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It matters if it short circuits, yes. (Electricians, I hope I got this right enough to convey the 'why'; I know it won't be perfect.)

The outlet plugs specify the circuit breaker limit. Most consumer electronics in the US use a 15amp plug, which can be plugged into a 15amp outlet or a 20amp outlet — but no higher, due to physical incompatibilities in the outlet design.

The electronics that use the 15amp or 20amp plugs are therefore built not only to draw no more than the amps rated by their plugs, but also to self-destruct relatively safely if they draw the maximum amps available from the circuit breaker backing that plug.

So if a cheap device correctly assumes as part of its "don't explode" protections that it will never receive more than 20amps due to using a 15-or-20 amp plug, and then it short circuits while plugged into a 25 amp circuit using an adapter, it could very well explode, because the basic guarantees of electrical safety were violated. The plug used guaranteed it would never receive more than 20amp, and now it's receiving 25!

This is especially relevant when you're considering how to make use of an idle 30A dryer outlet in a garage. If you just plug an adapter into it, and your device short circuits, it will explode even more violently. Risk of harm increases with outlet power.

There exist fancy "breaker box" adapters that have a 30A plug on one side, a fuse box with a 15A or 20A fuse in the middle, and a 15A outlet on the other side for you to use. It's not really an adapter at that point, but the presence of that 15A/20A fuse provides the missing piece of protection for your 15A/20A device that a plain adapter wouldn't have.

So in summary, the only way to safely use a 15amp device on an outlet that delivers power higher than 15-20A is to somehow inline a 15-20A breaker between the device and the outlet (or, to rewire the outlet and its power feed to 15-20A).

TL;DR: Hire a licensed electrician to tell you what your options are and decide how much you care to spend and whether you want to make permanent modifications to get the job done.
Yes, a joke in bad taste is richly deserving of mass public humiliation, getting fired, and not having work for 8 months. I love our brave new world!
> What if I say that science and logic apply outside of "human culture" while religion and morality do not?

I would say that when it comes to morality in particular, I have the opposite intuition in that morality would be highly likely to extend behind the human experience. As you say in another comment, yes I agree that the rules are arbitrary and there is no absolute morality. However, that’s like that saying in statistics that all models are wrong. Yes, but some are useful.

All moral systems may be arbitrary (a perspective that by the way is a part of philosophy), but some are useful, perhaps even necessary, for the well-functioning of society. Discussing how to make, extend, and enforce these moral systems seems likely relevant to any society made of independent agents, whether human or not.

As a meta point, just as you can’t defeat science by doing better scientific experiments (because you’ll only ever be improving science by doing so), you can’t defeat philosophy by providing better philosophical arguments. The points you made about morality are points that other philosophers have already made. You are not avoiding philosophy by declaring morality to be arbitrary and defending your assertion, you are in fact doing the opposite and contributing to the philosophical discourse on the nature of morality.

Religion and morality are only two broad areas of philosophy. There are many more, if you care to look.
Lighthouse is a lab tool [1] for testing the performance of web pages. It specifically helps you measure your Core Web Vitals [2].

There are many, many research and case studies [3] correlating improved website performance to improved business metrics (such as conversions).

Google Search has also signaled that the Core Web Vitals will become a ranking signal [4].

Disclosure: I work on Lighthouse and web.dev

[1] https://web.dev/how-to-measure-speed/#lab-data-vs-field-data

[2] https://web.dev/vitals/#core-web-vitals

[3] https://wpostats.com/

[4] https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2020/05/evaluating-page-ex...
I apologise I'm going straight to Least helpful, because I've been trying to perfect scores* so these are fresh in my mind.

LCP. Oh boy, it's hard to track down what will make a difference. Is it the font, the CSS sizing of the element, the images in it... help on diagnosing what's causing the LCP time would be great.

But by far the least helpful metric is when I'm told that analytics.js could be optimised further. A (I assume) Google-sponsored tool is telling me I should improve the result from another Google tool. I appreciate why it happens, but it's frustrating :)

* Only to learn earlier this week from Paul Irish that some sites can't reach 100 due to the way the scoring curves are set.
> This really makes me wonder. How does it increase the gap, in comparison to B&W pictures? How is the difference not there already? And why is that bad?

It increases factual distance and reduces emotional distance. When just "distance" is used, some people assume one, some people assume the other, and everyone values each differently.
They don't display ads on chromecast, they collect info for future ads there.
Would be fun to create a reality TV show. Have new grads come in to work on a one month project.

