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I like the spirit. How would you confirm that only applicants from affected populations take the jobs?
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They do seem rather aggressively lately. Not sure that’s a bad thing though. Certainly better than an outright ban
> I wonder if there is a way in C to reproduce this mechanism in order to not generate any check instructions as well for unsigned types.

Correct me if I'm wrong (I probably am, don't trust me) but simply using `unsigned` as the type gives you the most optimal signed unsigned integer type for the system.
Yup. In my experience a stable server requires about 700MB of RAM. There are reports on https://www.reddit.com/r/admincraft/ saying you can run it in 200 MB but I haven't managed. Probably with the right swappiness settings, performance tuning of the JVM and the Spigot / PaperMC instance.

So 16GB of ram should be enough for 20-60 servers.
Ah yes, the culture war. The people on this website working for social media companies are directly responsible for creating these absurd atmospheres
Because it being written in rust is only added to the title to attract the attention of evangelists. The rest of us don't care what its written in.
Instantly. Where do I sign?
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> What does that have to do with Covid?

The virus travels in saliva particles.

> There is a huge body of evidence that viral load impacts severity

There's actually no evidence for this claim. It's a hypothesis, not a fact. It's essentially impossible to verify the initial viral load of an infectious dose without doing challenge trials, which we haven't done (yet).

> There are actual real-world tests based on "average usage". We don't just have to make up our notion of efficiency based on your anecdotes.

There are no real-world trials of n95 masks and Covid. There were a few studies pre-2020 with n95 masks in hospitals and influenza, SARS and MERS. Two hospital studies involved Covid.

Essentially all of the research concerning masks and respiratory illnesses was summarized by the WHO here:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

Figure 4 is the relevant figure. Any study with a 1 in the "respirator" column was conducted with an n95 mask. Overall, they're more effective than the non-respirator masks, but the confidence intervals for nearly all studies overlaps "no effect".
I wrote this a while ago which got some attention on HN at the time: https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/04/19/how-to-become-a-hacke...

It gives some context to what got me interested and what I found helpful.
Going to the gym once is pretty useless though, if you're not going to go regularly, just don't go.
I can't recall where I first saw it, I think it was linked by this Linux gaming site (happy penguin?), or maybe it was some gamedev site. Anyway it might have been 2009, both years seem equally forever ago to me.
I got into programming when I was 12 as part of a TAG program.

Interestingly, though, I didn't intend to go into programming. My interest was digital electronics. However, as a 12 year old boy in a poor family, I couldn't afford to buy parts -- but programming is free as long as you have access to a computer (I'm in my mid 50s, when I was 12, access to a computer was rare).

I've been programming ever since -- and once I started doing it professionally (in my early 20s), I resumed my interest in electronics and carry that on to this day as a hobby.

I got my first paid work through a personal contact.

I won't comment about how I feel about my job right now, because I'm deeply burnt out and have no positive feelings about it. Once I figure out how to overcome my burnout, I'm sure that my love of it will return. I hope.
Ah sorry about that and thanks for pointing it out. Will fix!
You can just extract that old libc.a and link against it. It's one file.
I'm sure they have good marketing but that's far away from why I use it. At this point my whole life is in Notion. It's by far my endgame note taking app. The value is that it's so dynamic and infinitely nested and can absorb any messy unstructured thoughts or notes I have without having to stop and think about where it should go.

Like say I make myself a todo list using a List database. Need to set a reminder for myself about some part of it? Just add it in the list item with @. Have some documents or code output that you want to remember? Just throw it in there! Crap, have a billion tabs open from researching and have to stop for the day? Just create a list inside the page and throw all the links in there. Need to take notes on some of those links because the SO answer wasn't quite right, just add it right that list item. All the context for the card is right there in the card. It's a project management board that actually bings value to me as a dev. It's not the thing I have to use to track time, it's a thing I want to use because it's where I can store all my thoughts instead of having to have two systems and keep them in sync which is always a chore.
to be paid money to post and retweet things that they were told to post and retweet by some patron?

What do you think the network of “real media” is?
If any Notion manager is reading this: Please stop spending endless dollars on youtube stars and affiliate marketing. Almost every Youtube star that has a channel on productivity (Thomas Frank, Ali Abdaal and a dozen others) makes paid videos about Notion. By doing that you don't get organic growth, and obviously your platform cannot handle all the new users. Whenever I try to link a page to another by hitting `@` sign, I wait literally seconds until I get recommendations. That's why I switched my writing projects to Roam and other alternatives and use Notion only for task- and project management.
The new thing is "think of grandma".

