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> The tool I have where I feel like I have an insane amount of power that isn't widely known is Wolfram Mathematica

I’m pretty sure I’ve heard that the Wolfram Language is in fact considered a Lisp, albeit one using M-expressions rather than S-expressions [0]. But I can’t seem to find a source for this though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-expression
Preallocate that? If it's modal, you should never have more than one, and the allocator associated with the msgbox should know to use that scratch space instead of fetching new memory.

This is nontrivial in several PLs.
>Some of the most potent images produced by the political right in the 2020 cycle featured looters and rioters smashing stores and burning buildings in major American cities. Donald Trump and congressional Republicans, these ads warned, were the only thing standing between these rioters and your home.

Acting like things happening under his rule were a problem detached from his responsibility. If only every leader could get away with this.
The article does a good job summarizing what works on an iPad and what doesn't !
To that, I will add that iPads are designed as a "single user" device. Sharing one between family members means you have to let them use your Google, Spotify, iCloud accounts.

Now that their hardware is all lined up between laptops and mobile devices, I fully expect the merge to happen in a few years. I feel Apple's software has been stagnant for too long and I won't be buying new hardware until then.
Woohoo! Congratulations to everyone involved on the release! I’ve tried almost every distribution under the sun and my heart always goes back to Debian. I’ve been running Bullseye for a few weeks (the RC’s) and it has been a pleasure.
> IPv6 will never happen without someone forcing hands of big corps and ISPs to switch to Ipv6.

But it is happening. https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html shows it slowly but steadily increasing.
Do we apply this thinking to any other public health threats? Smoking for example, particularly for those forced to be around smokers like their children? I'm curious to hear the arguments for why this virus needs to be treated differently to all others that have come before, and to other public health issues.

Not trying to start a fight here. I just haven't been convinced yet why our old behaviour towards threats like CoV-2 doesn't apply to it itself.
I wonder how far it would be possible to go with an open source / open hardware to have open process for IC development and production.

What I mean is given relatively old process but new tooling and software, could we expect to make usable system that is completely transparent from security point of view? And resistant to future attempts at preventing people from having access to trustworthy hardware?
Since robots.txt alone is not enough to keep a site away from being indexed by Google, I have previously used to include

<meta name="robots" content="noindex">

instead when I don't want a temporary site to appear in search results.

However, it can be a drag to make sure you have that header tag included while not including it in a production site.

Today I learned that there's a HTTP header that we can use instead to get the same effect. And in my case this simplifies things a ton. So I am posting this link about it here for others that are unaware about the X-Robots-Tag HTTP header.
You have a problem, bro. And a big one, IMHO.
Agriculture in California uses billions of gallons every day, a few million gallons of diversion is the kind of thing you'd compare to personal use instead, to make it seem significant.
> So, a language that excels when used by small teams and lone hackers...

When you're trying to do something that hasn't been already done programming-wise. For most other cases you would be better served by a language with a healthy and large ecosystem.
Off-topic, but I'd appreciate a hint: because I don't see a link to change language: what's the non-negotiated English URL?
I think the slippery slope argument this creates is what is frightening a lot of people.
What do you mean? iPadOS has keyboard and mouse support. Apple sells a first-party keyboard accessory for iPad.
A lot of things work this way. The government is quite literally taxing some of your income and using it to check if you're doing anything wrong.

When a cop is checking your car for parking violations, they're using some of your taxpayer dollars to see if you're doing something wrong. You don't benefit at all from your car getting checked. But you probably benefit from everyone else's cars being checked, which is why we have this system.

Or similarly, you don't benefit from airport security searching your luggage. It's a waste of your time and invasion of your privacy if you don't have anything forbidden and even worse for you if you do have something forbidden. But you help pay for airport security anyway because it might benefit you when they search other people's luggage.

You don't benefit at all from having your photos scanned. But you (or someone else) might benefit from everyone else's photos being scanned (if it helps catch child abusers or rescue abused children). It's just a question of whether you think the benefit is worth the cost.
Having survived Covid is better than some vaccines; forcing people to then pay Pharma companies is kind of a funny response, especially when there are still many people in the world that are under lockdown that want vaccines, you can easily argue it is not ethical.
"You haven't failed until you stop trying" or "Failure is a choice" ... There's lots of other phrasings of that, still good advice.
Misleading sensationalist headline. The only two crimes the article describes as having risen after marijuana legalization are (1) the crime of selling marijuana without a license, and (2) the crime of stealing water in California to grow marijuana.

The author does not explain why (1) is bad. With other drugs the problem is adulteration, but that's because those drugs are typically hard to make. Marijuana is literally a weed; it's so cheap to grow, and so widely recognizable, that adding dangerous additives makes little sense.

