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I suppose it's because, while not every version is great, it hasn't (that I am aware of) totally broken Chrome for any significant chunk of their users. It may be that is due to a bigger budget for QA at Google, or perhaps the intrinsic challenge of the two tools, but for whatever reason it hasn't happened (that I know of). If it did, I think there would be plenty of squawking.
> The EU can control AZ exports to guarantee they are fulfilling their contractual obligations, which AZ has been literally joking in the face of the EU

Using such executive powers for handling contract dispute is authoritarian move. These powers should be used for impartial regulation of market, not for contract dispute where EC is one side. In liberal democracies, contract disputes even with government are handled by courts.
Feedback from your boss or anonymous feedback helps. One on ones help in identifying these things too. This is difficult to do without management, but you might be able to propose it.

Though as long as you are aware of it and checking the tendency to do so, it should be fine.
I can tell you exactly what the editor said after reading the first paper about high temperature superconductivity:

fake quote> Nah.

The nice thing about physics is that it doesn't matter if the community reject the idea. If you have a nice experiment that is reproducible and has clear and easy instructions, sooner or later the community will accept it, and you may get a Nobel price. If the experiment is weird and you are unlucky, it can take a few decades.

Here is another weird experiment, with another weird result, but it's reproducible and has clear and easy to follow instructions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_experiment
A couple of years ago I wrote I fully connected multi layer nm, it's a lot of work. I see you've implemented convolutions. I wanted to do that as well, but everything changed after I got a full time job. Congratulations.
I read carefully last year on related news, it's said the animals used in those labs are sometimes taken out secretly and sold to the wild-animal-market, and some rubber gowns and gloves are also resold because they're so sturdy for reuse. Incidents occurred a few times already(including recurring SARS) because of similar wrongdoings before COVID-19.
Usb already offers couple of different data rates and power levels, so wonder why they use just one usb-c connector for all of it? ;)

Ok, sarcasm aside. Technicaly you dont need separate plugs for different connection levels and power transmission up to certain powers. Initial data exchange at some base speed and minimum power requirements can provide necesarry information for devices to establish or refuse connection
Precisely because Americans lead comfortable lives.
Check levels.fyi for Australia.
Cars and rockets are basically his hobby projects. I wouldn't be surprised if he put in 90hr from time to time because he wants to. He has the free time to do that. The dude is rich enough to afford help. It's not like his kids are missing meals because he's at work or he has to use the extra daylight savings day light to trim his own hedges and mow his own lawn. I'm sure he doesn't do it every week but he probably gets carried away and books himself for a 90hr week just often enough to remember why he doesn't do that every week.
US lab shut down temporarily due to inadequate waste sterilization. They were infecting monkeys with ebola?
https://wjla.com/news/local/cdc-shut-down-army-germ-lab-heal...
> Full Lamp Stack

:D
What an ignorant comment. It just shows a failure of supposedly "superior" Western education, your citizens are deliberately kept uninformed in a desperate attempt to hold on to the power that was unfairly acquired by exploiting much of the world. Your arrogance just cannot bear equality, can you? The days of Western dominance are numbered, you cannot stop it. World power has been gradually shifting eastwards, rightfully. This is the Asian century.

Literally the only thing that matters is CO2 per capita. India's is way low. The low scientic output is a consequence of low per-capita income, it has been increasing and will keep increasing, will definitely cross Italy's (having lived in South Europe I know how the culture here is). It's only a matter of time. India's population has always been historically very high due to fertile lands. It would have been much lower, but 200 years of British colonialism deliberately kept Indians in poverty, keeping birth rates high. And suggesting population reduction - how exactly will you do that? Genocide? War? Try it and see how that goes.

You should focus on reducing your arrogance, racism, denial of facts, and over-consumption. You are not better than others. Learn some morals. The real solution to climate change is science & technology. Our current consumption level is just not inline with the current renewable tech.

You just want to forcefully keep the rest of the world poor so you can enjoy driving your SUVs and eating steaks, while somehow blaming the rest of the world based on some made-up metrics. Guess what that's not gonna happen. Try it if you can.
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Simple. The Israeli government gives them money to make up for their failure to be self-sustaining. Money they tax from the capitalists.
I have some experience with interfacing with AMC PCB-mount boards in this fashion: https://www.a-m-c.com/products/?_form_factor=pcb-mount

I don't hate the style of pin headers they're using. Probably considered laughably low density by modern standards, but for industrial stuff they're robust. Never had issue with alignment, but they are not keyed, so it could happen I guess.

For modern, high-speed, high-density you could look into Samtec board-to-board offerings: https://www.samtec.com/connectors/high-speed-board-to-board though the big names (Molex, TE, etc) probably have equivalent stuff.
Oh my I had no idea they actually fixed it! Crazy it took 2 years, but at least they finally did!
How did the UK govt (not the private Swedish-British company AstraZeneca) show itself to be an unreliable partner? Be as specific as possible.

