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> Almost all of the statements were true. They just needed more context with them.

You nailed the issue in the first 2 sentences. All of those things listed are technically true, as long as the context is provided and understood. But when you have the whole situation turn into a bipartisan shitshow, context goes immediately out of the window (both intentionally and unintentionally, just like nuance being lost in twitter discussions). It is you vs. them for everyone emotionally invested into this.

"CDC said COVID is airborne, and if you disagree, you are a science denier and probably a nazi too. No, I am not gonna listen to your 'context'".

"CDC said there is no evidence that COVID came from the wet markets, which means that you claiming that it is possible is a conspiracy theory".

"CDC said that people don't have to wear masks, but now they say people have to wear masks, they don't know what they are doing and are just trying to pacify the population. I don't need context, I am just reciting what CDC said."

Actually looking into the context of the official statements on COVID, there isn't really a contradiction, and their recommendations make sense. But then if you actually absorb the context, then there is no team sports fight to be had, there is no side to cheer and root for, and there are no opponents to defeat who are dumb and wrong (unlike you and your team). The intensity and excitement of the "battle" is positively correlated with willingness to omit context and refusal to consider it.
I mean, the idea that Specialized isn't moving toward the apple store-style model that Trek seems to be moving toward is honestly an act of good will. Dumb lawsuits aside, specialized is one of the best brands out there, and they absolutely have the power to ask for concessions. They're running a business selling absurdly high-end bikes. They're not bikesdirect selling baseline products.
IMHO, I think everyone here is missing the big point: all these "features" are being pushed to the web because A/B tests say so. The usual way things go is:

- option 1: don't add feature X

- option 2: add feature X

- option 3: add feature X slightly modified

So, since option 1 is not an option at all (businesses want to grow; they don't want "stable software", they want to push features live every sprint), then lean product managers say "let's do an A/B test and see what our customers like more: either option 1 or option 2!". The A/B test is done and it appears that option 2 increases conversion slightly more than option 1. The team pushes the feature live and everyone call it a day.

The next sprint: the same story. So, the net result is that applications and websites get "features" on of top of each other without any order or purpose, but everyone is happy because metrics look good. I know it's very counterintuitive, but that's how things work these days: no one wants to hear your "common sense" opinion, they only want to listen to what the data says; and data says the more ads the more revenue, the more newsletter pop ups the more user emails store in the db, etc.

I know this because I have worked for such companies, and they are not precisely going bankrupt.
I guess this forum turned into Twitter overnight, unbelievable.
What's the difference between that and asking them to wear a uniform?
This isn't a particularly scientific review, but Amber A'Lee Frost wrote an amusing bit about the retinoid A313 Pommade. "skincare is what the French have instead of a space program." I picked up a tube, it seems pretty great.

https://theoutline.com/post/8395/french-skincare-is-the-futu...
- CAPTCHA

- cloudflare redirections

- Affiliate links to Amazon

... to read a minimally informative article.
First, you're calling the invasion of Iraq, the bombing of Iran, and all the other things the US has been doing around the world since as far as can be remembered "defense". Murdering villagers in remote Vietnamese villages etc.

Secondly, military spending is more than 3.5% GDP. It is only 3.5% if you exclude pension and health benefits due to retired military, interest on past military spending (past as in, last year's) and so on. The real military budget is always underreported to a large extent.
There is a major difference in tracking its origins which pretty much no one disputed was China vs calling it the "China virus" or "Kung Flu". The former is matter of fact and allows for greater discussion of whether it was natural or leaked from a lab. The later can be easily seen and was used towards not only the government of China but also Chinese Americans. Many Asian Americans, including children, were scared for their lives due this.

In short, its not racist to say covid19 originated in China or think a lab leak is a likely possibility that needs a much better investigation or even to think that the Chinese government might be covering it up. It is racist to call it the "China virus" or "Kung Flu" and treat people who had absolutely nothing to do with its origins wrongly.
Can ammonia gas be used? NH3 is non flammable, is far cheaper(with less lift as well) leaks a lot less, but does have low temperature condensation issues = warmer flight times only. In addition, the wind speed in Alaska is often above 60 MPH
any ideas for B2C apps?
You can never convince someone by calling them stupid, selfish, irresponsible or in general blaming them. All you will do is create hatred toward yourself as well as your viewpoint and further the disagreement.

Best way to convince someone is to make them think it was their idea all along.

At this point, I figure much of the anti vax crowd may be actively hoping something would go wrong here, due to the hate they are receiving.

Why does anti vax crowd look at things like Ivermectin etc which hasn't been tested at all compared to vaccines and could potentially have more unknown risks? Because it wasn't shoved down their throat and they were able to find it by themselves.

