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I have a Surface Pro 2 running with the linux-surface kernel [0]. It feels like it has some rough edges - you have to decide between having pen support or having touch screen support, and suspend can be unreliable. These issues may be fixed now. Also, I encrypted my Windows partition, and now it requires the key each time to boot up, so I recommend against doing that.

Overall, I do agree that the hardware feels quite nice, and besides those issues I listed, the Linux experience is quite good. I was very happy to not be forced to use Windows.

[0] https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface
Wow. This looks really sweet!
And they endanger others and should go into the database of shame! /s
Right. The author is clearly conflating orbital debris with re-entry pollution.

It is baffling to me that the BBC, a fairly respectable organization, allows this sort of terrible journalism. The author clearly does not understand the subject matter at all, which is not surprising since he's a business reporter regurgitating (presumably) a press release from a university and/or a forestry company.
And for good reason.
With the rise of video based meetings, I'm surprised more products around video first dating haven't appeared.

It seems to solve several issues with apps like Tinder / Bumble etc. I guess a negative is that it's more nerve-wracking to video-date complete strangers, and to ensure it doesn't go the way of chatroulette.

Over quarantine I started something in this space [1], but I thought some of the larger dating companies would have introduced products around this concept too.

[1] https://copperdating.com/en/
I used to follow her blog (http://janicepoonart.blogspot.com/) while Hannibal was still on the air. It was great.

For some reason the TVDB kept reverting my "cooking" tag for that show...
As much as I hope people will get vaccinated, this is a scary step bringing us closer to a dystopic society. Setting up these systems for enforcing injections could well be abused in the future. And you are only going to create more distrust among vaccine skeptics... Why enforce a vaccine for a disease that barely kills anyways? To me it feels like this crisis is being uses to push legislation which would otherwise never be passed.
They should go in a database of dangerous people who can kill tens of others merely by being in a public place.
"Daddy, what did you do in the drug wars?". There's a global movement now to reverse these prohibitions so if you haven't been involved before, now is your opportunity. Here's somewhere to start: https://transformdrugs.org/
You mention "horribly dysfunctional" further down. That's what I have a problem with.

I see these cardboard sex-simulacra trapping, for example, young men in local optima where they never go and talk to a real girl- even young men who could, if they tried, and who'd be happier in the end for it.

Anything that increases the number of incels in the world is a bad thing, for everyone.
The higher barrier will isolate a person more. Whatever initiative a person has encounters higher barriers, with the net effect more isolation in aggregate.

Advertising basically works this way. Nudges demonstrably work at a population level without anyone feeling coerced. In aggregate, for the population as a whole, it likely makes a statistical difference, even though no one in particular feels like it makes a deciding factor. Like, say, with organ donation. Make opt in default, an enrollment goes up.

Unless some other factor associated with suburban living cancels the effect, it seems extremely unlikely that it does not make a difference, even if every individual feels like "the only thing that dictates it is my desire/initiative/ability".
Hi krat0sprakhar,

At this point you could print the page to a PDF and then upload it. A browser extension for webpages (as suggested by others) is a good idea! I'll look into it.
If you only want to learn about a single fairly small concept like Big O, youtube is great - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_1M2JaijjQ. (good explanation, longer than a few minutes, and a great channel in general)

If you want to get deeper (or wider?), you can get a textbook (e.g. Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen) or a university course like MIT 6.006 but obviously those will contain a lot more than just this topic.
Ehh I don’t know if we’ll get there. I mean people don’t have to prove they’ve had a measles vaccine to travel, which is much more dangerous than covid. This all being predicated on enough people actually _getting_ the vaccine that we reach herd immunity like with measles
The fact that European pasta isn't enriched and we don't have iron deficiency issues gives a good hint, so.
The space debris section will have to pick it up manually: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes
Then use XMPP and ask all your friends to use XMPP. The only way to really fulfil your wish is switching to federated messengers.
This seems so dystopian.

"Mr Illa said people would be contacted by regional authorities when it was their turn to be inoculated."

So they are just going to some how contact everyone who has an ID? This seems like something that should be between someone and their doctor. If they have one or want one.

Then what about it mutating, are they going to have a new one and do this every year? Don't want to sound like a crazy conspiracy theorist, but I'm skeptical of this whole thing.
I've gotten into GBA homebrew again recently. The community is small but getting a bit bigger. gbadev on Discord is a fun place to hang out.

The tooling doesn't seem to have changed all that much from back in the day, which isn't a bad thing: the best way to get music on the GBA is still to compose something in an old-fashioned tracker and using Maxmod to import it. Sprite conversion tools haven't changed that much.

