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That video was debunked, the author clearly has no idea how these systems work.

>GAO is currently reviewing the contracts granted to those folks as well.

The inspector general is investigating the complete and total failure of our bureaucracy to report and respond to these things.
The author said they were embarrassed by gum. Outside of very specific subcultures, it's safe to say they would be much more embarassed by vaping. But sure, vaping will deliver nicotine, and its significantly safer than cigarettes (though we don't know if it's safe).
Should Perl die gracefully?
I 3d print and make useful things for my house on CNC mill machine I received few months back.

At this point if a company wants me back in office, I'll go and work for the one which doesn't really there's no value in being packed in a shop with people who don't want to be with you.

It's other thing to orchestrate something by purchasing bit of inputs from everyone on team.
Capital controls and sanctions. The sanction regime has crippled the economy but not the state, which is the usual result.
Just to play devil's advocate, why shouldn't you pay? Fuel taxes mostly go to road maintenance. You're using the roads so higher registration fees seem like a good way for you to help fund those roads.

Also $200 is a pretty good deal, I pay way more than that in gas taxes each year.
Do you pay the quite significant rent increase to reduce the commute, or do you pocket that money & try to deal with the lost time as best as possible?

At some point, I'm going to want to buy a house (so money now can be saved), the total cost of which is >$1M in not just the Bay Area (which I've now left, for these very reasons); even where I am now, housing remains that pricy … unless you give up having a sub 2h commute.

> A 2-hour round trip commute is insane.

My employer doesn't believe that. If they did, they would pay me sufficiently that I wouldn't need to choose. The Bay Area doesn't believe that: if they did, they'd address the housing crisis.
You can keep windows on a VM for tools or services that only work on windows. For higher performance, just keep a separate partition and dual boot it for the cases you need.
Often, yes (though usually not to the point of actually dying). Overcoming survival fears is behind every act of physical courage, e.g., saving a friend or stranger, or exploring any new zone that will normally kill you (mountaineering, undersea, space, etc.).

You have got to suppress your naive survival instinct (or remain massively ignorant) to climb on top of a rocket with thousands of tons of explosive material...
A Digital Afterlife
Your day to day experience isn't necessarily the same as everyone else's. It hasn't been long since "View page info" was confined to a hidden menu and all context menu labels were changed for absolutely no reason.
Oh yes completely.

But even if the house is made of poo, shooting holes in the wall is not the way to fix it.

There really aren’t any winning moves other than not to play at all. Which may be an insane self sacrificing position.
Pfft. This article is so lame. This guy wrote like 10,000 words to describe all his emotions about basically living like a NEET for a year. Self-indulgent baby. I hope this isn't representative of most people because how pathetic would that be. A nation of infants.
My assumption with anyone who wants to succeed at something but is repeatedly failing is that whatever changes they need to make to succeed are not easy or obvious for them - otherwise they would have made the changes already.
Sorry, I did not express myself clearly. For certain functions you can express all the properties in contracts and have them automatically tested.

For other functions, you write some obvious contracts (so that those are also tested in integration tests or end-to-end tests), but since writing all the contracts would be too tedious or unmaintainable, you test these functions additionally using, say, table-driven tests where you specifically test with data points for which you could not write the preconditions or you check the post-conditions manually given the input data. For example, sometimes is easier to generate the input, manually inspect the results and write the expected results in the test table.

> [...] turn contracts into tests [...]

icontract-hypothesis allows you to ghostwrite Hypothesis strategies which you can further refine yourself.
In aeronautics there's the concept of DAL for software: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DO-178C#Software_level
How does that bug show up on the radars of two ships?
There are already pictures from this another planet. Loads of them.

Now I understand that they have to test everything before they can get to the actual experiments. So I will wait.
Well since the quote says 90%, it seems to be saying you don't need to succeed on the first _9_ tries (at most), which I think is where the sentiment that it's an unachievable clause comes from.
Because, sometimes, it's easier to accept that you're built in a certain way rather than spend a lifetime in denial.

"Sometimes" is the key word here. And the one that I wouldn't know how to quantify.
The part that is good is that they are admitting that their continuation of shut-in behavior is not about the virus.

Like the old saying goes: Step 1 is admitting you have a problem. The author didn't quite go that far. But they gave enough of an idea of what's going on in their head that someone else can start to diagnose it.
That wasn't my interpretation of the blog post, but we'd have to ask the author to find out what she meant for sure.
I had that too. A 14 year old account, with Google Cloud and Google One billing, plus many Google Store purchases and they still wanted me to prove my age. WTF?
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That reminds of Jetbrains removing colors on icons because it was "distracting".

