders of magnitude faster when we switched away
Could add a Chromecast on one of the Hdmi ports of the monitor. That's what I do
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> You’re missing the biggest reason this is relevant: enterprise IT shops with strict change management processes amd, especially in government, years of austerity budgets cutting resources for both sysadmins and rigorous testing.

What's worse?

a) Deploying a fix and (unlikely) some, perhaps all, related systems fail until they are fixed internally or

b) Not deploying a fix and have your servers owned by an adversary?
- 25,000 jobs.

- $5billion Educational fund.

- 20% ownership by Oracle and Walmart.

- Access to codebase by Oracle.

- Opportunity for Oracle and Walmart to increase stake by further 20% pre-IPO.

- New HQ in Texas, US.

I know that people in the US likes to criticize Trump a lot but he sure has his merits and this is one of them.
I suspect the only naivety is with respect to what that would do to facebook's revenue.
Cabinets filled with illegal explosives at cutting-edge precision multi-billion factory with priceless equipment awaiting for an accident?

Only if it very safe explosives planted in strategic places by Taiwan military with consent from all parties involved with solders posted 24/7 to protect from sabotage.

Like bridges in military time.
Found a 20 year old copy of my first prescription.

Identical to my non prism glasses.

My advice, if your head hurts, there is a reason for it. And it probably matters.
The details always matter in these kinds of statements, and I guess there is often exaggeration in a lot of claims to have designed things. Someone that made a one sentence comment on a design then claims to be the one that actually made it work. It’s clear that Woz was a uniquely talented hardware designer, but he also wasn’t living in isolation (although imagine what it would have been like if he had the internet).

In Chuck Peddles oral history at the Computer Museum he has this to say about Apple:

Peddle: Apple II. OK, so Apple I. Peter lived in the Bay Area, and he was my salesman for the Bay Area. So he was selling Atari and all that sort of stuff. And we went to two or three other of his customers and helped them with the ICE. And he called up and said, hey, we got these two young guys working on this computer in their garage, and they can't make it work. So Peter and I took the ICE down, and we made it work.

Peddle designed the 6502 and a lot of 6502 systems, he would have been a great person to have around to get your design going. And an ICE (In Circuit Emulator) would have helped too.
Really slow. We'll see if it's rugged enough for flight training, or is a hangar queen. Also most of the electric protos have been destroyed in fatal battery fires. Oops.
The former is clearly possible in more pessimistic ways...
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I know how to compute the expected value. No, if I want to hedge I'd spend a lot of money on earthquake insurance and hope it actually pays out. Damaging earthquakes are not unlikely event in these locales. In the next 20 years a 6+ magnitude quake is above 90% in the Bay. Something like 60% for a 7+. Cascadia subduction zone produces 9s almost periodically, and it is overdue as well.
you're missing the point; he's saying that sun lamps don't have the same effect as the sun. This isn't just a "feature" that some lamps have and others don't; it's a crucial missing ingredient that results in the sun lamps you are suggesting simply _not working_.
TSMC isn’t a purely monetary profit driven company, though your right usually they do business as if they were. Because 100% of something is much different than 99% in B2B and at this scale. Though of course TSMC is a bit special because they are comfortably ahead on something that the only possible competitors are even more unlikely to do exclusivity.
If forking is the issue, why didn't they just do multiprocessing instead with a bunch of worker processes and work going into queues?
On the other hand try searching for the meaning of ?: without knowing that it’s called “ternary operator”.
The "rare" part. Due to bad sex ed and hurdles to get birth control, there were a lot of teen pregnancies. It's not Clinton's fault, it was bad state policy.

I am in the same camp as you.
For as long as the concepts that words refer to remain ambiguous for general discourse, there's not much use for a grammar that can only indicate extremely specific relations. Well, except in, say your example of a legal domain, where a specialized language (legalese) comes into service.
Wondering what you have in mind ? Deep linking to other papers for example ?
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The A100 is on TSCM 7nm.
But there are things that can only be fully described using natural language. Emotions, for example. There aren't any visuals or formalism for those. (And no, emoticons don't count.) On the other hand, description is a form of communication anyway, so I fail to see the distinction that you are trying to make here.
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It seems that future prediction is a common enough activity that there should be a few rules for predicting the predictions too.
I suppose the "Education fund" is indirectly owned by Trump?
Yeah, I've been unhappy with any automake system for a long time. Haven't tried ninja though. Scons was fine-ish.

Now that because work forces me to develop on a locked down windows box, make is the last thing I want.
Fox News was conceived as and currently is a propaganda network for the Republican Party. Roger Ailes, a Nixon advisor, saw how the media caused the public opinion to really sour during the Watergate scandal and impeachment and he had the foresight to counteract it. He was the first CEO for Fox News, which was funded by Rupert Murdoch, founder of SkyNews in Australia, another network with not the best reputation.
I've never suffered so much as when programming in Applescript, which was supposed to be natural language programming. (Or for that matter, when trying to communicate with voice assistants, which are supposed to be natural language processing, but would be much easier to work with if they came with a list of keywords they understand)
It was the tradition of New England churches to keep pretty good birth, death, and marriage records. Plus, the Mayflower gang and other early arrivals have been fairly extensively documented. Once you can hook your limb of the tree into the existing documents, the rest of the database is just there.

