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> Nothing is 100% reliable, thats not realistic,

My comments were directed at people who are interested in building reliable systems.

If you straight assume it is not possible to build reliable systems, you are missing a lot.
you'd have to drink so much water to get symptoms of hyponatremia you practically have to set out to make it happen. most people puke before it gets too bad. if you do get it and your wits are still about you, suck on a bouillon cube, or eat a tablespoon of gatorade powder.

anyway i prefer boss coffee. the boss of all bosses. or bickle.
100s of millions is the result of the power law. "Winners take most" is how things in tech tend to work.
Cars are also the backbone of our society.
From my experience loosely looking for an Elixir job, Elixir ads has more chance to ask for Ruby experience than Elixir.

Or maybe I notice those more because I don't know Ruby and RoR.
This is what life below the API would feel like. Expectations: ML and algos are automating most boring jobs like couriers, drivers, cashiers or fulfillment center workers. Reality: ML and algos automating jobs of line managers.
Make sure you drink a Gatorade or two as well. Pedialyte works as well.
Yes, but the Lakers are not. And the players have a union.

Competition within the NBA is zero-sum so it isn't like Kobe working really hard further entrenches the NBA anywhere close to the same degree as IE for MS.
Sure, but if you eat a kilo of apples a day you'll get sick of apples and eat a light lunch worth of calories. Eat a kilo of chocolate and you're eating double your daily calories. Nobody got obese because of their 10kg-a-day apple habit.
Still, it’s hard to imagine how one might ever consider such a small inconvenience “gravely inconveniencing” even in that very specific context. It’s such a small thing. I don’t think one has to have worked in the salt mines to think this.
I think you've identified the primary exception to the parent comment's rule. Obviously we would not want to kill PID 1, no matter the reason for the OOM.
That movie should have been a comedy, and it's slowly turning itself into a documentary.
>Sure, Genealogy of Morals is probably all wrong

All wrong according to what exactly?
Look harder and you will find that the base permissions model and connectivity paradigms within Android greatly frustrate this range of outcomes and the political will amongst the project for changing this does not exist as it runs counter to the centralised monitoring and personalized advertising income stream of Google. Attempting to simultaneously cajole multiple large-scale device manufacturers to add a non-standard addition at breakneck hardware and OS release pace would be virtually impossible. The fact that drivers are bundled with OS releases thus making third party system upgrades extremely tedious to create for any given hardware revision is not an accident but a designed process element to better aggregate control. Therefore, while the outcome is objectively barred, corporate can still doublespeak an "open" platform. Google is evil.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead
Why do the directions use both imperial and metric measurements?
I'm glad your life is so easy that this is riling you up
Woman with Only Recording of J.D. Salinger Will Take Tape to Grave
Is there a point to this article?
There is one more level where you hate everything, but then embrace loving the people that make shit.

I bought a new truck, and after putting 100 miles on it the transmission started acting strange. I take it in, and they don't know what is wrong with it. So, they are going to replace the entire transmission next week.

Now, I could say "oh, why did I buy that brand" or be like "lolz, these people are n00bs". Instead, I realize that they are making something at a massive scale and bad things will happen, so I'll accept the inconvenience and move on with my life. Shit happens, and that's life.

I've hated software for a long time because I value precision and reliability, but these are exceptionally hard to scale organizationally. Suppose you fix reliability today, well tomorrow's feature could just fuck it up.

Now, I still hate software, but I come at with a mindset that software is an artifact of a culture which requires nurturing and love.
I almost agreed with you until you used the pejorative “scatterbrained”. I think the explanation is “asymmetry”.

It’s simply easier to make a request, than it is to resolve it. The cost of filing an issue is greater than the cost of resolving it.

This is why schemes like “you can only file your top 3 issues” make sense. Forcing the end user to prioritise their top issues - and to manage the ones that don’t make the cut - distributes the triage work more fairly.