Sure, let's remove things that help me find what I want to click on quicker.
You can use https://yewtu.be/ which is an instance of Invidious, all instances are listed here: https://github.com/iv-org/documentation/blob/f8ac896b91888e7...
It's a good text, but the parent poster may wish to be made aware that it's very physics-centric. If they do not come at this from an interest in physics or a physics mindset, it may be counterproductive.
That's funny, because the latest news headlines were about European spy agencies illegally spying on Europeans
Missiles are not targeted at a location. They absolubtely do "lock on" and can track a moving target. They would simply not be able to function if that were not that case. Why even use a missile at all if it worked like that, just fire a big gun. Sure there are countermeasures, but manouvering a ship won't do anything on its own. The only way things like that help is when combined with chaff or heat signature dummies.

What makes you think that tracking a ship the size of a skyscraper would be difficult but that tracking a missile would be easy? Yes, the US satelite network will soon be able to detect this type of missile launches, they are working on that capability right now - I never said ships wouldn't know that they are coming, just that there is little they can do with that information if more than one or two missiles are launched.

You seem to be vastly underestimating how well these missiles can manouver. They can't adjust "slightly", they can make sharp turns, with many times more g-forces than a regular plane - a ship has no chance to outmanouver them, any manouvers would only be to present a lower profile to a single missile or to try to confuse the missile's tracking system using some other countermeasures

as for reading articles about the millitary "sounding the alarm" how does the dod itself sound https://www.defense.gov/Explore/News/Article/Article/1934290...

Finally cost. Yes these missiles are expensive but that is several orders of magnitude lower than an aircraft carrier. Heck, its orders of magnitude lower than a single plane on that carrier
Thanks for suggesting setting browser.uidensity to 1, it actually makes bars a lot more compact!
To be fair, you sometimes had to open the machines and fiddle with irq's and other things I already forgot about.

I remember one machine, where I couldn't get sound blaster mouse, printer and modem to work at the same time.

I do agree that nowadays software companies expect to just own you if you use their products. The sad part is that what Microsoft is doing is "normal" or even minimal compared to what Apple or Google are doing. And it's getting worse all the time.

Fortunately Linux desktop is good enough this days for most tasks.
3. The number of "good" roles is also dramatically expanded.
I didn't say it was a unique thing to graphQL.

I was explaining why graphQL isn't a 1:1 replacement for REST because of that.

I feel like you are hearing an argument that I am not making. Use whatever tool is best for the job / infrastructure / business needs. If that's Django cool. GraphQL has its place too.
> You're proposing using capital ships--ships of which even the largest numbers had single digit numbers--to escort convoys. This takes them out of the action for any other offensive or defensive naval operation you might want to use. Instead, you'd use destroyers (of which you have hundreds) and cruisers (merely dozens). This also lets you have several escort vessels per convoy, which is superior because two ships can be in two places at once which a single ship cannot.

The Allies (mostly the US) built lots of escort carriers, precisely for escorting convoys (be it "normal" convoys or invasion fleets in the Pacific), and AFAIK they were considered pretty successful and took some of the glory of winning the battle of the Atlantic. But yeah, you can, with some justification, argue that escort carriers aren't capital ships.

> The Germans did attempt using surface ships to raid convoys, but their record was absolutely abysmal

IIRC the German auxiliary cruisers (HilfsKreuzer) were considered pretty successful, as they were cheap and since they were just converted merchant ships with guns etc. hidden they could often get quite close to a target before revealing themselves. But these were used for picking off lone merchantmen, not convoys.

> it's pretty universally agreed among naval historians that not building those ships would have been better for Germany.

Yes, the German capital ships were an almost complete waste of resources. Those resources would have been much better spent on, say, u-boats and land-based aircraft. I guess the only positive return Germany got from them was as a sort of 'fleet in being', in that their mere existence forced the allies to commit their own capital ships to the area in case they turned up to attack some convoy.

Of course, had the Germans not built their own capital ships, the Allies would have also reacted, e.g. by not building or stationing their own capital ships in the area, and spending more resources on, say, anti-submarine efforts. So I'm not certain the battle of the Atlantic would have turned out any different in this case either, just even more bloody.
Interestingly enough, my employer has gone the opposite way - they're "shutting down" (that is, chose not to renew the lease for) our office in this city, and had all of us sign new WFH contracts. Same for the office in another part of Europe.

