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Maybe you should fine community that shares your views.

I don't use pulseaudio, networkmanager, desktop environment, works perfectly in Arch Linux [1]. Arch has great wiki, it is correct. System is quite transparent.

I am fine with systemd but, for example, Void Linux [2] uses runit, Alpine Linux [3] uses OpenRC and is compiled statically.

Arch Linux pacman serves my needs perfectly, it is quick, it shows only relevant information. AUR provides ready made PKGBUILDs.

Lots of Linux distributions is its strength. It allows people with niche requirements find its home. We are far better members of societies when supporting our system than grunting.

[1] https://www.archlinux.org/

[2] https://voidlinux.org/

[3] https://alpinelinux.org/
It helps with the problem, but doesn't solve it.

Just because you have five header files instead of five packages doesn't mean you can use all five headers at the same time. For example, some might require C++03 and some might need C++14 or newer.

Also, if all dependencies are single file with no non-standard dependencies, that means none share dependencies they should, like threading, telemetry, or logging libraries.
I find single file libs superior to typical package managers.
What is more ergonomic than - download file, drop into your project, include and start coding, and I can use my favorite build system/way of setting up projects, no need to integrate anything.

Can trivially support multiple incompatible versions of the library, nothing needs to be fetched or resolved (once you've got the single file of course), can send and distribute it easily over any channel you want (web, email, free file host, google drive, your own website, etc).
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I don’t believe you’re a lunatic. I believe your values are inimical to excellence and that you support destroying one of the tiny number of schools that support accelerated education for gifted children in the USA. That benefits no one and harms the children deprived of the opportunity to go to a school where they are challenged.
For the FDA to even consider an emergency use authorization, they have put the following requirements:

- Efficacy of at least 60%

- Lower bound of efficacy (confidence interval) >= 30%

- Minimum safety data for at least one or two months post vaccination (I don't remember if it's one or two)

- At least five severe cases in the control arm

- Requirements for the trials to go on even if efficacy is found for an additional year after the trial end (for most of the trials, this means two years in total)
If they are publishing this BS in nature, I wonder why we are having so muche science problems... "Science" is corrupted as everything is in a society today, because if you have to eat to live, you will do anything, so in this society means, anything that gives me money it's alright. It happen everywhere, from the richest doctors to the poorest people. We are pushed that way. Scientists too, so there you go, decades of bullshit feeding us making us.
Side question, and what about sending nuclear waste to a volcano?
Feels a bit plagiarized from an FC article five years ago: https://www.fastcompany.com/3043041/why-our-brains-love-high...
Why would old people get sick from the vaccine?

If we let everyone get it in Q2 2020, millions would have died when we ran out of ventilators.
No American on that list got indicted of anything related to "Russiagate", but for unrelated procedural crimes discovered during the investigation. (You know the saying that everyone wittingly or unwittingly commits three crimes a day?) Several Russian agents were indicted for Russiagate-related things; Putin will turn his goons over to US custody any day now.
Another one:

https://chrisdone.com/posts/z/
Blender seconded.

I mean, can you code procedural FX with Python in After Effects? You can in Blender. And it's free.

2.90 is shockingly good.
Other way round. The UK's racism has pervaded the Home Office, so it's now finding pretexts to deport as many people as possible. This is why the UK removed in 2013 the ability to claim legal aid money for immigration cases, to make it harder for people to dispute their illegal decisions.
OT: I want to get into transformers for NLP, what's the best way?

About me: Mostly done TS the last years. Dipped into Python, a bit pandas, a bit numpy, a bit Kaggle for the last 3-4 weeks.

Why I ask: It's so easy to get lost, this field is wide, e.g. I spent days with spaCy, CoreNLP, etc. before I learned that transformers-based stuff exist and outperform former.
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"HBO’s Chernobyl gave us a raw glimpse of the devastating consequences a nuclear reaction can have."