And the author does not put (2) into context. Farmers in California steal water. Some of those farmers are marijuana farmers. But more importantly, California mismanages the bejeezus out of its water by giving farmers, last I checked (admittedly more than a decade ago), a price literally one-thousandth the price city-dwellers face. This is why California grows thirsty crops like alfalfa and almonds in the desert.
I don't have to assume that *every* restriction is scientifically based to know that *some* restrictions, quarantines and (virtually all) vaccines are important science-based tools for fighting a pandemic.
I thought this was interesting so I looked up the naming conventions for knights. For the curious here’s some info:

https://www.geni.com/projects/Naming-Conventions-for-Knights...
The last earthquake was in 2010. 11 years seems is arguably a break.
Try just installing SBCL using Homebrew and then setup either VSCode or Emacs (or Vi, my last manager lived in Vi when doing Common Lisp and Clojure development).
When trains first ran, it caused great moral upheaval. Old men waving their canes at the machines. Photographs were seen as a cheap alternative for "real" paintings.

What causes the outrage at these models and their output? Is it fear? Notice how critics often deem it necessary to use disparaging remarks:

"soulless, no insight or deeper meaning which we find in quality writing, completely cliched, ignoble, phony"
> the problem we study becomes interesting if σ = ω(1), which is the setting of this article.

What does “ω(1)” mean in this instance?
From my perspective (also iOS and macOS dev) PWAs can be great for a lot of use cases, especially if you just need a mobile offering for an existing SaaS product. If Apple actually implements some of the required features for PWAs in Safari they will still always be missing native controls, gestures, navigation will be off and I think the biggest difference is you'll be missing access to all the deeper integrations you can do with the OS through Apple's various frameworks and APIs. Whether or not thats important to your app varies a lot, for a lot of CRUD apps that need something in the stores the PWA approach with capacitor is likely fine.

For the record I'm also pro Apple implementing richer PWA support as I personally see both approaches coexisting.
> Like this one? https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.31.21258081v... Or you can go find one of the 21 others FLCCC cites (excluding Elgazzar's).

Did you read the top comment on your link? “There are a number of concerns with the methodology and consistency in this study: [. . .] might be true that Ivermectin does reduce viral shedding time in mild to moderate COVID-19. However this study is not rigorous enough, includes amendments which could have introduced bias, and has methodological issues. In my opinion it should not be accepted as good evidence that ivermectin reduces viral loads and could reduce isolation time in patients with COVID-19.“

> hope you didn't bury those goalposts too deep as you'll need to move them again.

My point is FLCCC assertion is meaningless. Why cite to them and not direct to trials or meta analysis of trials?

> Meanwhile the meta-review you cite is the one that managed to "find" only 18 trials

As with any high quality meta analysis it describes their search strategy for finding and selecting studies for inclusion: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...

Notice how in your own two posts you’ve switched the number dramatically? ‘they have 60+ peer-reviewed studies showing that it works’ vs now ‘find one of the 21 others FLCCC cites (excluding Elgazzar's).’ This is a good demonstration of how easily the number can be changed when you use a different search method and less or more filtering.
I went into Decathlon yesterday, and only two bikes were out of stock. Compare to this time last year when there were only two in stock...
People shouldn't be allowed to ask questions or make uneducated guesses to explore and understand the problem and satisfy their curiosity. We should ask you for permission first.
> No, the vaccine data are black and white.

If you look at some real-world vaccine efficacy data, you will find that it is far from black and white. In the UK, with delta infections, there is no observable risk reduction against death for under 50s.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

> We're approaching 5 billion doses administered with minimal serious adverse effects.

It doesn't matter if the side-effects are minimal, what matters is that the risk/reward benefit pays off. For instance, we still don't know the complete extent to which Pfizer vaccines cause heart issues. There are many cardiac events that aren't clearly linked to the vaccine, because they could have occurred by chance. That doesn't mean they aren't linked though.

Here's some statistically significant numbers out of Israel, showing an increase in lethal cardiac events in certain population groups:

https://twitter.com/RanIsraeli/status/1425002893116166144

If we put this putative risk against the vanishingly small risk of a lethal covid infection in a young person with no risk factors, the vaccine doesn't necessarily come out on top.

In the case of viral-vector vaccines, even the very rare (but often fatal) TTS alone suggests that such vaccination is not indicated for people under 60 in Australia:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X2...

> Conversely, some 95% of covid deaths are unvaccinated.

This is a meaningless number. It depends on how many people are vaccinated and when you started counting. In the UK, roughly half of the recent COVID deaths are in the fully vaccinated, though they are also obviously older. In the under-50 group, there is no difference, like I said.

> Get it and help everyone around you.

