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This is a project I’ve had in the back of my mind for awhile! Cool to see you guys on the front page, if you start hiring I’ll definitely be reaching out. Curious about the following:

1.) What does the regulatory landscape look like for this kind of work? Was there significant prep, or did you guys find it easy to get moving right away? I’m curious specifically about any obstacles both with flying your airships and the remote piloting.

2.) How much of the airship is manufactured in-house? Are you building the whole airship from scratch? Designing the fabric envelope material too?

3.) You mention the airships land in inclement weather, how inclement might that be? Any cool test videos you could share? :P
A civilian would be criminally charged for this.

The police will likely get a slap on the wrist, or a token fine.
The trick is to keep that going in the longterm. I did manage to lose that amount of weight in the same amount of time as well, but ended up gaining it back in under 5 years, which I hear is the fate of most people who lose weight.
It’s a shame they went with an outdated charging port. Probably to have something easy to upgrade on the next version.
If that's the case, elections are meaningless and you're living in a state where current leadership cannot excercise their power
I'm a little tired of the "slippery slope" argument (in general, and also in this instance). Because, yeah, the slope might be slippery but that doesn't mean we shouldn't go on the slope. It only means we must be (very well) prepared whenever we go on the slope.
Honestly the site is way too performant to be realistic. All those buttons worked nearly instantly. I'm assuming you're missing the awaited tracking networking calls.
I disagree, in the beginning the Americans were hopeful they could impose a puppet state with permanent US military bases. Look at a map and you can see the allure.
Nobody in the region was particularly enthusiastic with that idea.
I think those three points can further be distilled down to: greed
I said you. My CSS frameworks all emulate styles from long before Twitter Bootstrap was a thing, and I've always found every iteration of it to be incredibly ugly. I love writing CSS, you should also. It isn't that hard to emulate just about any style, especially when you're just theming an existing CSS framework like Twitter Bootstrap. In its case, you can get halfway there by just checking what the gradient parameters, border-radius and button sizes were.
We have some in Georgia but I don’t think there are as many species as Texas.

A mosquito has never left a mark or made me itch in my life. Poison ivy on the other hand…I could look at it and get a rash but not the go to the doctor rash.
A website is a tool, a means to an end. The purpose of chat popups or feedback forms is to further a business goal, not to increase the website's usability.
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How so? The article discussed differences in the prices paid by insurance (on uninsured patients) to the service providers. That is entirely unrelated to the aggregate amount of money the insurance companies pay to their staff, their profits, etc.
Anyone paying attention at the time had this information. There is an incredible rewriting of history being attempted. There was a lot of sound evidence that covid started in november or earlier in china and that it leaked from a lab (based on the lockdown and sequestering of lab personnel in december). Any one pointing out those facts in jan/feb/mar was decried as a nut, racist and conspiracy theorist. The earliest random serologic testing in the washington and oregon area plainly showed that covid had been circulating for some time.

Somehow people also seem to like to forget that non-covid SARS leaked out of the beijing bio-lab at least twice resulting in deaths: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7096887/

Which they attempted to cover up as well.
> It was exactly the same with jQuery - there were a legion of people (older than me!) who could only "code" with jQuery. They'd never seen window.getElementById().

No, they'd seen window.getElementById() but quickly realized that DOM API manipulation wasn't consistent between browsers. The whole reason jQuery was created in the first place was to abstract these browser inconsistencies away into a single API.
I know many people aren't happy with Corsair but I bought the rather ridiculously expensive K95 keyboard years ago (it's different now), and haven't had any issue with it apart from killing some of the media buttons when I spilt coffee all over it recently. I don't think it's anywhere near getting replaced.

Other than that I have one of the cheaper models of Das Keyboard for work and have been nothing but happy with it. Also upgraded it with some o-rings so people around me don't want to kill me.

I use both without installing any junk.
I believe that the authority in sugar is DR. Robert Lustig. He has a great book called Fat Chance, there he explains in details how sugar is a toxin and correlates with a plethora of diseases. Great read from a true hero that saved many obese kids during his practice.
Care to share the link to the post on your site?
Apple doesnt give a shit about the children, this is such a simple and transparent play. If they did, the kids wouldn't still be assembling their phones in China.
It's equally scary how optics rule the conversation, not outcomes.

Whilst killing all life within 1km of any Taliban is ridiculous and absurd, the thought of a true extermination strategy of the Taliban should be on the table. At the very least as a thought.

