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I find the idea of a European army to be the stuff of fantasy.

The reason Europe is so dependent on the US is because European NATO members have for decades chosen not to honour their spending and capability obligations to that treaty. Certainly this includes Denmark. A quick google suggests this rich nation is spending 1.3% instead of the 2% minimum.

Meanwhile, Russia, a less prosperous nation with a history of muscular military engagement, is spending more than six percent of its much larger GDP on military.

Due to its regular shadow operations in other countries, Russia has a ready supply of veteran soldiers who could be drawn on in a hostile engagement. European nations could have used the ‘NATO’ Afghanistan invasion as an opportunity to develop a similar pool, but made only token efforts.

Germany is even worse than Denmark. It is laughable for Merkel to make these comments. She has been in power for fifteen years. All through that time, Germany has been amongst the worst NATO members against it’s treaty obligations.

Beyond the realities of military capability, there are the political problems. The European group have no history of coordinated executive action. Structurally, they are in a weaker position to coordinate a war even than the US was in its articles of confederation era.
I mean, it's an impressive performance boost, but is anyone really training models on a Macbook or a Mac Mini? Not sure it's really useful to compare this against itself, the real benchmark is how it performs when compared to a dedicated NVidia GPU which is what most people are using in the real world.
I think the three levels all have merit. If you don't end up repeating yourself too much, just add the utility classes directly. If you find yourself repeating a bunch of classes together, maybe you can make a semantic class with @apply. If you're repeating a bunch of HTML (and Javascript) along with the CSS, make a component.
So SIP isn't about keeping me secure. It's about keeping my computer secure from me.
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The main issue for EU with regard to NSA/USA, is that NSA makes no difference on data collection and USA government makes no difference in intelligence use. NSA collects all data they can and USA government uses that to maximize USA interests, no matter if it is terrorism or industrial espionage and information sharing with their US national businesses against EU. Unlike USA, EU has nothing that organized in place to match that threat.
Which is 100% correct.

NVidia cared to make CUDA into a polyglot GPGPU programming model, with nice debugging tools where you can do everything like CPU graphical debuggers, then thanks to PTX it was a matter to just add a new backend to your compiler.

Hence why, even though it doesn't get that much press, you can even use flavours of Java and .NET on CUDA.

Meanwhile Khronos kept driving their C only agenda, and when they realized the mistake, came up with SPIR (then SPIR-V after Vulkan was introduced), tried to also cater to the C++ devs (with printf like debugging tools).

All this effort was largely ignored by OEMs, with their lousy tools, thus ending with OpenCL 3.0 being effectively OpenCL 1.2 renamed to sound cool, and the C++ efforts (SYSCL) are now focusing on compute agnostic backends.

The problem wasn't NVidia, rather Intel and AMD did not deliver and all their alternatives to OpenCL are even worse, half backed attempts that always loose steam half way through.
>"The new A100 with HBM2e technology doubles the A100 40GB GPU’s high-bandwidth memory to 80GB and delivers

over 2 terabytes per second of memory bandwidth."
How it can be a CUDA alternative when their driver support is still a joke and not available in all OSes?
In the US pension system, are the pension payments somehow delayed from the actual date that liability is accrued, i.e. the day the employee gets paid the first time? Is it legal for a company to pay a salary to their employees without having the financial assets to back all other liabilities? I can somehow see the twisted reasoning behind this, but it still feels wrong.

Asking this as a foreigner and because such a system sounds so ripe for abuse that it would have already been fixed if it really was flawed and affected those pensioners' lives.
What bullying was done?
It seems like the drawing has to be very well drawn in order to get decent results.
Always admired your build, and it has been my initial inspiration to kick off and work on my own homelab.
>They know they can't do much to stand up against US. I may be wrong but I think Denmark's security is based on US millitary support through NATO. This applies to most EU countries. Russia is too threatening to upset your security guarantor.

It's amazing how this Cold War old-wives-tale is still what Americans believe...

Russia is not USSR - a superpower with half of Europe under its wings -, and is not a threat to anyone (and in no great shape to be a threat, even if they wanted), except immediate neighbors they have disputes with for centuries, and which, more often than not, are themselves armed and weaponized by NATO as proxies against it.
most US propaganda is actually pretty transparently done by the corporate sector

Agree, but I'm not talking about most. I understand there is "cholesterol bad" or "anti-vaxx, stupid, amirite?" from pharmaceuticals or "almonds make penis hard" from nutrition "science" funded by the food industry. That is not what I'm talking about.

I'm talking about the Deep State, which is comprised of ex-military, the CIA and weapons industry people. They're pretty deep into everything.
> You have to get close to the CBG to start the overwhelming campaign. The delivery platforms are likely to be destroyed long before they get close enough.

