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My bullshit detector went off at

> Correction: I’ll always value weapons and ammunition the most. Second? Maybe gas masks and filters.

Why Gas mask and filters? This is not really motivated and does not fit the frame of the story at all. Why you would need those? It sounds more like a Metro 2033 pitch.

Other than that, there are a few contradictions in there, i.e.:

> The politicians kept repeating over the TV that everything was going according to plan, there’s no reason to be concerned

> In my case, there was a man who needed a car battery for his radio.

Versus

> Many died if they went out to gather information, for example. It’s important to remember we had no information, no radio, no TV — only rumors and nothing else.

I'm not trying to discredit this article in any way, it's just that it leaves behind a large "citation/clarification needed"
> If it's like the MAX the real issue is the flight characteristics

The real issue was the reliance on one sensor coupled with too much authority give to MCAS and inadequate failure analysis.

And pilots who did not read, remember, or follow the 2 step recovery process in the Emergency Airworthiness Directive sent to all MAX pilots.
Could it be your phone?
I guess that's part of the problem. No one outside of Microsoft is sure. The uncertainty has completely overshadowed the launch. One minute, they're talking about "soft floors", and the next they're saying it will refuse to install.

Makes me wonder if a power struggle is going on. You'd think they would have a coherent message put together before launch. Recommended system requirements + minimum system requirements, and the justifications for both. That's what's expected from any major software launch.
I took the Adele Carnegie course years ago. It was really good. My cohort included someone who worked for KLA Tencor (minimum deal in the millions, 18-24 month sales cycle, team sales), someone who sold ADT alarms, a couple of guys who ran a T shirt stand on the beach. The skills we learned were mostly the same for all of us.
Yes. Wikileaks' statement is a tautology. It is a neutral statement. Your assumptions beg your answer.

You've asked fair questions, but you cannot presume the answers. Maybe you should start a blog and see if you can make such decisions yourself about what's worth publishing. Some people might even harangue you about your decisions and declare that you're a malicious foreign agent.
That's ingenious, but I don't think I've heard a name for those kind of strings.
Very possible, but diet changes usually go hand in hand with other lifestyle changes too. It could be any one of them or a combination, and it can also be person specific.
See https://thecounter.org/nutrition-labels-meet-recipal/ and https://consolidatedlabel.com/label-articles/how-to-get-a-nu....

The TLDR is not every food needs to be lab tested as long as they can take their ingredients and compare them against national databases (e.g. NCCDB) to estimate nutritional info. And yes, some of the data in those databases is old and perhaps overly general - it's totally reasonable to suspect that vegetables grown in one area, as part of a specific breeding line, in a certain manner, have totally different nutritional info compared to the same generic vegetable grown elsewhere in a different manner.

However keep in mind a lot of food does not list all micronutrients as part of their labelling. This actually kinda drives me nuts and I have no idea why e.g. frozen vegetables don't list things like Vitamin K, magnesium, and zinc when they're often actually good sources of many nutrients.
I don't understand why this comment was flagged and so heavily downvoted (edit: vouch seems to unflag it). Can someone explain? The advice seems reasonable to me.
You're splitting hairs at this point. Yes, all else being equal, I'd prefer not to get the virus too. All else being equal there are lots of things I'd prefer over other things, but they turn out to be negligible and stop mattering in the presence of so many bigger fish to fry.

And I'm not saying they should stop measuring anything either. They should measure whatever they feel like. All I'm saying is most people's #1 concern (including that of those in healthcare) is "will I/others get severely ill", and IMHO that means that's the information that needs to be conveyed as accurately as possible to the public first and foremost. Especially when there seems to be such a highly likely possibility that many people who merely "have" the virus will feel no effects. Of course nothing is a guarantee and it's even possible the vaccines will turn out even worse than the disease in a few years. Nobody claimed otherwise.
No, it's precisely the opposite. The issue is exactly that recipe quotes frequently write "caramelized" when they mean "browned."

