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> If it works for you and your situation, great. Stop trying to make me change what works for me because you believe it would somehow be better.

On a personal level, I completely agree with this sentiment. If grandma wants to use windows, macOS, or whatever, she should do so!

When a Windows update fails halfway through and can't boot to Windows, or when macOS can't connect to it's all powerful binary validation server and her system becomes unusable, she's going to call me. Okay, fine, I'll play tech support for my relatives because they've chosen to use an unstable system. Same as if my junker car broke down, I'd call my uncle, because he's a mechanic, and he'd berate me for not having a reliable car, then fix it. What's family for.

However, my workplace is Windows only. I've wasted literally hundreds of hours fighting against Windows to make firewall and server settings correct (and fixed them again when it updates and borks the settings) for network applications that I've wrote. Something that would take about an hour to write a bash script for, push it to all the computers if they were Linux, and they'd never ever fail after that. It's just mind boggling that people accept this kind of behavior, and it's very damaging in the workplace. So I'm gonna keep pushing for Linux as standard at the workplace, and run whatever you want at home.
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next time using bots to astroturfing HN try use older accounts.
At huge societal cost. The virus has already killed almost 250,000 people in the United States.

Vaccines get you the individual protection (and eventually herd immunity) without all the death.
Part of your next conceptual step is realizing that the speed of the photons will measure the same to anyone, 100% of light speed.

In the vehicle, you'll measure the photons moving at 100% c.

Someone outside the vehicle as it speeds by will see the photons moving at 100% c - as you approach and as you move away. Other parts of spacetime change to accommodate this, effectively.
> "DNA vaccines have never been deployed because of serious concerns about the patient’s genes being modified by the vaccine."

This is a false statement.

Here's an article debunking these kinds of claims:
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-covid-19-vaccin...

From the article:
"Mark Lynas, a visiting fellow at Cornell University’s Alliance for Science group, debunked the idea that a DNA vaccine could genetically modify an organism. Lynas told Reuters that no vaccine can genetically modify human DNA.

“That’s just a myth, one often spread intentionally by anti-vaccination activists to deliberately generate confusion and mistrust,” he said. “Genetic modification would involve the deliberate insertion of foreign DNA into the nucleus of a human cell, and vaccines simply don’t do that. Vaccines work by training the immune system to recognize a pathogen when it attempts to infect the body - this is mostly done by the injection of viral antigens or weakened live viruses that stimulate an immune response through the production of antibodies.”"
afaik the ebola vaccine is mRNA based too, which was deemed safe...this year?
> it'd be pointless to run a challenge trial full of low-risk individuals.

This is binary all-or-nothing thinking. It considers 90% the same as 0%, since both are not 100%.

Testing on healthy young people you learn how a normal immune system reacts to a vaccine candidate. High risk groups mostly have similar immune systems.

Even if somehow you could only vaccinate everyone under 60, that would do enormous good stopping the spread.
It's not maintenance. It's the hassle of getting it to work the way you want it to work (which, for me, would mean "on par with the seamless experience I have on MacOS/iOS).

Maintenance is dead easy on Linux. Setting THAT up, though, isn't.
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Computer science education still not in majority of schools
I'd be interested in seeing how much money from their suits gets to the artists, or even to distributors - or what effect on revenue their deterrence causes.
Facts can be cherry-picked.

Half-truths can and slightly inaccurate statements can be construed as either hard-TRUE or hard-FALSE.

On the opposite side of the political spectrum, "nuance" in political discussion is an accepted reality.

Gatekeeping is acknowledged as a problem - we know those who position themselves as arbiters of truth are not beyond scrutiny.

It would be contradictory to know these are true but also believe conservatives are deluded in believing that fact-checking is fraught with bias.

>Indeed, conservatives have long claimed that fact-checking was riddled with anti-conservative bias and even conflicts of interest (as when PolitiFact, one of Facebook’s six United States-based fact-checkers, shot down a critique of a Clinton Foundation initiative without disclosing that one of that program’s principal funders was a major donor to PolitiFact’s parent organization, the Poynter Institute).

https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/media/310849-who-will...
Increases in social spending has no direct relation to "a massive shift to social democracy". Especially in a system where for example healthcare gobbles up vast amount of resources due to too many middlemen and profit motives.

> How about you do your own homework.

No, no and no. You're making extra-ordinary claims and should provide extra-ordinary evidence. The fact that you can't, never mention to provide some source, or mention a prominent person that actually uses sources that promotes this position, about this "massive social democratic shift" just indicate that you're basically just making this up by yourself using conjecture about policies you deem "socialistic".
I've mentioned this before in other discussions about chess. I was a little over 2000 USCF when I went to college before I decided that girls were more important than getting to 2200, lol.

