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>In some ways Code of Conducts is another way of enforcing 'business' culture onto programming and hacking.

The primary purpose of CoCs is to enforce power relations.

For example, apple plainly committed misconduct when they unilaterally bullied the W3C into not adopting SPIR-V as the shader language for WebGPU. The implicit threat was that they would simply kill WebGPU by not making it available on iOS where they have the browser monopoly (which itself is a violation of good conduct.)

All other browser vendors, game engine vendors, and users supported the adoption of SPIR-V but in the end Apple got their way and WGSL was created as a bespoke shader language for WebGPU. (Naturally afterwards many post-hoc justifications were invented for this move.)

Users and game engine vendors were quite upset at this because they now have to learn and implement a new shader language. When they expressed their discontent, those complaints were quickly and forcefully shut down with reference to the CoC (which apparently does not apply to Apple.)
SQL is code too :), but I follow your point.

Typeorm looks nice, but I need polymorphism for some of our "business" logic and have pretty specific requirements about how I want correctness enforced that typeorm doesn't appear to support (but raw SQL does).
https://mobile.twitter.com/ianmiell/status/13952925042081259...

I found aspartame triggers my skin condition, probably due to gut bacteria effects. Reading up I found it's got a lot of side effects which sound bad. Also, my gums are better since giving up coke zero.
The bullseye-backports repo is just being started, so these packages will most likely be available there sometime in the future.
They make a lot of sense for creatives.

ProCreate, various image editing tools, even video editing... I know a lot of talented professionals who've switched over to iPad Pros for most of their work except 3D.

A large part of that is the Apple Pencil and very low latency, but they appreciate every spec bump because it does help their type of work out.
The Great Wave (making the woodblock print) (2015)
Iridium was doomed from day 1. The system could only support a small number of subscribers. It was nearly impossible to recoup the capital expenditures given the capacity of the system.
I find this kind of writing troubling but perhaps for a different reason than many people. Writers draw on their experiences as well as previous readings to create new works. Every such work has a provenance that reflects its roots, sometimes imperceptably but at other times in ways that are obvious to every reader. Knowing these roots also helps readers understand the author's contribution, how it is different from things that came before.

What are the sources of GPT-3's writing? Clearly there were texts that expressed similar feelings, otherwise it would not be able to infer new ones. Is it really creative and if so how? Is this just a new kind of plagiarism? How would you know?

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> Just consider how we spend decades to teach new humans to read and write as well as they can learn it, versus just giving them a bunch of emoticons to signal when they're hungry or sleepy or bored. Because we expect them to become full peers, and architects of their world, responsible for the next generation, not just consumers picking options others prepared for them.

Thanks for this summary of the case for general purpose computing.
Debian is one of the software projects I admire the most. No glitz, no fuss; it's like the index fund of Linux distributions.
Well-preserved 28,000-year-old cave lion cub found in Siberian permafrost
I wounder if it would be possible to clone this already extinct species from these well preserved mommies?
There was still supply of “toilet paper” but not of the kind that was sold in the store. Normally large amounts of commercial paper was sold but that wasn’t in grocery stores and sales stopped because of offices closing. Things got figured out eventually both as panic buying subsided and some commercial paper (single rolls, etc) was diverted to the grocery store supply chain.
That is the correct approach. Docker optional, but language interpreters included with the OS are for the OS. The distribution is there to provide a mutually compatible set of working applications for end users so they don't have to care about matching package versions by hand.

Unless what you're doing is writing an application to be packaged with Debian, the version shouldn't matter to you: /usr/local is there, use it.

(note: none of this is "official" in any way, just what I've learned over 15 years or so of deploying on Debian-derived distros)
Are My Angry Outbursts Killing My Relationships?
It's also incredibly tedious when you do set about modernizing it. Fixing these things is more possible than you would initially think. Sometimes, we can get an app _almost_ all the way there, with just a little left to do: https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-dataflow/pull/4...
That must be exhausting.
> the term antifascist certainly didn't age well

antifa?

the political left has never stopped using the term fascist as a pejorative, it's thrown around quite liberally even today
“Comparison is the thief of joy.”
Well, if you’re interested in leveraging your existing web skills then you really can’t do much better than React Native. It should feel very familiar to you.
Adam Curtis seems to work backwards from his desired conclusions in general.
Damn, this is so cool. I can tell I'm going to be sucked back into to trying linux yet again...
Flutter Rest API Integration
In absolute terms you are right.

In relative terms well in east block in 80s you were not expecting to have anything on the shelves when you went to the shop. You were expecting to wipe with newspaper for rest of your life and sometimes if you are lucky get rolls of TP.

When we live nowadays, we plan that we go to the shop and we will have it.