We have a job to do too and it’s a waste of developers time to force us to guess what’s important to an end user. That’s their job.
You may be able to run it with Xvfb.

https://github.com/jeapostrophe/racket-langserver/issues/45
https://github.com/Eugleo/magic-racket/issues/29
Severe Drought Could Threaten Power Supply in West for Years to Come
https://archive.ph/obcd4
Any long-distance athlete would be intimately familiar with this trade off. At Ironman races you always see a non-trivial fraction end up with debilitating cramps, confusion, nausea + vomiting, or ultimately in the medical tent from low sodium or low glucose.

That said, I think "drink water" is still good blanket advice on average. Most athletes I know still drink far more water than the average person through the day, in addition to all the sport-specific fuelling.
That's right. (The token is used for oblivious authentication, so it's not identifying.) The attach procedure works as usual, it's just that the IMSI/SUPI is no longer individually identifying (which then necessitates the oblivious authentication protocol).
There is a lot of things people can be inspired by to commit horrible acts of violence. A decade ago it was GTA and video games. A decade more it was rap. Before that all the classic 90s action films.

What I would be worried about is the social environment which had a person that was able to consider murdering 10 people. The classical profile would be a person with no social support, no attachment to their near environment, and borderline personality disorder. Looking at the details about the attack, it was a high school teen who moved to Toronto with no attachment to the new home, was a social outcast at the bottom of their perceived social ladder, and suffered from a personality disorder. While its only a very small portion of such people that are able to consider becoming a mass murdered, much of the risk factors were preventable. As a society we are much better off if we focused on fixing the risk factors than what ever is an currently popular inspiration once a person has decided that it is okey to kill an other human being.
You didn’t answer the question. How can we prioritize funding and actions? What are you going to fund, exactly, and how will you get enough people to agree to it, vote for it, etc.? A lot of people already agree with you that we should prepare, and still we haven’t prepared. Why?

The reason everything went wrong is that scientists haven’t used confidence intervals? Hehehe, I don’t think that has anything to do with it. Please be more specific, which papers, which predictions are you talking about? Who made them, and when exactly? Right-wing media has a tendency to misquote people and frame truth as failures too, and has been systematically trying to erode public trust in science and truth. I don’t think right-wing media’s political claims have any bearing on what we should do. Adding confidence intervals wouldn’t help anything; they’re opposed to regulation and to change of entrenched big business, it doesn’t matter what the science says, they’re against it because it affects somebody’s profit.

One big mistake you’re making here is suggesting that all science is making predictions, which is false. Most science, and much of the best science, doesn’t make any predictions at all, and doesn’t need confidence intervals, because it’s identifying and explaining past history, not the future. We don’t need science to predict that the temperature will go up, because we can see the trend over the last 10 or 50 years. Scientists aren’t telling us the climate is going to change, they’re telling us it already has changed. Adding a confidence interval won’t make that any more convincing to climate change deniers.

Hard disagree that the best science isn’t good, and that’s another hell of an armchair claim to make. I’m sure, like everything, some of it isn’t very good. See Sturgeon’s Law. But some of it is great. Watching Fox News will not help you identify the good stuff.
But it was kind of a gold rush, race-to-first?

I mean look at the Web today using TCP, IPv4, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, with companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon. If the internet was created with what we know now it would look much different. You will never be able to create a technology or company so flawed like that today.
The book "A History of the World in 6 Glasses" by Tom Standage is really good reading.
> The Light Phone II uses a technology called "electronic paper," also commonly called E-Ink. It was made popular by e-reader devices like the Kindle. The screen is characterized by its low power requirements, high visibility & contrast, and wide viewing angle. When viewing the screen, there is no backlight like you would find on a smartphone.
I was wondering how fish juice is defined, and it sounds gross:

> The most critical need, hydration, would be solved by squeezing the fluid from the fish and collecting rainwater, supplemented with small doses of seawater that did not exceed one litre a day—one tablespoon at intervals of 20 minutes, allowing the saliva to dilute the salt in the mouth.
Criticizing traits of a culture is different from stereotyping.