Anyways, if you're a newer player and want to improve your game fast, this is what I would focus on.

1. Tactics. The vast majority of games between newer players are decided by tactics...someone hanging a piece, falling into a trap, etc. Practice tactics by doing puzzles, reviewing games of strong players with tactical themes. Lichess and Chess.com both have decent collections of tactics puzzles.

2. Don't try to learn a ton of openings. Pick one or two openings for white and black, and focus on them. Don't try to memorize lines, but rather become more familiar with the structures that result out of the openings, what typical objectives for white and black are, etc.

3. Familiarize yourself with endgame play. This is less important than #1 as a newer player, because all the endgame knowledge in the world means nothing if you hang a rook in the first 15 moves. But, it IS still important though, because you will get into endgames with a small advantage (or disadvantage) so you need to be familiar with how to convert that into a win (or hold your position). Rook endgames are especially important since they are generally the most common type of endgame. Lev Alburt has a good book called "Just the Facts" which covers endgame play. There are also puzzles and excercises on lichess and chess.com

4. Probably the fastest way to improve is to actually play games against stronger players than you and have them analyzed or annotated. You can either do this with a computer program, or a stronger human player if youre fortunate enough to know a strong player or have a coach. Lichess and Chess.com both have tools which will analyze your game and point out mistakes, missed opportunities etc. These are very helpful, they will instantly point out key moments in the game so you can see where you (or your opponent) went wrong.

Improvement in chess is really a volume game. The strongest players have played thousands of games and have a good sense and understanding of different positions because they have seen so many of them. They're able to quickly recognize patterns in these positions and devise a plan based on strengths/weaknesses. The best way to sort of develop this sixth sense is to put in the volume and play!
It’s been a while. I tried to hack something like this together - without having done any android dev before - and I understand why it’s taking a while. It’s not as simple as I’d imagined it would be.
> tried e-mailing their security e-mail (no reply)
No wonder, it's not a security issue. At least not yet, have you tried injecting new-lines?
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I doubt it. Every time there's an article on here about the latest outrage from $FaceGoogzon there's no shortage of well-paid rationalisers in the comments. I'd expect the same is true of the RIAA. Especially among their legal team: there are far more unseemly clients than the RIAA out there.
This. I'm well aware some of the comments I leave on the net about certain products (be it applications, os, hardware, tools, literally anything) might come over as smugness (though I do my best to just state facts without putting an extra undertone in it) but at least I realize that; it's just a natural reaction when you see something you like getting bashed - especially if that bashing is not entirely just or even completely wrong. But it's baffling to see people not realizing they're being dragged down by cognitive error and it makes them blind. We're humans, we can be thaught to self-inspect, it's unfortunate this doesn't get done in education enough.
+1 for leading me to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode, I had no idea this monstrosity exists :)
Well again we can debate on the "just works" part, as Apple has alot of problems in their hardware reliability as well but that is another debate all together.

It is also revisionist history to say "Apple was never about tinkerers and customizations", Apple was born out of the "tinkers" market, and did infact become popular pre-iphone days due to this hacker mentality, to deny this is to deny actual history

Further your comment it it "not being 1999" anymore and if your system becomes infected to the point wher you need to "reinstall windows" you lose alot simply because you are working from home..

I fail to see the connection, today there are far better tools on both windows and make to backup and restore systems.

For windows with OneDrive unless you have a massive amount of custom apps to install it is litterally just logging in to any other win10 computer and connecting your OneDrive to that computer and you have all you files

If you do not want to use Cloud services, Free Agents like Veeam for Windows empower users to backup and restore a complete computer is just a few minutes.

Also to claim mac is "Virus free" is moronic, and implies a level of security that is not really warranted, Mac like Linux is security through obscurity, Windows still has a 90+% market share, so of course threat actors will target windows more. Apple Mac is not target simply because there is not enough people to justify the investment.

