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One reason some folks gravitate to mild-altering substances is "transcendent understanding"; drugs put the mind in enough of a different mode of operation that very frequently, it can enable you to understand things you can't understand, sober. And I don't just mean "fuzzy unprovable emotional things", I also mean concrete, empirical stuff like science, math, and programming. Some of this comes from "disinhibition"; some drugs like alcohol can remove various "writer's block" types of things where the mind (under normal, sober conditions) obstinately refuses to consider what, in retrospect, end up being painfully obvious solutions to a problem.

Some of it, though, genuinely comes from causing the mind to operate in a rather different mode and make connections and "leaps of understanding" that it just can't do under normal circumstances. It essentially forces a sort of "educational learning-difference" on you, and if you manage to muscle through and learn how to solve a problem in that state (and get the empirically correct answer), you've essentially allowed your mind to come up with a totally different approach to a problem it would never normally take.

Having previously been one of those programmers chasing the "Ballmer Peak", it definitely was more than just an XKCD joke; the joke worked because it was documenting a real phenomenon that's been known for ages. Several recreational drugs, like alcohol, marijuana, can also be used as "performance-enhancing" drugs in the same way things like Adderall can; it's down to careful dosing and discipline - you have to carefully stay in the "eye of the storm" and not get too inebriated, and you also need to exercise a careful awareness of how the drug's effects can "lead you astray" (i.e. something like Adderall can give you a rush of manic hyperfocus, but it's easy to waste this on irrelevant details, instead of focusing on something productive. There have been plenty of comedic stories of people taking Adderall and … instead of doing their homework, doing something daffy like carefully organizing all the books on their shelves … by color.) So you have to be aware of the drug's "biasing" effects and carefully wrangle your behavior during it.

All that said, I definitely recommend against long-term use of alcohol in particular, just due to the chronic toxicity of it. For a while it's great, but over time, it really starts to wear you down, and do more harm than good. Eventually you're so damn tired all the time, that any productivity gains from mental breakthroughs are wiped out. If it was used on rare occasions for breakthroughs/inspiration, it might be viable, but using it as an anti-adhd/procrastination drug (for which, anecdotally, it was very effective) just isn't sustainable, long-term.
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Excited for this release since it contains M1 Apple VT H264 Hardware Encoding support[1] — I know on my Intel Mac, OBS would massacre the CPU if I didn't have the hardware encoding enabled. On the M1 it's not quite so bad, but being able to use hardware encoding does save a lot of CPU cycles when streaming at higher bitrates!

[1] https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/4170
I think most of the evidence contradicts this. My suspicion is that if we continue to progress at the same rate or accelerate, in 1000 years we (assuming we are still recognizably human) will look back at our understanding of reality right now as nearly completely wrong.

Most of the evidence?

We haven't found any new physics phenomenon from which we can derive new technology. There's no known or theoretical ways for us to traverse to different realities let alone prove or disprove such existence, for example.

This makes a lot of assumptions, including that intelligent species don't accelerate quickly into something unrecognizable as they evolve to more advancement, or that our model of spacetime is basically right and there isn't much more to expand into besides our sparse region of reality.

Just because we can imagine something doesn't make it possible.
They dropped that pretty fast. Nobody is going to pay for WhatsApp when other apps offer the same for free.

WhatsApp can actually be monetised successfully by a company like Facebook.
No, in fact many nations make it illegal to park money in their shores, and if they don't want to make it illegal (because they are afraid of angering the IMF or other international organization), they tax it, penalize it, and go to great lengths to discourage it.

That's the most common situation in export-led economies, for example, which are trying to reduce demand for their currencies in order to run trade surpluses. The IMF and other organizations whose charter is to enable global capital flows have had to exert great pressure on these countries to allow foreigners to park money there. This is often called "opening up your economy" and is viewed as a shibboleth for the global capitalism movement. It's still an ongoing battle.

The reason for this is we do not live in a world of specie flow where a nation that wants to build a bridge needs a few tons of gold to pay for it, and then they have to lure foreigners to ship their gold over to the country so the bridge can be built. In such a specie flow world, nations are at the mercy of foreigners to give them gold so they can use it.

But in the modern world of sovereign fiat currencies, nations make their own fiat currency and it is impossible for a foreigner to provide money to a government even if they wanted to. Instead the foreigner has to go to the forex market and switch their dollars for Won/Yen and then they have an account in Korea or Japan. They are effectively buying Yen for dollars with a local who wants to buy dollars and sell Yen. By bidding up the exchange rate, this can make yen a bit higher valued vis-a-vis the global basket. That makes exports more expensive and import cheaper.

Sometimes that is welcome, but in exporting nations it is very much unwelcome and so those nations discourage capital inflows. There is a funny story when it was illegal for foreigners to hold any assets in South Korea with the exception of golf courses. For some reason, they allowed foreigners to own those. So a hedge fund bought a golf course in Korea and then used that ownership structure to go on a spending spree of purchasing bonds, land, equities, basically anything Korean they could get their hands on. It was the most well capitalized golf course in the history of the world. Other hedge funds followed and Korean golf courses became an asset class in and of themselves. That was a while ago, so I'm not sure what the status is of Korean investment.

