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>Using certified masks (like in some European countries), getting adequate Vitamin D3 (along with vitamin K), and zinc with zinc ionophores should have been #1 priority, but this basica and benign prophylaxis has been totally underplayed, which also contributes to the lack of trust in the government.

I think you nailed it on the head there. Really the number one priority should be to stay the hell out of the medical system. Once you're in the medical system, you know you've fucked up (or just had an accident, whichever). My wife is a triage nurse now after 20 years bedside, and spends her days trying to talk people, who are calling their doctors to get a magic pill, into changing their lifestyles (diet largely) so that they don't require a pill. Most often, these people are not interested in a no-pill solution. They are happy to keep treating the problem, especially since most of them seem to be highly uninformed by the negative long-term health consequences of the meds they're taking.
We have a close friend whose long-term doctor just prescribed her statins, for a flutter which was noted by her Apple Watch. She and her family, has no history of heart or other health issues. Actually, she's in her 60s and has never even had the flu or as much as a cold, until Cov19 got her in Feb. of 2020. They did not draw any blood work, but she had an echocardiagram which came back clean. When she asked the doctor why he would prescribe statins without doing any blood work, or having any other evidence, he said "this has become our standard procedure for anyone reporting a flutter or palpatation, plus those Apple Watches are very accurate!". I shit you not. This is the medical establishment we're all trying to stay healthy despite of.
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Yes, I mean literally on the freeway (or inside a nuclear power plant, or in the ocean, or many many other restrictions). A "travel stop" is a place designed for stopping so that sounds perfectly reasonable there would be one there.
Well that’s a non-sequitur. The idea that the only other approach is an unattainable paradise is nonsense. There are so many different approaches in operation on this planet right now after all.
I checked out other "free speech" sites which regularly publish misinformation and lies (yet still insist that they are publishing the truth) and they still have ads. Breitbart, Newsmax. Alex Jones infowars platform primarily exists to sell supplements. Even Coast to Coast AM, the ghosts and goblins show, still runs ads.

Plus you have to consider that there is big money to be made lying to the public. For instance the Koch brothers spend a pretty penny funding climate denial.
I run an e-commerce site with our own manufacturing and fulfillment. I created a small program to sort shipping labels into piles based on our needs. We used to do this sorting by hand. It's not much but saves 30min a day, 6 days a week.
Refinements already killed the most easily refined sports, like anything involving a car or a horse. Team sports are next. I don't know about baseball, but volley and soccer are moving quite fast on that direction. Basketball is already gone. Games are all the same nowadays.

Individual sports should be more resilient to refinements, because more capable athletes can do a larger diversity of moves. But that also won't last forever, at some point people will get enough flexibility that they are able to do the optimal performance for each modality, and then all competitions will be the same there too. (Muscle based modalities are mostly there already.)
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powershell has encodedCommand[0] that does this without needing base64.

0: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...
What is the difference between selling something on consignment and getting a rebate when the product fails to sell, or only getting paid for those units that do sell? Whatever distinction there is, I don't find it to be a meaningful one.
Still part of Europe and until recently the EU as well.
> The infinite count of real numbers is much larger than the infinite count of integers.

"Much larger," or just barely, the smallest possible amount, larger? :)
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Rectangle [0] is FOSS and may satisfy your window arranging needs.

[0] https://rectangleapp.com/
My impression is that professional sports won't have a long-lasting future. I don't see any way to avoid that fate.
>They use packages such as celery which happen use Redis under the hood but the user doesn‘t have to deal with these details other than pasting some Redis connection URL somewhere.

Celery doesn't use Redis under the hood.

However, you may use Redis as a message broker and/or result store.

https://docs.celeryproject.org/en/stable/getting-started/bac...
Paul learned a lot from Taleb. He internalized this insights and applied them more broadly to culture. Insightful.
I do think this is a product that everyone wants - support all popular models (relational, kvs, queue, log, etc) in a consistent, scalable, open source and easy to operate service. I'm not sure that this is actually possible but I think if such a thing did exist it really would dominate.

In the current reality today, implementing everything in Postgres is probably going to be slower to market (i.e. for a start-up) than using off-the-shelf products. When you do need to scale, this is when you get to learn about how valid your assumptions were in your abstraction layer - mostly likely in production. As a concrete example, Kafka isn't designed to work well with large numbers of topics. Similarly, InfluxDB isn't designed to work well with high cardinality time series. I think it is generally wiser to "skate where the puck is going" in this situation.

Of course, everything is a trade-off. Postgres is incredibly reliable (like insane) and simple to operate. I'd say for any kind of internal line-of-business type application where scalability is less of a concern you really would be doing your ops team a service by implementing everything in Postgres.
Speaking of games that are much quicker in electronic format, the Star Realms app works great for me, and it's my GF's favorite game. She plays it every day.
It's hard to overestimate how the greed-based ethics compromises of silicon valley are a direct result of the intention to create silicon valley and the genetic material that went into it.