Yes, there is a technical definition of "caramelized." No, not every recipe writer uses this definition.

Look, when a recipe says "caramelize the onions for ten minutes" then there is something wrong, right? It's either the time or the word. Why does everyone learn the "true" definition of "caramelize" and then start assuming that the author must have used the right word and the wrong time, and that what they actually want you to do is sit there tending to onions for 45 minutes?

The VAST majority of recipes, particularly Italian or French, neither require nor want caramelized onions. Unless it's a recipe like French Onion Soup, the vast majority of such recipes want softened or browned onions. Take this from someone who has cooked in Italy and France for nearly 35 years.
When my grandparents told me that chicken tastes less good nowadays I thought they were just old and had lost their sense of taste. Actually they were right though.
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> Though it does seem user hostile to remove it, unless the estimate was substantially off and there's no way to fix it.

I think the problem is that users expect percent charge to be a direct, linear correlate of time remaining, but battery discharge isn't linear. Even if it were, predicting time left is tough. Giving the user a percentage rather than a (likely incorrect) time estimate seems like the less bad approach.
This sucks. My school district used a bunch of money to buy every student chromebooks. I remember just a few years ago, back when I was in middle school, I helped unbox all the chromebooks that were shipped to the school - about 2500 of them. Just for one middle school. Every student having access to these laptops made some thing a lot easier, like using Canvas to submit work done on Google Docs.

However, this is in fact a real problem. Our district forced very obtrusive monitoring and blocking software, as well as literal bloat to be installed on the chromebooks - there's like 20 browser extensions that cannot even be turned off, making the already low performing chromebooks so laggy that it's hard to use. Obvious "bad sites" like pirate bay, porn, and etc are understandably blocked, but they also block access to "social media" like reddit and discord.

This doesn't sound that bad yet. The problem comes when students use their own devices instead of the school provided ones. Some sites and services are still blocked at the internet level, but can by bypassed easily. This means that, students with own laptops could communicate with each other using services that chromebook students cannot access. This means that students from families with lower income or with more siblings literally get blocked out of friend groups, with access only to heavily monitored google chat. During distance learning, this problem has only been made worse.

Additionally, district chromebooks are absolutely no less distracting with the various censorship and monitoring and bloat - kids would still much rather browse the limited internet than pay much attention in class. I think there was some study that showed laptops drastically reduced student's academic performance on average. (Though I think access to computer is really powerful for learning how to access internet resources and developing actual knowledge.)

TLDR my opinion and experience on technology + kids
Fiat holder is a ridiculous term in a false dichotomy. A holding of BTC is a security holding just as holding stocks (despite the fact that they are not legally referred to as such.) Nobody chooses between holding dollars or holding BTC. Nobody.

The fact that this parent has a number of children that don't seem to pick up on this is problematic to say the least.
Whenever some “reason” is given to make a major foundational break from X to Y, it almost certainly does not apply to 90% of the things in the bundle. Various apps, system frameworks, etc. do not need to be held to the same minimums for hardware; they just are.

We need to push for more modularity in the systems that serve as a foundation. Or, at least push for open-source or flexibility in the things that are not strictly foundational (and theoretically much more portable), such as bundled apps.

Suppose for example there is a nice improvement to some bundled app in the next OS; in all likelihood, that change could be back-ported to several older versions and be usable on almost any hardware. It won’t be, because it is bundled to something that wants to break everything.
It will create heaps of machines which haven't been upgraded to Windows 11. I don't see why these are "trash".
I didn't see the value in an argument.
All right, then that seems like a reasonable objection to the format, not simply "It's a binary format." gzip files created anywhere can be read by any version of gzip.

A standalone (and cross-platform) journalctl file reader seems like a useful thing to have around and not a terribly difficult thing for someone to build.
The list goes on.

