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'Future Belongs to Renewable Energy': Greenland Ditches All Oil Drilling
> “From a million dollars, everything is your passion” (Joel on Software).

That can certainly be true before you get million dollars. Is it still true afterwards?
Which is more important, culture or race? Same-culture bonds of language, ideals, values, traditions look stronger to me. I connect to people from my hometown, of my culture, regardless of race, way more than to people who just randomly have my race but don't know any of my memes or have similar values.

Another example: bonds within military units are cultural, not racial; if race were more powerful you'd expect soldiers from mixed-race countries to change sides due to stronger racial pulls - which I don't think happens, and which would be super problematic, wouldn't it? A Japanese-American soldier is American first, right? Suggesting that race is incomparably larger of a gap than culture has some really serious implications.
No that was just in your head.
yes depending on your daylight, approximately, it takes between 13 and 18 hours. I am fasting one month a year, more than 10 years, and I can’t call extreme, it’s more like need
I totally get it. You might want to read Kohn's Punished By Rewards. Extrinsic motivation, like money, can sap intrinsic motivation. It was helpful to me in understanding where my joy in the work sometimes went.

For me, that feeling of struggling to care can be an early symptom of burnout. My sustained interest in building comes from a cycle of small successes. Getting each little thing working can be a little victory. Putting it in the hands of people and seeing it benefit them, even more so. Each little victory is banking a bit of positive association for later.

But if I force myself to do the work past the point where I enjoy it, I start drawing down that positive association. That can be fine if it pays off in a larger victory later, or if I otherwise keep the balance positive. If not, eventually the work becomes joyless and then will-sapping.

I'm sure some will scoff at trying to maintain joy in the work rather than toughing it out. But I don't think toughness is enough to sustain a career in software. At this point I've changed my primary language 5 times, and I'm sure I'll do it once or twice more. And who knows how many frameworks and libraries I've had to learn over the years. To sustain that level of learning, I think we have to learn to preserve the curiosity that got us into the work in the first place.
> Dentist, vet clinic, lawyer are three.

People aren't learning these professions at folk high school are they?
Possibly a deliberate choice to reduce VR sickness?
I often think about our collective perception of this shared reality, and how arbitrarily it depends on the selection bias in the population of salaried writers on the internet.
N == 1 here.

I had a huge drop in blood pressure once I started fasting daily. Even though I lost only a modest amount of weight (approx. 10 pounds; I was never obese, only slightly overweight with BMI cca 27), my blood pressure plummetted from 150/95 with medication to some 115/75 without medication within a month.

This holds even when I no longer fast daily, only a few times a week. Additional Concor, taken against post-Covid arrhythmias, reduced my BP to some 105/70 when relaxed. Going any lower would actually mean a risk of fainting.

This seems to be consistent with the theory of gut microbiota being reshaped. I can also tolerate milk slightly better than before; my tolerance still has limits, but I won't get a rash after a single cappuccino, which I most definitely used to before.
I think you spend too much time on HN :-)
Tesla drivers are quick to say how safe the Tesla is for the driver/passenger. They don't particularly feel the responsibility of moving tons of metal at high speed for possibly hurting others.
Well the multi-TB range, but Hetzner has no servers, or competition, in the USA as far as I can tell.
Personally, I believe its to reclaim their former position in the social hierarchy.

The pandemic revealed much of the management layer as useless. No one wants to cop to that, so now you see them twisting themselves in knots to justify the return. Frankly it'd be more respectable if it were honest. Sadly, honestly is not to be expected from American "Corporate Elites".
Nice to see Descent getting remade. I remember the extra DoF (and later, indoor / outdoor environments) blowing my young mind. Also, TIL Volition was a spin off / successor of Parallax Software.

Descent is still one of my favorite 90s-era boxes.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Descent_cover...
Indian dev here. Nothing country specific. Stackoverflow mostly. Just google and whatever solves your problem. We are not community builders that work at scale.
The idea that _anyone_ can reliably enough decree what's misinformation is ludicrous. I acknowledge that there are vast masses of incredibly stupid people that need to pretend that Truth is handed down on clay tablets by God in order to function. We're much better off with the scientific establishment wearing this mantle than, say, religious institutions. And its pointless to try to convince these people that science is an iterative, incremental process that's based in skepticism, not certainty.

But the minority of society that understands and participates in the process of truth-formation (including scientists!) produces a widely disproportionate amount of epistemic value, and society depends on this process for basic functioning.

It's amazing to me that this isn't clear to everyone after the pandemic, of all things. The amount of claims that were banned from social media as "misinformation" that became expert consensus a couple of months later is mind-boggling. Following smart and quantitative people on Twitter was wayyyy more likely to provide you a healthy and safe pandemic experience than following the incoherent and self-contradictory public health recommendations (let alone policy). More important than this "direct-to-consumer" ability to discuss the pandemic is that experts themselves form their opinions through this type of discussion. The notion that there's a "someone else" who has reliably figured out which dissent is out of bounds is laughable.