Programming it is just so lovely bare-metal: poking/prodding registers, writing backgrounds and sprites into memory regions.. Really fun stuff.
Being from Spain and having lived in other EU countries, I must agree with you.
To further clarify, I believe the authors are advocating a WM model where an excitatory subnet (activated by a Positive cue) sustains its firing (in the absence of that cue; the Delay period) by activating inhibitors of its own inhibitors. (these inhibitory subnets, like goldenshale mentions, also seem to inhibit excitatory subnets, diffusely).

model diagram: https://i.ibb.co/nrh1pVJ/figs.png
Still a feature. You might want to revert back to it. And history is history.
Isn't it what makes game programming interesting, though? I work at a FAANG company and do game and engine development as side projects and would like to do that full-time at some point. In game programming you actually solve difficult and interesting problems and really care about the performance your code. For the majority of other software engineering positions, managing dependencies seems to be the hardest challenge.
There are basically 2 reasons:

1 )Not everyone can get vaccinated due to existing pathologies or simply being allergic to some components of the vaccine. For these people it's important to reach herd immunity as it's probably their only defense. Consequently, if people decide not to get vaccinated, reaching that threshold is harder and harder and it will force those who can't get the vaccine to live in segregation/fear.

2) The cost of a vaccine shot (both in terms of money and equipment/personnel needed) is orders of magnitude less than curing the disease. If you don't get vaccinated and you get said disease more healthcare resources need to be allocated to you. This will probably lead to increase taxes or budget cuts in other areas or, more worryingly, you could indirectly kill someone else with a curable disease because there were no resources to cure him/her.
Surprise, surprise, governments take advantage of crises to grab power. It’s not like we haven’t seen this for the last 5,000 years. The scary thing is that as usual, a sizable portion of the population is ready and willing to trample human rights in the name of public safety.

Personally, I am planning a move to an unspecified rural area. Cities seem like ground zero for totalitarian measures and it will take much longer for the surveillance state to penetrate the countryside.
French Guyana (1) (=part of the EU) requires a 10 day old yellow fever vaccination on entry.

(1)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_fever#Compulsory_vaccin...
Don't you need time alone with your significant other? That's the only time we've got together, so it's difficult to find "me" time, as I also need to care for my relationship (not that it bothers me! But 24h are 24h...)
Sure, but is that what happened in this case?
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> For instance their first lockdown was extremely rigid and enforced with heavy policing

You seem to think that's a bad thing? I had built a life in northern Europe over the past decade, then I decided to leave when I realised neither the government nor the people seemed actually inclined to lockdown. Now for the past 6 months I live in a country with single-digit local contagion cases and the street I used to live in Berlin is the hardest-hit in Germany... Go figure

The country I now live reached its status by closing borders for non-essencial travel, extremely rigid fines for breaking quarantine on arrival, and heavy police enforcement of those fines.
I don't think it is true for developing world. The cost of taking care of olders are low. Yes, they probably cannot afford the medicine to prolong the cancer patients for 6 months or 1 year, and maybe even other conditions, they are not worse off comparing to their previous generation. If you look from developed world of view, anything below the developed world standard is bad, but comparing to previous generations, they are not.
Nah, half of Americans won't take it.

I'm interested if the vaccine works on all strains.
It has never really entered the public consciousness since it's not a consumer-facing technology but tape development has continued apace. LTO-9 should be hitting the market very soon and supports up to 45TB per tape (compressed capacity, 18TB raw).

Not quite sure where IBM's numbers here come from, their previous numbers don't match up to the progression of the LTO tape series' capacity. Maybe they are citing "research numbers" that they can do in a lab but aren't production-ready yet. I would certainly assume they are citing "compressed" data figured there.

But certainly tape has continued to progress much faster than most people would have imagined. Big tape libraries are still a thing in certain environments and they work very well, there is no better solution for bulk cold storage.
I guess it isn’t popular in these parts, but there is a simplicity to Matlab that’s hard to beat for lowly mechanical engineers. The documentation is also generally excellent.

Unfortunately most undergraduates get locked in early with free student versions and continue to use it in industry. Currently I’m trying to expose my students to both Matlab and Python/numpy in a matter of fact manner.
Hopefully! To expand a little: I think there should be a grace period of maybe a couple of years until the safety of the vaccine is established more deeply, but it's not reasonable to expect this not to be enforced afterwards.

In places where yellow fever is endemic, for example, many countries require vaccination if you want to visit.
> Safety is ultimately about preventing a system from reaching dangerous states.

This is a fallacy. Whether a state is dangerous or not often depends on the environment outside the system and usually cannot be totally foreseen by the engineer.

I happily damage my engine if I can drive out of the dessert.

Depending on case I’m happy if files can be undeleted - or not.

But of course I appreciate a warning why the state could be dangerous.
"I was also slightly worried that I had inadvertently made myself a target of Big Pasta."

