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It is better to work with US/European companies, I have had more success in term of developing my skills and getting real world projects when working with this type of clients, and the pay is better as well.
To see if maybe they changed their ways without telling anyone?
What about priot art? There are a few trademarks for "Meta" already, including online services.
Four years on average for the last few releases:

Ableton Live 9: March 5, 2013
Ableton Live 10: February 6, 2018
Ableton Live 11: February 23, 2021
No, other people also need consistent performance and a simpler system that works in practice.
So is it "with proprietary software you're always the product, but some offer you to pay for the privilege"?
> PS: If you have italian ancestors and are interested in getting your citizenship let me know, I'm writing a blog post with my experience so far :)

I am very interested in the citizenship process.
D3 (and a bunch of other vitamins) might just be a proxy for simply good nutrition or even just wealth. If your D3 levels are alright, maybe everything else in your health is alright?
Your strategy sounds great. Thanks.
Even if you don't win 12% all the time, long term it might be great. Even 8% is good over a long period.
I agree. But the context of this is around a solo developer doing this as a hobby OS. And these constraints would help the project have reasonable scope assuming no-one else expressed any interest in it.
Its less work but if you do it multiple times as much its the same work or potentially more in a year.
I think the “why take chances” logic can be applied in multiple ways though. The risks from COVID are incredibly low for the young and healthy, and even lower if you consider just those with balanced diets (without VDD). It’s difficult to compare the tradeoffs between multiple competing low risk choices. Why take chances with a new vaccine that could prove to have some long term effect? Why take chances with shutting down schools and impacting children for a lifetime? Why take chances with the lower oxygen and breathing difficulties of masks? And so on. It makes more sense for individuals to evaluate their risk tolerance and circumstances to decide which tradeoffs they are willing to take on.
The title is quite something. The part that made it here seems reasonable enough, as it can be understood as "higher D3 levels help in not dying as much as with lower D3 levels" which is possible.

The other half is "a Mortality Rate Close to Zero Could Theoretically Be Achieved at 50 ng/mL 25(OH)D3" which the abstract argues for because "Regression suggested a theoretical point of zero mortality at approximately 50 ng/mL D3."

Someone sent in the clowns. (after that abstract I'm not sure I want to check out the details)
Record producer/writer here. You're on the nose with this. Simplicity and clarity are skills, like writing essays, that are refined over many many years to make something appear effortless.

You also allude to it, but there is a staggering amount of unseen effort that also goes into the writing and arranging of the song. Listeners only experience the end product and the final arrangement. For simple melodies it seems very obvious that that's how they should have been all along, but hidden behind that apparent simplicity can be hours and hours of false starts, dead-end paths, and a constant paring-down of complexity in some cases.

It's not uncommon for me and a collaborator to write a full sketch for a song (verses, choruses, lyrics, etc) before hitting on a groove or turn of phrase in the bridge that absolutely KILLS. Quite often what happens is that we discard the entire rest of the song and build something new around this new inspiring nugget of musical gold. This will quite often turn into an entirely new song with a very different feel, message etc. It's a musical moment or hook that we would not have arrived at had we not gone through the whole process leading up to it.

I've never regretted having had to go through the preceding steps to arrive there. It's always welcomed by the collaborators in the room and it's easy for us not to get stuck in a sunk-cost fallacy because it brought us to the place we're at now.
They are all bad if people trade their personal/private information for "free" use of those services. The key part is let people know they are trading their personal data in exchange for "free" access to whatever free of charge service these companies offer.
> certain political narratives

It's bogeyman story telling all over again, and depressingly effective.
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The chief problem with iron seeding is that it is one of many nutrients required. It may be the one most needed, but stimulating growth by supplying just iron depletes the ocean of the other needed nutrients, so you stimulate growth in the seeded area and depress it elsewhere.

Seeding with volcanic ash provides a fuller range of required nutrients.
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Someone who would make a new OS, should define a completely new system call interface, as it is likely that now it is possible to conceive a better interface than 50 years ago and anyway if it would not be different there would be no reason to make a new OS, instead of modifying an existing one.

Nevertheless, the first thing after defining a new OS interface must be writing a POSIX API translation layer, to be able to use without modifications the huge number of already existing programs.

Writing a new OS is enough work, nobody would have time to also write file systems, compilers, a shell, a text editor, an Internet browser and so on.

After having a usable environment, one can write whatever new program is desired, which would use the new native OS interface, but it would not be possible to replace everything at the same time.

Besides having a POSIX translation layer, which can be written using as a starting point one of the standard C libraries, where the system calls must be replaced with the translation layer, some method must be found for reusing device drivers made for other operating systems, e.g. either for Linux or for one of the *BSD systems.