The only os they can use is this. Who ever doesn't mentally break after 30 days gets 100k divided between the other survivors.

Also have a troll who randomly blocks various support sites like stack overflow.
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If you go into a bike shop, you see that the bikes for beginners are quite different from the bikes for experts, and especially those for professionals. I mean, even the riding posture is different.

We want beginner languages to make it as easy as possible to learn programming, and to be able to write a program to do simple things. Our PL ideas may be good, but no, we don't want beginners to need to know them. We want them to be able to learn to program at all, and the fewer ideas they need to learn to do so, the better (that is, the more of them will learn).

And then we want to encourage them to move on to more advanced ideas. To do that, we want to make the more advanced ideas as accessible as possible (which I think was your point). And to do that, we need to make ideas as orthogonal as possible; that is, we need to decouple them as much as possible. This lets someone learn as much as they want about one area without having to first learn all the other areas.
It seems like low birth rates are pretty correlated with wealth. It also seems like liberal states, which are generally wealthier, have much more stringent regulatory policies -- such as mandatory car seats.

How deeply do you understand these very clear confounding variables?
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24646620 15 hours ago, 232 comments
An average user doesn't called it Pixel, Nexus, whatever. For them, it is the Google phone. Only geeks care about such nuances.
More like Gen 1 Switch hardware was designed too early in USB-C era.

It’ll probably be fixed in future generations but Nintendo decided not to make design changes for Gen 1 and Gen 2 Switch to fully comply with USB-C PD specs.
Okay. This is amazing.

Is it possible to fill this out via API? Also can I print it? And for my company, is it possible to turn all resumes into this format?

Huge congrats on this.
Note: My opinion is that I am neutral/do not like or dislike historical media, I am not a historian, but I do dislike those awful Twitter spammers that steal random "historical image of the day", often with a completely wrong caption, stolen content, no sourcing, and then post affiliate links all over them. I have previously done professional work with ML/AI.

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I can kind of understand this if it was made very obvious that it was "AI generated"; that is, the colours are totally invented and made out of thin air, that spaces might be filled in with random computer generated content to support upscaling and make it look better.

I don't want a machine-generated random filler content to be repurposed for "oh, here is a source video for the skin colour of specific people back in the day" or "you see those marks in the corner (that didn't exist in the original source), those are hieroglyphs"

AI does not mean you magically get colour restored to an image that did not have any in the first place, it is invented, machine created content that potentially has absolutely zero bearing on the real world.

Additionally, stuff like this ends up ranking higher than the original source content; preference is given to HD+ videos in search, "viral cool colourised version of the past" on instagram will rank higher than "actual history"; it is potentially a large problem when you have people that don't actually know how to separate genuine primary source vs computer generated content.
I don’t trust Mozilla these days. Normandy. When that certificate expired it also disabled NoScript in the Tor browser which disabled some security. Might not be a coincidence.

There are also a couple of other things Mozilla has done that seemed not in the good will of its users.

Firefox 47 was probably one of the last few good releases.
Wood's expensive. High quality exotic wood can be very expensive. Someone making their first pieces of furniture will likely (should) be using MDF or pine, same as an Ikea item, but will still be paying more just for the materials than the finished item.
The problem is the user doesn't know which information is accurate and which just an estimation of the software.
It's a fake accuracy.
And yet people would willfully avoid buying chocolate. You are deliberately putting desires and intent in a single jar, but they are neither the same nor interchangeable. Desires can be conflicting amongst themselves (it's not even rare) while intent is the aggregate of desires, necessities, and, yes, outside power. Contraceptives are a means of achieving intent, not of altering it.
> The work I am referring to comes from Carol Sandford...I don't know how much of a transformative effect she has.

Just want to correct a spelling error: it's Carol Sanford. Her website is https://carolsanford.com/ .

I'm very interested to know how much change Sanford and people like her are making to businesses. My sense is significant change comes only when there's pressure from without, and only when failing to respond to that pressure will affect the bottom line. Businesses are not altruistic, and that's by design.
Hacking would probably be a plus for a software enginer. They know how to debug systems.