"culturally dominant materialism that we find surrounding us" is not implying that each and every person is materialistic.

The word "dominant" implies the presence of other, non-dominant cultures.
It's fine, the stock is still strong. That's just the screeching minority which "misunderstood" it.
First off, being "patronized" is not the same thing as having an experimental vaccine shot directly into your muscle against your will, lest you lose the right to travel or keep your job.

Second, wrt the mortality rates, you're missing the time variable; as are the researchers in the study which compares AZ to Pfizer and Moderna's vaccines. Yes, if everyone caught Corona in a six month period, the mortality rate comparison would skew toward vaccines being better - but that's not the case; and there are signs that the mRNA vaccine's effectiveness "seems to "drop off a cliff" after six months.

The first study I cited factored that time variable in; to measure the mortality risk in a large population (France) over a period of time.

And importantly, I didn't claim either link as a holy grail. I said may; to show that there is room for doubt. Because there is. If there wasn't, then the vaccine companies wouldn't need full legal indemnity, would they?

Remember when there was no doubt whatsoever that the virus came from nature, and definitely not the novel coronavirus lab a few miles from the initial outbreak, where they'd been putting corona into humanised mice, and failing safety standards? I remember. I remember the memes mocking it in the name of science, and the censorship of any doctor or journalist who dared try to question that narrative.

You talk a lot about trusting doctors and institutions, and not trusting the dirty anti-vaxers who pulled the wool over your eyes in the past - that's you stuff.

You seem to imply I have a "with us or against us" attitude. I don't; I'm for whatever works.

If the system you're trying to sell belief in worked in a healthy way, there would be accountability for the governments who brought the forever wars, the media who sold them to us, the doctors who prescribed all the opium which just appeared suddenly after we went into Afghanistan. Remember what W said back then, to get us into Afghanistan in the first place? "You're either with us or against us".

But there was none. There is none. The guy who helped cheerlead Dems into that horror under W, then expanded it under Obama, is now President; and making deals with the Taliban begging them not to burn the Embassy in Kabul.
> All wrong according to what exactly?

All wrong as a viable moral theory. It gained a bit of popularity in the "evolutionary ethics" crowd (i.e. those that might think The Selfish Gene is a profound piece of work), but no one really takes it seriously when compared to utilitarianism, deontology, virtue ethics, etc.
Mice tend to be so inbred they all die of cancer. They should redo the study on a different animal that has less incidence of cancer normally... like Rabbits.
“International model doesn’t work in the US” eh? So for say someone in Europe that want a phone that works globally what model should they buy?
Learning F# by Designing Your Own Language by Alexey Golub
Not quite sure. Nobody says that rocket science is unnecessarily complex, and that it should be solved with simple math.

I am waiting for the application of the proposed solutions for software complexity. I have been for a long time. Nobody really came up with anything, even though many have complained about it.
The BBC is a great organisation, but on the topic of milk on a hot day, I’m trusting the Channel 4 News team.
I'd love for you to come build a roof with me in the Mojave in July and demonstrate this drink less water more slowly approach.
There are also bad cultures that find it acceptable to just throw any trash into a river.
I don’t have much experience with living in the desert, but when I hiked down the Grand Canyon I drank 8L and didn’t go to the bathroom. I also ate trail mix and protein bars, had lunch, etc.

I was drinking as much as was comfortable to me, since I was worried about getting dehydrated, and still never needed to use the toilet until after the hike was over.

