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Oh man I definitely miss my BlackBerrys. I had a bunch of them over the years. Starting with one of the original truly email only devices (without phone functionality).

Every one I owned was awesome for different reasons, although they increasingly got more phone-like in features and form factor over the years.

The early devices were exceptionally well designed. They were limited (grayscale, limited email formatting features etc) but were perfectly suited to the job they were designed for. No feature bloat. I would also liken them to the first iPods. All the fat was trimmed away leaving you with something perfectly designed for its intended purpose. (Though obviously they weren't as beautiful to look at as an iPod).

Battery life was amazing. Form factor was spot on (pretty compact devices for the time).

They were great on corporate features and security too - though there was the overhead of running their server software, but it was well worth it.

As much as I like my iPhone, it's no longer a "phone" for me - it's definitely my primary personal computing device. When I go out I'm carrying around a powerful computer with way too many options and temptations. It often feels like too much. It's also no longer the smallest phone I've owned, which bugs me. I want something more compact to carry. I kind of hanker for a new portable device that I would take when out and about, that keeps me connected to the essentials but has a locked down feature set that prevents me doing too much. With crazy battery life. The original email-only Blackberrys totally hit this spot.

The closest thing in the Apple ecosystem is the Watch but that's still not quite the same.
Intel has 24bn available in cash. One could assume Intel also has $FOO x 24bn available in loaning power.
I thought the main push for diesel cars was just fuel prices? The prices in Europe are like 5x US prices.
Needs a logarithmic plot.
This induces some severe Star Trek replicator fantasies. Though I assume the result of this compares to having a cup of earl like opening a lego drawer vs. a visit to Legoland
Of course it can, one doesn't need to test this. It's not as if any browser would allocate and burn the cpu at 100% for 30 seconds and then stop all javascript execution or css rendering or anything on the page. That's the kind of solutions you're looking at to fix this. This is like research to confirm the sky is blue. Good to know for sure but we're rather sure to begin with.

If you want to try it, a power meter is a good thing to have anyhow, or someone could lend you one. Plug it in and load different websites a few times, then look how many joules you used. Not every site can be told apart with a limited measurement like this, especially on the lighter end of the spectrum, but if you want to know if Tor Browser mitigates this then you can confirm it this way.
Is there another metric?
I don't know why the US is never serious about these things. We don't get a day off to vote, we don't get days off to get our mandatory vaccination.

But we get Juneteenth? I'm not from Texas, and where my family lived it didn't matter much that slavery was over until the 1950s. So an awkward, meaningless gesture towards black people for helping the DNC defeat Sanders is prioritized ahead of democracy and epidemic disease.
A stack of ten functions wants to handle the error once. Returning it nine times is exactly the type of mind-numbing chore that computers do much more quickly and reliably than people, and I will never understand why so many want not to automate this.
I hope you did not type this comment on one of those :]
"We advertised locally for 70 fruit-pickers and we had nine applications. On follow-up, only one was still available... in terms of recruiting locally, we failed completely," says Ali Capper, the owner of Stocks Farm in Suckley and chair of British Apples and Pears.

At her orchard, harvest has just started. It must be done quickly and requires many pairs of hands.

Ali had to turn to specialist recruitment firms and has brought in seasonal workers from Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and Russia.

What's a reasonable prediction here? Higher wages and more expensive fruits? A bunch of farms going bust?
If you own a cellphone or console your likely buying from TSMC. If you’re buying AMD then you are buying TSMC.

Intel is unusual in that they still manufacture their high end chips in house, cutting edge fabs are simply mind boggling expensive. So basically everyone else outsources and if your outsourcing high end chips you might as well buy from the bets if you can.
It's one of the tools in intel tool-belt, they have used shadier tools in the past - aggressive sales force, manipulating benchmarks - which was probably the cause of AMD fall.
I think you are trying to overanalyse and overrule the experts here.

Experts are saying that with the regards to the whole population currently community wide booster shots are not needed. It may not apply to each individual case (such as immunocompromised etc., or people with very specific risk, like those going to Vietnam) but this was never to be meant an individual assessment. Many people are confusing these two things. Even though it does not apply for majority of readers, trying to imagine a different situation for a specific individual is not necessary.
> I have the highest possible level of evidence: direct experience.

That's not evidence, that's a perception. Perceptions must be interpreted within a body of knowledge. Direct perception is never direct evidence because perceptions are necessarily flawed.
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There is not strong evidence supporting a 3rd booster dose in immunocompetent people. We have partly seen a misinterpretation of the Israeli data [1] and specifically the single low effectiveness value that appears to be the result of Simpson's Paradox [2]. Dr. Fauci reported this single value decline from the high nineties to the high seventies on Andy Slavitt's podcast [3]. Pfizer's CEO has promoted this same data, Israel's 3rd dose campaign is well under way, and Fauci's public statements are a strong indicator that the U.S. will follow the same path. British Columbia's Dr. Bonnie Henry indicated yesterday [4] that the Canadian numbers do not yet support a general 3rd dose booster but, like the UK, a longer 2nd dose interval due to a First Doses First (FDF) strategy may be a factor.

