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Fractal patterns generated from small sets of rules can be massively complex, in many cases the final structure bears little resemblence to the inputs.
As somebody who grew up one state over, I can totally believe this. Deer collision featured importantly driver's ed and my thoughts for highway driving, especially in twilight and dark. Anybody who has ever had a squirrel run out in front of you knows the feeling, except here the squirrel can do 30 mph and weighs as much as a person.
Really cool article. They show that Wolves create a “landscape of fear” which reduces deer engagement with roads. So wolves do what hunters can’t; not just reducing populations but also changing behavior. Kind of creepy, if you are a deer!
The consulting bar is often lower than the hiring bar, and pays better provided it's an organic referral and not like Upwork. You get offers in a similar way to getting jobs - write clever things on blogs/social media, seem like you know what you're doing, do a little more work than expected. Often it's worth taking your first job at a loss because it'll spawn more referrals if done well enough.
> I call on high-level officials and scientists to stop the inappropriate stigmatisation of unvaccinated people, who include our patients, colleagues, and other fellow citizens, and to put extra effort into bringing society together.

Or on the flip side, we can keep describing it as what it is, i.e an illness which largely inconveniences the vaccinated and jeopardizes the lives of those who are not.

This really seems like it's just an opinion piece. The vaccine cuts the window of contagion, spares capacity in hospitals for the immunocompromised as well as for people suffering other ailments beyond covid, and enables a resumption of normality necessary for mental health.

People who choose not to vaccinate for reasons other than contraindications or other medical exclusions such as allergies to vaccine components are really just choosing to play Russian roulette with a 50 chamber revolver — and risking the lives of those who can't vaccinate by projecting the virus for longer durations of time and occupying ventilators, ECMOs, hospital beds, and pricey monoclonal antibodies.
There’s increasing evidence that the mrna immunity wanes after about 6 months. That’s an argument for booster shots, not a valid justification to stay unvaccinated.
What a lot of people seem to miss is the amount of discrimination the covid passports being generalised are enabling. I pitty those with too etnic names.
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Consumer Reports isn't bad and generally you can get an idea of what to stay away from. If you're buying a new vehicle, the only thing you can use is previous model history. You would also need to consider if there have been any major refreshes like a new engine, etc between recent model years.

When buying used, look at a model that has had minor refreshes over a range of time like 2012 -2018. The later models of that period can have some refinements that improve their dependability. Stay away from first model years.

The best resource to figure out if the vehicle you're interested in are message boards where there is a large community of enthusiasts. You will quickly determine what the major and minor issues are with the vehicle. An example is a site like https://www.clublexus.com/ or https://www.toyotanation.com/ . Boards like these will give a better picture of whether the vehicle you want is a good choice.

Everything breaks but there are some obvious brands/models to stay away from.
I feel bad for sharing this because it's a master class in things to never do with HV and the creator made a follow-up video mocking commenters criticizing this, but it's similar and interesting.

https://youtu.be/IiJAq53knwc
Perhaps tangential but you actually do not have the right to refuse quarantine.
People who put a label on what they are just want to identify with some group to pretend that they're special.
Considering your comment is greyed out (or at least was), I supposed the answer to your last question, for some people, must be yes. I suspect it legitimately doesn't occur to some people that conservation need not be an economic activity.
We can. And personally, I think we should. But these economic arguments are very useful for convincing people who don't share that value.
That was a really interesting article, thanks for sharing.
This is a most proper eggcorn [0] since OP's explanation is centered around "owe"...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn
My writing effectiveness shot up when I realized going simple is almost always the right thing to do.

I was around 24 and kept wondering why most people didn’t read my emails.
Maybe I, not OP, can chime in with an example. Since labeling myself an introvert I was better able to know what attending bigger social come togethers (like team events, family reunions, conferences and the like meant to my "energy" level.

I liked how in another thread a commenter described this "energy" as maybe the energy necessary for our brains to keep the shields up.

Attending a social event to me means I know it will deplete me. It will require me to find a way of refueling afterwards. I now know better when and why to make this trade off. Because there are benefits to attending certain situations/events - I just need to balance them for my mind and body with taking care of myself.

It is like doing a grueling but necessary work. I know it needs to be done and I know how to take care for me afterwards.

And on the other hand it also helped me to understand, why certain situations (like being with a few select friends and talking all night) left me invigorated and provided said "energy".

So labeling myself that way provided a heuristic for managing my mental state and energy level better than before.
And the rest of society has the right to exclude you if your carrying a deadly virus.
> Isn’t the point of NFTs that it verifies ownership

A lot of people think that, but I would consider that more of a requirement than the purpose.

