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I remember spending so much time just typing things in. I played this game long before I could touch type.
Yes, indeed, the various studies (and yours is a typical example) show mainly an older demographic reporting symptoms stretching into months, and include the observation that it was mainly (even if not exclusively) a severe course of the disease that preceded lingering symptoms. But a lot of the attitudes that restrictions must be kept in place to prevent "long COVID" are held by younger people who are very afraid of coming down with the phenomenon, yet they are not significantly at risk of it according to these studies.
I dunno about that. With a good card catalog, that sounds pretty manageable to me. You shouldn't need to parse the whole database every day.
People want to use JSON as on disk configuration files, and that's where they want the comments and trailing commas. You can either generate the configuration file from another file, which is frankly stupid annoying and leads to repositories with two copies of the same information, or modify the software that reads the configuration file to strip it before handing it to the JSON parser... which clearly "solves the problem" but also begs the question "ok, so what is the format of the actual confirmation file, then?". The answer to that latter question is more important, as the goal would then be to get everyone to standardize around that format, at which point (I guess) "JSON" would be obsolete as no one would use it and everyone would be using the new JSON wrapper format and all implementations would be designed to have a way to read that format... but like, at that point, you are just making a weird semantics argument. I think the core problem is we just have too many of these... like, what happened to JSON5? We need some reason to all rally around a single specific format of "JSON, but with comments and trailing commas (and I will personally request multi-line strings)".
No, you’re just being facetious. The problem is that for yall, everything needs to be sacrificed at the altar of free speech, even reading comprehension. This is exactly what Popper is saying: we can’t tolerate the intolerant because they don’t play by the same rules.
I'm not talking about either syntax nor use case, but about language philosophy, the approach to problem solving embodied in the language - the "paradigm" as you called it. As that post points out, even inside Google, the C++ committee members had a vastly different vision than Rob Pike on what makes a language good. C++11 is essentially universally loved in the C++ community as a giant step forward, as are most subsequent revisions. Rob apparently hates them.

Even the article shows that Go and C++ are fundamentally at odds philosophically, in terms of their paradigm:

> Jokes aside, I think it's because Go and C++ are profoundly different philosophically.

> C++ is about having it all there at your fingertips. I found this quote on a C++11 FAQ:

> The range of abstractions that C++ can express elegantly, flexibly, and at zero costs compared to hand-crafted specialized code has greatly increased.

> That way of thinking just isn't the way Go operates. Zero cost isn't a goal, at least not zero CPU cost. Go's claim is that minimizing programmer effort is a more important consideration.

If you want to compare them on use cases, Go is far too slow and memory hungry to be used in most domains where C++ is actually necessary. That is, for any C++ program that could be re-written in Go, you could also re-write it in Java or C# or Haskell, bar a few problems around startup times and binary sizes.

And that is what has been seen, again as the post points out: C++ programmers are not switching to Go. Ruby and Python and (Java and C#) programmers are.

Also, the designers of C++ have never made any effort to think about how easy the language is to learn, unlike the designers of Go, Java and C#. In fact, all of these languages share a common heritage: they are all designed as answers to C++, in slightly different ways.
North Korea now knows of South Korea/Hyundai's capabilities. Why require mandatory military service for S.Korean men when you have real-life robots at the DMZ patrolling and shooting. That $1.1B deal was actually of great value for the South Korean automobile giant.

On a lighter note, those robotic dogs will be critical for fire protection because the trend in South Korea is for more high-rise apartments. You watch too many stories on the news of people being trapped as egresses are limited.
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L'année dernière, Ravencoin (RVN) a réussi à passer à KAWPOW comme algorithme d'extraction à partir de l'algo X16Rv2 précédemment utilisé
Every job I’ve had came with reachability expectations
Shamelessy perused my most recent side project to see if I had any of this language on my pages. Luckily none such words were found!
There are laws in place to prevent the utility companies from cutting off heat in situations like this.

From: https://www.needhelppayingbills.com/html/utility_and_heating...

> Texas - State law requires that utility and gas companies are required to offer a deferred payment plan to families and individuals in the state. No disconnect can occur if customer agrees and adheres to payment plan for past utility or heating bills. No shut off is allowed if temperature is to go below 32 degrees, or in extreme heat. Also disconnection will be delayed if detrimental to the health of a state resident, but the customer must have physician certification to get this plan.
In my experience, Rust puts many costs upfront, which makes it harder to do stuff when you aren't used to doing it the Rust way, but makes it easier to get it right if you are used to Rust. It basically gives you a relatively strong guarantee that if your code compiles and has no warnings, it's mostly collect - yes, that includes logic errors to some extent thanks to the type system. That also makes refactoring easier - chances are, the bugs you possibly added by refactoring will get caught by the compiler. Obviously, that's not a complete replacement for testing, but it does reduce the amount of tests you need to write to ensure correctness.