Not anymore, see ballistic anti ship missiles (range ~ 1800 miles), long range bombers equipped with long range missiles, and long range hypersonic missiles likely spotted on their long range bombers:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/37662/chinese-long-ran...

https://twitter.com/tshugart3/status/991832711013728256/phot...

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/37465/new-images-of-ch...

> The CBG itself has a massive arsenal. It can deliver its own overwhelming firing. Besides carrying planes the carrier is a huge missile firing platform.

You can fit more missiles on the continent than you can on ships. That's really the end of the argument.
Um. The Tailwind compiler produces a plain CSS stylesheet with all the classes you need and none of the ones you don't. You can just dig that out of your build (or wget it from production) and stick it where you normally stick your styles(..!).
I think this is great. Amazon is one of the companies that have the great shipping delivery. Plus, Amazon Pharmacy is reliable for customers. https://couponforless.com/store/amazon.com
I was thinking that one of the problems with a lot of public domain translations is that the translations are extremely dated. So you're reading this text that you almost need a translation of that itself is a dated translation.

This isn't the fault of Standard Ebooks, but it's an elephant in the room of public domain texts in general. In many ways I'd rather see effort put into crowdsourced or volunteer modern translation than into improved copyediting.

It's especially problematic if you consider that the original text in the foreign language isn't available as well, as you're noting.
Yet another Geometric Algebra introduction claiming GA is better than quaternions, yet ending (section "Problem Solved" near the end) with the exact same formulas.

Really I like GA and it sure brings a unified treatment for geometric calculations, but in these tutorials I would very much like to see examples of something quaternions can not do, e.g. involving exterior algebra, subspace intersections, duality etc.
> The right way to use Tailwind is to extract components, for example in Vue.

That's not the full story. Using @apply is the only option if you're not using a component based JS framework like Vue or React.

@aply works everywhere. The current documentation highlights this difference; showing both component extraction and using @apply as a failback when you want to go old school.
Gotta be careful with that sort of thing these days, HMRC has pretty strict rules on stuff like dinners and entertainment expenses. One of the rare positives of a decade of Tory rule is that they know all the tricks their chums are using, so they know how to close a few loopholes whenever they need more pennies in their coffers. But yes, some dodging is still fairly trivial.
> Someone probably told me that every cell in my body has the same DNA. But no one shook me by the shoulders, saying how crazy that was.

Why is that crazy? I had years when I liked biology and years when I did not liked it, but imo, the wish for mystification does not lead to knowledge. Well done any topic can be interesting, badly done it will be boring.

But, that wish to have everything framed in mystique is something I cant comprehend or really stand by. Like, I did not wanted to be manipulated that way as a kid and teachers who overdone it came across as untrustworthy or pathetic.
>The reason Europe is so dependent on the US is because European NATO members have for decades chosen not to honour their spending and capability obligations to that treaty. Certainly this includes Denmark. A quick google suggests this rich nation is spending 1.3% instead of the 2% minimum.

That "treaty" was pushed to European nations, mafia style, and voted in by right-wing parties and politicians (sometimes right-wing to the point of dictatorship), in the Cold War era, as protection against USSR.

It's still pushed now through diplomatic pressure, profitable handouts to vote in favor, etc., not because those nations really want it.
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Sorry but "privacy-focused" and Web applications don't combine.
People have wildly different reactions, some of my friends can take 14g+ and be fine, others are barely able to talk after 2g. Plus potency varies wildly between crops and strains.
Lol exactly. Amazon and Microsoft always take potential customers out for lunch (or dinner). My fiancee and I have attended a number of "Azure" dinners, where Microsoft funded our expenses. The only qualm was that we had to sit through lectures where salespersons would go on about how Xamarin was the next hot shit, which bored her, a medical doctor, to death, and managed a few chuckles from me.
In my case, I only do that when I'm getting fed up of working on the same place everyday. Working in a coffee shop is not ideal, but the environment is different enough to reset my mood. Obviously I'm not going to work in a coffee shop every day though, and I haven't work on a coffee shop this year due to covid.
> It's not clear if Apple would have ever been affected by government regulation here.

They almost certainly will get hit by regulations in EU. USA is a different matter, but EU has no love for US tech giants.
Not trying to being sceptic here, but before and after seeing the latest Greenland movie, I think USA owns already Greenland de facto for all practical purposes. Denmark just has it on paper and pays the costs. If Russia wanted to take Greenland (why?), then USA will fight of course because it is already theirs.
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>One would assume that Russia/North Korea/China/the UK/Kazakhstan/Somalia etc want to invade other places about as much as America does.

