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What a relief it was to read that these particular people were so concerned about misinformation prevailing, as most of what they consider misinformation is many of us call freedom, leadership, faith, and courage.

Social media is horrible for lots of reasons, mainly because it throws everyone who would never normally encounter each other into the same bucket of crabs, but their framing of the problem essentially reduces to being concerned the wrong kind of crabs are climbing too far.
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Reading this comment gave me anxiety.

Liberty is unchecked authority.

That's a take.
Late to the game. Vultr does block port 25 by default, but if you request it to be unblocked for your account and agree not to be abusive with the protocol, they'll open it up for you.
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I think this because:

(a) Access for all but the smallest molecules to cells is tightly regulated by e.g. membrane transport proteins.

(b) similar to a, tissue where exchange with the outside world can occur, such as the intestine and lungs, are even more regulated and heavily guarded by the immune system. Apart from small molecules with the right lipofilicity, some minerals, potentially small peptides, or entities with other mechanisms of entry like viruses, nothing gets in (excluding endocytosis by e.g. immune cells).

(c) Anything entering the circulation will be processed by the liver eventually, where all kinds of enzymes target a broad range of structural motifs to break down molecules into 'non-foreign' building blocks to be reused.

(d) I can't think of any molecules not belonging to a particular known class. There is water, elemental ions, carbohydrates/sugars, peptides/proteins, lipids, and RNA/DNA, and small molecules (e.g. intermediate products). All of these except a subset of small molecules and heavy metals can be either broken down into 'known' parts or disposed of (not completely though; over time waste builds up which is likely part of why we age). Now if there are many inert small molecules, they would show up in all kinds of analytical tests. Inert or not, we can classify all of them chemically. There is a lot of stuff for which we don't know the exact function of course, and as these systems are highly complex and dynamic, functionality can be broad and context dependent.

By the way, the term junk DNA has various meanings in different contexts. In the context of non-codig DNA, this "junk" e.g. plays a role in epigenetic regulation as it influences physical accessibility for transcription. Also, DNA is relatively stable and unlikely to interfere with other cellular processes in the same way that random small molecules would.

I could definitely be wrong though. I'm almost done with my biomedical engineering masters, but over the years I turned to software and all the chem and bio knowledge is becoming rusty very quickly. It's also a field in which knowledge doesn't age well as it has been growing quite fast.
I don't understand why this would need a new language, it seems like tools would be easier. If it is from development, the whole point is to edit functions. If it is to edit live programs, one obvious and good way is to swap out a function pointer atomically and call functions by getting their pointer atomically. This doesn't really have anything to do with a different language though.
This is silly. Microsoft doesn't even consider Windows to be their major priority in terms of money - they're investing much more heavily in Azure. They also have given free updates repeatedly, so this is an especially weird argument...

The reason they're doing this is because Microsoft doesn't control OEMs directly. They can't make Dell or whoever put in good hardware unless it's a hard-requirement to run their OS. They obviously want to start leveraging TPM 2.0, probably in order to properly compete with Chromebooks, which all require that tech already.

Chromebooks and GSuite are a meaningful threat to Microsoft - Google has a huge head start in that they've enforced much stricter restrictions from day 1 on Chromebook hardware. Microsoft is just getting aggressive about doing the same. And it's going to take at least 4 years for them to catch up, given that Windows 10 EOLs in 2015 at the earliest.

This fits far more into their business model of 0365, Sentinel, and Azure than it does with their Windows business model.

edit: Expanding on this, TPM technology is critical to Zero Trust Networking, which I'm quite sure Microsoft is going to want to push - especially since Active Directory is getting ripped out of networks practically by government order at this point. If they follow through on this, in 4 years Windows networks could be radically more secure than they are today. This fits in well with where Microsoft is taking its business (cloud, security, organization support).
Not common in the US. In the US, 40 hours/week is more like a minimum.
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Thats a pretty solid breakdown, but that 3x10^12 was a little more hope-inspiring than I was expecting. Seems like a workable part of a larger multi-pronged solution if you streamlined the plants metabolism (?). Then again I dont know what in the h*ll Im talking about so theres that...
Thanks! If I would have known it would go to front page of Hacker News I would have had one of my construction science friends proof read it first!