Genode, unikernels like MirageOS, TempleOS, Singularity OS / Sing#, compiler services like Roslyn and Kotlin, MILEPOST GCC, C++ 11+, Tensorflow / TPUs, GPT-3, all of the machine learning in compilers [1] and so much more. I truly think Deep Learning Compilers will be huge.

[1] https://github.com/zwang4/awesome-machine-learning-in-compil...
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It's really too bad he didn't have access to bitcoin.
Everything tastes less good nowadays. When I was a kid, we used to eat tomatoes like apples, just biting into them, maybe with some salt. Nowadays supermarket tomatoes taste like water.
I’m not 100% sure if it was zinc but I supplemented zinc for like a week then had the worst constipation of my entire life. Like, wife had to run to the pharmacy to resolve it while I cried in agony sort of bad. So yeah, be careful with how you supplement!
> It might feel like this but it is anything but true. Prodigy was available in the early 90s and the age of 286 computers.

Amazon was launched in 94. My dad was buying books from Barnes and Noble and Amazon and having them sent internationally around 96. By the end of the 90s the internet had 250M users carrying out all kinds of activities, including commercial.

The comparison with crypto just does not stand its ground. It's been 13 years and counting and there is barely anything to show for it except a lucky few people riding Lambos.

[1] https://stats.areppim.com/stats/stats_internetxfcstx2017.htm
Ok true, but this is hacker news of course. I would expect most people here to be exactly that sort of "rabid trendchaser techie" :)

And of course, the question is how hard is MS going to push Windows 11. They pushed the upgrade from W7 to W10 pretty hard towards end users.
I’d be curious how well this scales.

We’ve had quite a bit of success moving to a product model for internal services. One thing I’ve observed though is that teams lacking strong PM/PO support tend to start looking inward to develop their roadmap rather than outward.

This ends up building little silos in which they are doing something and it’s generally executed well but when you explore their plans it can be hard to see how it connects to the larger view.
According to their FAQ it looks like they'll be offering a trial version once they hit v1.

https://onivim.github.io/docs/other/faq#is-there-a-trial-ver...
I'm sort of intrigued on this 'synthetic stocks' thing. What exactly are you buying there?

In the US, we have 'ADR" (American Depository Receipt) products for foreign companies. A company holds foreign shares, then issues ADRs which can (nominally) be exchanged 1:1 for them. That allows investors to get involved without the legal complexities of actually getting the shares in their name.

They're a normal thing you buy through ordinary domestic brokerages.
I've imposed some dietary restrictions on my kids, but they're mostly glycemic in nature.

- No sugary drinks; absolutely no soda pop, ever, and very little fruit juice, which is really no better than pop.

- No sugary breakfasts. Breakfast cereal is fucking poison, especially the sweetened varieties.

- No kids-menu food. When we eat out, they've always ordered off the adult menu. No pizza, chicken nuggets, mac-n-cheese, french fries, PB&J, grilled cheese on white bread, etc.

Everywhere I look I see people who have let their kids turn into kids-menu kids-- kids who tolerate only pizza, deep fried food, breakfast cereal, etc. And everywhere I look now, I see fat kids and teens with the beginnings of diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease. Any pediatrician will gladly talk about the growing crisis of metabolic syndrome in kids.

My kids went vegetarian completely of their own accord, likely copying me, but they've stuck with it. The main thing is that they've always eaten what we eat. It took a little training, but their tastes developed rapidly (as all kids' do) and from a young age they could enjoy a full range of healthy adult food with few very few aversions.

For example, my youngest still doesn't love blue cheese, but she can tolerate it. My older teen eats blue cheese from a bowl like ice cream.
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Much like you, I think I'm probably the target audience for this.

One of the things that stops me from using neovim - regardless of any changes I'd like - is the removal of gvim. I like my gvim candy; SVG icons in sign columns, better modifier support in maps, drag and drop when in command line, $things_ive_forgot_i_use.

Likewise, I also believe the idea of onivim is worth a licence fee, even it turns out I can't get behind it. It just feels like one of those projects I want to see succeed, even if it isn't for me.
> You had to say probably. For me, that's enough. It could have already happened.

