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Can we also talk about inconsistencies when it comes to notifications on Windows 10, too, please?

I mean, every app does whatever it wants. An update popup here, a warning there. Some blocking window with full attention here, some imutable "you got a message" there. Anti-virus systray icons even render webpages as popups, that contain even more notifications inside them.

Windows is the worst OS I've ever used in regards to focussed work. Every single program running there has the right to disturb my work, and the user is just a dummy that can't get anything done because the UX guidelines treat users like a click monkey.

Having used both older and newer Linux distros, MacOS pre-Catalina and Windows XP/Vista/7/10 as a main machine for work over the years, I'd choose Linux or MacOS for productive work anytime.

I don't care about an _asynchronous_ email when I'm working on something else...you should start to understand this, designers at Microsoft. If a spammer can literally disturb a work productivity of an OS user while the email app is running in the background, your UX is literally the worst solution possible.

I effing hate notifications and the lack of user-focussed Window management on Windows.

Even MacOS without any real window management is better, because at least the IDE window keeps the focussed state and notifications can be force-silenced.

Sorry for the rant, but it's the truth. Windows is not made for productive work in my opinion.
Of course it's not real. This is Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation in practice. When you cannot tell the difference between a real person represented in the simulacra (i.e. a site like HN) and the simulacra being generated at will by a malicious actor (i.e. a simulation, fake accounts developing a history of posts, bots, guerilla marketing, etc.) then the smart person will recognize it for the un-reality that it truly is.

Just because it isn't real, though, doesn't mean that it can't be fun :)
I had vinyl flooring installed that had a top layer of Aluminum Oxide. Really durable, most people couldn’t tell that it wasn’t wood floor. And about 1/4 the price of laminated flooring.
> You don't need a conspiracy for this ...

It's not a conspiracy, but a documented fact based on interviews with TikTok employees, etc. In fact, I'm not sure TikTok really denied it, but it was awhile ago.
I was in one of these and found the Paris Hilton documentary to be mostly spot on. If anything, (probably due to time constraints) it left quite a lot out.
Is this physical or mental longevity, or both? It would be awful if you had the body of a 25 year old with the mind of a 95 year old (forgetful, slow, dementia, Alzheimer’s). Those things that take older people quickly are much longer battles for “healthy” bodies.

I am in my early 30’s, but my view right now is that I will live in the time I was born into and take reasonable steps to be healthy for a long life. I hope I get 60 more years with my wife, but when it is my time, it is my time, and I will accept that I have used the time and resources I was given.

Jason Isbell’s song “vampires” comes to mind. Part of what makes life “life” is death. And spending too much excess time and energy (one’s life) on expanding future life is… trading life for life. But likely missing time with family and friends who likely won’t get to live until they are 160.
I feel like Hagino had talked about coinductive data types in the early 90’s.
+1. This is something software engineers (of which I am one) often miss-understand about other engineering disciplines. You can totally ship software that you know will run into problems down the line, because you can reasonably expect to solve those challenges and ship updates before they come into play. But when you sell someone a durable good that is expected to last 10-20 years (eg a car) there are a whole host of things that go into designing that thing that are not ok to fix later.

The result is that these engineering disciplines have practices that are much more rigorous. If you think about it, a recall is essentially a hardware patch, and they are typically highly embarrassing and costly.

There is also the whole separate aspect of professional licensure which certain engineers get. Licensed engineers are expected to hold their work to certain standards regardless of the business needs of the company they work for. Now i'm not saying what Tesla did falls in this category, but it certainly looks like designing a product below the standard expected for that product. (what most people would call shoddy engineering).

In software we often get away with this, because we can put in the work later on, and also because people often have insanely low expectations of how well software will work.
> (well, this was specifically trained by meowing at the cat at appropriate times).

You meowed at your cat when you wanted to walk outside?
It wasn't an unknown that the screen might yellow in high temperatures. A smaller LCD would have been a different product, and certainly an inferior product given a (diagonal) 17 inch non-automotive screen would have had to have been an (at most) 10 inch screen. It was a tradeoff, not arrogance (maybe arrogant for them not to know that jonathankoren would disapprove of it 8 years later).

> Lest we forget, this is a man who made the factory less safe, resulting in higher than expected workplace injuries, because he didn’t like yellow stripes and beeping forklifts

I can't find any news on forklift-related incidents at Tesla. If you mean reducing forklifts all together, Amazon has also designed their warehouses around reducing forklift usage - forklifts are extremely hazardous regardless of tape and beeping.
Heretics! Vicitimizing all the Fashionistas! Where would be the fun of endless shiny new things? The thrill of employing l33t google skillz to find just another solution to cut&paste in haste, with no wasted time reading boring old style manuals and documentation. Attention deficit is the hottest shit! Deal with it!
I'm sorry that no I don't get the point. You keep talking about [Gödel 1931] proposition I'mUnprovable, but today is 2021 not 1931, and I'm talking about a specific proposition that I've linked to which is, what appears to me to be a clearly well defined first-order logical proposition involving classical logic, zero, successor, plus and times.