The Sri Lankan government has managed to permanently wipe out the Tamil Tiger movement by sheer effort, aggression and indiscriminate military approach. Endlessly beating down on them until they gave up, and dissolved their movement, permanently. The human cost of the conflict has been enormous, without question.

Has it been worth it, this permanent solution? I really don't know, and I'm in absolutely no position to tell. The only point I'm making is that total victory is possible, yet at a high price.

China goes even further, it seems even the thought of rebellion makes you end up in a re-education camp, and sometimes not even that. Again, the human cost is enormous. But does it work, if the sole aim is to suppress or wipe out rebellion? Probably yes.

One could at least contemplate what would have happened if the US had directly engaged with the Taliban, and use its full military, diplomatic, intelligence and monetary might to do so.

The West has higher morals, we like to tell ourselves. Hence, an indirect approach. The outcome is 200K casualties, and trillions spent. The grand "prize" of all this suffering is the country firmly back in the hands of the Taliban, under Sharia law. Afghanistan's tiny economy tanking, hence every single citizen suffering. All women rights reversed, back to being cattle.

A telling stat is that roughly 7K US soldiers died, yet another 30K committed suicide back home. Due to the length of the war and multiple exposures to traumatic experiences.

Altogether, I don't believe it is unreasonable to wonder if the "good intentions" approach's outcome isn't just as terrible or worse compared to an actual extermination approach. I won't claim to know the answer, I'm merely raising the question.

Admittedly, based on this article and given the backing of neighboring countries, in this case there simply may not be any winning approach at all. You can't defeat an enemy when they keep switching camps.
I feel that in 5 years, abandonedspaces is going to have a lot of locations to cover.
I went looking for some music samples done with Sonic PI but couldn't find any. Does anyone know of some?
Supposing a team was building a product without a rigorous security focus or experience. Do you have any reason to believe a co-pilot enabled team would produce more or less secure products?
ClojureScript (and the other mentioned languages) really are in a different category than TypeScript. You can think of TypeScript as a linter for JavaScript that you help by adding some annotations to your JS, rather than an entirely different language. Deno merely strips those annotations for you before executing the remaining JavaScript.
Chickenpox is mild in children. More severe in adults. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickenpox#Adults

If you get you case in childhood, as most do, then you have immunity through adulthood. If introduced in a new population, the consequences to adults would be much different.
I work for a FAANG company. In my experience the only corporate culture that stays from team to team is the one that’s specifically established by executives. I’ve switched teams and it’s like working at a whole new company in some aspects, but it’s like I didn’t even change teams in others.
> Either way, you're still less of a risk to your own health and the health of other people if you get vaccinated.

Both potential short and long-term side effects of the vaccines put aside for a moment and how important things like fertility and reproduction cannot have been adequately tested yet, I think the comment about risking others' health is completely backwards once you think through the logic of it. If my reasoning is in any way illogical, please clarify for me how you think it is wrong.

If the vaccines are reducing symptoms to the point that the vaccinated might not quickly realize that they're Covid carriers and are still going about their days, wouldn't they be more likely to encounter and put at risk more people than the unvaccinated who know that they're sick and far more likely to stay at home and isolate?
Court rules California's Prop. 22 on Uber, Lyft drivers unconstitutional - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28253110 - Aug 2021 (299 comments)
This is untrue. In New Zealand we locked down a reasonable amount for the information we have on the case. With the current lockdown, there was a single case with no known link to the border which had traveled around the country while infectious. Knowing just this and that every case in managed isolation (iirc) was is the Delta variant, we went into lockdown.
Also, '5 lockdown' is misrepresentive. We can see on this page
https://covid19.govt.nz/alert-levels-and-updates/history-of-...
that while some lockdowns were very restrictive, country wide, and long (2.5 months), most were short and regional (with other regions maybe going to lvl 2 alert)
I wonder if electric starters killed the pedals. I grew up in an area that was pretty heavily car-centric, so we didn't see a lot of alternatives. The Schwinn store got the Solex Horse, which had pedals, but they were really only useful for starting as there was one gear with a low ratio.

The only next thing we saw was the Honda Spree, which as I recall had an electric starter and whatever qualified as an "automatic transmission," and I think that class of scooter is still more or less the standard today. It seemed like a big step forward in terms of ease of use.
Two cars colliding are safer than two SUVs colliding, it's simple physics. More energy = more damage, generally speaking.

I'm 6'4" and never have trouble fitting in the vast majority of cars. In fact, most sedans are more comfortable for me than many SUVs.
That being said, I now remember I stopped contributing for a slightly different reason. While I tried to fill WD with complete information about a given subject, this was never leverage by a Wikimedia project - there is certain resistance to generating Wikipedia articles/infoboxes from Wikidata, so you're fighting on two fronts, you always have to edit things in two places and it's just a waste of everyone's time.

