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> 1. All your actions are in one place. Figuring out what can happen as a result of a series of user interactions can be done without navigating through a component hierarchy.

I'd imagine it would be easier to just call a method on whatever we want to update, instead of lowering all our methods into enums. Why wouldn't we do that instead?

Also, serializing usually isn't enough to get the benefits you describe. You need true determinism for that, and that's very difficult to achieve. If you ever e.g. query the current date without recording it you've just introduced nondeterminism.

If we could really achieve deterministic replayability easily, then I might be okay with the drawback of turning methods into enums.
Varies. ER doctors are usually paid hourly, others (e.g. obstetrician delivering a baby) are usually paid from productivity metrics regardless of incident duration.

Regardless, the article's thesis was that even if there isn't an incident, one is still "working" just by being available.

And that aspect is the same.
It is always irresistably tempting to claim as proof of virtue the products of what is really just good luck.

Rust had the good luck to come along behind C++, but not too close behind, and so get benefit of hindsight to choose nicer defaults.

I have seen people (even on HN!) earnestly assert that Rust originated the notion of language recognition for object ownership and lifetime, and move semantics—and even insist C++ copied those from Rust, badly. Rust's custodians are equally as bound by their unfortunate early choices as C++'s; sufficiently-aware readers will be able to list numerous cases where early choices are already regretted.

Rust benefits from much more than hindsight: it had nothing to be backward-compatible with, beyond its C ABI subset, where C++ was bound by almost all of C's early-'70s choices. (Function prototypes (along with implicit struct copy, "//" comments, void, and const) were successfully back-ported from C++ to C, freeing C++ from need to parse K&R function declarations.)

To a working programmer, history is void. Rust coders can luxuriate in its lucky defaults while sneering at C++ coders saddled with clumsy evolved syntax and backward-compatibilities. In their turn, old Rust coders will, if they are lucky enough, be sneered at by users of future languages that lucked into lessons Rust has taught by unfortunate example.
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Love this. I bought a 3" mostly-tungsten cube a few months ago.

Almost without fail, every time I walk by it I pick it up.

And without fail, every time is satisfying.

(The 3" cube weighs ~18 pounds.)
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I first though Lemonade insurance had decided to diversify their offers. So definitely a name clash.
We've designed our cities, suburbs, food industry, and society such that the average person is at least overweight, nearing obese.

If the average person suffers from what should be an anomaly, perhaps it is less a personal failing than a societal failing and we should try to fix the societal problems generating the poor outcome.
Nitpicking is pointless here, but the phrasing was immediately confusing to me.

"US Adults are 42.4% obese" leads me to believe that all US adults are 42.4% of the way to becoming obese, where as in actuality it appears that 42.4% of US adults are obese.
Here is a simple example. Ruby's start_with? method which is confusing because its bad grammar.
So AS added an alias and called it starts_with? https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/main/activesupport/lib/a...

Why is this bad? Makes total sense to me. Now both forms work and hopefully it eventually makes it into the language like often happens. But until it does, why not monkey patch obvious mistakes?
zorin is looking nice these days. ive been using pop os for maybe 2 years now but i think i might switch.

im not quite sure zorin counts as being "adequately staffed" though. as far as i know its just 2 brothers from Ireland working in it all this time, but maybe they have more staff these days. i can't imagine how they could pull off zorin os and also zorin grid with only two of them
The wisest person to consult on this would be P.T. Barnum. While mostly known as that circus guy, he really accomplished a lot more than that and wasn't a bad guy. He wrote a couple of books, even. Most apropos is "The Humbugs of the World: An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages" https://www.gutenberg.org/files/26640/26640-h/26640-h.htm
Why won't the CDC talk honestly about the connection between covid deaths and obesity?
Also AAA has the same voltage as the more common AA - 1.5 volts. So the wording is strange.
I didn't mean to imply priority: a clash is just a clash, not a sign that either project isn't entitled to the name. It's just an unfortunate namespace problem: language package managers (overwhelmingly) flatten things into a single-level namespace, and so we end up with things like this.

> There is little overlap between x86 decoding and a GUI library.

I work on a graphical tool that visualizes x86 binaries! It uses iced (the decoder), and it could very easily end up using iced (the GUI library).
We need to outlaw sugar and restrict simple carbs in made to order foods.
If we had a closure, we wouldn't ever need to "handle all possible events", we would just do a virtual call. It's guaranteed to be handled.
> we should try to fix the societal problems generating the poor outcome

What would this look like policywise?
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To state something you probably already know: The goal of FOSS is freedom to view and change the code. It makes no guarantees about quality or usability. Despite that, a lot of FOSS software is of great quality. But it's not the goal.
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So far so good, but none of that answers my question.
This hurts me. Not that people get use from old technologies, or that they share that information.