This all comes at a price: paranoia surrounding math research, which everyone assumes is the control function for electronic creation.

It's just an experiment in creating toys for mathematicians, who have better uses for their time anyway.
My first comment ever here is for thanking you for posting these words. I find them truly educational and eerily reassuring.

I'm starting my career in this whole world after two years at a really innovative community college, and I've always resonated with your attitude, albeit I don't see it verbalized often enough on the Net.
I'd like a clarification on the two tiers...

> We view CIB as coordinated efforts to manipulate public debate for a strategic goal where fake accounts are central to the operation. There are two tiers of these activities that we work to stop: 1) coordinated inauthentic behavior in the context of domestic, non-government campaigns and 2) coordinated inauthentic behavior on behalf of a foreign or government actor.

Is this "foreign" and "domestic" relative to the US?

Or relative to the affiliations of those who are the direct audience of the CIB?

Or relative to the nations/affiliations of those who are the target to affect through the perceptions of the direct audience of the CIB?

Or...?

Understanding this top level clearly might help understand everything that follows.
99% sure it's just a group policy that somebody switched on because "I don't want users to delete config files by accident and call me".
Hope this fits the request, I created two simple tools recently:

- The Simple Password Manager (https://www.tspm.ch), a "password manager" that generates a password from an easy to remember passphrase. I created that for myself and to make my friends stop using the same password everywhere.

- Pokerplan (https://www.pokerplan.ch/), a scrum Poker tool that I made for me and my co-workers for our scrum pokers during the pandemic.
Yeah I encountered this problem recently as someone who was once reasonably familiar with d3 and came back to it after several years away.

I find myself wanting to start with a working example I can riff off of more in d3 than with many other tools I've used, so I totally understand the appeal of interactive examples in Observable but find it super frustrating and cumbersome when it comes to actually rolling what I'm working on into an existing application.
Hard to imagine that a trip to outer space with Jeff Bezos is worth less than half that of bragging rights to a single JPG:

JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as ‘NFT Mania’ Gathers Pace https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/arts/design/nft-auction-c...
This article is a little scary to me, and your idea/solution sounds pretty clever!
That's the case in all US States as far as I know. Nonetheless, every job I've had, in multiple States, going back well over a decade had 4-6 weeks of PTO.

The customary minimum is 2 weeks but most companies offer more and you can negotiate for more.
Similarly with digital Monopoly. It also defaults to having no "house rules" that do nothing but make the game take longer. You can finish a game of electronic monopoly in 20 min. Since the games are shorter the stakes aren't as high and it doesn't feel bad to lose.
Is it a near death experience? It seems to me to be just a wild thing to happen. Maybe he didn’t perceive serious danger?
The website[0] has English copy. Unfortunately on mobile the screenshots are cropped in a way I still can’t tell what it does

0: https://mos.caldis.me/
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> Advertisers will demand not be shown alongside info which is 'inaccurate'.

I find that unlikely: Facebook has an enormous amount of dis- and mis-information, and an enormous amount of advertising. Have you noticed that Facebook pages with inaccurate information lack advertising?

In regard to immediate revenue, advertisers just don't want to be embarrassed.
A very good point. Having the freedom to quit at any time without completely jeopardizing one's finances is liberating.
I keep on bookmarking things and those get lost in the huge pile I already have. So I ended up doing this:
Created a Google form which takes two inputs: URL I want to save, and a comma separated list of tags.
Then when it's submitted, an apps script gets triggered which inserts the URL+list of tags as array into mongo dB.
Then I query for URLs containing atleast one of the tag of form submission, and email myself those URLs saying hey you previously have saved these related links, check if you wanna read them.
It helps me to easily query whenever I want to see things I've saved for a particular topic/tag
You really, really have to start reading what others write and respond to that, instead of making stuff up. Where did anyone hint at German companies being saints?

But yes of course its a difference if companies can just pollute however they want, or if you have rules that say they can't but companies break those rules. In the latter case, when they're caught, they can be punished. And under Trump, lots of rules protecting the environment were eliminated.
This is also a reason not to use gas anything inside houses - heat using heat pumps, cook using induction surfaces or electric appliances.
You can actually do this with RabbitMQ - it has a feature called "Publisher Confirmations", where you send a message, and then wait for an "ack" in return.
Got it, the title didn't say [flagged] when I posted my comment.

Looks like it's still flagged. Does it not pass some criteria to be un-flagged?
The bus factor has a lot to do with this imo. Every startup I have worked for lets middle managers hold a ton of information and power. Middle managers at companies with a high turnover rate tend not to trust engineers too much if at all, and startups usually have high turnover rates. This results in toxic relationships between engineers and managers. It's hard to get motivated at work when someone is -virtually or literally- looking over your shoulder all the time, second guessing everything you do, and delaying processes by withholding technical knowledge.

