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> given that the immunity you get from having the disease is always better than what you'd get from a vaccine

That sort of claim really requires evidence. "Obvious" statements aren't science.
OP didn't specify the sofa was new but this is a great point that I think about a lot. People talk about rescue dogs and make a big deal out of it but then refuse to buy anything secondhand. My "new" car has 190k miles on it and I love it.
Many expats do come back to their home country, and pretty much all expats have at least some meaningful links and interactions with it.
It's pretty brilliant actually. Case 1 electric space heaters blindly pass electricity through dumb wires. Case 2 instead of dumb wires you use ASICs. Case 2 is a win win that helps secure a decentralized monetary asset, get paid for it, and heat your home which you would have done anyway, all with the exact same carbon footprint (assuming you're expending equivalent amount of electricity to just heat your home as originally planned). You've basically turned PoW into proof of heating where the miner gets paid and gets the benefit of heating his home on top. And incremental environmental impact is exactly 0.

edit: quick google -> and here it is :)

https://bitcoinminingheater.com
> a different word here to be less sensational

The people raving about the UFOs being aliens don't want to miss out on the clicks though! As well as them trying to push the narrative that the government is hiding things (like aliens!) from you, and you can't trust it. "Next up, after these ads about gold and these diet supplements, the truth about the so called Coronavirus 'pandemic'!"
Whenever this gets raised I wonder why the person raising it is implicit assuming they will be only one of their social circle with the longevity.
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There are places where it makes sense. I don't love Kubernetes' YAML, but it makes sense as a serialization format. I think LISP would be out of place here firstly because your serialization format really shouldn't be executable, and secondly because it offers few advantages. You can implement any DSL you want and just have it output YAML.

Ansible really should have ditched the YAML format a long time ago. The YAML is practically designed to be executable; I'm almost surprised that you can't add a shebang line pointing to Ansible at the top of your YAML. I'm actually a little surprised they've never offered an option to write parts of your Ansible setup in Python.

I would love to make some of my roles and my playbook into Python code. I am forever googling the syntax to set up a loop in Ansible YAML, as well as how to make dependencies between roles, which is pretty cleanly solved with Python modules (just import and execute the role at the top of your new role).
It's a Truetone D2819, made by Western Auto Supply Company. Here's a page with some photos (not of my radio, but of one just like it):

https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/western_au_d2819_truetone_ch_2...

The whole history of Western Auto is kind of an interesting story. They started in 1909, diversified into things other than auto parts (like radios), and then through a series of acquisitions over the years, ended up finally being bought by Advance Auto Parts in the 90s, who now owns the IP AFAIK:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Auto
That is not exactly why people are using terms like "china virus" and "kung flu".
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Some source on this?
I suspect people have a question in their minds for months ("Will the upcoming vaccines prevent a vaccinated person from carrying and spreading the virus?"), and whatever is the first credible reply to that question, they cement it in their understanding ("you may still spread covid if you're vaccinated").

Now we have far more real world data and it appears that even if a vaccinated person is carrying an asymptomatic infection that they shed very little virus. This is not a certainty, but things are leaning that way.

But people can't replace the old "fact" they knew with the new "fact".
As well they should. I sometimes hate the password managers too as a web developer. I am also a 1Password user, and I hate sites that block clipboard, block pasting, block right click, basically block any kind of way I have to type even my username, not to mention annoying full size on screen keyboards that can only be used with the mouse.

I don't care about the reason they have to be so intrusive in UX, probably some malware fight and/or prevention. The fact is that if I am going to use 1Password or other password managers per site, with 25 characters long passwords with symbols and numbers, I want to be able to somehow fill that in without typing each letter. Some sites don't care about this use cases as they are trying to cover the asses of non-tech-savvy users. They must protect the password123 crowd, right? So password managers need to fight back, unfortunately.
Do you believe all programming work is equally difficult? I don't.

I graduated alongside some people who work on SeL4. They wrote an operating system kernel in Haskell, then used proof systems to formally prove its correctness. Then rewrote the whole thing in C and mathematically proved their C code is equivalent to the haskell code they wrote. The result is an entirely fully formally verified operating system kernel. This has never been done before, and its a massive achievement. Its a first for humanity.

I'm not sure I'm smart enough to work there. I certainly don't know enough math. I think most programmers I've worked with throughout my career aren't good enough at programming and math to work there either.

I think formally proving the correctness of an OS kernel is more difficult than implementing a B-tree. And implementing a b-tree is more difficult than styling a button in CSS. Knowing how to style a button is a more useful skill. Its important. Its valuable. But I stand by my comment. There are more people who know how to style a button in CSS, and they're given less respect, they're more replaceable and usually less well paid.