But we are 25-30 years into the information revolution. We don't just have a fast computer sitting at home, with an always on internet connection. We have several in different form factors that can be carried with us. Our internet is not only much faster than it ever was, it is unmetered and available everywhere.

It is proverbial to say that a watch has more power than the computer used to send people to the moon; I wear a smart watch, which beats my first laptop.

And yet, for all that, the best thing we have is, index cards?

Where did we go wrong, and how can we fix it so that society can progress?
We need to stop putting sugar in everything. That's the root cause of most of our problems.

It's not just industrialized preprocessed and prepackaged food, because restaurants are guilty of this too.

I don't buy the "cars and suburbs" as a root cause argument. People would be less sedentary if they felt healthier and more energetic.

Sugar is the problem.
Is this solely done based on BMI? Some of you may know that BMI can be wildly inaccurate. (this guy is technically obese on BMI scale - https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=153207891)

I wonder if we would find better connections between disease and "weight" with body fat % or similar measure.
Amazing product idea, solves a real need. My biggest concern would just be remembering you all exist when needed since this really is not a 'category' so to speak.

Anyway just wanted to chime in that "Switcherland" would have been a funny name given your sensical positioning as neutral. Current name is great though! "Bringing Switcherland in to facilitate" is just something I'd love to say at the office.
With respect to the author, I found the article a bit overwrought and folks may bounce before getting the gist.

tl;dr Apple will be more generous in allowing developers to message their customers about payment options outside the app. This is a big deal for virtual game economies (and others!) because now Epic can email/message you about a fortnite vbuck bundle sold from their website, where epic can pay their payment provider, say, 3% plus $0.25 for a $10 transaction rather than the 30% App Store fee, saving $2.45!

The revenant Apple text:

> To give developers even more flexibility to reach their customers, Apple is also clarifying that developers can use communications, such as email, to share information about payment methods outside of their iOS app. As always, developers will not pay Apple a commission on any purchases taking place outside of their app or the App Store. Users must consent to the communication and have the right to opt out.

Very exciting stuff, and Patrick is right that this messaging will be rolled out quickly by games and others.
I spent the past four years working as a data scientist for a healthcare company on population health initiatives, and started building out a body of research around how to engage clinicians using data (among other things, through dashboards). That's a bit different than the article, but one of my key learnings was that dashboards are often incredibly ineffective and only promulgated by well-intentioned engineers, based on what they would want to see if they were a clinician.

I worked with a behavioral economist, and we started running RCTs looking at different approaches to sharing data, and found that dashboards led to less engagement, when there was engagement it was more likely to drive ineffective interventions, and generally our dashboard groups had worse patient outcomes. Non-dashboard approaches had 20x better engagement and anywhere from 20-100% better patient outcomes (depending on the condition).

Unfortunately, both of us left the company when a bunch of engineers moved in, scoffed at our work, and immediately said "doctors need to be able to slice and dice their data" -- which, by every measure we had tested, is simply not true. But the "mission control" style thinking, where you have tons of dials and numbers flashing on a screen, pervaded because it "feels" like the right answer despite being the objectively wrong one.
The tech might be a bit of a factor. If you don't have good lighting tech western style models will look like cartoons too.
"Tropical Storm Ida could be close to Category 4 hurricane strength when it makes landfall Sunday on Louisiana's coast"

"Sunday is the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina."
I've been trying to get back in, too, but its very hard to find a company that isn't doing bad things, and you're compensated for the degree to which you make those things worse.

It makes you want to cry, but it's honestly killing me. I hope you picked a job that forces you into the fewest ethical dilemmas and treats you well.
> Non-Hispanic Black adults (49.6%) had the highest age-adjusted prevalence of obesity, followed by Hispanic adults (44.8%), non-Hispanic White adults (42.2%) and non-Hispanic Asian adults (17.4%).

This made me say "whoa!" How are asian adults so much lower probable obese?

Also can we please have a COVID-19 sized response to this issue?
> was $147 billion in 2008.

And I've heard elsewhere the _economic_ impact is even greater in the long tail of small but numerous costs of obesity. For example the fuel cost on a flight is greater, or premature mortality meaning that education investment has a lower ROI.
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Yes, as the size of the capacitor shrinks, the plates get closer and it becomes harder for the dielectric to maintain charge (hence voltage) without arcing.

Btw they are talking about supercapacitors which are a specific kind of capacitor that is more like a battery: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercapacitor
Synthetic and natural dyes each have their advantages, which is why they are still used in various applications. But which kind you like better is obviously a judgement call.
My choices have nothing to do with politics. Vaccine choices are about health and science. I am protected by my vaccine, but my children under 12 are not.
Stop tariffs on sugar and end subsidies to corn that lead to high fructose corn syrup.
Walkable and bikable cities and suburbs. Increased transit. Reduced working hours so that people don't feel the need to choose between health and survival and stress. Getting the garbage out of our supermarkets. Not subsidizing massive amounts of corn syrup and sugar.