Say delta variant enough and you can get anyone to give up anything.

Post covid is like post 9/11. This is the new normal. Vaccine passports and all.
The interest rate at which large banks can borrow USD is officially 0-1% and effectively negative due to massive quantitative easing.
I'll agree that most stadium security seems to be mostly theatre, but people are definitely not more spread out once inside the stadium. At least not at any large stadium I've ever been in which at least a dozen entrances with people going in over the course of several hours.
Weight is certainly a variable one can point to, but EVs still end up VASTLY more energy efficient than ICE vehicles.

If you account for the hundreds of gallons of fuel inserted and burned by the ICE vehicle over time, much of which is then wasted as excess heat energy, the "weight" of an EV's battery starts to look pretty good.
> If someone did want to do something at such a sporting event, nothing is stopping them from doing it at the gates where there is a reliable and unsecured mass of humanity

Theres a mass of people, but few cameras. Much worse cost/benefit ratio in terms of whatever craziness terrorists would supposedly consider benefit.

(feel free to spend the rest of your day thinking up silly wordplay involving "bang for the buck", I wish you were alone in this if you do)
We actually know their motivations because Bin Laden didn't hide his agenda. He wrote a fair bit on the topic. He wanted to force a change in US foreign policy to stop supporting Israel specifically and to leave the middle east in general. He saw himself as an Islamic anti-imperialist. It was actually pretty straight forward.

step 1: have big terrorist attack on American civilians

step 2: American civilians ask "why me?", his words not mine btw.

step 3: civilians find out what US gov has been doing in the middle east and call for change.

In hindsight its an incredibly naïve plan. And I think it ironically shows a lack of knowing your enemy on his part. Americans don't take well to being attacked or intimidated. If you want them to leave you alone the worst thing you can do is provoke them to action.
Planes are not that expensive
Yes, until you die in an accident that you could have survived with a seat belt.
> You can't hijack a train or a boat and make it crash wherever you want

No, but I am astounded by how you are writing off the 300 people on a train and the 4000 on a ship.

You'd be effectively trapped aboard with hijackers who'd not hesitate to off everybody .
The TSA gets all the info they'd need to do that when you buy a ticket. Precheck or not.
Just curious: are there other games people (who are reading this) have been waiting for for like 10 years that show a lot of promise and people are excited about? It used to be The Witness for me but then that released and now there's not much to replace it (other than this game maybe). It's kind of a nice delayed gratification exercise.
Honestly, I am ok with bullshit TSA because it will help make long distance train travel more attractive in the US.

Relatedly, I want someone to write a dark comedy set like 20 years hence where a bunch of airline execs, worried about their shrinking industry and some shiny new rail, band together to pay off some terrorist to blow up a moving train so train stations gets TSA security theater.

Without the movie, I worry due to some stupid accident the rail TSA might actually happen!
> If you believe in markets, then if pay transparency was beneficial, companies would already be doing it.

Companies are the ones gaining from the market failure. Why would they want to empower employees to better know their worth? Obviously companies don't want to support legislation that hurts their bottom line, even if it makes markets more efficient.
This isn't something to be done at the guest VM level but at the hypervisor level. In an optimal scenario, it can be cheaper to clone a VM with CoW semantics than it would be to deduplicate memory dynamically. But I guess this would defeat kASLR between all of the clones.
You are quite literally blaming the victim.
Sure - in the same way Fentanyl is essentially Aspirin.
how do you spend 10s of thousands of dollars on something without checking such comical red flags like that?
They want to try to prevent lawsuits from their customers.

Agree, it is PR, they know it is a security and they have been able to get away with selling unregistered securities for so long, that they do have a legit reason to question why the SEC is just now starting to do their job.

I wonder if Texas will extend the decentralized 'enforcement' nature of the abortion bill also to those selling unregistered securities?

If you do not have to be directly harmed in order to sue Coinbase for breaking the law, you didn't have to wait for the state to actually enforce the laws that is...
I don't think that is good policy, but if we are going to do it with abortion, why not extend it to money transmission and securities laws?
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>Seems like only the dollar stores sell the dishwasher powder these days.

Target and Trader Joes each have powdered. No need to stoop to dollar store levels ;)
Not a good example. Japan is famously insular and large enough to support a domestic audience.

Virtually every smaller country in Europe and Latin America consume American media voraciously.
Agreed! Also, if the mainframe is as great as IBM likes to tell everyone, why don't they compete with AWS and Azure using their lower cost platform?
Is a scarcity of top-level research doctors the reason why insulin is expensive in the USA but not other rich democracies? Similarly, is a scarcity of luxury mansions the reasons why the USA has hundreds of thousands of homeless but not other rich democracies?
> That list seems very Americanocentric.