I want to know if you object to the existence of that formula that you can see on your screen with your own eyes, and if you do object to it why you do.

Because I contend that that formula is of exactly the same character as Goedel's statement, with the difference being that with a computer, and modern encoding functions, we can actually strip away all the definitions and compute the fixed point and literally print it out onto your screen. It is right there in front of your eyes. Look at it!

Yet you keep on insisting that fixpoints don't exist despite the fact that I have pointed you directly to a formula that has been specifically computed to satisfy a logical fixed point equation.

It's like saying that there cannot be a fixed point of the function f(x) := 3x-10 by waiving your hands and claiming functions don't have fixed point because numbers need to be ordered. But that is daft. All you have to do is compute f(5) = 3*5-10 = 5 to see that 5 is a fixed point of f.

Take a look at this. The proposition 0=0 is a fixed point of phi(X) = ¬(¬X). Just do the logical deduction to see 0=0 ⇔ ¬(¬ 0=0) is a true arithmetic statement. See even fixed points for propositions sometimes exist!
i’m sorry but you’re spewing garbage.

rapamycin is an immunosuppressor. what that means it’s suppressing your immune system (it’s normally given with organ transplants) at the normal dose, as a possible side effect of this suppression your immune system may not be able to fight cancer for example. To say that rapamycin causes cancer is an exaggeration.

now, in this trial the dose is nowhere near what you would get for a transplant. it’s speculated that small doses have a hormetic effect and it actually stimulates your immune system to trigger biological garbage collection paths that normally are not exercised. as a result you end up with cells that are younger. at least that’s the theory.

lookup MTOR, and mtor1 and mtor2. learn a bit about it before scaring people away from what could be a breakthrough way of treating aging
> 80% of orgs that paid the ransom were hit again

This isn't true and I'm not sure why people think it is. This is not how the world works. Ransom crews are not cartoons, they are people like the rest of us running a business.

At a very high level, sure, ransom paid then they might be 'hit again' by a random hacker testing the defences next year. Is that 'hit again'? 'Hit again' is not 'ransom again'

If this is cookie cutter ransomware that's automated and you pay an automated system to un-encrypt. Sure the worm or what not will attack again is you don't fix that worms hole.

This has zero to do with REvil and all the famous ransom crews that the title implies. That should be pretty obvious.
Heh. But whatever it was, the impact on the end user was low. When I lived in Miami there would be cellphone trouble on weekend nights, never in the midday heat!
> retain the ability to run programs written a quarter of a decade ago

I think I've seen computers with more uninterrupted uptime than that, even if servers. Or at least approaching this figure.

Perhaps you meant ‘quarter of a millennium’ or something like that.
The black box has worked well for all in Common Law countries.

In countries with French-style law, that might be different for pilots. (Essentially you're guilty until proven innocent, and they hire a retired judge with nothing better to do except to drag out the hearings (and fees) until they die.)

However the scale has tipped recently in the US with a central pilot records database being created recently. So at every step of your career, you're recorded and tracked. If an employer doesn't like you, they can scribble whatever they want in your permanent government record now.

So before a pilot candidate spends $200,000 on a college education and pilot training, they need to think about both losing their medical at any time, and what will happen if their airline decides to fire them and give them a hard time.
The Battle of the Burgers
Seems to me that they are exacerbating the left/right divide (with the neoliberal center-right facing some internal divides), but not so much the racial divide.
I was sent to an “emotional growth boarding school” in the ‘90s. I wasn’t kidnapped but many of my schoolmates were. A few years later the department of education (can’t remember if it was state or federal) shut the school down after stories got out about the horrific things that were going on there. Kids forced to sit in corners for days at a time, ambulances not being called for kids who had very seriously self-harmed, strip searches (administered by other kids), physical restraints... I could go on. The place had a cult-like atmosphere that was centered on the headmaster and his weird homegrown therapeutic method.

I had nightmares for years afterwards and still haven’t fully come to grips with what happened there.
-40C is very close to 0F (-32C) claimed above.

Update: -40F is -40C, oops, my bad, I don’t understand Fahrenheit. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Since this seems like a weird chance to air your hiccup cure here's my preference: Drink water from "the far side of the glass" - that is - with your head upside-down. I typically have to drink about half a glass of water (3-4 good swigs) and it works. Maybe it's engaging the same nerves as the straw tricks which I'll have to try now that I know about them. I just tend to not have any straws around when I get hiccups...
My uncle was noticeably not the same person after coming back from general anaesthesia. So I know what you mean, although I can't think how to sufficiently explain this to other readers who may not have experienced it.

