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If you enjoyed Super Size Me, you should checkout the TV series the host Morgan created soon after, called 30 days [1]. He and others basically do something random for 30 days (gets locked up, goes on a fad diet, binge drinking, etc.)

The first episode where Morgan and his girlfriend try to live on minimum wage in Ohio for a month is some of the best TV I've ever seen.

All the episodes are good, the ones with Morgan are the best.

The recent Super Size Me 2 is also pretty good. Not quite the charm of the first one, but still really good.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_Days_(TV_series)
Yes, it’s setup to be a very rude awakening due to how spiky bandwidth ends up being.

What’s interesting is they view this as a way to increase profits instead becoming slightly more competitive by reducing what they charge per TB of bandwidth.
Dude was being an ignorant dipshit. Deserved it.
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Discord search is a terrible piece of shit, I agree. The real value is the realtime support offered. It should never be a knowledge storage, that's a job for a wiki.
Fast fashion, costumes, holiday decorations and props, organizational solutions, non-heirloom[0] electronics.

[0] not sure what the term of art here is, but flash drive, charger, cables, remotes, even monitors and TVs rather than designer record players, home entertainment systems etc
I was unable to build ribbit from the git repo under Debian. The compile-all.sh script complained about absence of "gambit", and after installing gambc (Debian's gambit package) and changing the "gambit" command in the build script to gsc (gambit compiler), the script still throws error messages. I might mess with it some more, but I'm unfamiliar with the tool chain, so at first look I don't know what to try next.

Did anyone else have better luck?
I've been looking into a home gym and am torn between Tonal, Mirror and other offerings. Just curious if you've compared Tonal against Mirror, Peloton, etc?
HFCS is vegan, to be fair. Not really fair to say it's "good" - no long term studies have been done on it so far.
For once it's impossible to work in Java without an IDE and without creating a project.

But you can just write a simple 20 line Python script to do some data mangling, no project with 30 IDE files required.
I thought the point of Markdown was having a style-agnostic markup language that can easily be converted to HTML...?
It's the original you care about, not the encoding. Suppose you have a code such that at least 50% of the encoded bits must be corrupted to prevent a good decoding of the source. If the encoding is that corrupted, if you choose 20 bits at random to examine, there's less than 1/1000000 chance that you chose one of the corrupted ones. So this code might be one in which for any 20 bits, you can tell if they form part of a valid codeword.
It's not a problem that they start as CRUD apps. That's exactly the place where ORMs or query generators should be used: CRUD code is always the same and as such should be 100% automated.

So then when something different than CRUD happens? You use the ORM, a query generator, or completely custom SQL, depending on which is the most appropriate to the situation.

Performance doesn't need to be an issue if the query is extremely rare; if it's core to your app, by all means, write completely optimized SQL. But if it's an extremely rare query or only shows up for your admin page? ORM code should be fine.

That's the point of the parent comment: When you get good enough you learn where to use each.
Current vaccines target key proteins necessary for attaching to the cell. If the virus stops expressing these proteins, it will be less fit at invading cells.
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That Sounds cool. Also sounds like an interesting way to potentially optimize applications for specofic workloads, with e.g. optomizations that build on top of applications usage logs. Maybe in a far, far future an addition to LLVM or other optimizing compilers.

Edit: Spelling.
PS: Though might also be an awesome way to shoot yourself in the foot.
I think one issue is that the definition of Europe varies wildly when taking colloquially, that 40k figure can be valid in parts of Southern Europe. Although the market has shifted massively in the past few years so you can shift that figure to 60 or 80k even in the south for senior roles.

Even at the upper averages though these numbers still aren't really all that competitive. As a single data point, I'm earning 2-3x the local market rate in Europe (170k) by working for a US startup remotely.
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yes, i understand that. but "not the type of price reduction i wanted" doesn't mean "not a price reduction".

$5 off a turkey wrap is still a price reduction. whether or not your were shopping for a lamborghini isn't really relevant.
So I actually live in a small town of 800 people somewhere in Europe. I can take the train if i need to get anywhere further than is comfortable by bike.

