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> Meanwhile Antarctic sea ice has trended up over the past 5 decades

https://nsidc.org/cryosphere/seaice/characteristics/differen...

The Antarctic is a physical land mass. The Antarctic sea ice always melts away during the spring/summer. The Antarctic is surrounded by ocean, making precipitation an often occurrence, which funnily enough means that it snows more on the land when ocean temperatures rise slightly, and this snow helps build the seasonal ice around the Antarctic.

In contrast, the Arctic isn't a land mass, it's only ice, and it's mostly surrounded by land, making precipitation a less often occurrence and making the effects of rising ocean temperatures more devastating.

Basically, there's no going back once the Arctic melts, and by the time we see the Antarctic ice receding we'll be in serious trouble.

> Sea ice volume is above 2012 in the Arctic

2012 was an outlier, but sure.

> And Greenland has had massive, earlier than usual gains in ice this year

See the explanation for landmasses above.

> Cheyenne, WY saw record breaking cold this past week
> Northern Hemisphere snow mass is nearly 400 Gigatons above average for this time of year

Climate change will have variable effects on local weather around the world. An upward trend in global average temperature doesn't mean everywhere is going to get hotter all the time.
How high is this extraordinary high thermopower? Are we talking something that could replace joule-thompson effect refrigeration?
As a Norwegian living in England, moving here felt like being walled in. Granted I live in London, but it's more than just the lack of land, it also extends to a different culture around things like parks.

E.g. opening hours and fences around parks - what the hell is that about? I was just totally confused the first time I got to a park in the evening and it was closed.

Part of it of course has to do with density, but to me that just makes it all the more important to protect and ensure as much access as possible. Instead people are herded into as little land as possible, and opening hours imposed on a good chunk of it.

Scotland does have similar rights to Scandinavia.
Ah ha, thanked himself

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12584886

What a turd
I don't see why there would be tax fraud if you file state tax returns accurately. Presumably you'd file two returns, one to the state you work in asking for your refund as you've been living outside the state all year, and one to the state you live in paying your income tax.

As for the IRS, they get their money no matter where you live, including nowhere...
The article is completely anecdotical. Just like how I struggle daily with devices which can seemingly only remember a singe pairing and need to be re-paired constantly.
Well, I am not sure I understand what you mean. There are two distinct GPU Acceleration technologies at work here:

- for videos

- for website rendering

AFAIK the video acceleration part is the big problem as the issue was ignored for many years by the browser vendors. For rendering websites most browser should do just fine, some hardware-browser combinations might be exceptions though.

I also wonder what you mean by Firefox has no user profiles, because Firefox has a profile concept too. Be default it doesn't ask you, but when you start it with `firefox --ProfileManager` you will see what I mean. I don't like messing with the Profile Manager every time, so I just have different Icons for starting different Profiles (e.g. Music --> Spotify, Movies --> Amazon & Netflix, etc.).

Currently there are just two websites for which I have to use Chromium:

1. Geforce Now, officially Linux is not supported, but with Chromium it does work when you change your user-agent

2. Binance, for whatever reason their login capture doesn't work with Firefox
> brainstorming without technology

I think there are 2 different use cases:

- note taking as building a knowledge base (ex: 'how to add a route permanently in CentOS') where pen & paper is clearly inferior (not searchable, not available everywhere once it becomes bigger than a notebook)

- brainstorming and here I would argue that the first step is just thinking before writing anything.
Build a video game like a Lego set with this new Unity tool
That's a nice idea! If you'd be interested in coming up with a mock-up please send it through to me. My email is on my github page, which is linked in the footer of the new website :)
> Why isn't it possible for my headphones to connect to my phone and computer at the same time. Having to change the connection 100 times a day is so annoying.