This is another fallacy, because the vaccine prevents neither infection nor transmission reliably. If you have reason to believe the vaccine gives you a meaningful reduction in risk, get it to protect yourself. If you want to protect others, adjust your behavior. Get tested and avoid close interactions with lots of people. In either case, don't ask me to take a risk for your or anyone else's benefit.
No shit, they are dealing with the loss of their sibling.
It's the old 'I wanna make something, gimme libs! vs 'I wanna make something completely new, gimme lisp' dichotomy.

BTW the Wolfram language isn't 'a bit like lisp'. It _is_ a lisp with an alternate syntax. This becomes extremely apparent in any kind of symbolic manipulation.
People are being forced to forgo transportation, they are not being forcibly vaccinated.
This review is of the book from which Ars published an excerpt - How Google bought Android—according to folks in the room [1] - yesterday, as discussed in [2]

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/08/excer...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28167690
All critical paths, should be allocated on application start, and you never have to worry about that.
That's a design philosophy called "crash-only software".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash-only_software
It never is going to get it. The only way to "get a break" in their situation is to have infrastructure resistant to it.

As it is, Haiti population is barely aiming at having a shelter. Shelter that can additionally survive powerful earthquake is a luxury right now.
> The entire point of having a liberal democracy is that we are the government, and we can pull it back from authoritarianism.

The counterpoint: we (as in, the Western-aligned countries) don't have a true liberal democracy and likely never had. Not with the amount of open and veiled influence that religion (and for what it's worth, money) has in our societies - ranging from openly Christian centrist/center-right parties in Europe to entire communities in the US dominated by religious sects of all denominations.

And all of these tend to run on a "think about the children" mindset, especially regarding anything LGBT.

The result? It is very hard if not outright impossible to prevent or roll back authoritarian measures that were sold as "protect the children", since dominant religious-affiliated people and institutions (not just churches, but also thinktanks, parties and media) will put anyone in their crosshairs. Just look at how almost all blog pieces and many comments on the CSAM scanner debacle have an "I don't like pedophilia" disclaimer...
Losing everything you own every 11 years may not be such a huge deal to you, but don't you think it might be to other people?
> That's fairly intense if so.

Nobody wants to lose his milky cow.
Solving the double (quintuple) declaration Problem in GraphQL Applications
There are a lot of assumptions in that statement.
Yea meant to be a neutral comment. Sometimes raising the alarm is justified.
https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/release-notes...

Didn't even knew they had release notes in other languages.
Absolutely amazing progress, I might even give it an install once the USB drivers mentioned at the end are working.

https://www.patreon.com/marcan/
https://github.com/sponsors/marcan
My employer in Germany (U.S. company with an incorporated branch in Germany) recently started using Deep Packet Inspection and is decrypting all SSL traffic. While they're not logging all keystrokes, they can read everything.

Reading about this topic, it seems this is also not legal, especially when limited personal internet usage is allowed as well in the contract.

What's the right way to approach this issue? I guess if someone brings this up, they'll just update contracts and say that personal internet usage is forbidden? It still feels like someone is watching you.
The data shows you are 30x more likely to receive a positive COVID test result if you are unvaccinated, not that you are 30x more likely to “get COVID.” You need to give the distribution of tests between vaccinated/unvaccinated to draw the latter conclusion.
In the article, 2 of 3 examples are about consumption. This just reinforces my opinion that the iPad is primarily a consumption device. My wife is a teacher and I asked her if her students, the so called „digital natives“ hold up to their reputation. She declined and said they were producing TikTok videos and instagram photos at best (which can lead to a creative career but I’d argue that’s the exception not the rule). Even if we improve productivity somewhat, it’s offset by a huge increase in consumption. I don’t see this changing in the near future, mainly because there are no incentives to do otherwise.
I think it looks clean and elegant with js disabled.
Yes, you can let the others do the work and often be just as well off. Society is a giant prisoner's dilemma (or more like 'grifers dilemma') like that.

That's why vaxxes are not like seatbelts, i.e. just affecting the user, they affect everyone.

We take vaccines to protect others as much as we do ourselves, because if we act responsibly then things will work out, but nearly everyone needs to participate.

In this case it's a little bit like 'positive responsibilities'. Normally, we could say 'don't steal' and that would be enough, but in this case it leans towards 'get your vax' i.e. an active action.

