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I recommend the video of her dancing to "Can't Touch This": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrT0jKOhnD4

and the video of her using her real, non-deep, voice:
https://youtu.be/PjnsYz-xdOI?t=55
> How can you support free speech but prevent a company from exerting that speech?

I can be deeply disappointed by youtube's moderation decisions without suggesting that the company be compelled to allow certain content. as an aside, I find it frustrating to see people constantly swapping between "free speech" as a legal concept and "free speech" as an abstract ideal in these threads. we talk past each other the same way every time the debate comes up. just because the law is written the way it is doesn't mean that's necessarily the way it should be. and even if we can't write the law "just right", we can still advocate for higher principles to be followed.

anyways, I generally agree with the "companies can manage their properties as they see fit" line of thought. but it becomes problematic when our public spaces are increasingly controlled by a small number of huge companies that mostly share the same politics. I'm not really sure what the solution is, but it sucks to watch it unfold.
> Only way I see that being possible is if 11+ can be adopted by the ecosystem without significant rewrites of code and build scripts.

It can and it has. The only code that had to be modified is code that hacks into JDK internals, as the spec is virtually backward-compatible (the incompatible spec changes are so small as to be insignificant, except possibly the removal of some modules from the JDK that have to be changed into external dependencies, but that's a pretty simple change).

> Has that situation really improved enough since the nightmare 8 to 11 migration requirements locked in most of the ecosystem on 8 for production builds and where can we read about it?

Absolutely, because libraries that hack into JDK internals have already fixed their issues. The projection is still that by the end of this year more than half of the ecosystem will be on 11+.
Seat belt laws still have some opposition. One kind is using the same argument as ever (personal freedom, which is currently out of vogue) and the other argues from an enforcement disparity angle since seatbelt laws are one of the more easily used tools of selective enforcement. The second argument is more appealing right now.
I'm a big fan of NATS. It a small binary which can be scaled as much as you want and it replaces Kalfka, lightweight MQTT brokers, etc and has clients for most languages.
I just want to point out that the difference between the mRNA vaccines and the other medications with long term side effects is that the mRNA vaccine is only active in your body for a few days. You don't get repeated injections on a timescale often enough to constantly have the vaccine in your body. The only thing that remains is the antibodies, which were made by your own body. On the other hand, blood pressure medication etc. needs to be taken daily and has active ingredients constantly circulating in your bloodstream.
Sure, but it's not our job to pick -- we just try everything and fight from all angles.
I have been disappointed with Solarpunk as a movement, aestheric, and literary genre.

Have you looked into the groups like permaculture, regenerative agriculture, Stamet’s work with mycology, Dr John Todd’s work on ecovats ? The earthship designs? What about the practices Cuba had to adopt when they were under embargo, and could no longer import oil or synthetic fertilizer?

There are a lot of things we can do. There are already solutions that work. People are doing them. They require a shift in how you view the world. By comparison, solar panels and wind turbines are simplistic solutions that do not adequately address these problems.

I am coming to the conclusion that more technology will not solve these problems because the world view and paradigm that spawned these technologies are what lead us here. That rather than viewing the world as if it were mechanisms that can be reduced to isolated, cause-and-effects, and solutions that come from acting upon things in the system through the application of some kind of force, one can see the world as a living system, that is capable of growth of regeneration. This not only includes ecologies and our individual bodies, but also organizations, businesses, communities, and technologies.
WeWork and Nikola come to mind. Robinhood depending on if you consider purporting yourself to be “stealing from the rich, giving to the poor - Robinhood”, but you actually take orders from Citadel to be fraud. I think a lot of recent IPOs will turn out to be fraud-lite, in which it is shown over the next decade that these companies were pump and dumps that never actually do anything. They look just good enough to garner investment at IPO for initial investors to cash out.