It really frustrates me when a show that contains many significant factual errors [0] (e.g. the exploding like a nuclear bomb thing, a very harmful error) is then used as a basis for a factual column.

Now I don't really trust the contents of the article.

And here we see the same kind of misrepresentation:

"but they also spread these pieces all over the street on the way to the dumpster and left basically a bomb of cobalt-60. Bear that in mind."

This 'nuclear energy is like a nuclear bomb' delusion is really harmful and pushes a narrative that many ordinary believe - if you use nuclear material for non-weapon purposes it risks behaving like a nuclear weapon. Journalists should take some responsibility for this kind of thing - it has very real impacts on public perception of nuclear and therefore govt decision making.

[0]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsdLDFtbdrA
Well it seems I shouldn't use ESP8266 on my household Appliance I plan to sell.

Anyone have a suggestion for an alternative? I was originally optimizing for cost, but now I think I want to prioritize a fast development cycle as the Appliance is going to be priced like a luxury.
I don't get it, I may be missing some context thought: why the author didn't go for running said webapps directly on the VPS in the first place? Why bother running it on the Pi and set up the tunnel (which is a nice hack in itself, I get that)?
Great design. How do you guys make money?
I love it.

Cars never seem to turn. Is that because it becomes far easier to simulate without any turns? I liked the effort not to collide in intersections.
That's a silly comment considering it was the gov't who has done a shit-ton of ocean dumping in the past (not this case, but others).

Who will regulate the government?
> in particular, but not limited to, the brain

Judging from our response to Covid-19, if this had actually been the collectively-feared zombie virus, the pandemic would have been far worse than any fictional account has manage to capture so far.
It’s super easy to make those decisions as an abstract mathematical problem. It is another when someone puts your family in front of you and asks you to roll the dice.

As an abstract mathematical problem if somehow herd immunity could be achieved without a vaccine then it sounds like a fine idea. The fact is that immunity after infection does not last long enough to achieve significant enough immunity to get to a useful herd immunity. This of course is what all the medical experts understand which is why Europe is going through lockdowns and Putin has been hiding in a bunker. There have been strict lockdowns in China and most other major governments have taken some sort of similar response, even Sweden eventually. There is almost nothing all of these governments have ever agreed on so universally.

Don’t expect a reply justifying my comment on HN with robust data, I have better things to do with my time like play in a park.
I remember looking over
Niklaus Wirth’s source code for a compiler for his new language Pascal. This would have been around 1975. I was stuck by the fact that it was one big single source file.

Later I came across a quote where he said something to the effect that what’s the point of a linker that slower than the compiler.

Sometimes I think what’s the point of this tangle of make files (or cmake/conan or whatever). It’s more difficult to get right than one big single source file.
Perhaps another facet to this is that both KA and 3B1B are primarily video lectures, and it's common knowledge that simply listening to someone explain something performs poorly for learning relative to actually getting hands-on with the topic. KA is even trying to fill this gap. They've added interactive visualizations for some topics.

I'd say the same is true for proofs. Simply reading a proof isn't the best if you want to understand/retain it. If you can "re-invent" the proof step by step (or in some contexts you might be able to translate steps between geometric and algebraic representations), then you have probably internalized it sufficiently.
Nobody knows its long term effect on the body. Especially if you were asymptomatic.
I think you would enjoy OpenBSD.
Even from the context, it was not clear to me what DDT was. I suspected it was some chemical. I would have appreciated a sentence or two explaining why it is bad and what it does.

What IBM is would typically be clear from the context: "IBM reported record loss in 2nd quarter of 2020".
I wish that Anki would do some opt-in data gathering and open-source the resulting data. Some really amazing stuff could be done with that!

Duolingo open-sourced a data set and a model for learning the best time to present ideas for review; however, the model seems to be extremely limited and I could not get it to work at all.