I don’t think drinking less would have helped the situation.
Thank you for this! I have been trying to tell this to my friends for months.
There seems to be more demand for podcasts or video blogs, maybe your partner can think of starting a podcasts?
Agreed, but not worth almost $2K for the 16GB/1TB model. Until Apple un-cripples the iPad Pro, it's better to buy a lower-end iPad + MacBook.
the parent comment says hyponatremia in the next sentence, which is removing salts too far, so you're agreeing!
Pocari Sweat is 67g/L of sugar and 490mg/L. This is on par with western sports drinks like Gatorade(59g/L sugar, 523mg/L sodium)or Powerade (57g/L sugar, 409mg/L sodium). This is less sweet than typical sugary drinks which can be 10-15% sugar, but normal for a sports drink.

Sports drinks certainly help if you are sweating moderately, but are inadequate for intense exercise in the heat. When you are sweating intensely (>1L/h of sweat), you can lose sodium at over 1000mg/L. Supplementing sodium and other electrolytes may be necessary.
Founder of a team of five here. For a sample size of one, we have a Rails based backend and it’s on our roadmap to migrate parts to Elixir.

We have a video based tool and the low compute plus multithreaded aspects of Elixir make it ideal for web based FFMPEG processes.

We are three engineers, all of whom are senior/principal level SWE.

If we were hiring someone next, we’d likely optimize for their frontend skills, given the app is the complicated part, and the API is trivial. That being said, we would expect them to have some advanced experience with a backend language, and to be able to pickup new things quickly.

I can confidently say we wouldn’t hire someone who has only done a few projects in a programming language, and hadn’t worked in a production environment. On the other hand, we would definitely hire someone without relevant experience in our entire stack, if we knew they have proven deep expertise in their own stack and the ability to learn/move quickly.
...like that friend of mine looking for Internet connections in the early years just to download the first HVSC issues!

What a guy. I still often see him, in shopping windows.
The melancholy is like that of living in a burgeoning third world city. It’s like, if we just focus on this and that, roads and water, keep corruption down, we’d have one of the best cities in the world - as good any other. Our people are good, but sometimes they can’t make sense of traffic laws and crime.

It’s the only city I know, and I often wonder if we just took care of it, where we’d be.
Thank you! This format should have been the first choice. I simply can't fathom why people post an article on twitter. Every sentence is a tweet, so that what, people can "like" each sentence? I wish people would stop using twitter for this type of data...
> ask the reporter if it fixes the issue their side. If I don’t hear anything back after a week or two I will follow up with a message much like the aforementioned: “closing this ticket because I believe it to be resolved but happy to reopen if you’re still experiencing issues.”

This tacitly embraces the bugtracker-as-helpdesk/CRM mindset, i.e., the GitHub approach, which is what leads to things getting so chaotic and unwieldy in the first place. It's right in the language—focusing on "their" issue. Both maintainers and users need to approach the bugracker by recognizing that the scope of any given bug report is the bug, and by extension the project, not the bug reporter or maintainer. By the time a bug is being closed, a maintainer should know (at least with some level of confidence—but allowing for them to be wrong) whether the bug is fixed or not—because it should be well-defined. If the maintainer is not able to do this with confidence, it indicates a failure in the practices for handling bugs—and possibly (or "likely", in the case of a typical project hosted on GitHub) muddled scope.

It may be the case that from the user perspective, they're still experiencing some issue, but this doesn't call for the bug being reopened to handle it. Remember, it's not theirs, it's the bug's! If the last report led to a real bug being identified, and it really was fixed, then leave it closed and figure out if it isn't the case that they misidentified the source of the discomfort they were experiencing, and if so, have them attempt to articulate it, then open a new bug for that. Otherwise, you're just treating your bug tracker like a message board but splattering it with state changes of what amounts to your personal TODO list—where "open" and "closed" correspond to whether you've decided you're finished with it or not. Remember not to think of the bug tracker as yours either! It belongs to the project and its bugs. Think of the software as a non-human entity and you as a scientist and its designated caretaker. It's best to think of the bug reporter as a scientist, too—and the elevated expectations and responsibility that comes with it.
I like this comment too but in many cases the requesting party has almost no relationship to the receiving party. The requester is almost always in a buyers market (filing an issue is cheap) and the receiver is almost always social (working closely with others to resolve issues).

