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You're not. It's already there and already happening. The difference is just we all stop pretending anyone is doing anything else. As in, kill the terrible X vector crap, and add reliable compositing APIs so things like video playback in apps stops being so incredibly bad (see video in browsers sucking in linux and not anywhere else).

You know, catch up to what literally everything else is doing. Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android, etc.. are all exclusively compositor-based window management systems. And they don't have latency issues, as ways to avoid what little latency compositing adds can be avoided in cases when necessary, like front buffer rendering extensions on Android for VR. Literally only X remains stuck in the 90s.
Another interesting factor is the level of excitement found in young people with little experience in the sphere under discussion. (i.e. college campuses are full of zealots who've lived privileged lives and don't really have any contact with many of the subjects they are excitedly concerned about).

Last week the internet had a compelling video showing a young white person yelling at a black man trying to cross a BLM barricade. The black man wanted to go on his way, the protester was insulting him and telling him what a terrible person he was.

It's completely nuts. But not a new phenomenon.
That seems fair if they are being expected to rush the development of the vaccine?
It's described in the article linked above:

"Some of these drinks are unfamiliar to us. “Lisbon” was probably a white wine from Carcavelos, near Lisbon. “Mountain” is a sweet and luscious wine from Malaga, in southern Spain. “Sitgis” is probably a muscatel or malvasia wine from Sitges, a port 20 miles southwest of Barcelona. "

(it's unlikely to be that non-alcoholic drink, as he's specifically recording the alcoholic ones he's consuming)
They can either be editorialising, in which case they're a publication, or they can be censoring as a platform. They're not currently regulated like a publication, so they must be censoring, then.
Short version: Illustrator is a tool focusing on vector graphics. Figma is a tool that focuses on collaborative interface creation. Both of them are good in general, but depending on your needs, one could be better at that.

If you work in a large company where you need to maintain Design Systems and you frequently collaborate across teams (think different OSes), Figma would be more helpful for everyone. Especially because it has specific features to make that work good.

While if you're a lone designer doing design for physical products, you're probably better off with battle-tested Illustrator that has a lot more functionality around manipulating vectors.

In the end, it all depends on what you're doing. They have different use cases they want to cater to the best.
(In the UK) Young healthy adults and kids live with old/unhealthy/frail parents due to the enormous financial difficulty of leaving home.
This is a virus with bad long-term effects on the body.

Not a good idea to catch it just to get immune.
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Ubud, Bali is well known for yoga, and other spiritual kind of meetups/retreats.
It’s in paragraph 12, about 1/7 of the way in, after the scene setting opening bit about the barrels.

> The world today wrestles with microplastics, bisphenol A (BPA), per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and other toxics so unnatural they don’t seem to ever go away. But DDT — the all-but-indestructible compound dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, which first stunned and jolted the public into environmental action — persists as an unsolved and largely forgotten problem.
As well as acquiring immunity without being infectious.

However, the efficacy of this vaccine (and all the other candidates) still needs to be clarified - ie is it like a measles vaccination (~90% efficacy) or the flu vaccines (~ 25% - 50% I believe).
Sorry, I misunderstood the context. I thought you were from outside the United States as the origination of your comment.My fault!
I don't know about that, however there is data that shows that providing homes to the homeless is a net win for society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_First
Fine, the University of Chicago, Wake Forest, and almost all of the elite liberal arts colleges (Williams College, Swarthmore College, Bowdoin College, etc) are test optional or test free and no worse for it.

Standardized tests are one measure of academic merit and not even the best one. There are plenty of 1500s reporting to 1250s.
Although it's still not clear to me to what extent a webpage that essentially just shows the copyrighted work counts as 'protection'.
I'm no fan of the awful writers and opinions are the Daily Mail. This did get me thinking though:

> Meanwhile, they’re climbing over each other to fill their faces with state-subsidised chicken and chips at Nando’s, while at the same time pretending to be too frightened to turn up for work.

I walked around town at the weekend. Town seemed as busy as I'd expect during a holiday, which is to say people everywhere in crowds. I noticed Nando's was jam-packed with people inside and outside, as densely as I've ever seen it, no social distancing and little mask use was apparent including among the people crowded on the pavement outside. Same as I walked past other places, and some pubs were heaving, inside and outside.

To be honest, I didn't feel safe walking around the streets with the way people were outside; it became difficult to avoid densely packed groups at some points. The "rule of six" was a joke, I saw groups of 20 people who were obviously together with no masks. Every so often, I'd find myself in the middle of a group who would just surround me on their way past, 0.5m away if that, no masks, and no way for me to avoid them. I'd make the effort to keep out of people's way, and I'd be occasionally thanked for it. But most people seemed to make no effort or have any awareness. About half of all people outside had masks, but of those with masks, about half were not wearing them.