Most any company with ML or AI in their branding, running stupid amounts of CNBC ads and repeating their AI name 30 times during the ad.
Would they have blocked the lab leak theory when it was less popular?
How Does the Roblox Engine Work?
CEO, Dave Baszucki and Arseny Kapoulkine provide a comprehensive overview of the foundational technology that powers Roblox.
> It's easy to think a socialist revolution is right around the corner in certain circles of the internet

In the West, we’re about 100 years, give or take, into the socialist revolution, which is a lot more like the Second Agricultural Revolution than the French Revolution, which is why people looking for something that looks like the latter miss it entirely.
That's amazing! Thank you! Sounds like the sewer thing is still uncertain.
You don't have to worry about what's being said when you control the conversation.
It costs nothing to publish on Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android (it costs to be on the play store but not to publish). Plenty of free .apks on github or itch.io for example). Not sure where you got this idea that "every other platform also costs something to publish on it"
> Banning hate communities does work though ...

The sentence is incomplete. Banning X communities does work to achieve the goal of people not talking about X. I don't think that your linked study is really necessary, the Chinese cultural revolution worked really well (to achieve the goal of "preserving Chinese communism") [0]. Imagine if 30 years ago large digital monopolies banned what was considered unmentionable back then. I doubt gay marriage would have been legalised in America. All of the progress that we have in making marijuana more legal would have been terminated by the companies wanting to prevent people advocating illegal drug usage.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution
Your humility is endearing. Seriously.
I'm even more sad about Ars and Anandtech since I still remember when they were both deeply technical
There is no conflicting research and the conclusion drawn by this research needs further parsing as it may not be applicable to all populations.

Nonetheless, this study should not be taken as an endorsement that getting infected is a better overall option for protection than the highly effective vaccines.
If this is correct, then why would you believe you've ascertained truth? The very hallmark of truth as we know it is that 'better' information, meaning more and more clarified data consistently resolve on the same conclusion.
I was banned from a Reddit sub for saying that a previous Covid infection probably infers some immunity. This was around 8 months ago. Now EU vaccine passports accept a recovery from infection as being sufficient proof of immunity.

On top of that now it's coming out that the Canadian military/government (and likely others) was intentionally deploying propaganda to make the populace more compliant.

This is why moderate voices are being drowned out. I got vaccinated pretty much as soon as it was available to me. Yet to some on the left, I'm a rabid anti-vaxxer (!?!) and to my anti-vaxx friends, a sell-out (ironically, they're far less angry, just disappointed in me for not pushing back against government overreach).
I think there is no more beautiful tree. The shade is truly worth it.
Vimeo.

Anti-monopoly won't make video hosting free.
No, they are not crucial social policy. You will have to accept that democracy does not mean that everyone has to be of the same opinion as you.
> If you contribute by hiring the maintainer to do maintainer work then that falls in the great company category.

No. This allows companies to seize control of FOSS projects.

FLOSS is used by everybody and should not be driven a single corporation.

Just like cities vs company town.
Can one agree that black lives matter, without needing to support the tactics of the 'Black Lives Matter' organization?

Still a white supremacist?
Most people aren't able to dispassionately pursue the truth. You need to remove emotional barriers first before the facts can be heard by finding ideological and emotional common ground somewhere and then using that camaraderie as an attack vector to convince them that something else that they believe is wrong. I have done that somewhat successfully with a fairly far-right person, managing to bring them back on some of their more extreme views.

It's possible you weren't the right person for this specific job. I believe that some alignment on at least some views is necessary for this process, otherwise the barriers just immediately go up.

Having said that, it's true that for some people no amount of reasoning or persuasion will work. The amount of cognitive dissonance and the extent to which the belief is tied into their self-worth and identity precludes anything but a years-long process of deradicalization. People aren't designed to be rational.
Oh yeah, I mixed ingress with egress.

Now though I don't understands the original comment... why care about egress for backup storage? I means as long as it's not absurd (and I agree that AWS egress price is absurd, though the original comment wasn't complaining of that...), you usually don't expect to have to retrieve it and if required, you are ready to pay much more for it as it will be worth it.
But in the end, it's such a gamble that I'm skeptical any of the investors knew or suspected fraud when they initially invested. I've heard of exits for companies without a business model or revenue, but how many companies have an exit event (e.g. get acquired or IPO) with no product at all?
I think the "Mix SSD vendors/batch numbers" is a hold over from the very early days of SSDs where a handful of people get seriously slimed by having 90%~ of their same-brand-same-batch drives in a single machine fail at once due to some SSD batch failure.