The 3rd dose is safe and will probably provide a small benefit to the recipient as Shane Crotty described in TWiV 802 [5]. The downside is that these doses are in short supply globally where they could make a significant difference.

[1] https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/israeli-data-how-can-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox

[3] https://lemonadamedia.com/podcast/dr-fauci-answers-your-bigg...

[4] (YouTube ~3.5min @36m45s)
https://youtu.be/93Rnjmr7iCk?t=36m45s

[5] https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-802/
I am wondering if this other results are related, of the article

Autoantibodies against ACE2 and angiotensin type-1 receptors increase severity of COVID-19

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089684112...

(Journal of Autoimmunity)

or, COVID19 is worse when an autoimmune response against ACE2 occurs, and the same autoimmune response is at the root of "long COVID".

> Severity of several inflammation-related diseases has been associated with autoantibodies against RAS [renin-angiotensin system], particularly agonistic autoantibodies for angiotensin type-1 receptors (AA-AT1) and autoantibodies against ACE2 (AA-ACE2). ... The present results suggest that both AA-AT1 and AA-ACE2 contribute to increase in severity of COVID-19 outcome and could be used as an index of probable progression of COVID-19 towards severity. ... the results encourage further studies on the possible protective treatment with AT1 receptor blockers in COVID-19
Intel drank the management consultant kool-aid like many large pharmaceuticals corps, relying more on financial engineering than their research pipeline to compete. The flip side is that they have lots of money to splash around. Companies like Pfizer for example.
> the green party never advocated for using coal instead ... blaming that on a party in opposition

They had the choice of achieving an exit from nuclear power or from coal power. They chose the former when they pushed through the Atomkonsens in 2002 when they were, in fact, a governing party.

Now Germany has lost pretty much exactly as much power generation from early shutdown of nuclear plants as they are running in terms of coal power generation.
There's one in my neighborhood that's paying less then that and still multiple people work there.
I only skimmed this now, don't have the time to read it, but a few things to keep in mind:

1. Do they take into account the underreporting in VAERS? That could mean far higher adverse effects than those reported.

2. Are there any calculations regarding how the situation changes? As new variants emerge (like Delta), as immunity from vaccination wanes etc, how much will a vaccine prevent severe illness and death? Real world data seems to suggest vaccine efficacy isn't as great as previously thought.

3. Another point to keep in mind is that there are therapeutic solutions and as time goes on, hopefully better medications will be readily available, getting covid-19 will result in less severe illness and death.

I'm not against vaccination, I just think that these are all things we should consider.

Perhaps scientists have considered all this very carefully and have reached the conclusion that vaccination for all is better for the individual as well as for the society - I haven't looked deeply to find these answers. However, if all this has been carefully considered they & journalists/media really fail to communicate the science well.
How so? Missing parenthesis for if-statements and such? Looks like a mix of Pascal and C, missing parenthesis but still have curly braces.
"Ilan Mizrachi, a former deputy head of the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, said that he sees nothing inherently wrong with former intelligence operatives working for civilian enterprises. “Some people I know went into journalism, some are consultants,” he said. “Among many other professions, some work for companies like Black Cube.”

https://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-israel-black-cube2017110...
the more likely scenario is that we get to the point when people only put up online the bullshit image of their better selves, which decensitize people to the point that they don't trust online profile anymore.
They are also doubling down on fab tech to catch up with TSMC. Markets working as intended.
Xiaomi launches its own smart glasses, of course
Would be even more amazing if they brought back the plus operator.
Work camps where exploited eastern europeans live in horrible conditions, their rights are violated, they get underpaid and a substantial portion of their wage goes to the agencies acting as middle men.
Third-pound-burger just doesn't roll off the tongue like quarterpounder.
Yeah, i still think it would be pretty doable (esp if just changing return values and commenting out stuff), esp with the amount of time I spent over the years modding/removing/adding stuff to my ff fork in both rust code and c++ code.

But I was mostly interested in the theoretical situation if brave forked from the servo stuff and not its existing chromium stuff, no interest in touching that.
In this case the jobs were always done by foreign seasonal workers. I dunno if Brexit has made them more expensive but I'd imagine they are less easily available.
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"lots of people's holiday savings being released locally"

True. But the UK have missed out of millions of foreign tourists.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/tourismindus...
Good luck closing the U.S. southern border.
Good. Wages must be forced up. You can’t have a modern economy without a capitalized middle class.