Some of us were 100% OK with that, and some were really not - since the job wasn't expected to be a WFH job, not everyone has a good location to work from, or reliable internet, etc., etc - those people have been able to work from the office at various points over the last year as the pandemic ebbed and flowed. As a consequence, my employer has walked the office closure back a little - we're still all full-time remote, but there will be a smaller office available for e.g., project kickoffs, or people who want to get out of their house for a bit.
If the SR-71 could go as fast as it did using 50s technology I don't see why modern classified tech wouldn't be similarly impressive. Just look at how far racing cars have come since then for example, largely due to the rise of computers.
I’ve been working outside on my deck the past few weeks and it’s been glorious. It’s a little cooler sometimes than I’d like but it’s not frigid (I live in Connecticut).
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Auxl looks good in that respect but maybe I wasn't clear enough in my question.

What's the typical use-case of apps that let you make requests to APIs via a GUI?

I've used them _briefly_ as part of a development process before, but never enough to justify buying one (I'd just spend a couple of minutes longer to write a Python script). Is that what most people are using them for? Am I missing a use-case?
Am I the only one who didn't even know that youtube had age-restricted videos? Somehow I have managed to watch it for years without ever getting prompted for age confirmation!
Would it be worth it to just get a credit card for the sole purpose of youtube-dl? Maybe put some kind of limit on it, if possible?
I would think that if anyone is overreacting it's the person who thinks people who struggle to identify with remote workers are sociopaths. I haven't made any black and white statements or used absolute terms such as "no empathy". I know people in general struggle with nuance, but come on - I'm making it easy here.
There is a BIG difference between Bigfoot which would be limited to the forested areas of the earth and UFOs which would have the entire universe to inhabit and hide in. With our most advanced cutting edge telescopes and other remote sensing tech we have trouble detecting planets and other not glowing large bodies of mass if they aren’t orbiting a star, how on earth does anyone think we can confidently say there are no space craft present that we cannot see? Sounds more like everyone wants to believe that rather than it being based on any type of observation.
Right now I'm working in my backyard on a nice day, listening to the birds chirp instead of keyboard clacking. One of the MASSIVE downsides of working in an office that I rarely hear mentioned is that you have to be inside during prime sunlight hours for basically all of the summer except weekends and when you're on vacation. We're all cooped up in a shed like factory farmed animals.
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It's hard. A lot of office workers are so happy not just about the lack of a commute but also avoiding office politics and office jerks.
At the same time I do feel for people in the lunch, transportation industry or those office workers that depend on staff being in an office to function.

Personally I really hope I never go back to an office. Its so much easier to work with others online than in person.
If the CIA ever released an incontrovertible UFO video (i.e. the UFO landing, aliens stepping out and doing a hula dance, all at 8K video resolution) along with multiple sober military officials saying they saw the whole scene transpire with their own eyes, I'd still put the odds that the report is real at one in 1000.

The fact is that there are just too many imaginable ways that such a video artifact could be released, even by well-meaning officials, and still be fake: As the OP article states, the secrecy in government agencies creates many perverse, confusing incentives that can have unintended consequences.... and we never have enough of "provenance" of any artifact to be able determine its veracity.

For instance, how do we know that the military doesn't have a secret computer graphics team that was tasked with making a demo video of what a UFO may look like, based on eyewitness testimony? Then, the infamous Navy videos accidentally leaks, but the CG team is super-secret, so officials have to pretend they are real, to protect the secrecy of their CG team? (I'm not saying that's what happened, I'm saying this is one of 1000 possible mundane explanations for these videos)

In summary, I don't think the CIA/military are technically capable of providing incontrovertible evidence for anything, they are simply not built to be trustworthy on these kinds of matters. This is because the scientific method requires open access to their data gathering process, which goes against their obsession with secrecy.
I guess it would be an odd experience. You would hear the wind through your spacesuit, but wouldn't feel it and it would offer no resistance. But very light things (paper and so on) would be swept away in the 200+ mph wind?
Qutebrowser. I get that the choice is there, people want it and Firefox is still better than Chrome; but (1) Firefox should no longer be advertised as free software; and (2) it should be made abundantly clear what `enable DRM' actually means.
To be honest, Microsoft has given up trying on Windows as well. Every Microsoft application feels different and MS Teams even ignores the Windows notification infrastructure.
And they should already have started in spring or before and share the knowledge to others how to make mRNA vaccines.
Are people so hopelessly dense that they don't realise an office economy means lower net wages, massive outsourcing and the obsolescence of local communities?
For what it's worth, we at least know the videos are official: https://www.navair.navy.mil/foia/documents
Two hours from your office? Is this hyperbole?

If you live two hours from your office and go in for three days per week, that's 2h per leg * 2 legs per day * 3 days per week = 12 hours per week on the road.

You were spending more than 12 hours per week in traffic?

The average commute in the United States is a little less than 30 minutes [1]. That's 5 hours per week for someone who works five days per week.