Some headphones do that just fine - as far as I know it’s a choice the manufacturer makes. I’ve had cheap Jabra and Jaybird headphones which support multipoint. My much more expensive Sony’s do not and it infuriates me.
No, it definitely isn't. Why is audio quality so much worse when I connect my headphones as headset instead of as audio-sink (even when I'm not speaking). Why is it so hard to connect two audio sinks to one source? Why is the experience of using the same sink on multiple devices still not smooth?
You will definitely want to backup your existing hotkeys on your DE and then try out Kinto.sh. Otherwise Kinto will assume that you are using default keymaps of the DE/distro.

I will admit.. at some point adding in the logic to pull in the currently mapped keys into Kinto's config directly would be the preferred method and is doable.. that just isn't how Kinto works today. It assumes you are using your DE's or distro's hotkey defaults.
It's obviously a bad sign if they are even thinking of resorting to this ... the 'second wave lockdowns' are a failure of leadership in most of the West.

The '1st wave' was understandable - crude measures in an emergency, fair enough.

But should have a much more nuanced understanding of the situation by now, and be able to focus on smart but clear policies.

There was a 'sweet spot' coming out of the lockdowns that would work well, but we moved past it, and how we're playing a game of 'back and forth'.

For example, we probably don't need lockdowns or curfews at all, they are a little totalitarian and probably do nothing but get people super mad.

We probably need to stop social gatherings of all kinds, limit social bubbles to nuclear units.

On TikTok I see way, way too much intermingling among especially young people who are unambiguously driving the second wave.

We also probably need to support our local businesses as we can and 'keep things moving' i.e. 'Remember to Get Takeout'.

In Canada Unis opened up, there were house parties, dorm parties, bars with drunk student what the goddam hell were they thinking? How about: nobody in your house/dorm unless they live there, 'outdoor beer gardens' only, limit 2 beers.
Have a 'dance party' in a big open parking lot to break the social malaise. Otherwise threaten expel students who break the established rules for putting other people's lives at risk.

We have almost stopped talking about 'isolation' and we have no support for it. In Taiwan, they send you home, show up at your door with masks, call you every day to check up on you. That kind of 'nudging' would be hugely impactful, it's also a form of tracing.
Yes, northwestern US to start. The three restrictions are spectrum/telecom licenses, ground stations, and satellite orbits. They only have licenses in the US right now, the satellite orbits favor high latitudes, and the first ground stations are in Washington state.

They're actively pursuing licenses in many other countries including Canada and Australia. Coverage will come to lower latitudes as they fill out the satellite constellation and build more ground stations. But truly global coverage (e.g. over oceans and the poles where there are no ground stations) will have to wait until they launch their v2 constellation with cross-satellite laser links.
There are creators, who are ok with downloads.
> I have never heard of people upgrading their compiler and/or standard libraries, but expecting to not have to recompile their compilation units.

You've never linked to a binary? I have no idea what debian's Qt was build with or libssl or SDL etc were built with but we can link to them all the same.

> How often are you changing major compiler versions and breaking standard library versions that you would have this expectation?

You don't configure Jenkins to build against multiple compilers/versions of compiler? Isn't that super normal?
That’s why I have triple-4k monitor setup. Also good for the eyes.

Mixed scaling? Is that that thing when you open chrome and it’s blurry on your hidpi monitor?
Does anybody know how to get high-quality two-way Bluetooth audio on Linux (e.g. for video chat)? It works on Android, Windows, MacOS, iOS. Just not Linux.
> Why isn't it possible for my headphones to connect to my phone and computer at the same time.

Bluetooth multipoint is the feature you're looking for, and there are a few headsets who support this feature already.
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Makes you wonder how worried and frustrated would have been those people who approached the path of violence to attract attention of the world towards such things. Not that I am condoning those actions.
There are many, not 100% for this reason, but often are - unhealthy competitiveness, inability to be happy with what one currently has (clue - it won't get much better once more is achieved). Children from broken families often don't believe in long term relationships or starting family and come up with reasoning like overpopulation and actually doing good for mankind. General insecurities. Afraid of generally any commitment. Emotional intelligence on a low level.

