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The University of Maryland Health Center distributed a drug abuse information pamphlet that said some students voluntarily request testing, and that I could ask to be tested at the University health center, so I walked in and did that.

However, the "Urine Czar" Dan Calvin refused to test me because he falsely claimed there was a policy of not testing students who volunteered to be tested, because some of them just wanted to know if they were clean for other tests they were required to take.

After a long frustrating abusive argument in which he kept interrupting me to prevent me from reading a Scientific American article to him that contradicted his lies, he conceded he couldn't counter my arguments, but tried to discourage me from taking and passing the test then turning down the job by claiming that "whatever I did, it would only be a drop in the bucket, and wouldn't mean anything".

I told him that at least it would be a drop in the right bucket.

Then I went over his head, told the director of the Health Clinic about my interaction with him, and she personally walked me down and gave me my urine test immediately, for free.

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/hemp/urine-czar.html

>I told him that I have been told by many Xerox PARC employees that they would walk, if Xerox instituted random drug testing.

>He said he didn't think they would, that people just talk a lot and never acted on what they believe. He said that Xerox could just hire more people.

(Check out the photo of the Urine Czar's coffee mug on top of his urine storage locker! His official day-to-day duty was observing the penises of college athletes while they urinated into cups, to make sure they didn't cheat. Great work if you can get it, huh?)

When I took the official test at Roche Labs, the lab technician treated me like a criminal, which I described in detail here, but I don't have the inclination to summarize it in detail, because it was so humiliating and physically painful:

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/hemp/roche-labs.html

Again, I had to go over her head to force her to let me take the test, exactly like at the University health center. She even refused to let me use her phone to call her superior, so I had to walk out to the street and use a payphone, all this while really needing to pee extremely badly. Her superior called her back and forced her to administer the drug test against her will, during which she treated me with spite and contempt.

I passed both tests, then wrote and faxed a letter to the CEO of Xerox Paul Allaire, telling him my story and turning down the job.

When you're pissing in the right bucket against the will of people who want to force you to piss in a cup, it's best to piss as hard and as much as possible.
You're right in your doubts and I have the same, but let's not forget we're talking about Switzerland and nobody ends up not being able to feed themselves. Maybe social help will increase but on the other side a healthier diet eases the pressure on the health system (remember the 39% increased incidence of brain tumor in children from agrarian regions in canton Zurich?)
The author of the article makes some assumption about the distribution of alien animal sizes to come up with their estimate. But they use loose bounds, saying intelligent life can probably vary in size at least as much as the great apes (50kg - 160kg), but probably not to tens of millions of kilograms.

So it seems you need at least some guess of what the distribution might look like to quantify the likelihood of guessing correctly that you're in a high population country. But your guessed distribution doesn't have to be perfect. If you knew the exact distribution, you could compute the exact chance that a random individual is from a high pop country (just take the integral of the distribution). But if you don't know the exact distribution, you can abstract one level up, try to reason about the range of possible distributions there could be, and come up with a probability based on your more limited knowledge. At least, that's what I understood from the article.

For the actual calculations, the author links to them in the article, but I haven't looked at them myself.
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I interviewed at Doordash when they were just starting. I think I would have been like employee number twelve or something. To this day, I have not interviewed with a founder that repelled me more.
When Trudeau repeated the WEF jargon "build back better", he was just signaling that he's on board to support the plans of German Bond-villain Klaus Schwab. I think once you understand that, you stop being surprised if he seems to lacks principle in some other area.
I wonder how would AWS feel if OEM's of the data center devices decide to share AWS's very costly bandwidth to proxy their other clients data.
Imagine the outrage by Amazon.

Imagine Volvo or any truck manufacturers decide to ship their other client's packages, using Amazons fleet (next day delivery for every service)
Thats how this feels to me.
The nerve on Amazon to push this shit after people bought the devices already and to make it opt-out. What are the devs at there smoking.
If you're using Schemas for your XML then you need namespaces in case you've got two different elements from different schemas that have the same name.

(We use schemas for all of our XML, because that way we can generate strongly-typed objects from them.)
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I would think a web page would be the simplest. Spin up a node JS or whatever server on your home network and serve up whatever you want.
I was wondering about the enthusiastic upvoting from HN crowd only to read comments and most of them are like "I don't know about poker but.." haha :) Nice one though.
It is worth mentioning, that people are unaware that often the code they create after work, in their own spare time is actually owned by their employer.

I think this should be illegal and if employer claims ownership of your time outside of working hours, they should be required to pay accordingly, perhaps with out of office extra rates.