Espionage, theft, and violent crimes... That's a different situation (I don't want someone coming after me after I liter their PR with comments)
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How does one "accurately" colorize something from over a hundred years ago?
Every comment in the article from a historian says "this is bad" but not a single one gives any reason why, other than they just don't like it.
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Yep, but if he was still around he'd still have to have articles about how he has rooms full of little dongly things and doesn't want any more.

He was one of us. Believed problems like these could be solved. It turned out that the problem of having to own a collection of dongly things cannot be solved. It turns out that they are intrinsic to human nature.
As an amateur street photographer, this feels good to hear. For a long time I couldn't comprehend how some of the masters took their most famous shots, how they anticipated the so-called decisive moment, framed everything perfectly in a nanosecond, and then got the perfect exposure.

In addition, it felt like all my best shots were 100% luck, only discovered after reviewing them the next day.

It seems like luck (or, maybe, "getting skilled at being lucky") is fundamental to the art.

that's not to say the greats relied only on luck. even my luckiest, one-in-a-million, greatest shot is nothing compared to what Frank left on the cutting room floor of The Americans.
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Removing a birth removes a full lifetime of emissions (all the cars that person would have bought) as well as any future children of that kid; over the long term, the extra emissions from adding a person grow exponentially, while adding a larger car (for a kid that would have existed anyway) is a one-time fixed cost. So, as t->infinity, fewer kids is going to win from a co2 perspective.

So the question is just where the crossover point is (if any; the 8000 fewer kids might already simply offset any larger cars bought within the first year - i don't know). I suppose that requires estimating the number of larger cars bought for third children per year, and comparing to the yearly emissions for people as they age.
This reminds me of fun times compiling and upgrading libc on a running system. It's challenging, but if you plan it out, it's not bad. But if you miss a step...better hope you have some statically compiled tools somewhere that can help you out.
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How can offering the customer 1 cent be worth more than 1 cent to the bank? They can just give you ordinary cash back.
I'm not saying I necessarily agree, but I think there's at least some argument that building codes/permits may fall under the general welfare clause of the Constitution
> I apologise I'm going straight to Least helpful

No problem, I should have led off with that because it's usually the most actionable feedback. Thanks for the feedback.
how many ex-felons do you know?
If we're looking at colorized feature films, everything is a fantasy of course. The cinematography used various colors to get the desired look on black and white film, in some cases to evoke various percieved colors with totally different colors.

When colorizing, sometimes they have color photos from the filming. You can try to match those, but that may not match the intent of the film. But you might not know the intent either, so you have to guess at that too. It might be easier to convince people to watch colorized films, but it's important to realize it's not really the same film.
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No, not in America and not on airlines. Here those aren't a thing...
> never mind the more abstract reasons for preserving free speech, such as "what happens when your ideological cohort falls out of power and someone else gets to decide what speech is permissible?"

Most people that I talk to opposed to net neutrality are opposed it solely because this point is deeply concerning to them.

Broadly speaking, people are quick to give the government additional power when it aligns with their interests, but are critical of the government when the additional power is used for things they disagree with.
Hiya,

The IoT systems that you guys are building seems awesome to me. I have been working in related field wherein my primary responsibilities included shipping data from edge to cloud among many other things. I have worked in vehicular IoT(connected electric vehicles), building IoT and am currently also involved in MQTT ecosystem(broker, client, test-suites) development in RustLang. There are HVAC systems communicating upstream across multiple US locations wherein my code runs and thousands of EV-vehicles with real time sensor data pushed to cloud where real-time tracking, alerts and intelligence is built. Let me know if you would be interested. I have also contributed to BACnet Python project with new features. Note: I am not a US citizen or have authorisation to work in US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation–maximization_algor...

The EM iteration alternates between performing an expectation (E) step, which creates a function for the expectation of the log-likelihood evaluated using the current estimate for the parameters, and a maximization (M) step, which computes parameters maximizing the expected log-likelihood found on the E step. These parameter-estimates are then used to determine the distribution of the latent variables in the next E step.
It seems that the Chrome lovers are working hard today.
"US Public schools blow everyone else out of the water if you shave off the bottom 10%."

Who is "everyone else?"

"US taxpayers would rather throw money at prisons and police instead of education and social workers."

Agreed. End the war on drugs and personal freedom. End the wars, bring every troop home, from everywhere. Cut the military budget.

"I mean outreach to families and help getting them what they need."

In 2019, we spend $90,960 per family of 4 on welfare. The money's there. Unaccountable bureaucracies waste money. This will never change.