Nobody would have time to also write all the needed device drivers. So there must exist some translation layer also for device drivers, maybe by running them in a virtual machine.

The same as for user applications, if there is special interest in a certain device driver, it should be rewritten for the new OS, but rewriting all the device drivers that could be needed would take years, so it is important to implement a way to reuse the existing device drivers.
If I were to do something like that for habitable, ready to move in house under $100k in some post-industrial economically depressed city, it sure wouldn't be Detroit with all the big city problems that come with that... Somewhere much smaller like Oswego, NY or Elmira, NY.

a somewhat randomly chosen example in 45 seconds of searching: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/51-E-5th-St-Oswego-NY-131...
> Their oral histories must be incredible.

Everything was idyllic in the before times. Then the human ships arrived and ruined everything. Some of them killed us. Others ignored us but polluted the ocean with noise so we couldn't hear each other's whale songs anymore.
Because we have trouble finding spots where people don't already live and file complaints to prevent them being built near them? At least on-shore; off-shore is more expensive. If we can get more MW per km² then we can have more power with less trouble.
HN will tell you you need to change name immediately and repent because facebook is too big and blablabla. It doesn't matter at all for now, in fact you might benefit from their hype. The facebook-verse will flop as it has for everyone else who tried to switch to VR, even if their quest is a good product. Their whole rebrand thing is a marketing trick to distract from everything else. Keep it until they decide send out a valid cease and desist.

Right now, without even a product named meta, how can they even send cease&desists to the many companies out there named "Meta", who already have products and registered the trademark for meta ?
works fine on my Safari (macbook).
Valuation for valuation's sake is kinda pointless, at the end of the day you cannot spend valuation. You spend money.

Even in the long term the money you earn from your investment is dependant upon the opinion of other people.

You don't know what parameter they'd use to justify to themselves their position when they decide to go long or short a particular stock or index.

By the same token you don't know what parameter will people use to justify purchasing/not purchasing that particular item or service.

Markets are not about companies, they are about people, because they place the bets, whether they are financial bets or betting that a good or a service will improve their quality of life.
I've worked with a lot of execs or managers who seem surprised that after they say something, one time, in a meeting, it didn't register with the team.

People some time don't pay attention. Or they do, but they forget. They have habits in their actions and way of thinking.

So I agree. You have to repeat yourself.
Oddly I’m still getting notifications for new mail but unable to download the content.
Who is going to clean the toilets?
I think you're ignoring the context of my comment.

The USA entered alright, but the common meaning of invade is

> (of an armed force) enter (a country or region) so as to subjugate or occupy it.

and subjugate in turn:

> bring under domination or control, especially by conquest.

American did not intend to annihilate Afghans, nor the Vietnamese.

> I don't see the point of this line of questions

That the resistance you describe depends on the behaviour of the aggressor. Could the Japanese resist the atomic bomb? Could German Jews peacefully/non-violently resist the Nazi regime?
The nature of the work is different, but the amount of time spent doing work is still quite substantial even if we are mostly just operating machines. Plus other stuff has stayed the same, It hasn't gotten any faster to cook a piece of meat since that's limited by the laws of physics.
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"Tell ‘Em What You’re Going To Tell ‘Em; Next, Tell ‘Em; Next, Tell ‘Em What You Told ‘Em" - attributed to lots of people all the way back to Aristotle. [1]

I know this is not the same thing as the linked article but I just love this fundamental guidance to public speaking.

1. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/08/15/tell-em/
The regions selling 1€ homes are far away from Emilia-Romagna... ER is an agricultural and industrial hub. Might as well compare California and South Dakota or something.
So I'm assuming people who down vote assume preventing deaths is achieved through some means that doesn't impact the rest of the course of a disease... I wish we lived in such a simple universe
NVIDIA GPUs also run extremely hot, and also overclock themselves when under any substantial load.

They even have a name for it: "GPU Boost"
Just don't use Bash.
Covid has really taken its toll on the world
This might be way more basic than you were imagining but I gave a couple Stylophones as christmas gifts to my younger cousins and they seem popular enough. It's an electronic instrument but it is also a tactile experience and you know how to play it in about 5 seconds.
Can you point me towards an elegant bash script? I honestly have never seen one that is more then a few lines.
use an rc.local script
Any thoughts on species Homo sapiens surviving?
Now here's a chart comparing GLD and GBTC. GLD is negative for the year. If the objective is growing money, gold has been one of the worst places to be.