1. https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2021/one-way-...
>I saw some historian last year say, "there will be a world before covid and a world after covid", and I thought that was hyperbolic. But now I see the truth in the matter - it will not be some obvious, monumental, instantaneous change, but rather the slow, creeping change where a few years from now, we'll look back and see that society is just different.

One thing to keep in mind is that this is nothing new. Plague has been with humanity for as long as we have existed. And yet, here we were in 2019 living our lives "normally" after dealing with those in the past. I think there will certainly be a generational cultural divide caused by this which separates us from those who were too young to remember, much like the Depression was for our grandparents. But people will go back to being people regardless.
Hedge Fund Performance in History; Now Clients Can’t Get Access to Their Money
This is _exactly_ the niche the Ford F-150 Lightning is marketed towards. The "you can power your house from your car battery" was like custom made for Texans who still remember the power outages last winter.

You can get a car, that you can charge at home, for free, AND you can also use it to run your house if the grid goes tits up again? Sold!
I wonder how this is going to affect NewPipe.
The only issues that I'd care about are: having money stolen from me and having my social media profiles hijacked. So far I haven't noticed that happen. I don't care if anything else happens.
I thought the Address Bar redesign in 75.0 was pretty major in April 2020.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/75.0/releasenotes/
I compared one specific aspect, which is addictiveness. Other aspects might be (and obviously are, in this case) more different, but that's comparisons work - the specifics about what you're comparing doesn't become invalid just because other things about them don't match the same way.

I still stand by this particular statement. Given how you phrased what you said, I don't know if you think cigarettes are way less addictive than the others, or if you got hung up on me comparing them at all, or if you actually don't have any beef with the claim per se but just wanted to say that for some reason. For what it's worth you have no idea about my lived experiences.
Just bear in mind when you say "a lot of us", it's a small minority of the general workforce. For the majority of the workforce, working from home is a.) not even an option, b.) torn 50/50, with your sales and client success type folk, typically customer facing and person interacting jobs overwhelmingly favoring a return to the office, and us mangly, dirty coding bots overwhelmingly favoring continuing to WFH.

I am squarely in the WFH is great if it's possible camp, but perspective is necessary here. Pushing / demanding that the entire work arrangement norms for the majority of the workforce change for a vocal minority is exactly what gives people with cushy desk jobs their (deserved in this case) bad names.
I found micropython to be quite valuable in board bring-up stage. It is nice to be able to interactively test peripherals in repl, and these interactive sessions can be solidified in C code. This article about prototyping esp32 in micropython is great example: https://nick.zoic.org/art/lilygo-ttgo-t-watch-2020/
Ha! That’s a genius idea! I might start going on morning/evening “commute” walks too.
The 4:6 method for coffee-brewing (2017) [video]
Yes that feels very weird. I expect I'll get used to it, but as somebody who used to be very passionate about how tabs must be above the address bar because that is part of the tab not the overall browser, losing that visual link of "all this page stuff is inside the tab" is weird.
These are my gripes as well. Primarily the socializing one. Can't have a legitimate relationship with someone over Skype. I'm sorry.
I agree with you and that's why I'll join a co-working space when I feel I'm missing these things. (I've worked remotely before the pandemic) You can get the same thing from a lot of co-working spaces.

I still prefer working form home, because I can pack my bag and go back home anytime I want.

Soon, I'll likely go back to a co-working space because right now, I miss those things as well.
If you live in big city in a country not totally ravaged by car culture, you can also subtract car price.
Sending tabs between devices has been broken for months.

But I guess tab design is more important.
Interpreting AI Models
>Maybe overall CO2 production would be less, maybe more

According to most EV proponents, that is the entire point. We are being slowly forced to switch to EVs that are much less convenient, and incur a much higher manufacturing cost (in materials, rare minerals, and energy), because the overall CO2 reduction will (help) stop the planet overheating. If that's not certain, then what is the point?

I'll say it again - yes, we may have some capacity to generate enough electricity so that domestic vehicle usage can change to EVs. However, that would be done by burning more gas, which obliterates any CO2 benefits, and does nothing to address the (I assume) higher commercial usage of petrol and diesel.

>At least with electric vehicles there's a clear technological roadmap to 0 emissions - there's no credible roadmap for 0 emissions with internal combustion engines.

Which is what? In my opinion, the only credible roadmap involves nuclear power, and it looks like the UK is mostly decommissioning its nuclear plants.
>When an emergency comes up, you are right by your desk and it’s hard to not sit down to address it right away, even if it’s 11 PM.

That happens when I work at the office. At least at the roles I work, I'm expected to be on call all the time to support production environments. I'll get a text or something and usually have to address it.
Extrapolating to Unnatural Language Processing with GPT-3's In-Context Learning