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> Argento is portrayed as a human intoxicant, with whom Bourdain developed an all-consuming infatuation... They describe how she influenced his decision to abruptly sack a longtime colleague, and his devastation when she began to tire of his attentions and romantically pull away.

I was also depressed and addicted, then when I quit I met a woman who wasn't good for me. My feelings for her became another addiction. This article clarified for me the reason he killed himself. I can totally understand not wanting to go on living without the woman you love and need in a very intense way, and worse, a woman that torments you.
If your kids stay out of trouble, they won't be interacting much with them.
These people literally put their lives on the line for public safety.
Not just as an emergency measure; if you've got IVs set up anyway (e.g. because you're treating hypokalemia) then it may be more convenient to drip insulin in rather than administering it subcutaneously.
Book has interesting parts, but seems to be trying to cover too broad a field, offering little of the tradeoffs promised in the title.

Is is often very opinionated about a highly technical area where the answer is always 'it depends', offering little balance of opinion before rapidly moving on to the next unrelated topic.

e.g. Somewhere in a section on API versioning is the statement - "Modern services should generally be designed with no downtime required when updating the servers to a new version."

As a grizzled developer in 2021 I would disagree with that, 24/7 365 up-time is hard and expensive, if the service doesn't require it then don't do it. There is a tradeoff between developer effort supporting multiple live versions and synchronization between teams to just stop the service and update everything.

In the authors context it may be true, but the book is titled tradeoffs and all too often only offers the architecture astronauts uncosted ideal world opinion.
> humans are extremely adaptable

This is a strange claim I see repeated over and over, but it has very little evidence to justify it. The only piece of evidence people present is:

> people had colonized the whole planet, except for Antarctica

This is true of a fairly large number of organisms on Earth.

On top of this humans have only been around for ~200,000 years, that's not long at all. Humans have not survived a single mass extinction event.

So far we've seen humans travel around a planet that has been relatively stable for that period of time. There have been plenty of species that have traveled around with us that didn't even need to rely on extra tools, clothing or the use of energy to survive.

Humans share several vulnerabilities with other megafauna that have all gone extinct. A major one is a fairly long gestation, plus small number of offspring per generation. Human young likewise need tremendous amounts of care and energy to raise to mature adulthood. Additionally human have fairly high energy requirements to support their complex brains.

We've seen exponential rise in human population only because humans have had access to excessive amount of non-renewable, high-energy density sources of energy.

It just happens that humans have lived on a planet that has mostly been within survivable temperature changes, with historic climate changes happening on time scales that lead to easy migration. As you pointed out, the one continent that does not have an environment that supports human life remains empty.

Humans can't survive a wet bulb temperature of 35C. Until just recently we never saw that temperature on this planet. As we see more and more places reach that temperature more often, I suspect we'll see how frail human adaptability is.
I haven't used Anki yet but I want to try -- any idea which of the many mobile apps is best?
> In an awkward attempt to decry hate amid the Israel-Palestinian conflict, he listed all the Jews he knew who he said were good people. Employees said his public admission, which omitted major historic Jewish events, made it difficult for public-facing developer advocates who are tasked with being the face and bridge for Google developers internally and externally.

It is weird to create a list of "good" Jews. But it seems to me like it may be a genuine attempt at positivity.

Most of what talking heads cry about Cancel Culture is just "consequences for having bad attitude/behavior". But this case seems like things going overboard.
My explanation is I don't take any remark as a literally as you do, especially in a disingenuous fashion meant to further a political argument.

Ex. Ball player says, "we're going to kill 'em tomorrow".

You: "omg this athlete says he's going to murder his opponents at the game tomorrow."

Me: "no he didn't lol."

You: "FULL STOP. Here's the quote. He literally said it. Did he not say the word "kill 'em"???? Why are you denying that he said he was going to kill people? Clearly he has communicated his intent and endorsement of murder, we need no further context for this speech. "

Me: "ok."
Great illustration of why respect for individual rights is so important.