Unfortunately there is not much a poor employee can do against a multi billion company that avoids tax and has more money to spend on lawyers than some smaller countries could...
Cool, I didn't know that! Do you know how many times?

Edit: 200 (http://book.bionumbers.org/how-many-ribosomal-rna-gene-copie...) and its why nucleoli are a thing. This answers so many of my questions about the nucleoli and why so much RNA modification machinery is always found there...
Check out GalliumOS too, an Ubuntu distro optimized for Chromebooks. I use it on a 6 year old Asus and it's fine.
I believe a lot of people don't hear the fans because they're wearing headphones. For the rest of us that like a quiet room, the arm CPUs sound like a godsend.

I say "sound" because I don't feel like an early adopter much; don't have one yet.
Too much smarts in the wrong places imo..
To give another data point, in my company we're running Gitlab (we started 3,4 years ago maybe?) with some pretty heavy use of CI and we've had no issues, even with automatic upgrades enabled (we have tested backups, we're not crazy).
GitHub also arguably just has a good product that's a good fit for a lot of use-cases, regardless of if there's better options.

Yeah, you might be able to self-host gitlab/gitea/etc but their free offering for organizations is so good that for my 30 commits/week open source project, I can deal with half an hour of downtime once in a while.

Combined with free hosting, it's really not that much of a stretch that people are willing to put up with this, especially as there have been periods of time with less outages before, though that's been a while now.
> Consider self-hosted alternatives like I have said before.

This assumes that your self-hosted Git service will have better uptime than Github.
> I use emacs not because I'm a neckbeard, but because I can script it to do whatever the hell I like.

This. With some elisp knowledge, you can bend Emacs your way. No need to write full-blown packages. A function here and there can get ya very far. I wrote about this yesterday[1]

[1] https://xenodium.com/emacs-dwim-do-what-i-mean
I do a single pour without bloom and then stir. For me this results in a tastier cup much similar to what I get with the Aeropress.

Works with max 20g of coffee (at the usual 1:15 ratio) otherwise the brew will take too long.
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>but it just seemed like a very Ameri-centric view from someone who hasn’t spent much/any time outside the US.

I live in Denmark, which has one of the highest rates of alcohol consumption among young people in the EU and almost the same overall as the UK but without the pub culture you guys have. Most of our social consumption is the unhealthy heavy drinking party kind. But this is raw amount consumed and you yourself said you like the drinking culture (I wish we had it here). I'm talking about people drinking to cope. Going to a pub 3 days a week and drinking alone at home after work to cope with stress etc. is very different.
You can get stack trace on segfault in C.
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Alright, but still. The ability for some party to block or stop a transfer would make cryptocurrencies not be cryptocurrencies anymore, the topmost reason cryptocurrencies exists in the first place and the reason they are built the way they are built is precisely to have the feature of "unstoppable transfers". Changing that and you might as well use banks as we already have "electronic cash". Using that as a argument against cryptocurrencies is a bit like using "but the water irrigation system is using water" as a argument against irrigation systems, it's the main point of using it in the first place.

We can't add selective control to allow just government agencies to stop cryptocurrency transfers, it'll eventually be used by others, one way or another. The only way of stopping anyone from being able to straight up manipulate the chain is to disallow anyone to manipulate the chain.
The are currently rumours going around that Valve is developing a switch like portable pc which will be able to play a selection of the steam library

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/05/exclusive-valve-is-ma...

seeing as it's almost E3, the time where most big video game related announcements happen, there is a good chance it will be revealed this month.
hmm right, near-passive sensors can be made to work long but actuators its another game
Interesting, it almost doesn't scale from 8 to 16. I mean yeah, it's 30% faster but user+sys is actually 40% higher.
>If you're using Schemas for your XML then you need namespaces in case you've got two different elements from different schemas that have the same name.

Isn't that where the problems start, I'm willing to bet 99% of XML documents don't have more than one schema. We have ended up with a ton of complexity to support a minority of use cases. It's no wonder people embraced JSON.
For now that may be true, does not mean it will stay that way forever.

Although I agree that in order to significantly reduce CO2 emissions in the short term, nuclear power seems like the best option right now.
Don't know the answers, but another angle to investigate: in B, does it make sense to have a holding company that just owns the two actual companies? Seen that a few times, but I think mostly to make shared ownership easier. Might also help if you ever want to have employees that work on both sides?
My high school physics dept were still using a then 20 year old BBC Micro to run experiments which only worked with a specific piece of ultrasonic experiment gear.