I want to get your view and if I think it’s valid, I want to pass it onto my MP, to put democratic pressure for the UK to maintain its status of a rules-based society.
Re: Look at this – the tale of a malicious Excel macro
When SARS came out the initial reaction was also to hide, until it's leaked to the west, China then opened the door to let foreign experts help. This time it obviously acted very differently, after more than one year, no serious investigation can proceed still.
Yes, this. With orbital assembly you can have fewer engines (save on weight) all optimized for vacuum and no fairing or a super-minimal fairing (save on weight).

Heck, you don't need orbital assembly for that. SpaceX could put in orbit a single- or two-engine starship with no landing legs and no heat shielding for transfers. Eventually they could decommission one such truck to make an orbital station.

> Anyway, $100-200/kg (or less!) and huge volume/high cadence is so radically disruptive that it's kind of hard to predict how space will look a few decades down the line. It's going to be a wild thing to watch, with lots of opportunity.

There might be so many satellites in orbit as to permanently disrupt astronomy on Earth, necessitating a fleet of replacements for the James Webb telescope.
I dunno, that oversight board sounds like they must work really hard to provide the kind of high standards of oversight we’ve come to expect. They should probably provide a supplementary package of measures to allow for rolling extensions of compliance deadlines for an initially low fee to help fund future oversight and yachts.
I frequently don't see the organizational support for a proper CICD process. The people that hold the purse strings just don't understand the value.

There's an obvious set of prerequisite here:

1. what's your code coverage?

2. what's the branching strategy like (this is a long winded way of asking: are PR branches built automatically?)

3. how frequently do you release?

I guess this could be your "smoke test", without a reasonable code coverage you cannot have the PRs build automatically or a frequent release schedule.

If you ask an HR person about the frequency and get anything less than "frequently" you're likely dealing with an org that doesn't have 1/2/3. It seems unlikely that something like this would make it into a job posting though.
For professional (and especially tech-oriented) software I think there’s more leeway to ask the user. Prompt on install/first run would probably strike a better balance than opt-in.
This isn’t new
So a user experiences a separate bug in 3.0.2, tries to downgrade to 3.0.1, and is unable to as they are re-upgraded right back to 3.0.2. Do you not consider that a new additional bug, that one is unable to downgrade to 3.0.1, a stable build, at that point? I’d argue that’s a new bug that wasn’t previously discovered.
I see three broad dimensions to any lab origin theory:

1. It was human made or found. Human made is common QAnon fodder. I don't believe anyone serious finds that idea credible. Nature is probably far better at concocting new viruses than humans are. And if it was found, where did it come from? I'm honestly surprised DNA sequencing hasn't been more effective in answering this question thus far;

2. Whether it was deliberately released or accidentally leaked. Note that a deliberate release doesn't have to be state-sponsored. It could be a rogue employee like the Anthrax letters from ~20 years ago; and

3. Whether the lab knew what they had or they didn't. Coronaviruses are studied by Chinese labs. They could have hundreds of samples without realizing that one in particular can infect humans and be transmissible effectively and asymptomatically. I suspect that in any version of the lab origin theory that it's more likely they didn't know what they had. That would take human testing.

What does seem clear is that the CCP isn't particularly interested in getting to the bottom of this. I wouldn't take that as evidence of them having more knowledge of this than we do. I suspect they simply don't want to know. More to the point, I think the CCP sees efforts to find out as a direct attack on China.
I wish sites would test their forms with popular password management systems. This kind of thing happens all too often (thought perhaps not with such a high cost). Why not make it easy for people who auto-fill with these programs -- don't fight them.

(And I won't get into sites that won't let you paste passwords into their forms.)
I dual boot as well but I only switch to Windows to game which isn't too often.
Maybe this is my naivety showing, but to my knowledge it's not a common occurrence for companies to sue employees for refusing to work for them, especially if (as the OP notes elsewhere in the thread) there's no actual contractual obligation.
Considering all the things the EU could have done better, what is the negative outcome here.. 2-4 months delay?

In a year will we still be talking about the vaccine shortness?
I'm thinking no.

So yeah, the EU could use dirty tricks like export bans. But do we really need to?

At the end of the day, it matters if vaccination picks up before the next flue season. For the reminder of this one, we all have to rely on social distancing.
Isn’t one of the main benefits of containers that you can set static versions, validate them, and then be able to deploy them with confidence that later changes won’t be used? It’s a shortcut to a known working configuration. I would expect container maintainers to appreciate the value of not updating as soon as its available.
Wow! I guess this is design when only thinking inside the walled garden? Even then...
> despite not actually trying to replicate the Fleischmann and Pons experimental setup accurately

I’ve been seeing this claim in another field: about hydroxychloquinine. Every time a study comes out which doesn’t show a benefit, people rush in saying “that’s because they forgot X, didn’t dose the right amount of Y, etc”

I’m actually not sure what to make of this phenomenon in general. I will say though that when you’re trying to test a hypothesis, completely replicating another experiment isn’t necessary. You should test it under a variety of conditions. That makes it easier to avoid the same hidden mistakes that the original experiment might have included.
> Who is we who need solid security?

