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I only wish it weren't named Yaya, as I hate promoting the idea that old women are the pinnacle of technological ineptness. I know that wasn't the intent, but still. It's unfortunately a common expression to say "This product is so easy, even your grandmother can use it!" As if the only group more incompetent than old people, is old women (or, if you prefer, the only group more incompetent than women are old women).

I really think it's time to consciously move away from this outdated meme.
Are there any numbers on how much of the non-defense discretionary spending of 661 billion is actually related to the military spending? It lists "veteran's benefits" under that for example. Same for "Other", which lists "military retirement" and again "some veteran's benefits" for example. That sounds like defense spending to me.
> As one significant example of that growth, Rust is the leading language in the development of the Diem (formerly Libra) blockchain, which is overseen by the independent Diem Association. Facebook, through its digital wallet Novi, is a member of the Diem Association.

I'm always amused by the contortionist double-speak of Facebook communications. They put so much effort into distancing themselves from Libra when they launched it, but now they have a chance to take some credit for the work behind it, all of a sudden it's a kinda-sorta Facebook project.

Totally off-topic but I can never resist a jab at Facebook.

Anyway – great news for Rust. Despite my distaste of FB, I can't deny the value of their open source contributions.
A lot of the time I feel like health food is really just a way for manufacturers to cheap out and then sell something at a premium.

Margarine is vegan, but it was always just marketed as "cheap". Discerning or well-to-do consumers would just pass it up.

Now, people will put up with things that are very cheap to make, taste horrible, and are very expensive to buy.

That creates a problem: the food is becoming about the story and not the taste. That's not going to lead to good products; only good stories and packaging to tell the story. And bad products won't make for wide adoption.

Asking your customers to sacrifice gets you a small band of loyal customers, like a cult. But good products stand on their own and don't ask for sacrifice... think Tesla.
There is no guarantee that the work will continue to exist at the URL.

You could own a very expensive URL that goes to 404 - Not Found.
The device isn't being pitched to old people who know how to use an iPad. It's being pitched to old people who don't. So your mum has nothing to worry about.
In the paper associated with 1 it says:

The FilmArray RP test utilization rate (TUR) metric is defined as the non-normalized number of RP patient test results generated each week across the Trend sites (computed as a centered 3-week moving average). To calculate the pathogen detection rate (as displayed in Figure 2 [second data view] and on the Trend website), we compute the rate for each organism at each institution as a centered 3-week moving average. To adjust for the capacity differences between sites, a national aggregate is calculated as the unweighted average of individual site rates. Only data from sites contributing more than 30 tests per week is included to avoid noise from small numbers of tests. Because the calculation of pathogen detection rate includes results from patients with multiple detections, the detection rate for all organisms can, in theory, add up to greater than one. In practice, this does not occur.

These are rates. This does not account for testing frequency. If they only tested 1 person in the United States tomorrow, and they had rhino/entero, the graph would show 100% (obviously it wouldn't and they won't only test 1 person). That means that if testing decreased, because for example there were less patients with symptomatic viral infections, but the % positive stayed the same, the chart would not appear to change, even though there were fewer cases...

paper: https://publichealth.jmir.org/2018/3/e59/
Bothers me to no end how many once simple devices have gone this way.
I feel like I would be willing to pay more for simpler appliances at this point.
It’s more the other way around — big cos are endorsing Rust and joining the nascent foundation. It’s perfectly reasonable for a three month old foundation for a popular new language to be in the news quite a bit, and for its sponsors to enjoy the attention that goes with it
You might want to read something other than YA polemics written in the '60s and '70s. I recommend China Miéville.
The Labor Secretary is empowered by laws passed by Congress to interpret the law in order to implement it. Congress passes laws delegating certain authority to Executive Branch departments.

If the Labor Secretary is not acting in accord with Federal Statutes passed by Congress and legal precedents established by the Federal Courts, the Secretary can be sued and injunctive relief sought. Of course the Secretary can be sued even if they are following the law.
The kind that doesn't result in an intellectual race to the bottom as we're witnessing today, where people eat tide pods, purposefully hasten pandemic spread, and bottles of Windex have to have legal disclaimers like "do not spray directly into eyes".
I always love the various countries[0] who implement direct democracies because "people are more than adequate in making important decisions that directly touch their lives."

[0] - There's only one for the record and it's Switzerland.
I get it. But it could have easily been a play on the word 'milk/milky', without calling it 'milk' per se. Like "Nilk" or "Plantmilk" or something.

E.g. lactose-free dairy milk is marketed as 'delac'. It's not that hard.
Housesitting opportunities in places you'd like to visit are extremely rare. I used to live in a mountain resort town, and there were posts in our housing FB group every week seeking "housesitting opportunities" (read: free lodging during their ski vacation). No one ever replied.