This could be the hottest Netflix drama of 2021.
To add to this, given what we're learn about nuclear weapons in school/media, you'd think a small fission device would convert the entire mass of the satellite into a ball of mixed plasma and vapour. A lot of the non-metallic mass of the satellite would probably vaporize, but any surviving bits would have a bunch of added kinetic energy.

Especially for things that reflect both infrared and soft x-rays, with pretty high melting points and pretty high thermal masses, nuclear explosions do less damage than you'd think.

There was a nuclear test where they put a steel sphere about the size of a bowling ball pretty close to a device similar to Gadget / Fat Man. Spoiler alert: it survived barely scratched.[0]

You could probably design a satellite with thin enough pieces of metal and add carbon black / carbon fiber to any polymers too transparent to IR/soft x-rays. You could probably also use a thermonuclear device, but the particle steams caught in the earth's magnetic field would damage satellites, and there's also the EMP to worry about.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by1xpy8ob8E
(in np.sum)

> The value of the axis argument is, as a matter of fact, the number of the index in question: The first index is axis=0, the second one is axis=1, and so on

If I'm not wrong - this statement is wrong - the axis does not represent index (or otherwise it would be axis 0 = row, axis 1 = column). The actual idea behind is a little unintuitive, but explained well here: https://aerinykim.medium.com/numpy-sum-axis-intuition-6eb949...
> Especially in garbage-collected languages, what you save in execution time you lose in GC pauses, so the end result is you get neither.

This only applies to GC languages that lack language features support for value types, stack allocation or native heap support.
Do you mind saying which FAANG you found that environment in?

I can understand why some people wouldn't enjoy that environment but a focused workday then a chatty short lunchtime walk sounds like an enjoyable work environment for people like myself.
Aerospace goy pretty close, with EASA and the FAA accepting each others certification. Until the FAA blew the 737 MAX and everyone had to show how tough they are. And because the FAA did screw up.
Good. If there's one good thing coming out of covid it's hopefully long term sustained attention towards disease burden and public health.

In this thread there are already people complaining about dystopias. My dystopia is hundreds of thousands of people dying of preventable, mundane diseases every year because we give so little of a crap about public health that we let unvaccinated people into packed stadiums.

To me the dystopia isn't the future, it's the status quo. Forget covid, every few years we have bad flu seasons that overload hospitals and tens of thousands of people die. My question is why we didn't have a differentiated, technological systems that detects risk factors in public spaces. We just let it happen, literally every year.
> No, it takes a lot of energy to get out of orbit

Does it? It takes ~10000 m/s of delta-v to reach low Earth orbit, but afaik only about extra ~30 m/s to deorbit, with aerobraking taking care of the rest of the velocity. Or is there any extra intricacy in the details?
Bye, have fun!
I think many countries have a different trade-off between public heal and concepts like liberty.
I doubt anything bad will happen to her in the future. In fact I'm sure some people will be more than happy to hire her now either because they think their was an overreaction or they agree that what she said was right.

It's not as if racists don't exist, she goes to a school full of then aided by parents and teachers in full agreement with the status quo.
I support all measures to quash the anti-vaxers. There is still a chance that humanity can eradicate covid if we all get vaccinated. If the selfish conspiracy theorists get their way this disease will be with us forever and the virus could mutate into something more dangerous.
In the Netherlands we have something like 'Verenigingsleven', loosely translated to club life.

At the end of 19th century workers got better working hours. In the hours after work they set up clubs for everything you can think of. Sports, rabbit breeding clubs, pigeon clubs, shooting clubs etc.

Tot this day it's still a thing, and it's in the canon of the Netherlands.

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&u=https:/...
Yeah but our standards for computers are higher nowadays.

I covered analog computers in school, which as I recall consisted of integrating blocks made with linear circuits. You combine them up as needed to simulate systems of linear differential equations. There was still a degree of programmability in that sense.
I would love your part list! Did you go with ECC memory? Did you have any way of verifying the ECC is working and actually detecting/correcting bitflips?

The other thing I am interested in is minimizing idle power consumption. Just to be more environmentally friendly.
College dorms house a set of people that have been carefully vetted by an admissions committee. I'm not sure if it's possible to recreate such a community and foster trust among a group of adults without some form of prior vetting or selection.
>It seems to me this is not a facial recognition story

Maybe there should be consequences if you sell bad software that has bad consequences ? There are a lot of greedy bastards that will knowingly sell bad stuff but minimize the issues, why not have good standards like real professionals and say scientists where they need to prove that the thing they discovered is correct with a big confidence level. With AI there is no proof that it works correctly or the sell department is bullshitting a ton of claims.
I've been using bashdot(https://github.com/bashdot/bashdot) does exactly this. It's a simple bash script that sets up symlinks for a given directory. It can also switch symlinks to different directories, so you could use that as swappable profiles.
vaccines don't always work on people with immune system deficiency/ on immuno-suppressants, like people after surgeries, transplants, or who have hiv, lupus etc as well as babies who haven't developed immune systems yet or those with weakened immune systems due to age/alcohol abuse/disease etc

most vaccines are 60-99% effective even if you're healthy and have been vaccinated you can still get sick if the disease is heavily present.
In JS semantics, lists (by which I assume you actually mean arrays) are just objects with numeric keys. Nothing special about them, except that there are certain functions which assume the objects they take in have only numeric keys starting from 0 and always increasing (they usually ignore non-numeric keys that those objects might have).