I really could go on.
Missing the biggest pain point, autoscaling down the cluster.
the first line on the link is a little more clear

> The US obesity prevalence was 42.4% in 2017 – 2018.
> And the effective IQ would drop as well…

What???
USDT is hosted on Ethereum. The value of the USDT coin does not come from cryptocurrency as you've correctly pointed out, it comes from centralized authority backing USDT. But what part does come from cryptocurrency is the decentralized tracking of account balances. If it were't for the Ethereum blockchain, the only alternative would be to get physical USD into the country or for a Lebanese individual to open up a bank account denominated in USD (which is most likely illegal and impossible). So crypto is actually part of the solution here. Hope that makes sense
I think it’s more poetic. Yes, the results may be different and they have values that synthetics don’t possess, more variability for example or less colorfastness, but to say that overall they are inexplicably better, is overselling it.

Sure, I like indigo, woad and maybe carrots or beets for Easter eggs but that doesn’t mean they are better. There may be preferences, yes. Better? That depends on use.
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That would be great. These kind of actions need to result in a hit to the bottom line to make them unprofitable or I don't think manufacturers will get the message.
More likely it's FB defining the terms "view" and a "click" to mean what they want them to mean, and measuring them in whatever obtuse way they measure them, to obscure the data and confound any real attempt to draw any meanings from them.
https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/obesity-and-covid-19.html

Obesity is also highly correlated to covid19 hospitalizations and deaths.

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IIRC, slightly overweight (ex: BMI 26 or so) might be better for certain diseases... as having a layer of "emergency fat" for your body to consume during a sickness / illness is beneficial... with respect to a disease. Its worse for long-term health however.

However, "Slightly overweight" is also a condition for strong athletes, as muscle is far more dense than fat. So many strong and healthy athletes are technically overweight (but incredibly healthy). So IIRC, there's a bit of confounding going on in the overweight category.

Once we start getting to the obese category (BMI 30+), the number of muscular people in that group diminishes, and the vast majority of Americans in that group are in fact, unhealthy and sedentary individuals. (I'm sure there's some healthy boxers or wrestlers who are BMI 30+, but they'd be in the gross minority of BMI 30+ individuals in this country)
I have at least one or two games that are essentially ports of short point and click adventures originally made for Android that I beat in under 2 hours. I didn't refund them because these days I have a Software Engineer salary that I'm willing to spread around.

That said I didn't always have such a disposable salary, and in aggregate I have very little sympathy for indie game devs who sell games with 10 minutes of content per dollar. If in a poorer lifetime I bought a game for 9 dollars, then found out in 90 minutes that I had completed it, I would've hit that refund button so damn fast. The alternative to refunding your overly expensive short game isn't not refunding it, it's not ever risking playing it at all.
ah yes, cops warning companies about protesters that effectively siege buildings by blocking roads in and out so workers can't safely leave and disrupt critical infrastructure is fascism. (◔_◔)
Yes, BMI overestimates obesity in bodybuilders, but there aren't many bodybuilders, so that has roughly no impact on population statistics.

On a population level, BMI actually underestimates obesity https://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/bmi-underestimates-pr... so the real obesity percentage is probably even worse than 42.4%
I agree with your points but I also think it's an important distinction that people choose to smoke cigarettes. I don't think folks without mental health issues are intentionally getting COVID.
It’s absolutely fraud, at scale and across state lines.

They started selling product A, under a particular version number. They then substituted inferior product B as the same version number, deceiving customers who were attempting to buy product A.

They did this with what seems like explicit intent to trick customers attempting to buy product A into accepting the inferior product B.

I think it speaks to the overt criminality of modern businesses that they did this.

I hope we start seeing RICO and organized crime prosecutions against executives for this behavior.
I meant the article said that the actual disease confers greater immunity than a vaccine.

While that might be true, that immunity would only be good for one particular strain of the virus as opposed to the vaccine which provides you protection against a wider variety of strains.

One can argue that the protection from the vaccine is better in the sense, that it protects you from a wider variety of Covid strains.

Also, just so you know, that while the (mRNA) vaccine replicates protein, it is still your body and immune system which reacts to this protein and creates the antibodies.

So even in case of the vaccine, strictly speaking the immunity is natural.
Very true. When it's easier to drive across the street or down the block than walk, you will be less healthy.