Ultimately, the we is society.
I believe the comment you are replying to is referring to the Flynn effect [1] which shows a ~3 point rise in IQ per decade in absolute terms. That is, someone who is 100 IQ in 1950 would only be 97 IQ measured by 1960 standards.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
>Can we call it the chinese variant then?

Ok sure. What did you win? Have you now advanced science and solved all unknown problems in virology? Was the progress of mankind so impeded by the inability to call COVID-19 the Chinese variant? Seriously ask yourself why you are so hung up on being able to call it the China virus. Are doctors around the world completely unable to sequence this virus because they can’t say the word “China virus”, or does it just make you feel better to be able to prescribe blame to a group of people?

I think we can agree there’s open mystery about the origin of the virus without getting caught up in culture war trite. British people aren’t being murdered because of some loose connection to a virus, the very least you could do is show some tact and try not to insert your bias at every opportunity.
Shouldn't we see rather distinct spread patterns for the two scenarios (a lab accident and contaminated frozen food at the market)? I guess, the patterns, social contacts, habits and locations of a typical lab worker or scientist is quite distinct from those of a typical person working at the market, even in the CPR.

(In the first case, the market may be expected to be just another case in a wider spread pattern with a gravitational center involving typical contacts and residential areas of lab workers, in the second one, we may expect to observe an initial spread around the market and the living quarters of those, who work there.)

Even without a patient zero, there should be some indications regarding clusters in early observations.
> A nationalist would say...

This is a silly hypothetical and it paints people with reasonable beliefs in a bad light. The duty of a country is to protect its people no? Of course it's going to weigh a complicated situation and err on the side of protecting its own citizens. Otherwise why even pay taxes or have a government?

> By all accounts, by the time the US approves AstraZeneca vaccine, it would have enough Pfizer/Moderna doses to vaccinate the whole country. Yet it prefers to keep the stockpile (I know about the recent deal with Canada and Mexico. It's very small and very late compared to what it could have been in a better world) rather than send it to other countries, where they can save lives instead of sitting in a freezer to keep voters happy, not to keep them safe.

I hear lots of complaints but not much in the way of useful suggestions or actions - and keeping some vaccines in stock seems to be a prudent move. You can't save others if you can't secure yourself.

The E.U. is going to be in hot water over this. The failure of the E.U. and subsequent blaming of the U.K. and U.S. for taking care of its citizens looks really bad. You can't make this stuff up and it's going to empower separatists and right-wingers.
From an enterprise it perspective, most of the time you cannot just install linux. corp computers need to be centrally managed, maintained, and compatible with all the crap the enterprise issues. for the most part that's windows or osx.
in the past, my field at least has relied on either using a vm, or an unsupported second computer you need to expense and get exceptions for. WSL is pretty much a godsend as it's native windows supported, few exceptions needed from the enterprise, cheaper to expense, and less friction and better integration with windows than a vm.

imo, windows primary with WSL is the new standard to beat as far as working environment. I cannot even imagine going back to osx or using linux as my primary OS anymore.
“An astounding indictment across the whole scientific community that attempting to investigate an energy source that would advance human kind to essentially free energy would be... a career ender.ll

My understanding is that it’s a career ender because it has repeatedly been shown to not work. You also can’t investigate Perpetual Movement Machines because they can’t work either. It would be nice if it worked but it doesn’t make sense to change something that’s basically a pipe dream.
> A squeaky wheel gets the grease but a raised nail gets the hammer.

You're right about this. Indian work culture tends toward rigid hierarchical structures, and expects employees to be much more deferent to authority than you would find in a typical Silicon Valley startup. However, even after bringing our startup culture out there (unlimited PTO, stock options, choose your own hours, don't call me "sir"), I still find this test-taking mentality to be what dominates an engineer's decision making.

Because of this, I know to be extremely specific on exact deliverables and tickets. The "rockstar developer" who can think deeply about the end user's needs is an extremely rare thing to find out there. The dominant mentality among developers is to expect a detailed specification that can be treated as the exact boundary of the problem.

To give a concrete example - I recently got quite frustrated when a simple CRUD feature shipped without a delete button, since the specification failed to explicitly mention where the button should go. Out of 30 developers and a full QA team, not one person thought critically about the specification or tried using the app from a user's perspective.
> Also, because no-one would care about exact dates; looks like I was wrong there!