As Mac's have become more popular, the number of threats have increased, and has shown Apple is not this secure enclave simply because they are Apple, they are secure simply because no one cares enough to target the platform,
no, these are the very first vaccines to use mrna technology successfully. same with the vaccine delivery technology -- lipid nanoparticles.

that's why there is a lot of concern about their potential long-term side effects. in animal models, one of moderna's older vaccines (not for covid) was found to cause severe liver damage... likely as a result of the nanoparticle formulation they were using, rather than the mrna itself, but who knows.

personally, given the data that i've seen so far, i'd be more comfortable with taking the pfizer mrna vaccine than the moderna one. especialy when you add in moderna's reputation for peak sleaziness and non-transparency, it seems especially risky to be one of their guinea pigs in the general population.
Absolutely. It is always a really indicator of if I'm tired or not if I start to fail a lot of chess puzzles where I should have seen something, but just didn't notice it because I was tired. As someone who tends to stay up late, it's been nice, because I have an objective measure of my cognitive decline from being tired that I wouldn't have seen otherwise, and it's made me want to go to bed so that I'm not tanking my puzzle rating on Lichess, haha. :)
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It will be nice when the RIAA lawyers start submitting PRs to fix an issue.
Is this different from interview coaches, weight loss coaches, college admission coaches, shrinks, financial advisors, tennis coaches, tennis psychologists, PR consultants, divorce attorneys ?

Could a spouse say "it's not fair, you hired a lawyer to help with your divorce" ?
Yes, and that is because Windows isn't working for you. But I know of plenty of lay people and professionals who use Windows, and enjoy it. For them it works.

And I know of plenty of people, me included, which would walk away from a job if Windows was a requirement (which I have done after a mandatory switch was made post hiring).

So you do you, and I'll do me, and please can we just move onto something more important.
> Last I knew, this was still impossible, unless you employ hand-waving.

I think you may be thinking of synchronization as perfect synchronization for ideal clocks. If you go down this route everything becomes impossible. Instead, think of synchronization as assurance that the maximum error is below some known bound. In general, the bounds can be made quite low.
> And as a colonialism it isn't inherently a negative thing.

I must have misread.
Because their ecosystem is just that smooth. Nothing comes close in terms of polish.
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> An average user has most of the software he needs even in linux.

"Average User" is a strawman. The average human has fewer than two legs, yet we do not design things with the assumption that no one has two legs.
Nitpick: you mean overstate. Understating it would be very easy, just say it's terrible :)
I wouldn't frame it as 'giving up' when you stop playing, rather you achieved what you set out to do.
It is difficult but its not because of the price, although that's there too. It's that developing countries may not have the infrastructure to transport and store the vaccine at the recommended temperature of -70C.
>regularly dropping to command line for configuring my system

I've really never understood this complaint. "oh why do I have to use a standardized set of abstractions for configuration instead of bizarre bespoke GUIs that are different for every piece of software."
Mostly peaceful downvotes.
GitHub really needs to step up its CORS game.
This also, preliminarily at least, confirms that the mRNA approach can live up to its promise.

With some luck, this is the start of a new era of fast and safe vaccines for most any virus.
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Right, these lawyers are parasites sucking blood not just from society in general, but also blood from most of the artists ostensibly represented by the RIAA. If any artists come out ahead from anything the RIAA's lawyers do, it's only the elite already-wealthy ones.
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That's weird, me too, I could swear it used to do that. It doesn't do it now though, and I can't find any option to make it do that again. Oh well.
Yeah. It is a popular feature in link shortners. Looks a lot better and has a premium feeling.

Examples are youtu.be , goo.gl , redd.it , cbsn.ws
And if you want your daily rage, check out the history of pricing in the US:

https://www.hcplive.com/view/why-is-colchicine-so-expensive-...
Just look up CRLite.
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I think its probably similar to medicine in that there is a gigantic industry of middlemen that suck money out of the system and make far more than the actual service providers
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Those alien "shortcuts" are Emacs bindings, the same as in a Bash shell, or a Cisco router etc.
All of humanity could die by your definition and it would not be the end of the world.
Yes, all of us are bound by the terms alike but I think everyone understands it was meant as commercial and non-commercial use for 99.999% of you will not trigger the respective clauses in the license. And the post title literally says "Redpanda is now Free & Source Available".
I think github's CEO was keen to restore it [0], probably on a matter of principle but also probably on how much negative advertisement it brings them, in terms of 'trusting' github as host.

I am sure they had MS's legal team advise them on what they can get away with.

[0] https://twitter.com/t3rr4dice/status/1320660235363749888
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Not if you can get re-infected. That's why the cold and flu virus are still doing the rounds every year despite pretty much everyone you know having had a cold or flu at some point.
At the other end of the spectrum: I bought one of these Russian KL-1 pocket-watch slide rules:

https://www.sliderulemuseum.com/Manuals/KL-1_RussianCircular...

(I now need reading glasses to use it- so annoying).
Trials for these drugs have already been running for months. They stared in July and over 15,000 people have already been vaccinated.

