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Are you sure? Here in Germany the basic fact that the two solutions of a quadratic equation must multiply / sum to the two coefficients is taught in high school, but I mean this is only useful for small numbers that are easily factorized.

But the more useful and well-known quadratic formula is always derived with “completing the square”, not the method described in the article (which I think is quite neat). Especially since I would suspect many students never really grasp “completing the square” and just skip to memorizing the quadratic formula.
And yet Reagan (with Bush as VP) signed the Montreal Protocol. And Bush 41 created the acid rain pact with Canada (PM Mulroney).

A lot of blame goes to Bush 43 ("Dubya") for a lot of things, but I generally view him as a patsy for those around him that actually made the decisions and pushed them through.
> the shape and rubberized surface made my hands hot

That’s the main blocker for me buying the Logitech or an Evoluent: aspects like that make me long for a try before you buy at this $100/mouse mark. The extra button is what got me considering the Evoluent over the other options, but they also have a bunch of slightly differing models that makes me even more indecisive. Thank you for your mouse reviews.
XOR is fine, I understand how it works, though I often don't think about it in some leetcode-type exercise where a xor is the "clever" solution. Byteshift is not really intuitive to me, for example in the article, I wouldn't know if I had to shift left or right and would take a bit of time to look that up. As I said, different people think in a different way. I don't understand how people that can understand for loops don't understand map and filter, but I know that they exist.
Usually it’s protection from the initial mistake not the coverup, the US protects both.

Though I am interested if you have some other examples.
> As far as this is concerned, seems like if you don’t use iMessage or iCloud you’re safe for now.

Yes, this is correct. The Messages feature only applies to children under 18 who are in an iCloud Family, and the photo library feature only applies if you are using iCloud Photos.
Does FB use SAML for their login flows? I know Google has several different options and SAML is available, but was unaware about FB. Maybe in one of their more enterprisey apps/services?
As long as the winds blow and the Earth spins, we will have a Gulf Stream. What the paper is referring to is the three-dimensional circulation driven by salt and heat fluxes. Sinking cold water near places like Iceland and gradual upwelling of hot water in the tropics. Net result is transport of heat from tropics to poles and since it is water with a high heat capacity, a lot of heat! If this 3D flow is lessened, it means other things must adjust to compensate --- like midlatitude storms etc. The AMOC also "pulls" the Gulf Stream more northerly before it closes the loop and comes down the coast of western Europe. So UK, Ireland warmer than you'd expect given the latitude. Clear as mud?
Right, that makes sense. Thanks for the answer.

> And the answer to your second question is, the payment would be "income" (defined as payment for completing work) and would fall under income tax. There's no exception in income tax for prizes because prizes aren't even income at all, as you don't work for them.

Is it really so clear cut? I'm thinking of things like programming competitions -- in a sense you "work" to win a prize at one of those, don't you? So then what stops my employer calling all of my work as a programmer a programming competition? You could say "the competition organizers can't profit off of the work", but is that always true? Netflix could've legally profited off of the entries in the Netflix competition (even though they didn't), right? Similar for Kaggle contests. Would prizes from those count as taxable income? And even on something like a game show, they're profiting (or hoping to) from your participation/appearance.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/25/atlantic...

The opposite appears to be true, according to this article at least:

> Stefan Rahmstorf, of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, who co-authored the study published on Thursday in Nature Geoscience, told the Guardian that a weakening AMOC would increase the number and severity of storms hitting Britain, and bring more heatwaves to Europe.

> He said the circulation had already slowed by about 15%, and the impacts were being seen. “In 20 to 30 years it is likely to weaken further, and that will inevitably influence our weather, so we would see an increase in storms and heatwaves in Europe, and sea level rises on the east coast of the US,” he said.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28079665
"Source: energy.gov"? Are you trying to keep readers from checking your work? Use hyperlinks.
Yes, everyone in jail! It’s probably just the md5 or something like that, but I don’t like it either.
you must be pretty delusional to even consider the next generation to be more farsighted. they'll just suffer and blame their parents.
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It's okay. Europe will just turn into tundra and we'll have to deal. We'll find some way to blame liberalism for it after liberals warned of it for generations and were ignored.
Maybe related to totalitarian regimes like China wanting “origin tracking” which means to know who made the insert Xi meme here
> I sometimes view on or want to share documents over sites like Github/Gitlab.

If nobody else edits the documents you could first export them to Markdown or HTML. Pandoc handles that reasonably well.