Those are the great lengths that foreign investors had to go to in order to park their money in foreign nations that had an economic policy of export led growth. This was also what the IMF went to war to prevent, with a combination of threats, bribes, and international pressure to try to force nations to allow capital inflows in a more or less unrestricted manner. It is rewriting history to say that every nation wanted this. Many do not want it. Malaysia is the most famous example of recently telling the IMF to go screw themselves.

Of course if you are the Bahamas or some other place that has nothing to export and requires imports, then it is welcome. But it's certainly not true that every nation wants their currency to be bid up.
There is validity in what you say, trim the dead wood, keep the good wood and build well.
Because fixing the infrastructure couldn’t possibly work, we need renditions and live fire operations. Totally.
Yeah I mean this is the thing. The ad market is dominated by the players who have a bunch of info about users/visitors and do user-specific targeting with that data. My understanding is that the payment rates for "targeted" ads in the sense of "place them on this site/article because it's a relevant topic" have plummeted.

Further, the extreme trackability of actual ad engagement I think has devalued the sense of value in just "your ad in front of eyeballs": I don't know that an ad you don't click on but that causes you to buy through other channels later really gets valued (though with the amount of tracking that happens maybe people are actually capturing this too).

The other thing that doesn't necessarily get tracked would be "your ad is so annoying/invasive/battery-draining/spookily-targeted that it actually turns people off from buying": they're just non-converted impressions same as any other. (There's also clearly a large component of "very few people really get turned off by ads, if they noticed you even out of annoyance that's good on balance" which might be true, I don't know.)

We'd have seen a shift in ad dollars regardless just owing to how much time people spend online and on mobile devices especially, but how much of the shift is driven just by the availability of the metrics? Again, the metrics are one of these things that's good for both theoretically-opposing "sides" of the ad market: the ad networks can obviously pitch them to marketing, and marketing can in turn use them to justify the ad budget.
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"Don't ever be wrong" is one way to do it; on the other hand, sometimes we make mistakes anyway, especially in ad hoc queries, and not getting any results back at all helps to spot the problem quickly (more quickly than spending minutes befuddled by the nonempty resultset).
I was watching "Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist" with my wife the other day and I commented "These characters seem to all be alcoholics" because seriously they have a drink in hand nearly every scene taking place outside of the workplace. I think part of the problem is glorification of alcohol in pop culture. Heck, at certain times of the year we look forward to watching a bunch of back-to-back alcohol advertisements (Super Bowl).
I was just today thinking the same about FED policy. It is beneficial to not increase interests because otherwise people will do business elsewhere. In the worst case, these policies bring about a financial crisis, but as long as that will hit all the countries, no one gets better of than the US.
While I don't doubt the motivation of such a naked power grab, it has almost no useful security effect.
The article explains that the war games pertain to regional theatre wars, eg- defending Taiwan or the Baltics, which are threatened perennially by China and Russia respectively. The impact on US alliances and various global structures would be huge. Big enough that you want to prevent them, but not big enough to get into a full-scale nuclear exchange over.

Tldr: Nukes don’t solve all conflict, not even all major conflict.
It’s easy to understand when you realize that certain types of alcoholics can’t bear to be sober. That is to say, they are drinking around the clock. An all-day buzz would take ~16 drinks a day to maintain.

One of the “tells” of this class of alcoholic is drinks stashed all over the place to facilitate this round the clock buzz.
Well, the article itself seems to be saying that the existing budget should be reallocated.

A bigger issue is how well (or poorly) past predictions on what is required for defense have turned out. Similar to how the U.S. was often ranked #1 in the world for pandemic preparations, with western Europe close behind, but in the first six months of 2020 all of the hardest hit countries were either west European, or the U.S. Figuring out how to spend the money to prepare for a crisis (medical or military) is harder than getting the money to do so.
There were small dinosaurs as well...
Core count seems a less-than-useful restriction on its own. Clock rate, cache sizes, and instructions per cycle need to be limited for this to be effective. Then bandwidth has to be constrained to avoid people building Beowulf clusters of RISC-V systems (which we won't be able to buy in the US thanks to "munitions" import restrictions from overseas producers).

RAM and disk capacities will also have to be limited for similar reasons. As will their speeds.
China has made alliances with a lot of african nations. If the shit hits the fan I - at least - wouldn't exclude the possibility that china is better positioned in a semi-post-nuclear scenario than the US (russia, africa, china are the most relevant rare-resource exporters, to my knowledge)

And I personally wouldn't count a bit on saudi arabian allegiance in a scenario like this. I wouldn't be surprised if they just follow the "strong wo:man" in the world, which right not still is the US.
You'll find plenty of blue states dependent on military industrial complex spending as well.
>After all, we invented the whole idea of Big Data.