I understand that's not currently the case in a lot of the world, which is why I think cars need to be banned eventually, not right now.
In fact, that's exactly what I do - I have access to Prime and Netflix, but I like to download and watch stuff later (sometimes days or weeks later) on different devices (TV, computer, tablet etc.). All the spying, DRM, crappy UI, poor usability etc. of both apps get in the way. The solution - download a good copy from the internet. No need to feel guilty since Amazon and Netflix still get paid.
That's not how probabilities work... The probability of being in a crash after N years would be 1 - 0.99^N. So after 100 years you only have a 63% chance of being in an accident. After 50 years, you have a 39% chance.
That’s pretty neat information! I honestly barely know how all the pieces come together.
i would dismiss these 'predictions' right away. In the 1970s it was impossible to foresee the situation that we are in now (such as the concept of personal data and how it may be a problem if i have a lot of data about you). it just didn't exist back then.

However, even if we are not heading for direct doom, its a good question to ask how to contribute.I just created a very similar thread.

I think a safe bet for contributing longterm is supporting the scientific process, shorter term it could be humanitarian work, like supplying energy or hospitals to 3rd countries perhaps?
Replaced my 2013 MacBook Air battery myself for $50 and 5 minutes. It’s very user replaceable unlike the current models.
A good course/resource to go on a full and serious dive to CS:

https://github.com/ossu/computer-science
Yes, much like gorillas.

The problem is the same as with gorillas: habitats supporting such leisurely life are rare, and cannot support density required for any kind of technological and most forms of social advancement. This makes life leisurely but full of peril.
Here is a nice video showing the evolution of microorganisms in action:

"The Evolution of Bacteria on a “Mega-Plate” Petri Dish"
https://vimeo.com/180908160

The original paper about the experiment:

"Spatiotemporal microbial evolution on antibiotic landscapes"
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aag0822
> Basically what you’re saying is that we can get by with worse tech.

> I’m honestly not sure what you’re trying to say we should do here, not try to make computing faster?

No. I'm saying that if you look at tech, generation by generation, faster is sometimes just faster. It doesn't always enable new use cases.

There's no extra subtext. I'm not saying we should stop making things faster. I just don't want the benefits of increased speed/efficiency to be overstated.

I don't think "we sorely need faster matrix multiplication" is true. It's just a nice-to-have. Which is still enough reason to make it! But it's a different level of benefit.

> It is an inevitability, in my opinion, that extra horsepower will enable some kind of new experience, however minor.

Sufficiently minor things aren't "genuine new use cases" that we "sorely need".

Eventually you'll hit a new use case, probably, but you might get zero new use cases for a long time.

> Your example of the original Apple Watch is perfect here. The original Apple Watch barely functioned, for staters, and had a reputation for being slow. It didn’t have GPS, cellular, always-on screen, or a number of other features that need a very powerful and power efficient chip, display, and wireless modem/chip. All of these features are things that have market value.

Not very much of that depends on computation getting faster.

And I never said "faster" has no market value.
I did but I’m not a scientist and I don’t know how to interpret the full study either. I’m asking a legitimate question based on the abstract. I’m trying to understand something and I get downvoted instead.

What happened to this community?
You might be wearing pants wrong.
Yay, it got classified with an interesting name. No, another goddamn variant.
Nah, it's really easy to never smoke. I've been not smoking my entire life. I think his comparison is dead on the mark. If people who choose to be unvaccinated can be vilified for taking up hospital beds, then so can people who choose to pick up a smoking habit.
Not the whole internet, but a whole country for sure: google "Las Toninas" a beachside town in Argentina. Someone over there frequently steps over the wire and good bye rest of the world
The east coast is serviced by west coast ports. Where do you think the shipping is from?
How is that different than always? And if their own actions make the system worse doesn’t that hurt them as well?
> They are currently LOSING a lot of money on their offerings

This is not interesting without more context. If they lose money because their income is below costs, that's a problem. If they lose money because they have headroom and spend all of it on customer acquisition, that's an opposite of a problem.
That ties up the truck for several days while it's being shipped across the country, though. That's a very unproductive use of the truck. It's overall more efficient to do it the way you said the first time.
Mutations are happening in both populations. Specific mutation that make the vaccine ineffective are happening in vaccinated people.

This vaccine doesn't prevent covid the way the smallpox vaccine does. This is a new type of vaccine trying to reduce deaths. Calling the same is a marketing trick.
That site is a perfect example of this. It actually required me to sign up for the newsletter to even read the article.
No. My Turkey was mostly Pork.
As someone who uses Python since 2004, you got it backwards.

Python was popular before because it's very nice language. People wanted to use it for science to, so they wrote very good scientific libraries for it.