Like a car example, your father was not planning a road trip next year because he knew he is not going to get a car.

Nowadays people might plan a road trip make arrangements and then be surprised by car shortage - who is losing more? I expect that person who made arrangements for a road trip and then got nothing because there are no ICUs to make cars.
> I think a lot of people get the impression current NLP models like GPT-3 lack something - "understanding" or something. But they can't say exactly what it is.

It's always seemed obvious to me (as an outsider) that it's missing reason and explainability. GPT-3 is a neat tool, but it seems like anthropomorphism to suggest that it's more than the best mimic humanity has been able to create so far.
So now if your code gets into a broken state users have no way to fix it. Awesome.
Judge in Meng Wanzhou’s extradition case says U.S. allegation is unclear
If you think about it, the universe did compute the answer it just takes time to get there.
I've used Postgis for read only data with indexes on the spatial data, maybe 25mm rows with multiple joins and on cheap hardware it can easily return results in under 100ms. Nowhere near 500qps, though. Depending on your application, st_within vs st_intersects may have drastically different performance, too.
I'm not sure why you would live in fear, regardless of location. Sounds like an unpleasant way to live. But we should all live smartly enough to avoid overwhelming healthcare systems with COVID cases, which is a pretty easy thing to do at this point and requires no fear whatsoever.
I need a citation that it's "mostly" RSV.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/public-health/2021/08/12/dal...

> A record-high number of pediatric COVID-19 patients — 73 — and an unusually large number of respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, patients has resulted in the overall occupancy of children’s beds reaching about 95%.

Nowhere does it say that it's mostly RSV.
Because you should care about emissions
That is the beauty of capitalism, its ability to turn everything into a commodity to exploit it.
Religion, science, lies, truth, everything.
One has to love it.
My highschool job was working at a call center for resort & hotel reservations (big range from $40/night to $9000/night). I loved that job and soon got promoted to train new agents.

Hung out chit chatting with management and reading books / creating static websites with Notepad++ (no outside software allowed) when the call volume wasn't too high.

Googling "pac man" yields the pac man doodle, which I played so much (google obviously wasn't blocked but a lot of sites were).
I grew up on the western side of the Iron curtain. Not far from the border. My father was born in East Germany and had fled with his mother, ssister and brother before the wall was up.

They could only take one suitcase to make it look like they were visiting western Germany only. So he and his family came to the west.

His life went in a way so that he got a job near the border as it was back then in north eastern Bavaria.

Not far from where I grew up there was another village divided by a wall: Little Berlin [1]

It was interesting as a child to grow up near a divided village and country. And seeing the border fall.

I still remember my dad, tears streaming down his face while watching people standing on the Berlin Wall when it fell. I remember him welcoming the trains from the West German Embassy with the GDR people shortly before that. [2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6dlareuth?wprov=sfla1

[2]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl%C3%BCchtlingsz%C3%BCge_aus_... (German only)
The Taliban literally bans music and engages in cultural genocides.

Literally killing minority groups while destroying century old or millennia old artifacts and museums.

It's doublethink to suggest that the Americans were in the wrong here. The Taliban are a powerful for with local support, but I hope that the temporary peace we offered the Afghani for the past few years will be remembered.

We probably pushed too many of our values. We shouldn't have made a democracy or pushed women's rights as much. The bar was set to high. We should have been happy with simply the removal of the Taliban and laser focused upon that goal.

Those rights that we believe in (but they don't) will be the first thing to fall. So pushing their morals in our image is just a mistake entirely.

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The Taliban are a group that literally bans females from reading or using smartphones, and they get popular support from the people. At some point, we have to just admit that it's what their population prefers. And we are coming in talking about democracy and giving their mostly illiterate women the right to vote. Of course they won't like us.
Regarding NAT gateway pricing (~ $30/month or so iirc) we can use a micro (~ $10/month) Linux instance, it's quite literally about 2 commands (sysctl enable ip forwarding and a masquerade iptables command) or a short script to set it up.
There might have been a short-term panic over-buying plus the fact that everybody all of a sudden was staying home (and *ahem*, going to the toilet at home more) as opposed to going to the office. That's just a hypothesis, I haven't looked at any data. But your point is essentially correct, I assume it just takes a bit of time to shift the supply from commercial/business channels (delivering to office buildings in the city) to consumer ones (delivering to stores like Costco, Walmart, etc).
I do the same but with Ubuntu. Arch Linux containers are awesome.
> I don't have any data

Thanks for clearing that up.
Identify the birds you see or hear with Merlin Bird ID
I just checked their GitHub [0], and they seem to have a release on 27th July, 2021. Also it looks like they are re-writing vagrant 3.0 using go [1]

[0]: https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant

[1]: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/toward-vagrant-3-0
Use Pixar's story formula to win over investors
I think the issue isn't just the pure carb content. 100g of strawberries is a lot of strawberries. 100 g of Snickers bars is... two bars. I can easily eat two and then crave another one right away. After 100 g of strawberries, I'm pretty much done for a while. Same with say, apples.