And for good reason. My friends on the SeL4 team could probably do my job if they wanted to. I don't know if I could do theirs.

The fact that most of us in this thread aren't good enough hackers to work on sel4 is something we have to live with. It doesn't make us worse people, or less deserving of love. And it doesn't mean our work isn't valuable. It is.

But if all you know how to do is style a button, you are valued less in the jobs market. Some people are actually better at programming than other people. And some jobs in our field are genuinely harder than other jobs. Hard interview questions are asked when they only want someone who's excellent to fill the role. Its absolutely not fair, but thats life.
Most enterprise security vendors at the moment are advising their customers to block QUIC at the perimeter to force fallback to HTTPS so their TLS decryption can function.

There are valid, ethical reasons for an organization to want to see unencrypted network traffic at their perimeter, and until that problem is solved, you better not go QUIC-only if you are in the business to make money.
>> Perhaps companies and individual with an interest in a permissively licensed Ada ecosystem should step up and create it? Build it on top of LLVM and call it, say, alang.

If it is an Ada implementation, why wouldn't they call it Ada rather than alang?

If the language implements the Ada standard (http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/rm12_w_tc1/html/RM-TOC.htm...), it is Ada, regardless of how the particular implementation is licensed.
Sounds like boosters are needed regardless. High risk people get boosters, problem solved.
Are you implying that Rust is only / mostly used as a replacement for unsafe C/C++, and Rust programs should always be evaluated in the context of this choice?
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Dogs are much closer to humans as a model organism.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4068608/

"The most notable benefit of using the dog for genetic studies is that dogs get many of the same diseases as humans, with a similar frequency, and the same genetic factors are often involved."
Yeah, there were certainly predecessors. But note the "named Nautilus" part.
Hadn't heard of this, and initial results had no clear link to electricity:

https://wonders.physics.wisc.edu/jacobs-ladder/
No. I don't know you.
Because all other scenarios are uninteresting to the deceased?
"dataskiing" Awesome. Sounds like a cyberpunk job description.
Reddit has a number of engineering subreddits, some of which allow or encourage asking questions.
This is one of the few comments in this entire thread that I think is interesting and born out of a lot of experience and not cargo culting.

In C++ you can make a macro function that takes any number of arguments but does nothing. I end up using that to label a scope because that scope block will then collapse in the IDE. I usually declare any variables that are going to be 'output' by that scope block just above it.

This creates the ability to break down isolated parts of a long function that don't need to be repeated. Variables being used also don't need to be declared as function inputs which also simplifies things significantly compared to a function.

This doesn't address making the compiler enforce much, though it does show that anything declared in the scope doesn't pollute the large function it is in.
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“Senator Harry Reid” otherwise known as someone with a big financial interest in pushing UFO conspiracies
Not really fact based affirming you “always recover”. Besides, I know people who got COVID twice or more.
Ok? I don't think it's my job to provide internet randos with infinite links until they're satisfied. If you want more information, feel free to Google. But along the way try to notice whether you proof standard is this high for everything you read, or just when somebody points out racism in action.
A quick glance shows that gliders can manage a glide ratio of 15:1 meaning that a set of glide drones dropped at 60k feet could at least hypothetically reach 170 miles. ( The practical calculation for this is much much more complex ).

There is no reason the drones couldn't wait to start their engines until they are at the ~40 mile line after being dropped at the edge of the CAP patrol.

EDIT: it looks like a good glide ratio is 60:1 meaning that the above scenario could play out outside the effective radar range of the carrier group, and hundreds of miles away from the CAP patrol.
That article completely ignores the eyewitness testimony from the navy pilots of the Tic Tac incident where they visually identify that the Tic Tac:

1) can hover a few meters above the ocean without generating rotor downwash

2) can accelerate away at 100+g

Both of those rule out any known drone or helicopter. David Fravor, one of the pilots, explains this in an interview here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB8zcAttP1E
To illustrate a real-world example of a "pro" use-case: these devices are absolute monsters at processing video. How much memory do you need to edit 4k video? The answer is likely "how much have you got?"
Where is the drone ship? Does a submarine emerge and launch these things in the middle of the ocean?

Edit:

Listen, the US Defense department knows what these are. They are just soft letting China and Russia know that this was cute.
I didn't mean to imply that I've been living out of a suitcase for 30 years. I move frequently (every 1-2 years on average; longest stint in one town for the past 30 years was three years); rent furnished houses more often than not; regularly take a year or more off between jobs; travel for months at a time every few years. I don't have or want a stable job (longest job was a little over three years).