Historically, not every country did it "as much as America does", and not globally.

Both because of differences in culture, and because of differences in role and capacity.
I’m a software developer contractor. By the nature of my work I often have to suffer the “corporate fog”, a sort of induced stupor caused by multiple layers of middle management, generic performance objectives, knowledge loss due to churn and ineffective information management.

This drama sounds like a typical corporate misunderstanding: engineers follow technical specs, no written requirements, management doesn’t understand the subtleties - nor do their care for them and they’re busily enough already with all the other tugs.

Eventually shit hits home, PR digests and translates into requirements, management gropes along in the fog.

There’s no malice, it’s just a large org, and there’s no SJ that agonizes over the details (and even then, he also let big fuckups slip past, remember the iPhone antenna issue)
WFH needs to die. You couldn’t do this in Europe, I think.
Don't get the downvotes either. This is a somewhat valid point. I feel like many people, even here on HN really like to paint the world black and white in this regard.

Everything bad we hear about Russia & China must undoubtedly be true, because it's reported by our press, and we have freedom of press, which means that our press never lies or has an agenda. At least when it comes to foreign affairs. So your Facebook feed must've undoubtedly told the unbiased truth about your country.
>It's up to the government and the people to limit their scope, or not if they choose.

That sounds a lot like victim blaming, tbh, particularly given the influence corporations have on eg pollution.
It doesn't have anything with the color black either.

What about "yeslist" and "nolist"? "Includelist" and "excludelist"?
The pro-GMO lobbies pushing too hard.
If you think you can manage cloud deployments without skilled labour with cloud expertise, you are in for a surprise.
Don't know about the UK, but at least in Canada setting up a fake farm is easy and popular https://www.bclocalnews.com/news/too-easy-for-fake-farmers-t...
If you want correctness, you need proofs, or generate the code from specification. And even then cosmic rays and bit-banging and faulty hardware can break your application. Or simple change of stack size :)
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Yes.

https://i.imgur.com/8aczvjV.png
This is a good model to refer to from time to time.

I would add that "ally" doesn't mean co-operate in all spheres. It's perfectly reasonable for two nations to have border skirmishes and have bi/multi-lateral trade agreements simultaneously.

A nation is a multifaceted entity and it isn't possible to model it as one single blob. Inter-nation relationships are very fluid, and evolving all the time.

I find it funny when I see Indian social media flare up with "ban Chinese goods" whenever there are border skirmishes. It's as if trade and border-disputes somehow won't fit together and that there is a very sharp line between "ally" and "enemy".

Unfortunately, politicians take advantage of this sharp divide in people's mind to rally large groups of people against an imagined threat from a nation to garner support/votes. My father-in-law was very agitated about India-China border skirmish thanks to all the media coverage. In his mind Indian economy would be doomed. I asked him if the condition of the shitty public road he travels by each day improve if India won that dispute. He is perfectly fine to accept the crappy day-to-day life (non-existent roads, shitty power supply, un-usable water etc.,) but would suddenly get riled with some random dispute thousands of miles away!
The problem with an European Army is that the French or the Italians or even the Germans won't send their young men to die at the Eastern border in order to defend Poland or Romania, it's as simple as that (see also the "phoney war" that only ended when Nazi Germany actually decided to invade France and the Benelux). The Americans inspire a little more trust, even though they live half a world away (maybe because of that). Source: me, living in Romania.
Developers: please start supporting and advocating Linux, then we'll all have (hopefully) a better alternative future.
> Why shouldn't a private business be allowed to control what third party software it allows on its platform?

There's this thing called "consumer rights" that exists to ensure corporates do not screw us with their products and services. That's why.

> There's no misrepresentation to the customer,

The consumer is being lied to here that this is all being done to protect their privacy where as the actual objective is to even more intrusively spy on its users through these controls, and use this data to exploit them more. And this control also works to exploit developers.

> ... and the customer has other options if they aren't happy with it.

That already assumes that corporates have more more rights over their products than their consumers who pay to own it. If a product is owned by a customer, they should be able to do what they want with it as they are the owners.

> Developers benefit from apple's strengths and relation with its customers.

No, they absolutely don't. Developers benefit better when they strengthen their own relationship with the customers, without Apple as a middleman dictating terms to them and charging them exorbitantly for the same. Apple even goes to the extent of limiting functionalities, to retain its control.

> It's a fantasy to pretend that disruption to the model will simply rearrange the bottom line without doing structural damage to the entire endeavor.

