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I learned something very interesting the other day. Historically, virtually all cases of vaccine side effects occur in the first few months. I honestly can't believe I haven't seen this more widely discussed. It makes the concerns about "long-term safety data" mostly moot. By now, we have plenty of the relevant safety-critical data that we need for the covid vaccines.

Here is the director of the Alabama Vaccine Research Clinic discussing the issue [1]:

> “Vaccines are just designed to deliver a payload and then are quickly eliminated by the body,” Goepfert said. “This is particularly true of the mRNA vaccines. mRNA degrades incredibly rapidly. You wouldn’t expect any of these vaccines to have any long-term side effects. And in fact, this has never occurred with any vaccine.”

> “The side effects that we see occur early on, and that’s it,” Goepfert said. “In virtually all cases, vaccine side effects are seen within the first two months after rollout.”

[1] https://www.uab.edu/news/health/item/12143-three-things-to-k...
Yes, I was thinking IP for simplicity's sake. Just lightweight control packets and the occasional SSH session. I think I've seen references to people doing that.

I was thinking off the shelf concentrator cards would be easier if two of them could communicate with each other in a P2P fashion, and if that was supported by common software.

Is that packet forwarding daemon the thing that is generally used on all LoRaWAN gateways? Like if I got a Mikrotik wAP LR9, would I expect it to be running that? Or better yet, if I plugged a miniPCIe (USB) R11e-LR9 into my own Linux machine, could I expect it to just work with that gateway software?

It seems the basic interface is serial links with AT commands, so perhaps the compatibility issues are trivial once you start playing around with this stuff. It's just hard to tell by reading the overview docs because they seem to be geared towards the LoRaWAN system.
Disclosure: I used to work for Google Cloud and know Neural Magic's CEO (Brian Stevens).

It's great to see CPU optimizations, but I have a few nits:

> As of this writing, the new A100s do have hardware support for semi-structured sparsity but are not readily available.

A100s have been readily available on all major cloud providers for a while. This benchmark would only require one A100, anywhere in the world.

Echoing 37ef_ced3's, I would argue that what matters is not raw qps (the A100 will trounce this) but rather qps at a given latency per dollar. The c5.12xlarge is $2.04/hr (and has a sad 12 Gbps NIC...) while the g4dn.2xlarge is is $.752/hr.

So the T4 setup is about 20% more qps, but almost 3x better inference/$!
I once worked at a place that used 100.0.0.0/8. At the time that range was not in use on the Internet. Not sure if that was intentional or a fat finger. That place was ran by idiots though, so it was probably the latter.
That looks pretty great. I’m sold, I’ll give it a shot. I wonder if it blows away your existing config? Probably.

I just recently dropped vim and my existing vim config (which took me forever to get autocomplete correctly), for nvim 0.5 with builtin lsp. The effort to get nvim lsp configured vs. any of a handful of autocomplete plugins I’d tried using previously in vim was night and day. Nvim is a fantastic project and LunarVim looks like a great complement.

(edit: it doesn't blow away your existing config, and it has some very respectable config documentation)
This touches on Mercury the Olympian god who is also seen as Hermes/Enoch/Thoth.

After studying much of these characters they really share a pantheon and mostly just change names.

The great shapeshifter. Balance by knowledge and play with a side of trolling.
Jeez, how long has it been since the Microsoft store on Xbox 360? 15 years now? Probably nearly predates the iPhone.

And Microsoft was a signatory to this lawsuit arguing Apple should have to open up but their store is “different”…
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We are not talking about forced vaccination. I'm referring to the workplace mandates where people are still free to not vaccinate if they wish, just as their employer is free under at-will employment to kick them out.

But even if we consider literal forced vaccinations, I still don't see that as necessarily inconsistent with libertarianism, due to the reasons I outlined, specifically the non aggression principle.