I'll note again that Google's current policy is limited to fairly simple things, but it's an important Schelling fence being torn down and worthy of commenting on (and pushing back against, if yiu believe the trend is harmful).
>If you showed proof to get your driver's license then why do you need to show proof to drive?

The general counter to this is that one is a privilege and the other is a right. Usually any hurdle to exercising a constitutionally protected is going to receive some pushback. The same goes for the firearm registration issue.
Feds crack down on brothers behind 45M illegal robocalls
this is Scott Manley, go watch this and be prepared to watch a few more hours of his other videos.
The body stores fat for the exact purpose of surviving limited access to food.

Most Americans could go weeks without eating, and they'd be mostly fine.

Sudden refeeding is an issue, of course, because of electrolyte balance.

But we have a misunderstanding of how long the body can go without food, by design.

What we mainly need is water during periods without food.

After about 3 days without food, the body stops telling you your hungry and switches to fat metabolism.
Sounds like you would love Nim.

You can just ignore modules/namespaces. While you have some procedures private to the file, you can expose them and they're just in the global namespace.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks that Keanu's fighting choreography performance needs work. He's stiff af.

(I'm referring to the commentary on the Seraph fight gif in the article)
2 out of 3 of those exist already (and cabs before Uber/Lyft). Full self-driving would be great, but that's not what you're doing. You're paying for Tesla's RnD, but aren't seeing the investment upside if it pays off. You're better off just buying Tesla stock or bonds if that's what you believe.
You can have high salary and still be indebted. Also you don't have to discuss salary to negotiate how much they would like to earn as an extra (and that may not even be money). I don't buy it, that doesn't make sense.
Just west of it is Ocotillo Wells. You can rent a quad bike and tour around it for an afternoon. There is a fossil reef (oyster shells), an odd rock formation called the pumpkin patch, some mud with mysterious subterranean gas that bubbles out, and general desert scenery. A little further west is Anza Borrega. More desert, but there is a nice hike through the desert to a palm tree oasis which just sort of pops up out of nowhere. Outside the town are inexplicable (unless you read about it) huge steel sculptures.
The Iranian guide uses many of the same turns of phase as the Iraqi guide, but has nothing resembling the same energy. It's an interesting comparison. (I'm a little disappointed; Iran is a super fascinating country).
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None of those things have stopped companies from issuing DMCAs in the past.
It may be discrimination towards people with jobs, but it's not based on age. Legally, employees are not a protected class. Also, the protected class for age is "people over 40", who are not necessarily more likely to work full time than people under 40.
Consciousness cannot be measured, the only concious being we can know for certain is ourself. It's not an observable property (or we haven't figured out how to observe it). You could remove the wheels from a car and observe the engine running and the axels turning but it wouldn't go forward.

Do you see the difference to your analogy? Forward movement can be measured. And if you removed parts of the car you would eventually get down to the bare minimum required for forward movement because you could observe it. You cannot do this with conciousness.
Which kind of projects do you want to make?
I still like those odds! As the saying goes, “I’d rather be dead in California than alive in Arizona.” I’ll take my chances in a Tesla over a legacy automaker.
I live in the EU. I have never seen anything similar before or after. Is it common in the US?
That's interesting and I didn't know about that! I think at least in the great lakes area things should be ok, but who knows for sure what long term changes may happen.
For whatever reason other than money we got into programming, it's likely not the reason we are still in the field. Jobs suck the joy out of it. The money hasn't been very good for me either.
If only money precluded incompetence. We probably have a functional government, for starters.
The fact remains that there is literally no valid argument where being ignorant is better than being informed. Full stop. Simple math.
I actually feel great doing OMAD as long as I eat by 3pm. That works great for me and I guess I should have mentioned that to tie up the fasting part of that post. I lose about 2lbs a week as long as I’m doing it, more if I stop lifting (which is exactly why I keep lifting while doing that).

It’s just challenging in the context of real life. A friend wants to grab lunch, a friend wants to have dinner, my spouse the Cookie Monster is busy polishing off three eclairs next to me while I’m having my morning black coffee.
Letsencrypt still has a notion of a domain against which all the quotas are computed. If they incorrectly determine the domain an operator could have a configuration mistake and deplete the quota of an unrelated domain
Do you mind sharing your daily fasting routine. I only tried intermittently and always wanted to give it a more serious try and I have to start somewhere.
(The guy can’t talk to the press.)
I am not a fan of slowing something down, but in the multi-method dispatch example, unless it was being exercised in a tight loop (which would seem very much like a single thread CPU bound scenario which is already a problem), then it wouldn't be exercised often enough to make a big impact. That's just my gut feeling based on my experiences.