Frankly, I don't consider myself a particularly good programmer - but when I use Rust, I feel confident because of being backed by the compiler. That's something I can't say about any other language, and I only have less than a year of Rust experience compared to 5 years of total experience programming.

Imo Rust is easier to master than other languages, but it's definitely harder to do basic stuff in it because of the upfront costs I mentioned.
So, given sibling comments on stack and function calls, this:

skip_iter(int skip, int stop)
for(int i=0;i<stop;i++)

Wouldn't work with complex types, boxed integers and so on? Because calling postfix ++ would be a function/method call?
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Do the Arizona prisons get more money, the more prisoners they have and the longer they have them? Were these same prisons responsible for the procurement of this software? Is the software perhaps working as intended?
My current hourly rate breaks down like this. I make adjustments every 6 months.

15 years professional experience + 5 years experience in latest specialized tech stack + 1 hour = $200 dollars/hour for contracts longer than 6 months. Hourly rate is higher for shorter term contracts.

My rate is more cost effective than not delivering the solution.
Remind me again how well the judge driven breakup of AT&T worked.

You would also have to remove the ability any state or city to carve out exceptions
https://time.com/5933340/moderna-covid-19-vaccine-new-strain...

They seem to be mostly effective, albeit still giving less of an immune response than would be possible.

Also Curevac is working together with GSK on a multi mutant mRNA vaccine. Since the mRNA approach seems to be flexible it's reasonable to assume this will allow quick adaptations like this.

https://www.curevac.com/en/2021/02/03/gsk-and-curevac-to-dev...
So two islands, an authoritarian communist government, and Italy have seen success with lockdowns?

Good for Italy!
Quite the elitist view! When I watch a few TikTok videos I quickly form an opinion whether something is creative or mere copying, I know it when I see it. Just writing the whole thing off seems insane, statistically speaking.
Idempotent is definitely jargon. It was coined by a mathematician and the word has no use outside of a math/cs context.
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What a load of ass kissing.
The page you've linked says as much (though it's quite misleading without background knowledge).

> Many Native American tribes suffered high mortality and depopulation, averaging 25–50% of the tribes' members lost to disease.

The line you've linked is discussing the Northeastern colonization and it links to Denevan, who isn't looking at the actual mechanics of depopulation, but rather the pristine myth.

Luckily we can look at this with some simple modeling. Assuming persistent epidemics with constant 25% mortality every 10 years and no developed immunity (big assumptions), while maintaining a 2% growth rate in-between (this is low), over 2 centuries the population would shrink by 88%. At that point, the epidemics stop and populations begin to recover. Using the same numbers, it would recover to pre-epidemic levels in only 85 years. If the growth rate is merely 3%, population actually grows the whole time.

Let's pay closer attention to the Mexican population graph though. Notice the 3 waves of disease? Two of those, labeled "cocolizti", are thought to be (at least partially) Salmonella. You know, that disease of failing sanitation infrastructure? Hopefully it's clear why sanitation issues might have surfaced around then.
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I occasionally use iNaturalist to help identify plants and fungus while out on hikes. The community there has a ton of specialists and it is extremely common to get messages like this on observations that are months old. Here is one I got this morning about a random mushroom I took a picture of in the woods of Indiana:

Russula sanguinea was described from a European mushroom and therefore probably isn't here in North America at all. The name has been applied to many red Russula in N. A. adding to the confusion. Out west where it may be sorted it is being called Russula rhodocephala which itself is a lookalike for Russula americana but under different trees according to Danny Miller here [1]. Mushroomexpert's Kuo and Mycoquebec say that a lookalike under oaks in the east is Russula tenuiceps or R. sanguinaria under conifers/pines, but it is probably a group of species, and also not the same as the European one in the case of R. sanguinaria. We are trying to downvote these identifications for this reason. Hopefully, any people interested in identifying mushrooms will pitch in and help to vote any Russula that is being called Russula sanguinea in the eastern US back to genus level anyway, but we are concerned with a few other species too. Read fungee's journal post here [2]. Check out the master list here [3]. Another thing that is daunting for Russula ID, there are well over a hundred known red Russula in the east, many are not named yet, and, if they are, the name is not in use.

[1] http://www.alpental.com/psms/ddd/Russula/index.htm

[2] https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/fungee/46596-new-ai-comp...

[3] https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/computer-vision-clean-up-wik...
Would you blame the people who paid for the bridge for the collapse? Should they have understood the details and flagged where corners were cut.

When it comes to critical system I think it's fair to say that the engineers who build it are the only ones who can fully understand the risk.