Suppose that a new disease emerged that had a mortality rate of Ebola and a transmissibility of COVID. Suppose we had a vaccine that was capable of stopping transmission. In such a rare and extreme set of circumstances, forced vaccination (not even mere mandates in workplaces) would be a must under the NAP. The right to choose not to vaccinate is effectively the same as the right to kill people with a disease that you may carry.

Luckily COVID isn't as deadly as that, and the vaccines aren't as effective at preventing transmission, so we don't need to consider such measures. But in the right context, I very much see forced vaccinations as following from libertarian axioms. Just like you would see jailing a serial murderer and depriving them of their liberty to be justified under those same axioms.

For the record, I'm one of the most anti-collectivist people you'll meet. I just pay significant credence to the reality of negative externalities. You can swing your fist all you want, but you can't punch my nose with that fist. In the same vein, you can't cough your deadly virus into my face and not expect to justly have force applied to you.
I think the QAnon stuff was originally satire or joking around. It was just a hypothetical thing like “can you imagine?” There was probably some sarcastic tongue-in-cheek responses with false confirmation: “can you believe [absurd thing] is actually true!,” etc. Some less savvy people didn’t pick up on it, and we know the disastrous results. I wonder how the original “Q” poster feels that it was taken completely seriously.
A primarily affluent small minority of the global workforce switched to working from home. Literally everything your lifestyle depends upon requires actual people doing physical labour.

An overwhelming majority of children have had basically no education at all for close to eighteen months.
I don't use it most of the time, but it's really useful in Intellij+Java (but also reasonably decent for vim with go or C).

When you fold everything, you get a nice overview of all functions that you can jump to.

Great for warming up on unfamiliar code when you want to know, what's exists, not just where something specific is.
Google is wildly profitable.

It's understandable that a company, crunched for cash, ends up in odd situations.

It's not acceptable when you're sitting on mountains of cash - and - claim to have some kind of moral situation in commerce.
I haven’t worked with A16z, but will say in the case of First Round Capital, their services are truly amazing, and would be material to me in considering term sheets, or even in choosing an early stage start up to join. So I think the capital + services model can be legit.
Pricing isn't too bad if you don't want to go the GPL route.

If your funding or revenue is $50k and under, there is no cost, but there is a "Made with JUCE" splash screen.

If your funding or revenue is $500k and under, $800 one time fee and there is no splash screen.

You can pay $2600 once with no revenue or funding limit and no splash screen.

Free for education.
In the case of “blood is thicker than water,” unfortunately, the more historically common understanding is also its most common understanding today, and has been for so many centuries that we dont actually know if it originated with its original meaning or it’s inverse.

I’m bringing this up because, for many years, I was one of the folk who spread the idea that it actually was supposed to mean “the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.” But there’s no strong historical basis for this, lovely as the idea may be.

—

As for the “bad apple” one, I didn’t realize that it was commonly misunderstood. I always felt like someone mentioning that someone was “a bad apple” was an almost violent accusation: the person needed to be extricated from the group, less the group become infected by their corruption. I am now trying to think back to times when I’ve heard this one used and wondering if I misunderstood the intent.
That last part (about denying access) at least can be fixed: If scripts are disabled (or if the features needed are unimplemented in the browser), or if scripts are enabled but an error occurs when trying to activate the web workers or whatever other features it might use, then it can display a link to the documentation and you can enter the response manually (perhaps copying from an external program (which can even be on a different computer), which if it is native code might be faster than the web page). (If you can have some sort of protocol identification attribute, then this substitution can be done automatically.)

It is true that it can still be annoying for extra CPU work though (and may waste energy), and if they both disabled scripts/workers and also won't or can't do otherwise despite that it will still be denied access.
You’re perfectly welcome to consider whatever you want but the judge just ruled it isn’t. That’s legalese for “your opinion is wrong”.
Is it Arabic? They have a shared script
I had a couple of PalmOS devices back 20 years ago. I think my last one was a Sony CLIÉ. WiFi, this newfangled thing called Bluetooth that I could use to transfer files to the Nobody Else I Knew Who Had Bluetooth, digital camera (it wasn't too bad for the time), MP3 player, and a Memory Stick Pro slot for removable storage for all those MP3s and pictures. It had this beautifully tactile selector dial on the side. You could roll it with your thumb to move menu selections up and down, then press it in to click. Oh, it was so good.

