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The single most important job for humanity right now is to save this one planet we have from destruction. There is enough time to think about colonizing the stars after that. I'm as much into spaceships as the next nerd, but people need to get real. The world isn't going to end because his next launch is a month late due to pesky safety regulations or whatever else. This effort is going to play out over many generations and centuries. Meanwhile our entire species stands no chance against one slight more deadly virus released tomorrow.

Criticizing regulators is Elon's MO, whether it is the SEC for his Tweets, various transportation departments for self driving software safety, labor departments for covid restrictions for worker safety, FAA for rocket launches... You'd think there is some national conspiracy against him at this point.
> These days, (nearly) everyone carries a camera around all the time, and one that is quite probably much better than the one I had in 1992. They can take dozens, even hundreds of pictures without breaking a sweat, and it does not cost anything.

...and despite that, pictures of UFOs are as awful as ever. ;)
All banks in the EU must offer a data and payments API. The APIs are standardised and must allow third party service providers - which themselves must be regulated - to be able to build services using these APIs. With a user's authorisation, said service provider can view transaction data or initiate a payment, for example. The specific regulation is called "payment services directive 2".
The death rate in Florida is 180/100k [1]. That's pretty close to the national average. If the entire US had gone like Florida, then instead of 613k deaths, we'd have 590k. So, yes, Florida was better than average despite not having a severe lockdown. But Florida also has fairly separated populations: a lot of old people very likely to get vaccinated, and a lot of young people very likely to survive.

For comparison, Oregon had a pretty hard lockdown. Its death rate is 68/100k. If the entire US had that same death rate, 390,000 Americans would still be alive today.

If you look at the data, it is clear that lockdown is not the only thing affecting death rate. But it also seems pretty obvious that social distancing did have a significant impact on the number of people who died. There are thousands of Americans that are dead today because people wanted to go to a party, or a restaurant, or a wedding.

[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covi...
Proton is a bit of a double-edged sword for gaming on Linux. On the one hand, it makes a lot of games playable on Linux that weren't previously. On the other hand, some developers have said that since Proton works well enough, they're going to stop officially supporting Linux versions of their games.
It’s definitely been considered but football has some entrenched traditions and this change would be hard to get through. I don’t think fans would want it.

The rules state that the referee should add on any wasted time at the end, but it rarely seems to happen particularly accurately.
Do diversity hires have never-ending job interviews? Or are they just streamlined in?

It would be considered oppression if black candidate where given as many interviews as white candidates.

Actually it is a serious question. When diversity is apparent what is the difference in the number of interviews required?

Are white and asian males more scrutinized to make up for the logical shortfall of affirmative action hires that just get to mess stuff up while the asians clean up their mess?
Yeah, doesn't it seem natural that being around a persistent social group and spending the majority of the day hanging out made us happy? Seems like pretty much what we evolved for.
You're missing the point because the media (and their pharmaceutical advertisers) have framed everything in terms of vaccination, as if the human immune system is incapable of surviving COVID and it's variants.

All viruses get less lethal as time goes on, not stronger, despite all the fear porn that has been indoctrinated into the public over the last year and a half.
This BBC story speculates that Delta became the main variant in part due to the cold weather. But I'm not sure any one factor can be singled out.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-57489740
“ Instead of 60% vaccination, you'd need 90%, and will likely overshoot that.”

60% (Vaccinated + Previously Infected)
Is there a meaningful difference? Isn't your definition of status-quo more or less the position taken by "centrists"?
The downstream kernels are full of terrible and disgusting hacks. They're just doing the bare minimum to get some semblance of Linux running on the hardware, then forgetting about it almost entirely aside from whatever random security hotfixes they're going to release, and refocusing entirely on their next design. There's no real effort being put into coding for long-term maintainability, that's left to the hobbyist community.
I find it interesting that 85% of infected were males.

Perhaps because women are more likely to wash their hands?

"65% of women and 35% of men washed their hands" [1]

[1]https://info.debgroup.com/blog/bid/297508/are-women-better-t...
It should be remembered that the unspoken rule of any agency or institution is to justify its own continued existence. For be bureaucracy that is the FAA, all the onerous requirements they place on spaceflight is a feature, not a bug.
> salaries are really really low in Europe.