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/GLD:NYSEARCA?comparison...
Correlation I get. How are they making the jump to causation?
Are you referring to N choose 2 possible collisions?
I agree, that they even have a dosage at which they predict zero deaths is nothing short of ludicrous. It gives away that they authors are unqualified.
The way they solve this at a huge pumpkin patch out in Snohomish, WA (not Craven) is by having a member of staff walk down the line and tally up before people hit the register. They write the sizes and sum on a piece of paper, you give it to a cashier. Done. Lines went QUICK.

Low tech, works well.
Note that the Signal LLC did not even try to object to providing information about their users. They provided as much information as they have. That is unfortunate.
While I understand the sentiment, I'm not sure how bash could ever be as maintainable as a something written in e.g. Python (or even better, a strongly-typed language).

The thing with bash is, it's great for tying things together and quick bits and pieces, but it's not set up for writing maintainable code. Arrays, functions, even if statements comparisons can all be done in bash (as first-class features), but are just... easier in other languages. And then think about the refactoring, linting, testing tools available in bash vs other languages. And then on top of that, there's the issue of handling non-zero return codes from programs you call; do you `set -e`, and exit on any non-zero return code even if you wanted to continue, or not `set -e`, ignoring any errors as your script just continues.

Personally, when I feel I want to use a function (or array, or other similar, non-trivial thing), in bash, it's time to reach for another language.

Having said that, there are some nice programs written in bash. https://www.passwordstore.org/ being one that comes to mind.
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>after that abstract I'm not sure I want to check out the details

There's a fairly short review of why the study is kinda silly here: https://gidmk.medium.com/vitamin-d-covid-19-and-the-promise-...
I consider anything in kubernetes disposable. I want to be able to lift and shift anything in a new cluster without any migration in a matter of minutes.

Anything "stateful" like a database breaks this paradigm.

I have nothing against databases used as cache that can be "re-filled" upon re-creation, but I believe anything holding business critical data shall be held outside of a kubernetes cluster. Why, because being one command away deleting your StatefulSet, Helm Release ... etc scares the shit out of me.

You can of course minimize the risk with correct RBAC, ensure proper backup/restore migrations but that require lots of staff and efforts I can't spare.

So until I can be reassured that I have all the tooling that can recover rapidly any catastrophic failure/mishap, and that all this tooling is tested monthly, I enforce using managed databases services.
Not at all. But extreme suspicion is warranted here. Folks who have experienced drugs like Zoloft know that antidepressants can go "too far."

At the very least, I'd want to see a hard off switch to put the implantee into control. I'd much prefer a device like this to be at-will (a button that fires a pulse when the patient wants one, possibly with a rate-limiter) and in conjunction with talk therapy to train the patient to recognize depressive spirals so that they can better help themselves. Early in that therapy, it may be necessary for the therapist to trigger the device, but after a certain point, the functionality for an external trigger should be permanently disabled. Being locked in a mental institution is depressing, and any treatment plan must take that into account.
in the US midwest: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-census-illin...

in the great plains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depopulation_of_the_Great_Plai...
I'm not debunking nuclear, I'm simply stating that just because you have a hammer climate change doesn't magically become a nail. Nuclear is great, but for the reasons I mentioned it is not suitable to combat climate change right now. I'm not advocating against nuclear, I'm simply saying that it's expensive, has problems other energy sources don't have, and relying on the building of new, safe, and cheap, designs will take way too long.

> Renewable alone (Without Coal or Gas) implies nationally to have close to 100% of the production capacity in storage alone (Battery, power2Gas or hydro storage) to compensate solar / wind intermittency. Which no country on Earth is able to do right now

again, straw man's argument. No country is close to 100% nuclear power either. France is pretty far, and they are sitting at less than 70%. and the reactors they are trying to build to increase this number are plagued by budget and timescale overruns of massive proportions. See the new safer EPR designs they have been trying to build since 2005, which are still not finished and have already consumed more than 300% of the initial projected cost [1]. it is delusional to believe we can somehow quickly scale nuclear power to the capacity needed to combat climate change.

cursing and claiming that things are a joke that have already been successfully demonstrated is not going to help make your point...

[1] https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a33499619/fr...
I suppose due to paragraphs like this:

> When selling a company, a product, or an idea to customers, employees, investors, candidates, repeating a consistent message several times embosses the message upon the individual’s memory. It establishes clarity: Redpoint is a leading venture capital firm.
There's mostly not a reason why we couldn't have a single API other than politics. My opinionated takes (opinions mine and not those of my employer, etc.):

Vulkan: Standardized by a standards body (Khronos). In an ideal world we would all be using this.

D3D12: Microsoft likes Direct3D and has the market power to be able to push its own API. However, the situation on Windows isn't as bad as on macOS/iOS because drivers generally support Vulkan as well.