Freighter cruising is much more expensive than flying for the same distance, but cheaper than an actual cruise. You could probably simulate the experience by living in a motel 6 with a stranger (since you won't get your own bunk) and getting food from Denny's 3x a day.
That discrimination is the onus of the independent contractor drivers. Without full transparency about a potential ride's pickup, drop off, and how much they will be paid for it, there is effectively no way to argue that Uber drivers are independent contractors.
It's a bunch of problems. Firstly, you can't even say, reasonably, that you only want >6 month old versions of libraries, at least not with cargo. Yes, you can express such a wish for your direct dependencies, by using = versions in Cargo.toml, but the transitive dependencies, aka the dependencies of your dependencies and so on, those you can't control. Putting Cargo.lock into git solves some of your problems, but this doesn't help you when you are adding a library. Then, for any novel transitive dependency, Cargo just takes the highest version that works.

The second problem is that even if 90% of your dependencies support older compilers, it doesn't matter, because the 10% that insist on newer compilers will still break. It can be a single dependency, and you usually have hundreds, with vastly different policies.

There are solutions to this problem, like MSRV aware cargo. They just need someone to implement them (as well as someone to compute MSRV numbers).
If you have an IT career and ever advance far enough in it, chances are pretty good that you will eventually need to log into various types of servers, vms, container images that you either have no administrative control over or where this administrative control is not best used to switch around standard editor choices to suit your personal convenience.
You might have missed the third sentence of the first paragraph which contains "...while also making colors appear just as they do in natural sunlight."
What if I could send pictures and they'd automatically print out

I did that for my mother with a surplus Powerbook and an inkjet printer. I'd just VNC in and print out the picture.

Worked great for a while. Then one day she dumped a cup of coffee into the keyboard. "Oh, it's no big deal. I'm sure you do it all the time," she said. End of pictures.
Don't know why you're downvoted; this is true. You can personally avoid opportunities for exposure all you want, but your 2-8ish year old kids will get colds regularly from daycare/school, and then will give them to you. I also didn't get sick from March-September 2020. Then schools re-opened here, and I was sick within 3 weeks, and then again a couple months later. And that's even with all the extra sanatization and distancing they were trying to do at school.
This is good information, and I'd love to see a write up how Firefox, Chrome, Brave and other browsers can be set up to prevent some of this.

For example, Firefox has both first-party isolation mode and now Total Cookie Protection, which isolates cookies and would thus likely prevent CSRF. However, I think first-party isolation causes CORS issues like when trying to pay with Paypal on another retail site.
Here's an easy vegetarian chili recipe we've been using for years in my house:

https://pastebin.com/84cwiJ02
> I totally get ethical vegetarianism, and appreciate that much animal abuse can occur within the dairy industry, but I don't think that's inherent.

It's inherent. Cows, like all mammals, need to have given birth to produce milk. This means dairy cows are impregnated and give birth roughly yearly. It's entirely uneconomical to raise all of the calves, since it would effectively triple or more the cost of producing milk, which is already barely profitable, even with government subsidies. So the calves are killed and sold as veal.
I mean, me too, but it's insane that it's a binary where you either "are a contractor" or "are an employee". if you took this framework away and replaced it with a more flexible one (ideally decoupled from healthcare..) people would invent all kinds of other mutually beneficial relations.
On the contrary to most of these opinions, there's one vegan shredded cheese out there that makes delicious nachos. I can't recall the brand but it takes just like the gooey nacho cheese of my youth. Probably low-end nacho cheese didn't have any dairy to begin with :)
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> I just use package.json scripts as entrypoints to custom JS scripts.

Call me naive but I always thought that was the standard way to use the script support for package.json. One-liners could go directly in package.json, but from thereon it's scripts.

In fact, the standard package.json project tree included a ./scripts dedicated to store scripts.
> * Running a primitive static code analysis tool that got overeager with correcting impossible bugs and not marking the generated patches as such.

This is not a major time waster. It happens constantly - students everywhere are doing this, and the patches are accepted constantly.

Further, while Greg classified the entirety of the analyzers findings as being useless, he was incorrect.[0]

> The universities review board signed off on that mess, there is nothing proactive about banning a group of bad actors after the fact.

In terms of the researchers submitting malicious patches it was done without edu addresses, which means that banning them solves nothing.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/b43fc2b0-b3cf-15ab-7d3c-25c1f2a...

In fact, most of the fixes fit into the bucket of "potentially useful".
This is a nice proof of concept, but it's not anywhere production-ready.

