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> It's funny how you could get access to the PM for just 50k GBP a year, even less if it's a Labour PM, or how you can get access to Rishi for 25k GBP a year. It's also the reason why a lot of donors are Russian or Arab.

If you could actually buy anything but an ear for your complaints access would be a great deal more expensive. That’s not to say this petty corruption of the democratic process is right but it’s like how a Russian would burst out laughing at the idea of a politician with bricks of cash in the freezer. In Russia the Chief of Police lives in a palace he obviously can’t afford on his salary and it’s very public, not something he tries to hide. In the US or UK if you have a freezer full of cash the police are going to get you eventually.

Take no small or secret bribes.
Your comment is an irrelevant ad-hominem argument. That's may be okay for Reddit but I'd expect a bit more from someone posting on HN. Besides, that international law was broken by Russia is not my personal opinion, it's backed up by the majority of countries and by almost all scholars in international law, see e.g. [1] for a good analysis.

You're just plain wrong in both of your posts.

[1] https://www.mpil.de/files/pdf4/Marxsen_2014_-_The_crimea_cri...
That's a great question. I've got a hackmac with an i9-9900k that needs some optimizing. It was hitting 100C frequently until I changed some overclock settings, that's been remediated but I still haven't had a chance to optimize it. It appears most of the tools for measuring OC settings and benchmarking are PC-only, so that requires throwing up a Windows install alongside Mac OS - which I've done.

Dual-booting required disconnecting all other hard-drives to install Windows onto a new drive. Which is a ridiculous requirement and not even related to Mac or hackintoshing, but to the Windows installers inability to install in the presence of any drives with bootable EFI partitions – I think.

Off topic, but yeah, buy real Macs unless you have a lot of time to devote to fixing problems. Most of the time it's flawless. Upgrading and special cases are fun.

I'd really like to see how the M1 compares to my current setup in my real world use.
> One great thing about biology is that it is easy to understand because everything makes sense and "works" like you think it should. Human created systems often times dont make sense at all.

That's probably because people choose to test only the most obvious hypotheses. There s an amazing amount of data but it s mostly at the level of "describing the clouds". there seems to be a need for theoretical breakthroughs
>> German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday called for creating a European Union army, stressing that Europeans can no longer merely rely on the U.S. for their security.

Source? She said that two years ago [1] but on Tuesday her defense minister sounded much less enthusiastic about it [2].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/13/merkel-joins-m...

[2] https://www.politico.eu/article/german-minister-to-macron-eu...
I think the M1 processor is quite revolutionary honestly.

Yes, kids these days have less fundamental knowledge about tech. But that's because a lot of problems that were interesting to us are now solved. My son doesn't have to know anything about modems, BBS'es, sound cards and MP3 codecs in order to listen to music. He can just start Spotify on almost every device in our household. It took me months to know how to do that.
I think I am immune to the appeal of grindy computer games. I never gotten why people replay for achievements or stats, and I get bored by online games that focus on leveling. Even multiplayer based on competition and community are not really my thing. My favorite games are story based, and I hate the recent trend of RPGs to have free world grinding and base building for no reason other than stats and achievements. I was one of those people angry at the online Fallout game, for example.

And that being said, I DO also watch stupid TV. Recently, my wife and me have been watching Gilmore Girls, which is an objectively "bad" late 90's soap. I haven't watched Emily in Paris yet, but I might!

So I think there are people who require these shows as because they need background noise, however I also think that sometimes some shallow soap is exactly what you might want to watch.

In any case, kudos to op for implicating the author's dislike of Emily in Paris with the inability to enjoy Jim Jamush movies. A masterful troll move.
Starting to wonder why I've seen at least 3, maybe 4, unrelated things about Dolly Parton today. Including covers on Youtube and an article about her investment in coronavirus research.
The list certainly is confusing. It took reading it a couple of times, but now it makes more sense what they appear to be basing the list on.

Most C builds default to dynamic linking, so while it's trivial it does take a few tweaks. Though that relies almost more heavily on the particular build system used with C. Actually in that regard Nim should be listed the same as C, as I had to pass a few C compiler options recently to allow running an executable compiled on Linux on amd64 to run on x86 Linux as well. So compared to Go's skipping of libc it'd seem to make sense. Maybe it'd be more obvious if the portability was an effort rating from 1-5. Go is 1, simple C is 2, Nim is a 2, and Rust is a 3, and complex/ancient C autoconf/make anywhere from 2-5. Elixir 2-3, Python 4-5. Based largely on the googling efforts I've done in the past.

Regarding the compatibility layer though, the bootstrapping makes sense. Generally C and C compilers are going to be imminently more portable since some variant of C is likely yo be available. Python's standard library is likely going to be an enormous effort to port. Perl/Lua much less so but at the expense of the compatibility layer meaning more individual platform work.