I think the best open source solution here is Ebisu: https://github.com/fasiha/ebisu. It uses a custom statistical model which incorporates the idea of memory half-life, which is supported by learning research.
Pandemic drags on Uber/Lyft as many move out of cities and car sales climb again
My experience with Go is positive. I transitioned to Go from Python (which we still use in some projects), but overall I started to prefer Go over python.

What I like about Go:

- explicit error handling, one is forced to write correct code and think how exactly the errors will be handled. I now prefer Go's approach over exceptions.

- code is readable, I can look at the code of my coworker and very quickly see what exactly it does.

- surprisingly, I found myself not missing OOP features

- If project is compilable on localhost, it will be compilable on the server... this is easy to achieve and also deployment is straightforward.

- it forces to write "stupidly simple" code. for example, it doesn't allow function parameters with default values. The consequence is, that I sometimes need to spend a little extra time on refactoring, but then have more readable code.
>While there has been incursion of talk radio (LBC/Farage), there is no counterpart to the hyper-polarised TV of Fox News yet. Sky News is comparatively normal.

This is because we have strong broadcast regulation. Broadcasters must have regard for due impartiality and due accuracy.[0]

LBC are managing to push that line to its very limit, by having shows that are presented by opposing polemics so that overall they maintain balance.

[0] https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/broadcast-co...
Seems to be a realistic rendering of the US.
While long-term side effects are theoretically possible with any treatment, this vaccine is based on a platform that's been safety-tested repeatedly in experiment vaccines for prostate cancer, MERS, malaria, tuberculosis, influenza and chikungunya virus, so there's a lot of past safety data. In addition because the main effect of the vaccine is to trigger a strong immune response, you would typically see side effects in the short term related to that initial response (things like Guillain-Barré syndrome or Transverse myelitis), not over the long term as the effect wanes.
How is this different than if you've gotten money from criminal adventures? Why is it because your grand parent left you money from his criminality it's now legally yours?
For 1080p screens, on the vertical you only have 1080 pixels which is pitiful once you subtract 300px worth of start menu, title bars, menu bars, ribbons, status bars, url bars. Even with higher resolution it looks like a letterbox.

Additionally, like you said, for text, you ideally want windows with portrait aspect ratios - but if you split a fullHD 16:9 screen in two, your portrait windows only have 960 pixels of horizontal resolution which is not enough for many IDEs (or e-mail clients or spreadsheets).

On a 28 inch 4K screen 16:9 is not a problem - you can have 3 long vertical text windows next to each other, or ultra-wide spreadsheets, or a combination thereof. On a 13 inch laptop screen it is a different story.
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How is immunity from infection questionable? We had 43 million cases and about a dozen or so reinfections. Not sure if confirmed reinfections reach the double digits yet.
I personally find equal style explanatory signs confusing. This might sound like a bad pun, but they literally don’t provide directions and I’d have to consider both expressions and it’s applicability w.r.t. situations and circumstances.

One example that comes off top of my head is Ubuntu installer disc’s “man = keyboard” sign.

I believe it is supposed to read “for universal access = hit any key on keyboard”, after seeing it for years, but for long I thought it could be “A keyboard is to hands and legs for a civilized person” or “use keyboard to see logs” or something.
For a layperson like me it doesn't seem that far-fetched, and I'm clearly not delusional.
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I'm kind of flabbergasted anyone from the desktop era stopped using desktop computers. Trying to do serious work on a laptop is either not doing serious work or laughably insane. Big monitors, big IO (laptop motherboards mostly throttle IO), big memory chips, many hardware threads, actually fast and low latency internets; even the keyboard and mouse experience is vastly better than using the proverbial toilet paper tube of a laptop. I mean, maybe most people don't need this: I do. Pretty much every aspect of my desktop makes me more productive. The only downside is it's more difficult to transport my 60lb threadripper than my thinkpad, but even that can be done, and is totally worth the trouble when there is serious work to be done.