There will always be some megalomaniac, whether dictator, president, cop, or some authority figure, who "knows best".

Individual rights are the brakes. They're the lines we've agreed not to cross as a society, even when we're really sure we "know best". Example: property rights. No matter how sure you are that there's stolen property in the building, even law enforcement doesn't get to enter without a warrant.

Individual rights limit what others can do.
I'm not seeing this yet. Perhaps you could explain it to me in plain terms.
> It is a perspective in the philosophy of mathematics

So it is a philosophical perspective…?
Now, as ever, the advice to never apologize to this particular crowd holds true. Google is just one more bunch reinforcing this point.
Anyone interested in this topic should spend some time on Isaac Arthur's series about the Fermi Paradox. There's an episode on this called Hidden Aliens [1]. It's a flawed idea.

If you assume that we live in an FTL universe subject to the laws of thermodynamics (as I do), mass and energy (being basically the same thing as we know) are the ultimate limiting factor. This basically means bigger is better. Remember such a civilization is likely thinking on time lines where a trillion years is a blink of an eye.

So how will a spacefaring civilization evolve? Likely into a Dyson swarm for three primary reasons:

1. It requires no new physics. It's essentially an engineering problem that only requires materials as complex as stainless steel and energy tech no more complex than solar power. If you get better tech (eg fusion, graphene for construction) this outcome becomes more likely not less;

2. Orbitals are a highly efficient way of creating living area. A full Dyson swarm around our Sun would likely consume <1% of the mass of Mercury, for example; and

3. The energy output of the Sun is essentially "free".

A full Dyson swarm makes you a Kardashev-2 (K2) civilization. On the Carl Sagan scale, that means you're consuming ~10^26 Watts of power. And that's just for one Sun. Now consider:

1. Such a civilization is capable of sterilizing the galaxy in 100,000 years if they choose to;

2. There's really no hiding from such a civilization;

3. There's really no hiding a Dyson swarm from a Dyson swarm from an advanced civilization due to the IR signature it would produce. This has nothing to do with say radio communications.

Remember with the Fermi Paradox you don't have to establish what the average civilization does. Say there are 5 spacefaring civilizations in the Milky Way. What are the odds that all of them hide? Now imagine there are 100. The odds of them all hiding are much lower. And it only really takes one who decides to build Dyson Swarms and expand beyond their star to be detectable.

So I can imagine a splinter of a civilization decides to "hide". A good example of this would be if fusion becomes viable. One could sink habitats into Neptune, which is not particularly dense, and probably live there undisturbed and unfound for eons is quite high. That's probably more hidden than, say, trying to hide between stars.

It's just not likely that as the number of civilizations increases that all of them go that route.

My view is that spacefaring life is just quite rare. We may well be the only one within out light cone within the Milky Way. Why that is is an interesting topic.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEBn8bc0k-I
Managing Boot Environments
Curious, why the insistence on mechanical for a portal keyboard?

Perhaps I’m atypical, but I type more relaxed, smoothly, and faster on non-mechanical than mechanical.

Point of comparison is 150-175 wpm on laptop keyboards as opposed to 120-145 on mechanical. I’ve owned many mechanical keyboards, including very high end ones, and remain mystified about their aura.
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/lib/systems/exa... for examples of the platforms we support today.

https://nix.dev/tutorials/cross-compilation#cross-compilatio... for an approachable introduction.

Currently we just support Unix -> Windows via MinGW. That's not good enough for AAA games.

But in the works is:

- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/72366 Windows cross via LLVM and auto-downloaded MSVC runtime (you do need to indicate you signed the license, but that's it). I've heard of running cl.exe in Wine, and we could do that too

- https://github.com/nix-windows/nix Windows port of Nix

We finish these things up, and then we have the flawless Unix <-> Windows I advertised.
>> anonymous / pseudo-anonymous forums, so they can't be linked to you

Such places increasingly do not exist.