...by American standards. Ask anyone in Northern Europe if they are happy with their salary and they will almost say yes. It's America that is distorting everything with their ridiculous salaries.
> This is where the future power is - not in social networks and ad sales, it's in stuff.]

I strongly disagree. The US was not able to win the Vietnam war with 100x the amount of military stuff. Stuxnet halted Iranian nuclear research. US elections were interfered with by foreign hackers. Microsoft’s revenue is >$100B a year, and it’s mostly software driven.

Information, data, data-analysis, networking and intelligence is where power comes from.
Some kids NEVER miss a day of school. I've known many people proud of that. I've seen that attitude in adults as well.
Truck driver. Anecdata:

Ironically, even truck stops are short of some items, both food and supplies like styrofoam coffee cups. "Whaddya mean you don't have any large cups?"

They're also short of staff.

I was at a truck stop in South Carolina during the colonial pipeline ransomware mess, had no gas or diesel. All I stopped for was coffee. "Whaddya mean there's no large cups?"

I changed companies a month ago, for a $10k/year raise and a $2500 signing bonus. Lunch money for SV, but significant to a truck driver.

My company pays for SiriusXM in the truck. I think it's a special trucking deal, because if I listen to a news channel I hear commercials to switch trucking companies all day long. And for diesel additives.

Billboards across the country to "Drive for us!"
The bit about there being fewer trucks on the road is surprising to me. Depending on where and when, there can often be nowhere to legally park, and you end up overnighting on an offramp, or a Walmart if they haven't prohibited trucks and RVs. Walmart isn't the RV haven that they used to be. If you see a truck, or more than one, parked on an off ramp mid to late morning, there's a good chance they were there since when they legally had to shut down 10 hours before.

I'd like to see truck parking in any infrastructure bill. It's maddening to be chased off an on ramp by law enforcement. This is just some of the pressure that tends to cause truckers to flip the fuckit bit.
Right many types of viral infections can cause post viral fatigue syndrome. This is nothing really new, it's just getting more attention now because of the sudden surge of cases.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3063394/
> They're just dead.

We have exactly one example of an environment that nurtures life. It does not logically follow hence that it is the only environment where life can thrive (unless we choose to define life as that which thrives in an Earth-like environment)

I do agree that probably most of the Universe is hostile, not only to Earth-like life, but to life of any definition. But we cannot be certain. We have never visited nor sent a probe to a 5g planet "100-1000x the solar irradiance, the lack of magnetic field (and thus direct exposure to solar winds), no atmosphere, or atmosphere entirely composed of a toxic gas, extreme exposure to X-rays".
I recall a Youtube video [can't find link right now] between Richard Dawkins and Neil deGrasse Tyson where they discuss probable expectations of alien biology based on parallel//independent evolution on Earth. Eyes were one example.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_Processing_Unit

> Osterloh did explain that the SoC is an ARM chip designed around a TPU, or Tensor Processing Unit
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Deaths are essentially zero now in Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. That's great!

That said, Sweden's per-capita death rate was:

3.3x higher than Denmark

9.8x higher than Norway

8.1x higher than Finland

Not that I'm pro-lockdown while deaths remain so low, but it's laughable to say that Sweden "got the pandemic mostly right." Deaths are low there just like all the other well-vaccinated countries. And the article never mentions the human cost Sweden paid. Any other country could have made the same sacrifice, it wasn't a secret. Most just didn't think it was right.
Thanks for linking.

For a "light hearted joke", that is a lot of effort, extremely unprofessional and very poorly worded. I still don't blame people for taking issue with it. The harrassment though is another story, that sucks and shouldn't have happened.
The author wants that guy removed from mastodon because of an factual disagreement on a github issue? And setting up a torch & pitchfork store to advance their interests. Sorry, this behavior is pathetic.
DARPA doesn't do research or development. They fund it.
How is the FAA blocking environmental protection programs? It's important that we explore, but exploring won't fix the mess we've made.
Very true. I remember vividly growing up in the 1980s and watching Big Bird explain the moral hazard of government-subsidized school lunches. The segment where Super Grover delivered weapons to Iranian forces in Iraq in exchange for funds for CIA-backed rebel groups in Nicaragua seemed rather convoluted and, frankly, outlandish, but I accepted it with an open mind.