There are more extreme cases - wife works currently as doctor in prison, and most folks there didn't have a good (or any) fatherly model. Women have their own 'daddy issues' side to it, but most above applies too (experienced first hand in one relationship, it was pure nightmare although she was smart and professionally successful).
I think that's a second recent discussion on Bluetooth here that doesn't mention aptX at all. For me that was a gamechanger, wouldn't really buy anything that doesn't support it. Unless there are some other similar things around which I'm not aware of.
Well, not your typical end user routine I guess. I’d like that in mainstream distros please, without having to edit .desktop files to shove in all the commandline flags.
Yeah, Americans seem to believe that everyone under 15 is practically a toddler, anyone under 21 is like elementary school kid and everyone up to 26 is basically a child.
Just to be sure I'm getting the question - you want to use rsync(1), and you're wondering if there's a good way to guard your code that's using/calling it from underlying changes in rsync options and output, how to read status/progress and such?

Here's an example of library that wraps rsync https://metacpan.org/pod/File::Rsync - you can provide callback functions that will be called for each line of stdout/stderr.

Granted it's in Perl - and chances are your code isn't written in Perl. So if you can't find something similar for your language of choice, and if you can't be bothered with checking out implementation in Perl and rewriting it...

I would suggest searching & checking out "Inline::" namespace (e.g.: https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Inline-Java/lib/Inline..., and there's also JS, C ...etc).

And next to those - Perlito can "Compile Perl to Java/JavaScript/Python/Ruby/Go/etc" https://github.com/fglock/Perlito. I think we had/have some Perl code running in production Hadoop/JVM.
> This deal has got me thinking... whether a right way to "lay-off" a supremely talented bunch is to actually see if other companies are willing to offer them jobs? Kind of how player transfers happen in Football (soccer).

That's how Gitlab sold Gitter recently.
I also don't get why this was not fixed yet. There is clearly the need for high quality Bluetooth headsets.

Two sinks to one source works well for some devices. But this is more an edge case for most people.

I also have the feeling, that Apple AirPods have a better quality if you connect them to an iPhone, then any other Bluetooth headsets. Do they use a proprietary Handsfree profile?
> It's clear only to you.

Really? Who would be the judge of that? The suppression itself is hard evidence to the contrary.
It's definitely just a feature - but a very liberating one. Not having to worry so much about how you organize your files and where to put stuff is such a relief.

But I think it's too early to call roam, the startup, a success. It has some mindshare, but the product has no defensibility. It's not that complex. A competent developer can probably build a clone of Roam in 1-2 months of full-time work. A lot of copycats have started already and I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years it's not Roam that has won but just another copycat that had a better UI. Kind of reminds of how Slack killed that other app before it... was it... hipchat?
> Uploading incorrect settings is like intentionally missing a basket in basket ball, it’s not very impressive.

And

> Someone [...] found out no settings had ever been uploaded to the relay!

Thats exactly the point. Critical hardware should not be user-configurable, especially not from remote. You would not leave the "root console" open to untrained personal, neither should it be opened to an untrusted network.

My feeling in this context is that security should not be a compromise of cost-efficiency and usability but a strict requirement. In days before the internet, somebody had to get on their truck and take a ride to the power plant station. That's a whole different level of intention compared to "just" sending some mallisicous packets over the internet.
It's a feature on certain headphones. After using it I wouldn't buy headphones without it.
Same.

There are more videos of him there, including an hour and a half lecture. I suppose that’s ironic, but not very, because NP was open to the idea that computer technology could lead to useful media. He just didn’t get to experience much of it in his lifetime.

Now, we can experience him through it, which is a blessing in this time.

:-)
Referencing actual logic people use regarding drugs/alcohol prohibition for those that didn't follow.
Yeah, but that "10 years old go to work" workplaces were highly abusive. It was considered social problem and people who could afford otherwise did not had their 10 years old employed.
> Try visiting Elephant and Castle or Seven Sisters alone during the night.