I wonder if it's like that old sci fi philosophical conundrum of whether you'd still be the same person if you went through a teleporter that actually duplicates you.
Starlink is marketed to the military, but so far they've been testing it with the antennae they normally use.
lookup Alan Green. The original OG. A doctor that actually prescribes rapamycin for his patients.

If you wanna go deeper, lookup papers by Blagosklonny ok rapamycin. It’s fascinating stuff.

Also, do you know about the Dog Aging Project? yup Rapamycin trials on dogs.
I had several friends go through the “Utah programs” back in the aughts and they were abused so badly. It still pisses me off. Paris Hilton did a great job with her documentary, her experience was so similar to the people I knew.
Any idea if people with hamstring tendonitis might have issues with this?
That's awful, I'm so sorry you had to go through that. Thank goodness that horrible thing was put an end to.
Back in the 1970s?
On the one hand, yes. On the other hand, people bash Linux distros for inconsistent UIs so I get a kick out of pointing out that the shoe is on the other foot.
Try the steelcase leap v2.

Aeron Miller was the 2nd alternative but ended up going with steelcase.

I've had it for almost a year and would still recommend it.
This is why I don't like it when people call it a waste or meaningless. In my opinion, it's not a waste, but it is "excessively energy-consumptive". Sure, a lot of value is generated, but is that value commensurate with the cost? In the limit, what's the cap on this? Will Bitcoin mining consume 5% of the entire world's electricity in a decade? Is that really the best way to create a secure cryptocurrency? In addition to the potential environmental impact, what's the opportunity cost of that usage?

If Ethereum 2.0 rolls out and runs a PoS network without any issues for a year, 2 years, 3 years, what then? (Rather than debating the probability of that happening, for the sake of argument let's just hypothetically assume the transition does succeed and things run soothly for years.)

I suspect the community and devs won't even consider itas a topic for debate, though, which makes me think the cryptocurrency wars are going to get much more heated over the next 5 years. The cryptocurrencies you choose to use will be much more of a philosophical and ideological identity statement than it already is. Bitcoin-only vs. Ethereum-only vs. never-coiners. I'm genuinely pretty concerned it might reach the level of pro-life vs. pro-choice (vs. anti-natalist, I guess).
The people working at these camps should be named and shamed.
Um, -40C is -40F.
This makes me sick. I am sorry for those who had to go through such torture.
I really disliked the experience of trying to read that page so much I just chose not to read it. What a surprisingly awful experience - I'd really encourage the author to remove that.
No now.

It doesnt matter how many ways people reached consensus, someone will still claim some indigenous victim mentality.
I'm not sure that talking about feature parity even makes sense.

What do FreeBSD jails do that Linux can't? I know there's no single jail system call that you can call so you need to assemble the container "manually", but that's an implementation detail as far as I am concerned.

On the other hand, true network namespaces (VNET on FreeBSD) have been usable on Linux for longer than on FreeBSD.

It's a bit disingenuous to say that Linux is the one "approaching" feature parity when they're both missing features that the other has.
> what’s the general process for navigating the minefield?

Let me start with, I am very ignorant of the pitfalls. If you can get a HAM license, they will teach you all the rules and you'll get to play in more RF space.

Otherwise, if you limit your transmissions to the WiFi bands at 1mWatt or less, you'll be fine (those are open). However, it is very difficult to do well because you are likely to generate noise on a band you are not trying to transmit on. Then the FCC will get mad at you, because you are responsible for all transmissions. Step into the wrong frequency range and you're looking at a 5 figure fine.

If you just want to play with radio hardware, so are a few other bands like 433Mhz where you can buy transmitter/receiver boards that the manufacturer certifies will not transmit outside freq. range. That's tested, so they should work well and you won't get in trouble with the FCC (the manufacturer limits the boards), the manufacturer would.
A pump, a home depot bucket in shade, some duct tape and tubing would probably be sufficient.
There's no reason to expect that mental or physical longevity to be isolated from each other.

Especially since physical activities often impact mental health anyway.
There are people who would.
Note that California has serious structural issues:

- water infrastructure projects have stalled for decades. Only around half of them were completed, all in the last century

- public pensions are pegged at 8% annual returns, so that's a bottomless pit

- homelessness is exploding, as even people with jobs can't afford to rent an apartment.

The above will cost trillions.

Also, high earners and other productive workers are leaving California in droves. Leftists have threatened to create an asset tax which follows residents even to other states, so some are migrating in advance - it's a real sword of Damocles.
I used to run my own mail, but gave up due to the risk of me screwing up backups/restoration.

Maddy (sqlite) + https://litestream.io/ might be simple enough to get right.
The "troubled teens industry" definitely has a lot of weird stuff going on. Some of the institutions are are bad-faith operations that were always scams (or worse); some were well-intentioned but were managed in a way that produced abuses nonetheless. Maybe a few actually did a good job helping out troubled kids, but it does not seem to be the norm.