Indeed it is. There are comments here and there in the GitHub issues where the devs defend the filter as being targeted at making it harder for "the [American] right wing" to use the platform.

It's naïve, and they don't want to talk about it.
There's nothing hypothetical about it. I'm actually baffled at the fact that people here infer random motivations when Usama bin Laden gave interviews as far back as the early 90s and held multiple speeches after 9/11.

The stated goal of the attacks was to show Americans that their continuous war and support for secular dictators in the Muslim world would come with high cost, and to force the American government to retreat from the Middle East.

This of course backfired spectacularly. Revenge is certainly a primary motivation, too, but I really don't think there is much room on the interpretation for the initial motivation because Al Qaeda was always very open and clear about it.
seems to be the direction they're heading https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1773
That's like proving to a solipsist that other minds exist. You know that you have subjective experiences by virtue of having them yourself. And you even admit consciousness is something by saying that it emerges.
Sure I'll bite, none of what you said is true, in either timing or circumstances.

-They didn't go to Lemmygrad

-No definition of leftism would exclude the very leftist people who went over to Hexbear, the Lemmy instance for exiled r/Chapotraphouse posters

-they don't seem to be particularly into anime

-they are very into left politics, socialism, trade unionism, anti-imperialism, and so on. So like they are left-wing
Even vaccinated folks can have the virus colonizing their airways, completely symptom free. Intentionally performing acts that could lead to the sickness or death of those around you seems pretty anti-social to me.
I used to think security theater (like taking off your shoes) was the dumbest thing ever. Then I realized that Terrorism is "Insecurity theater". Its designed to make you feel unsafe. It is statistically not at likely to hurt you, and the people who do it are rare, you but its designed to scare you in to thinking you are under some massive threat by an army of people who can and do strike at anytime. Its psychological warfare. So how do you fight against that? You make people go through security theater to make them think they are safe! We beat the terrorists, not when there are no terror incidents, but when no one is afraid of them. Fear is the enemy. If forcing people to taking off their shoes makes some people feel safe flying, then it is an effective anti terrorist measure.
Perhaps a remote-based company, like Gitlab, would be preferable for you? You get the global distribution while, I imagine, also having the respect to work hours since the company started with that distributed structure.

I can see remote-based companies becoming more of the norm, especially post-pandemic, rather than multiple-location startups/corporations.
Someone arguing in favor of security theater on HN. Brave.
"Sounds like your mother is obsessed with control and worry."

To reiterate: she works at a prison.
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Welcome to the world of IBM. This is consistent with their Watson marketing.

They’ve stopped being an innovation business.
There is an impatience mismatch between the average traveler and airport security.

Flying out of Philly Airport, the TSA yelled at everyone to take off their belt and shoes, shaking their head in disbelief at people that didn't know the rules, wasting everyone's time.

A few months later, same airport, new rules, now the TSA yelled at people taking off their belts and shoes because that's not a rule, shaking their head at people wasting everyone's time.

When you work at any job you tend toward assuming all people are as knowledgeable about the 'obvious' things, it is a tough skill to remain empathetic. I fly maybe 3 times a year. A security agent will process a few thousand people a shift. We are each bringing a different patience threshold to the interaction.
nothing is permanent in life. heaps of torrents i want have 0 seeders.

ipfs's economically incentivised hosting layer (filecoin) offers storage in monthly increments, not perpetual.
One might perhaps imagine that those concerned with the lessons of history would not overlook the lack of precedent for a pandemic taking place in a time of ubiquitous and nigh instantaneous global travel. Such a one would be disappointed in this case, certainly, but the expectation could be considered reasonable nonetheless.
Philosophy isn't science. But we can ask whether consciousness can someday be explained by science, and what that might look like. David Chalmers proposed a science of consciousness that allows for a non-physical property that comes with rich information processing. A new kind of law that specifies the existence of conscious states any time there is such information in the universe. Panpsychism would be another approach.

I'm not claiming either are correct. I'm just pointing out that consciousness is very hard to fit into a scientific framework. If it emerges, what does that entail? Certainly more than merely making that statement.
If it was deliberate fraud why would they not have tried to disguise it? They must be convinced it works.
A few of those things listed are crimes and should be (and probably were) investigated. There's no guarantee he should feel 'welcomed'. He wants a safe space to spout his views and is complaining when others speak out about him. He's a whining hypocrite.
If my memory serves me correctly, it is rather easy to decouple natural from player made blocks. It was either stored separately on storage or at worst you can deduce it by "subtracting" a fresh chunk generated from the seed.