Did that many times, it was fine? Only place I've ever felt unsafe was Brentford after I got hassled there.
Designer of the revamp here. AMA :)
The thing that gets me about bluetooth is how nonsensical the conflict resolution is. Like, if I'm playing something through a bluetooth speaker, and my wife wanders into range while listening to a podcast on her phone, it will automatically connect to the speaker and boot me off. How does it make sense to auto-connect when another device is already using the speaker? Similarly, I'll be listening to my bluetooth headphones, and my wife starts her car in the garage below me—suddenly my phone disconnects from the headphones and connects to the car instead. If I'm already playing through one bluetooth device, I probably don't want to automatically switch to a different one - especially one with a far weaker signal/likely farther away.

I get that these aren't trivial problems to solve, but they certainly seem possible to improve on, given the maturity of bluetooth at this point. Also perhaps they aren't the fault of the protocol at all, but just the choices made in programming phone OS's. Regardless, it's annoying!
> Now I hate living here but it’s too difficult to leave with a Swedish wife and kids.

Native Swede here. I felt the same way living in the US (minus the kids). Now having moved back, I realize that the problem was not entirely the US, most of it was my own attitude. I won't claim that every country is equal, but there are often good and bad things about most countries, and I haven't seen a perfect one yet. Being an expat in a country though you will notice every little flaw, or anything that's different from what you're used to. Things that annoyed me disproportionatly included paying rent with paper checks and the look and density of US cities. There were a million things like that, along with more serious issues like politics and healthcare. Meanwhile you are partially (sometimes completely) blind to the problems of your home country.

Try to be cognizant of this and try not to be bitter, it's not worth it.
Oh ok, and it can be used with VSCode somehow? Or were you talking about unrelated things?
Water.(I needed a well.) And wind. I was totally ill equipped to deal with WY winters as a Californian. I had lived in Boston and also in RI and parts of the south, but WY winters are definitely something different.
That the US 'wrote' Japanese constitution is a technical artifact.

99% of their culture is not based on the cultural vestiges as we articulate then 'in law'.

They technically have some institutions which mirror 'Western Liberal Democracy' but they are not remotely like Western nations in that sense.

Taiwan, Singapore are also technically a lot like 'Western Liberal Democracies' but we can see they absolutely are not, right there in their COVID responses.

They are indeed noteworthily 'different'.
That this is the warmest October so far. But that statement will be true for subsequent Octobers as well (i.e. it will just keep getting warmer).
Pi from High School Maths
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Naming things is notoriously difficult and you nailed it. Bravo.

I remember clearly the chaos monkey posts and how it resonated for our team, as we were building an ambitious real time project at the time. Thanks for the inspiration booster o/
Can you automate a video camera placed in front of a screen to automatically trawl several sites for new videos simultaneously?

Oh, wait, now we need 1 camera per computer,
per screen, and of course,
we would need licenses for that, as none of these videos are provided free of charge on a public medium accessible anywhere* in the World.

Perhaps a license per unit of electricity consumed also?

Perhaps we shall just cripple the justice system by replacing automated tools with mundane positions (video camera screen watch person, as of course, now a person would be required to watch that the camera is recording at the right time).

I applaud your efforts to increase the number of jobs in circulation, but I feel this may be the wrong approach.

I can tell you, there is very low likelihood of someone from $3RD_WORLD_COUNTRY_X's government going all the way to $CONTENT _PROVIDER_X to get a video they could have fetched using youtube-dl, fairly painlessly, and without waiting weeks for $CONTENT_PROVIDER_X to decide if they have the desire to share that content, or whether it would somehow besmirch their non-sleepy narrative.
There are multiple reasons, but efficiency is far down the list. Providing daycare is by far the most important duty of teachers nowadays.
This should be titled "I finally think Bluetooth is OK".