Even those who are in the middle, vaccine hesitant for example may be feeling the hate that is coming towards them, making them avoid vaccines altogether out of anger towards the other vaccinated side.
I wonder where you stand on the replication crisis.

Publishing negative results is important for more reliable science!
Thanks for this! The detail is much appreciated, I'll investigate.
For non copilot, the words around the code found on stack overflow or a blog post may indicate the lack of correct security, which would be a signal to a developer that they need to consider something further.
There is a joke about mosquitoes in Northern Norway that goes like this:

Two mosquitoes caught a soldier and one asked the other: should we eat him here or bring back home? To which the other mosquito answer: No, lets eat him here lest we want one of the big mosquitoes come and take him.

Source: close friend who served next to the Russian border.

I was south in Troms and down there they were so small we could easily kill them with a shovel or something ;-)
The descendent of that 2013 pilot is today's login.gov, which is not really the kind of 'digital identity' that solves the problems at hand here. It's basically just SSO for government systems and has many of the same security concerns as other SSO systems. Login.gov passwords can be reset by email.
The problem is that there's two types of people who ride bikes.

Commuters who want to spend less than $200 on just something to get them moving, parents riding with their kids are also here.

Cyclists who spent 10-20-40 hours per week on a bike. For a hobby that you spend 60hr/mo on it's reasonable to spend $1300 on an entry level road bike and much more as you progress. Especially because it's good for your health.

Obviously there's money to be made with cyclists, but commuters would be so cheap and budget concerned that there's no money to be made from it.

Amazon is perfect because you're not looking for quality. I use a rockbros sweat catcher for my indoor training bike setup and it's great because it's just fabric.

You want LBS to stock $20 pedals? Who is going to buy them? What would the margins on that be? I wouldn't trust $20 clipless pedals (because if they fail you will get hurt/injured) and if they're flat pedals then bmx people would buy flat, but they're going to be so heavy that it'll be bad performance wise. There's only broke students who would buy it, and at that point just get it from Amazon.
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Yes, if the effect/methods is the same.
Agree with Melbourne. The bar for good food is set so high in Melbourne and when you combine that with the incredibly diverse population, you have the best most impressive international food scene I have ever encountered. London and New York definitely give it a run for its money, but I'd argue the standard in Melbourne is still higher.

Heading to LA in a few months for the first time so keen to compare.
Show me a project that claims to consistently use static analysis tools for C and doesn’t ignore them, and I’ll show you a liar!

But more seriously: Rust’s toolchain comes with linting built in, and the community as a whole is much better about applying and responding to static analysis results than the C ecosystem is. And that’s even before we get to false positives, which (subjectively) C static analysis tools seem to spit out a great deal more often.

And I say all of that as someone who’s currently doing whole-program static analysis of C and C++! It’s not that you can’t do it, it’s degrees of ease and a culture of stringency that’s lacking.
When I learned that you can show the police videos of who stole your property and give them the exact gps coordinates where your stolen property is right now or even the exact address of the house and they will do absolutely nothing… that is when I first realized that the police are worthless.
I think this may be very targeted to certain cultures and while its useful to take elements from maybe for your first job.

Now I have a pitch style CV and have dumped the chronological for well over a decade.

However writing a guide like this you need up front to show that you have actually done a lot of recruiting.
With that kind of confidence, I hire them on the spot!
These are not small details to be dismissed flippantly. Counterfeits and tainted listings are dangerous, especially considering how many health-related products are sold on Amazon.
Wow from your description people here sound like idiots. Sounds like you're pretty frustrated, what's up?
A few successful competitive programmers being successful in general doesn't make it a good metric for all programmers. I'd say the same about competitive math too, despite Terry Tao being a pretty great counter example.

What actually happens at all levels below the gold medalist level is completely different. People memorize leetcode and think they're gods of CS. Ultimately, you have to agree, these competitions come down to learning a vast repo of tactics. A guy who is generally good at CS or math can't show up and do well. You have to burn a lot of midnight oil so to speak.

IMO such data structure and algo mastery is largely illusionary. It mainly depends on the trends in the game at that point in time. If you see people who do well in such competitions, they have embedded themselves in these communities and think about it all day. Why should every programmer be held to this arbitrary standard? What if I want to learn ML, compilers and programming languages or study distributed systems? They are as much CS as anything else but you don't get a cookie every time you navigate a tricky situation. There is no gamification so you have to tread your own course. That IMO takes a lot more originality than what these rat races foster.
General relativity is maybe a better example: It's necessary for GPS but it was initially very difficult to validate experimentally.
The ICU's of some areas are so full that they have to turn people away and let them die. How is that a good time to "not be as scared"?
There's a lot more to QM than the double slit experiment (and a lot more experimentation before predicting superconductors).

But if you consider basic research worthless, physics is hardly the only "offender".
Agreed - Teams causes me some pain, but it is something we are getting used to now.