Laptops have mostly regressed into consumer appliances; my 2011 thinkpad is significantly faster and has more memory than a 2017 macbook pro. The monitor (and I guess speakers if I'm using it as a TV) is better in the macbook; that's it!
Yeah, my point was just that if your host name is not a part of any “normal” or public DNS resolution, the point of it being free is kind of moot.
> This is a virus with bad long-term effects on the body.

In what percentage of people who get COVID-19 are there bad long-term effects? What other conditions did the people get bad long term effects have? How does these numbers compare with other diseases?

Would appreciate citations.
I was around doing AS3 / Flex / Air in 2006-2007 era and agree, I can’t help but also feel what’s old is new again.

If I were to make a guess, IDEs are coming back into favor for a couple reasons (the balance of how much each contributes being debatable):

- VSCode, and to a lesser extent the Jetbrains suite of IDEs, are showing that you can have an IDE and it still be reasonably fast. That’s in stark difference to the old Eclipse days as one example.

- Developer machines continue to get faster and have more RAM, yet most of the dev tools ecosystem seems to poorly take advantage of that. Compare the memory and processor usage of Slack (which arguable has a simpler task) with VSCode, which both use the same underlying platform (Electron). By so many apps setting such a low bar, it further enhances the view that VSCode is fast.

- our codebases continue to grow in size, have yet more dependencies, and yet more moving parts. Things like code completion / doc bubbles / etc are becoming more important as there’s just to much bloat for an average developer to keep in their “active memory”

- similar to the above point, our languages keep evolving constantly adding new things, making it harder to stay on top of all the new functionality, but the modern breed of IDEs can help there in a number of ways.

- we have a had a big wave of new developers start working over the past 15 years and some of them had NIH for things from the past, and now has reinvented what existed before, in someways better, in some ways worse.

I can think of more possible factors, but this is an already long post and I’m sure the ones I posted already will get debated as is.
Elite colleges relying on high school grades and letters of recommendation instead of objective blindly marked tests open to all is replacing one test with others. The others allow much more room for picking the right sort of person. That was the entire point of instituting holistic admission at prestige US universities, to keep out Jews. The modern drive to eliminate tests is in large part to keep out Asians. Nothing ever changes. Those in power change the standards to stay in power.
That strikes me as non-sensical.

My father had his own earning, creating, and saving abilities.
Do you use Chrome? Scrolling with a touchpad still doesn’t work on Wayland (it emulates discrete mouse wheel scrolling, rather than going pixel-by-pixel).

There is IIRC some chrome setting that fixes this, but it doesn’t help with chrome-based electron apps that don’t expose the internal settings (like Slack).
if we're back to normalish by spring next year I think that would be a great outcome, if the messaging to the public would be, buckle down until then I think lockdown complaince could go up
Wikipedia has the half life of DDT in soil from 22 days to 30 years. In a marine environment it is estimated to be 150 years.
I think the number of newborn deaths in midwives dominated times compared to the "medicalized" times speak for themselves.
The lesson here is that big businesses will argue that their operations are correct not just out of neglect, but knowing perfectly well that they are not.

Now let's look at what we have in IT today…
The statement is relevant regards one of RIAA's three claims; that youtube-dl infringes RIAA member works in executing its test suite.

That averred infringement is a specific claim. Though weak, it's the strongest specific claim RIAA makes.

Hagemeister's comment establishes that minimal copying is performed in the testing itself, contrary to RIAA's claim.

The infringement does not occur in the source code or test suite itself, it occurs inccidental to testing functionality of the software (that is, it is inherently functional, not expressive), the copies made fall within existing limitations to exclusive rights (§112, §117, §512(a) and (b)), and tests (1), (3), and (4) of §107 fair use.

RIAA's standing on anti-circ §1201 is separate from this question, poorly justified, and likely lacks standing.
This reminds me of my first programming job in 2005, working with Macromedia Flash. They had one other Flash programmer who only worked there every once in a while because he was actually studying in college, and he was working on some kind of project from hell that, among other problems, took about two minutes to build to SWF.