I've been writing for fun and to learn and have always been curious about construction productivity.
I wonder if sometimes always telling people to not do anything themselves and use already made libraries is robbing the industry (and especially juniors) of lots of opportunities to learn. Instead of being in control of what you do, you learn to use something made by other people to simplify things. This is a bit like cooking where in the last 10-20 years I've seen appliances appearing everywhere. Some are very good (I love my slow cooker), some I'm more perplexed about (A stand mixer? I usually get by either with my hand for dense doughs like pizza or bread or a hand mixer for more liquid/light doughs). If everybody uses libraries, how are we training new libraries writers? Maybe part of the solution would be to tell people to use libraries, and then read the code, try to understand them and contribute.
2 days before I got married, I dropped the production database by accident from a GUI tool where “right-clicking” can be destructive if you click to fast. The application scheduled radio and television commercials and within 48 US states for a large international advertising group. The bigger problem was that the DBA had only been doing incremental backups and didn’t have a full back against which to run the incremental backups. He had never created a full backup.

Fortunately, given the nature of media buys in that time, all placements were printed and faxed. My team sent me to my wedding rehearsal dinner and spent the next two days collecting printed orders and re-keying them into the system.

I am forever grateful to that team.
You will hate yourself later for the things you could have afforded doing today. In a few years, you will have more responsibilities and it will be harder to change your path.
"security" that is against the user. Some people knew what was coming 12 years ago...

http://techrights.org/2009/04/23/bill-gates-security-as-a-lo...

http://techrights.org/2009/06/25/security-as-a-lock-in-gates...
So some of his ideas were dark patterns that you protested, and others were dark patterns that you supported, and in retrospect are happy that you implemented, due to revenue growth? Did you receive any pushback from engineers, and if so, how did you handle that?
I have so many questions about your background and upbringing.

Edit: honestly I'm curious. Do you have family in the military or something?
How tightly do you hold your pen? That’s a lot of people’s cause of hand strain.

It should be held as lightly as possible. Ideally someone should be able to lean over your shoulder and pluck your pen/pencil straight out of your hand with next to no resistance.
What dimensional scales, materials, turn-around, volume, and/or processing?

Breaking tools and getting G-code just right seem like the perpetual headaches of modern machinists. Other than occasionally being bitten by a bitchy blade-like chip begging to fillet your grizzled knuckles one last time before banishment from the bench to the backyard becycling bile of betal bits.

If electricity were cheap (or the electric meter rewindable), would multiple beam concurrent FDM be a consideration if the materials and metallurgical characteristics allowed it? I think at some point, it's easier to print complex shapes additively than machine them subtractively, and that needs to be part of structured cost decision-analysis for manufacturing.
git-filter-repo is now recommended over -branch by the docs
For those considering a new machine for Windows 11, remember that upcoming Intel and AMD and Qualcomm-Nuvia-Mx CPUs will include the built-in Microsoft Pluton (inspired by XBox) hardware root of trust, which will play a role similar to Apple T2 or Google Titan.

Announcement: https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2020/11/17/meet-the-...

> The Pluton design removes the potential for that communication channel to be attacked by building security directly into the CPU. Windows PCs using the Pluton architecture will first emulate a TPM that works with the existing TPM specifications and APIs, which will allow customers to immediately benefit from enhanced security for Windows features that rely on TPMs like BitLocker and System Guard. Windows devices with Pluton will use the Pluton security processor to protect credentials, user identities, encryption keys, and personal data. None of this information can be removed from Pluton even if an attacker has installed malware or has complete physical possession of the PC.

Speculation: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/o5r2qz/speculati...

Background on secure boot: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2020/3/243026-securing-the-bo...
The problem with peaceful protest is that it can only work if there is very strong international pressure to stop Israel, because they most definitely won't stop by themselves.
The problem with expecting any international pressure, is that America vetos any such event, and Israel work really hard to make sure they always have the backing of all the countries that matter.

In any case, Hamas's existence is completely orthogonal to the reason for Israel's aggression. They want more land and less Palestinians on it.
There is no such thing as a "standard" model of computation, and therefore no such thing as "standard definition" or use of computation.

There is only the model you (and your tribe) believe is "standard" implicitly. Do you actually understand that?

I kinda thought navigating the inherent ambiguity of all language (programming or natural) is a fundamental skill for software engineers.

Communication is indeed impossible when you think you possess the "right" meaning of words.

Oh... by the way, somebody capable of understanding/listening has just informed me that what I am actually talking about is closer to multiple dispatch than dynamic dispatch.