Let's also not forget about the current state of the .NET ecosystem. C#9+ on top of .NET 5+ is an amazing developer experience.

Being able to contribute to the framework via any authenticated GitHub account is nice too. I find myself almost accidentally participating in Microsoft's issue threads simply because it is so easy to do so.
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Except many people keep their keyring in their bag and muggers often just grab the bag.
> And what about the homless population? Yes it is a problem that there are so many unhoused people. But is it really surprising that they would congregate in a city with such mild weather and access to social services? Do they not also have a right to live their lives?

Sure. It is a "free" country after all. I have no dog in the fight since I am not in the US and do not intend to visit LA any time soon (maybe in the 70s I would have).

All I am doing is, pointing out the reality of LA.
RawTherapee for me has much more intuitive ui which you dont have to learn much, you just pick it up. On the downside it has a bit less features. One feature i'm missing in particular is retouch but apparently its already there in non-stable builds and will be released in the next version. Darktable also didnt have matching color profile for my Sony camera which RawTherapee had out of the box. RawTherapee seem much faster and responsive after adding some filters and edits on the photo. I'm not a professional btw.
fact of the matter is... if you are a cyclist, amazon is definitely not the place to look for bike parts. sadly, all the SEO spammers only advertise amazon affiliate links so you'd think amazon sells decent bike parts, but you'd be wrong. IMHO google should ban any website heavily linking to amazon affiliate program.
If the economy is operating at full capacity. Clearly not the case that the US economy was operating at full capacity over this period.
The problem is that black-hole evaporation is a high-level description of many "fundamental" events, and at the level of fundamental physics, there is no known process that destroys information.

Or so popular-science articles tell me.
I mean that chart shows it basically increasing on par with inflation, especially in the 2011-2021 decade. Why would you expect it to stay the same or decrease as our economic value grows?
OMG children! Therefore we must do something.
Hilariously, sometimes I feel most comfortable on a bike in the road when I'm being a slight bit unsafe.

If I keep to the edge of the lane folks pass by me really close. If I'm going back and forth a bit and taking a whole lane up, cars give me the entire lane. It's wonderful
This isn't about malicious code in the drivers.

And once malicious code is in kernel space it wouldn't even need access to an attack surface.
That's why I like Quanta Magazine. They do a great job of laying down enough material to get a sense of what's going on.
Of all murders, the police solve about 60% of cases.

The work of The Innocence Project makes me question how many cases they solve versus how many they found a targetable person to scapegoat instead.

Certainly a lot of the "science" that gets used to identify who the killer is pseudo-scientific bunk. Very convenient for looking for a conviction, very bad for actually catching bad guys.
>Today, thanks to air travel, the world is a village. Wuhan is exposed one week, and the world the next.

Why didn't China impose strict lockdown in the early days of epidemic in Wuhan area instead they let millions of Chinese people travel around the world and spread COVID?

But then we wouldn't know "the true power of mRNA therapies and medications".

Honestly death rate of 0.1% is not something to go crazy about. The thing to worry about is the intensity of the attack on COVID which is akin to abuse of antibiotics which led to occurrence of "superbacteria" which no antibiotic at the time can kill. The same can happen with viruses.
The subtitle of the paper "Was the Cure Worse than the Disease?" It seems like a possible alternate subtitle is "I value life lower than that of the US govt's $10M/person [1], so I think we should have let more (poor) people die to save (the rich) some money."

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/07/17/870483369/your...
Is it racist to call the Spanish flu the "Spanish Flu"?
It was in 1971.
> "51%" is frequently used as shorthand for the technically correct but awkward term "50%+1".

This is technically incorrect. If you have a board of 9 people, it will result in the wrong rule: It will mean that 6 votes are required for majority instead of the correct 5.

The technically correct definition of majority is "more than half". It's disappointing to see the grandparent stating this correctly downvoted in the gray.

Source: Worked extensively on board and elections procedures for a nonprofit. Also [1] (expand question #4) warns explicitly against using the incorrect "50% plus 1" definition, and clarifies that the definition is "more than half".

[1] https://robertsrules.com/frequently-asked-questions/
While I share some of your resentment (especially as a Gentoo user who builds Chromium quite regularly), a few extra gigabytes of storage or a few more config files I don't grok are relatively easy to ignore compared to the kind of dark patterns I see happening with 3rd party software on Windows desktops.
And Microsoft itself is increasingly willing to sink to that level as well.
What if you lose your government ID? What if someone fakes your ID?
dpigs from moreutils is also a nice way to find bloated packages on Debian-based systems.
It’s a start.