So is that WFH people in the restaurants? I don't know, but I suspect the folks who have lost their jobs, or getting by doing manual labour like food deliveries, or working in hospitals and care homes, aren't the ones spending much at the pubs and restaurants at the moment.

Among my friends who are programmers, about half talk about their social meetups (face to face) at the pub, houses, in the parks etc and seem to have some disdain for CV restrictions. The other half are like me, have high respect for CV restrictions and generally avoiding town and avoiding non-virtual social meetups, and don't think highly of those people who don't wear masks or keep a distance.

I think the Daily Mail anti-WFH rant is typical Tory "get back to work" top-grade bullshit because WFH isn't about people individually saying they are "scared", it's about protecting people at work, which is a company and institution responsibility. The fact some people will densely pack themselves at Nando's etc adds more reason to keep them away from offices for the protection of other people, not less reason. But I thought it did highlight some interesting contradictions going on in society at the moment.
How does that work? Typical office space typically has no kitchens, offers limited restrooms (and showers are still rare), has no noise isolation for someone who wants to watch TV, listen to the music, or just snore away into the sunrise.

Outside of some makeshift co-living shelter-like concept it does not seem that convertible.
To be honest, DDT is like "IBM". It might mean "International Business Machines", but many people wouldn't immediately recognize it unless the acronym is used (while the opposite is true: if you know what the acronym stands for, you usually know the acronym as well).

And I'm sure Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane wouldn't add much for most people that read a newspaper :)
I tried following the ambulances but never found a hospital. Just plenty of show stores and many many pizza joints.
It is good news if true, but we are rushing the trials of a new vaccine and then potentially going to give it to a large number of people. What if the vaccine has long term negative effects?
I manage that through ansible
They're probably referring to the "welfare trap"[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_trap
>OK, someone tell me why this isn't the good news it sounds like

The AstraZeneca vaccine is based on an adenovirus vector, which has never been approved for use in humans. It uses a weakened live virus that can (and apparently has, in the case of the J&J vaccine, which is using very similar tech) cause serious adverse systemic reactions. From what we've seen so far, the safety profile for these vaccines is far worse than the mRNA/lipid nanoparticle based vaccines coming from Moderna and Pfizer/Biontech.

It's also not really news. We know that a vaccine will prompt an immune response. Dozens of others in progress have already shown this with phase 1 and phase 2 data. The question is how strong, how long lasting, and how safe is it, along with the question of real world efficacy data from placebo controlled trials.
Could you please point me to the source of "GSM tethering"? We'll try to fix this asap. Thank you!
Likely long-term results are not known yet. We've already had one vaccine potentially causing side effects that stopped the human trials for a while. (I think it was the Russian one. Please correct me if not)
> and then something just clicks over in your brain and you don't even see the brackets any more

In my experience, the Lisp enlightenment comes in stages, two big ones are 1) s-expression parsing you describe here, and 2) grokking "code is data".

WRT. s-expressions enlightenment, I vividly remember when it happened to me. Few months into learning Lisp, I bought a hardcover SICP and, for some reason, decided to do exercises in it on paper. Few exercises in, as I was writing Lisp code with a pen in hand, suddenly something clicked in my head - like my brain JIT-compiled a new processing module - and from then on, I no longer needed to mentally count or track the parens. I just knew how many and where they were, it dropped to semiconscious level. Ever since, I'm very comfortable with s-expressions; in fact, I prefer them as a notation to Algol/C-like code.
No-one is talking about putting people in jail, but also (in my opinion), someone shouldn't get to inherit millions of dollars just because their grandfather committed some terrible crime -- inheritance should not be a right, when the original money was acquired illegally.
No sorry, I confused you even more. I am from outside the US, I think my country's system doesn't trap you, so I was wondering why the US one does.
A thorough understanding of the OSI model would go a long way
Is this not the one they will launch in India first?

Edit1: Just to throw in more info, Oxford plans to scale this up for mass production with Serum Institute of India and AstraZeneca.
Ahh, I see, thank you, that makes sense.
Unemployment varies greatly state by state and rarely keeps up with the reality of the cost of living.

On top of this, it only applies if you lose your job due to "lay-offs". I've been laid off four times in my life, all 3 times the companies claimed they were not lay-offs and fought my claim. 2 times I was denied.

The third time I received unemployment benefits for 5 months. I received $4,000 in benefits then my former employer won an appeal, and my claim was deemed "fraud". I had to pay $8,500 back ($4,000 + $4,500 in "fraud fees").

If you are fired for "cause", "screw you, have a nice day".