I think one thing that is usually overlooked in these discussions is the "feeling" part of it, for lack of a better term. Some things make you want to keep on eating, while others are satiating. Of course, if you're able to only eat one Snickers bar a day while the cupboard is full of them, then that's great! I know I can't, so I avoid them altogether.

Carb content (calories, actually) isn't important per se, what matters is the total consumed quantity, and usually calorie-dense foods have a tendency to incite overconsumption.
Some good content in that link from people who've lived there. It makes sense to me that the problem is fundamental and cultural, and not racial. The thread implies that there's a thick strand of anti-science, anti-outsider bias that prevents even the most basic improvements to...anything. And the effect is so overwhelming that those who come to know better (e.g. the Haitian geeks), just leave.

An incredible tragedy, but there are some good lessons here. In particular, that you should accept value from anywhere, including your enemies. Call it the "von Braun ethos". The brutality of Euro slave holders is appalling, shocking, horrific. But to use this as an excuse to ignore the lessons of Euro science is an extraordinary case of cutting your nose off to spite your face.

So extremely sad.
I don't think that works anymore with the speed that languages are moving and breaking these days.

If you tried to use Python 3.9.0 for example (released November 2020), it had changes in the C bindings and broke many libraries (like numpy), which was not noticed until after the stable release.

That took months to fix and I'm not even sure if all packages have been fixed as of today (9 months later).
Another counterpoint, in Australia, you lose tax residency the day you leave (assuming you then spend a majority of the year outside the country).
It's an interesting idea. So much of the US is just uninhabited land. I could see such policies not leading to overcrowding, but rather to increased development and economic growth across the country, particularly if combined with something like the Homestead Act.
Ignoring your weird tax increase comment, here’s what OP mentioned:

“ The two media outlets assessed the cables and found, among many other revelations, that the "U.S. Embassy in Haiti worked closely with factory owners contracted by Levi’s, Hanes, and Fruit of the Loom to aggressively block a paltry minimum wage increase" for workers in apparel factories.”

This is just awful all around. Between state actions and nature, Haiti never can seem to catch a break.
People like this are easy to manipulate in the extreme, I fear we're in the midst of a pandemic of sociopaths practicing their art, more than anything. There's no end in sight either.
Support Librem 5 and Pinephone with development and spreading the information.
The Constitution protects the private property. Yet, every year there are a number of burglaries. Does it follow the Constitution encourages the burglars?
Not sure why he decided to use all ~20MB PNG images... Guess not a webdev
As said I don't assume. Everybody deals differently with loss and grieve.

I just described how it felt to me.
Postgresql is the database behind OpenStreetMap.

Unless you plan to scale beyond the load that OpenStreetMap handles today, going with Postgresql seems a good choice. And from what I understand (never used this component myself) Postgresql's geospatial support is excellent.
I don't know enough of national school openings to know what to make of this. I do know all of my southern friends and family have just sent their kids back to school.

Up here in the PNW, we have had kid's camps start up. Big feeling that these are going to shut down real quick, though.
After the admission that cloth masks don’t do anything, we don’t need to speculate about N95 masks at all, we can just look at the countries which had a N95 (FFP2) mandate, namely Austria, or at the single German state which enacted a N95 mandate: Bavaria.

If we compare Austria to it’s neighbors, or Bavaria to it’s sister states we see no effect.
ok, I'll try a serious answer instead of a snarky one.

You point out the incentive behind these articles, and call out the Guardian as a distribution channel for academics and conservation groups.

Without a distribution channel, how should academics and conservation groups get their message out?

Which message is better for our society, one driven by the academics who have been warning us of the danger of radical climate change, of mass poisoning of our homes and environment, of total ecosystem collapse (birds- down 29% https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6461/120, fish, down over 70% https://www.geographyrealm.com/study-finds-staggering-declin..., amphibians, 40% of species on the edge of extinction in 2012 and things have only gotten worse since https://journals.openedition.org/sapiens/1406, insect populations, down 80% https://www.pnas.org/content/118/2/e2023989118, ...
shall I continue? Do you know what total ecosystem collapse looks like?

or perhaps the message of Netflix or Disney? Or the message/distribution channel of fake news bent on destroying Western democracy? Or the message/distribution channel used to keep us calm while we commit mass suicide?

Sorry, I'm ranting. Yes, your charge is correct. The Guardian is an important distribution channel for the sources which are trying to get us to stop killing our planet, our home, our selves.