But if this really is a big deal, then it would be fair to consider the other language features which do not contribute to the reliability, scalability, and other core Erlang/BEAM features. For example, what is the cost of pattern matching in general? Doesn't that add considerable overhead, just for the benefit of making code cleaner? If that's acceptable, then I don't see why "just one more" feature - in this case a homegrown multi-method dispatch across modules - should be considered non-performant.
No Youtube "doctors", proper sources only please.
There's a theory that the difference you're seeing is insulin tolerance.

In your case, you're fat cells listen to the insulin and you gain weight.

In your wife's case, her blood sugar probably runs higher as her fat cells aren't taking the excess.

Getting fat acts as a sort of protection. You may be overweight, but healthier than a thin person eating junk.
Sounds like a perfect domain to explore robust methods that can’t overfit to silly details.
> replace human labour with general bipedal robots

No need for bipeds, car factories employ dumb robot arms, no humans needed. Not very general purpose robots though.

The first country/company to create robots that can be instructed similar to a humans to do any job will indeed have great benefits, but how long until that happens? Not within any amount of time that an investor wants to see. I'm unsure if I will ever see that in my life (counting on ~60 years to go still maybe?)
Confirming that I ran both home and down the neighborhood street to a friend's house for X-Wing.

I doubt I would have ever gotten into computers if it hadn't been for Oregon Trail, Treasure Mountain, Escape Velocity, and X-Wing.
I think my brain runs at twice the cycle rate as other people's brains but the cycles are not so good so I make mistakes.

My reaction time is about 20-30% faster than my teenage son. I beat him at chess consistently even though I inevitably make one or two boneheaded mistake(s) early on but I have a good understanding how to open up and control the space I keep the pressure on relentlessly.

People have always told me not to sweat it about the mistakes that I make and that the fear of the mistakes is just going to cause more mistakes and maybe they are right.

In software I know I do exceptionally well at figuring out things like "where do I pull down data in this React application so that it can flow to all the places it needs to go" and it drives me up the wall that most people go about that kind of thing randomly and wonder why the layout is jumping up and down all the time but don't seem concerned that the render() method gets called 15 times when it only ought to get called once. Despite that, my boss catches an occasional howler of mine during a code review but that's why he does a code review.

I am in the process of rewriting my own internal "software" for interacting with people and I wouldn't know how to explain it or what I am doing except that I read a biography of Benjamin Disraeli and learn from it or watch an episode of Quantum Leap and see it as "performing arts about the performing arts" as opposed to science fiction.
> there's no evidence that it would work

That's quite a silly view. In silico evidence shows that ivermectin can bind to spike protein, main viral protease, and replication proteins:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7996102/

Calling ivermectin the same as HCQ is a strawman approach.
Does anyone have any fasting advice from a reputable health authority?

For some reason the NHS doesn't really have any online, even though a sizeable proportion of the population observe Ramadan. They usually have good, well-cited articles on this kind of thing.
US warns staff in China: Beware of unusual sounds (2018)
"The US state department has urged its staff in China to alert them to any abnormal hearing or vision issues after one employee reported mystery symptoms.

The person experienced 'subtle and vague, but abnormal, sensations of sound and pressure', a statement said.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the incident was 'medically similar' to suspected sonic attacks on diplomatic staff in Cuba."
If they lack trust in their workers, they can replace them, no?

Especially if they don't force everyone to come to the office and hire remote workers.

Win-win
But how to start with it? If everyone starts doing this, won't this make it even tougher than it already is? I have been thinking about just dumping my notes in the internet, but whenever I look my notes, I just feel bad about it because it's nowhere as good as original source. And after a while the note feels like ripped off copy. Same with the bugs, hacks, tweaks. It feels like everything is just out there and I am not creating enough value. It will be really awesome if you can show some pointers! I mean it's hard to detail about bugs that are trivial to everyone else. I may not represent most of the people, but this starting thing is difficult because the quality doesn't meet imagination.
A dynamo connected to a resistance will do. An old bike had a dynamo connected to a rechargeable light, the bike felt heavier the more the battery depleted.

Alternatively get a Turbo trainer or rollers with resistance for stationary training. Lots of people love it but it's not for me, though rollers aren't bad but the it gets very hot even outdoors with a fan.
A report on the fighting culture of the US Navy Surface Fleet [pdf]
Yes, your body is then running on fat via ketones.

I once did a 6 mile hike in (and up) weekend camping trip with just some salt for electrolytes and a pack of hotdogs.
Am I just dense, or was the idea the CEO had just not a good idea and simply garden variety premature optimization?

