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If KDE binaries were huge, that would be a consequence of KDE design choices, not of being in C++. Most likely, though, the definition of "huge" has anyway since grown past the size of KDE programs, and Gnome sizes probably have caught up to KDE's.

I have not tried KDE in this decade, or the last. The article makes me curious. But Qubes is an Xfce desktop, and I am stuck there for the time being. It has been OK. Qubes desktop can't use a GPU anyway.

If Qt goes proprietary, it will fork without drama.
So now you have to be 100% correct about every field of everything to have any opinion? I'd love for that standard to be applied to anyone religious.

There's no way I'd let that Christian doctor try to save my dying child, their beliefs about a zombie savior that flew to heaven are "crank" like so they're disqualified.

Seriously - a crank about physics? The majority of those people are crazy in some regard, that's why they love physics!
Most lenders use pre-deduction gross income (the gross amount before 401k/457 contributions).
IRC Cloud did a great job of making IRC useable and added a lot of value to Freenode.
> Protocols have been developed to ensure that we actually gain knowledge, and not at the expense of the patients.

If medicine could be reduced to protocols, we wouldn't need the doctors.

You can rest assured right now many MDs are prescribing off-label meds, diagnostics tests, making non-protocol judgement calls etc all around the world. And I am glad they are doing that, because front-line medicine is more engineering than science and their job is ultimately to heal, not being protocol-only automatons.

> SARS-CoV-2 is nothing special

It is special in that everything about it has been very high profile, and in this day and age of hyper-connectedness, when expert institutions mess things up it is harder to cover up and their authority is at a greater risk.

Let's be honest that is why they are being very iron fisted about out-of-band covid treatments, not because of a proportional threat to life.
What's really sad is that the entire reason Sony bought the media companies was to prevent them from interfering with new Sony hardware innovations. The record companies resisted the audio CD and the studios resisted Betamax. Sony seems to have forgotten this after Akio Morita stopped running things.
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It's a weird line.

Most doctors don't bother treating a patient with anything other than standard care procedures.

Why--I honesty believe most don't care enough to look beyond the usual treatment.

8 minutes per patient, collect the most money from the out of the patient, and insurance company. Do not say or do anything than might bring a lawsuit. Write a script, or recommend a Nettie Pot. (I still think about a guy here whom paid $450 out of packet for a sinus infection, and was told to buy a nettie pot. Nothing wrong with not doing anything though. It was the price of the office visit.) Determine if you can get the patent in for another pricey office visit. Repeat.

Go back to writing that vanity novel, or checking the stock market. (This has been my experience. They have about 50 drugs they commonly use, and when things get complicated, they refer, or claim it might be psychosomatic?)

There's always a risk of a lawsuit too.

Then there are doctors whom sometimes prescribe off label for a condition, or honestly try to keep current. I appreciate those doctors.
They are just deferring taxes. Taxes will be paid anyway in the future.

In some ways I prefer to pay taxes now because you are free with your money and that is wealth in itself. A new crazy Bernie comes and changes the rules and you are f*ck$d with 30-40% of your savings disappearing in days by inflation, formal currency devaluation, new taxes and so on.

E.g If I were living in Peru today I will fly with my money as soon as possible with the new communistic guy in charge. Just hearing him talk in the past would be enough to take the decision.
I don't really agree, as someone who advocates for Rust usage.

> Ideally everything would just be in a single process.

Processes are an amazing boundary, probably the most powerful abstraction in existence.

> Why are new systems exposing the ability to dereference raw pointers to user programs?

This shouldn't be possible today - SMAP/SMEP are standard now.

> obsoleting the need for hardware isolation

I think if the last 3 years (sidechannel frenzy) has taught us anything, it's that software-isolation is extremely difficult. Even hardare isolation is difficult.
And yes we had experimentation on all sorts of minorities, general exploitation, and in some cases into infliction of harm.

What good old days those were.
401(k)s are privately managed. They were originally designed as a technique to replace pensions, and are separate from government-mandated savings like Social Security. How would a politician siphon from your retirement? A 401(k) is basically just an IRA that a company manages for you and pays someone to administer so that the deferred tax burden can happen. Or do you mean that in the future, taxes may go up? If that’s your belief, nothing prevents you from using a Roth 401(k) if your company offers it (my previous 2 employers both offered this).
I've not heard of that. So it goes from one IRA into another? Why? Plus, ROTHs have yearly limits of $6k. While it can be done I don't see the benefit of doing it, esp. given the tiny amounts (compared to what is needed for retirement).
It's 'internal alchemy' [0]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neidan
You can’t just form an LLC and start writing off your home furnishings as a “business expense” because you make $5 a month from a browser extension that some people donate to your Paypal account.