Then you just need a good heuristic to guess whether or not a group of blocks matches your definition of a base to be explored.
Hands behind your back
Hands up
Keep your hands where i can see them
.....etc
> nothing is stopping them from doing it at the gates where there is a reliable and unsecured mass of humanity,

Doing it at the gates is not going to be seen live by millions. Having it seen by the masses in real time and without warning is far more effective than having it merely reported.
Second that. Most of the countries mentioned have highly corrupt system.
the interesting thing I've found about those circles is that the followup is never discussed. they just stick with the earlier information and make it the hill they want to die on.

over the past 15 months, many organizations (including the CDC) municipalities (including within the US in democrat and republican areas) and countries have revisited old deaths and current death recording practices, in direct response to this observation and criticism

most times they end up finding more COVID deaths, different ones in greater quantity than the incorrectly recorded ones that shouldn't have been counted. sometimes there is a slight temporary downward death count adjustment. and more importantly, the aggregate stats everywhere already account for this. when news reports X-hundred thousand death milestone, its already factored in the corrected numbers.

what seems most important to me is that all ailments, especially respiratory ones, have the same recording and accounting discrepancies. if the aforementioned "those circles" were also the "just the flu" circles, then the gravity of COVID relative to the flu (or anything else) would still be seen from the original flawed recording standard, because all prior year’s flu numbers are polluted the same way. makes it hard to view those circles as a better alternative to listen to, when the flaws of the established authorities still point to an aggregate good enough signal.
No that's still an agenda. Nobody becomes a terrorist just because. There is always a motivation and goal. You say retaliation makes it an end to itself but I give as a counter Timothy McVeigh. He was seeking revenge and sending a message. Terrorism is a tactic used to achieve a specific goal.
The M1X or M2 Mac Minis would be an excellent datacenter device if it wasn't for the licensing issues.
Thinking of other people and getting a vaccine and going on with your life without much of any impact seems like a very low bar.
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I am not sure if this generalizes to non-64 bit platforms, but in my experience using size_t gives you unsigned integer indexing without requiring overflow checks (as it's normally a 64 bit quantity).
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I remember this story in the UK press. The awful thing is, how many died due to this?
Worrying about one thing makes her "obsessed" with it? Nothing about what I read implied obsession.
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> It would be far more effective to do something at the gates dude to the density of humanity there where there is no security

Maybe the goal is to protect the people that are inside... players, managers, etc...
You have taken the Howey test, which defines what is a investment contract (and therefore requires SEC regulation), and replaced it with "if it's not securitized and its not tradeable it's not", which is, strictly as a matter of US law, completely and utterly wrong.

The whole point of the Howey test is to focus on what the transaction does, not it's form, because it was trying to prevent people from tap-dancing around the regulation, exactly like what Coinbase is attempting to do here.
So as long as your fraud is funny enough or over the top enough you should get a free pass?
No the victims are the dead people it didn’t protect - they aren’t blaming them. They’re blaming people who didn’t do due diligence when buying it.
> In fact, cops at city cyber cell officials say that the sextortionists appear to have adopted a new modus operandi – generally such calls needed a woman accomplice, but the new technology has even done away with that

What it allow is to make the whole process fully automated. Every step from the woman to the threats can be generated by a program.
That’s why most sinks have two compartments. You wash your dishes in one, then rinse in the other. Do it right and it’s just as efficient as the dishwasher.

Still more work, of course.
Why don't you fully cite what they said? The issue is that maintenance of the grid also has costs. So if everyone hovers on net zero(or even pumping electricity back to the grid), who pays the cost for maintaining the electric lines and the salaries of people who work on managing the grid? The grid will go down with no repairs. Money doesn't grow on trees.

That's what they mean by fair share, the homes are still connected to the grid, and can use it with their rooftop solar doesn't generate enough power, but they pay nothing or close to nothing when an electric line needs repair, their nonsolar neighbors pay it for them. I don't know if 'not paying the fair share' or 'freeloading' are the right terms, what would you call that situation? If the distribution fee is bothering people, why don't they disconnect the grid and pay nothing?
Perhaps all adults should have that training.
That's like dismissing Snowden because he broke the law.
He got quite rich off it, too.

> James McCormick, 56, of Langport, Somerset, is said to have made £50m from sales and sold more than 6,000 in Iraq, the Old Bailey heard.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-22266051