I wonder if it still gets wheeled out on that cart to this day...
In the Netherlands the standard beer bottle is 330ml.

When going to a bar there are several types of glasses available for a beer from the tap ranging from 200ml to 570ml (English pint size). When you order a beer, by default you get a 250ml glass.
> The fallacy lies in assuming anything connected w/ authority.

If we didn't take shortcuts in generalizations no generation would get further than the previous. Of course you can generally assume an authority on a subject is correct. That doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't question them, just that most of the time you'd simply be wrong.
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I'm always surprised when people show what modern CSS and HTML5 is capable of doing.

What is it that not currently possible with CSS, which requires JavaScript or generated HTML? I understand there's things CSS can not do, because that not it's purpose. I'm not saying that you're wrong, just genuinely curious.
> We have discovered the source of the errors and have just rolled out a potential fix. We are now monitoring recovery and will update soon.

Looks like some code issue from their side.
I'm not actually sure anymore after looking at more content. Based on the video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gce4l5orts&t=1225s . It appears that they are even using the splat engine anymore (which I thought they where), and are using the older 'brick' based engine.
I think type classes is how one would want to fix this. Haskell and PureScript have 'm. But them come with a lot, A LOT, of work. Especially to get the std lib to use them!

With comparability you can use the operators (<,>,<=,>=,==,/=,etc.) on various types. This is not how Elm usually works. I.e. the `map` function is different for `List.map`, `Dict.map`, `Maybe.map`, etc.

In Haskell and PS you have type classes. Some types can be mapped, some can be compared, etc. Then the type class defines what functions should be implemented for such type in order to be part of the type class.

You think it's a small change, but it is pretty much what sets Elm and PS apart. Errors can also get a lot more complex with code that leans heavily on type classes.
Thanks for the links. I was not aware that it could be run on a single node. Still, the benefits are unclear to me. I guess I will research it some more.
Your cache-key idea infiltrates the overall idea with third-party access. As a site owner who wants to place Ads I just use your script notation to include the ad and then leak data again...
All the time. It’s not even that reliable when it’s up. Total embarrassment for us when we have to explain to management.

If I started again I’d probably use something standalone, light weight and 100% self hosted ie GoCD. I’d change the operating model to keep GitHub as a collaboration place but not have any dependencies on it for pipeline. We have other issues as well like the GitHub flow mod being inadequate for maintaining stability on high traffic repos too. I’d pull from master into a production branch and run that off line entirely.
They won't be legally allowed to comingle. I could be wrong but I read that legal weed needs to tagged and closely tracked from seed to point of sale. I'm sure there are many cases where companies are skirting the rules but I doubt a company as big as Amazon would risk it. They would probably setup siloed distribution infra for weed.
Try to apply a set of constraints to a problem to reduce the possible set of results is a good thing, provided the constraints are extensive. Two things are universal in the, erm, universe, physics, and by extension chemistry and I don't see any consideration of those.

There's many reasons why the Earth is in the Goldilocks zone. It's just the right temperature for liquid water, we have oxygen in the atmosphere, and the planet doesn't weigh too much.

Without oxygen, creating mechanical work from fuel by burning, is 'tricky' (though maybe not impossible), no mechanical work, no industrial revolution, no technology. There's an argument that cooking food (fire) leads to better diet, more calories, and the evolution of the brain.

Whilst there are types of alternative biochemistry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemi...) carbon is by far the most likely.

And lastly, if the earth were slightly more massive, the mass of (chemical) fuel required to propel a rocket becomes too much.

I'm doubtful that we'd see biological 'big aliens', or even 'small aliens', that significantly differ from our size, if they exist.
so... it's a screeps copy?
> If using HDMI to my LG 4K display at 60 Hz, the display just blanks out entirely for 2-4 seconds every 5 minutes or so. No clue why.

I have the same problem with a 2018 (or 19? whichever's the latest) x86 Mac Mini connected over HDMI. Somehow I think Apple hasn't tested the Minis a lot with multiple monitors... or maybe with HDCP? Could be some HDCP renegotiation that you can't disable.
I've missed a couple of things here. Correct me if I'm wrong. Am self-employed for years now. Initially was a sole trader and later registered a company where I pay myself wages. A couple of points:

* If you're gonna be self-employed for longer than a couple of years it is advisable to have an accountant. It will attract annual costs, but you'll be more confident, have a better sleep, will be in a better position if you ever need to hire someone;

* You need to read and understand more about the business side of things; it attracts time. What to do with pensions, what taxes should you pay, what costs will reduce taxes, will this agreement hold in court if you get screwed, which business software will help you in the long run, etc.

