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I'm not sure what you mean though.

I'm much more surprised that he did not got impeached.

Talking to Russia without recordings?

His quid pro quo?

His political business deals in mar-a-lago?

His illegal hush money?

His blant missuse of power with people like Barr?

Is it the fault of reddit that the american people have not stood up? Is it reddits fault that there are so many people in the republican party without any spine? (not saying this does't exist on dem sides as well)

His lies? Have you ever had a person lie to so many people constantly?

You should not have ignored it, you should have gone to the streets every single time.
Computing arm, hmm. I had always seen that in lower case. Thanks!
Divisibility by 13, 3 days ago : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25165323
Yes, you can, with the right combination of things. I essentially create a JSON payload to describe the desired device state and send it over to a Homebridge plugin over MQTT.

There is also a "direct" implementation that adds HAP support to Node-RED, but I prefer to have Homebridge do that and have a loose coupling between both.
I’m not quite sure what 17th century intraeuropean propaganda has to do with Andalusian conquistadors not being separatist English puritans, have you misread my comment as well?
And Garmin has some volume; I do custom industrial stuff that amortizes the software cost over a couple hundred devices at best.
Aldrich Ames
Related, for things that could be teared up: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2003/jul/03/research.sci....

Apparently, a dolphin Kelly discovered the exchange rate to be one fish per one piece of paper... thus tearing a larger piece of paper into smaller parts, and getting a reward for each small piece. They 'gamed' the exchange rate into their advantage.

> This behaviour is interesting because it shows that Kelly has a sense of the future and delays gratification. She has realised that a big piece of paper gets the same reward as a small piece and so delivers only small pieces to keep the extra food coming.
Some nice references here are:

* Using Rabin fingerprinting to break files into chunks: background here on SO, including link to Rabin's 1981 paper: https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/82150/how-does-rabin-...

* Andrew Tridgell's PhD thesis on the rsync algorithm (1999): https://rsync.samba.org/~tridge/phd_thesis.pdf

* Graham Keeling's Masters thesis on content-defined chunking used in his Burp backup program (2014): https://burp.grke.org/images/burp2-report.pdf. Burp dates back to 2011 at least. Section 6 of the thesis has an interesting contemporary comparison of rsync, bup, burp, bacula, rdiff-backup and a few others.

* Bup's design docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bup/bup/master/DESIGN

* A Linux Weekly News review of Bup from 2010, with comments on strengths and weaknesses of the other approaches then available: https://lwn.net/Articles/380983/

Digging these out was a trip down memory lane. I tried most of them at various times, and now use borg-backup (https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io).
If the association between Pandemrix and narcolepsy is because it caused narcolepsy (as with Guillain-Barré it's also plausible the problem is that this is an auto-immune problem and so the vaccine wasn't actually the problem it just highlighted a problem you already had) then the incidence rate was estimated at like 18k patients per case.

So if you give the entire US population a vaccine like that, less than twenty thousand of them develop narcolepsy. As a reminder a quarter million of them already died from COVID-19 and more are dying every day - not to mention the tens of thousands whose cause of death isn't listed as COVID-19 but would not be dead if not for an ongoing pandemic.

Cutter screwed up. No amount of prior safety testing can fix that. Their Polio vaccine had Polio virus in it (to be clear: The traditional Oral Polio Vaccine is supposed to have a "live" virus in it, but the injected vaccine Cutter were selling is not). Obviously nobody is going to test "What happens if we inject children with the Polio virus" because the answer is "Some of them get Polio. Duh" and so no test could have prevented Cutter from screwing up.

I have no idea what you meant by "Gullah barre" the Google results I get are all about Guillain-Barré syndrome, which I mentioned above. Guillain-Barré is not a vaccine, it's a weird auto-immune disorder, and arguably even where it's listed as very rare side effect of a vaccine, that's misleading because it's also a side effect from getting viral infection, so if you avoid vaccination but do get the virus you may get GBS as a result anyway. The human immune system is pretty inscrutable.
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Well for what it's worth: Thomann started out as and still is a Brick and Mortar Store. In fact it used to be quite the Mom&Pop Shop makin sales in the founder's living room that doubled as a show floor.

They however were excellent at expanding into online sales (in roughly the same timeline as Amazon) and became Europe's largest online retailer. So one could argue that Guitar Center not improving their online offerings and maybe cutting back on physical locations had also something to do with it.
For those who watch Alan Partridge[1], 'Lexi' would be likely to come to mind, as in one episode of the series "I'm Alan Partridge", Alan meets someone who, like him, loves his Lexus car. He looks forward to seeing two together and coins the term 'Lexi'. Creation of a faux-Latin term is very much the kind of behaviour the audience would expect.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Partridge
I don't remember a lot because it was almost 40 years ago, but Knoxville was awesome. My girlfriend must have been impressed with my taste in activities because she married me.
>last OS and the last VCS

I don't think that's true, he made a kernel NOT an OS, and the last VCS...we will see. There is zero proof that any software survives forever...well ok, COBOL maybe.
The same as any other interview.