This model does explain the different sides, but the problem remains.

So it seems that the problem with the requester’s market approach is that there is no mechanism for setting value. So how do we solve that?
Snacking on canned sardines in water (and drinking the broth) seems to work well enough, plenty of sodium.

edit: Writing this comment has made me realize mixing powdered dehydrated boullion into the water would probably work quite well too. The ambient temps are so high the water is basically at hot soup temperature as-is.
I think the relevant question is not "does aspartame increase cancer risk" but "does aspartame cause more negative health effects than added sugar." Excessive sugar consumption itself has numerous well-known health risks, including increasing the risks of some types of cancer (mainly by driving obesity).
I have a 2017 MacBook Pro with Touchbar and have Manjaro installed in it. It works fine but it is not perfect. No reliable bluetooth, never got touchbar working (so no esc and function keys). Its is not my main OS (I use Windows for work), but for studying and trying new things I use it. I wouldn't risk installing it without leaving a MacOS partition.
Not the GP, but I don't see a problem with rejecting scientific absolutism as readily as moral absolutism. Is not skepticism part of science?
here's a (possibly dumb) question - assuming a 100% complete and successful "Asahi Linux", what does this mean for distros?

Is this a kernel replacement, as in I could run Manjaro Gnome, and just load the Asahi Kernel and it all Just Works?

Or will Asahi Linux need to be a full distro of its own, in order to be useful?
Yes, the Grauniad (Guardian misspelled - long running British insider joke) is left wing. The researchers writing the article are from New York University, and we are presuming the researchers are left wing too.

So what? Your implied alternatives are:

* Only allow politically neutral science (impossible for any subject containing politics)

* Only allow right wing science?

* Disallow all scientific study of politically charged topics?
> So if we don't know it, then a closed solution may not even exist. If we don't know whether a closed form solution exists then how can we even know if it's deterministic.

We can prove that something has some properties even if we don’t know everything about it. Newton’s second law in a many-body system is (in the case of Newtonian gravity) basically a system of independent second-order ODEs. We know a thing or two about these beasts.

Anyway, let me try something (without LaTeX, so I apologise in advance for the notation).

Let’s think about a many-body system (following Newtonian mechanics, and interacting via Newtonian gravity) from the point of view of its positions-velocities phase space.
The solution is not deterministic if there are points (i.e., sets of positions and velocities for all the particles) that are part of at least two trajectories.

Let’s assume we are looking at such a point. The forces F and all their derivatives dF/dr are the same along all trajectories, because they depend only on the positions (which are identical). The velocities and the positions are the same because it is the same point in the phase space.

The third derivatives of the positions w.r.t time are also identical (d^3r/dt^3 = 1/m dF/dt, and dF/dt = dF/dr dr/dt, and the dr/dt are identical).

You can go on to the n-th derivative, n being arbitrary large (d^4 r/dt^4 is a function of only dF/dr, dr/dt, d^2 r/dt^2 and d^2 F/dr^2, all of which are identical along both trajectories, etc).

So, it means that both trajectories have the same position in the phase space, and all their derivatives are identical, i.e., both trajectories are identical. So it is deterministic (there is no point in the phase space that belongs to more than one trajectory).

It is somewhat related to Liouville’s theorem.
That's not a problem. Realize that all advice isn't valid for everyone and apply it appropriately.
If wood was sold as cookware designed to get to high temperatures. Yes.
What equipment was used to put together Blue Monday
> out of altruistic motives

> to the benefit of everyone.

This is debatable or even blatantly false in many cases. Researchers are still human, and many of them are driven by greed and self-interest.
That's a false choice, though. I can avoid both sugar and aspartame.
If it doest have an interest browser or email or any of that other stuff, what makes this a ‘smartphone’? It doesn’t even have a camera, so you can’t call it a cameraphone.

Isn’t it a feature phone with a touch screen?