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Why do you have to do this on the meter side? Cant your power company shut off your power from their end?
Not every passage of every song will produce a meaningful difference. The areas where a 24bit vs. 16bit file differ most are in subtle dynamic changes. For example, there was a specific ~ 2-second transition in a recording of Steve Reich where I could definitely tell the difference between a 96k/24bit file and Apple Music.
This is simply not true as stated.
Further, BioNTech/Pfizer has also show to have reduced efficacy.

The study that all these "simplified" horror-stories in the press are based upon is not giving the full picture.

- The timing cannot show how good the effects possibly are (we know that vector-vaccines take longer to create a sufficient protection)
- The sample is tiny
- It only talks about mild and semi-severe cases. Nothing in the study about severe cases (there were none in both groups)

AstraZeneca has a huge PR-Problem. Since they were running this in cooperation with research (Oxford), a lot of smaller results were published early, which was taken up by the press out-of-context, simplified further and further when going down the ladder to the boulevard-press.

Further, Germany had at least one politician state ridiculous numbers (8% efficacy above age 65 or 75) since he misunderstood something (only 8% of the participants were in this group) and simply had no idea what he was talking about.

And now it is too late, you can't kill these false-hoods once they circle.

Actually AstraZeneca has some nice properties the mRNA vaccines have not, e.g. etter T-Cell response.
I never claimed it was. Read back what I said.
Not disagreeing with you, but just to be pedantic:

In .NET Core 3, you can build and distribute a single-file executable which, when run, will actually unpack an executable and a ton of DLLs into a temp directory, and run it from there.

In .NET 5 they changed it, so that when you build a "single-file" executable, you actually get an executable plus a few DLLs, which must be distributed together.
On the other hand, a lot of people would have been happy to have a 5 figure electric bill instead of having their pipes freeze from an involuntary blackout.
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that depends on your dependencies I believe. If the people who keep including serde into their crates would stop everyone would have faster compile times.

Stop using serde. please.
It strikes me that Texas is suffering the same sort of problems that companies that switch to just-in-time delivery do. When everything is working they're more efficient and can out-compete their neighbors, but since they're running with little to no safety margin it only takes one incident to cause immediate disruption to the line. Of course when the consequence of a disruption is you miss your production targets for the week it's not so bad. When the consequence is thousands of people freezing to death maybe you should step back and ask if this is really what you want. Is it worth saving a fraction of a penny per kWh if it means the system can't budget for extreme events or even long term maintenance?

Markets are extremely good at optimizing for the lowest cost (most efficiently) solution, but they're no good for planning for unusual events or for handling externalities. At some point a government needs to step in and set some (unpopular) ground rules so the players in the market don't have to race all the way to the bottom to stay competitive.
If it's not broke, don't fix it. The underlying hasher is most important anyway. Crappy passwords will always be susceptible to rainbow attacks.
I don’t think you got the idea of what I am saying.

You can’t limit people to opening only PDFs which you approved. Therefore if a PDF reader has an exploit (be it ability to write to it’s code locations via PDF payload, a scripting language embedded writhin PDF), then you are pwned.

EXE files are far from the only files that allow you to embed code today. Heck, you can embed JS in an SVG image and if you’re unlucky to display that with some not-so-smart image previewed then you’re done.

Fingerprinting is useless for that kind of stuff because it takes away the only good use of computers: sharing of new, unique information.
The situation seems to be quite dramatic. I applied for a vaccination today in a major German city and got an appointment for Wednesday! Just like my colleagues but the issues seems not to be Astra alone since we all get Biontech and you can see what you get before you finish the process applying for a time slot.
Yes that was Griddy that emailed their client base.

Whether or not they did it and gave their customers sufficient time to do the switch is another matter (i.e. close of business day timing, normal delays involved in new account enrollment, and so on).

EDIT: To be clear I'm not throwing Griddy under the bus for sending email late or without more time. I think they were doing what they could for their customers upon seeing the wholesale prices skyrocket. But the reality is that it takes time to switch services even under normal conditions, without thousands of others trying to do the same.
C# and Java are much closer to Go than C++. C is also closer from another perspective (simplistic syntax).

C++ is about as far from Go as you can imagine a language. Maybe only Prolog would be a worse comparison point.

C++ is designed with one goal in mind: no special compiler built-ins. If it is possible to do it at all, it can be done in a 3rd party library. C++'s design philosophy is Library first. Bjarne Stroustroup explicitly advocates this: don't write special case code. Write a library that solves the problem, then use that library to achieve your special case.