Real estate is so ludicrous we need quite a bit of inflation to make it reasonable again. The alternative would be a deflationary crash where real estate crashes and obliterates everyone’s home equity, but that is far more painful to virtually everyone.
Looking at the behaviour of the United States government, I sympathise with the anti-tax Libertarian types. The obscene misuse of tax money while infrastructure crumbles is plain to see. Dollar for dollar, American citizens seem to get less for their tax than most other developed countries and far, far more of it goes towards the military budget which, as you point out, is used in aggression.

But don't make the mistake of thinking the American experience is the universal one - one of the reasons these anti-tax arguments fall on deaf ears internationally is that a lot of countries actually do use tax to look after their citizens to some degree. One of the reasons Libertarianism never caught on globally is because there's little appetite for dismantling government institutions that are, for the most part, working.

The problem isn't tax, it's the behaviour and culture of the government.
They will use insulated containers with dry ice, same as everywhere else. This might not work in the middle of the jungle, but most developing contries actually have roads and trucks.
...as opposed to error handling with exceptions, which is not error-prone at all and makes code really easy to review (or rather, it make it easy to get a false sense of security, and months later you find out that there is an exception you forgot to handle).
> this completely ignores any nuance, sarcasm, or anything else that really reveals bias beyond the obvious.

This problem is mentioned several times in the article, and several ways it manifests itself is discussed.
Again, it's not hard to stab someone, or to shoplift. Or run a red light.

Why keep doing it? Because they made a thing, and they want to make money selling it. Pretty obvious, no?
The cooling requirements for Pfizer shots were loosened, it no longer needs -70°C. I don't know the new number, i think it's around -25°C.
“Third pounder” is also a bad name. “Quarter pounder” has a pleasing rhythm and rhyme to it; “third pounder” doesn’t. “Third” is also easily scanned as “first, second, third,” which “quarter” is not.

Should have called it the “pebble pounder” (0.02 stone—sure, it doesn’t make sense really, but it sounds nice, doesn’t it?) Or the “fifteen’r” (150 grams is about a third of a pound).
People only pay attention to new information when they want to
Hey look a bit of people trying to push their agendas by reporting seemingly unsustainable economic conditions. What a great forum for debate!!!
> Alfred Taubman, who owned A&W at the time, wrote about the confusion in his book Threshold Resistance:

This seems like one of those things that sounds like it is true but is just too convenient.

It is really convenient to put out a story about how Americans are bad at fractions.

In addition, the story originally came from a book the guy that owned A&W wrote. Thus he would have incentive both to create a good story and to deflect blame from himself to American stupidity.

Finally, Americans use the imperial system with cups, etc and there are always a ton of fractions like 1/3, 1/4 in recipes. I bet most American households have measuring cups of 1/3 and 1/4 cup in size and surely know that the 1/3 cup is bigger than the 1/4 cup.

For me this story just seems to good to be true and I would take it with a huge (1/3 pound) grain of salt.
That's not a valid comparison. Nuclear energy accounts only for a much smaller amount of energy production.

It's a very weak argument to just wave your hand over how to multiply nuclear energy by one or two orders of magnitude, without major incidents, without nuclear pollution, and without the nuclear waste problem getting more out of hand than it already has.
Intel needs better (especially with less energy consumption) chips not lower price. If Intel will lower the price they will have less cash for R&D and this is the trouble for intel now: not much competitive chips. And where are again at the beginning of the circle.

I hope they will make an internal review of their offices/laboratories/whatever, is not a price issue with the chips, is a performance and technical issue.
Is this is a sad illustration of American's numerical illiteracy? Or is this just another argument for doing away with fractions and using a decimal system?

This anecdote is a common one to share when the intent is to bemoan the intelligence or decline of America, but I am starting to think there's more to this story.

Consider a few points:

First off-- being bad at math doesn't mean a general lack of intelligence. I've met plenty of college educated, liberal minded people who openly say that math is their weakness. I've met people with masters degrees who struggle with math. The American student loan crisis should be evidence enough that even college educated people struggle with math.

Second-- the decision to buy a burger is not one that is often carefully measured and considered. It's more of a "do I pull off this highway right now to get this burger?" and in that moment, you're acting more on instinct that rationality. So in that moment yes, 1/3 < 1/4, it's not ideal but our brain makes a lot of other more serious fallacies.

Third-- does anyone here really doubt that if you explained to those focus groups that 1/3 is larger than 1/4 they still wouldn't understand? I don't. I'm sure those focus groups quickly did understand, but the conclusion drawn was that unless it was explained to the broader public, everyone would make the same incorrect initial assumption.

