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Thank you. This approach sounds really handy for some things in my environment.
> head pain

That's one of the topics in this video, https://rumble.com/vkopys-a-pathologist-summary-of-what-thes...

[Posted in case it provides a data point for your friend to discuss with a local doctor, not to debate this doctor's affiliation, credentials or motivation. Would love to see more presentations of physical evidence from autopsies and lab tests, to complement statistical studies.]
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I actually wrote a UEFI boot loader a few weeks ago that loads the kernel, initramfs and command line directly from a file on the root fs. It uses the efifs project to let it load directly off of an ext4 file system.

It's nice to use compared with grub, just edit a file and reboot. I've struggled to understand exactly how the fedora boot system is configured, and which command I need to run or file to edit to get it reconfigured.
Any suggestions in that regard?
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I went through a interview round recently and concur with your findings. Got me all the way to Google Hiring committee.
I don't see how that last statement isn't true. Blackrock isn't putting guns to people's heads nor is it abusing eminent domain to get these houses.
Does that mean you can build a Dyson sphere around a black hole, then use the black hole as a thermal sink?
How did they seize his Bitcoin? I'm guessing it was sitting on an exchange? Did they coerce him into giving up his private keys?
I have a relatively common name in South America, and get all kinds of stuff. Travel itineraries, legal documents, info about kids soccer matches, all sorts of stuff. I used to try to help people but it’s honestly pretty annoying, so I just delete it now.
I agree this skill is valuble in interviews, but it doesn’t apply nearly so much in my day job, where I’m already the expert.

Hence it’s frustrating that the skills necessary for passing an interview do not align with those necessary to do the job.
Abstract says that there are speed increases compared to other algorithms ranging from "2000 times to 16000 times, on the most difficult instances of the DIMACS benchmark."
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They should approach this the complete other way: when you WANT admin rights, you have to insert a special device. Sort of like the cash registers where the manager needs to turn a special key to gain access to refund functionality.

Maybe you build it into specific other devices-- the administrator's favourite keyboard or mouse has the admin token, but the $4.99 Dells they hand out to the hoi palloi don't have it.
This is the most bull case for bitcoin.
(Alternately, there's indexical uncertainty in timelines, which rouuuughly comes out to the same thing if you handwave about game theory a bit https://plus.maths.org/content/playing-games-part-i )
If you think that's bad you should see the extended legal battle a guy with the family name Nissan had to engage in when he was sued by the car company.
Doesn’t work that way. The way “the West” lives isn’t good for global warming but the way “the East” lives isn’t sustainable either. Just different classes of passenger on the Titanic.

> and rebuild our economy on equity, instead of feverishly insisting that accumulation of almost all of the wealth to a few people is a the only alternative.

Senseless non sequitur. Social ownership doesn’t solve climate change, that’s just a trope from some leftists as a means to couple one issue (climate change) with something completely unrelated (disrupting capitalism). Just look to Norway for an an example of a huge socialist project terrible for climate change (Statoil).
The title feels incorrect grammar to me. Is it?
> criptographers

EP dropping Dec 2021.
'How To Design Programs' is a book
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_Please stop. Get some help._
"20. Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman"

That's an autobiography. No relationship to computing.
The "new normal" is here. The boot on the masked human face has arrived.
Note that some of these are of historical rather than actual relevance. For example, the C++ books which regard C++98 rather than newer version of the language have some timeless advice, but also suggestions and idioms which have since been supplanted (sometimes by the authors themselves) by better alternatives utilizing new language features.
fully agree on this

its a completely emotional topic too, logic flew out the window already

theres a reason why marketers make huge bucks on cosmetics and diet pills.
South Korea and Japan are still occupied.
>very few people refuse to drive over the unlikely possibility of a fatal car accident, or live in a basement on the remote possibility that a tree or meteor will fall on their home.

That is because there is no media that is fear mongering on these things by reporting 24x7 on every car accident in gruesome details, and run reports on how driving in a car is very dangerous, when there is a chance that one of the thounsand other drivers that you come across on the road might be a crazed, drunk, distracted person that could hit you, support it with "statistics", and just because you survived the last trip, does not mean that you ll survive the next.

They will also run stories about these "anti-walk" persons who took a car or bike, but died in a horrible crashes.

The point is, everything is a line between risk and benefits, and when the risk and benefits are a matter of perception, media has great potential to come in and set where that line is..
I guess the Chinese didn't think Switzerland is able to check who exists and who doesn't but the Swiss are quite on top of that.
HtDP
I really like the M Language and Power Query (PQ) makes it really easy and convenient to build data mashups. You can even use it as a SQL query builder by viewing the Native Query code and then copying that.

The main issue I'm facing is how to distribute the library of PQ/M functions I've developed?