With few exceptions, practically all electronic communication can be traced.

Microphones are almost everywhere and voice recognition is very advanced.

"Privacy" increasing means that someone is paid well enough to not need to monetize your communications, but that they will still have the data ready to hand over if law enforcement comes knocking with a warrant or subpoena.
> If you're using melodies and samples from work hours, then maybe not.

That would not be a question of competition, but of IP theft.

> And it would be tough to argue that your at-home trading app code is completely uninfluenced by ideas you have at work.

How is that of any relevance? I can have ideas about a better way to wipe my ass at work, is my novel ass-wiping implement competing with the company?

And even if it were, mere competition should not be enough for NCCs to trigger. NCCs should be about unfair advantage owing to the exploitation of sensitive or confidential information.
True. These guys were maintaining (and updating) software for a hardware platform that was 35+ years old.
It still amazes me that one, the mirrors are sensitive enough to the deformation of Earth's gravity to have an effect and two, that we are now very good at compensating for this now.

Also consider that the mirrors on James Webb space telescope need to account for both deformation from gravity when they are manufactured but also that they are manufactured at room temperature and will be operated at cryo temperatures. But JWST is also special since they have actuators to put stress on the mirror segments to be able to reshape them slightly on-orbit to focus.
That wasn't really my point. I'm more just saying that there is the risk that, let's say "climate dimming" is a thing, and we somehow pressed forward and cut all the emissions, and then it happens when we didn't expect it. What does that mean for us?

We're playing with the world here. If scientists mess up and their reaction to climate change causes other problems, nobody will listen to a scientist ever again on this issue, and that comes with its own risks.
Having worked with some law enforcement records software I can say that "paperwork" (which now involves filling out electronic forms) and waiting for state database queries to come back are definitely a time suck. The officers who I know would like the process to be faster as well. Being stopped on the roadside is a dangerous situation that nobody wants to be in longer than necessary.
Non-competes undermine one of the main ideas underpinning capitalism: the free flow of labor. Otherwise, you're just a damned serf.
Although I very much enjoy the novel, I think Vlad's theory is more likely to be true:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9kbcGfX35M&ab_channel=Peter...

As of myself, I also have a theory why it's difficult for civilizations to see each other:

1 - You need very advanced technology to break through the barrier of speed of light (worm hole, someone?)

2 - Such advanced technology will need a long, continuous period of peace and prosperity for researchers to figure it out. Wars are "useful" in certain way but not always.

3 - Intelligent beings are in general greedy (regardless of their biological construction) and they want to take as much resources as possible.

4 - The resources in the universe is unlimited, but the resources that one civilization can obtain is very limited.

5 - Combine 3 & 4, you can probably figure out that the "long, continuous period of peace and prosperity" is very much unlikely and very likely to be broken by wars within the civilizations.

6 - The more advanced the civilizations they are, more likely those wars will wipe them out completely.

7 - Even if they managed to avoid those destructive wars (unlikely already). Another factor we need to consider is the number of smart scientists and technicians that can figure out and implement those fancy technologies.

8 - Yeah for sure, one man, such as Newton or Einstein can leap forward our understanding of the universe.

9 - But you need a very large of population to "grow" one Newton or Einstein.

10 - Go back to 3 & 4, now tell me, even if they manage to avoid wars, can they also avoid creating a caste and shut everyone else out of a prosperous life? I mean look at ourselves.

11 - If such thing happens (eventually), there is not going to be enough population to create a Newton or Einstein. And science/tech eventually just don't go forward.

12 - Combine 6 & 11, it is really very, very unlikely for any civilization to develop advanced technology to travel beyond the speed of light, which also means we don't get to see them (very often).
Or maybe that carbon based intelligent life that wanted our planet it's us.