Really?
This is very much a given - start with the best and success is pretty much guaranteed. I am not sure many kids even know the difference between two schools, I certainly had no clue. Perhaps the costs these days - unaffordable - are making students more clued-up?
Mainland china, probably not. Chinese troops in Taiwan, more likely.
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Basically we're waiting for regulation to make the organizations responsible in a way that's useful for cost/risk accounting
I’m looking for jumping to definitions, etc. In a dynamic language. ruby.

In IntelliJ command B will take me where something is defied, be it system library or in code base. Not perfect but close.

I’ve not had luck getting vim to do this.
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Not OP, but I've also stopped drinking entirely and my standard go-to is a lime soda. I've never been somewhere where this is not known and it's not overly sweet or expensive. It looks enough like a drink to be a drink, if you know what I mean.
Doesn't Israel buy most of those solutions from the US? Also, the rockets coming out of Palestine are a lot different than what would be lobbed at the US.
I misspoke -- but I assure you I subscribe to
Veritasium and watch all of his videos.
I'm not sure about insulin resistance, but sweet-craving builds a tolerance kind of like spicy foods. That is, the more you eat sweet things, the more sweetness your body craves.

I've been using erythritol and stevia as sweeteners for years, and even with those, I find myself craving sweet things after consuming them more than when I go relatively long periods of time without eating sugary things or using sweetener.

The end result, at least for me, is that I crave sweet food more even when I use artificial sweeteners, making it harder to say no to eating shitty food later on.
South Euros have no binge culture like the North Euros. While they are not abstaining, somehow overconsumption seems to be far less of a problem down there. Be it alcohol or food.
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What I got out of this was that you were around well-adjusted people in Europe and were around less well-adjusted people in the US.

How do you even know about solitary drinking in the US? Why are you unaware of solitary drinking in France/Germany/Croatia?

I have no way of quantifying any of your observations.

I am aware of people with drinking problems in France, Germany and Croatia. It is easy for alcohol to periodically become a problem in people's lives.

I'm not trying to defend American culture at all. These observations read kind of comically though.
I’ve noticed that any bad habits or behaviors Americans have tend to be misunderstood when they aren’t being misrepresented or exaggerated in order to pile on.
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Absolutely.

If China began to bomb Taiwan, the US absolutely should launch non-nuclear missiles at Chinese bombers / fighters / drones / missiles.

MAD assures that China won't use nuclear, and the US won't use nuclear either. But normal non-nuclear combat is fair game.
I'm referring to historical evidence. At any point in history other than recent, our understanding of reality has been completely revised since then. And the extrapolation is that the same trend will continue. We've got zero evidence whatsover that we've found core models that can't be overridden by further discovery, and eventually made obsolete in whole by large paradigm shifts.
I think a lot of the "cost savings" and "efficiency" of sticking everything on computers and putting them online would evaporate if it all had to be secured properly, even for fairly generous values of "properly".
That's exactly why I really dislike a lot of IDEs and editors. I've been using (n)vim for 3+ years now as my main editor.

A big value of (neo)vim is the lack of clutter and how easy it is to bring up and hide windows/buffers when I need them. Editors like VSCode and IntelliJ are just too noisy and gets in the way of the actual coding.

I know they can all be customized and configured to reduce this issue, but even then it still feels more visually cluttered and those windows usually end up coming back somehow.
If you state a MAD policy, how can your opponents be sure that the bunch of missiles you're sending aren't nuclear? They need to make a decision before those missiles detonate or else their own nuclear capability might be removed by the first salvo.
You have a decent point, but IMHO you're overstating it. The US armed forces exist for all the reasons you state...AND they also exist to defend the US and allies. Life is complicated.
I suggest improving relations with Russia at least to the extent that our Eastern partners can provide us with a realistic target, so our PR press releases can acquire a veneer of truthfulness.
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Bloomberg missed opportunity to use kiwi slang word 'cooked' in the title:

>One-Fifth of U.S. Beef Capacity Cooked by JBS Cyberattack
I'm not exactly sure, but I think the author is asserting that planets are likely not to be much larger than ours [1] and if that is the case, larger aliens means they require more space and that puts an upper bound on population size (e.g. the example he gives is if there were as many humans as there were ants, then together all humans would require more energy than what hits earth from the sun).

[1] http://thebigalientheory.com/#planets
The calories in meat aren't relevant, it takes more calories in animal food to produce meat than the calories in the meat.

The meat industry is a strain on the food pipeline, losing it would free up other parts of the pipeline and feed more people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_meat_p...

I eat meat, but the parent is correct, it's a luxury.

*edit: confused by all the downvotes. Am I incorrect, or being somehow offensive?
This is also why I very rarely day-drink. Couple beers in afternoon and if I even stop nothing productive happens for the rest of the day. Even if something productive did happen I would get tired and have to take a nap. Now my sleep schedule is even more wrecked.

Strictly a night drinker.
You visit a.example. It talks to a central server and says "I saw a user with identity a.example:foo". Then you visit b.example. It talks to a central server and says "I saw a user with identity b.example:bar". Without third-party cookies (or fingerprinting) how does the central server correlate these requests?