You can always count on me to be a gigantic pedant! That was a really important time in mathematics—that's when we invented the Pulverizer Algorithm, for example.

> I am aware of this, and I never meant to imply otherwise.

I'm sorry I misread your comment!
Well even the package manager managing it can be disastrous. I have definitely lost critical days of work because `brew install` upgraded, and broke, things completely unrelated to what I was installing.
That's not luddite thinking, that's a politician thinking. Ariane, just like SLS, is mostly a job program for large companies with huge workforces and thousands of small subcontactor shops. Manufacturing less rockets without a viable replacement would be an economic and political disaster.

Of course, pretending like SpaceX was not a serious threat was an economic and strategic disaster, albeit on a slightly longer term and with less visibility. The ArianeGroup CEO in question retired less than a year after that infamous interview, so he clearly didn't care about that longer term.
That's fantastic, exactly what I'm looking for. I especially love this: http://connectorbook.com/identification.html

Looking forward to the completion of the book.
I'll not conclude anything, but I will say that engineering a virus is an order of magnitude easier than a vaccine.

It's a pure mapping problem. There are thousands of known viruses that affect humans. But most viruses don't have thousands of vaccines.

Additionally, there are constraints. The only contraint on a virus is that is needs to reproduce, and cause harm. Any kind of harm will do, and any kind of spreading is fine. But the vaccine needs to not hurt the person (at least, don't hurt them worse than the virus would).

Even if both processes involved similar techniques, the constraints on virus production are more favorable to the researcher than vaccine production.

To get back to whether China or any nation would intentionally create a biological weapon, however...: most industrialized countries realized a long time ago that bioweapons tends to be a bad strategy. Most western countries stopped their bioweapons programs back in the 70s for the simple reason that there was no reasonable use-case for a bioweapon that isn't done better by simply bombing something (or more recently-hacking their infrastructure). Bioweapons are strategically useful for small nations, and terrorist groups.
Diamond is more of a political hack with an agenda than a serious historian.

That aside, the most obvious evidence that the Native American communities were not collectives is they practiced slavery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_among_Native_Americans...

which also states "property and hereditary leadership passed through the maternal line." Valuable property is not a sign of a commune.

> basically no hierarchy

That doesn't imply they shared everything equally. If I own more horses than you, it doesn't mean I control you.

> Individualism however is not the same as selfishness, collaboration is not the same as collectivism).

I say that over and over again in this thread, including in my opening post.
Database bulk load are where I have hit this many times. Often it's not viable to change the import to be a binary format (e.g cross databases, migrating from old proprietary software, etc).
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> Tautological. Nothing can become mature without first being immature.

Do you make the same argument when someone serves you raw chicken?
Yes, it may well be that there's no market for 100 tons to orbit launch vehicles. It also may be that the only "market" for interplanetary travel is taxpayer funding. It's also possible that 100 tons to orbit for super low cost might be so transformative that in a couple of decades time we might actually see asteroid mining (which even now seems farfetched) to pay for it all.
It is almost certain that some unknown phenomenon is happening with palladium/nickel and hydrogen/deuterium.

I first heard of the 1989 pons and fleischmann experiment in late '90 but didn't know what to think of it, I was in high-school, information was scarce. Then in 2008 or 2009' I found a memoir from a science historian about it.
It spoke in great detail about the pressure to publish quickly before any rival the vested interest of the hugely influencal MIT in "hot fusion" (billions in funding). They they didn't even try to half-ass an experiment, then dragged pons and fleischmann in the mud so deeply they had to quit academic life and anyone who tried to follow their track would have their funding cut. Because most other physicist ( Pons & Fleischman were actualy electro-chemist) were not able to acheive the same results. Which was kind of to be expected: no peer review article was published they just "announced" their finding. Then everyone rush to blindly replicate months of hard work from a field they barely knew. Then it became a fraud, then fake science. Anyone trying the "forbidden" experiment would lose his reputation and any hope of a career. It doesn't get more anti science then cold fusion. Only then I realised wikipedia was full of censorship and could not be relied upon for anything remontly controversal.

Then came 2011, andrea rossi and the e-cat. Andrea rossi has a ph in... philosphy, convicted frauster in italy and inventor of a new
cold fusion device. Even then it sparked ton of interest in cold fusion (LENR for low energy nuclear reaction, because it's not fusion that is happening: no hard radiation, no instant huge release of energy, etc.) and the next decade is a cycle of trying to debunk rossi, him promising a "working plant" next year, mistery client and feeding crumbs of evidence, proof and information over a decade. And it's not finished yet.

You can follow most of it on https://e-catworld.com/ . People there are not quite QAnon level of crazy but they will mention ufo various free energy stuff of regular basis. I remember reading news about navy SPAWAR research on cold fusion there.

But yeah in a nutshell huge claims, little results (but SOME result that is the annoying part).