See also “Parallel Polis”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_Polis

And, Havel’s The Power of the Powerless: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_the_Powerless
That is not quite true. The CDC listed several reasons not to wear masks. They definitely mention a shortage of masks and retaining supply for medical personnel, but at the same time they also said they were unnecessary and unhelpful for anyone not working directly around symptomatic sick people. Also, most people do not differentiate the CDC from the Surgeon General. This is a quote from the LA Times quoting Jerome Adams:

“Seriously people — STOP BUYING MASKS!” he wrote in a tweet that was later deleted. “They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!”

This is a good article about the changing position on masks:
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-07-27/timeline-cd...

Here are a few other sources I found with a quick google search:

https://www.aaha.org/publications/newstat/articles/2020-03/c...

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/surgeon-general-wants-you-...

marketwatch.com/story/the-cdc-says-americans-dont-have-to-wear-facemasks-because-of-coronavirus-2020-01-30
How did they account for H1B transfers which don't go through the annual numerical limit ?
God, that maintenance thing is really a huge factor.

I used to be a bike tech. Somebody ordering a $5000 mountain bike might take a full day to put together. But if you gave me $5000 in cruiser bikes, I could have them all put together well and get some maintenance done. I really loathe how cruisers look, but goddamn they're some of the sturdiest pieces of junk I've ever worked on
Vaccine refusal is a major partisan political issue on Brazil. Current president didn't want to take proper action and pushed for "herd immunity". And created, shared and supported the craziest conspiracy stories with his alienated supporters. Like Trump but worse.
> Every distribution has the same problems because they are all built with more or less the same hodgepodges of desperately developed software.

In other words, slightly better than trying to change system settings in Windows 10?
Inaccurate, loads far too fast.
Ecological perspective, it's better than having a single person driving a significant distance to a specific destination. (On top of the maintenance of that destination) Whereas - delivery wise... you're like a few hundred extra feet of driving maybe. (Assuming you live in a city/decently-sized suburb)

Packaging is the only issue that needs to be solved more efficiently but there are potential solutions to that.
one of the bike stores in my town was bought by trek, now you can only buy expensive parts there. they dont sell anything low end or for beginners. the cheapest kids bike they sell was $200, lowest priced helmet was $80.
I agree with you but perhaps explain why. Taking pleasure in things we use seems healthy, but fast fashion etc and general consumer culture in the west seem psychologically suboptimal and are environmentally disastrous.
Did they lockdown travel into the state like NZ did?
As far as I can tell Biden and Harris said they distrusted the Trump rollout of the vaccine but not the vaccine itself. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jul/23/tiktok-pos...
They insinuate the shop marks the price of the tube up ~10x and charges $100+ an hour for simple labor.

You don't seem to respond to those things.
I was about to say it needs about 7 or 8 additional ads inserted into the text of the article. Ideally they would load at random times and displace text out of the way as you're trying to read so you keep losing your place.

Also, the article itself is clickbaity garbage that you resent yourself for clicking into in the first place.
Yes, that sacrifice successfully flattened the curve. No thanks to everyone who defied lock downs and mask mandates.

Now we're onto the next step: using the vaccine to reach herd immunity so we can be done with this pandemic once and for all. And what do you know? Turns out the same psychopaths that wouldn't follow guidelines before also won't accept the smallest sacrifice of getting the vaccine either
> the optimizer will never remember that the Vec was created with 65536 `None`s.

I mean, probably today, but:

1. If you're worried about bounds checks you are likely not thinking about this problem in the right way. The bounds check is a couple of CPU instructions, a register compare and a conditional jump. The jump is never taken, the CPU will remember that if we do this often, and everything is in registers or instruction cache. Then, having discerned that we're in bounds, we do a memory dereference.

Actually no modern CPU waits until then, the CPU has concluded that we probably aren't going to branch, so it will emit the memory read, and while that takes its sweet time the CPU can do the comparison, and as anticipated decide not to take the branch it never takes.

So we're actually waiting on the memory read, which is why we care about not using a hash map, because the hash map might incur two memory reads if we get unlucky. But on the other hand, if the hash map was small enough to fit in cache at least it arrives before the CPU goes into a coma because of how slow memory reads are to main memory.

2. Optimizers get smarter. It's clearly not impossible to do the analysis and decide this check isn't necessary. So I think that means you shouldn't rule it out.
Sure, but if I can work from home in Malibu, it is a sweet deal too.

But for most people in LA, it is not the case.
Then keep another key somewhere else, like with a fellow traveler or at the hotel. This is why people make copies of physical keys.

All security is physical security. We need to end the delusion that it is not or can somehow be bypassed, and embrace it instead.
Maybe things have changed, but when I went to career fairs as a uni student in the 00s they all asked for my GPA. Less than 3.5 was pretty much an instant no.
We have a pretty cool plan for managing icing that I can't talk about here because of IP disclosure. In general we don't think icing will be an unsolvable problem.