> My desktop editor of choice is not and likely never will be emacs

That only matters if you want to use the more interactive features of Emacs' org-mode. I only use Vim and still write everything in .org files. I just like how it's got a simple syntax and also enough flexibility to handle everything.
I set up a keybinding that lets me convert the file to a PDF by calling Emacs in batch mode (unfortunately there's no other correct and complete parser).

In the end Markdown isn't bad, but I don't like how basically every platform and tool adds their own special flavor.
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Thomas’ dissent really brings home the point on textualist/originalist grounds.

> If the majority is to be taken seriously, the Federal Government may now regulate quilting bees, clothes drives, and potluck suppers throughout the 50 States. This makes a mockery of Madison's assurance to the people of New York that the "powers delegated" to the Federal Government are "few and defined", while those of the States are "numerous and indefinite."

It’s worth adding that in addition to Justice Thomas, O’Conner and Rheinquist dissented on Raich and just a month ago Thomas noted how untenable the majority’s decision has become with regards to current law and practice around cannabis. The court was motivated to find a way to justify the federal governments blanket prohibition and produced bad law, and if the same case had come before them in 2021 it could very well have been decided differently, arguably under equal treatment provisions.

> Whatever the merits of Raich when it was decided, federal policies of the past 16 years have greatly undermined its reasoning. Once comprehensive, the Federal Government's current approach is a half-in, half-out regime that simultaneously tolerates and forbids local use of marijuana. This contradictory and unstable state of affairs strains basic principles of federalism and conceals traps for the unwary.

> …

> Yet, as petitioners recently discovered, legality under state law and the absence of federal criminal enforcement do not ensure equal treatment.

> …

> I could go on. Suffice it to say, the Federal Government's current approach to marijuana bears little resemblance to the watertight nationwide prohibition that a closely divided Court found necessary to justify the Government's blanket prohibition in Raich. If the Government is now content to allow States to act "as laboratories" "'and try novel social and economic experiments,'" Raich, 545 U. S., at 42 (O'Connor, J., dissenting), then it might no longer have authority to intrude on "[t]he States' core police powers . . . to define criminal law and to protect the health, safety, and welfare of their citizens." Ibid. A prohibition on intrastate use or cultivation of marijuana may no longer be necessary or proper to support the Federal Government's piecemeal approach.

https://reason.com/volokh/2021/06/28/justice-thomas-decries-...
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I think no matter what devices you use, you've nailed down the most important part of things which is using apps and services that are flexible, and can be easily used on another platform.
The Norwegian government and Sámi parliament put a lot of effort into language technology for the Sámo languages. A big problem is lack of openness in platform support. E.g. Google and Apple make it very difficult for external developers to do localisation.
> So every iPhone will now host the explicit images from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children database.

It's hashes, not the images themselves.
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It would be fun watching headlines about a ship being stuck in Suez, if Ever Given was a nuclear powered ship. And what to do about terrorists capturing ships and threatening to blow them up.
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The lockdowns prove your point.
People hate living like that.
And it also shows behavioral change is pointless.
In 2020 we had barely any airplane traffic. Factories all over the world closed, China was basically closed for business for two months. No traffic since everyone stayed at home. Less frivolous consumption, world gdp contracted almost 5 % = degrowth. Result for this horrible way of living? A measly 7 % lower emissions in 2020. A reduction that can only be achieved once, you can’t close the same factory twice. We need 10 % lower every year…

That’s not worth changing my whole lifestyle for. I’d rather pay for geo-engineering solutions instead of something that lowers my quality of life and ultimately doesn’t do much to solve the problem.
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According to a friend that works with utility companies to plan out future capacity, nuclear's problem is the high upfront cost. Companies don't want to invest in building one for this reason alone. Building a new one puts a lot of capital at risk.
And let's not sugarcoat it, the pandemic is far from over, there are still thousands dying every day, but we're pretending that it's all much better now because we are not currently at the peak.

But in truth, and on a global scale, when it comes to new cases and deaths we are at roughly 60% of that peak right now, and still going up quite rapidly.

edit: And of course, the fact that the bulk of the problem is now facing the developed world certainly isn't a factor. /s

Let's see how long that attitude lasts, once we realize that covid anywhere is the equivalent of covid everywhere there may be a change of heart there.
I think the EFF is probably doing good by calling attention to the issue, but let's... actually look at the feature before passing judgement, e.g:

https://twitter.com/josephfcox/status/1423382200880439298/ph...