I've never had a mortgage; I generally have zero debt (not even car payments); no dependents; usually no pets (I miss having pets, though). I don't own much of anything that I'm not willing to get rid of. I like the idea of having a home base and some permanent material items, but so far I don't like it as much as I like being flexible.

Working in tech offers the option of remotely working from anywhere. I've worked from home (or wherever) at a number of places, going back to the early 90s. I've still spent more time in normal office jobs than remote. Now that covid has permanently altered the landscape, I expect to do it a lot more.

There are unhealthy psychological aspects to all this. I avoid commitment, I feel trapped by obligations and responsibilities, I'm always thinking about what's next instead of being content with what I have. It's not for everyone.
I don't have anything specific in mind that covers this (I'll look around), but maybe take a look at the work by Nicholas Strausfeld for some actual data on early nervous systems [0], and Leigh van Valen for the general theoretical framework [1].

0. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Nicholas+Strausfeld

1. https://www.mn.uio.no/cees/english/services/van-valen/evolut...
XNA has the worst TSA though historically. I’ve flown out of there over a dozen times and only during Covid times did they not practically want to do a body cavity search. It’s a combination of carrying too much electronics when I fly, with machines which give flakey readings with the swabs, to what seems like trainees who are strict by the letter when it comes to protocol, even when it’s inappropriate to do so. It’s a nice airport otherwise, especially where it’s located, but there’s only so many times you can endure that and not start to hate it.
Back in the day (1998), that was called Shoutcast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHOUTcast
Also if everyone I really love dies at 90 and I live to 150 I'm pretty sure I say to myself it's sad they are gone but I'm sure there is something to do with those extra 60 years than mope about!
I prefer the innocent until proven guilty model.
Can't we just assess the information based on it's own merits?
> I think what she meant is the very nature of BTC or crypto that even if Govt bans, its just unstoppable. You can still hold it in your wallet and do transactions.

If it's illegal then no legitimate financial institution or business will touch it, which will make it an underground niche for criminals only, and will allow police to arrest people just on that basis (a bit like bringing criminals down on tax evasion when proving their other crimes is tricky)

Then in places like China if they decide to really kill it then they absolutely can do it very quickly (don't confuse official bans and actual will to ban in a country like China, the former is lip service, the latter is brutal).

Sounds very stoppable to me if governments decide to.
I have seen much more relevant stuff get flagged on HN.
Ha ha ha, even funnier after I read the article. I hate that kind of marketing.
Probably related to the way most people believe they are an "above average" driver. :)
So I've had a 3D printer for about a year and I haven't gotten into it like I thought I would. Printed a handful of things (a N64 logo, a pikachu-naruto, a few other figures, a couple gifts) but that's about it.

Do you have any recommendations for resources that might get me into it more? I'm not aware of too much outside of just searching for things on Thingiverse.
> “Wuhan lab leak” is a far more realistic

It absolutely is _now_ but try saying that between Mar 2020 and Mar 2021 you got downvoted into oblivion.
In India there is a saying - "Brain drain is better than brain in drain".
I last developed on Z80 in like 1980, then later that decade the Zilog Z8002 on the F16. Amazing anyone cares about these any more.
This reminds me of Ready Player One story mentioning Joust
https://readyplayerone.fandom.com/wiki/Joust
> If you're saying Firefox should just pretend to be Chrome by default

Yes. I think user agents should not even be identifiable to begin with. Browsers should always pretend to be the most common browser at all times. This improves privacy and also prevents websites from discriminating against users.

Ideally there should be absolutely no way to detect which browser the user is running.

> well what more sign is needed to indicate irrelevance than being able to be shunned without consequence and having to pretend to be another

Being shunned is a good thing. Firefox is user-centric and therefore actively hostile to abusive websites. It stops just short of directly threatening their business models, a stance I think they should grow out of.

The fact they want to block it is evidence that it's working. It's not a sign of irrelevance, it's a sign the industry is taking us very seriously and actively working to undo our progress. We must develop and deploy every possible countermeasure to prevent them from doing so.
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Not a good take. These individuals have the choice of where to go. What should we say? You can’t come?

Also - don’t forget that many immigrants (both high and low skilled) send money home. This can improve outcomes over time in their home countries.

Finally... ignoring a language barrier, what’s stopping you from moving to one of these countries? If you have valuable skills and they are suffering brain drain, you can potentially help.