As a side effect people generally now stagger SSDs a little to avoid something similar happening (ofc if you have multi machine replication this is less of a issue, but still a total machine loss can hurt due to capacity loss or parts shortages in edge locations, etc)

I've personally not seen a synchronised SSD array happen failure for a long time, but it's hard to know how much of that is because people now plan to avoid them.

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with the exception of: https://www.engadget.com/2020-03-25-hpe-ssd-bricked-firmware...
Charging also gives a (potential) communications path with the customer, through the payments processor. This can be useful for resolving account issues, which are otherwise a nightmare when there's no identification whatsoever.

But any payment also means that you're now fighting against "free" for growth. Free may come either from some massive monopoly who can offer their alternative as a loss-leader, or as a subsidised offering on the back of another monetisation scheme (usually advertising), where revenue potential increases with platform scale. Yes, you'll have fewer issues, but you'll also always be on the short end of the growth stick.

This is a rephrasing of another reply to your comment, hopefully with a different and clarifying emphasis.
I don't have a rm2 but I already love the idea of being able to tag pages (hopefully even multiple tags), and perhaps even to a lesser extent, tag sections of pages. And then search by multiple tags to drill down into specific pages/sections.
I think having a small percentage of the population who are anti-vax adds to the robustness of the species. What if, odds unlikely, that there was some problem with the vax where it killed or sterilized everyone who got it? It would be extinction except for the anti-vaxxers. Now this is an super unlikely event, but there's a non-zero chance this could happen.
Juul did market to teens through “influencers”.
The cia wants big tech monopolies because we are in direct competition with China. Mimetic desire to be dominant great power. But the problem is monopolies suck. They stifle innovation and make the culture sluggish and less dynamic. Where do we go from here? Probably some new great power emerges that allows true freedom and fosters bottom up innovation. I just wonder where that will come from.
> Across the entire spectrum you're at less risk from the vaccine than you are from the disease.

You don't know me or my medical history, so you can't make that statement honestly. I am in a population where I am at borderline negligible risk from SARS-2 infection. The mere 24+ hours of post-second-shot acute inflammatory cascade, which is almost guaranteed, already eclipses the expected value of COVID symptoms I would experience if infected. (Perhaps you aren't aware of how stratified the risk is based off age and comorbidities?)

You doubly so cannot make such a statement when you don't know whether I've already had COVID previously. Someone who has had SARS-2 naturally and recovered is almost completely insulated from COVID risk. And this, by the way, is much moreso than compared to an unexposed-yet-vaccinated individual. And the effect size is massive, we're not talking about natural immunity being "20% better", we're talking like 800% better. Source: https://pastebin.com/8yR3y5NA

> That's so weird, all the data seems to indicate that in areas with high vaccination rates nobody gets sick and dies.

How closely have you been looking at the Israeli data? It is simply false that nobody gets sick and dies. The vaccines very significantly reduce the personal risk of hospitalization or death, but as I've already told you, my risk from SARS-2 is almost nonexistent, so that confers exactly zero benefit for me. The reason you and others are so concerned about vaccination is - I hope - the purported societal benefit of vaccination, and I've already hinted at the very predictable phenomenom that vaccinating against only the spike protein is just going to lead to antigenic drift and immune escape and will just end up spinning our wheels at best, and at worst it will actually lead to increased pathogenicity in the unvaccinated (https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...)
> nonsensical

It might be nonsensical for you, but for the sort of people we are discussing they ditch the seatbelt and if they ever have any thought about reducing the risk of random accidents they try and doing it with Horsepower and braking capabilities, which are the things which come as an added bonus to the type of cars they enjoy driving such as Muscle cars, Lambos, 'Vettes etc.

It's a very big world out there, if you have a variety of interests you'll find that this sort of people are amazing to be around while doing some activities in which the typical rationalists and left-brain people would be such a drag.
Someone is developing an NES version of Street Fighter 2 and it looks incredible
This might be a US thing, but probably even wider. "GPS" seems to have taken on the same effect as "kleenex" here. What makes it frustrating is that you can still do research in academic papers, white papers, etc on "GPS" alone!
A practical example are the Jan 6 riots in DC and the attacks on the integrity of voting. Both peaceful transitions of power and trustworthy elections are bedrocks of democracy and so attacking them weaken democratic societies. At some point a coup succeeds and democracy is dead.
How Do I Use a Member Function Pointer in C++?
How to Build a Decentralized Social Network?
Copyright =/
The suggestion wasn't that the government should only buy from companies that have done or are doing some open source, the suggestion was that the government only finance FOSS.