Fourth-- let's just be honest, fractions are confusing. 1/3 > 1/4 is confusing to read and understand quickly. I still can make this mistake from time to time. In the special case of 1/4 vs 1/3 even text is confusing. "Quarter pounder" just sounds larger than "third pounder", "quarter" is a heftier word. If you don't think sound informs meaning, why do so many sports cars have "Z" in their model name instead of "K"? The only way this would be really clear is if McDonalds was calling it a ".25 pounder" and then A&W could launch a ".33 pounder"

In my opinion, wielding this anecdote as an example about the sad state of anything, people, intelligence, America, etc, is ill-informed. If it's unfortunate that American's often confuse fractions, it's even more unfortunate that the confusion is easily turned into a powerful meme that doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
This. Make decisions, own them, accept the consequences, live and learn.
Did they? I thought they made a heavy bet that hasn’t paid off (and maybe never will).
The US has lots of vaccines (tens of millions) already delivered to administration sites. Using those for boosters won't impact global equity (they will either get used in the US or thrown away).

So we could offer boosters to most older folks.
I think this illustrates the problem with the modern capitalistic society we’ve built for ourselves:

“I’m happy wages are going up, but I’m sad it’ll mean my spending power will go down”
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Or maybe you could call it "being forced to return to reasonable prices now that their monopoly suddenly has competition again"?

Well, at least that's what I remember comments on HN cheerfully proclaiming would happen back when Ryzen & Threadripper were launched.
> Another is that in a pure language, you can look at a function and know for a fact that nothing you're seeing can ever be mutated. This eliminates a massive source of cognitive load when trying to read and understand code, as well as eliminating all sorts of bugs related to the program being in the wrong state. If you're trying to write functional code in a language not designed for it, you're missing out on those benefits.

When you write functional code in imperative languages, these constraints aren't enforced by language, but they should be enforced by convention and code review.
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This must be why majority of websites that support stripe also support other payment providers. Because stripe isn’t reliable. :/
I'm not sure how that code block is meant to work. You still need to check the value of error and conditionally return, unless you're suggesting that most functions only contain one function call.
At that point however I see antitrust action inevitable (pardon the pun).
Is a discounted chip price going to sway people enough to
offset the hotter core (therefore pricier in terms of power and cooling), and limited (in comparison to EPYC) IO?
Neutralizing antibodies are only part of the immune response. Not having a detectable level does not at all imply having "no immunity". Antibodies are expected to disappear over time, but cellular immunity is much more long-lasting.
For comparison:

fn my_func() -> Result<(), Error> {
foo()?;
bar()?;
baz()?;
Ok(())
}

// ---

let val = bar()?;
println!("{}", val);

// ---

fn my_func() -> Result<i32, Error> {
foo()?;
bar()?;
let val = baz()?;
// ... more stuff
Ok(val)
}

// ---

fn my_func() -> Result<(i32, String), Error> {
foo()?;
bar()?;
let (val1, val2) = baz()?;
Ok((val1, val2))
// Those last two lines could even be just `baz()` or `Ok(baz()?)`.
}

Rather close to the world the author wants to live in.
Intel is NOT competing against AMD only. In the past couple of years, we’ve seen a number of big tech companies developing their own chips. Focusing on AMD would be quite myopic from a strategic pov. This market is only getting more competitive. Either you compete on performance or price.
CPIH for example in the UK which nominally includes owner-occupier housing costs that aren't part of normal CPI but doesn't contain the elephant in the room which is the increase in house prices.
Only if you ignore mining the stuff, storing the waste and decommissioning old plants.

Nuclear power is somewhat greener than coal, but not that much and has different problems.
NYT has a very thorough overview of the vaccines in development:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus...
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It is true that the main reason why the AMD chips are better than the Intel chips is that the TSMC 7 nm manufacturing process is significantly better than the Intel process used for the Ice Lake Server chips.

Nevertheless, the AMD designers must be praised for making the right design choices year after year for the last half of decade, which were needed to fully exploit the characteristics of the modern CMOS processes.

On the other hand the Intel designers appear to have lived in a fantasy land, where they had absolutely no idea about how their future manufacturing processes will behave, even if in their case the required information should have come from another division of the same company, not from different foundry companies, like in the case of AMD.

Once again, Intel was not able to switch in time their style of design, to be in sync with the advance of CMOS technology.

During 2003 - 2008, Intel needed 5 years to follow AMD and switch to CPUs with integrated memory controllers and now, during 2016 - 2021, Intel required again 5 years to follow AMD in the transition to the use of multiple interconnected chiplets instead of large monolithic chips.
Are there any plans to study and treat neuroendocrine tumors?
Germany is selling more Power to France than the other way around...
Xiaomi products are pretty popular in India where English is widely spoken. They also have stores and concessions starting to open in the UK and other European markets.
Love how someone suggests we start another pandemic and that doesn't get flagged but I get flagged.
How does the currency you are paid with changes anything (apart from tax evasion) ?