In some cases, this ultimately results in what I call the "empty desk syndrome". This is when you visit your new employer's offices, and most desks are empty because a wave of employees just left or was fired. The cycle repeats indefinitely, with you becoming part of the next wave.
Yeah, I always just go straight to an archive site when I see a Gizmodo link.

https://archive.is/MGCOA
Not only in grocery stores. Bookstores can return books that don't sell, and since the books are heavy, the front page is often stripped only that is returned. That is why some pulp paperbacks have warnings to buyers to not purchase stripped books. In the world of fashion, clothes are often only paid for when they sell, and there are similar arrangements to book stripping.

Really the modern world allows many optimizations and creative contracts.
DynamoDB was designed to solve a very different problem than a traditional SQL database. When DynamoDB (and the other Cassandra flavors) were released there were no databases doing multi-master failover with high write throughput - we are talking about TBs, not GBs. It's not a coincidence that Google, Facebook, and Amazon all had to write to their own database at around the same time (BigTable, Cassandra, Dynamo).

With those new tools you had other companies building on top of those databases for far cheaper than a license to MSSQL or any other OLAP of choice would give you.
Wow, I haven't heard about the Ubuntu taking up Flutter. I wrote several commercial Flutter Mobile apps before, so this should be an easy transition for me. However, how mature is the desktop support in Flutter. I read that it's still in very early beta on Windows. Linux support and MacOS appears to be solid. I think this is worth a look for sure. One of my goals was to learn something new, but learning something new about something I already know is great too! :) Thanks for the pointer!
This is the method I ended up using for golem (https://github.com/robsheldon/golem), a tool I wrote for executing server documentation on remotes. Shell quoting was by far the hardest part to get right, and the base64 pipe was the only solution that correctly handled all forms of quoting embedded in the scripts.
Flutter is still single threaded isn't it?
> You have two options - either get certified, so you can be trusted to carry out the work yourself, or get someone who is certified to at least look it over. Seems entirely reasonable.

That it seems entirely reasonable is most of the problem.

Because people imagine that getting certified is a two week safety course, and that getting inspected is paying someone $10 to spend ten minutes looking over your five minute job.

But then the licensed professionals capture the regulators and the licensing requirement stops being about safety and starts being about gatekeeping, so getting licensed becomes impractical for anyone not full-time gainfully employed in that industry. And the gatekeeping and bureaucracy cause the inspection to require weeks to get an appointment and the payment of $150 over the replacement of a $10 light switch.

Then, you notice that the light in your living room flickers sometimes. You would be inclined to have your buddy the electrical engineer come have a look except that he's not a licensed electrician and you're not convinced that the lights flickering once in a while is a problem whose solution is worth $150. Two months later the light switch with the bad connection finally overheats and your house burns down. Or you're willing to pay the money but it takes 15 days to get an appointment and the amount of time you had before the problem became a fire was two weeks.

Making repairs to safety-critical things less accessible is dangerous.
I almost always assume “foreign” and “domestic” is relative to the US unless stated otherwise. There’s typically very little attempt to be inclusive.
Do you know how this compares to the aforementioned SteelSeries ExactMouse Tool?
What if you are adopted? There is no way an admissions officer has the time to internet stalk each applicant.
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It's just a game. Someone at Facebook is trying to min/max the numbers to get as much money as possible. It's just plain to see that one of the consequences of winning this dumb game is that they are completely destroying the concept of truth with one hand while insisting with the other that they are publishing the truth. That's the optimal strategy to make the most money, but all the money in the world isn't worth destroying trust in information.
I've been working on a todo app built on todo.txt. It's a fork of another app, Todour, which I've heavily enhanced. It's a work in progress, it is ugly but very functional.

https://github.com/shawnaxsom/inizio

Being an engineering manager, a good todo system is a must. I need to be able to write to it quickly in an organized manner. I need it to filter quickly, being able to tell it "Show me all of my highest priority tasks that don't have anything to do with person XYZ who is out-of-office, hide learning tasks".
You can easily borrow against equity. You can skimp on saving for retirement hoping to move to Montana and live off the extra equity.
Oh wow the covers are really similar! Now it totally makes sense that one would remember one for the other; compare the image of Tremblay–Sorenson on Amazon (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31i7I+eER8L...) with that of TAOCP (https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/ZKoAAOSwfzZgPA~D/s-l640.jpg or https://www.oldbookshopofbordentown.com/pictures/WE24020.jpg...) — sure the colour is technically different when you look at them side-by-side, but with many similarities in the jacket like the font with the small uppercase letters, there's a huge overlap.