These days I am more wise to the ways of the world, and it seems clear that had PBS’s intrusion into the free market not driven out private investment in educational television, I could have instead been exposed to superior, corporate-sponsored values. Alas.
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> Children are at exceptionally low risk from Covid.

Low risk of death, yes. But still a substantial risk of long lasting severe effects: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

A complete loss of sense of taste, or chronic fatigue are both entirely possible outcomes with children, and at this time, it's not clear at all how long these effects last.

Conversely, the effects of myocarditis, while unpleasant, are fairly well understood (and at least one physician I've spoken to was of the opinion that the vaccine related risk was overstated, as the base rate in that age group was bound to be higher than reported, due to the mild nature of most cases, so some of the elevated rates appear to be due to closer post-vaccination scrutiny).
I knew the video marketing thing was taking off when 90% of the spam messages I get in LinkedIn started with "Hey Ryan, I know now might not be a great time to chat, so I created a video walkthrough..."

How does this work? Like, it's literally just the same spam, but with a video. Do people really find this to be more useful ? What makes someone click on a video when they wouldn't have read your email, or clicked a link? To me, it's all the same low quality cold outreach.
Well it's moving human life outside the environment, so that even if something catastrophic happens to this one's there's backup humans.
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I find this article deeply disturbing. It's a highly partisan non-profit, and the newspaper takes its word for everything and parrots the lines.

"Although each of the 714 posts clearly violated the platforms’ policies, fewer than one in six were removed or had the associated accounts deleted after being pointed out to moderators."

I am also HIGHLY HIGHLY suspicious of what is considered hate speech, especially when it comes to Israel/Jews.

I do however like the strategy of outsourcing defense of the study to the Jewish lobby. Brilliant. If I attack the study and attempt to say any of the speech is not hate speech, the ADL can take over defense of the study.

I consider this group, and this article just another arm of the Leftist dark money conservative bludgeoning apparatus.
I think at least two other more significant points are hidden in this article.

1) It has led to the rampant financialization of industries. Core competencies and domain knowledge have become less important than shareholder value.

2) It has gutted middle management, thus destroying internal knowledge and a pipeline for information flow to the C-suite. Middle managers who have technical expertise can quickly understand issues as they arise and then flag them if they are serious and bring them to the notice of higher-ups. However, in their absence, bad news doesn't reach up - simply because there is no one competent at middle levels remaining more. And even if they are, they are stretched too thin. What happens then is a 737 Max or years of delayed 10nm tapeouts.

The effects of both these are visible at companies like Boeing or Intel. The downfall of both of these companies can be directly linked to the above 2 points - which, as the author points out in this article, is a side effect of C-suite consolidating power through management consulting firms and the revolving door between them.

The idea that a McKinsey alum knows more about building planes or chips than a career engineer is laughable. But, some of America's biggest companies have willingly participated in this collective hallucination now for decades.
Obsidian is very nice - my kids use it. But for me personally, Org-mode offers far more than Markdown can ever possibly have. And Emacs, Org, and Org-Roam is an incredibly flexible system - one can tune it to almost a crazy degree and become immensely efficient with it.
Fully agree. Have come to similar conclusions with time.

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That's true! But now we'll get into what is possible vs what is idiomatic, common, and supported by the language/stdlib/tooling/libraries/community. If I remember correctly, Rich Hickey did actually do some development for the US census, programming sort of in a Clojure way but in C#, before creating Clojure. But it just looked so alien and was so high-friction that he ended up just creating Clojure. As the article I linked to points out, "at some point, you're just re-implementing Clojure". That being said, it's definitely possible, I just have almost never seen anyone program like that in Java/Scala.
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Is any of this backed by real facts or just your "kids these days" observations? Today's youth is better suited for dealing with smartphones and the overall connected world than we could ever be. All the people I know with real technological addiction problems (whether to smartphones, social media, scams, online radicalization or anything else) are like 45+.
Full hit! If one think in services, the Hardware is the first service one should observe, just thinking about the running Software ON IT as a service is ridiculous. Good luck "debugging" your performance problems if your Hardware is struggling to keep the Raid up, trowing packets away a hardware level...or hey, running at 600Mzh because the CPU is boiling, two fan's reported errors, hell even fans are services (by providing airflow)
> We essentially have only two lineages of macroscopic organisms that are actually fundamentally different: Plants and animals.