Also, it seems unfair to say that the database ruins all good ideas when there continues to be significant impressive innovation in the space in cloud services. Like Amazon Aurora for one. If you really want to treat your RDBMS like an elastically scalable (with significant caveats) resource priced by the request, you can.
I would negotiate a different contract, depending on how my work would be used. Being paid is only half the story. Like software licenses: you can use this for free if you release your own code as GPL, but we’ll come to a different agreement if you want to use it differently. Different terms for different use cases.
Use CockroachDB.
Last year I fasted for a week just to see if I could do it, I really wish I had before/after stats and bloodwork done. I don't think it's something I will do again.
How does this play without an actual joystick.

Was happy to see X-Wing etc come to Steam. But trying to play with a keyboard or controller felt awful.

I remember Rebel Assault 2 needing a joystick for a few flying missions(freighter in the tunnel(3), tie fighter in the canyon(7), speeder bike in the swamp(9?)). But the X-Wing/Tie Fighter games just needed one.
No it doesn’t. They scale amazingly well if you throw money at the problem. Most people never get there. When you do you will know. I’ve been there. When you’re spending $3 million on hardware and licenses a year you either have a viable business or fucked up badly. That’s the real decider.

The answer is to start siloing customers or application concerns out into separate clusters depending on your operating model.

If you spent the last decade writing shitty cross database SQL then you’ll have to silo by customer. That’s the only real constraint.
Just in case you missed it, the article talked to LongCovid too. They brought up issues with study methodologies, and suggested that actual events were rare.
Instead those around you, with a degree, suffered. Having to deal with bricklayers that reinvent the wheel simply because they cant grasp cs topics is annoying.
I think they were downvoted because the first response was almost contentless and the other posts complain too much about the downvotes. Yes, there is some "good info" there but basically they are still presented in a relatively context-poor fashion and defensive, and willfully ignoring other points being made, and most active practitioners of elixir are aware of the context, so the comments are of questionable utility except for people who don't use the system, who may interpret it out of context and come to conclusions that are wrong. In short, they still have a shitposty feel.
My sweet spot seems to be 18/6.

I prefer to go without breakfast and have a lunch and a dinner 6 hours apart, because I hate to sleep with an empty stomach. I drink unsweetened coffee and tea (0 calories and may act as appetite suppressant). I generally limit sugar in my food, though not to zero.

On my non-fasting days, I have a breakfast, but I try to have no more than 3 meals a day. No snacking.

I decide whether to fast or not by the state of my hunger in the morning. If I am ravenous, I have a breakfast and a non-fasting day. If I feel only slightly empty, I go without breakfast to a total length of 17-19 hours of fasting.

I am now experimenting with continuous glucose meter to find out what meals send my glucose too high. This, again, seems to be individual. Rice and potatoes seem to act really crazy. Interestingly, pizza not so much.
There's the saying: "don't throw out the baby with the bathwater". What you are saying is true, but we need to hear the voices that would otherwise be unfairly silenced as well.
I read that body odor is controlled by the same gene as the one for ear wax.

People with wet/creamy ear wax smell. People with dry/crumbly earwax don't smell.

I'm not sure if it's true in general, but it's true for me and my partner.

One of our kids has creamy ear wax, and the other has crumbly ear wax. I'm curious if only one of them will need deodorant once they get to puberty...

Genetics is fun.
Does «provide decent quality of life for my family and freedom for me” sound good enough?
Amazing, looks like they completely rebuilt the game, thanks for the callout https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luIUJ5sgT1I
California’s Cliffs Are Collapsing One by One
I have to admit, I never played any SNES ports on the original GBA. I had a SNES and by the time the GBA came out, SNES emulation was pretty good, so I'd played many of the games I didn't own already.

The only GBA SNES port I've actually played is Final Fantasy 5, mostly for the new job classes it adds. But I noticed a lot of the things shown on the video. The audio was tinny, even on an emulator, the graphics looked brighter, more washed out.

I have to say though, I never realized there were so many GBA SNES ports. I knew about the Mario ones and the final fantasy ones and a few others, but didn't realize there was actually so many ports done.

The GBA was a pretty cool system. At the time though, I never actually thought of it as a pocket SNES. A lot of the actual GBA games didn't look like snes games. Most of them had a totally different style to them and played differently. It never really occurred to me until later that it was kind of like a pocket SNES.
Imagine that there only needs to be ten people to “run the world”. What is the population size going to be then? Ten? As large as possible? Somehow it seems that the way we’re headed, it’ll be ten plus some administrative overhead.
What are you using in place of uMatrix?
A week! That is a significant fast. My max was 70 hours or so; I do not plan to do that again, either.
Probably because they think for themselves instead of appointing someone else to do the critical thinking for them.

They think the ones who are gullible are the ones that hear something on the news and repeat it as fact without ever thinking about it.

Anti-science is anti-politics around science not anti-evidence. Things like questioning the Covid bat theory. Glad to see the news is coming around on the lab theory.