I switched to PocketPC/Windows Mobile shortly after that, though. Dell Axim, IIRC. The screens were nicer. They had CF card slots for removable storage and peripheral devices. The WiFi wasn't as flaky and it even had a basic 3D graphics accelerator. I could program for it in C#, and it was very easy, no more difficult than programming on desktop. Actually, I experimented for a while with writing apps that ran on both desktop Windows and Windows Mobile and it was quite a fascinating experience.

That was a problem with PalmOS. If you wanted to develop for them, you either got stuck using J2ME (which was hot garbage), or you had to pay to get access to a C compiler. PocketPC and .NET Micro Framework were significantly much lower barrier to entry. Completely unlike trying to figure out Android development today. I think that's why I never really bothered to learn Android development. I've never really had an impetus to push me to chug through the learning curve, plus I already knew it didn't have to be that stupid. I've rathered stick to webdev and make whatever I need as mobile responsive PWAs.

I look at my smartphone today and it has never felt as good as that CLIÉ or Axim.
Yeah I would love to find a way to support non-JS browsers. For now I considered it out of scope. I could very easily make a browser extension or companion app for it though!
The question people are asking is "How would your relative have gotten paid if you hadn't worked at Google"?
LispPad, by the same author, is based on this. LispPad is a very good Lisp (Scheme with good iOS/macOS utility library support) programming environment for iOS/iPadOS and macOS, recommended!

I usually use LispWorks Pro, sometimes Racket, but, LispPad is a lot of fun and very well written.
Odd that the article doesn't mention the most likely source and implies it's likely not a nation state.. as if Indra isn't just a cover.
My claim is (at this present time, due to recent historical circumstances, on balance, especially those older and in the professional world) black folks tend to be much wiser and "more adaptable" than their non-black counterparts.

Furthermore, I'll claim that the homophobia et al that you see is actually the process of a people learning to deal with new circumstances (e.g. if you look at black comedy from the 90's, you'll see a lot of stuff that doesn't age well -- BUT that should be recognized as literally the opposite of "problematic" -- what that was was learning and adapting and growth."
actually, the polio vaccine doesn't have much higher efficacy, and the covid vaccines don't have much lower efficacy, they have similar efficacy in reducing severe symptoms
Non cash prizes have a cash value attached. If the value of winning a carnival game was getting to date another carnival game winner then the government would stay well away from that financial transaction.
Try fzf. It lets searching recursively and out of order through history, file system, and can be inserted anywhere in a pipe.
Multiple numbers, and not all of these were mine. I usually provide my number for sign-up, then remove it from the linkage in settings.

Twitter suspended all by association with my main account that had access to all these different accounts via TweetDeck. (Or that’s the hypothesis, since I could find no other link across all 12)
The mechanism is by assigning visible but not devastating (despite the public demand for schadenfreude) punishments to executives found culpable. The goal is to maximize reporting and to change the culture.

If the punishments are set too high, individual loyalties begin to dissuade reporting. You might not love your boss, but you might not want to see his kids lose their father. So executing executives has its downsides.

However, the sanctions must be visible so as to decrease the tendency for offenders to defend each other and entrench corruption. This is difficult because it means that people will still be employed (in less powerful roles) after being sanctioned for offenses many people find morally repulsive.

It's a difficult balancing act. Cultural factors play about as big of a role as incentives. Rick Scott's Medicare fraud is infamous but it didn't stop him from winning three statewide elections in Florida.
I think that's unlikely. I visited the CIA for a network equipment manufacturer in the late 90's and they had converted a significant portion of their IT employees to contractors. It's outsourcing to benefit the outsource contract companies. People were pretty bitter about it too. The military has got a ton of this sort of thing going on as well.
Yes, but usually this stuff gets flagged by users anyway.
It's not arbitrary.