Currently I have a central library workbook and then have to copy code from there. Problem is that updates and bugfixes don't flow downstream.

I really hope Microsoft creates a solution for this. Would love to hear about some approaches for handling this in the meantime.
Each has its pros and cons.

I used my own machine while the work-provided laptop sat next to me the whole time until I was forced to use the provided laptop. On one hand, my life-work balance improved, on the other hand I loath the stupidly slow machine that seems limited in every aspect compared to my own.
I am glad that the captains of our ship of state have decided to pick a fight with most of Asia.
If these are the growing pains of a "bike economy" this would be a good thing. In large parts of the world bikes could and should become the first choice for mobility and there needs to be a healthy ecosystem to support this transition. From (more) local manufacturing, to distribution, servicing, upgrading and eventually recycling(pun).
40% is a more typical contingency fee. I totally understand being scared but I wish you had done more research on the risk to future jobs as well as how much it would’ve helped you financially, and helped other people at your former employer by providing them with a financial incentive to improve their practices.
I actually did see the word "atmosphere" in there before I wrote this, believe it or not. But my confusion still stands and is "does this change if the CO2 is extracted directly from the ocean?" I think the article could be much more explicit in this regard... It seems like this study is specifically about the time it will take to for CO2 dissolved in the ocean to evaporate out into an atmosphere which has had CO2 removed, but I can't tell because of how it's worded.

I will go look for the original study.
I mean this is my solution basically. Flying sucks, and I have sworn to do it as little as possible.
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oh, perfect. the nano trackball looks like just the thing to fit between my ergodox. i've never seen another trackball so small! anyone used this? how is it?
It's been like this for over 20 years. I was trying to persuade people on comp.arch.fpga 20 years ago that we should band together and produce some open tools for Xilinx, and I was eager to do it myself.

People warned me that Xilinx were legally very aggressive and that I could lose everything I owned. Nobody wanted to get involved then. At one point an academic paper about alternative programming techniques on Xilinx devices withdrew some of their work, out of legal concerns. So I kept out of it too.

In fact, I quit working with FPGAs for a long time (it had been my main job, developing and using hardware compilers at a higher level than VHDL/Verilog), so that my previous use of Xilinx and Altera software might become a distant memory and I wouldn't feel that the licensing restrictions accompanying their old software would constrain reverse engineering on a new generation.

I was intending to eventually reverse engineer some of the devices from first principles without using their software. We know that can be done to some extent just by programming bitstreams. Timing and power models are more difficult to reverse engineer, but not impossible and I had some measurement ideas, and I had in mind to additionally etch and photograph the chips as well, or perhaps use focused X-ray tomography. But that never happened; life happened instead.

Times have changed. The FPGA patents from that era have expired. You can build a decent device without infringing, in principle. There's a rapidly growing movement in open source hardware on FPGAs and even ASICs. And people have been reversing Xilinx among others, more confidently than the people of 20 years ago were willing to.

For today I have two words: QuickLogic and OpenFPGA. QuickLogic devices may be small compared with the high end, but they are explicitly supporting open source toolchains, better than Lattice's passive tolerance. This is a breath of fresh air, and I hope they are successful. OpenFPGA is actual open source FPGAs.
Even if your site design consist of static table td cells - modern smartphones should be able able to read it, for example Opera mobile browser will realign the text. Old sites tend to be designed for 800x600 screens and that will also be fine on a modern smartphone.

Making a site mobile friendly is tricky as you need to allow users to zoom and change the text size - no element can be static in size. Often old web sites does that by default - while many modern sites think they are printed media.
I look at New Zealand and see close to the opposite. A near-complete failure. They've isolated themselves from the world for nearly 2 years, and have approximately zero things to show for it. They're not significantly vaccinated (25%, what happened??) and have no plan to be able to re-open up anytime soon.

It sounds harsh, but I don't see that they've done a lot other than waste 2 years of their life sitting on their hands.
On the other hand, it shocks me that people are so eager to manipulate the environment by disposing of a key species in the food web.

I get the arguments for both sides. I’d like less people to die from mosquitoes as well. I’d also like bats, fish, amphibians, birds, reptiles, etc to have an abundant source of food.
the problem is that something as critical as people's health is allowed to exist as a commodity on the free market. when your life is at stake, there's no price that remains in the way. so these companies gouge out the consumer, pray on their fears. the last thing we need is to allow the free market to control health care even more than it already has.
Unfortunately, you can't chose an airline that has fixed seats but doesn't do all the rest of the things that make ryanair universally hated.