This is perhaps a place where internet culture has been somehow ahead of the curve in a positive way. Former residents have been organizing online and exchanging information for a few decades. I believe the longest-running forum for discussions is the one at fornits.com: https://www.fornits.com/phpbb/. This site has been around for about 20 years, and used to also have a wiki with extensive information about specific institutions. Alas, the wiki seems to be down for several years now, and the discussion board is a few years past its peak of activity too.

More recently, I believe reddit is the most active discussion forum: https://www.reddit.com/r/troubledteens/
I'm on the same boat, and would like to see proper design instead of supporting 200-years-old programs. But apparently we are minority and not the best interest of Microsoft. (Which is okay, BTW)
> "I'm not a scientist and not qualified to comment on the particulars of this patent."

Do you need to be a scientist to agre that "works by air pressure" and "works in space" are incompatible?

> "But clearly it was postulated on by the scientific community. And if you want to dismiss that argument with .. well you can get a patent for anything.. that's actually not true."

I dismiss that by the Wikipedia articles on Electrogravitics and Biefeld-Brown saying every attempt to demonstrate it in the last 100 years failed and concluded it was ionic wind. I want to dismiss your argument that "it's in patents so there must be something to it" with the facts that there are impossible ideas in patents, so that carries no particular authority.

> "Like I need to be your paralegal and go find you evidence. I left the breadcrumbs. Go find out the rest and share what else you find out. it's not about give me the evidence or I'll dismiss it."

Right, no. There's too many people claiming too many things - why aren't you out looking for the evidence on Eat right for your blood type, or timecube, or timewave, or an endless infinity of other ideas? You started off with "To all those downvoting. Do your due diligence first like I did ;)" - if you don't have any of that to hand to share, can't name anything specific to look at, don't have anything more convincing than a sci-fi story, repeatedly dodge around addressing flaws in the unrelated patent you did link, the preliminary Wikipedia links I found into Brown's work suggests it's misguided and not involved with gravity, the Wikipedia link on electrogravitics is just as critical, who would read this back and forth between us and conclude that it would be a good idea to spend hours or months trying to piece together "add rotation to electromagnets"? Refresh understanding of complex numbers, their use in describing electrical phase rotation, or rotating non-inertial reference frames? "Some scientists speculated this in some patents" - the US Patent Office grant ~400,000 patents every year, spend a few weeks sifting through millions of patents to find a quote where someone speculates this is how UFOs work?

Who would conclude this is convincing enough to be worth investing more time in?
I don't really see how this is specific to the internet. Sure, automated bots makes this worse, but is there a big difference between a bot and someone parroting opinions that they've heard and don't really understand? I guess you can have a conversation with that person, but it's often as fruitful as replying to a bot. These people exists in the meatspace, that doesn't make it less real.
Think cars near the time they were first commercialized, and cars now. Blockchain and smart contract tech is several times more complex than cars, much probably. Of course you will get frustrated if you expect smart contracts to substitute the entirety of the legal system because it's not going to happen, I can assure you. If you look at cars and dismiss them because "they cannot fly" that's on you. There's a lot smart contract tech is doing, can do, and will do. Not only through tech but also through culture. There's plenty of interesting use already, but I'll mention a different example, more on the culture side of things:

People in Brazil are using a new technology to transfer money between bank accounts faster and in an easier manner, it's a hit and growing very fast. It's not blockchain or ethereum, but a. the team involved cites those techs as their main influence, some of them having prior work/interest in those areas aswell and b. they say they have plans for implementing integration with public cryptocurrencies, smartcontracts, and several of their technologies such as smart contracts. Why, you could ask, wasn't this released to the public before, if it's not groundbreaking tech or even a tech innovation at all and provides so much benefit? "Culture".
You'll notice your one source is Glenn Greenwald. One.

Be a shame if his account of the tear gassing in front of the church were backed up by the pastor of said church. Except the pastor (who was also hit with the tear gas) backs up the accounts of the protestors. Protestors who were still out because the curfew had not begun yet. Details. Details.
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/01/867532070/trumps-unannounced-...

This is not to say that journalists are perfect. Far from it. They are after all human. But reputable outlets issue public corrections to errors they've made.
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-afghanista...

Looking at Sicknick's death, I see a large number of outlets all noting he died of stroke.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Brian+Sicknick%27s+Death

You will hopefully note that CNN (who Greenwald calls out) is NOT on my list of credible sources. Saying that CNN is guilty of airing half-baked stories buys you little in this discussion.
Thanks. I understand why my parents did what they did. I was addicted to meth and probably would’ve wound up dead without a serious intervention. Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

(Clean and sober now.)
Oh right duh. Thanks.