It's not as black and white, it's reasonable to have conscientious and other objectors. And of course I don't think 'requirements' are necessary unless specific health concerns. But on the whole, by and large, we need to get vaxxed here i.e. we need enough civic participants to move the situation forward so that the various kinds of objectors can survive so as to maintain their right to object, ironically.
PHP 8.0 is 10 months old, and debian’s upcoming release will be upgrading from 7.3 to 7.4, which will make 7.4 the standard for the next ~3 years (even though it only gets upstream support for 1 more year)…

I am starting to reconsider my personal policy of “use debian-stable as a benchmark for what language runtimes I should build on top of”, now tending towards “use debian stable as the bare-metal OS, and build all my projects inside docker, using each language’s most recent stable release”
>Both Ruby and Python seem to be made to appeal to people originally.

Who told you Lisp, and especially Common Lisp and Scheme weren't made to "appeal to people"?
Discussion on release over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28180074
I am going to guess you don’t know much about Haiti because if you do that is an exceptionally heartless comment.
Crows, not cows.
It was an earthquake that killed over 200,000 people. And it’s more than just earthquakes. It’s incredible poverty, hurricanes, and political instability, including the fact that their president was murdered in his home by foreign mercenaries a few weeks back.
The big difference is that I’m visibly working during the commute. Given the nature of the train, the only activities I can’t do are coding and attending a meeting where I am an active participant.

The latter limitation will probably end soon with improved ML based background audio removal.
On top of theoretically computable, but highly divergent / unstable functions mentioned nearby, there are fully deterministic (non-random, pure) but non-computable functions. The simplest example is a function that answers whether a given Turing machine would stop.
Same story here. I think I had IPv6 around 2000 with HE and then SIXXS, and my university back then already assigned IPv6 addresses. Now in 2021, I don't think I have had an IPv6 address assigned either at home or at work for quite some time.

It's hard to understand why they don't just push through since there clearly are no real technical problems as witness by those few countries with major providers that actually actively use IPv6 (only).
Haiti and the surrounding regions are tectonically f'cked, unfortunately.

At least the United States is relatively close by, so humanitarian assistance isn't super far away. I remember the US deploying its hospital ships, among other resources, to assist Haiti in the aftermath of the 2010 quake, under operation 'Unified Response.' [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Unified_Response
It's got nothing to do with perturbations from additional small bodies, the problem is exactly mathematically calculating the outcome for exactly three bodies within reasonable time frames even if you assume perfect ideal knowledge about the system. It turns out this is excruciatingly hard.

The n-body problem where you add further bodies, even very small ones, is even harder.
Interesting take, there's 0 doubt that iPads are incredibly more intuitive to use, and anecdotally, I've also seen the same observations regarding young and elderly. I think a good portion of that is the indirect pointing method (mouse or trackpad) that takes some use to, but there are certainly inherited conventions, features based on past limitations and other things that look just weird to a new audience picking it up.

It's certainly not impossible but one could argue that some oddities could be cleaned up. Releasing software as dmg on Mac is really terrible for new users (and I hate that I did it for Aerial's companion app), it's inherited from the olden days of CD-ROMs and the fact that you have to unmount it is really something that could be improved on.

Now, one could argue Apple has very low incentive to provide something better and push for a new norm (most software nowadays does zip and detect if user launches from the Downloads folder, complaining/moving the file in Applications for you), but that's definitely a relic of the past that, while you can still support it for legacy reasons, should be phased out for something better officially pushed by Apple (that is not just the App Store).

The Apple approach to feature changes/simplifications on macOS though seems solely based on design. Hiding the document proxy icons on windows in Big Sur is a good example of this [1].

If you've seen Monterey betas, Safari tabs are also losing functionalities (favicons worked a bit like document proxy icons, that's gone now) and while they rolled back some of the most egregious changes (they had made a utter mess with toolbar buttons in beta 1), the new UI is still clunky in terms of general usability and readability.

I guess it looks epurated and consistent with the new Safari iPad UI, but do those change help in any way the new users to get around the inherited "peculiarities" of the Mac ? I don't think so.

And when Apple does "line up" features to make them consistent accross platforms, it's always the Mac that loses. The phasing out of plugins in Safari for app extensions killed uBlock Origin for example, and the alternatives are certainly not as great.

[1] : https://daringfireball.net/2021/07/document_proxy_icons_maco...
Behavior should be factored into those numbers - unvaccinated people are less likely to believe covid is serious (on average) ergo are more likely to be putting themselves in risky situations and/or less likely to wear masks. Studies are all over the place on vaccine effectiveness - clearly much better than zero, but not a reason to be complacent.
I don't get the snarky comment, looks like you didn't read what I wrote carefully enough
The same with Canada. Technically we have a similar residence requirement as far as number of days present is concerned. However try convincing the CRA that you're not a tax resident is far more difficult.

The CRA want some sort of document detailing that you are a tax resident elsewhere which is difficult to obtain if you are mobile between several countries.

It's cool that Costa Rica is doing this though. It legitimises what people have already been doing illegally.