Yes. Nor is it the first. Here's one from 2019, and much faster. [1] Another academic one from 2017.[2] A second one from 2017.[3] Another one from 2016.[4]

Eventually, someone is going to get this right. Someone who's good at machinery design. Most of these have dangling wires or duct tape showing, or are far too slow. A good practical question is "Can you pressure-wash it?" This also applies to food-preparation robots.

The computer vision part seems to be a solved problem. All of these can find apples visually.

Few people are really good at mechanical design. I've mentioned that I restore old Teletype machines. Those are very well designed. All the parts are replaceable. They're reliable, even though complicated. They have few wear problems. Very few of the parts are fragile. They are unharmed by minor jamming problems. They do need annual lubrication. There's a complex balance of complexity, manufacturability, maintainability, and cost in mechanical design. Two people, Walter Krum and Ed Kleinschmidt, designed all the good ones of the 20th century. Many others tried, and produced inferior machines.

This is more recognized in the gun industry. There are few good new gun designs. Every few decades, someone makes a good new design, and that gets copied and modified. Well known examples include the 1911A1, by John Browning, the AK-47, by Mikhail Kalashnikov, and the Glock, by Gaston Glock. All demonstrate a mastery of the materials used and a good understanding of the production processes. It's not just the form.

[1] https://youtu.be/aijzVv6UeLQ

[2] https://youtu.be/SwE-LPS01lk

[3] https://youtu.be/UaL3UxUclKY

[4] https://youtu.be/TBcWZcjXr-I?t=59
Sometimes, the fact that my parents and grandmother are so good with technology disappoints me because I have fewer chances of building cool stuff like this.
That's not how it works. America is a mix of several different systems. Everyone has access to care, and there are several public healthcare offerings; some specifically for seniors/low-income/single-parents/children/etc. The ACA already gives everyone an insurance option.

The issue is that better coverage requires private insurance, mostly offered through corporations. Smaller companies can't compete, some people can't leave a bad job because of losing their plan, and others are limited to public options because they don't work. This is the overwhelming problem with USA healthcare. There aren't actually many choices because of this complex and outdated connection between jobs and benefits.
This is nonsense on toast.

Ink is open source, and they run an instance of the editor etc so you can try it out and publish your own compositions (like Twine).

It's a games company trying to make better storytelling tech, they're not data mining anything.
> enough of the population disagrees with your assessment of the problem and proposed solutions that there is no consensus and that is why your problems are not being solved in the way that you want.

Yes, this is part of it, but it goes even deeper than that. For example, California government passed AB-5, and then later popular ballot passed prop 22, which essentially goes contrary to AB-5. Does that suggest that leadership is out of touch with the electorate? Maybe. The fact that numerous pages of exceptions had to be carved out in AB-5 in the first place (and it's still criticized even after that) also indicates that the legislation wasn't very well thought out to begin with.

If you think in terms of a software engineering organization, it would seem crazy to take bug reports and just blindly do whatever the tickets with largest number of CAPS LOCK words says. But governments often do exactly that: they take some top-of-mind idea and just go with it, without paying heed to any sort of expert research, leaving implementation details to be determined by others "lesser" offices of government, and without care for the repercussions of rolling out such policies. It's the equivalent of pushing the "release" button in your enterprise software, cross your fingers and hope for the best, without any observability infrastructure and without a rollback plan if everything breaks.

> People feel that the thresholds of consensus required in republican processes get in the way of their plans only when they fail to persuade others. Then they start looking for more authoritarian solutions

This is also true, and it's definitely a touchy subject. On one hand, global consensus seems "fairest", but is it really the fairest if the vast majority of people are not affected by a decision (or they are affected to different degrees depending on various factors)? What of their expertise in the subject matter? Many problems do have solutions that align with common sense, but many others require solutions that are counterintuitive, but that can only be proven to be more effective with hard research. It's a difficult line to thread, and I feel that the status quo favors popularity more than science when it comes to decision making.
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Is Julia different from Python in this regard? I use Python mostly by executing scripts, but it’s nice to have the REPL and IPython and Jupyter. With Julia I’m free to just run “julia script.jl”, aren’t I? There’s probably more to your complaint than I naively realize, though. Maybe Python has better IDE support?
Not just 'somebody', but like a dozen different somebodies with many different methodologies. Getting an 'alternate root' DNS system trusted in any appreciable percentage of popular operating systems and web browsers, in a default out-of-the-box configuration, is a very hard problem to solve.
The CDC doesn't accurately measure flu deaths. It's largely done by assessing death certificate data rather than positively identifying a flu infection. Deaths by pneumonia during the designated flu season months are counted in the tally of annual flu deaths. It is very likely that a portion of deaths attributed to COV19 over the winter were in fact from flu.
> This should not come as a surprise, and it was largely predictable from the outset.