Most compatibility layers are going to be a pain or limiting as you say. I'd like to say I'm a fan of Nim's "open architecture" standard library (compatibility layer) having recently done a PR to add support for FreeRTOS. Much of the stdlib worked without modification due to "lazy compiling" of code, including the stdlib. It only tries compiling what you use. Skip the default networking and write a few C/C++ FFI calls networking for the platform and you've got a full library of containers, json parsing, etc. Then you can pretty easily add support for Nim networking compatibility later. For example the 'selector' library has support for various OS specific from ancient 'select' to 'epoll' to whatever Windows does based on what you choose to import. Pretty awesome for embedded.

Overall it seems the article is considering portability in two narrow contexts. However, having both tried to ship say a scientific GUI program for non-technical users (e.g. using Python QT) on one hand the first definition is useful, while porting code to embedded projects the other can be useful.
In our organization, for comparing two files in custom data format and generating a html file in backend of an internal app.

It was using an old bash script(!), to generate the file. I was able learn little awk, and was able to write a 100 line awk script to replicate the same. Apart from the efficiency of the script, which was the main aim, it was impressive how readable and understandable the whole thing became. Some subtle bugs became apparent.

It is not do-all language. Yet, in its small niche, it is very succinct in expressing the text processing ideas. I know it could be done easily in any other language.

A port of bash to awk script :
https://github.com/berry-thawson/diff2html/blob/master/diff2...

https://github.com/berry-thawson/diff2html

Original bash counterpart:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180612205114/https://github.co...

Edit: Changing link and added new links
It's probably a network effect. If enough people use them eventually everybody use them. I could be the only one among my friends to even know they exist.
In my personal opinion there is a threeshold you have to hit with psylocipin before you can fully let go. 2g would feel emotional worse to me than 7. I take up to 1g semi regularly against my migraines which is just a little below turning super emotional.

Edit:// for reference i am talking about dried golden teachers. There are stronger variants out there.
Then they have a problem (legal, economical, practical). They shouldn't make that problem their employees' problem though. Solutions include stopping moderation, or suspending operations partially or completely. For example, if they prevented image sending/posting for a few months, their moderation workload would likely be lower.
I think part of this narrative is the US spends an incredible amount on the military. If they don't continue to cast the entire world as with us or against us then that amount of money becomes harder to justify.
My God, that chalk looks good enough to eat compared to the shitty crumbly chalk we had in school back in Eastern Europe.

But I guess it must come at a premium though.
It wasn't just the USA. Even in the conservative Portugal of the 1960s/70s a small wave of "modern math" (as it was called here) washed over the high-schools.

I believe it was more of an experimental thing, with partial adoption - i.e. only one of the math teachers would use the new syllabus on their students, with classes six days a week (yep, back then there was Saturday morning school).

All I remember now is a bit of bafflement at the set theory paraphernalia, rings and groups etc.
The world is actually getting more peaceful every year. Fewer and fewer people die from violent conflicts.

I think fewer people would start a war if they themselves risked being killed in it. So you won't see many African despot start wars because the US might bomb their headquarters. On the other hand, we will probably see the US continue waging wars because no one can kill the US President. Hypothetically, if it was possible for an enemy to blow up the White House, I think US foreign policy would be way less hawkish.
Yep, I used it for my thesis and I thought all the scripting for shaping the training data (varying the number of parameters, prefixes, suffixes, transformations to case forms (UpperCase -> ulul) and similar will take me most of my time) but then ended up writing everything in a day.
> Every IAQ CO2 meter

> For example, suppose I buy two CO2 meters from Amazon

It sounds like you're looking at retail consumer products, which I think is the problem.

The Sensirion SCD30 _sensor_ [0] for example allows forced recalibration [1] to an arbitrary concentration.

Also, since you call it an "IAQ" CO2 meter, it might be that these aren't CO2 meters at all. They could be VOC meters that make up a projected CO2 reading based on the presence of other chemicals in the air. You need to make sure the sensor is NDIR-based and actually measures CO2.

If you want accuracy, don't buy retail sensors that don't come with spec sheets. I'd find the sensor you want first then find or build a meter based on it. For example the SCD30 can be connected to an ESP32 and connected to WiFi using ESPHome [2], which can be set up with some YAML files.

> self-calibration

Just by the way, self-calibration is what you want. Real CO2 sensors drift over time and you definitely want them recalibrated at least once a year. Auto-calibration takes away that pain and when implemented in a suitable way, really works. Many calibration routines are not suitable for residential environments as they're based on the assumption that they will see pure fresh air at least once a day. This is a safe assumption in a business environment because most AC systems have an overnight fresh air purge. In a residential environment though, someone might not open the window once a day.