Go doesn't think writing libraries is a useful endeavor for most programmers: they should be writing application code, and let their betters design the tools they need, build them into the compiler, and stop wasting time designing your own abstractions.
Software is completely different from your typical other engineering fields. You just can't apply the same methodology there. In other fields such as building bridges you are quite often taking what has already been proven to work well and building it, while in software if you start to repeat yourself you are doing things wrong.
There are actually very good reasons to go with Rust over those languages, which were the motivating reasons Rust was developed in the first place. Rust supports lower-level development than Java, offers much stronger safety and correctness guarantees than C or C++. This is why Google's security team also supports reimplementing C libraries in Rust (https://security.googleblog.com/2021/02/mitigating-memory-sa...).
I understand... But in the eyes of the law, Griddy is your power company, and their equipment shutting off your supply might break a lot of laws about disconnecting people without giving the requisite notice, legal procedure, etc.

Where do you draw the line? "Griddy, please turn my power off if the price goes above $1/kwh"... "Griddy, please turn the power off if I forget to pay the bill.", "Griddy, I'll take a $10/month discount if the power gets turned off when my bill is paid late?", "Griddy, I want to use non-ripoff plan, so I'm happy for you to turn my power off the minute I pay late".

See how it isn't really feasible to stop power companies forcibly illegally disconnecting debtors if you allow a debtor to agree to be disconnected voluntarily?
Im not going to try to stop you, but if it was up to me setting priorities I'd focus on big consulting like EY, PWC, Capgemini, these companies employ each more then 100K engineers and I wouldn't know what they do with their billions.
Interesting idea, but doesn't seem competitive for Americans to ever respond, if you only pay them $0.75/min after the first minute and the experts have to search for questions they want to answer, meaning there is guaranteed unpaid time between calls.

A potentially interesting option would be to offer tiers based on stack overflow reputation, and to ensure that a developer has reputation from the desired tags.
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That means you're not on the market. You just have a more complicated fixed rate plan.
I think a bit of that is you don't expect to see someone famous just walking down the street.

This reminds me of a celebrity encounter I had once. I walked into a Gold's Gym in Raleigh, and saw a guy doing triceps press-downs on the machine right by the path to the locker room. I had to walk past to get to the locker room and as I approached I realized I was looking at Arn Anderson (professional wrestler).

I was a bit shocked and as I walked by him I did a double take and blurted out something stupid like "Tell me you're not Arn Anderson!?!" Of course he dead-panned the whole thing and just looked at me and said "I'm not Arn Anderson". By this point I realized it was absolutely him, but I was too awe struck to think of anything intelligent to say, so I just kept walking.

Probably about as stupid as I've ever come off in public in my life. :-(

The conclusion of the story though, is that he wound up in the locker room while I was still getting ready for my workout and I got a chance to chat with him for a while. We talked about the "good ole days" of Crockett Promotions / WCW and the 4 Horsemen, etc., etc. He seemed like a nice guy. I just regret forgetting to ask for an autograph.

It turns out, that gym is (well, was... it's closed now) close to the arena in Raleigh where the WWE shows take place, and it used to be common-place for professional wrestlers to stop in when they were in town for shows. That just happened to be the first time I personally met any of them.
No, not with salt and a high enough iteration count, they won't be.
"good artists copy; great artists steal"

Even someone as great as Picasso would not have been able to create the masterwork he left us without learning and getting inspirations (aka, steal) from other artists before his time.

If you ever think someone is creating good original art (because shitty original art is easy to create), chances are you are just not familiar with the work they stole from.
I tend to agree with your point of view that the utility (non-bitcoin) cryptocurrencies are something people who don't fully understand are really excited about, but that some experts dismiss.

For me in my daily work, this manifests itself as companies that want to use more obscure currencies as a transaction method in games. I say: "That currency is not on a lot of servers, how will you protect against 51% attacks?" They say: "All transactions are also verified by trusted servers.." So does the person understand what they are talking about, or are they used to talking to people (investors / business partners) who don't have a great understanding. Doubts raised.

However: There are times when experts dismiss new things and are wrong. So I try to keep an open mind.
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Then they'll have to cross that bridge when they come to it. Nothing of this article gave me the impression that the second they saw this bug they're like WELL TIME TO SWITCH.

I'm sure we're glossing over probably hundreds of hours of investigations by dozens of people.
My impression is that laws also generally prevent extreme increases in the cost of electricity without a great deal of advanced warning.
I would love for software engineering as a discipline to go that way, but it's going to be very hard. Software usually has more moving parts than hardware.

I don't mean to understate the difficulty of being a hardware engineer, of any sort. But the whole reason we do things in software at all is because software is more flexible, and adding a new thing comes with less overhead. Hardware, while challenging, tends to follow similar sets of solutions to similar problems. There are only so many things a bridge, or a building, or even a CPU will be tasked to do.