If you don’t want to or if that sounds ridiculous, now you understand the position of a high skilled resident of one of those countries
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I'd assume building a drone capable of carrying enough ordnance to sink a ship over that much distance would be higher than the equivalent cost for a cruise missile?
The cost of living went up because households with two incomes outbid households with one income for scarce goods like housing.

I'm not sure how it could have played out differently. Women have always, always worked to support themselves and their families. But the invention of household labor saving devices freed up enormous amounts of time that would have been spent primarily in the household. Of course those women would look for additional opportunities to support their families. It's the same story as men moving from farm labor to factory labor as farm labor became increasingly mechanized.
If you are in the top 5% of earners, you have the ability to save enough money so you can switch to whatever level of employment you want. Someone with a more "mainstream" income barely or never saves enough money to have the kind of security to just try out other employers or fields or regions.

I am willing to bet a top 5% earner would be able to land a top quintile job just by asking people in their network.
Turkey's drones are already autonomous and function in the absence of radio communication by optical sensors.

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

https://www.thedefensepost.com/2021/05/05/turkey-converts-si...
A lot of the limitations of early TV are down to achieving reliable transmission and mass production. As such, when you had point to point fixed cabled circuits, and only a handful of endpoints you could do pretty ok very early.
The vaccines are effective against the spike protein, which is what makes SARS-CoV-2 so virulent. In reality, there are many ways skin that cat, and there's no guarantee that the body chose the spike protein. From the article:

> most of these participants still had memory B cells that recognize SARS-CoV-2

No matter how you slice it, you are playing 'Rona Roulette if you don't get vaccinated.

The CDC also recommends getting vaccinated despite any prior infection, and there has been anecdotes of post-acute COVID-19 syndrome being alleviated with a vaccination.

The root comment is special pleading.
Radar and Lidar would make the car safer than if a human was driving?
Parsing is a solved problem. The same way solo-climbing the Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen is a solved problem.
A boxplot conveys more information about the distribution, but makes it harder to tell a concise story about comparing trends between multiple groups over time. Both are appropriate here.
Like I said, emotional arguments.
I think that at this point, whenever someone tells us that we, or something we value, is important to them, we can safely consider it an insult, they are just giving the middle finger to us.

Our European visitors are important to us.

This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance with applicable EU laws.
I think the biggest step will come once we start transplanting organs from clones of ourselves. Apart from traumatic or infectious diseases, being able to replace most vital organs would extend our lives to the last remaining non-transplant-able organ.
Please don't add fire to the FUD. The lab research is neither unknown nor secret. Not only are there published research papers from their work but the WHO have also been there and seen the work and research they do. It might or might not be the source -I won't comment on that- but unknown it is not.
With standard electric motor quads, the range is very definitely an issue.

But you could create a long-range gas powered plane, with Ardupilot and a GPS receiver, and get pretty long range with that. Here is one that crossed the Atlantic on less than 3 quarts of gas.

https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/model-plane-f...

You could easily design a slightly larger model, stick a Nvidia Jetson nano on the front with a camera, and have a go at it. With economies of scale, you could do the whole thing for less than $1000 USD per unit. Cheap.

Individually, the planes are dumb, stupid and slow. But launch enough of them, and some might get through.
I would want something a bit more than studies by the vaccine maker about how good their vaccine is -- for example having those studies reproduced by a third party and comparing natural immunity to the vaccine -- before concluding that a vaccine can be better than natural immunity. It is almost always the case that natural immunity is superior to vaccines.
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Those are not podcasts though. The original comment was wanting a radio like stream of varying podcasts on topics having nothing to do with EDM.
The us navy pilots were using imaging sensors to track those UFOs, so it’s possible that what they saw on their displays wasn’t UFOs.
link to other thread? can't find similar news story
You must have read a different article than I did. It just talked about the production of antibodies. They help fight off infection but don't necessarily make you immune. The article also specifically mentions vulnerability to variants.
There's a healthy power market - so the providers can and should work out a way for their clients to exit their contract and for them to sell the electricity elsewhere.

Sure the client might be liable for some loss-of-earnings fees but this really should be better for everyone than this.
Is having? Where? I see nothing that leads to me believe the evidence-free hype around longevity. I think it's early to say it's happening now. Eventually? Sure...maybe.
That's an indoor speed record for a quadcopter. If you're designing a drone system for maritime operation it would make far more sense to be fixed wing (maybe with some sort of VTOL or STOL capability) - the efficiencies are just so much higher.

Once you go to fixed wing, 138 knots is pretty simple. Just look at the list of unmanned aerial vehicles - it's big and dominated by fixed wing aircraft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unmanned_aerial_vehicl...