Again referencing Sensirion, their auto-calibration cycle looks for two, hour-long valleys in the CO2 readings over the previous two weeks that are within a few percent of each other and uses those as a fresh air reference. In my experience, this works well at home.

> Another downside to this difficulty in testing is that it's hard to truly evaluate a particular meter's performance. Which seriously limits side-by-side comparisons of different models, and makes it harder to hold manufacturers / retailers accountable for poor performance.

You "just" need a reference to compare to. If you have a look at academic literature, they typically use a lab-grade setup to compare. You're right though, it's difficult for a regular home user to evaluate a sensor like this.

[0]: https://www.sensirion.com/en/environmental-sensors/carbon-di...

[1]: https://www.sensirion.com/fileadmin/user_upload/customers/se...

[2]: https://esphome.io/
Have u looked at buckets? It's the same principle but it desktop software. I think it lacks bank integration
You cant understand why things happen if you don't know when they happen (the other way around works just fine, which is why quizzes on tv love to ask random dates). You need to know when Caesar crossed the Rubicon in relation to when other events happened to help you understand why he did what he did. If you think he conquered Gaul after becoming dictator your entire narrative changes.

It sucks, but you really do need to know a lot of whens to help you contextualize the why. I've got a BA and MA in history and my first year at university was spend memorizing so many things, which was the absolute worst. But it did really does help a lot once you start doing your own research.
I have long preferred iPhones - one way or another, Android always ended up feeling unpolished and laggy. However, since the "flat" redesign I have felt iOS is on a downhill slope. Apps are increasingly crashy, I even had a scare with the Google Authenticator last week. I can sacrifice some freedom and money for convenience and looks, but if one side keeps altering the deal I have to question whether the bargain is still worth it.
OpenStreetMaps is a similarly wonderful project. The Internet Archive is mentioned every now and then as well.
What's so bad about Big Sur (except the bypassing firewalls) ?

From what little experience i have with it (being recently released), everything still just works as expected. They changed the layout of a few things, but at least from my usage perspective it still works every bit as well as the previous versions.

Granted, i mostly use mail, text editors, terminals and browsers with the occational hobby photo editing and 3d printing slicers, but for my programming and photo workflows it still fits the bill nicely.

I use Windows 10 at work every day, and while it runs well enough there are still countless "little things" that bug me.

About 10-15 years ago i stopped doing "point and click" to open applications, and instead rely on Spotlight to find and open apps. This works 99% of the time. On windows ... not so much. Press the windows key, start typing, and it either doesn't find what you're trying to open, or it finds it, but in the time it takes my brain to register the correct result i have typed another (correct) letter, and the wanted result is gone, replaced by some annoying Bing website.

Control Panel ? Why do we need 3-4 of them ?
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> kill en masse

Taking a somewhat devil's advocate role here, many of the advances are the exact opposite of mass killing. They are trying to minimize collateral damage, have better kill ratio or improve survivability.

Another side effect is that new technologies are being developed and later leak to the civilian market for peaceful uses.

I do think though that this is a huge huge waste of money, resources and human life.
Being a developer doesn't automatically mean you should hate Apple. I'm a developer, and I don't.
The Timelines of Our Lives
> they also provide basically the entire software stack you’re using.

Without giving developers a choice to use a different software stack this doesn't mean much. You first have to buy an expensive Mac in order to use the free iOS development tools.
Education is actually changing all the time. There are some efforts to improve it in general, improve it for selected groups (disabled) and periodical efforts to dismantle and destroy its public form entirely.
I'm an electronics/embedded programming guy and I "accidentally" learned biology by listening to a great bunch of podcasts while going to sleep and commuting.

At first you won't get all the terminology, but if you keep listening you'll eventually get it (that's how it worked for me).

The cool thing is that you'll dive right into the state of the art of academic research by the very people who do the research and write the papers. It's geared towards people like you and me: the curious general public.

Since you mentioned autoimmune diseases and medication, I recommend starting with: https://www.microbe.tv/immune/
If you have any particular disease you're interested in I would just do a search on that page and dive right in.

They also have weekly (almost daily now) updates on SARS-CoV2 where they seem to be ahead of the MSM by weeks to months: https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-683/

They talk with not just virologists and immunologists, but also people in industry who develop vaccines/meds, people who organize clinical trials and PEOPLE LIVE FROM SPACE: https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-682/
In my experience, after Doom, the pace of shooters started going down. Even Doom 3 was (IMHO) a cutscene horror. For me the only game in the spirit of Doom (with enemies attacking en masse, with meaningful weapons, without pretending there is some interesting story) was Painkiller. Otherwise, games got slower, even ones I otherwise enjoyed immensely (e.g. Half-Life).