The point of NFTs is to allow the original artist to share some of the financial rewards that the art dealers and collectors get each time they resell a piece of artwork in the future. The goal is to help restore some balance and fairness to the financial side of the art trade, particularly for new artists, who often can't earn a living wage on the original sales alone. And of course, being able to verify "ownership" of the "original" work is necessary to get the artist a piece of the pie whenever that NFT is sold.

Yes, you're right about access to the work... as an observer, anyone can enjoy looking at the art just the same as the person who owns the rights to it. Just like any other image on the internet, making a copy of it doesn't give you the rights to that image. So, I don't understand the point of this archive unless it's truly just to archive the data incase the blockchain goes down.
They did not cancel the order, I ordered the items, they claimed I returned the items which did cancel the order in a round about way. This may make my issue more clear. Below is a copy of the email I sent a consumer protection advocate in my area explaining my personal issues with this situation. Beyond all that they are also taking advantage of sellers by processing items that Amazon had canceled as returns which has a punitive effect on sellers.

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Hello,

I recently made some purchases on Amazon.ca and because of the shipping routes being cut off due to the weather events my shipments are delayed. This is an understandable situation but what Amazon has decided to do is cancel my orders without any option of waiting or offering a rain cheque for the items at a later date. Instead they just send an email saying your money will be refunded in 2 to 4 days(Which 2 to 4 days is also seems unreasonable considering they initiated the cancelation)

I understand why they are doing this as their warehouse/shipping center is getting jammed up with items they can not deliver but with the current state of inflation and rising prices, I will be forced to pay more for the items which I already purchased due to their lack of capacity.

When I contacted Amazon I was connected with the rudest customer service rep I have ever had and was scolded because "I know full well that there is a state of emergency in BC and that my items were most likely damaged due to the flooding". Which if that was the case I still feel my order should be fulfilled by Amazon at a later date.

I am sure I am not the only one going through this in the North and I feel this matter should be investigated for the sake of others. I would expect that somewhere in the Amazon terms and conditions there is something that absolves them from making things right but just because something is legal to do, does not always mean it is fair.

Thank You
I can tell you a more likely story than "big conspiracy on Amazon's part".

Amazon has systems in place to say "We cannot ship from X to Y anymore", but they require manual intervention and maybe those tools don't get used very much. Until someone finds the right button and presses it, orders are dropping into the warehouse to be fulfilled. Ship this sprocket from Vancouver to Calgary since Calgary's site has none.

But the truck didn't show up, or maybe it did but now it's got nowhere to go.

Now the dock has one section slowly filling up with packages. It's been days. Dock doors are a limited resource, and here's a bunch of them with a mountain of packages blocking them. And the site leadership, well, they have metrics to hit. Just like every other cog in the machine, they will be fired if they don't make rate. What, you thought it was just the lowly associates who are running with dogs nipping at their heels?

What's a site leader to do? Well, there's a returns department right here. They've got tools that can handle the package being returned, allowing them to restock those items, refund the customers, clear the dock, and make everything go back to normal for the site.

Sounds like good 'Customer Obsession' to get those orders refunded as quickly as possible.

Sellers? Those aren't customers. Those metrics are not something the leadership needs to worry about, so they won't.
blokada (https://blokada.org/) works great for this purpose. I would totally recommend it.
I would like to suggest we cede more of our land to nature, and increasing the amount of uninterrupted wilderness.

But that's going to not be popular with a lot of people because it means deciding what area we get to live in or don't. Some towns are going to be removed for lack of sustainability.

For this to work, we would need to also improve our land use policies in the towns and cities we currently live in.
Is this independent of the hull shape and hydrodynamics? Or how does that influence the energy reuirements?
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Play random disappeared, but if you have shuffle turned on and press play on an album it still plays random. For my usage nothing has changed and spotify hasn't prevented anyone of listening differently. If you have a preferred order, just add tracks to a playlist and drag tracks around like you please. When it comes to Adele, my preference is to listen to something else...
Do you have more info on your processor build? Sounds fascinating! I hoped that there might be a video on your channel, but it didn't appear so.
I do hide in the bathroom (the sacred place where I'm guaranteed to be alone), I do the dishes as a meditation moment (don't talk to me).

I mean, I don't believe I'm an introvert. I just happen to see I have many measurable common points with that kind of "buzzfeed" definitions of introvert.

So this article feels quite accurate for me.

Oh and I have plenty of people who I like to talk to. It's just that it drains me.
>But why can’t we conserve wolves just because?

evidently not, otherwise there wouldn't be endangered species.