This is the inverse of the intended interpretation. By "probably x decades early", I mean "at least x decades early". I did not mean "it has probably not happened".

The singularity is not guaranteed to happen and with a high confidence has not already happened.
Microsoft isn’t going to do that.
Wow. Terrible.
I understood you now
The article is from May. A lot has happened since then.

This chart of lumber futures gives an idea of the recent past (zoom out 1-5 years for perspective):

<https://www.tradingview.com/chart/?symbol=CME%3ALBS1!>

In a nutshell: a huge advance and now what appears to be a crash (~ -50%) is currently in progress.

The bigger picture is how indicative this compressed boom-bust story is of the future of the surge in US inflation. Lumber is showing us how easy it is for the market to reject ridiculous prices. What's unclear is how low lumber, and other goods/commoditiies that have seen similar booms, can go.

Edit: this links seems to work better

https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/CME-LBS1%21/
Your proof that I’m wrong is some garbage epidemiology study about colon cancer?
What makes this even scarier is the amount of technological incompetence the people have who are monitoring these things.

As far as I know, there’s no legal equivalent to HIPAA(which itself only scratches the surface of things) for ensuring the data and logs of these invasive systems stays under tight supervision.
Now add in the fact that the people monitoring these systems may have an infinite amount of their own selfish agendas in mind for what to do with the information they gather… well, this will end poorly.
Coming from C/C++ and Having worked for 5 years within the java world now, i must admit that the naming "conventions" and variable abbreviation in c code or more specifically Linux kernel code form a high entry barrier for me. Why is it so hard to write things out? We all look up to the various Linux philosophies (keep it simple, do one thing, etc), but to me it feels that this kind of code style is not written with a human reader in mind, but comes from the programmer perspective of "what is the shortest way and type as few characters as possible."

This kind of overhead seems so unnecessary and alienating.
That's not a conventional messenger, it's specifically targeted at journalists and other niche professionals: https://briarproject.org/how-it-works/

If you're in such a profession that requires that degree of decentralisation, privacy and anonymity, you are very likely not using iPhones.
Why can't React devs use Om or Fulcro? Lots of Fulcro was inspired by Om, but it's at least mostly, if not entirely, a rewrite of David Nolen's code, and the ideas and capabilities of Fulcro now go well beyond the scope of Om.
> Profit is the driving factor in their decision making.

No profit means no airplanes.
This article writes under the assumption that fat is bad for you (high fat = junk food), a false idea that still permeates much of society today.
If accurate - and it's rather likely [1] - then the world has lost someone who was quite interesting.

Weird [2], controversial, completely unpalatable to some and hated by many, but most definitely interesting [3]

RIP Mircea, if you are indeed dead, you were certainly not boring [4]

[1] http://thewhet.net/2021/06/goodnight-sweet-master/

[2] http://trilema.com/

[3] https://archive.md/9AvNW

[4] https://archive.md/wip/cJNKb
The issue I have with soylent and some of their competitors is that they get to their RDA amounts by directly adding vitamins and minerals, some of which have low absorption depending on how they are bound - for example zinc and magnesium oxides have poor absorption compared to other zinc and magnesium salts - and which is not substantially better than just taking a multivitamin as far as I can tell.
I'm interested. I don't think it's far enough along for me yet (.vimrc support), but I'll be keeping an eye on it.

I really like the "Outline" view, as I'm often editing large files and would find this extremely useful.
So your issue is that MS will force the upgrade onto machines they have explicitly said can't be upgraded? Is that really your concern?
Another argument against the senseless, detrimental addition of Fluoride in water supply:

"In addition, fluoride, found in 74% of the American population’s drinking water, with ~50% of drinking water having a concentration of 0.7 mg/L, prevents magnesium absorption through binding and production of insoluble complexes."
Thanks for testing it first. Using an analogy, your gut may be an apple and while some other people have oranges.