R was very popular for non-neural-network ML some years ago, yet it wasn't picked up for NN, because R kind of sucks for general programming. As the joke goes, the best part of R is that is a language written by statisticians. The worse part of R is that is a language written by statisticians.

Python was growing at accelerated speed year on year well before neural networks.
I avoided playing word games (like scrabble) on my phone before bed. I heard that it keeps the logic part of your brain awake so I just stuck with visual puzzlers.

No idea if it's true I just still avoid word games before bed.
I find that the worst counter to being called a snowflake, is calling others a snowflake in return because they simply called you out on trying to silence opinions that aren't your own.

Here we see the GP disappointed that every time he and others bring up salient points, they are silenced by an angry mob. It's a real stretch to call him the snowflake in this situation. Nobody calls people a snowflake for disagreeing, it's the way that traditional snowflakes disagree that people have a problem with.
Fanfic is basically ignored copyright infringement, severely limiting the potential of the medium. There are plenty of examples of reboots and adaptations making new and superior works, copyright just adds an insurmountable barrier for most works.
What if I generated my own electricity from solar in say sunny Spain or Portugal.
How Law Made Silicon Valley (2014) https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a... presumably has been superseded (pointers appreciated) but points out some areas of law that made the US favorable to grow large internet companies relative to the EU, Japan, and South Korea -- IIRC more permissive and/or more certainty, sooner, concerning some areas of intellectual property, intermediary liability, and privacy.
Then aleph is next.
For one, investment in the US is directed by wealthy private investors. Which means that the entire bearing of its economy is undemocratic. It doesn't matter if a majority of the public favour heavy investment in (eg) green energy; if it's not profitable, it won't get done, and the government is paddling upstream any time it tries to resist the motivating flow of private investment.

At a narrower scale, who decides how many hours you work? Did you elect that person, or were they forced upon you? Sure, you could quit & move to another company, but I could say the same of a citizen living in a tyrannical country. It doesn't make that country any less tyrannical. And at whichever company you switched to, you still wouldn't have any democratic input in the workplace. If you don't like your overlord, you can take a mulligan, but it's not easy to switch jobs, and all you end up with is a new overlord.

Contrast this with a society in which investment was public and the workplace was democratic. Obviously it wouldn't be perfect, but it would be a substantial improvement on the current state of affairs in terms of overlords or the absence thereof.
This is also a shocking claim to make without providing evidence.
I'm not an expert in this, but having said that:

The selective pressure would typically not be completely absent, but hampered enough that the game can stay on much longer than usual.
Conditions like that could be imagined to set up continued high copy numbers of virus, alongside a fierce internal competition for infection. The clone will get opportunity to diversify much more due to the long infection, so there is more of a chance for novel alleles to arise and compete against their ancestral form.

And a weakened immune system gives more leeway for incremental improvement of marginal advantages. Somewhat allegorically, a new slight advantage escaping antibodies is worth nothing in context if every extra virion who escapes falls to phagocytes and cytotoxic T-cells. But if the other components are weakened, the selection pressure is unmasked. (At least it seems to me that should be the case in theory, I'm not sure if the effect is strong enough to be very important in practice in this context).

> We know that B.1.1.529 is not a “Delta plus” variant. The figure below shows a really long line, with no previous Delta ancestors. So this likely means it mutated over time in one, likely immunocompromised, individual (see my P.S. note at the end of the post).

This really stood out to catch my attention and imagination too.

With "immunocompromised" and Sub-Saharan Africa juxtaposed, it's hard not to think HIV. If (when, really) they co-infect, SARS-CoV-2 would be working in the context of HIV reverse transcriptase, and that could potentially mean going from RNA to DNA (possibly with incorporation into host DNA) and then back again by route of regular transcription. No big stretch if that would mess with copying fidelity and introduce lots of new opportunities to pick up new sequences and corresponding abilities.
It's true that the tech revolution would not have happened if all code had to be written in assembly. And it's true the machine learning revolution would not have happened if all code had to be written in C.

Is Python better than assembly and C/C++ for ML? Absolutely. Is Python good? I don't think so. Other people might use that term, I do not. I think Python is a bad language that would be designed very differently it was built today. And we're stuck with its decisions because the inertia to change them is monumental.