Doom 2016 & Eternal are back to the game - with fast-paced mechanics, and (though, I cannot bear Doom Eternal demon piñata glitter, vide https://medium.com/@pmigdal/doom-2016-vs-doom-eternal-ui-sid...).
Dusk has a nice, gloomy mood, fast (and respecting players - in terms of challenge and difficulty). Ultrakill has g(l)ory kill mechanics, IMHO better than from Doom Eternal (even if not as visually appealing).

> Second, one forgets very easily how games could have poor mechanics.

Mechanics is hard. Kudos to Szymanski for polishing the mechanics, not the story or graphics glitter.

> [T]here was one Carmack only. Today there are plenty.

Well, Carmack is unique. His focus and attention to detail are second to none. Plus, there was another John - Romero. In Doom, he was designing and obsessively tweaking all parameters.
(To the extend, I compare these Johns to John Bell, and Albert Einstein. No, it is not a joke: https://crastina.se/theres-no-projects-like-side-projects/.).
Based on the video, the look and feel of this game is reminiscent to me more of Monolith's Blood II than Id games.
I hardly ever pay for software, but my best one was a very subsidized MS Office one time purchase.
The Cit0Day Breach Collection
> Does svelte really has that much presence in industry?

I hope it won't get any significant traction because I'm tired of yet-another-almost-same-but-different frontend dev option, why couldn't it be a contribution to React or Vue but separate entity instead?
Among reasons for the American spend (1) it helps to support the nuclear non-proliferation cause, and has historically been used to dissuade Australia and Japan and South Korea and West Germany from creating their own nuclear weapons programs; (2) because the US has historically guaranteed northern Europe against a USSR tank invasion, though this may no longer be relevant; (3) the US is security guarantor for much of east Asia, including the Korean Peninsula. Asian nations currently have strong concern about the rise of wolf warrior China.

If Europe is not freeloading, why was there so much negative reaction by European leaders to Trump reducing presence in Europe? Surely this should be celebrated!

If NATO is no longer relevant, then nations should drop out of it. There is a clear path to this. If they want to be members, they should honour their obligations.
Even the sexiest companies need the IT basics: inventory, payroll, marketing, etc.

A lot of it is system integration, not greenfield development, but of course all tech work exists somewhere on that continuum
2020: bad diet >> little or no exercise >> stress from society and work >> poor sleep = weak immune system
> non-metrical contexts

How do you get a geometric algebra without at least a pseudo-Riemannian metric?
I am currently self-learning biology and I just completed MIT's 7.00x introduction to biology on edX [1].

The course is outstanding and anything but a "lifeless recitation of names". Prof Eric Lander (key researcher on the Human Genome Project) goes through two centuries of research and takes the time to explain how and why discoveries came into existence. It goes from the early days of biochemistry to recent major advancement such as CRISPR/Cas9.

I'm looking to apply my ML expertise to the field of biology and this course was a real windfall, I highly recommend it.

[1] https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-biology-the-secre...
You can’t “transfer debt”. Otherwise I’d borrow a ton of money and transfer the debt to Bill Gates. A PE firm borrows to buy a company, attempts to make it a better money making machine by making process improvements and having it borrow to fund expansion and then sells it. The people who lend to the company know what they’re doing. They’re making a bet that the PE firm was right and they’ve made a better money making machine. Sometimes they’re wrong and they lose this money. That’s capitalism. If you make a bad investment you can lose all your money.
> They won't invade Poland or Baltics because those countries are in NATO and EU and it's way too risky

You’re literally describing the value of the security guarantee.
OpenWrt and Self-Signed Certificates
It's not much more than an extension of everything being 'awesome' and 'amazing' etc. when it's merely useful, if that. A trend that I regret is starting to invade the UK.
> That's not a scam; it's no different from buying a house on a mortgage.

When I buy a house on a mortgage, I (not the house) end up with the debt, and I don't get to transfer any of the assets associated with the house to myself in a way which makes them not subject to repossession if the mortgage isn't paid.

So, yeah, the deals we're talking about are very different.
I also have a theory about history. I think it might be wasted on young people because they lack some maturity and life experience.

I think after you've seen human nature, chaos and conflict, and how people get along, it gets more interesting.

How did people with no fast communication or transportation manage to fashion constitutions or governments that have lasted hundreds of years?
There is this common meme that people buy tons of games during steam sales and never play them.
"Jamf helps organizations succeed with Apple. By enabling IT to empower end users, we bring the legendary Apple experience to businesses, education and government organizations."

So, totally unbiased and not a sales pitch disguised as a comparative article then.
It's very obvious (in many different places: landing, documentation, streams) that TailwindCSS is made with love. Thank you for that!

P.S. Trailer is cool!