Not saying this is impossible for software, either. Software gets built for man-rated tasks -- and jobs like this should be considered man-rated, because lives depend on it. That means it's going to cost more and take longer, especially when it's software of a kind nobody has ever built before. Who has experience in "software that releases prisoners?"

The reason they don't do that is, therefore, money. I doubt the prison system is willing to pay 10x as much for the software. The software was probably built by the lowest bidder technically acceptable, where "technically acceptable" was incredibly flexible because nobody really knew what had to be done.
To be fair, the discoverability on Youtube is shit and has been for years now (another topic).

As much as I dislike TikTok for being idiotic, that's actually an aspect to sort of like about it.

Of course it's still algorithmic spoon-feeding, but it seems they're inching closer to saner discovery tools. One can hope...
This reminds me of https://mourner.github.io/bullshit.js/
SHA and MD are fast hashers. You want slow hashers for password security like b-crypt and s-crypt.
How will you deal with an anaphylactic shock when someone takes too much of your therapy product?
Yeah, that's kind of ridiculous. Like picking pennies up in front of a steamroller.

Granted, if the cost savings were enough, a homeowner could install a battery/genset backup with the savings and have that automatically switch over when prices got nuts, but that's not within the abilities or even mindset of most people.
The smart meter can already be disabled remotely. I have one in NY that will alternate between its reading and "CLOSED" meaning that the circuit is connected. As a parent poster pointed out, the power company, however, cannot disconnect you without proper notice.
> you might as well pick one at random

Indeed. Is there any scientific evidence that tech interviews are better than random selection?
It's a fine question - I guess politics mostly

1. If the central database is proprietary then it is enforced (usually by a major retailer ie Walmart drives all sorts of RFID supply chain requirements for its suppliers. If blockchains come in this is likely how)

1.a. But which other retailer will sign up to walmart's versions ? So it is hard for all suppliers to sign up to the same standards

2. Open standards make it easier for anyone to write apps to join the chain.

3. it's not at all clear how this is better I will admit beyond "decentralised" and "open". But those are excellent places to start.
Perhaps that's just projections of your own insecurities and those words are just simply what come to mind for them or find the most descriptive.
> Generally, when words are ‘nearby’ other words you have to read the context to understand why they are there.

You are absolutely right. Let me quote it for you, so that you understand the context:

"Harvard Business School working paper... differentiated a platform's openness/closedness by four aspects and gave example platforms".

Then, in the table you can see that in 2 out of 4 aspects Mac OS is a closed ecosystem according to the published research. I am astonished by Apple fanboys who cannot accept flaws in Mac OS, even if it's clearly explained by respectful independent researchers.

>In the parts of the table describing the ecosystem it has the word open in the rows for MacOS.

All four points describe the ecosystem, not just those which you choose. Again, quote: "differentiated a platform's openness/closedness by four aspects".
Exactly.

If schools explicitly acknowledged their dual purpose, then they could more cleanly separate the two functions. I think doing so would even improve the educational component.

I've volunteered in high school classrooms quite a lot. The amount of wasted time is astounding. Hours upon hours of boring nonsense that somehow actively detracts from learning. Students are so bored from sitting around all day. Also, they instinctively learn that 80% of every lecture period is filler nonsense but are quite bad at guessing which 20% they should be paying attention to.

Even in subjects that shouldn't be cut (e.g., Geometry) the lecture periods could be safely halved and probably improve educational outcomes.

Schools are great facilities for child care, BTW. Computers, gyms, fields, sports equipment, books, ...

Why not just admit that about half of the classroom time alotted to most subjects exists for fill-up-butt-in-seat-time purposes only and then openly embrace the fact that the school is an educational institution whose physical plant is also useful for leisure/childcare? Heck, university campuses already do this...
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TIL British slang for injection is ‘jab’. I like this actually, sounds more jovial than getting a ‘shot’.
I have no idea what that means, for newer is not necessarily more supportable. Who knows what the system is - maybe they had a multi-million dollar SAP implementation to manage prisons, and now you’re looking for functional support of that platform after it was customized all to hell, you need a-team SAP resources, not the new kid at Wipro... I can only imagine what’s behind that curtain. It’s the government so I imagine the worst.
Write it in Rust obviously.
> I don't think it's ad hominem to note the author's lack of specific qualification in epidemiology or infectious disease

If the purpose of such a note is to attack the validity of the author's position, this is what ad hominem means.
> It’s also a lie to say that Apple charges 30%.

> It’s 15% for almost all developers except for a tiny percentage of themselves extremely wealthy corporations.

Remember dealing with distributors and middlemen before the App Store?