Also, scheduling and direct flights are more important to me than comfort, so even though I would prefer a flight with fixed seats, the airline that hubs out of my nearest airport is going to get most of my business (even if it's not much).
is there a way to block those GDPR popups?
How much should I trust nypost?
You have to be extra gullible to fall for this
It would've been nice to see why a particular book was included in the list. I certainly don't agree with the addition of Clean Code, but I may be missing something, hence my wish.
Its not like "git" or "mercurial" are all that inviting either.
Unless you're in the very front, in which case you do gain more space without losing any from someone in front of you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-Oriented_Software_Const...

Although http://touch.ethz.ch/ looks like an update to the classic.

The main take away, which is really really really important is Design by Contract.
I went with Ryanair once. There were like 100 reasons to hate them and I normally like flying.
In this case, because it was a gift from her husband.
I'm confused, it seems like you are talking about something different than the original Twitter thread. The complaint there is that hardware that's officially supported on Windows does not have attached/downloadable driver for archivation and the only way to install driver for Windows is to first install elaborate middleman software and only through that it's possible to download and install the real driver from manufacturer's servers which must be online. That's word by word the same case for Mac hardware. The stackexchange answer I provided is the equivalent procedure as what Foone tries to explore in his thread, just for Mac's.
Oh definitely. Going back to that awful hideous cruiser.
I hate it so much. But if you have a bad back, that's the bike for you no question. You sit upright and you can add a rack for pannier bags. Upright posture, no weight there.

It's an excellent design ergonomically speaking
I don’t need any help, thanks. I got this working myself, I couldn’t find a qualified technical co-founder.

Why should I stop? I’m following my passion as a founder.
Granted "westerner" was the wrong word: I meant rich nations, which are responsible for almost all of the historical emissions.

"Social ownership doesn’t solve climate change,"

I skipped a few steps there: the reason we can't just stop overconsumption is because that would effectively stop and reverse economic growth. No growth just doesn't work without restructuring the economy.
What it is intended to be, and what it will be, will differ greatly. 1M people living on Mars is utter fiction.
It seems wrong to both seize the assets and then also force the defendant to pay a debt from those assets. If bitcoin goes down then they would be on the hook for a massive amount of money that they don't have. I doubt the defendant would be able to tell the prosecutors to sell the assets if, say, bitcoin crashed last year.
Specialized and other major bike brands spend a lot on R&D. The reason that you can buy a reasonable quality open mold carbon frame direct from Taiwan these days (and rebrand it as “my great bike brand” before selling it on at a markup, if you want) is because the big brands have spent a lot of money developing and refining the concept over the years.

Modern bikes, with all their bells and whistles, which are light years better than their counterparts from 20 years ago, simply wouldn’t exist had this R&D not occurred.
This only provides support for 4.16e-09% of the 53-bit double integer range. Complete support by the method used would require at least 2,401,919,801,200 megabytes.
Well again that's not particularly new, even outside a crisis, that's part of every day life. Your hardly a nefarious actor if you're not exploiting anything.
Yep. I'd much rather drive, or take a train should one be available.

That said, if it's for work and my employer already paid for an economy seat, I'm generally okay with splurging a bit out-of-pocket for the business class / first class upgrade. If there was a seating section with first-class seats but none of the extra service I'd take that every time.
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One of the other mysteries for me is why simple office visits with limited time with a professional still cost hundreds. I acknowledge nurse practitioners exist but it doesn’t seem to have helped pricing much from where I’m standing. I still see mysterious codes billed and exorbitant expenses, often for only 15 minutes of time with a FNP, and usually after lengthy wait times at my expense.
The Feynman book, while being quite good, is not a good fit for this list.
Mine! also discussed on EconTalk [1]. Looks like the authors are on a publicity tour. I wonder if their results in the book hold up over time. Much of Freakonomics doesn’t IIRC.

[1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/econtalk/id135066958?i...
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It’s not always laziness, in Java

stream.map(f)

doesn’t allow f to declare any checked exceptions. We could catch and wrap everything but that obscures the useful code without any improvement in safety.
Tell HN: Signing out and in to Apple device forcefully activates iCloud sync
Tested on my iPad and MacBook, if you have an iCloud sync turned off and sign out of your account, upon the next login all the iCloud switches gets turned on and you have to manually turn them off again.
Statistics don't matter here.

A person getting in a car accident is relatively low chances; but when there's a car accident, I want there to be supply for every single person that was in that car accident and not already dead to have a hospital bed.
there are tons of exceptions to this. In my case I had almost 3 years gap between high-school and freshman year. My roomates were able to easily prove financial hardship that comes with on campus living.
What about these startups getting real investment from people like Bill Gates and (soon) Elon Musk? Companies like Carbon Engineering seem to have some method of extracting co2 from the atmosphere using some sort of catalyst I think. They are working on a 1 megaton per year pilot plant. Yes it is peanuts but it is a start.