That's a huge exaggeration. Even otherwise, it doesn't matter if said disruption sinks Apple. Another will take their place.
Group messages are also (usually) MMS.
Can you point out a company that doesn't love money?
You'd have to hit the incoming pretty far out, or you're just gonna get hit by hypersonic buckshot.
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Started as a human, but i got lost along the way https://i.imgur.com/xEgmY0y.png
So (hope it never happens) if you have met with a bad accident, the first responders must break in to your house, call lockpickinglawyer (youtube lock picking guy) break your safe open, retrieve your smart card, then bring it to hospital and start your treatment? And I thought time is very critical. Privacy is important, but its implementation must be reasonable, come on.
I do wear an N95 and encourage others to wear an N95 or at least a surgical mask, but "it's a fact" is a poor argument. You may just as well say "Bruce Wayne won the 2020 US election. It's a fact".

I have personally been unable to find a single reliable study of mask efficiency, and the ones about N95 respirator efficiency that I found had the grim conclusion that they don't help much unless expertly fitted, and even health professional aren't very good to fitting them properly.

What I have found are some simulations that make unrealistic assumptions and reach the pre-supposed conclusions.

> Mask catches big droplets but is not effective catching small particles.

Well, then it's all a question of virion size vs mask hole size, then, and how long virions are still active, and what the effect of breath diffusion is. Of which the raw numbers would say that masks are mostly useless. I have not yet seen a model/study/trial that addresses this properly.

I wear an N95, and I encourage everyone else to do the same, but I do recognize that it's not a "fact"
As a Math/CS graduate (I focused on mathy aspects of CS): math cs people struggle at working with real world abstractions. They abstract and simplify, but then tend to convince themselves that simplified model and its conclusions are totally all there is to reality.

And if they accept that model is not super perfect, they completely reject model - to find another simplified model that they convince themselves if flawless.

They struggle with the "this is model with such and flaws we need to keep in mind while interpreting".
What is the "Freedom Score" based upon? I find it strange that the USA has such a low score (in the 80's), though I do note that the censorship in the USA isn't really as much state-driven, as it is corporate. I also noted that Iceland has a lower score than Norway, which seems odd to me, as it's for instance known to fervently support the integrity of servers stationed there.

I've noticed that part of the reason Norway has less censorship than other countries, is because it's outside the EU (despite being a de-facto member). In several instances of using a VPN, things that were censored in the EU (I remember checking several EU countries) weren't cencored in either Norway or the USA.
Agreed. Even if it's more commonly allowed, I suspect that there is a measurable reduction in productivity for "work from home." That would tend to offset the COL differential, so that salaries wouldn't equalize completely across the country. It still may pull salaries down in the high COL areas though, due to increased competition from the labor expanded market.

One possible interesting side-effect: it may result in 'democratizing' tech to some extent, if enough seed populations of engineers remain in the lower-COL areas and continue to work remotely.
It's nothing new. I'm in my late twenties, and I can name a few words we stopped using in my lifetime.
But Appoogle together clearly form a duopoly that does have monopoly power over the market. And they both charge 30% to App devs for the privilege of selling Apps on their respective platforms: coincidence or price collusion? Well it certainly looks like collusion from where I'm sitting.

(Yes, yes: Apple has just cut the rate for small devs. The big sellers still have to pay 30% though.)
Naive technophiles? In a FAANG company? Surely you must be kidding
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> who pays for the company with a loan that they pay back out of the company once they own it, sells off assets to his friends or a shell company and then declares the company bankrupt before selling it too.

None of this makes sense. if the company is profitable enough to be able to pay back its entire market capitalisation, why would they sell the assets off? If the cow is making that much milk, they'll keep milking it, or float it back and make a fortune
It is my understanding that toleration, free association, and free expression are core enlightenment principles that enable a civilization to be governed by reason. These are threatened by the censorious attitude of boomers and aging gen-xers with home equity to protect.

It is not unusual for older, wealthier elements of society to question the value of free expression for the masses. [1]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/democratic-enlightenment-philosophy-r...
University textbooks. They are written with the goal of building that foundational knowledge.

Scientific papers are great, but they assume a lot of pre-existing knowledge, whereas a textbook is designed to expose you to the concepts without any prior assumptions.
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What nonsense. A case of idiots in court rooms winning out over from not understanding physics. Apple never did anything wrong here.
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I think I drew Satan

https://i.imgur.com/FHrP8La.jpg
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> This is conspiracy theory at this point.

No, it isn't, but I am sure Apple would like all of us to think so. The new macOS already cripples firewalls to ensure that Apple can spy on you better and retain even more control over your device. Lack of drivers for Apple hardware means that you can only run their OS on it. The frog is being boiled ever so slowly, while also being given Kool-aid to make them think everything's fine. /s