Metal: This mostly exists because Apple refuses to support anything Khronos related, for not-particularly-compelling reasons. It does have the excuse that it was being developed before Vulkan, but in 2021 its existence is not particularly well-motivated.

WebGPU: As an API, WebGPU in some form has to exist because Vulkan is not safe (in the memory-safe sense). For untrusted content on the Web, you need a somewhat higher-level API than Vulkan that automatically inserts barriers, more like Metal (though Metal is not particularly principled about this and is unsafe in some ways as well). That being said, Web Shading Language is just Apple playing politics again regarding Khronos, as the rest of the committee wanted to use SPIR-V. There's no compelling reason why Web Shading Language needs to exist.
Better get some X-Rays than staying with unknown and untreated desease. This could help you : https://www.nuffieldhealth.com/article/radiation-exposure-fr...

CT scans are way more radiative than your classical X-rays but they are also way less radiative that anything that could be really dangerous.

You are way more prone to major heart issues if it’s in your family’s genes and untreated than to have any issue with a ct-scan.
Thank you for this very good summary.
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I think alternatives are not relevant since single apps do not matter but ecosystem is what matters. For example this is how Google's ecosystem works(my personal experience): Google Search > Gmail > YouTube. I first started using Google Search then I started using Gmail and finally in order to create YouTube account I needed a Gmail account.
we've done that with people for a very long time.

Even today, there are reports of african pygmies still being treated as slaves or hunted for both sport and cannibalism[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Pygmies#Enslavement,_c...
I wouldn't say they run "extremely hot", my 1050 Ti powers both my 1440p144hz display and my 1080p75hz one, and it idles just over 32c for the most part. Under load though, like all GPUs, they will push their cooling to the limit to get as close to their junction temp as possible without causing lasting damage.
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Ambitious project ;)
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The only “danger” to bash is if zsh completely overtakes it - and even then scripts will probably be written in bash-compatible zsh.
Apple is holding back both the open web and open graphics. They're a cancer on the industry (and why I'll never give them a penny nor ever develop for one of their platforms).
Why not go one further, and suggest Lazarus-like effects at 100 ng/mL?
Do this with a couple of "perfect" pumpkin shapes. Create a way to 3D print these as a mold to make your own "pumpkins" to be carved without all of the mess and able to last longer through the season. No more petroleum jelly, no more soaking them in the tub.
If it's annoying, it's working.

To make it less annoying, signal that you have the message by voicing the same memes. Once it's obvious that enough people get it, those people can start repeating something else instead.
yes, I think you are onto something, for ever research paper they need to properly disentangle and normalize the various effects - controlling the factors.

Sounds like disentangling vitamin D levels is much more difficult than say controlling for social status, or income, age etc.
I had decent success with PS1 games on the Pi2, which surprised me. Most games I tried ran well. I haven't tried on the Pi4 but I assume it's really good, based on that. PS2 might even work well, there.

N64 was another story, but N64 emulators have improved a bunch since last time I tried. I think the only game I found that played acceptably on the Pi2 was Mario64. Most of the rest were slideshows or didn't run at all.
>Steel and glass is cheaper

If memory serve, it wasn't at the time. There wasn't sufficient industrial capacity for steel + glass post war to address scale of ongoing construction demands. Building form work out of wood and pouring concrete from local aggregate was cheaper in terms of labour, materials and logistics. It became self reinforcing with economies of scale as concrete supply chains popped up regionally. Which is building science in a nutshell, do what makes most economic sense at the time. Usually limited by transportation costs. Ergo cladding eventually replaced by cheap light weight building envelop systems due to increase in global trade and sourcing from Asia.

IMO applying dystopian to Brutalism is an label applied after the fact due to various cultural factors. The style itself was continuation of modernism. Of course modernism since inception has been a friction point between academia and popular sentiment. I do think many architects did delude / post rationalize concrete aesthetics to a degree, in no small response to fact that they had to work with it out of economic neccessity. Architecture school is very good at brainwashing students who entered due to love of classical aesthetics into embracing modern aethetics, because there just aren't much opportunites to build outside of dominant building systems of the era. So designers learned to love and celebrate concrete.
I have been collecting studies related to treatment and prevention of the common cold for a while now. Every time I have a cold, I spend some time growing the list.

So far, Vitamin D3 is one of the more promising treatments in the list.

Here are two interesting RCTs regarding Vitamin D and respiratory tract infections:

Preventive Effects of Vitamin D on Seasonal Influenza:
https://journals.lww.com/pidj/fulltext/2018/08000/preventive...

Vitamin D Supplementation for the Prevention of Acute Respiratory Tract Infection:
https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/202/5/809/1746565