- The Airpods came out in 2016 and did away completely with connectivity issues

- Same for the Sony WH-1000, I've been using it for years and don't remember it dropping a connection

- Ditto for a Jawbone Jambox speaker from 2015

That said, Bluetooth still kinda sucks. The in-ear version of the Sony has connection drops. Connecting to multiple devices is a pain. It's still basically impossible to transfer a file to your computer, or between devices (I gave up on that about 10 years ago). Latency is terrible, both for audio and keyboards or mice.
I don’t like how advanced math has always butchered the Greek letters

μ is pronounced Me not Mew
The latter scenario is shockingly easy to build with modern cloud services. I once built a toy example that would track a given face through all the public camera streams in my city (Berlin) in a two day hackathon (and we all know how little coding gets done at those). And just like that, stalking is obsolete.

It's one of the only times in my life I've elected NOT to open source my work. As trivial as it was to build, I don't want to contribute anything at all to that creepy mess.

That was three years ago. My key takeaway: just assume scenario B is happening already.
This is actually a great step forward for science, we finally found the elusive Device-Pair That Works With Bluetooth.
What will be next, the Graviton? Dark matter particles?
Don't really know how this ended up on the front page now, but the overall "idea" that I have yet to find anyone else understand and believe in (even my old prof and colleagues don't seem to "get it"), is that: wouldn't it be great if there was a unified, ideally simple, interface from which you could just select any solver by the click of a button, whether you wanted to use OpenFOAM, FEniCS, or maybe even Ansys, etc. Then you could set up your simulation model once, and run it on "any" and many solvers (to validate and check results etc.). So that's what I've been trying to do by myself for the past 7 years or so. For better or worse it initially seemed like a good idea to use Matlab/Octave, but have been planning to eventually move either to Python or Pascal/Delphi backend.
Given Dutch rains, it almost always feels like living under water.
It helps to realize that "human reality" is nondeterministic in the sense that we lack sufficient computing power and modelling capability to work with it. It's not random, it's AI-complete. We literally can't handle it formally, and that's why we need to defer to the only "general AI" we have - or as its ordinarily called, human judgement. And human judgement is not random - it's taking into account vast amounts of data, like ethics/morality and social context, which for now escape our attempts at formalizing them.
And yet there's a price on it. ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24897311
and the Product is whatever they sell Google every couple of years.
Seems like this should be improved with Bluetooth 5.2 and LE Audio.
The Black Death also helped a lot. It reset a lot of property relationships by leaving a lot of free land after farmers and their whole families died out - in Norway it took about 200 years before most of the farms were back in operation, and when the population was expanding again there were tax breaks for restarting farms. We can see the extent of it today in the prevalence of last names like Ødegård, Ødegaard and similar (literally "deserted farm"), and similar place names.
Less Fun Fact:

The indigenous Sami-population used to live mostly in tents and move around following Reindeer herds. Very annoying to majority population for variety of reasons.

And this is why the Allemansrätt-law was made as thus: "You can camp on King's land, but not more than 3 days". Which totally destroyed the nomadic lifestyle.

Tromsø for example was one big tent town. There is still a large empty field by the river for the tents. When Nelson Mandela was visiting Tromsø there was big festival on this field. And I think the field was then named "Field of Human Rights" or something like that. Very ironic, nicht wahr?
It's kind of funny that the Forerunner 935, a device from 2015, is mentioned as an example of why Bluetooth is 'finally' OK.
Absolutely none. Kids who grow in families with issues have higher rates of issues. (And kid having issues tend to break family too).

But it is not glaringly obvious at all who grew up with missing dad (or missing mom). None of the issues the sibling mention are exclusive to such people nor so much more likely to be found in such people.
that's a joke, right?
Those are unrelated, Roam is just a web-based SaaS app.
It would be amazing to see Postgres do this over TDS.
I re-read it and got it, my brain didn't parse that properly. Thanks :)