Part of what I loved about living in Asia (Taipei, Tokyo, et al.) was that public transit required walking to, between and from stations/stops. It's not much but it's just enough.
It's not the same thing. The argument would have to be: violent video games lead to more violent video games, which, anecdotally, I would probably say they do.
Hasn't the A series always had a headphone jack?
ahem Subway
I don't see it sorry. I don't think Shopify crashes every monday because thousands of devs monkeypatch Object all the time or because AS adds 20 miliseconds to load time.
Neither does Github or countless othet huge companies.
I agree that after a certain size types make a lot of sense and Ruby or other dynamic languages becomes less attractive but ActiveSupport? Works well.
You can also just buy a Cascade Camper van for $33k new, rent a WeWork for $300 a month, and park / live in whatever part of the US has the best climate. That's what I'm doing. You can sell the van after your sabbatical if you want. If you want to live abroad this wouldn't make sense, but it's definitely possible to live here on $1000 a month with this plan.
True, but to be fair, most users (Windows users, at least) don't have more than 2 browsers installed (Edge and either Firefox or Chrome, and it's likely a safe bet that if FF or Chrome are installed, that's their preferred browser). *nix users likely only have 1.

Your "umpteen" browsers is very much an edge case.
I think you're missing the point. floating point isn't madness, but people thinking it represents the real numbers without stopping to consider how it works is madness.

For example, just consider the number of bugs that come down to integer over/under flow. The reality is that we like to work with a simplistic model of what is going on, and ignoring the hard to reason about edge cases really does simplify problems, and if on revisiting the code we can either handle or rule out these cases as ever happening, then we're golden.

As for fixed point arithmetic, this is how DSPs worked for years, and there are still lots of edge cases to worry about. A typical application would see many multiply accumulates for something like an FIR filter, so you still have to consider how large the value can end up, and split your integer into a suitable scaling factor to avoid overflow whilst trading off precision. The whole point of floating point is that this tradeoff is always carried out on your behalf.

But don't get me started on denormals...
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Sugar and its synthetic brothers are addictive. Sugar addiction should be classified as an addiction and given the same sort of attention and funding that alcohol and drug addictions receive.
Legislation banning overly processed foods. Better school lunches. etc.

Pick a "first world" country with much better BMI. Copy all of their regulations surrounding food and agriculture.
But who is going to lobby for any of those things?
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Only if total production goes down. If productivity increases enough to compensate (what really looks like the case), it should have no impact on wages.
I'm medically "obese", but nobody looking at me would say that. Whenever I tell people that I'm dieting, they're surprised and often tell me that I look good.

So with the medical definition of obese not matching what peoples' eyes tell them, I'm not surprised that 42% are "obese".
Why would I? Most of the content on my PLeX is paid for elsewhere. And, anything I pirate which I like I buy. I watched _Pig_ and immediately went to Amazon and paid $14.99 for it. If I pirate something that is terrible, there's no point.
In ny country, the library for example. Also some public baths.
But my main concern is the restrictions on freedom of movement.
Alpher was the most junior of the three and Bethe was a big gun even at that time.

Bethe went along with the joke when Gamow added his name to the paper. But the actual loser in the deal was Alpher because most scientists, upon reading the author's names simply assumed that Bethe and Gamow had come up with the main ideas.
Precisely. That’s why I was suspicious of this claim that there is a GC out there that is both "extremely fast" and has "minimal pauses". Something’s got to give.
Only your own point of view is valid, I see.
Thank goodness. I've always been confused by Discourse. Discourse was supposed to be the modern answer to all the homegrown PHP forum solutions of the previous decade. Instead, it just ended up being yet another bloated JavaScript web app. And given who the creator was, especially disappointing.
One major contributor to growing obesity is the US diet. It is terrible IMO. I believe we need massive corporate responsibility to solving this issue. Without some form of intervention we are going to see rising costs to our healthcare system to sustain high levels of obesity among the populous.
Does the phone / mobile network go offline during electricity blackouts in the first world?

Where I live the traditional non-voip landlines, and the mobile network have almost always worked when there is no electricity.
Every time I comment on one of these threads, I mention how most people don't know about the most fundamental component of weight control: Calories-in calories-out.

And then I get a mass of people complaining that "it's not that simple! x y and z also impact weight!"

I think so much has to do with these two points:

1. Most don't know about CICO.

2. Many who do throw it away as not useful.

We should be teaching this in school health classes. I'm not sure if we are, as I'm from the food-pyramid era which was not even close to useful.

Edit: I went from +7 to 0 in a very short period of time. This isn't me complaining, this is me making my point. People downvote the most fundamental component of weight control, even among a likely more educated than average group of people.
Bad argument, not even comparable. Colonization of Africa, Asia and Americas was orders of magnitude worse, and more importantly, incredibly recent. Which is why the lingering effects are still there.
At a minimum, make it more costly to eat unhealthy foods by taxing added sugar and subsidizing healthy foods.