Multiple dispatch is, in fact, more dynamic than "dynamic dispatch". Hilarity ensues.
If we could convert Sahara back into a savannah or farms, the amount of carbon required for the new soil and plants would exceed the amount of extra carbon we have added to the atmosphere so far. And there are many viable routes to do that. E.g. building large number of ocean thermal energy conversion plants [1] to reduce temperature of the north hemisphere, recreating conditions that have caused green Sahara in the past. There are numerous possibilities to use engineering to revert adverse effects of climate change, and to actually improve the climate. The only scenario when we are doomed, is if population declines significantly so that we get runaway effect from carbon we have already produced melting permafrost, and not have large enough economy to use geoengineering on a large enough scale.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_thermal_energy_conversio...
Given the publicity around the "poison pill" "insurance" archive, it's difficult to believe that anybody could not understand the severity of leaking that password.

Although not required or authorized to do so, Wikileaks tried to limit the exposure of sources who would be at risk if their identities were exposed. The unredacted information exposed many sources and put lives at risk. The USG blames Wikileaks for this because they released the encrypted archive. I have never heard of an investigation or prosecution into the circumstances of the password release, but if Wikileaks is responsible, then David Leigh should be as well.

https://wikileaks.org/Guardian-journalist-negligently.html
This has nothing to do with Apple. Big Sur, released in 2020, cannot possibly have any impact on the naming of Windows that started in 2009 with Windows 7.
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I think echo chambers are part of the problem. Previously you'd love in your village and have to get along with other villagers (or move, which took a lot of effort) so people had to learn to compromise more.

Now everyone can live in virtual echo chambers where everyone agrees with them and they never need to compromise. So they start viewing anyone who disagrees with them as pure evil.
No, you also need persistent data structures.
Off topic. (And the OP does not live in either the US or the EU.)
If you're on iOS, try https://apolloapp.io/. Using it on an iPad has become my main way of accessing reddit. Super customizable, has keyboard shortcuts and supports pretty much all reddit features. The developer is also very active and quick to respond to bugs.

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Especially considering that there are plenty of slower clocked Celerons on the list.
Here in Russia it usually requires an external layer of insulation plus cladding, you don't just stucco it and call it a day. I did the math and a wall two blocks thick should be barely sufficient, but needs a vapour barrier inside, or the dew point will be inside the wall, ruining it. A vapour barrier and a drywall finish means no reduction in construction costs.
> AMD only provides drivers for Windows 10, meaning the AMD 4700S isn't compatible with prior versions of Windows, much less Linux.

But how much does that actually matter on Linux? If it's just temperature sensors, that doesn't really matter.
I think it is pretty conceivable that structural lumber could have been more expensive than bricks in the past. Before modernity, there was scarcely enough food for everyone, so using it for something like forest would have been relatively expensive. For this reason, today more Europe is covered with forests than in 1700. On the other hand, bricks only need small amount of land for extraction of substrates, and some fuel, which didn’t have to be prime firewood like we’re used to now, but more like thin twigs from coppiced trees.
This is what state machines/charts are for. They prevent you from entering invalid states, and take responsibility for all changes in state.
Wow, well said. We are trying to build something like this with Circles. https://github.com/KombuchaPrivacy/circles-ios

It’s E2E encrypted, so the server can’t datamine your posts or meddle with your timeline. Built on Matrix underneath, so building federated communities will be straightforward.

Let me know if you’d like to try it out.
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That's a lot of words but you didn't answer the question. The CIA and FBI are not accountable to Americans. You may be a fan of, or even work for, these institutions. But they are unaccountable and authoritarian and opaque.
Thank you for the long reply and admitting you hadnt played the game - careful forming opinions from frens ( I disagree with most of mine usually). Im sorry I really had to skip the mid portion of your comment,as you were talking about possible "spoilers" in death stranding - which is a game I havent played yet. It could be terrible I have no idea. I do recommend though that you play metal gear solid 3 snake eater, its just fantastic. I dont believe you can understand the depth of the worlds kojima creates unless you try it. I too stopped playing metal gear solid 2 - I found it too boring. However MGS 1 and 3 were just incredible. Such great characters. Thanks again, lets touch base if/after you play it. I still have to try MGS5 but I know the story line was ruined my Konami before he got fired/quit.

>I just don't take kindly to anything said that sounds condescending.
It's not something that I tend to witness - are you sure people aren't just trying to help generally ( that is the way I tend to take it when it happens )

>Maybe I am too big of a fan of logical and coherent story universes -- could be the cas
Ah ok I see - thats kind of interesting - can you recommend anything? I havent played games in ages
you can boot debian/redhat/... out of the box without disabling it, as the shim used as part of the boot process has been signed by MS

if you want to sign your own kernels: the shim will also let you do that relatively easily ("machine owner keys")

if you want to own your entire boot process you can replace the platform key and sub-keys with your own, and then trust whoever you want (even adding MS' keys if you wish, so Windows can boot in secure mode)
I just want to point out that this nonsense is Islamophobia and should not be tolerated.
Muslims are no less people than anyone else. They are not the cartoonish evil character that you believe them to be.
> There has always been a place, a need, and a demand for anonymous, free form discussions on the internet.