This is the point behind accreditation. It forces the supplier to maintain a minimum bar for services to protect the reputation of the industry.
If they've made the requisite advancements in thermo-electric generator efficiency to make this even remotely useful, then there would be countless other applications for such TEGs that would be a much better use of those resources.
This appears to be similar to what’s being seen in Scotland: deaths in the over 85 age group dropping sharply compared to younger age groups.

BBC Scotland article has some more data on the progress of the vaccine rollout and the impact it’s having on outcomes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-56097899
> Software is being used to avoid accountability

Right, in the same way knives are used to rob people.

This is not a new problem: an organization strategically builds an unmanageable bureacracy and then profits off the issue while claiming incompetence.

Computers just make said bureaucracy cheaper to operate.
Of course they're in Latin, but I want to know if they dispense denarii.

On a side note I found an ATM in Southern Japan that had a Portuguese language option, that amazed me.
Exactly. As my name implies, I'm not a fan of shadowbanning unless the account is clearly vicious or spam.
I recall seeing a video of the Nintendo support center, where people (kids) would call up for video game help. And these game wizards would help them step through the game.

I would’ve never thought that was a thing, much less a little career while it lasted. But it provided some jobs to people, whose purpose was to just play a bunch of Nintendo video games.

I don’t have the link, but maybe someone can find it on YouTube somewhere.
> This article seems to suggest the answer is a fully automated smart home, with some kind of AI to intelligently manage your power usage. Sounds awesome, but I don't think that's ever going to be a reality outside the valley.

This is shockingly myopic.
Allergic reactions begin in your immune system. When a harmless substance such as dust, mold, or pollen is encountered by a person who is allergic to that substance, the immune system may over react by producing antibodies that "attack" the allergen. The can cause wheezing, itching, runny nose, watery or itchy eyes, and other symptoms.

Antihistamines and nasal sprays handle the symptoms, but they don't try to correct your immune response, which is the root cause of the symptoms. Allergy immunotherapy trains your immune system to not attack the harmless allergens and not trigger the allergy symptoms.
> Unfortunately energy deregulation seems to disproportionately attract hucksters.

Deregulation does that in lots of markets, if not all of them. Paying via commissions does the same.
Big tech? How about big information

Why not both?
It would be good to have links to the original reviews which were used for bullet points.
I don't know what sociologists & psychologists would say, but I think the group action problem continues to be a big hurdle. There is a tremendous variety of changes I & my spouse would be willing to make, costs we would be willing to pay- except if only we do it, it makes not one iota of difference. (Our compromise has been that we focus our efforts on positive changes that also save us money, like insulation, efficiency, shade, biking, etc)

Frankly it's also currently a lot of work to constantly make all the "right" choices. Taking the "right" actions would be significantly easier with a stronger "systems" solution. For example, a carbon tax or neonicotinoid ban would instantly make it zero-effort to buy low-carbon or bee-friendly.

Consumer-choice oriented campaigns like the Rainforest Alliance et al are absolutely well intentioned but the message of saving the world through our purchasing decisions may have indirectly disenfranchised our capacity for collective action.
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Lobbyists are a thing, as are barriers to entry. Of course they love regulations that help them. They sometimes even write those regulations themselves.

My notion of regulations isn't about quantity, but about quality. The lower the quality, over time, the higher the quantity. Thus forming a sort of spider-web-like structure, except spider webs are often of greater quality than legislation.
> button on the homepage labelled "I don't get it, explain it differently."

This is the r/selfawarewolves of the UX community.

I think the video shows a bit better clue of what's going on, but it needs to be condensed. It's trying to show so many things that it has to jump to the next one while you're still absorbing the last one. Show half as much in 70% of the time.
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I struggle to see how you reached that interpretation of the paper.
> An improved and very aggressive antitrust law. - Dramatically reduce what a government can or can't do.

Those two things are sort of incompatible?
Or for all problems!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars

> To date, no proof has been found of past or present life on Mars.

I wonder how long it takes until we get the first confirmation of some sort of life on Mars (e.g. something like bacteria or so).

Is this realistic already in the coming days?
It's an interesting observation that there wasn't really a viable market for an ebook device with large-capacity, expensive write-only media - it's not that publishers didn't want to sell e-books, or that readers didn't want a library-on-a-CD, but that there was no good way to sell individual books since customers couldn't burn their own CDs, and didn't want to carry 50 CDs with them.
> I tried to interpret your sentence in the only way it would have addressed your quote of myself in a coherent manner. I tried to be charitable. Okay. So let's interpret it as it was written instead.

Neither of those "interpretations" are "as written". I'm not speaking in subtext here, so I don't know why you're trying to decipher instead of addressing the actual content. In whichever case, hopefully this post clarifies.