Unless the attitude becomes "all facts in infoboxes and most tables come from WD", the two "datasets" will continue diverging. That is obviously more easily said than done, because relying on WD makes Wikipedia contribution a lot more difficult... and that pretty much defeats its purpose.
Basically all these things keep the oil off your face, your skin healthy, and your pores closed.
It's weird how my perception of cops have changed. Actually that's a lie. I lost respect for the profession in high school.

That said, my immediate thought is they (cops) were fooling around with their new toy.

I guess my view would change if they lightened up on Revenue Collection, and solely zoned in on real crime? And what is real crime? I guess murders, white collar crime, organized gangs. It's not drugs.
> after I saw him speak in San Francisco about the dangers of digital rectal thermometers, that was the moment when I realized that this is just a crank.

While that's a funny example, it is hard to draw a sharp distinction between various categories of medical devices that range from CPAP machines to pacemakers to continuous glucose monitors, all the way up to MRIs and external beam therapy devices.

Ultimately, if you own a device -- and it is hard to argue that you don't own something that is attached to, or implanted in, your body -- a whole set of rights should apply to your ability to inspect and control the associated data, hardware, and software. Any rule that excludes the manufacturer of a digital rectal thermometer from requirements to honor those rights becomes a huge loophole that will be exploited ruthlessly.
All of those other examples have additional characteristics that cast the argument differently.

Education and obesity both have income and access issues. In that, if you are poor, you don't have access to the same options as those who are wealthy.

Skiing is actually the best example (Alaska aside!), given that it's a purely personal decision to engage in or not.

So hypothetical...

If hospital ICUs were filling with ski accident victims, to the extent they were unable to provide normal care to non-ski patients, and the economy was being impacted (businesses unable to operate, jobs lost, etc.) due to this ski pandemic, then you would say "Skiing is a personal choice that everyone deserves to make, and I have no problem with my tax and insurance dollars paying for skiers"?
I'd be interested to know about how York police operate their drone "unit": if it's a group of trained people with flight experience, appropriate training, and the right connections with aviation authorities, or if it's just a couple constables "takin' the drone out".
Eh, I think an asteroid cracking the planet in half would probably kill IRC too.
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One other reason more studies would be useful, is that for the person I know, this happened after the first dose.

That means that at the moment there's just no reasonable way to decide whether it's safe to get a second dose or not. If there were studies that would show that almost nobody has a lasting head pain post vaccination, then one could conclude it's probably just a super weird coincidence, and take a risk with a second dose, to at least get the full protection against covid-19.

Without data the most prudent thing is to do no further harm to oneself, and live with increased risk of infection and all the restrictions and increased costs that are put on unvaccinated.
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I'm generally a C, Rust, C++ programmer with a focus on embedded systems and robotics.

I'm quite familiar with Robot Operating System (ROS). Its sweet spot as middleware is a single system with many processes and peripheral sensors attached. DDS seems at home here (ros2 ~= DDS). Connecting multiple robots, infrastructure, and sensors requires kludgy bridges.

I've read much about inter/intra data center/web middlewares for distributed systems, and played with some. It seems the options here are varied and diverse. From ZMQ to ActiveMQ (and alternatives) to gRPC to AMPQ implementations to NSQ and many others. Any broker assumption is less desireable, and GO/Python are less desirable for embedded (but still good)

I've enjoyed playing with smaller IoT like applications, which seem to rely on MQTT, AMQP or other systems that require static brokers, and favor a small footprint, possibly even without TCP stacks.

Specifically:

I'd love to use ZMQ or NanoMsg, given their simplicity for new projects. Are these dead / obsolete?

What is the 'right' toolkit to learn for these domains?

What do you use (and in what language / application)?
Massive funding for a few big projects to do a "Manhattan Project for Fusion", which I have often seen advocated here, has been the actual strategy for a long time and it's failed. As you said, most of the funding has been given to a few big projects.

With TMP we actually had several direct engineering routes to viable devices using known technology at a pretty early stage. With fusion frankly we did not. In that situation you're much better off funding a wide variety of different initiatives and ideas, and ramp up funding as the results come in.

Even a much smaller budget, but spent on a wide variety of basic research and evaluation projects would have been a far more cost effective, and almost certainly a much more fruitful approach. But maybe I'm not reading what you mean when you say "Manhattan Project" right.
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"Teachers have been vaccinated. Parents have been vaccinated."