This is similar to LISP, where you can build many kinds of structures out of cons cells, and you have certain families of functions that assume that the cons cells you pass in have certain kinds of structures, defining lists or trees or association lists etc.
A feature for anyone in your vicinity..!
Sorry, but you do sound like a crazy conspiracy theorist. I suspect the reasoning for this measure is to prevent everyone calling them all the time to try and arrange a vaccination while there isn't enough vaccine available. Here in Germany they're doing the same thing (don't call us we'll call you) but are saying this is likely to change as more vaccine becomes available.
It's the other way around. State (and side effects) are explicit in pure programs, and implicit in impure programs.
In general we take vaccines because we believe in the science and trust the authorities in charge of administering them.

Here's a good dashboard showing uptake rates of childhood vaccines in the UK: https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiZTI3NWZhNzItMTIyZS00O...

If you have the keep a list of individuals like the Spanish are planning, it's a veiled threat based on the implicit acknowledgement that either the science or the administration are not being trusted.

That's a different problem to work on which this registry will not solve.
This is the way the Socialist party thinks is Spain. As a matter of fact, in out country, each and every citizen has an ID card (they fingerprint you when you are at least 14).

It is very hard to stay away from the Government in Spain. Very hard.

As for health issues, everybody has an SSN and you have probably provided them with your address and a phone number...

And yes, no sane person believes this registry will be harmless.
This is useful information for health services in case this person gets sick or injured. The virus can travel rapidly through hospitals, so un-vaccinated patients can be isolated from the general hospital population to reduce the chance of transmission.

Un-vaccinated people are potential vectors of the disease, able to contract it and spread it to others. As such they have chosen to pose a risk to the rest of the population, so their rights to travel and perform activities such as some jobs might be restricted.
Thanks for clarifying; now I get it.
I'm sure that Norway would keep a registry of those vaccinated as well (almost the inverse); we already do for other vaccines. Although there has never been any sort of politics or coercion involved. Sharing it is another matter, though. As others have been saying, it's only a matter of time before various permissions get tied to vaccination status.

Wouldn't be surprised if multiple European authorities will cooperate regarding this. It's a very relevant example of differing attitudes in Europe vs. the USA regarding state powers. And honestly, while some European governments can be trusted to act with ethics, some can't.

I'm uncertain why I'm a bit creeped out by this. Something feels wrong about de facto forcing people to do a medical procedure, regardless of its intent. While we're not there yet, I think it is likely we will be soon. If e.g. border crossings, airplane rides or certain public gatherings require vaccination.

There might be an agrument here about the state vs. the private sector having such policies, but the question of how voluntary it really is exists in both cases. If e.g. you're unable to do your job without vaccination, and there's no definite reason, such as working with the elderly, why lack of one would make you unfit for the job... How voluntary is it, really?
Yeah I've been wondering about the numbers too.

The numbers they cite for "previous generations" don't match up to the progression of the LTO tape series' capacity. Maybe they are citing "research numbers" that they can do in a lab but aren't production-ready yet. I would certainly assume they are citing "compressed" data figured there.

Also bear in mind that tapes typically store data striped across the tape in multiple tracks and multiple bands. There are four bands per tape and 12-52 wraps per band, so reading the whole tape requires up to 208 passes across the tape.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open#Physical_stru...

But yes, to agree with another parallel comment, tape data rates are quite high sequentially (abysmal in random of course, but that's not how they're used). LTO-8 does 750 megabytes per second compressed / 360 megabytes per second raw.
Should be pretty simple to me: if one doesn’t take the vaccine and passes covid to someone else and this person comes to die it is manslaughter. Folks are putting others in risk by not taking the vaccine.
Keep in mind that requirement is because we can’t eradicate yellow fever like we did smallpox, and hopefully covid. Yellow fever is endemic and has natural animal hosts which we can’t control
I'm not anti-vaxx, but could the hawkish pro-vaxxers here please consider:

We all know version 0.9.0 products, so some people may feel that they want to wait.

With the effectiveness (claimed!) of the vaccines, a self isolating non-inoculated person is far less of a threat than an inoculated party socialite.

The latter people brought us into this mess in the first place.