My wife is into genealogy as a hobby. Chasing my New England roots was an easy warm-up exercise. Chasing her Nordic roots through revolving patronymics, now that gets mind-bending, and actually the trail goes cold pretty fast unless you get lucky.
Why is Vitamin D not called "Hormone D"?

I understood that vitamins could not be produced by the body, but hormones are produced by our bodies. How many "Scientists" would argue that hormone D therapy actually works instead of arguing against the efficacy of vitamin supplements and lumping the oddball possibly miss named Vitamin D in with them.
You still feel the same as when you are in your twenties. In fact in answer to the the question "How old do you feel?" I always feel like I'm about 22.

However ..... for some reason you can't do as much. Some jobs that you could do all day once upon a time now leave you exhausted after an hour or so. Those hills seem steeper than they look. That package is heavier than you thought it was. I suppose I'm trying to say that your body hasn't maintained the same youthfulness as your head has.
> Also is it even possible to standardize error handling best practices across entirely different software components like an OS kernel, a web service and a CLI tool?

I agree that "what to do about errors" differs a lot in those domains (and even more in some others, like embedded). That's not a reason not to standardize - it's something the standard needs to take into account.

Ideally, if I am writing a bit of code that could be in more than one of those domains, there is something standard I can do about errors that will provide sufficient flexibility to my users that I can act appropriately to the domain I actually find myself in. Without too much complexity.
Maybe it's late and I am misunderstanding ... Why would one not want a Google device on their LAN?

Isn't a Chromecast very different than controlling locally stored media files, i.e. you can stream YouTube, Netflix, Spotify, mirror your devices (laptop), etc on Chromecast but not your solution?
Landfills will welcome the load of Netgear hardware that cannot be sold as used anymore, although perfectly working, because of this nonsense.
Nobody else I know on Virgin Media is experiencing this. Is it possible you have some malware on your device/network?
Fast cheap bandwidth and storage too then.
Brave recently released Together, which uses Jitsi. Wish we could see a bigger push towards staying off Zoom and Meet. Seems like Jitsi, Together and others can provide solid alternates to Zoom - just a matter of getting users to care enough to switch.
I'm not certain that's sound medical advice (in fact, my intuition leans on it being bad advice)
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McConnell was given the power to do that by the rest of the Senators who put him in that position.

The narrative that Garland would have been confirmed if only he’d gotten a vote assumes that McConnell didn’t have the support of his caucus in what he did. That’s an incorrect assumption. They could have removed him and done what they wanted to do if there was some groundswell of support for Garland in the Republican Party. There wasn’t, they supported McConnell, and Garland wasn’t brought to a vote. That’s just how politics works.
Yeah whatever software they use to help discover, develop and trial vaccinations too.
I think you’re mischaracterising his argument. His problem isn’t with further layers of abstraction, it’s with people complaining that those layers of abstraction still need to be strictly and unambiguously defined.
This all started when you said something to the effect that "packet oriented formats" were bad. When asked to clarify you switched the topic to how flexibility in cryptography was bad because it could lead to downgrade attacks. I pointed out that downgrade attacks were not really possible in a data at rest application and that the article you linked to was about data in flight applications.

That's it. That's the actual arguments to this point. Then you just said nope.

You are not claiming that logic and facts are irrelevant here, are you?
I’ve never read Octavia Butler, but the first paragraph has me convinced. I’ll be ordering a few books tonight.
The PSVR has sold 5 million units or so to date, and there's going to be a second generation. There are a lot of games which support it due to this install base. That's pretty mass market.

(It's popular enough that Sony actually has made a second iteration of the headset, but it's not an upgrade.)

It's not as accessible as the Oculus Quest, but the PS4 has sold roughly 106 million units to date, and gamers are probably the biggest market at present for VR devices.
They didn’t have majority until recently, and according to Vox and many left leaning sites, they’ve voted quite liberally since.

Further, there’s this: https://thehill.com/regulation/454463-ginsburg-dismisses-cou...
#12. is pretty convincing.
Just to confirm this has also happened to me in UK overnight, so definitely a new change and international. To echo others, I wonder what will happen to all the businesses using facebook as their main site. I’m sure some won’t care but others might see a gradual drop in foot fall
They don't. But you'll have trouble to admit possession of a recorded call unless you're sure you legally obtained it. So unless you merely use it for your private training purposes its of limited value.
The AdNauseam browser extension mentioned in the article: https://adnauseam.io/
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This feels a little harsh. A huge community effort has gathered behind Bevy, and there are a lot of interesting projects that people have made with it so far. Check out the showcase channel of the Bevy discord.
When has it ever been tried at the macro scale?
“ I think back on the deadline death marches and jumping on grenades to get projects back on schedule ... and every one of those deadlines was a sham”

- I’m only just beginning to recognise this. I checked myself out from hospital early this year to join a standup meeting, to make sure the project was on schedule. Thinking about that now makes me angry. It was pointless.
Where in anything you linked to do does it indicate that there are conservatives rioting, looting, or burning buildings?

There have been many peaceful assemblies of conservative protesters, some legally bearing arms, which interestingly have been condemned by the Democrats. But there are no mass mobs destroying property and causing mayhem. There’s no conservatives defending such behavior because it does not exist.

It’s unique to the left. Minneapolis, Kenosha, Oakland, you name it. It’s left wing mobs that destroyed those cities.