[1]: https://carbonengineering.com/
How is this even a debate, if you weren’t supposed to use it they wouldn’t pay extra to install seats with a reclining mechanism.
I experienced a different twist on this... Flying overseas a few years ago on a group trip, somebody else had booked my ticket, and didn't buy extra legroom for me. I'm 194cm/ 6 foot 4, and my knees were lodged into the back of the seat in front of me, and I couldn't move.

The person sitting in front of me was furious at me, because she couldn't recline her seat, yelling about her right to recline the seat.

I asked her if she wanted me to cut off my legs, which she didn't have an answer for, but she was still angry the whole trip.
This also drives me crazy, it’s nice of them but ends up complicating an already tricky turn or crossing or something else. The worst is when they do it in a situation where there’s more than one lane and I literally can’t see or expect cars in the other lane to also stop / slow down for me.
The main reason why it seems like it's not just a matter of "parts wearing out" is that different animals all age at different rates, but strikingly they all seem to age in similar ways.

For example while dogs have a much shorter lifespan than humans they seem to face all the same age-related declines humans face. This holds for animals close to or exceeding our mass as well. If different parts of the body wore out simply due to e.g. mechanical stress, you would expect e.g. dog joints to be perfectly healthy after 15 years since they are biologically very similar to human joints, when in fact dogs tend to still have arthritic and otherwise fragile joints at 15 (or earlier).

Everything declining together, just on different timetables in different animals, seems to suggest that aging is controlled by either a single mechanism or some interwoven set of mechanisms that cause everything to fail at the same time, rather than individual parts failing because "they wear out." If you could target that mechanism(s) then maybe you can make humans live as long as e.g. tortoises. But of course we haven't confirmed that such things exist, but the above is at least some motivation for why they might exist.
It's not strange at all, the US has the best healthcare system in the world ... that money can buy, so it's a huge benefit to the elites with f*ck you money who want the best care at any cost.

Europe hasn't solved healthcare at all, there's plenty of issues ongoing and developing but the average joe need not worry of going broke due to medical bills so he can focus his life on other things.
donate 999B to musk, let him worry about it, then enjoy early retirement with 1B? lol.
Js is already supposed to be the preferred way to make addins now since it's the only way to make them work in both the desktop and web version. There's just no built in editor.
We have technologies today to transform CO2 in the ocean directly into calcium carbonate. It's just that this article isn't talking about those, it's talking about removal from the atmosphere
> dedicated light phases for bikes help far more than lanes.

We have that in SF and in the year before COVID I basically spent every morning commute berating at least one person that tried to cross in front of me on a bike-only light. It's really hard for Americans to give up the right-turn-on-red.

In NYC they just hand out tickets like candy to people who don't know that right-turn-on-red is illegal through essentially the whole city. In 2019 though I didn't see any enforcement at all of bike-protection lights and lanes.
Shop is quite slow, maybe the hackernews hug of death?
Genuine question: if drug pricing was altered resulting in much lower prices, would the same research and development still occur?

Would people be willing to pool capital to pursue FDA approval?

Would other countries still get low prices?

This isn't an argument for anything so I don't need rhetorical unrelated comparisons, I’m wondering if this has been evaluated and studied, or maybe if there were case studies from prior time periods or other countries
Their wordpress engine is starting to falter here and there. Nice products and approach though. Hopefully they get a cache in place while the sales funnel is open.
Sometimes at work, I have to contribute to my open source repos that are dependencies of my work projects. This blog post is relevant to that.
I recommend you listen to the conversation or read the book. It covers the authors’ theory that there are 6 basic views of ownership and that Rocky 50% of people when presented with this scenario take a very strong position for their preferred view even though it’s not necessarily more or less right objectively. Fascinating to see this in real-time ;)
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I was looking more into this and found something interesting[0]:

> A variable can be assigned the nameref attribute using the -n option to the declare or local builtin commands (see Bash Builtins) to create a nameref, or a reference to another variable. This allows variables to be manipulated indirectly. Whenever the nameref variable is referenced, assigned to, unset, or has its attributes modified (other than using or changing the nameref attribute itself), the operation is actually performed on the variable specified by the nameref variable’s value. A nameref is commonly used within shell functions to refer to a variable whose name is passed as an argument to the function.

So something like below:

set_var() {
local -n vname=$1 # use nameref for indirection
# some processing and assign value
vname="abcd"
}

use_var() {
local output
set_var output # call function to populate the variable
echo "output=$output"
unset -n output
}

use_var

I guess this is pretty close to "clean". Unfortunately, it is only available in bash 4.3, if I'm not wrong, so I don't have a choice to use it (our hosts use 4.2.x).

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Shell-Par...