That's not true, we also have fungi as a macroscopic lineage.

Or maybe you put them in the plant group? If so, that's a mistake, as they are more closely related to animals than they are to plants.
Do diverse candidates have the same amount of interviews as non affirmative action hires?
I work around this sector. Big banks sell data to data brokers the same as telcos do. It's unlike Facebook selling your data because the people buying it aren't trying to target you specifically. They are looking for market trends. You are usually aggregated around your demographic. Essentially, the banks are selling the spending behaviors of demographic X. This type of anonymous data is important to businesses like Nike and Coke because it informs their advertising messages.
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That is incredibly disturbing.
Instead of parroting what you read on social media, how about doing a bit of critical thinking on this. What about all the resources going into video games, sports, movies, music, amusements parks, television, weapons systems, desserts, travel and vacations, etc? They dwarf everything put into space exploration, and are arguably less useful. Do you make the same tired comments when those industries are brought up?

And that's not even getting into the fact that multiple things can be done by humanity at once.

edit: apologies for the first sentence here which was unnecessary to make my point.
A depressing thought experiment a professor once posited many years ago....Hitler comes to power in the internet era and now has state of the art tools to find people of certain traits, vs manpower and spies to discover them. Ability to go through your entire lives digital footprint. Every picture. Every video you've created, or viewed on a website. Every location you've visited, how long you were there, and who was around you. Everything you've ever searched. Everything you've ever purchased. Every contact you have. Content of email, text, phone calls, etc. All keyword searchable with beautiful charts and graphs showing how you relate to everyone you've ever come into contact with.
From the wiki you linked the participants were republicans, also not the same election.
SWEs have to learn new things every day to keep their jobs. But, this is kind of stretching the metaphor past its breaking point, really.
I had an sstp tunnel refuse to establish a few weeks ago. WireGuard was fine. Turns out the provider was MITMing tcp/443 traffic
Possible, but I don’t see a mechanism for that at this point in time. It’s not like these people hid their opinions of Israel under a bushel in order to get elected; a lot of the more vocal critics of Israel handily won re-election last year, often against vocally pro-Israel opponents. Their voters either agree, or do not view Israel as an issue sufficiently important to override other policy concerns and change their vote.

If something will force these candidates to conform or leave to a pro-Israel position, it’s not obvious how or why that would happen.
I guess I'm just a very credulous person, then.

Regarding asdf-system-connections, it would probably help if this were core functionality of ASDF. I don't get why it isn't yet, since it perfectly fits Lisp's overarching concept of independently defined things cooperating (cf. classes and generic functions, or multimethods). I might want to ask some people about that.
> there are certain things we can still say about them with reasonable certainty. Topping the list: They evolved.

This is far from certain. They can be designed by someone who was designed by someone who evolved, for example. The evolved life forms may be extinct for millions of years.

Even simple life forms on other planets may be designed, e.g. for someones (analogous to) amusement.
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"Were these the good ol days"

From what I've seen, there's not a lot of people who don't gain a fair bit of psychological wellness from turning off their phone for a week.

I see smartphones as a trade off: productivity for happiness.
Is it defeatism or just accepting reality? What are the chances that Covid19 is ever globally eradicated?
Maybe I'm different. Passive entertainment is dull to me. I don't watch other people play sports, I want to play them myself. Traveling and looking at sights rapidly gets very dull.
I enjoyed the story, but it was a bit underwhelming, to be honest.

I thought that 0HPL would explore the idea that the monsters/demons were in our minds all along, but in the end it turned out to be another story of immoral immortality.
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