>Why do we need to point to the economics of it? Are they not worth conserving unless they help the bottom line?

to get all the non-conservationists on board.
What is backlog inversion?
Yes, this paper asserts we are “talking about a pandemic of the unvaccinated” when I think we’re talking about a system burdened by the unvaccinated and a class of workers who are underappreciated by the unvaccinated.
I find the argument unconvincing. The phrase in the opening sentence, "pandemic of the unvaccinated" seems apt. As a vaccinated person I don't interpret it as, "we have problems because unvaccinated people are getting vaccinated people sick". Instead, I interpret it as, "we have problems because unvaccinated people are at higher risk of illness and causing unnecessary stress on healthcare".
But then we’d have to live around wolves. I like the idea that I don’t live near large apex predators.

(I know they mostly leave humans alone but it’s still unsettling.)
This could not be the title, because it is not what they found. They found that in addition to predation, the threat of wolves changes the deers’ behavior, which has a much larger role in reducing accidents.
Unless I am missing something, it is basically the same theory as ascending a rope (typically climbing) but a really cool application
My experience is so close to yours, it's scary, thanks for writing this!
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Breakthrough hardly means breakthrough anymore. Perhaps it's the deluge of strains, or maybe it's just that vaccines were never very effective at preventing transmission. People keep trying to compare taking the Covid vaccine to taking the Polio vaccine but the Polio vaccine lasts nearly a lifetime and is 99.9% effective...

Recently a nursing home had 89 total infections, and 87 people were fully vaccinated. Are we still gonna call these cases breakthrough if it's nearly guaranteed that the vaccine won't stop you from getting covid? I don't dispute that it will help protect one from becoming seriously ill.

https://nypost.com/2021/11/16/covid-19-outbreak-kills-8-in-c...
And a 'hide bad anime covers' button too, please.
It's also possible that you might have social anxiety, btw. Regarding introversion and "energy" - https://www.quietrev.com/why-introverts-and-extroverts-are-d...
If we opened up zoning for denser housing this might just happen on its own.
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Another anecdote from someone with ~20k orders: I bought two pairs of Airpods Max, returned one of them but mixed up the boxes with the two serials. Amazon disposed[!] the brand-new returned model and still charged me for both.
not sure if this is backed up by scientific data or not but this is an interesting perspective ive never considered.

Anecdotally: I notice as my confidence grows I enjoy social gatherings more and am less tired afterwards, whereas 5 years ago almost every social event would be tiring, now some are actually energizing.
BTW, people should check out Spicetify [1], it's a package manager for customizing the Spotify desktop UI and adding apps/extensions/themes.

I've hidden podcasts, added panes for the latest releases of artists I follow and playlist from reddit. If you want you can also totally retheme it.

[1] https://github.com/khanhas/spicetify-cli
Very Silicon Valley mindset, grouping people up and getting them to only interact with people like themselves.
It looks good for Raspberry Pi.

Anyone try on a raspberry? I'm using ubuntu server for my Pi 3+ now, and sometimes I feel a bit slow response.
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The price of a catalytic converter is much higher. My friend’s catalytic converter was stolen from her late 2000s Accord, and her car was totaled as a result.
People unwilling to make a minor sacrifice for themselves and their community deserve to be stigmatized. That is, if we value sacrifice for our community. Ironically, the type of people who are unvaccinated are disproportionately in this camp, I suspect.
So why don't we mandate testing from the vaccinated? Isn't that only way to guarantee that they don't spread this disease?
I don't have a great single resource unfortunately. I'd like to put up a web page about it at some point.

This is the github repo that contains everything: https://github.com/jes/scamp-cpu/ - some of the stuff under "doc/" might be what you're after (but some of it is just incoherent ramblings).

I have some blog posts here: https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/tags/cpu.html

And there is a video here, but it's not really very informative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sBB0iD6XvI
The primary issue causing that we keep having to lockdown is that hospitals only have a limited number of ICU beds (not physical but trained staff to operate them). Once full, all others such as traffic accident victims can't be treated. There is no way to quickly get more certified ICU beds at least if you want them at the standards expected.

71% of people in the ICU in Zürich, Switzerland are unvaccinated [1]. This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated even if the vaccinated can spread the virus, the ICU beds are full because of the unvaccinated.

[1] https://www.zh.ch/content/dam/zhweb/bilder-dokumente/themen/...
OP is not suggesting actually booby trapping cars. Having the sentence in quotes is the giveaway. He is saying to spread the myth that this is happening so thieves aren't sure if it is real or not and might be put off stealing them.
What's left to say that hasn't already been said a hundred times before? The NFT stuff was fun for a while (people getting mad at right-clickers and / or not understanding that they weren't buying an image but rather--at best--a link to an image), but I don't think there's much appetite on this forum for laughing at erotic chickens.
The same people who proudly lie to employees and customers magically becomes honest when lying can get them a lot of needed money?
I used Maxima for creating statistical models of hardware failure at work a while back.