They started with with just handful of people, gradually increasing the number of people.

The likelihood of hitting some genetic combination that triggers some autoimmune reaction decreases as the sample size increases and no side effects are found.
My bad, I meant to say it in the other thread which is flooded with "As a young healthy person who could yet have more children, I’d rather get covid than take a genetic vaccine that might affect me or my offspring" type of comments.
The ROI for battery life falls off at a certain point, right? For phones, it's probably about a day -- how often is it a problem to plug in your phone at some point in a 24-hour period? -- and for laptops it's often about a full workday, 8-10 hours. I'm not saying that a 20-hour laptop battery isn't an incredible accomplishment, but I do think that I care a lot less about 20 vs 10 hours than I do about 10 vs 5.
Can anyone recommend any books or resources on teaching chess to kids?
After Moore's law and major DEs fixing performance issues, will a lightweight DE improve the experience for, say a 2015 i5?
Using the Latin alphabet in no way means "buying into the idea that each letter has a particular pronunciation." This is very obvious if you speak Irish, but even in English there are phonemes that are written as digraphs (most obviously th but also ch and sh - which is why Hepburn seems non-awful to people whose native language is English) - no Latin orthography that's in live use as a spoken language is, or could be, "consistent" in your sense.

The 50音表 regularity is real and meaningful (e.g. it shows up in verb inflections); any representation that lacks it is necessarily less faithful to the native experience. Whereas the letter-sound correspondence in Hepburn is not consistent in the first place ("chi" for ち is ridiculous to anyone who speaks a non-English language), so the idea that Nihonshiki is somehow less consistent is simply wrong.
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I was just watching Fedex play last night in a game on twitch! I never knew this.
Excellent news, now the community has a central place to contribute.
All in all I think it even had a positive impact for youtube-dl, the community will learn from it, and the number of people knowing about youtube-dl has grown by quite a lot.
I think learning basic chess is a good idea. It teaches a valuable idea very cleanly: The duality of offense and defense. This is a very valuable idea and not just applicable in violent war, but can also be applied to business and some competitive social relationships, including things like organized sports. I see a lot of people who lack this basic concept trying to operate in environments where it is crucial to understanding what is going on around you.

In my opinion, going deep into it like this into chess specifically has rapidly diminishing returns once you understand that concept.

However, there is also arguably some value in just putting in the effort to learn anything to that skill level, and childhood/teenage years are a good time to do it because you have the time (witness those in this very conversation talking about trying to combine it with the university time of their life... many people have learned how bad an idea that is the hard way....); chess is merely one of a panoply of possible options. It's probably not my personal first choice, I'd tend to suggest musical instrument mastery or language mastery or something else a bit more generally applicable, but if it floats you or your child's boat, that's fine. It's a lot easier if you have some buy-in.

I would just make sure to include an out; it's really easy for parents to encourage something and neglect to inform their child that it is a valid option to put a reasonable amount of effort into something and then move on when they're ready. My parents, 100% accidentally, did this to me with community youth baseball. In hindsight, they basically did nothing wrong, they were trying to be encouraging and supportive and everything else, and it just never crossed my mind to say that I didn't really want to do it, and I mean no criticism of them. But it was a blinding revelation one day when I realized that I could just not do that anymore.
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Voltage determines the current that actually flows during a shock. The amperage ratings you are citing are the maximum amperage that can be drawn before the breaker pops. This protects from fire, it does nothing to prevent death from shocks, in any country. You will be burnt to a crisp before you trip the current-limiting breaker, in any country.

High voltages are dangerous because they can overcome the resistance of human skin, which then enables current to flow.
I'm not anti-Austin. I would live there for a year if the cost of living was cut in half. I just don't think the value is there.
Sorry about that, and thanks for the update :)
Poor countries might face a different issue even if they get hold of vaccines - some of them (not sure if just Pfizer's) need to be kept in really cold environments [1]. Thus some countries will struggle with distributing it.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54889084
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It doesn't seem to be rich vs poor countries in this case. The Moderna vaccine is expensive. Too expensive, even for some developed countries that rejected it as an option.

If the US government is happy to hand out billions in funding and then pay a high price for the doses, why would a private company not take advantage of this?

Somehow the EU/UK convinced AstraZeneca to sell the Oxford vaccine at production cost.
What does this have to do with the news that this vaccine was developed so quickly? Regardless of if the program evaporates in January, the vaccine won’t.
IIRC the complaint was about the "circumvention" algorithm in the code.
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