What if you interview someone from a non competitor and then she goes to interview or even work at said direct competitor ?

Don't expose things you don't want to, don't bother with NDAs unless for rare cases, maybe if there are things hanging in the corridors like in gaming shop, always assume the worst and manage the interview accordingly
It may be that other Python implementations use CPython's standard library, or at least part of it.

I think that PyPy in particular does this, but I'm not 100% sure. I know for certain that it uses pure Python implementation of some modules from somewhere. One program I took great pains to be PyPy compatible ended up being a lot slower in it, and it turned out to be that the built-in sqlite3 module has a C implementation in CPython that's faster than the pure-Python version even when runing in PyPy.
>There are plenty of 50-100M pharma startups; they wouldn’t exist if your number was right.

Isn't there a selection bias in that the startups that got to 50-100M survived because they were lucky with a candidate treatment. The ones that failed were the ones that never found a candidate in time? The difference being that large pharmaceutical companies have to swallow ALL the failures, whereas startups can "just" die.

Not to say that pharma companies don't have some fat that can be trimmed...
> because it's generally considered that overpopulation leads to competition.

It's not that straight forward.

But an over simplified answer would be the population pyramid. Tax base shrinks, more tax burden on working class people.

Then the other problem is that the global birth sex ratios. The natural sex ratio at birth is 105 men for 100 women. When a population is growing, this isn't much of a problem in monogamous societies, and everyone finds a partner (men marry younger women on average).

When the population is under decline, there is extreme pressure on men and in a perfectly monogamous society, 10% of men are definitely going to be left behind.

If we can some how genetically modify humans so that the sex ratios come near 1/1 or 0.95 men to 1 woman, it'll be easier to survive a decline in population and men wont be impacted as much. A growing population favors almost no one, not men, not women. A declining population means that men are the unfavored sex.

The end result could be large male foeticide instead of female foeticide 50 years down the line. I myself plan to not have sons but daughters because daughters are almost guaranteed to reproduce in future and abortion is a human right.

Therefore the right way to sustain a decline in population would be an engineering of birth ratios across the world so that a decline in population isn't too harsh on some people.

The goal of money is power (supporting causes you favor etc) and access to better mates. When there aren't enough mates to go by, people will get exhausted and start giving up. It's going to be a permanent burnout as more people become aware of what the future holds.

There's a way that even during a declining global population to sustainable levels, people remain happy. It might be unpopular, but it needs to be done. A new order.
>On the contrary, I use macOS for what it is and the value of its development stack

OK, I get what you mean.

But "what it is" includes being a very usable Unix core that can run all kinds of stuff one might want.

So, like you, I don't expect macOS to be a GNU/Linux, or cater to tinkering and Linux/FOSS preferences. And I do my Linux-based development in Docker, remote VPS and servers, and so on.

But, on the other hand, I wouldn't carry two laptops, a "Linux" one for running postgres and redis and gnuplot, and a Mac one for running XCode and Instruments and Photoshop, out of some principle that Mac is Mac and Linux is Linux and "never the twain (use cases) shall meet".
My problem with this is really simple: You do see the scaling effect in stuff like corona or on a sunny sunday:

Suddenly everyone is going to the park.

What if suddenly everyone stops looking at news? Acting and reacting?

What if the stress i get through the news will never be necessary but what if there is another regime and we need everyone being on alert and standing up and knowing whats going on?

Yin and Yang, finding the balance in our generation is not easy. I get that, i see that, i experience it myself but while i'm sometimes ready to not care i'm worried that i might not react correctly anymore when it counts.
I don't remember exactly but essentially I read about zuckerberg and e2e and something along the lines of "before we encrypt the link or message, we would send a hash for verification and if passed, e2e would be go ahead and sent."

Dont remember if it was something to be done in future or existing tech because there was talks of misuse and this article had come.

I know if multiple Foss apps like Delta chat I think which uses existing infrastructure.
I can give you two at least: TP-Link's Kasa line and Broadlink devices (IR blasters/etc). Now both try to hit their respective clouds, but they have local APIs and if you firewall them off from the internet they work fine locally.

In fact, I just debugged and found a workaround for the Broadlinks rebooting every 3 minutes as their cloud connectivity watchdog timer expired, and now they're rock solid (not released in HA but it will be soon).
We got this far down before we find out you don't actually do anything on your Mac that would require Homebrew? Well played.
I could quibble with the "Most of" part, most of it is stuff you don't get in MacOS at all, but that aside so what?