Eventually they stopped asking him to come because he couldn't get anything done, and so I had a look at it. In the Movie Clip library of the project I found he had an empty text field somewhere that was configured to include a copy of almost the entire Unicode range, including thousands of CJK characters, so each time you built the SWF it would collect and compress numerous different scripts from different fonts as vectors for use by the program. And it wasn't even being used by anything.

Once I removed that one empty text field, builds went down to about ~3 seconds.
Well, it's still good news, but an injected vaccine may not lead to sterilizing immunity - i.e. vaccinated persons might still be able to transmit the disease:

> Without a strong mucosal response, injected vaccines may be less likely to produce so-called sterilizing immunity, a phenomenon in which a pathogen is purged from the body before it’s able to infect cells, Dr. Durbin said. Vaccinated people might be protected from severe disease, but could still be infected, experience mild symptoms and occasionally pass small quantities of the germ onto others.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/health/coronavirus-nasal-...
Specifically, a lot of NVMe are right next to GPU placed in PCI slot 1, which is a pretty constant source of heat under load.

I installed an EK spreader sandwich on my Samsung NVMe drive, and it made a massive (20° c) difference over stock. It was previously a bare stick with no surface area/thermal sink to pull heat away.
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I doubt that they started off with a 40 mins delay. It probably crept slowly as the repo got bigger and no one noticed it because of the gentle gradient. And they didn't have the time/resources to look into it.
> Given that immunity from infection is currently questionable your suggestion doesn't make sense.

If you can't get immunity from the infection, how will the vaccine work?
We don't know. Which is why it's preferred to play it safe, in that regard.
Something that requires LAN connectivity: media library off a local NAS (e.g. Plex), generic storage (e.g. Nextcloud), or home automation (e.g. Home Assistant).
It seems to be required for goodreads integration so I can keep track of what I've read.
Not supporting the OP's assertions, but vaccines have some timid / less potent form of the virus.
The volunteer thing is pretty much standard in medical studies due to ethical considerations. You dont get to make experiments on people without proper consent etc done.
Your response is phrased in a way that all the meaning lies in the exact definition of what you mean by "knows". There is certainly evidence that there are long-term effects. Example: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.20.20215863v...
There are some stats here for the UK, based on a symptom tracking app that's been active since about March. https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-long-covid-warning-as...

> One in 20 people with coronavirus are likely to have symptoms for eight weeks or more, according to a new study by King's College London.

> The research, which uses data from the COVID Symptom Study App, suggested so-called "long COVID" affects around 10% of 18 to 49-year-olds who become unwell with coronavirus.

Whole study is here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/study-identifies-those-most-risk-...
The US replaces state religion with a religion of the state; the weird mandatory recitation of the pledge of allegiance. Nothing like that in British schools. As Arethuza points out, state religious education and the official Church of England are only in England. Scotland has various forms of protestant nonconformist and Northern Ireland had a religous civil war whose bombs were detonating until 2001.

The US's leaning on the Supreme Court to make social progress is really a result of its inability to make social progress in sane ways through legislatures. The fact that it took a Supreme Court decision to legalize interracial marriage only two years before the Moon landings should be a source of profound shame on its legislatures.
Since you mentioned the Eigen library: I'm sure it's an extremely elegantly designed library, and I know it's super powerful and efficient. But for someone like me, with fairly limited C++ experience, it was absolutely painful to learn and understand how to use it. Even though it's fairly well documented, I had to really dig through the sources whenever bugs arised. Understanding all these templating abstractions was a huge pain.
> How can you identify brain trauma with ultrasound?

Well, put enough energy through the ultrasound transducer and you can guarantee there's brain trauma present.

Not sure that's how you meant it, though ;)
If your inheritance was the result of a bank robbery, do you still think it should be untouchable?

You're being very emotional about what seems like a pretty clear case of recovering ill-gotten gains.