I’d take the statistical models, use Maxima to symbolically find equations for estimators, and then write out the formulas in Python using NumPy / SciPy to solve the equations numerically. Without Maxima, the whole process would have involved more error-prone, tedious work on my part.

I like to pitch the model by saying it successfully predicted a data loss event before it happened, predicted where that data loss event would happen (which configuration would lose data), and gave us insight into how the system could be changed to prevent similar data loss events from happening. Maxima was a key tool in making the model.
> I don't care if you get vaccinated, but I also recognize that your are making a suboptimal choice, based on available data, if you don't.

The [dead] comments in reply to yours seem to imply that choosing to refuse a vaccine (without a sound medical reason to do so, e.g allergies) isn't a choice, which is how they — and I assume millions of others — justify the comparison to racism.

It is, of course, ludicrous on its face as traits such as race are in fact truly immutable, whereas a decision whether or not to vaccinate is certainly subject to change up until onset of illness leading to death.
Does anyone still remember the days of making a “mix tape” or “mix CD” as a gift to someone?

The power to mix tracks across albums and artists should be at the discretion of the listener. New ordering of pieces/songs can enable new interpretation of music.
I actually find large groups distracting and disorienting to the point that I have a hard time decoding conversations and that extra churn is what exhausts me in the first place. Also, trying to keep the mask on is also a bit exhausting so the moment I tell everyone that Im introverted and no longer have to pretend Im not things start to improve a bit.

Having said that, I think you have a point with the threat perception part. I do enjoy social contexts where I feel like I fit in and can be myself. The problem seems to be more with social contexts I am obligated to participate in, where I have to put on a mask of interest; probably the threat is to be found that you’re really not interested into that interaction.
You currently live somewhere that doesn’t have any large apex predators?
I fully agree. Vaccinated people should also participate in regular testing at their own expense to protect the others. Anything else is just putting others lives at risk. They should be absolutely ready to make that small sacrifice. If they are not willing to do they should be heavily stigmatized.
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Yep this seems like a good thing and fixing a UI issue that was wrong in the first place.
> amount of uninterrupted wilderness.

Towns are not the problem, highways are. Specifically interstates and other roads built to that standards.
I've noticed the same. I think self-confidence grows with age and we become more and more comfortable in our own skin. But then at some point (perhaps in our fifties) we pass a threshold and enter the witty curmudgeon territory.

Edit: on the science bit. Yes, this is merely what I tell myself. But if we were to test this, perhaps we can do so by monitoring the glucose consumption of brains of introverts in different types of social situations?
I'd be interested in a report from someone who tries, but I doubt it will be pleasant.

By default, typos in variable names are worse than in Python and worse than shell with set -u: they result in nil rather than an immediate exception.

The 1-based indexing is something people complain about when coming from almost any other language (Python, JS, C, C++, Go, Rust, etc.). The key issue with shell is that most people write it without studying the language.

I'm also unsure of Lua's stability guarantees. It's an embedded language that can change on every version. I know it has broken compatibility at least 4 times, because they're on Lua 5.x. You're expected to change your programs when you upgrade version of Lua, because it's an embedded language by design. It's very different than a shell.

I have heard of people using Lua for "private" shell-like tasks, but I've never seen it in a real codebase, even though Lua is very popular and well documented.
? I know unvaccinated people. I imagine most people do. Doesn't change what is happening.
Is it possible to have the catalytic converter stolen without knowing about it?
That is one "failing" but not the most important one. No intramuscular shot seems to provide protection against infection of upper respiratory aerosol spread viruses. They provide IgG antibodies in the body serum, and that seeps into the lower lungs to provide protection from serious disease. But intramuscular vaccination does not provide even medium term protection against infection of the upper respiratory mucosal tissues. And that's really unfortunate but not unexpected if you knew anything about how influenza vaccination works. Those muscosal surface tissues require local IgA antibodies and resident B and T cells to prevent infections. Intramuscular vaccination does not cause this (though it does train the T cells that will go there when you do get infected).

So, intramuscular vaccination is not preventing sars-cov-2 infection of the upper respiratory and spread of the virus to others. This does not mean intramuscular vaccination is not needed. It is the vital first step. The next step is an intranasal vaccination booster to provide resident T cells to the upper respiratory (as well as a brief period of IgA antibodies and B cell residence).

If we're gonna get through this both "sides" have to acknowledge their failings. Intramuscular vaccination is both not enough and a required first step. Intranasal is next. Then we can finally start ending this pandemic.
I remember using a Macintosh (a Plus?) for the first time in approx 1988 and being confused about you created a file. Being a serious command-line user, it took me several minutes to a realise that you had to launch an app first.