I really wish that was true! Sadly in the USA the amount of "vaccine hesitancy" remains unbelievably high.
I know a lot of people are viewing this as the police getting their comeuppance, but there's not really enough info in this article to go on. The last line of the article is pretty explicit about this: "The cause of the collision is not known."
> you can build your own responsive designs without relying on a framework

Except you'll build a framework. You'll add a bunch of classes for frequently used elements (nav, modals, buttons, etc), SASS variables, etc
The CDC report that 2.3x number is based off of was bogus science and it's been debunked repeatedly: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/08/more-voodoo-e...

TLDR: The CDC is dishonest and cherry-picks data to meet their narrative. Multiple peer-reviewed studies have shown natural immunity to work at least as well as vaccine immunity for COVID.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8209951/pdf/RMV...

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-37...

https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2589-5370(21)0...

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2781112
I agree. Should be 1.5 billion. Freedom has no price!
> For example, if someone dies from the zoster virus due to a compromised immune system from chemotherapy, you wouldn't consider that person died from chemotherapy or from cancer

Speak for yourself. I would consider them killed by the chemo/cancer.

If you're in an accident, and lose your lungs, they don't report your death as suffocation. 'Technically, it was the lack of oxygen to the brain that killed him.'

But, if you're trying to make the argument that chicken pox is actually deadly and we should vaccinate for it, you're losing that argument.
I'd highly recommend parsing the mobile edition of Wikipedia, it is much easier to parse.
Saved my ass (literally) in an outhouse in the Alaskan tundra this summer.
Isn't that for the city driving test? I am not sure which metric Tesla is using, highway or city, the website isn't clear, but at 30 MPH, on flat terrain and with the AC off, I would expect considerably more than 400 miles for their long range model.
Delta infects and kills kids. PICUs are getting full in some areas.
Yes. For small island countries like New Zealand it works "great." This was never an option for countries like the US, or even most of Europe. Much less so for countries like India.

But we'll see how it goes. If New Zealand and Australia persist in this notion that they're going to stay locked down until the virus goes away, particularly with its endemicity now inevitable, I think you will soon find vast swaths of those countries in open, violent revolt.
For reference, when I looked up the numbers, influenza hospitalizations (estimated, total annual US) vary from around 150,000 to 550,000, depending on the year and strain.

So yes, year to year has a lot of variance.
They are a bunch of islands in the middle of nowhere with a population of a larger city - how is their situation applicable to any major nation in the world ?
I think the issue of vaccine hesitancy is much more nuanced than this. For example, according to the CDC, the population least vaccinated in the US are black. https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/latest-...
I doubt the reference to Musk's brand is intentional. It's more likely that it's a reference/homage to BoringSSL (https://github.com/google/boringssl) and "boring tech" in general that is purposefully designed to be minimalist, simple to use, and narrow in scope.
Tesla is still in business.

I'd be very curious to hear more about how you would go about making a wood enclosure, because I thought the same thing, but I do not have any woodworking skills. I have gotten used to the 3D-printed texture but I wouldn't mind having a nice wooden enclosure instead.

I have been very impressed by Keyboardio's use of wood, for example: https://shop.keyboard.io/ I got an Atreus with a wooden palmrest for my partner, who loves it and uses it daily. I just haven't found an open hardware mouse with similar build quality yet.
just wait until github-microsoft adds a fee to use the results for certain uses, and then scan all your repos constantly to find code that doesn't pay up
Define what you mean by fly more efficiently. I'd like to see some numbers on efficiency.
> ... pointing a laser the wrong way ...

I don't see how the two situations compare.

If you are shining a laser light towards an aircraft, you are deliberately trying to inflict harm upon the pilot, and could easily cause an accident.

The police drone pilot screwed up, badly, and was possibly criminally negligent, but wasn't intending to down a plane, though that could easily have been the result.
That’s a great trick. I was always told to use a metal spoon and get it as hot as you can stand it and press it the bite as much as you can and as long as you can stand it. Never thought about the hair dryer.
It's one of the things that made the First Crusade so remarkable. Once the Crusaders were in way over their heads, it paradoxically made them far more committed than the warlords they were fighting against. The invaders were nowhere near hospitable lands, fighting for their lives.
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At university every single one of our research grant proposals claims that we will make the world better. I mostly cannot believe the stuff I am writing myself. It is part of the public funding game. I am actually happy to work there, because at least we mostly do not do too much harm to the world (except maybe for lots of unnecessary traveling).
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It invalidates the assertion that that suicides are a consequence of lockdown.