* The problem space (engineering) will not be as complicated as it can be in a big corp. You will not progress in some aspects unless time and money are invested into specific courses. If you're an employee, then courses, conferences, R&D work might be included in your "remuneration".

* Increasing risk of becoming unemployable in the future, having trouble going through the hiring process.

* There is an increasing chance that you'll end up hiring people and become an employer $$ :)

* Depending on your job, you might actually reduce the number of connections (other employees) that you might create a larger business with. On the other hand, being self-employed increases the number of connections related to the business side of things (accountants, advisers, paying customers).

If you never tried being self-employed, I encourage you to do so. It is pretty hard to logically reason if you can do it and become happier.
Given the power of XAML styles and templates I respectfully disagree.
Whole house music for me.

Assisted living for many.

For both of these it's the ease and affordability that it brings.
I'm out of the loop on this one - does Odersky regret it because JSON has largely supplanted XML, or does he regret it because it's not the sort of problem that is best solved with a language feature?
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At the company in which i am the head of IT, we are - right at this moment when i type this - running a production batch of stuff we produce on a filling machine controlled via an C64 board. And it "just works", and as long as you can buy a working C64 for under 100 Euros i would see absolutely no need to change anything.

And frankly: I like it ;-)
Adding a :on-click pseudo selector would remove so many needless use of js for dynamically changing classes.
You're right, I've done a bit more research into this. The company in question (Ubitricity) are uprating lampposts to 25A single phase at 240V, so 6 kW per post. Even though sodium (and earlier flourescent) lighting never used anything like that much current, I can't find a source to confirm whether or not the lampposts were originally rated at 25A or lower.

On your calculations of how many cars can charge at once, I would keep it simpler and say that a row of parallel parking typical in UK cities, there is one street lamp for every 5 cars. 50 kWh charge overnight, approx 300 km range for every fifth car.

Supposing 100% EV adoption - well, already not everyone drives themselves to work/kids to school in UK cities (where most on-street parking takes place) - but if they do, and have charging at work plus some nearby rapid charging, that should do the trick, assuming a typical commute by road isn't more than 50 km each way. It's certainly in the ballpark.
> This assumes that your self-hosted Git service will have better uptime than Github.

Piece of cake. But it will also have better performance.
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You mentioned tobacco, which is recently saw laws made against it in Sweden.

I then also take the approach in what laws should then be remove in order not to unfairly "discriminate against certain behavior" (which is sadly so common nowadays).
I've been cleaning my house, and binging old anime like dragon ball and sailor moon. Aside from that, dabbling in tabletop game design. Usually card focused role-playing.
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Confirmed, on a ubuntu host GitLab is actually the product that I have the best self hosted experience with. Apt packages running their Chef Cookbooks always impressive!
For certain layouts and CSS features to work you need to add structure for it AKA additional tags, typically divs and spans because they have no meaning in terms of your document.

So your document becomes a mix of semantic structure and then wrappers, containers, pushers, purely visual areas and so on. Also you're going to have things that are specifically redundant for your use-case, but you still add them for consistency and re-usability.

CSS would have to be quite a bit more powerful to achieve a clean separation of document structure and layout. It would need things like purely visual grouping mechanisms, reactive or backtracking selectors and HTML itself would probably need to be either a relational or graph structure instead of a tree to actually convey the semantics correctly and consistently.
I also want this.
> We are almost certainly not in the most likely possible world.

But we are probably in 9/10 of those likeliest assumptions, even if we don't know which 9.
Neither of the things you've listed sounds like diversity, it sounds like inequality. Why is half the country without proper education while the other ones are in the best research institutions in the world? And what does the people are those institutions spend their time on, if it's not helping the other half reaching the same position as themselves?

The social experiment seems to be about how extreme you can really make inequality before people starts to riot. Wages are so low in some places that people simply walk out of their work because they can't survive on it, while it's so high in other places that you barely have to do anything and still pull in enough to put you in the 1% of the world population when it comes to income.
Could you comment on this general SNN critique? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27366059
We did manage to run power stations and military installations before the internet came along. I'm sure there would be inconveniences but it seems a small price to pay to keep critical infrastructure running.
I agree with you but it cuts both ways. GOP and Dems do whatever they think they need to do to stay in power. Hilary Clinton changed her position on LGBT rights when the winds started to blow in a different direction too.