With the EU terreg and other countries like UK's online safety bill, owners will have to censor content on request or become liable.
Free speech internet is going to be a pipe dream in a year or so.
There is never going to be alternative to Reddit and remaining free speech sites will have to close or become compliant.
that is just one video and one wallet. they are running videos all day. And also, the typical business ransomware payout is only 100-150k.
The lung epithelium has also recently been transfected in humans (see Translate Bio cf drug; this and similar vehicles can deliver editing tools)
I sure hope this isn't the start of the phone-ification of 'real computers', with the expectation that people buy new hardware every few years lest they get left out in the cold by software vendors.
Not unless your hypervisor can emulate a TPM chip.
Was going to say the same thing: Immediately stopping things you enjoy, find comforting and are presumably good at (or experienced with at least), and in addition to starting new things that require extreme willpower to do (e.g. workout routines, intense social engagements, new hobbies that are not current interests)... That sort of thinking has personally been disastrous for me, or at best a very iterative process with a lot of failure and insecurity build in to it. I would always advocate to start slow with things, build off routines, take the occasional leap...sure...you have to to make any significant change, but take some small wins and build off of those. I'd worry someone reading that advice might be inclined to do everything in the extremes (as indicated) and suffer a breakdown or merely cement themselves in thinking they've been defeated. Maybe years from now is actually the best time for you to make that change, or meet that someone. Or maybe you just need to give up screens one or two days ... a week?
What if you want to plug in a vacuum cleaner, hair dryer, space heater, curling iron, or any other thing that might use more than 150 watts?
Wood houses do not burn very well. Pure wood houses (think lumber cottages) are especially hard to set fire to.

The things that do burn are furniture, paint, drapes etc and are present in any house.
I'm not sure this is accurate. I purchased my house in 2004, and it's currently valued at $349K (purchase price $199K). The lot itself sold for $40K in 2003.

Looking at available lots in my neighborhood, they average about $70K for my house size. So that means my house itself is valued at $280K.

So yes, the land has appreciated by $30K (over 18 years), but the house itself has appreciated $120K in the same timeframe. The land appreciated at roughly 3% per annum, while the house appreciated at roughly the same rate.

Of course this doesn't include any improvements, or maintenance costs associated with the house.
Because wood is plenty strong and safe.

I've lived in wood houses all my life, all of them built between 1920 and 1950.

Balloon construction has, generally speaking, been great. The frames are strong and light, easy to run cabling/utilities, easy to modify/remove/renovate (You know what else I've done in every house I've owned? Moved at least one wall - in my current house we just completely modified the layout of the upstairs. Moving the walls cost on the order of a few hundred dollars each, since they weren't structural supports, and it's just wood and drywall)

Basically - They're cheaper, better for the environment, and when cared for last a LONG time. Do they have some specific downsides? Sure. But overall they work fantastically well.

Also - if you think concrete is sturdier than wood frames... in most cases I suspect you're wrong for residential homes. I live in a temperate rain forest (Atlanta, GA) the pine trees are HUGE, and they fall constantly - they hit houses a lot. Most take damage, but it's usually easy to repair, and honestly, the wood frame alone usually keeps people inside safe. Hundreds of houses a year take tree hits, and having someone die is rare enough it usually makes the news. Wood is tough. I've seen a 100ft pine literally bounce off a house.
"... because some bot is trying to scrape a calendar and is now looking for events in 1850 or whatever."

Been there, done that - at least on the side of fixing it. Anyone who implements a calendar, don't make pervious and next links that let someone travel time forever.

I've always wondered how much bit traffic costs us - but never actually tried to figure it out. It is a good portion of our traffic - even when we block a lot of it.
You might be surprised: https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/tornado-all...

EF4 or EF5 tornadoes are around 2% of those in the US (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornadoes_in_the_United_States), which means any state with more than 34 or so a year can expect to see at least one. That accounts for 14 states with a combined population of about 106 million people. That's approximately 32% of the total US population.

8%-ish of tornadoes rate EF3. At which point any state with seven or more a year should expect at least one in the EF3-5 range (yay, birthday paradox!). That's 32 states totaling 270 million people - 82% of the US.