> And let's face reality here for a second: Open up a map of the British Empire and tell me straight to my face that the vast majority of that land wasn't underdeveloped.

No one suggested the territory of the British Empire was fully developed pre-conquest. The OP suggested that military and logistic achievements of the British Empire were impressive, and you argued the contrary "[they merely grabbed] a lot of land too underdeveloped to fight back". Of course, the British Empire profited fantastically from those conquests so they were clearly worthwhile and other empires were equally willing to conquer weaker nations so it isn't a question of scruples either. And if it's not a question of worth or scruples then surely it must be a question of ability, contrary to your implication.
Or the concentration of traditional media in the hands of a small number of individuals.
When people consent to variable rates, absent a cap they're making at least implicit assumptions about the likelihood and magnitude of rate spikes. By and large, people don't hedge variable rate loans, fuel oil prices (although some do), power rates, etc. But people (reasonably) assume that variable rate loan isn't going to spike to 50% interest some night. But as you say, I'm pretty sure that no one signing up for one of these plans imagined a 100x spike in their monthly electrical bill was a possibility.
Then, increase it. Mr. Carnot is there for your help :)
Remind me again how well the judge driven breakup of AT&T worked.

Judge-driven? My memory is that AT&T asked to be broken up so it could get into the personal computer business.
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In New Zealand (and many other countries I believe) there are regulations that prevent disconnection when a household needs power for heating in winter. There are also complexities associated with whether a household has critical medical equipment that has a dependency on electricity, which can’t be safely disconnected.

I think these regulations came into place after people died due to the cold, or died because they needed their oxygen generator and power was cut. Possibly the regulations were proactive.

I worked with a company that built prepay power systems that communicated by modem, and cut the power when the money ran out... except when the regulations (mostly sensible rules) kicked in to prevent harm.

In New Zealand there is also a ripple control system to shed domestic loads during peak demand (mostly hot water cylinders).
> Group 1C is pretty much "everyone".

No, it's not. It's “essential workers”, which isn't everyone in the listed sectors but people in the listed sectors whose work cannot effectively be done remotely; approximately, the people that were exempted and allowed to work on site during the strongest lockdowns, where they occurred at all.

> Doesn't that cover pretty much everyone on HN ?

Probably not; lots of people on HN are probably in jobs that can be and are being done remotely. Even if it did, “everyone on HN” and “everyone” aren't the same thing.
It's strange there is such an abundance of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Isn't it the one they were only supplying 40% of what they were contractually supposed to?
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This is an excellent observation about the process of bureaucratization in action. For some reason the solution to the failings of bureaucracy ends up being even more bureaucracy and even greater consequences for failing to play by the rules of the bureaucracy.

Is bureaucracy like violence? If it isn't working you aren't using enough of it?
I didn't handwave it off. Nobody had mentioned the cost-effectiveness of chemical batteries in the thread so far. I wrote a 1000-word essay about the issue two years ago, exploring the resource ramifications, which I linked from the above comment, and this other 600-word essay here which goes into more details on battery costs and expected internal rate of return on batteries under different incentive schemes: https://dercuano.github.io/notes/energy-storage-efficiency.h...
An "order of magnitude" has no precise numerical meaning, it depends on what base you're working in. If the log of the number in base b increases by 1, you've increased 1 order of magnitude with respect to that base. (I don't know why the parent said "20", my instinct is to say 14 orders of magnitude here.)
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Because its impossible to say fuck allah in front of a muslim Eduated or not they are way too conformance to religion. I can the same to a christian or any other religion friends and joke about it and does not have to fear.
So pay someone else to use google?
> All four points describe the ecosystem, not just those which you choose. Again, quote: "differentiated a platform's openness/closedness by four aspects".

The two on which Apple is rated as ‘open’ are the criteria which the article’s definition uses to determine whether a platform is a walled garden.

You are using a definition of walled garden to mean ‘any level of closedness’.

This is not what a walled garden means, and not what the article says.

If you want to use a private definition, by all means do so, but the article doesn’t have anything to do with your private definition.

For the third time - here is the definition from the article:

“A closed platform, walled garden, or closed ecosystem[1][2] is a software system wherein the carrier or service provider has control over applications, content, and media.”

The table shows that Mac OS is open when it comes to applications, content, and media.

The definition is clear, and Mac OS is not a walled garden by the definition. The table supports this conclusion.

Glued components are common and do not prevent repair - what has that got to go with anything?

An emulated VM obviously doesn’t allow a binary to escape the platform because of course you still need the platform, and the binary is still running on the platform so nothing has ‘escaped’.

As I say, your point is just about what hardware you want a license to run MacOS on, which is nothing to do with whether it is a walled garden.
Most support only SMS as security theater, which is worse than useless because it fosters a false sense of security.