- It's run for Messages in cases where a child is potentially viewing material that's bad.

- It's run _before upload to iCloud Photos_ - where it would've already been scanned anyway, as they've done for years (and as all other major companies do).

To me this really doesn't seem that bad. Feels like a way to actually reach encrypted data all around while still meeting the expectations of lawmakers/regulators. Expansion of the tech would be something I'd be more concerned about, but considering the transparency of it I feel like there's some safety.

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/ more info here as well.
You'll need to make sure that your terminal actually supports the variety of colors that emacs is emitting and that your terminal palette matches your emacs GUI color palette. Emacs can't magically switch your terminal from a 16-color mode to 256-colors, or change the palette.
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> eIDAS

I'm sure a lot of governments have based regulations and standards on top of SAML... it seems exactly like the sort of thing they'd be drawn to - "mature", more complex than necessary, verbose.

Pretty sure Gov.UK Verify is SAML-based, though I get the impression the new single sign-on solution (now entirely in-house with no external IdPs?) will be OIDC based.
If the AMOC weakened dramatically, we'd be heading for a little ice age or worse. You're going to need gas to get humanity through that. But sure, we can never have enough nuclear power.
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Newt Gingrich holds that honour. He turned politics into a partisan bloodsport in the mid-to-late '90s. It stopped being about whether proposed policies would help or hurt Americans and more about whether such and such would defeat the godless liberals.

The efforts to repeal the ACA show this in its most blatant form. The emotional heft of the argument laid entirely on the basis of one word: "Obamacare". It's no wonder that they failed to pass an alternative despite complaining about the ACA for the 10 years prior.

But going back to the '90s, it didn't help that '96 saw the passage of the Telecommunications Act. This led to rapid consolidation of local radio and TV news stations under one large corporate umbrella (Clear Channel). Independent stations can provide a variety of viewpoints. If they're all owned by the same parent, they start providing the parents' viewpoint.
I think usage-based pricing is more fair than per-seat pricing, and it makes much more sense for SurveyMonkey than per-seat pricing. Usage-based pricing also eliminates account sharing concerns because a given customer can provision as many accounts to their employees or friends/family as needed.
> the more people move in, the better

Or much, much worse for the locals if housing construction can’t keep pace with the population influx. Or your state does the right thing and somehow solves its homelessness problem and then homeless from around the nation arrive (or are shipped off by their home states) and overwhelm the system.
Not sure how to be any more clear about this: No one is claiming the vaccine CAUSED or ORIGINATED these variants. We are in agreement, the timeline does not support this idea.

If you read GP's comment closely, it's worded such that it acknowledges this point (though I admit it could be made even more clear).

Now consider the massive increase in dominance of these strains, not where or how they originated. That is what's relevant to the sources I've provided.

Hopefully with that cleared up, through your "temporal logic" and "direct inductive reasoning" you'll see that the timeline on which these variants came to dominate matches very closely with the mass vaccination efforts.
> Historically, Apple has come down, hard, on the side of "Your device is your device, and where that assumption is violated, we will work to protect it."

On the contrary, if my iPhone really was "my device" then Apple wouldn't make it so hard to sideload software (it was literally impossible to sideload without building software
from source yourself until very recently) - and they'd let me change my default browser/maps/contacts/email apps too.

Apple's stance on privacy is something that really doesn't cost them anything but from which they gain massively by using it as a bludgeon against Google and Android (and Facebook...).
There are plenty of fresh produce items only available wrapped in plastic. Fresh herbs for example, and certain fruits, like berries etc. Either way, I'd say that more produce is sold packed in plastic than not, at least in my local stores.
It's tiring seeing so many people imagining solutions to transport that look like "Cars, but...". Cars are large and cause congestion, even if you make them autonomous. They need to be stored when not in use, which requires turning over more and more inner city land to vehicle use. And it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy: the more space you allocate to large carparks and multilane roads, the more spread out your city becomes and the any alternatives become less viable.

But instead this subject got 1 tiny paragraph near the end, in which this viewpoint "a form of degrowth".

"We can build more batteries, more cars, and more tunnels. And humans will be better off for it."

Honestly I just disagree with this take so much... I'm very far from a strident environmentalist but it should be obvious that this isn't the way forward.
Anecdotally, FB's hate speech detector is pathetic. I have lots of friends run afoul of it for trivial things. It seems no more coherent than a bunch of regular expressions.