It's not really the language's fault. As an industry we've learned a lot in the past 30 years! It would be a travesty if we hadn't made language design process! Unfortunately we haven't figured out how to effectively apply lessons to encumbered ecosystems. Case in point: the transition from Python 2 to Python 3 was an absolute disaster. And it only made tiny, incremental improvements!
They started feeling the squeeze from Cloudflare weren’t they?
I haven't wasted a year of my life. I've slightly modified my behaviour. I've done some things less and other things more.
Weird - or, oddly, not surprising - that no one seems to be using these tools
Internet Explorer was briefly available for Solaris and HPUX. Word 3 was available for Xenix (text-based) and Word 5 was available for Xenix/SCO Unix (GUI).
How did we ever make it from Australopithecus to the Enlightenment without brightly colored nursery toys? After raising kids and weathering the fears of suboptimality, color me skeptical that it makes much difference. Having parents that are over-attuned to social media trends might, but before social media there were plenty of other trend drivers.

What astounds me is that beige might be a trend. It’s the definition of boring and lacking in imagination. In some circles it’s slang for exactly those.
Maybe I'm not understanding, but I don't see traffic moving backwards in that example.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/opinion/coronavirus-airbo...

In hindsight, the washing was overreaction, but you do have to realize there wasn't enough knowledge in the beginning, and people were assuming the virus was like the influenza virus, and we usually (at least the common wisdom was) catch influenza through touching snot-laden surfaces. It didn't help when China was saying things like they found some viruses on surfaces after 3 days. Sure, but how much virus, i.e. would they be enough to make you sick? The lack of information also made the virus like a super monster, where any trace of it could be deadly...

Now that we've figured out the virus is airborne, I'm a bit disappointed that governments haven't focused on good ventilation, but still on disinfecting and keeping distance. Where I live the bus can be full of people but it seems the governments are saying "It'll be fine to sit so close to each other if you have a mask on", and people also don't know any better...
I don’t agree with all you write but I will say I have been thinking about building a solar LED green house with battery pack to run it winter or at night. In summer just run it off the sun but as winter approaches fire up a LED grow light for extra light hours. Then I could cut my cost of food a lot but most importantly be resilient to supply chain disruptions.
> If only there was a super cheap, safe, effective and instant medical treatment that could prevent obesity or at least its negative health effects.

It's called "don't overeat" and it's cheaper than the alternative. Virtually all massively obese people eat massive portions compared to the rest of us. They always have inane excuses about "glandular problems" and "genetics" but I've seen how they eat and I believe what my eyes tell me more than I believe the claims the fatties make about themselves. I've seen people wolf down five potatoes worth of mashed potatoes "as a snack" then tell me they eat normal portion sizes. Bullshit!
Wikipedia is considering memory holing communism's past
The research indicates that shopping carts with parallel handles (i.e., like a wheelbarrow or “walker”) would increase purchasing with 25% compared to traditional shopping carts.
I've been using FP strategies for around thirty years, so pardon me if I don't find confidence in your perspective.
opening salvo is pretty solid on it's own:

> The work of experimental game theorists has perhaps been the most influential in showing that people do not maximize expected utility, in any plausible sense of the terms “maximize,” “expected,” or “utility.” The evidence is so overwhelming and incontrovertible that, by the time one gets to the end of a book like Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational,1 it begins to feel like piling on. The suggestion is pretty clear: not only are people not as rational as decision and game theorists have traditionally taken them to be, they are not even as rational as they themselves take themselves to be.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-variants-ma...
Why do you store so much redundant data? Aren’t the additional TBs in the ‘Original size’ duplicates? Or does dedup add some kind of magic compression sauce also?
The UK Will Finally Officially Recognize Octopuses and Crabs as Sentient Beings
That is because the west coast is closer to Asia where lot of stuff is made these days.
> Python is popular because of the ML revolution.

Python was popular, including for scientific use, before the ML revolution; in fact, the only reason it is associated with the ML revolution in the first place is it's preexisting broad adoption in scientific computing.
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Not OP but two main things:

1. Access control - you can create new SQL accounts and only give them access to select from specified views

2. Encapsulation and implementation hiding - the underlying table structure can change as long as the views exposed doesn't change.

At least that's all I know. I'm sure people will add or correct when they read this.
It is true that the variant has major escape mutations on the relevant epitopes (the antibody target).

But this does not mean that it will completely escape the polyclonal antibodies created by illness/vaccine. And also keep in mind that there are T-cells, which are more robust to virus mutation.