8 months ago 10% of my company's engineering department (screw you, cloud passage) was fired "for cause" and replaced with cheap Belarusian contractors. This time I didn't even bother for unemployment, I didn't want to risk having to pay it back + 100% fines. I also do not get covid stimulus, and have had to sell my 401k to keep from being homeless.

America has no social net whatsoever. I do not qualify for unemployment, food stamps, or anything else even though I have been working my ass off and paying taxes for 25 years.
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But .local aren't resolved by any public DNS server, so when outside your bubble you won't have them pointing where you expect while Tor names resolve whenever you can get connected to Tor Network
Why would one get this over the ESP32?

(EDIT: Just ordered my first ESP32, so honest question)
Do you have a source on how common severe long-term effects from Covid are? All I’ve seen are anecdotes.
For what it's worth the word 'by' in the first sentence is probably wrong. Or at the very least it makes the sentence hard to parse.
17 USC 108(f)(4) states "Nothing in this section— ... in any way affects the right of fair use as provided by section 107". Emphasis added.

Your claim is contradicted by statute.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/108

Yes, Fair Use is an affirmative defence, not an automatic get-out-of-jail-free card. I clearly state this in the article. (Author)
Slight exaggeration on my part. I was thinking of my old desktop which is about 6 years old - taking about half the time to compile a project compared to my brand new MBP.
>No. I reject this. No matter how many times you or others tell me that I’m racist and can’t help it, and if I just pray... I mean take enough sanctioned training courses it’ll go away I will not partake. Period. Nobody is racist until proven otherwise, or racist until they’ve taken enough unconscious bias training courses. That’s something you and others are making up to deal with your own insecurities and racism. Being uncomfortable walking down the street at night because you see a black man is your racism. Not mine. No thanks.

Racism comes in many forms, it's not just about being scared of black men on the street. That's a wildly exaggerated strawman.

Everyone has biases and prejudices. Everyone. Yes, that includes you.

But people don't have the same biases and prejudices. People differ in what they're prejudiced against (or for!) and they differ in the magnitude of their prejudice.

And let's be clear: this is not just about skin colour. Gender, sexual orientation, class, accent, formal education... people have prejudices against all of these things and more.

Unconscious bias not a type of prayer or cleansing ritual. You don't stop being biased or prejudiced because you do UB training.

It is supposed to help you identify when and how that prejudice manifests itself so that you can take a step back and try and consciously try and remove your prejudices from your decision-making.

And if you reject racism, why not arm yourself with this tool? If you're not racist (or sexist or classist etc...) Why not take a couple of seconds to think "has some stereotype about this person lead me to this conclusion? No? Okay, let's carry on..."
>The UK legalized abortion by law. It’s 24-week limit on abortion for economic reasons is the longest in the EU. In the US, abortion was legalized by the Supreme Court. 24 weeks is a fairly typical limit in the US—a country that’s more religious than Poland (where abortion is illegal). The 12-week limit in Denmark or Germany or France, or the waiting periods that were place in France until 2015, would be unconstitutional. Germany’s abortion laws (where the constitutional court found it unconstitutional to legalize abortion so it’s still just decriminalized under 12 weeks, and where there is a counseling requirement) would be unimaginable. Indeed, at the same time as the Supreme Court found a constitutional right to abortion, the courts of Canada, Austria, and France found that it was a matter for the legislature to decide.

Indeed. To provide background for others, by the early 1970s various US states had legalized abortion. In Roe v. Wade, however, the Supreme Court ruled that abortion was a constitutional right, abruptly legalizing it nationwide with more or less no restrictions whatsoever; even many abortion-rights supporters believe that the legal theory behind the decision was faulty (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade#Legal). The result was so across-the-board that, among other things, the US still allows abortions to occur later than anywhere else.

Preventing the full political debate process from occurring is why abortion remains so controversial in the country almost 50 years and counting. Because such issues are polarizing and partisan, they need full discussion in a legislature, as opposed to unelected judges unilaterally short-circuiting the debate.
It's fair if the degree of disclaiming is proportionate to the need and the pace.

They shouldn't be off the hook completely. They should still have to show they have conducted a responsible level of testing and checking for the circumstances, that they are continuing to refine that verification even after widespread deployment, and to motivate that to be done all levels requires some degree of moral hazard remains in place for them. In other words there should be some sharing of risk. Imho.
The optimist in me hopes that if we can learn to live on mars then perhaps we can use that technology to live on earth sustainably.
I just checked and they are.

Unless someone is fronting them with a transparent reverse proxy inside Iran, those services will be unavailable. Blocked on AWS’s side as part of their compliance with US sanctions.
Greenpeace did a lot of work in the 80s and 90s against the dumping of nuclear waste, including direct action against the ships doing the dumping. This led to the London Dumping Convention.