I had a post in a group get flagged by the algorithm for something "your politics shouldn't involve saying '[bad word] about [protected group]'".

I suspect the problem is there's nothing that would flag as wrong for a system that just defaults to such crudeness. So that's what happens.
It's been this way before, it just ebbs and flows with each new technology wave as we collectively learn how to deal with misinformation.

For example, when radio was being first pioneered, there were people like John Brinkley who would use it to sell quack goat testicle treatments for erectile dysfunction. He became so popular that he ran for office and eventually moved to the Mexican border to avoid the government shutting down his radio towers.

The internet is kind of like early radio, or other means of communication today. Yes, it's more scalable, but we're still socially figuring out how to trust it, one harmful misinformation campaign at a time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Brinkley
I knew that eventually it'd probably matter what devices I used, I just didn't expect it to be so soon.

But yeah, I could reasonably use an iphone without impact for the foreseeable future with some small changes.
Or a "punishment" system, given the elected sheriff/DA motivation to be "tough on crime".
I would also add their animation system is crap. If you try something like Animancer, you will never ever want to interface to the AnimatorController stuff because is so badly designed.

Overall their business model of providing some kind of foundation to be filled up with plugins is terrible. I don't have an issue with plugins, but needing to rely on plugins for the very basic things like input management, localization, animation, source control... Just so they do less, and earn more (because otherwise people would just wouldn't pay for that, presumably?). That's a shitty way to run a software company.

Only recently they have started to care, but I think it is too late, and it will be hard to beat the momentum that Godot already has. I would bet that in a couple years the tables will turn and Unity will be juggling to keep their market share.
What about all those old government systems we keep hearing about, IRS, Unemployment Offices, etc that are essentially untouchable because they were programmed in something ancient like COBOL to run on mainframes? They're running in emulators now, interfacing with layers and layers of abstraction in modern languages, but by the very nature of the situation they will probably never be updated or altered, because if the immense will to so do existed, a whole new system would probably be made instead. That sounds like "finished" to me.
As long as there are temperature differences between the poles and the equator, there will be movement of water. That's thermodynamics in play.
Take the election fraud things, for example. They know it's bullshit, they know you know it's bullshit, but they do it anyway.

The incentives are wrong, and I don't see them getting better any time soon.
I did say I hoped. I do not have any illusions about the chances of that hope being realized.

What goes up can definitely - and must eventually - go down. This one is on us.
There is something geniuinely unique about this time and place: we're at the middle-end of the greatest golden age in human history. And what we did was give each other a break. Professors gave their students breaks, and judges gave lawyers breaks, parents gave their kids breaks, editors give their journalists breaks, and so on. And what has resulted is a profound erosion of accountability, integrity, and self-restraint, to the point where many people believe that these are masochistic or at least self-destructive qualities. You know, for losers.

My point is that you're not wrong, but it's not just that people are choosing to hunt an extra buck. It's that they've turned their back on the very idea of self-restraint, or the possibility of idealistic, positive leadership from government. It's not a choice because they don't know about any option other than consumerism.

And those of us that whinge about it tend to be engineering types, disgusted by politics; and yet the solution really is political: you've got to learn that system, get control of the narrative, allocate the vast resources of government to the right things, and somehow inspire people to be more thoughtful, conscientious, and less cynical and selfish when it comes to getting things done for society and government in general. And it's a change that, if enough people believe in it, it will happen.
I own the exact Minolta Rokkor lens in the photo but I knew of its radioactive nature. I picked it up on eBay over 10 years ago.
This is how the police gets warrantless searches "for drugs" - having identified the subject, call for a dog and have it "alert" on the subject (or the vehicle belonging to the subject), after which there's a probable cause for a search and everything that is found can be used against the subject. The fact that there was no drugs is irrelevant.

Now let's translate it to digital world and eliminate the non-scalable components - and you get AI "alerting" on the content of your account and it's a probable cause for searching you.

But the best part is of course the Apple doesn't even need a probable cause to search you - they aren't the police, so they are free to search anything at their pleasure and then report to the police. And this report, by itself, would be the probable cause, of course.
He literally does just that in the very next section; “Why is signing computed values dangerous?”
So we are going to fork(splinter) at the first sign of disagreement. I see a plate of forks coming up.
It’s not insecure by design: use is so complicated that you never look back when you get it working. Too complex , so too error prone for most devs makes the risks of vulnerabilities high.