We were almost wiped out after the first large impact. The impact that happened a few millennia after we killed all those awful looking smarty octopus that lived in this planet. But we could not defend against the large Comet, it come from behind the Sun and way too fast. We had minutes notice.

Some microbes survived...And here we are again typing on our keyboards. :-)
What makes you think I'm talking about the scraps?

I'm something between fiscal conservative, neoliberal, libertarian, and moderate. Labels are bad imo.
Also I'm pretty sure steam has a clause in its TOS that will open the DRM on all your steam games if steam shuts down
If Facebook likes this idea, I have some more amazing research programs they might be interested in. \s
We definitely don’t have the full story in situations like this. Google can’t and won’t provide their side of the story because it’s internal company HR business. Meanwhile, the employee can and will use LinkedIn to shape the narrative in a way that is beneficial to their reputation.

Is the LinkedIn post renouncing their anti-semitism a spontaneous act that triggered the firing? Or were they internally in trouble with HR and the LinkedIn post renouncing antisemitism was a last-minute attempt to get ahead of an issue that could damage their career? We can’t know, but I suggest being careful whenever someone expertly and publicly spins themselves as the victim in a situation like this.

Either way, a company’s hands are virtually tied when someone publicly makes declarations like this:

> “I hated the Jewish people, all the Jewish people”!

And that same person is responsible for matters of customer relations and/or managing internal employees. Whether or not he genuinely renounced his beliefs, making a statement like that adds suspicion on top of past and even future actions by this person. When (not if) he has to make a difficult decision or take an unpopular action involving Jewish customers or employees, they will always wonder how much his public declaration of past hatred for Jewish people was a factor.
We arnt slowly learning the threshold. It's known, and we passed it a long time ago. People turn off tracking when given the choice and told what is being tracked already. Much less some future peering inside the brain.
Life after Fitbit: Appealing to those who feel guilty vs. free
> the fact that humans beings are doing better than they've ever done in our history by almost every imaginable metric.

That's because we have had ready access to insanely abundant high-energy density source of energy.

The non-fossil fuel supported carrying capacity of the planet for humans is estimated to be somewhere around 1 billion people. When the fuel runs out (if we don't cook ourselves first), that will collapse.

It is nothing intrinsic about humans that have lead to our recent success, just access to lots of nearly free energy.

edit: why the downvotes? Is there even anything controversial in these statements? HN's fear of bad news is getting out of hand.
Should You ‘Buy the Dip’?
> There's just something unsustainable about an environment that demands constant atonement but actively disdains the very idea of forgiveness.

-- Elisabeth Bruenig
Unrelated, but which ones of these do you recommend (also factor in LiquiBase) that's free?

As far as automatic tests for dbs - I have no idea what you are talking about unless you mean integration testing through a backend.
The freedom to downvote. A downvote should force the downvotee to give a reason why.

A reason seperates the signal from the noise. The original poster can dispute the downvote given; which Reddit and HN, slashdot are all prone to. Karma points only encouragesusers to vote negative without thought if the output is already negative. As the same with positive.

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Edit: My current downvote is a good example. I'm at 0.

I have been downvoted. I do not know why. Has some brigade decided to target my post? Downvoted because of my username? Unhappy with the idea? Does someone a personal vendetta agaisn't me?

An explanation to why would provide civil discussion and seperate the bots/power-trippers from those who do want to contrbute civily. The conversation was on point, contributing civily. Nothing unconstructive was within my text, yet it leaves me baffled to why I was downvoted. Was it soley because I clash with someones view and they don't want to challenge it? I like to earn my "internet points" in a solitude fashion but it only takes one bad actor to screw the show.

Forcing the user to give a reason to why, well that would be a different story. Users further down the line could then decide if that downvote was the worth. If that user is a being a bad actor. For now, it's marked as 0 and you can watch the trend.
I dunno about pure Arch, but when I was using Manjaro (an Arch derivative) upgrading often was never a problem for me, as the system stayed ridiculously stable (in a never crashing or breaking on me in any unexpected ways sorta sense), so I imagine as long as Valve makes it a point to test each upgrade they push for any unexpected oddities before they push it to the end-user, there shouldn't be any problems there.