It's the difference between the players, and the guys they hire to clean the windows at the arena.

I think they should err towards hiring for anything that is ongoing, and I also think they should have 'Minimum Requirements' for vendors including oversight.

That they don't is 'very bad'.

What's odd about G is that they are not only rich and can afford it ... they also try to be a moral arbiter, claim they are helping the world, which is really quite duplicitous.

Guess what: Car Companies have a large labour force, and they tend to get paid very well with Gold Plated Health care for example. Car companies are generally not trying to signal that they are 'better than other companies' etc..

The presentations at last Google conference with the bit about the Android photo scanner / reader used by the poor illiterate lady in Hyderabad, it was just over the top.

Seriously, pay your contractors properly before you tell us about how you're occasionally helping poor women in poverty.
Lately I've been getting a lot of notifications for BDR (short for Bi-Directional Replication) from EDB; the term 'Always On' also appears in those notifications, apparently to woo the Oracle audiences. You might want to take a look into that.

Disclosures/info: I used to work for EDB. BDR was developed by 2nd Quadrant, which was recently acquired by EDB.
I used my palm for book reading waaaaaaaay before ebook readers or even cheap tablets were a thing. I don't know how many hundreds or thousands of hours I spent on it but its a significant number. It's still around here somewhere, and worked when I last tried it.
I took a stab at a basic Floyd-Steinberg dither, but at the low resolution and with even really subtle video camera noise, the result was not great.

Until I took my glasses off... with just a bit of blur, the effect is pretty cool. Probably doesn't make sense to push a feature though that only works when you squint at it!
Is misinformation a verb?
I used to do this kind of work and found that the worst thing about it was actually having too much time. After a while I had read and understood all of the documentation and had a complete mental model, so tasks would take half the time. However, if I got through tasks too fast I'd just be paid the same and bring down the average time for everyone else. So I had this mind numbing stop-start process that felt so pointless.
Of course you're right if the thing isn't just about to hit earth, any change years in advance is almost guaranteed to help.
There are perfectly fine explanations to most people, actually, and anyone who disagrees greatly underestimates the ability of the common person to understand analogies. People in tech-focused communities tend to treat every common person like they're caricatures of the absentminded father or clueless wife in a 1980s cartoon.

"See, it's like you made a pizza with cake flour. It won't taste good, it won't cook quite right, and you'll be disappointed even though it kind of works. There's nothing bad about cake flour, and it works really well for what it's intended for, but it can't be used for everything."

"Imagine you were using bad steel when you were forging a blade. It'll crack, roll or worse, but it'll still look vaguely knife-like."

"It's like you're wanting to play electric rock music but you're missing a few strings and you don't have a pickup so it's really pretty much just a weirdly-shaped banjo."
In what way did they make basic mistakes?
> This will very likely be overturned on 1A grounds.

On the other hand, freedom of association didn't stop the civil rights act.

But freedom of association is less clearly defined in the constitution. Maybe a better example are the many regulations on commercial speech that exist despite the 1st amendment.
Considering that the vaccine makes many delta cases symptom-free, there are probably a lot of undiscovered infections. That would mean, realistically, the more likely to catch figure is lower and more likely to die higher.
Opacity and affine transformations cover most animations that people want, though certainly not all. SVG is also generally more amenable to GPU powering. (And if they’d catch up with Firefox’s WebRender, then even more would be done on the GPU.)

Beyond that, though, you’re underestimating what browsers are capable of. You’ll certainly hit limits much sooner, and it’ll be more sensitive to other system load (thus more prone to jank), but it’s not hard to drive layout-affecting animations at 144Hz provided you careful about isolating the affected areas. The “don’t touch layout, animate transformations” narrative that got pushed hard some years back was much more about mobile than desktop—desktop can be more efficient with transformations, but even layout-based animations will generally be smooth on desktop platforms. (In the past, Firefox struggled more than Chrome on those sorts of things, but WebRender has helped to completely reverse that.)