Also, nobody told them to buy Github. It wasn't a charitable acquisition.
"Out of 130 tests in total, Windows 11 WSL2 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS managed to run at 94% the speed of bare metal Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on the same system. Not bad at all especially in the CPU/system benchmarks where in many cases delivered comparable performance to Ubuntu Linux itself"
> That something has happened which bears some aesthetic similarity to a part of the book is not significant or interesting by itself. If you wish to assert that Google has the power to shape the truth then you will first have to explain why,

Man, if only there were other examples of Google's censorship of videos on even more important issues. Maybe an example at the top of Hacker News from today... [0]

I'm vaccinated and I'm not a fan of insane anti-vax conspiracy theorists. But I absolutely don't think the government or the de facto public space owners being able to ban entire topics of discussion.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/29/youtube...
Something tells me that if the regulators got out of the way, we would have dozens of Covid tests available, half of which would work better than a coin toss.
> A Netflix employee can chime in but I assume cpu intensive since the desired objectives of Packager can only be achieved by transcoding

I think you're maybe confusing the Packager with the Encoder. Transcoding (encoding) happens before packaging and is distributed. That's what the "encoded chunks" I've been talking about are. There is a different package for each encode, this is in the third linked article from the OP: https://netflixtechblog.com/high-quality-video-encoding-at-s...

The package part seems similar to what is done by MKVMerge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKVToolNix) + the stitching of the chunked video encodes. There's very little processing necessary compared to encoding. MKVMerge will give you an mkv file from a H.264 video, audio files and subtitles in milliseconds and it doesn't matter how big the files are as it's just a container. They use a different container, but it's the same idea.

You wouldn't have to read from S3, you could just push your encoded chunks to your CDN instead and use the edge server to virtual package them.
Having grown up in an actually polluted city where we had to keep ammonia in a container in the living room to scrub CO during winter months, "destroying the environment" by breathing thing is a little overwrought.

Also, reducing the future potential of productive new individuals from joining society is not the utopia you think it is.
They do, and in all of them is an anti-pattern to use raw threads instead of the higher level frameworks like goroutines, java.util.concurrent or TPL/DataFlow.

Go in their typical wisdom, doesn't even support thread local storage.

Additionally, Java and .NET have thrown away their security managers, and guess what is the best practice to regain their features in Java and .NET applications?

Multi-processing with OS IPC.
Seems like a terrible idea.
That is quite a strong claim. Certainly we can see examples where ASD was/is not a disadvantage but can we generalize that to saying certain levels/locations on the spectrum are never disadvantageous?

Can we say that a particular type/kind/severity is not disadvantageous on average? But what if it has a higher variance in life/social outcomes (some people are considerably worse off but others are considerably better off compared to a non-ASD population).

Its quite complicated because if a condition is not debilitating then it is also less likely to be diagnosed which means they would be underrepresented in studies.

The big issue is that when you make statistical bets the medical POV is to aim for average, healthy, normative. Is it better to have a gene that has a 10% chance of increasing IQ but a 20% chance of having some mental disorder? It isn't fair to show examples of people that got 'both' without considering the people that only got the mental disorder.

Also, to be fair, it is a trope of any Hollywood serial TV show (House, CSI, etc.) that at least one episode depicts an ASD individual for whom it is either not a disadvantage or benefits them, etc. I wouldn't say these depictions are any closer to a real or respectful representation, However, I would say that there is just as much over-glamorizing of mental health conditions in the current year as there is stigmatizing which is detrimental to everyone.
I take it mqtt was developed for embedded systems, microcontrollers etc to be lightweight. Can the broker also run in such and environment, or is that just the clients?
Very cool! I think I missed it, or maybe it's not on the page because it's not relevant to the audience, but what MCU are you using? Always curious to see what people pick.