This isn't really about alternative ecosystems, it's about complementary ecosystems. There are a lot of people that use MacOS desktops alongside Linux or other Unix machines. For these people having a common set of tools that work the same, so you can use the same command lines and scripts across multiple platforms, is incredibly useful.
I think he means that he uses Mac for Mac-y stuff (XCode, Apple and proprietary apps, etc) and Linux for the rest that you've mentioned.

But, to paraphrase Big Lebowski, "that's like, his preference, man".
Bankrupt? Not many. Bought for pennies on the dollar? Plenty. Where is Upjohn? Parke-Davis? Schering-Plough? All companies with multi-billion dollar sales figures and all swallowed up when the money stopped coming in.

And if you fold in the start-ups who have one shot and if it doesn’t work out? Plenty of those. They go bankrupt.

Busting the patents on Covid vaccines would be “socializing the gains and privatizing the losses”.
Yeah if dividing by 19 became a common thing for programs to do, companies like intel or ARMvidia would add an optimized instruction for it.
Radio in the Netherlands didn't dive into the details, just saying why use this vaccine if Pfizer is better.
These stats are based on 130 people getting covid out of an experiment of 25,000 people. They dont give a breakdown of the stats (e.g. who was on placebo, who was on which dosing regimen
) but those are small nubmers.

I think its possible that this is just noise. The difference between '60%' and '90%' might just be a handful of cases.

They show that it works though, thats the main thing.

edit: e.g. of those 130 cases lets assume half were in each regimen experiment. So 65 cases in the 'two full doses experiment' if they got 60% efficiacy then that means about 26 people with the vaccine got covid vs 39 with placebo. In the 'half dose then full dose' experiment if they got 90% efficacy then that means about 7 people with the vaccine got covid vs 58 with placebo. So the difference between 60% and 90% is 19 people. They show that the vaccine works but there is lots of uncertainty between the two dosing regimens.

Edit: why the downvotes?
What's the recommended automated backup / manual restore method for Home Assistant config?

I've only just started using it and already built up a time-consuming to reproduce configuration. That it runs on a RPi means I expect the SD card to fail without warning in several years when I least expect it. Would be nice to get the restore story nailed now.
I really still hope mRNA vaccines work well and that we keep investing in them. The potential too rapidly create new vaccines and deploy them when needed without requiring a vector will be crucial to counter future pandemics.

Once the oxford vaccine is deployed I suspect they will then have to create a new vector if they need to create another batch in the future as your body might have developed immunity to the vector virus itself making future doses ineffective.
What's Your Law of Attraction?
Have been waiting for years for an ARM-based laptop, I wouldn't have ever thought that the x86 emulation would be this good though.

Apple seriously deserves huge credit for this, after both Microsoft and Google were screwing around on arm for years doing nothing useful.

I do hope both Microsoft and Google come out with competitors, though, because it'll help the market massively.
It varies by device. Sometimes you need the vendor app to configure the device to join your Wi-Fi, but then you can use its local API and firewall them off from the internet. This is the case with TP-Link's Kasa devices.

Other times you can (/must) do the setup yourself and don't need to use the vendor app. This is the case with Broadlink devices where you join their provisioning AP and run a command to set up the WiFi credentials.

It's rare that you can just turn off the cloud features altogether, but for devices with local APIs like these you can just firewall them off or put them on an IoT-only WiFI network with no Internet routing.
At this point, at least for me, whatsapp is less "messenger client" and more "private social media". So the usual network effects and userbase arguments apply.

I don't see myself dropping whatsapp anytime soon given that most my (global) digital social life happens on the app.

So Whatsapp being dethroned by Android messenger is like Google+ taking down Facebook.
I think VCS is far from solved, it hasn't even started yet. So far we only have distributed VCS for sequences (mostly text / source code) and sometimes things which can be serialized unambiguously like trees and tables. But we don't have a general solution to distributed VCS.

We currently can't use distributed VCS for:

- DAGs
- Arbitrary graphs (Topology)
- 3D models (Geometry)
- Mutli-dimensional sequences: Images, Videos, etc.
- most domain specific problems / formats
- ... almost everything else
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The audio track is my jam.
> Historically, two cases of rushed vaccines (cutter polio and Gullah barre) were worse than the disease - and these were for diseases worse than covid.

This is just patently untrue.

The Cutter Incidence gave patients Polio due to an improperly activated virus. While this is bad, it could not be worse than the disease itself - since it is the disease itself, no worse, no less.