I recall high schoolers getting their app on the App Store (and making money out of it) not that long after the Store launched. That was unthinkable a few years before that.
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The UK doesn't have a requirement for anyone to carry ID. I've never carried ID.

Most young people will carry photo ID because it's needed to get into a night club, to buy booze and so on. There are policies like "Check 25" enforced in some places which tell staff they ought to refuse to serve people who seem under-25 unless they can prove they're legal to drink (18 in the UK) but (a) I don't drink and (b) I haven't looked young enough for many years now. For this purpose they can use a driving license if they have one, and there are several other acceptable forms of photo ID including some non-government ID.

If you're driving a motor vehicle police can require you to provide proof that you (and thus you'll need ID) are entitled to be driving this vehicle but it's not instant, so if it happened to me I'd put a note in my diary to take my driving license to the police when it's convenient.

Historically German occupied countries in the war had mandatory ID and so there's an association in British minds (largely false) between winning WWII and not needing to carry ID. Government has tried various strategies to try to change this but they haven't been successful.

Certain non-citizens have to physically attend somewhere at intervals so that government can keep track of them, a Russian colleague of mine would sometimes be late because she'd spend the morning waiting for her local police to confirm that yup, she was still here, still had a visa authorising her to work here, hadn't gone anywhere else. But since citizens do not carry ID the non-citizens don't need ID the rest of the time anyway although I expect many do carry some out of habit.

Many older British people won't own any photo ID. If you can't or don't drive, and never travel abroad you'd have no practical use for it. I suspect my grandmother (who hadn't driven since WWII) didn't have any ID more recent than a war-era government ID with no photograph.
What sort of evidence is needed? Modern power meters can show the complete power phase and torque effectiveness on pedaling strokes. Regardless of efficiency, modern clipless pedals allow for delivering higher maximum power without your feet slipping off.
That first sentence is amazing: it makes me a criminal because I don't pay all my taxes! I have an electric hair cutting machine, so I pay no tax on life to cut hair - does this make sense at all? Not to me.
...or anything else that you can fit into video, such as news and politics or education and editorial.
This is itself a (funny?) form of a Tontine!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tontine
> I didn't see this mentioned in the article, but there are many time-of-use plans that offer variable rates without exposing the consumer to additional risk.

That is essentially a fixed-rate contract. It provides different incentivisation from a flat-rate contract, but… all the rates are still fixed.
I believe Octopus Energy in the UK lets people both buy power and sell it back to the grid at time-dependent pricing, though I'm not sure how it works exactly and I'm pretty sure technically they're two separate contracts.
I personally find the world a pleasant place to be.

Between our technologies, standard of living, relative peace, pushing exploration etc etc we're most definitely in a golden age relative to any other historical period. The problems we face are such that they relate to a continued and long term existential survival as a race and higher order concerns instead of mostly individual day to day survival for a majority of the worlds population and the fact we've even gotten far enough as a species to face such problems is in and of itself to be celebrated.

Hard times bring the most opportunity :)

And yes I personally focus on multiple different interests to a degree I make tangible impacts in all of them.
For road biking as well- though a lot of it is many people are afraid of a 23mm contact patch being the only thing between them and going off a cliff in the Alps!
Do you know of any place where one could simply contribute?

Bugguide seems to be North America only, but while I stayed in a remote area of the Indio Maiz reserve in Nicaragua I stumbled upon a spider that I haven't identified in years and can't quite find any place to simply share the photo[0].

[0] unknown spider on a banana leaf in eastern Nicaragua: https://i.imgur.com/iFMJxtl.png
Which is why the parent comment says "can have a limit", not "must require a limit".

That way, those who would rather get through a blackout without paying insane bills can have an option to do so, while those who care about their pipes freezing can pay to keep the electricity.
When I was young, I would often visit my neighbor's house to play with legos or watch stop-motion lego videos on YouTube. One day I went over and his older sister was hosting a party where her and her friends all watched Interstella 5555. I don't think I've had a more culturally mind-melting experience since then.

I didn't rediscover Discovery until Tiesto's "Louder Than Boom" in a Tap Tap Revenge brought me into the world of electronic music. While many genres fell in and out of my taste growing up, electronic (and eventually French House in particular) never once faded. I'm infinitely thankful for Daft Punk and their art which has long been and will long be my chosen soundtrack for life.
Little Britain's recurring bit Computer says "No", has always been a great illustration of this point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n_Ty_72Qds
But most electricity retailers just set a fixed price for electricity completely disconnected from the actual costs. I'm specifically wondering if it's possible to allow for wholesale purchasing, but set a cap at something like $10 or $100/kwhr - still crazy high, but keeping obscene rates away. Maybe let the customer choose what level of cap they want.