That’s tax fraud. That’s literally what that is. It’s incredible that anyone would think otherwise.
If you find yourself inside an animal's mouth and you don't perceive serious danger then you have at least two problems.
In those organizations, I highly doubt microservices or monolithic decisions would have made a difference.

Disorganized management won't magically get fixed if the root problems of ASAP, priority, techinal debt, etc features aren't fixed.

The fact that the organization was trying to combine two large monolithic codebase into one is an obvious smell that technical decisions are made by someone non-technical.
There are degrees of solidarity, and state redistribution. France is not North Korea.
What does sanitizing ps outputs protect you from? Untrusted non-root users in the same machine?
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There have been some weird messages from the dude lately, the latest was

> "<root> The community on IRC is made up of some of the smartest, most beautiful people in the world. It's been an honor to be here with you all, friends and foes. We've been waiting for IRC's return for quite some time -- and for you, we deliver. A new genesis is taking place uncovering a new era. Freedom, and the people, shall rise to power. Freedom is not dead, it lives, here, with freenode."
"Puberty blockers are fully reversible and their long-term effects are safe and well-understood" is dangerous medical misinformation too, but YouTube doesn't take those videos down.
Just one method of collecting more tax money and it's happening:

"Biden Wants to Hire 87,000 Additional IRS Agents to Go After Wealthy Tax Dodgers" - https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/nibk03/biden_want...

"Biden's $80 billion plan to beef up IRS audits may target wealthy small business owners" -
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/05/bidens-80-billion-plan-to-be...
I'm not sure what you mean twisting. If you're asking for the extension API to not be there, I think that would result in a strictly less configurable program. If that's not what you're asking for, then please clarify. Also, I'm not sure what you mean inadequate, the extension API is the internal API of the shell. You can use it to do anything that the shell can do. How could it be made adequate? You can install many extensions to configure the panels and menus in just a few clicks.

Edit: Somebody could probably make an extension to make the shell look and act like XFCE if that was really desired, for whatever reason. I don't think XFCE users would care much, but I just mean this as a way to illustrate what level the extension API sits at -- it's a level below the panels and menus and stuff.
It's worth noting that modern Daoist alchemy is internal alchemy [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neidan
It’s safe to say that the main revenue driver, Google Search, has easy-to-switch-to competitors like ddg or bing. Android is an indirect revenue driver since it defaults to Google search but it’s far from the majority way people get to Search.
I think this will become a pedantic argument, but without defining loophole, we can’t say they exist or don’t.

Presumably a law is written with some intent.
When that intent or spirit is broken because of poor construction or poor foresight in the text of a law, a lot of people call that a loophole. I think it is a fair definition.
This is what people have always wanted. The bloody paternalists are winning in America and they want to tell us what we’re allowed to watch. “Facebook is responsible for radicalization”

Nah, Facebook just links you to like minded people. You have a problem facing the fact that it’s your grandpa who is a racist shit, that your brother is an incel, and that your sister thinks trans women shouldn’t be allowed to use women’s toilets. So you blame Facebook.

So you guys decide you want to blame Facebook and Twitter and YouTube. They’re “not doing enough”. Let them be and get your grandpa off them if you care so much.
Discovery Shows Human Cells Can Write RNA Sequences into DNA
> If not for the threat of China...

The military industrial complex will always have a bogeyman ready.
Oh no bother, they're just taking houses away from Gypsies!
How long did it take you to notice that meditation made a difference?
Here in the UK when you go through the drive through at McDs the order appears on the screen next to the microphone, they ask you to confirm that's what you ordered. Never had a wrong order this way. Seems like a very simple solution if something this is isn't standard everywhere.
The purpose of a site like HN is exactly to give quality 2nd or 3rd hand accounts, so I don't need to watch an hour long video to form an opinion on it. There are many, many orders of magnitude too much 1st hand knowledge in the world for anyone to comb through. If you want to be informed on a broad range of topics, the only chance is to go by reporting that you trust, and for a great many people, that includes comments on HN.

If you have a contrary read of the video, it would be better to share it rather than lamenting that the thousands reading this thread don't each spend time watching it in person.
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My takeaway from the current car situation is the people running legacy automakers aren't very good at their jobs. To mispredict demand this badly and not know that you can't JIT semiconductor production shows a profound incompetence. And on top of that, instead of raising MSRP they're letting their dealers capture all of the surplus. All the more reason to be bullish on Tesla.
forgotten znc sessions ^_^
Recently I needed a simple chart for my startup. I looked online and all I could find was bloated libraries that were increasing the bundle size by many KBs. But then they also started rendering in the browser. Considering that it was possible to cache the request for a full day for all users, I wrote a small library that renders an svg on the server: https://github.com/rugpullindex/svg-line-chart

Chart in action: https://rugpullindex.com
You can rollover 401k money into a Roth IRA (but this is a taxable event and you will pay income tax on that - just a note because "Roth" in the name tricks people up). That money will count as a contribution (ie not a gain). There's also NO limit on how much you can convert.