(Thanks for that interesting email thread too.)
Lean startup begs to differ :p
"Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know."

https://lawsofux.com/jakobs-law/

Jakob Nielson is a founding member of Nielson Norman Group that has studied UX for decades.

https://www.nngroup.com/
Yeah but what pays for rent and food? Income.
I generally found article meh, but old Chuck is better then new Chuck. And I dont even know who Chuck is, just that head is overly large in new one and it looks worst.
I was annoyed by the seemingly over-engineered tools for screen tracking, so I wrote one myself in ~50 LOC, which simply uses ffmpeg to create a screenshot every X seconds in a very low resolution:

https://github.com/instance01/mac-screenshot-tracker

It's super hackable and gets the job done.
2 weeks of PTO is the customary minimum in the US, and there is no legal minimum at all. Nonetheless, many people at good jobs receive more like 4-5 weeks of PTO. It really depends on where you work. I've never had less than 4 weeks of PTO at any vaguely tech-oriented company.
I've addressed this in my reply to david below.
I have several networking devices around the country with OpenWrt on them (for example, at my mom's house). They serve different needs, with different selections of packages installed, and are not of the same hardware, so keeping them up to date proved a hassle eventually. I chose to wrap some primitive Python around OpenWrt's excellent ImageBuilder that helps me keep a declarative build configuration around in an INI-style file, and (most of the time, when point releases are released) only dial up a single version number variable to rebuild all images in parallel. The flashing afterwards I haven't automated, but that might be too much of a footgun anyway.

If you feel like taking a look, here's the source: https://johannes.truschnigg.info/code/openwrt_autobuild/

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While I was responsible for running the internal CAs at $prevjob, I wanted to give (human) users a convenient and secure means to generate and submit CSRs. I implemented a browser-based CSR generator based on the great work if https://pkijs.org - a demo variant of this internal portal is online at https://johannes.truschnigg.info/csr/ and might actually be of use to someone else :)

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Several years ago also at $prevjob, I was looking for a reliable way to do PostgreSQL WAL archiving without the clunky shellscripts floating around in documentation and on Wikis, and implemented a little C program to do that job. While today you're probably using something like wal-g or other advanced tools that consume the WAL for replication and DR purposes, you may still want to have a program that does one thing, and one thing well, and that is making sure WAL segments get copied from location A to location B, without much overhead, period.

That would be it: https://johannes.truschnigg.info/code/pg_archive_wal_segment...
I personally find this super frustrating because I used to be able to tell when I wrote something by visiting serious eats. Now I have to search through my old archive hard drives which is way harder. Unfortunately I have no role at serious eats currently so can’t really push back on that.
I'm super forgetful - so i made a simple website [1] to remind myself of stuff. It's useful! I plan to open source it soon too

The other thing I've built for myself is a tool to find domain names [2] (all the obvious ones are taken). It uses a ML model in the background that I trained to generate suggestions, scores them on a few metrics and calls the whois api to check if they're available. I also want to put this one online, for fun & profit.

Hope you like these little projects!

[1] https://www.remindy.me

[2] https://www.namehunt.dev

Edit: ah, i actually found the remindy.me domain name with the ml model, thought it was cute and that's how the website was born
Any part of statistics is completely dependent on calculus. You don't get to choose how features are distributed over the set of possible samples. It's always some scary looking function without exact solutions.

But you don't need to teach people all the fundamentals of calculus before they can apply it. Definitions and a small set of pre-made answers are enough to start using it and focusing on the statistics. When (and if) those people decide to learn it more in depth, they can go back to calculus fundamentals, and will have an easier time doing so, because they will know why those things exist.
You have always been able to reverse the scroll direction in the Mouse/Trackpad options. It’s a checkbox that says “Scroll direction: Natural”.

As for your jumping issue that sounds like a hardware problem. It might just be that your mouse wheel is dirty.
Ignoring for a moment the obvious hitch that sperm does not automatically equal murder, there's also the problem that DNA forensics suffers from the same fakery problem that other criminal forensic techniques suffer from especially when samples are old and mixed https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727733-500-fallible...

DNA matching from a decades old mixed tissue slide is not an exact process and many factors from handling to a desire to close the case can lead to a wrong conclusion.

The most that can be said is that the detectives are satisfied enough to stop digging, not that the case is solved. Let's remember that a posthumous process allows for zero defense and criminal justice depends on defense.

And besides all of that, it strikes me as wildly unethical to burden the family with this information just to satisfy detective curiosity and desire for closure. I see zero benefit to going through the final steps after they determined that their suspect had already died. The corpse's ashes can't go to prison. The family just lives with this now. That's a negative outcome.
Your script could send your IT guys an email too, that might eventually fix the source of the problem…
zfs scrub might be compelling.