Regarding risk of Gullain-Barre syndrome due to vaccination, Wikipedia has this to say: "In fact, natural influenza infection is a stronger risk factor for the development of GBS than is influenza vaccination and getting the vaccination does reduce the risk of GBS overall by lowering the risk of catching influenza." So here I also find it hard to believe the vaccine would be worse than the disease,

I'm also sceptical of the claim that Polio or the 1976 Swine Flu would unambiguously be worse than Covid19. 70% of Polio case have no symptoms, and less than 0.5% cause permanent injury, according to Wikipedia. The 1976 Swine Flu outbreak seems to have caused a few hundred cases and only one death.
I wonder if because the Oxford vaccine has taken an already tested and approved vaccine approach it has a higher chance of safety than the other 2 which use a new approach that has never been approved by regulators before.
>That only works for pure Go code (no use of cgo)

Yes. I never cared for cgo, and I'd say most don't.

>and for Go libraries that don't call into OS APIs.

Or that have those APIs wrapped for different conventions. So? This still leaves billions of possible apps, and thousands of existing ones...
Have you had trouble with time zones and timestamps Distributed Raspberry PIs that had to connect to a device via Bluetooth Low Energy, and send data through a 4G dongle, and do updates, reboots, etc. completely unattended.

I had nightmares about time zones.
My possibly better option: choose a boring news service. Deutsche Welle, for instance. You learn of important news, but it is not written in a way to make you emotionally light up like a Christmas tree.
Maybe it's better to say git could be the last SCM then. A VCS is much more general and git certainly won't be the last version control system for things that aren't source code.
A lot of people in the comments are wondering how this could possibly compete with WhatsApp, but I don't think competing with WhatsApp is the goal at all here. While WhatsApp is super prevalent across Europe, in the US, most folks are still just using SMS with whatever their phone's default messaging app is. For iPhone users, that's iMessage, and for Android users that's Android Mwessages. There's just far too much inertia on SMS for that to change in the US - everyone's already got a cell phone number that can be used to send SMS messages to, but WhatsApp accounts are few and far between.

And I gotta say, when the person you're chatting with is also on Android Messages, the silent upgrade to RCS has been great. It finally feels like texting in the 21st century. So if Google can start rolling this out as the default experience for US-based Android users, it's gonna make a lot of people happy without them ever realizing it.
Well, it does double the residue:

20 * 2 === 40 === 2 (mod 19)

21 * 2 === 42 === 4 (mod 19)

18 * 2 === 36 === 17 (mod 19), equivalently -1 * 2 === -2 === 17 (mod 19)

10 * 2 === 20 === 1 (mod 19), equivalently -9 * 2 === -18 === 1 (mod 19)
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The time window is slipping by now, but we are living in a world where computing titans stride the earth. It's the computing equivalent of the time of Newton and his influence on Physics.
> In fact, HomeKit was often the odd one out when I looked at IoT products and I can imagine someone explaining it away as Apple demanding things be done the Apple way or the highway hence the lack of compatible devices.

I don't know what the current policy for HomeKit is, but back when we first submitted for certification with Apple about 3 years ago, they required us to submit a homekit compatible ios app with full support before our devices could be certified. We couldn't just let users use the Home app. The whole process took a very long time and whats worse is the SDK doesn't provide stable identifiers for devices, rooms, scenes, etc between app sessions. Its a mess to work with.
Yes, there was a time when government work attracted the best and brightest.

It is a shame we have lost so much of that. Because we all want the government to deliver us certain services, and I think most of us would like these services delivered by competent and motivated people.

[of course there is disagreement over what those services should be]
It will be interesting to see how long Rosetta-2 will be supported.
macOS 10.15 took away 32bit apps, which was a sizeable chunk so clearly Apple is willing to alienate some of its users in the name of progress and slimlining.
Maybe it was Intel that had platform control all along.
I'm not sure either. I find that (in my personal opinion), mixing work and politics, despite they're being linked, is to me a disturbing trait.

To be clear, I'm talking about office talk.

If a co-worker does it, it implies to me he or she are uncivilized, and cause themselves and other people embarrassment. When co-workers do it, I secretly think of it as farting in public, or vomiting your ideas on my shirt, or drooling your ideas. Political thought is important for me, and I have my opinions, but I do not want to force them on other people, not in direct conversation.

From experience, most people I know hold deep political convictions and couldn't be persuaded to see differently in a short office conversation, so it's short of pointless, a waste of words and a waste of my time and everyone else's, just so someone could farting his ideas in my general direction, and feel a bit better about himself / herself. Note that this is regardless of whether I agree with their ideas or not.

I do enjoy reading other people opinions, whether they are the same as mine or different, in forums such as NH. But the key thing here is that this is a thing I do of my own volition, in my own free time, not subjected to it.
To contradict myself a bit: while I find Notepad++ author making a political statement with his software releases just a bit odd, it's not as disturbing as someone doing it in a direct conversation, and he also does it a pretty non-intrusive way, which I'm fine with. In a way I almost like it, it's sort of refreshing.

But that's just me. I'm not a very social person, though, so I guess my outlook might seem very bizarre to other, more social people.
Is RCS supported by iOS phones or it's going to be an Android only thing?