You can withdraw any amount of contributions to Roth IRAs no penalty. But you have to wait 5 years for rollovers.

So basically

1. Pick how much money you'll need in 5 years

2. Rollover that much money from your 401k to a Roth IRA (pay taxes in this step)

3. 5 years later withdraw that money from your Roth IRA
Absolutely, I’m able to use the insights to work to increase productivity. Remember I don’t disclose I can see this. It has let me better manage cases, first the slacker that assumes because I’m old and a manager I’m stupid and they can BS me and not work, but also importantly find the hidden skilled developers, there have been a few that have completed complex tasks very quickly considering their activity on the system, so I can ramp up their load and complexity, wheres before they had hidden from me how good they really were.
It sounds like you’ve worked under terrible management if you’re having these problems. On a properly run team people don’t squabble and politic. It is possible to work in a healthy manner, remote or otherwise. The drama you avoid when remote stems from not being forced to co-locate with individuals for a large swath of your waking hours. That is a breeding ground for unhealthy behavior.
Not as clownish as including an unnecessary “like”, a filler word for speech and therefore completely unnecessary in a written comment.

See what I did there? Its called an ad-hominem, an attack to the person instead of the argument. Thats what you did when you attacked Eric Weinstein instead of his argument.
Oh missed that. My bad.
He has a PhD in physics from MIT....

There are many such types who reformulate various types of physics from a mathematical pov -- these attempts rarely have any deep upside... but it is a hobby of mathematical physicists.

Nothing "crank" about it.
On the one hand, you're pointing at these alternative video hosting sites' lack of engaged audience as the problem with switching over to them. On the other hand, you're saying YouTube needs to be forced to allow anyone and everyone to stay on the site — literally, to have a channel at all.

But you're making a very important hidden leap here: between people being allowed to have a channel on YouTube; and those channels being recommended by YouTube's algorithm.

Because it's the YouTube recommendation algorithm that determines whether you get an audience of millions. Without the algorithm, YouTube is just a video hosting platform with some not-very-good search-based discoverability, where you'd need to do your own off-platform SEO to get your videos seen.

Ignoring the discoverability you get through YouTube's algorithm, and assuming you only care about having a video at a URL you can link to from elsewhere, there's literally no benefit to using YouTube over one of those other video-hosts. They all give you a video at a URL.

In a world where YouTube was regulated as a utility, that would presumably involve the video-hosting infrastructure itself being content-neutral. But implicit to that would be a divorcing of the video-hosting component, from the discoverability component. YouTube the video host would be a utility, while YouTube the recommendation engine would be a separate company (not a utility), but only one of many able to run its own indexing and next-to-watch recommendations against the same store of content.

But again, that hidden leap. What's to say YouTube the recommendation engine, divorced from the video-hosting component, wouldn't still end up, through network effects, as the only site people care about? I would think it almost inevitable — especially starting from current conditions where everyone already knows about YouTube, and would still already know about YouTube (the index) after the split.

In such a world, the "public square" of video content — control over what video content most people happen to see by default — would still be controlled by the video-indexing company YouTube. Just like the "public square" of web content is controlled by the web-indexing company Google. Google never had to host the web, to end up with a degree of control over its public-visible curation.

In that world, does your demand for regulation still stand? If so, what does it mean? Would you demand the index itself to be regulated? Does that mean it would then be the government's job to define content moderation rules for YouTube's index? Would the government have to spend man-centuries or more on auditing for YouTube's approach to content moderation, to ensure they're following the rules as laid out? Or what?
The First Microprocessors – Antiques of the Internet Age
Can you receive calls on it?
I agree with highlighting efficacy as a main discussion topic as well. However, I disagree the controversy doesn’t include arguments around drug safety. As long as the FDA has guidance up like this [1] it’s going to be a part of the discussion.

[1] https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why-you-shoul...
I dislike that Gemini require an another web server and another web browser.

Isn't Gemeni can be simplified to a convention that forbid CSS/JavaScript and allow only basic tags of HTML (<h1-6>, <p>, <a>, etc..)?

IMO this could be a better move because this will use any performances improvement made on modern web stack (cache, compression, etc..).
It is more likely that we become infertile from the chemicals and pesticides we get in contact with every day.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/03/pesticides-re...

https://www.hormone.org/your-health-and-hormones/endocrine-d...
> If animal experiments were banned in neuroscience... would actually accelerate progress.

And if planes would be banned humans will develop wings, or maybe not.

The other option, advances in neuroscience stagnating for decades until we would be able to develop this miraculous Kosher substitutes, is also possible. Young researchers quitting the field in mass upset by the new barriers would be also a probable outcome.