That explains all these news stories telling me what to expect:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/experts-warn-twindemic-...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/09/19/covid-...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-we-can-avoid-...

etc:

https://www.google.com/search?q=twindemic&tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:9...
Microcontroller courses in college were some of my favorites in college as you got to build something that actually moved and effected the world beyond a screen.

I tried hard to get a job doing anything with them when I first graduated. Sadly I got few replies, and I was often told I needed an EE not a CS to work with them.
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Miyoko's is good. Available at Whole Foods and even some products at Target. Miyoko cheddar-style cheese slices have a nice tang to them. The coconut oil and tapioca starch kind of stuff (Daiya, etc.) is alright for pizza, but it's not great. It's expensive too. This kind of stuff should be cheaper to make than dairy cheese. Unfortunately cheese and cheeze are both high in calories, sodium, and fat.
in new zealand at least the disappearance of flu is genuine, as hospitals routinely checks and it just never showed up
I came up in a time where merit meant something. And this summary literally has no merit at all.
I actually told people at the outset of the covid lockdowns, “at least we won’t have a flu season this year.” Then later on I saw people online floating this as some kind of conspiracy and I thought, “wait, this wasn’t obvious to everyone?”
Came here to say the same. Winters are typically a string of constant runny noses and a stomach bug or two usually makes its way through the entire family each year.

Literally nothing.

While it is nice, I would definitely trade it for my kids to have normal social lives again.
Isn’t verifying a proof equivalent to determining whether a certain computer program halts?
You may be interested in Soylent as a food source. It's the closest thing I can find to hooking up to an IV for nutrients
> Are there any plans to have a non-browser Jupyter?

Sure. VSCode with python and Jupyter extensions
I never understood the difficulty with CORS. It's dirt simple: don't send requests across domain names. And if you do, make sure you return header(s) from the target resource to specifically allow the origin to request it.

All the difficulty seems to be people trying to do crazy, esoteric things there's no good reason to be doing in the first place.
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If you know that wasn't the intent, why make this complaint at all?
For an actual fork bomb, nothing ends up in the PID graveyard. No process ever dies. The fork bomb by itself is a problem, even without a PID graveyard. Process limits are required to stop a fork bomb.

For other situations, just keep the direct parents. Worst case, that doubles the PID usage.
My current side project is too small to consider seed capital. It's too niche.

It has replaced about a third of my income so the goal is to start another project soon.
> The United States is the about the only western country for which the right-wing views this as illogical and unrealistic

I never said this wasn't ideal, I'm saying it's unrealistic to snap your fingers and make it happen. I'm saying it sounds good to say this(which is why it's often boasted about by the left), but the process in which the left wants to go about it are completely unrealistic and lead to bigger unrelated long-term issues that they want to sweep under the rug. Kind of like what the boomers did with social security, so we are stuck paying the bill but will never share the benefits of. I'm sure it made for great left-wing politics back then!

> Climate change

I don't think it's a hoax, but I think it's being blown out of proportion to support other left wing agendas (in the form of using it as a vehicle to collect more tax money). I also don't think necessary components are being factored in such as exponential growth of new technologies, and a reduction of the world population in the future (no one's having kids anymore). I also think the left's proposed idea of a "climate tax" will not only not work, but it will lead to even more wealth disparity and overall human suffering. Lets do simple economics: charge a polluting business extra taxes...they pass the extra cost down the supply chain (eventually to consumers)...and they mark up their services by a fixed percentage and use their variable cost as the anchor...which means e.g. a 35% markup leads to more profits for big business, higher expense for consumers, and no actual incentive to cut production levels. Not to mention the inflation triggered by that.

FYI your response is essentially a cookie cutter leftist response, and you're pretty much proving my point. You complain about things using sensational, overly emotional, and somewhat condescending language...but then don't offer any logical solutions to any of the issues. You're essentially making noise that sounds good, but doesn't contain any meaningful or helpful substance.
OG cheese is obviously a processed product. I have never seen a cheese cow but perhaps that just me
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Totally agree.

I am too, willing to buy a $300 000 car w/ $100 000 in parts because it has a better user experience than a $30 000 car with $10 000 worth of parts.
> I really wish the Julia ecosystem would stop assuming that you always interact with your computer through the Julia REPL and started supporting proper command line interfaces.

What does it even mean? What is a CLI interface for a programming language if not a REPL ?
The data rate is very high for wifi, basically it reduces the frame rate and hence increases the delay in feedback.

Putting the processor at the end of the actuator or sensor arm puts large stresses and vibrations on the electronics, I'd avoid it.

Industrial and armoured USB cabling exist, including 360 degree couplers[1], but obviously it is specialised. Industrial Ethernet is better (e.g. GigE Vision) from an integration pov.

[1] https://www.rotarx.com/en/slip-rings/usb-slip-rings/