My hunch is that you could push that analogy further with something more hyperbolic - the gut is fascinating.
> There needs to be a wider discussion of responsibility of hosting providers for the actions of their customers

How about holding the actual bullies accountable instead of shifting accountability to the ISP/Host? What happens in real life (i.e. outside the context of the internet) if bullies harass someone with hate mail until that person commits suicide? Does the blame shift away from the bullies to USPS or FedEx for failing to shield the recipient from the hate mail?

I could see a case made against kiwi farms, but cloudflare? They are infrastructure level and should not get in user content moderation imo
Terrible as it sounds trust is in computer terms a gaping security vulnerability. If anothet clever actor can take advantage of it they can gain all sorts of things at cost to you.

Distrust is like an immune system - it has costs and can occasionally hurt you but it developed and is ubiquitous for a reason.
> This article doesn't explain why it will create the waste?

I was similarly confused by the article's lack of actual information. As it stands it tells me there are arbitrary CPU specs and a bunch of common hardware meets those requirements. But then apparently the situation is terrible, people will need to buy new hardware and the majority of consumer hardware is deprecated.
This is an instance of the orthogonality thesis, by the way. Your assertion is that "increased ability to think" should cause "increased desire to eat Traditional Food (tm)", which is no more true than the assertion "increased ability to think causes increased desire to consume Renaissance art". Desires are, by and large, orthogonal to the generalised ability to achieve desires (the ability which you label "sense"). Some desires are not orthogonal - the desire to survive and be healthy, for example, which is instrumental in achieving many other desires - but to argue your assertion on those grounds, you must prove that Traditional Food is sufficiently dramatically better for achieving some instrumental goal.
Yeah I was pretty surprised as well. Made me re-consider how much of a bubble of ideology I am in.

How could I NOT hear about such a statistic for so long?! Especially with all these other inequality statistics being thrown around.
Agreed, and because people like free as in beer (while not knowing the repercussions of paying with privacy).
10 to 20% would be really high inflation but we’re talking about like 200 or 300% wood prices. Nah, even if we happen to have higher inflation than any other year in the last century, lumber prices will still fall a lot.
Generally the finer specimens go to the whole products.
> We should be extending the lives of existing machines as much as possible right now, encouraging people to purchase new computers right now is irresponsible.
Not just now ..., our entire economy is based on shoving perfectly fine hardware into the trash. Microsoft is just a small part in this game. Also everyone talks about "eco friendly" and at the same time things like that happen: "you want the new operating system - buy complete new hardware - its just slightly better then the old one".
SAD? She has always had a good diet with low sugar intake, her change was literally to cut out meat from her existing diet.
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I have long left the online gaming community but this was no issue 10 years ago. We all switched between TeamSpeak 2, 3, ventrillo and mumble seemlessly.
$ time /opt/oni/Onivim2.AppDir/usr/bin/Oni2 --nofork --silent -c qa

real 0m0,360s
user 0m0,280s
sys 0m0,042s
Well, for a truly carbon-free society, everyone has to do their parts. So no pasta for you anymore after 2030 ;).
It is my understanding that in aerospace much of the software is outsourced and is then QAed by internal contractors.
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Unfortunately, that is what lots of people do not do. Noticed it recently with Vitamin D where everyone was like: "There is much deficiency, there are no down sites, let's all take it." And I was like: "Sure, there are probably benefits, but for people with actual deficiency. There is a test for that, why don't you do that?" But at that point, it was too late because you can't test for a deficiency once you supplement it.
Any abrupt change in refractive index, either higher or lower, will result in reflections. This can be somewhat intuited by analogy to sound waves, which reflect off of abrupt material density transitions.

This is how anti-reflective coatings work-- by "smoothing" the transition using materials that have intermediate refractive indices. E.g., flourite coatings on glass lenses.
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How is that an argument against farms of it? Does Europe not grow maize because it’s a New World crop?