And perhaps it is good to have such a channel.

-- hey, sorry, just saw that you intended your comment to be neutral. Forgive me for letting my grief carry me away.
As this study points out, however, most tumors manifest very late in life. 1981 is only 40 years ago.
If you freeze each point in time , isn’t the next minute step deterministic? Every time you freeze, you would have all the motion vectors to calculate the next moment, if you expand that using a lot of computation power, ca you solve it that way?
On one level I agree with you: happiness = reality - expectations.

However what I am saying is that we don't actually have real impact on our lives today. From what I can tell, nobody actually failed to get a car and had to cancel their road trip (to use your example)
> So you have young people in their 20s with no sense of purpose. Why not LARP on twitter and pretend you're saving the world by trying to ruin the lives of people you don't agree with?

I’m not sure if you’re suggesting this, but I think it’s more about attention and feelings of social acceptance, than it is about purpose.
The Internet is governed by a single algorithm: IP routing. Short IP addresses are a lot easier than short cryptographic addresses.

Adding 16 or 32 more bits to IPv4 would have been trivial. The existing IPv4 address space becomes 0.0.n.n.n.n or perhaps 0.n.n.n.n.0 if you wanted to give every existing IP 256 addresses to assign while also multiplying the IP space by 256.

Easy, easy, easy.
I agree. This is something I tried to explain to others in my last job, with little success.

A person using a language long-term is only a novice for so long. After they've figured out the basics and become comfortable solving problems, they become interested in efficiency.

Designing a language to cater to novices is like designing a bicycle with only low gears—it's easy to get started, but increasingly difficult to move fast. I.e. the Turing tarpit [1].

I'm biased, and admittedly don't have a lot of perspective on this topic, but I have seen the effects of poorly-designed languages on the application development process and its output.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit
what kind of an author uses the euphemism underprivileged instead of poor? preetty gay
In my experience, Micro-USB cables have a far shorter lifespan than any other common, comparable cable. Wish they'd gone straight from Mini-USB to USB-C.
Isn't absence the default for nothingness?
> It was causing me some stress and depression because when you start doing analysis many level deep the only conclusion is any small variance will simply cause Chaos.

With n-body simulation problems, we don’t actually observe immediate chaotic behavior following small perturbations. In fact, we can readily simulate these systems with considerable accuracy if we want to spend the compute resources. For example, simulating our own solar system with far more than 3 bodies in play can be done with a high degree of accuracy to timescales far beyond our lifetimes.

However, the n-body problem isn’t a good analogy for your sense of personal agency anyway. You aren’t a chunk of rock floating helplessly through space. You are a human being who can take action to influence your own trajectory. You can apply pressure and course correct in a feedback loop, unlike a planet hurling through the solar system.

That doesn’t mean you can influence everything, but it it does mean that it’s wrong to assume that your life is chaotic or that nothing you do matters. (FWIW, The latter feeling is a very classic, and erroneous, thought pattern present in depressive disorders. Correcting that misconception is a core principle of CBT therapy).

You are not a planet hurtling helplessly through space for billions of years. You’re more like a satellite being launched optimistically into the right general area, but it still has to use the limited amount of thruster energy onboard to push itself into the right place. It doesn’t always work exactly as planned, but not using the thrusters at all would assure failure.
From the abstract this study does not bear any resemblance to the headline and makes very little sense to me.

They reevaluated tumors from a 15 year old study in rodents, to prove that the original work was correct and that there wasn't any traces of mycoplasma. And so, I presume, they argue that the cancers were caused by aspartame.

But that in itself does not prove whether or not the original study was flawed, and well there is mountains of evidence showing very little carcinogenicity from aspartame.

If you were to argue for the carcinogenicity of aspartame, then I suggest running a new study as a first step at least. And then explain why you see something most other studies have failed to see.
Linux on M1 mini is looking like a dream machine more and more.
Philippine ethnic group has most Denisovan DNA
I see what you're trying to do, but be careful... while Trump may have cheated his employees (according to affidavits from the many lawsuits against him,) George Washington owned men as slaves.
> (e.g. someone attacking you with a knife in a dead alley, or stuff like this - not the best example but you get the idea).

Run away. Seriously, it’s the best most reliable defence against a knife.

They don’t show this in the movies but a successful defense against a knife attack still leaves you very cut up. Just not dead, maybe.

I’ve been doing a martial art for 10 years and the main thing I learned is never to be a badass IRL. Doesn’t matter how good you are or how much better than the other person, you will get hit and it’s not worth it. Especially when there’s no rules – one good punch to the back of your neck/head and you’re a vegetable.
Your point is "people try to make compelling arguments". Well duh, but it's not an actual rebuttal.