As an absolutely toy pathological example, on my admittedly powerful laptop (Ryzen 5800HS, using integrated GPU) in Chromium (since we’re talking Electron and not WebRender), moving a series of ten inline-block 80px emojis by setting their margin-left to random layout-dependent values every frame (so that’s ten forced relayouts per frame, and quadratic layout behaviour) tends in profiling to take around 3–4ms, occasionally spiking briefly just above the 6ms budget my 165Hz display gives and causing jank (… not that I can tell visually with the emoji flickering all over the place anyway, but the profiler tells me!). For comparison, just one emoji (dodging the quadratic stuff) tends to take around 1ms, showing that a lot of the costs here are constant. URL for the code:

data:text/html;charset=utf-8,<style>body{overflow:hidden}div{display:inline-block;left:0;position:relative;font-size:5em}</style><div>%F0%9F%99%82</div><div>%F0%9F%99%81</div><div>%F0%9F%A4%A8</div><div>%F0%9F%98%AE</div><div>%F0%9F%98%9B</div><div>%F0%9F%98%80</div><div>%F0%9F%98%86</div><div>%F0%9F%98%A2</div><div>%F0%9F%98%95</div><div>%F0%9F%98%92</div><script>function f(){document.querySelectorAll('div').forEach(e=>e.style.marginLeft=Math.random()*(innerWidth-e.offsetWidth-e.offsetLeft*0.1)+'px');requestAnimationFrame(f)}requestAnimationFrame(f)</script>
This is a really interesting idea. It would be very useful to be able to lego together some components and get a rough estimate of how it would scale and what the technical performance would be (to first order).
i certainly would. If me getting a vaccine helps this person, a bigger win.
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It's also bizarre to me that pretty much every affordable USB C dongle that has both USB and video out have the video out be HDMI (okay there is a few with VGA but good luck if you want DVI or DP) despite USB C typically using DP alt mode. Why not skip the conversion to HDMI and give me DP with its extra bandwidth?
The author made a ton of mistakes in the article, one of which is apparently failing to grasp that there can be matters of macro and micro strategy involved in operating similar businesses.

Two burger franchises can both be in the business of selling burgers and fries and how they prepare/arrange that food can be very different (never frozen vs frozen; etc). Thus according to the author doing things differently is only strategy if it's at some arbitrarily high enough macro level. The author is wrong of course, it is strategy.

The whole premise of the article collapses upon that issue however. So if the author had reconciled their rather enormous contradiction, it would have torpedoed the article.
Why would you need multi master to be "always on"?
if i'm fat, my fat won't jump onto you and kill you.
Stuff used by national governments eventually trickles down to the local level.

I’d hate for my town counsel to spy on me simply because they can with off the shelf hardware, that the military developed and deemed obsolete 10 years ago.
TXID wraparound protection is still a hazard AFAIK.
Why do I see the most random companies I've never heard of on remoteok.io
Using an overlay filesystem to improve Nix CI builds
Thanks for the pointer. The Microchip I remember has good datasheets, so perhaps that's the way to go.
I develop Linux software on Windows using Visual Studio / C++. It lets me build and debug my servers on Linux machines remotely using nice IDE and tools. Also use CLion from Jet Brains the same way
Absolutely it would be. This is a variation on the "big red button" of extinction question.

I'll also mention it's important not to confuse anti-natalism w/ pro-mortalism.
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I attempted to use Windy to judge surfing conditions on Oahu but the current conditions and forecast are never accurate. They might as well be randomly generated.
Those are some descriptions of things, but how do they work as analogies? They don't explain anything.
So, why is it named "Coalton"?
Now this I'll pay money to use. What will happen to software architects though?
Is there an API to get high resolution 3D volumetric data of storm systems?
If they're trying to make money off of the services, that's a key problem. It's one thing if it's "Hey, we have a relationship with this random uniquely qualified individual who is expensive, and that's between you and them" and maybe there's a friend and family discount. It's a very different thing when they are trying to get you to book services thay they get revenue from.