As for the games themselves, Valve's been workin' hard on their Steam Linux Runtime containerized game thingy, and Proton sorta "containerizes" (WINE prefixes) things, so that allows for a reasonably stable environment for any given game which already runs well in those scenarios.

TL;DR: I doubt Valve will have too many problems keepin' this thing fairly stable from an end-user point of view unless you start hackin' around on it changing too much, then it's all on you what happens next. ;)
yes to both causes
No, you!
Yes, it seems that the Fermi paradox implies that other civs progress beyond what we consider signs of intelligent life. The great filter seems less likely as we get close to colonizing other planets, and then other solar systems.
Specs say it’s a 15w unit (much lower than Hades Canyon), so I imagine the performance will be lacking as it appears to be a Zen 2 based APU.

Would be interesting to see how this does on Zen 4 with the 5nm upgrade.
Conversely, what if we press forward and there are benefits we don't expect?
> This would mean that you can then also work in a related but not competing industry at the same time.

If they're going to do it at all, and limit cruelty in the equation as much as possible, it should be very limited to directly comparable and competing products (Windows vs MacOS; Google Search vs Bing; consumer desktop operating systems and consumer search as narrow categories), rather than the industry broadly. Most people have a narrow labor specialization and spend their work years building up expertise and reputation in an industry. Any denial of work potential and opportunity that targets an entire industry is akin to labor cruelty and should be viewed as a human rights violation.
Severe drought marks California landscape [photo essay]
You would run into this problem even if you aren't using the database number as your primary key. We don't want to force the user to generate the incident handle (slowing down incident creation) so a sequence of number is useful.

Generating the sequence in application logic can make it challenging to guarantee we don't duplicate numbers if two requests come in at once (you don't want locks/global synchronous state in the application if you can avoid it), so having the database generate them is a good fit.
Does anyone know how the story currently is for MITM'ing Android?

I had fun reverse engineering app APIs a few years back, but I looked into it again more recently and found that Android has started pinning certificates by default even on apps that didn't pin anything themselves. I also had trouble getting my custom certificate to be used at all, when it used to be pretty easy.

Can Frida still bypass pinning, even this new default one, or is it done at OS level?
Studies show that the narrative will be rejected just as strongly if it’s presented neutrally with facts alone. I don’t disagree with your point in general, but non-polarized news isn’t much more able to get through to opposed people than polarized news. It turns out to be more complicated, generally requiring personalized one-on-one conversations, and can’t really be scaled up to broadcast media.
Problematically though, in most of the US ridiculously broad NCCs are enforceable. The only place where you're safe is California, where the only way for an NCC to stick is related to business (co)-ownership (selling the business, dissolving a partnership, or dissolving an LLC). Out-of-state NCCs are also un-enforceable in California.
Looks like Russia covers a year solid for unemployed people.

See reply above.
Unfortunately, quite a lot. Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/251884/murder-offenders-...
How is this going to be able to play AAA games? It's going to need to emulate x86, as well as add the WINE layer for compatibility. I can't imagine this being able to keep up.
I subscribe to the Economist and Bloomberg Businessweek, which is sometimes obnoxious in the name of youth appeal, but also runs longer articles at a slower cadence, when enough time has passed to know what happened: for instance the Ever Given getting stuck in the Suez Canal. Businessweek will have a good article when the facts are in about the Florida condominium collapse while all the other news outlets have forgotten about it.
Those with a bit more math background may enjoy Cohen's own perspective on the discovery of forcing: https://projecteuclid.org/journals/rocky-mountain-journal-of...

(Not technical as these things go, but helps to have a little knowledge of logic / set theory and some amount of "mathematical maturity.")