More recently, see e.g. Trafigura https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-10735255 (and what they've tried to hide with libel lawsuits)

The WW2 stuff is bad but seems now to be inert, although occasionally someone finds a phosphorous shell on a beach in Scotland. https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/a-dangerous-guide-to-bea...

More seriously, there is the SS Richard Montgomery, not dumped but sank during the war, carrying a thousand tons of explosives ... right next to London. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery
Glass half full: We can measure an immune response also in populations where it's more difficult to get a decent one. An immune response means that the immune system actually is taking action against the viral antigen.

Glass half empty: We don't know how the immune response measured relates to protection from or lessening of the infection. This is what the ongoing trial is trying to find out.

This is, IIRC, the second report of successful immunogenicity in older people. There was a (small) cohort of > 65 year old people tested with Pfizer / BioNTech's vaccine in the Phase 1 trial, and even there immune responses were found and measured.
OK, I probably should have just left this as a "cryptographic co-processor" rather than TPM (or else used "a TPM"). But I believe there is some blurring here:

- My understanding is that the secure boot cryptographic root of trust for Intel is in the PTT, which is essentially a software-implemented TPM with some extra features (so right, "system firmware"). It's true that PTT is part of the ME. But it's still a firmware-based TPM.

- With AMD, they use a cryptographic coprocessor whose name I forget but which is similar to PTT and which contains either a hardware or firmware-based TPM.

- With ARM, I'm pretty sure they use TrustZone, which is analogous to a TPM.

But yes, I should have been clearer.
Julius Caesar's mother lived so he was most likely not delivered via c-section.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/caesarian
Can't believe a modern Amiga is like $1700 for 2 GB of RAM (upgradable to 4 GB),when I just bought a Pi4 with 8 GB RAM, quad-core processor, and 128 GB micro SD card for like $150 with a case, fan, heat sinks, hdmi cables...etc.
Wouldn't be possible to make controlled explosions to consume submerged hazardous materials, like DDT? I know it is a drastic solution, but would it make sense?
But if you grandfather lost all of $X, your father would not have any of $Y (based entirely on $X being an amount they got from business dealings and $Y being a smaller amount which came from $X).
I have to imagine cost since if I’m not mistaken the esp8266 is older? I recently have been doing a lot with esp32 via feather and my new favorite tinypico. I think you’ll enjoy the esp32!
Sounds right for the flu. I was curious about the details - here's a good starting point. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/vaccineeffect.htm?CDC_...
> We'd have a pretty sweet graphical server.

Don't you mean "They"?
I also rejoined ACM last year (after a 10 year hiatus), mainly for access to the O'Reilly stuff (what used to be safarionline). Tremendous value, and the monthly ACM mag is actually quite interesting.
btw: Fedora automatically disables Wayland on Nvidia hardware (because Xwayland applications can't be accelerated IIRC).
Nope. I didn't. And you can't quite decouple the two; there's a continuous lineage; institutions didn't get reinvented with the revolution:

* US is a common law jurisdiction, and indeed, pre-colonization UK courts sometimes act as precedent for post-revolution US courts.

* US courts come from colonial courts

If you'd like to read more:

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

"Legal procedures in the 17th century were quite informal, with judges discussing issues directly with the people involved in the case."

"Colonial legislatures passed laws to fix the fees lawyers could charge for standardized procedures and maintain these fees relatively low. This often led some lawyers to handle a high volume of cases more speedily."

... and so on.

By the time the US formed, you had plenty of lawyers, but you had plenty of people representing themselves (and in cases above what would go into small claims).

The concept of statutory legal fees is a good one. It's present in a form in the German legal system. It's limited; you can pay more than statutory fees, but you can't recover more than statutory fees if you lose. That's still powerful. I know of a case where a big party PROBABLY owes a small party a few million dollars, but if they came out liable for opposing side's legal fees, they'd be bankrupt. And the litigation would cost a few years of their life.

And yes, cases were simpler, but that's as much a property of the unnecessary rising complexity of our legal system as of the cases. Modern cases shouldn't be so complex.
It is good news, but it's not earth shattering. This vaccine produced an immune response (the the vaccine antigen), which many of the other candidates have as well. The real question is, will it prevent infection? Those are two different questions.
Given that immunity from infection is currently questionable your suggestion doesn't make sense. The reason the findings mentioned in this article are important is because the immune response seems to be stronger than that seen in people that have been infected and recovered. So this vaccine would be better at creating herd immunity than just allowing everyone to get infected. At the same time vaccinations will have a reduced impact on people than actually catching the virus would.

There is a difference between the level of illness experienced by those who are vaccinated Vs those who get infected, so more old people will die as a result of infection than would die as a result of vaccination.

So no, it would not be better for healthy adults and kids to get it in Q2 2020. Also how do you propose that you only infect the healthy adults and kids?