I want ALS and Alzheimer solved as fast as possible and the new solutions supported by proven solid facts so, thanks, but not thanks.
> I don't know, maybe most of what you're saying here is that ATT&CK is useful if you're a Windows admin

Aren't Windows shops the primary audience for ATT&CK?
The difference is that

* IRC users have the technical acumen to move.

* IRC users aren't strangers to setting things up and configuring them, so the switching cost isn't as big

* There's a shared ethos about IRC, but not so much for an app that reaches everybody on the planet. You can convince one demographic much easier than all of them.
IRC in general would be a MITM, no? I don't know the network geometry, I assume every message goes via the IRC server rather than peer-to-peer. Seems like a decision a user should legitimately make for themselves.
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It's not just about performance: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque....
It’s odd that no one has pointed out yet that the article is conflating macOS user documentation with developer documentation.

In the first place, and this is an unpopular opinion, people have simply accepted “Apple's documentation sucks” as truth but the documentation problem hasn’t been properly defined or framed yet. I personally think that the view, view controller, Core Data, animation, networking, and Bluetooth, and concurrency guides are excellent. What parts of the Apple SDKs exactly are people having a problem with? If it’s just the latest APIs like SwiftUI, does that make the whole platform deserving of an unqualified negative perception? I don’t think so, and it doesn’t help that in my experience, the people who complain the most about Apple’s documentation are the ones who go to a Medium article first and before consulting Apple’s own documentation.
How common is the use of these affordances in practice? I'm just now discovering that it's possible.

I'll say this: it's very cool that it's possible to make text more accessible to people using a screenreader than it is to people reading it raw. For instance, if I were to refer to the real real, I would do what I just did, and italicize the word to indicate that it's foreign. Someone who knows how Spanish works can interpolate from "italic real" and get /real/ instead of /ri:l/ out of it, and that's basically what a screenreader would do, literally say "italic real".

I'm not convinced that accessibility demands that words be pronounced properly under such circumstances. Note that someone completely ignorant of Spanish would just see "italic real" and maybe think it represents emphasis, so the sighted are not at an advantage here.

Again, it's pretty cool that there's a way to do it in HTML! Semantic markup is neat, even if it doesn't get used much.
This doesn't address all of your comment but specifically with patient confidentiality – Israel agreed to share more data with vaccine manufacturers in order to get quicker access to the vaccines. There are obviously problems with bilateral dealmaking and Israeli distribution (the article below points them out), but Israel almost certainly saved lives by weakening confidentiality. I think that was the right call.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/israel-trades-pfizer-va...
https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2015.00358

Szabo A. (2015). “Psychedelics and Immunomodulation: Novel Approaches and Therapeutic Opportunities”. Frontiers in immunology, 6, 358.

Abstract:

Classical psychedelics are psychoactive substances, which, besides their psychopharmacological activity, have also been shown to exert significant modulatory effects on immune responses by altering signaling pathways involved in inflammation, cellular proliferation, and cell survival via activating NF-κB and mitogen-activated protein kinases. Recently, several neurotransmitter receptors involved in the pharmacology of psychedelics, such as serotonin and sigma-1 receptors, have also been shown to play crucial roles in numerous immunological processes. This emerging field also offers promising treatment modalities in the therapy of various diseases including autoimmune and chronic inflammatory conditions, infections, and cancer. However, the scarcity of available review literature renders the topic unclear and obscure, mostly posing psychedelics as illicit drugs of abuse and not as physiologically relevant molecules or as possible agents of future pharmacotherapies. In this paper, the immunomodulatory potential of classical serotonergic psychedelics, including N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT), lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), 2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodoamphetamine, and 3,4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine will be discussed from a perspective of molecular immunology and pharmacology. Special attention will be given to the functional interaction of serotonin and sigma-1 receptors and their cross-talk with toll-like and RIG-I-like pattern-recognition receptor-mediated signaling. Furthermore, novel approaches will be suggested feasible for the treatment of diseases with chronic inflammatory etiology and pathology, such as atherosclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, schizophrenia, depression, and Alzheimer's disease.
You not being able to provide a quote seems like a relevant fact.
'Truth embargo': UFOs are suddenly all the talk in Washington
> You can install many extensions to configure...

There, that's the issue you're refusing to see. Having to discover and install extensions to do basic things is not a good feature.

If that's OK for you, great. Doesn't work for me.
Joking about something doesn't change the fact that he is a trained physicist, nor does it change the OP's misleading description. "Attempted foray into another field", indeed.
I don't get it, why would Merck leave money on the table. Merck has and will develop many more Covid drugs. It does not make sense to bet everything on one horse where there is a lot of uncertainty and risk that any drug will see the light of day.

I get that it makes sense as a narrative device to discredit Merck ("big pharma has acted against our interest in the past, so they are acting against our interest here"), but it does not make sense from Merck's point of view.