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This post is an up/downvote rollercoaster but I can't readily identify the reason. I am curious to hear feedback on where I'm right or wrong, so do share please. (PM is also fine, contact in profile.)
Covid is not just like the flu, yes. If you have no immunity covid is about 10x more likely to kill you. But, once you're vaccinated, the risk from covid is lower than the flu.
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> No one said you can overdraw your account

False: The qz article I'm responding to says this.

"When you pull cash from an ATM or swipe your card at the coffee shop, the machine needs to determine the precise time that the transaction occurs to, for example, prevent it from being over-drawn."

Please please explain how this "over-drawn" situation occurs because of a GPS satellite.

> but if the clock is off on them vs the server they will fail, I have worked on a lot of payment systems.

False, CC terminal clocks do not need to be GPS time accurate. When the terminal connects to authenticate, they can update their time. There can be issues with authentication if clock skew is bad, but this requires normal levels of time sync (ie, NTP without GPS will be fine).
There is a great example of "permissionless, money-based iteration": the Kmart/Sears under Lampert. Here is a good story [0], some quotes:

> In 2008, he split the company into 30 divisions—which swelled to 40 a year later—each of which reported profits separately and had to compete with the others for resources.

> Divisions found themselves acting like separate companies, even drawing up contracts with each other.

As a result, the Kmart employees started to compete with each other instead of helping each other, and the whole thing went bankrupt.

This DAO design does not have direct "complete for resources" part, but it'll still be present -- there are only so many developers who buy into this "permissionless work" stuff, and only so many users willing to constantly switch software version. So visible and flashy features will be prioritized, and small increases in stability will go un-noticed, and as a result the thing will just turn so buggy everyone will flee it.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/news/downfall-of-sears/
Diet and exercise will work much better to prevent obesity than any medicine on market. It is just that long-term adherence to these things is very much determined by culture and will be much harder for Americans compared to Japanese, for example.

There are new discoveries in diabetes medicines recently but again, you will do much better by not getting diabetes in the first place.

The same goes for smoking which can cause, for example, lung cancer. Roughly speaking, once you get diagnosed with lung cancer you only have 40% chance living more than 1 year. Costly novel medicines often prolong the life by few months only.

We really need better health economy education for everyone.
You might enjoy this video: Making Fake Directions & Hiring Someone to Build my IKEA Furniture

https://youtu.be/5_FCKzhN_dY?t=334

They make instructions in the style you described that are thoroughly ridiculous and hired people to follow them.
To get around the obstacles most kids will need a very motivated parent who can advocate for them with admins, and that basically will just harm kids who's parents don't have the time/resources/charisma to make it happen for their kid.
Yep, a number of people are, myself included. OSDev channels have a few people who talk about it. The Fuchsia folks are around, too, and are quite friendly people. They probably have the most hopeful chance of a widespread release, though admittedly I worry about the affiliation with Google getting in the way of pro-consumerism. Just my opinion though.
I really hope this backfires spectacularly on YouTube and the zealots who pushed for this change are held professionally accountable. I already click on fewer videos in search results and recommendations because I can no longer gauge how worthwhile they are to try and watch.

The end result? I'm sticking to my current channels. I can't be alone and knowing that YouTube takes recommended content so seriously, I have to imagine this is going to panic plenty of product managers at YouTube.
The material quality of the competitors has certainly improved! We bought some knockoffs while living in China that were pretty darn good. We learned which were better than others for sure.
Agree, the use of the colour black is also racist too
what? I said as I understand it the study is MODELLING infections and it's not studying actual infection events; this is something that's even somewhat admitted in the article itself, my point though was that looking at the case graphs it wasn't obvious in the first wave that the addition of masks had such a dramatic effect that you would expect from the figures given in the article

what the article says and what I'm also saying is that there is a difference between mask types, and I was ASKING if what the article calls a "medical" mask is, in fact, the surgical mask people commonly wear

anyway, the main discussion I wanted to have is how long are we to expect to live like this, granted the effects of masks so dramatic, because, in case you haven't noticed, Covid ain't going away, ever
Is this game good? I've resisted installing Epic Store so far, but this looks pretty neat. Does it feel Zachtronics-y? If so, I'll probably pull the trigger.
There is this really beautiful algorithm implemented behind really oldschool JS that I have seen used a couple times: WebGME. https://github.com/webgme/webgme

It is a Model-Based-Systems-Engineering tool, as far as I can tell, and it lets you create "metamodels" (SysML diagrams / rules essentially) and then collaboratively author some model graph, giving you a "commit" for every action, a version history, a git-like branching and merging model, and more.

The collaborative aspect is pretty strong in their own UI, I've tried to build my own and couldn't get it as easily, but I guess my question is: has anyone ever used this tool as well?
So much hate. Whether or not it has legs, it's an interesting proof of concept. Reminds me of the early days of internet where people weren't afraid to explore crazy ideas.
If you're trying to use something like Privacy.com, it's probably because you don't want to have your details shared with others. Using PayPal is not going to to that.
A commenter on Ars who doesn't work at SpinLaunch but knows someone who does made some insightful comments last month after the release of the launch video:

https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1480509&p=...
(The classic flamewar topic I was referring to is the U.S. healthcare system)
Man, I can't wait for something like e-ink to become usable as an actual 120Hz monitor. I've been sitting in front of shitty screens my entire life. Give display that do not shine and you could play games on.

Won't happen in my life though
Recombination can explain #2 pretty easily.

Chronic infection produced many mutations, it also did that across many HIV infected individuals in South Africa.

Those infections mutated via natural selection to avoid in-host immune responses and actually transmit poorly in the population.

One of these chronically infected individuals recently came into contact with someone else that was recently infected with circulating virus.

The doubly infected individual allowed Omicron to mutate via recombination and pick up mutations that allow it to spread better and so it took off.

This is also more or less how animal spillback would happen as well. The animal type should be better animal-adapted and not better human-adapted. You probably need a recombination event to spill it back effectively.
I have a bit unrelated question: is there a way to calculate a package set with minimal version numbers that fulfills pip requirements. I guess an audit would somehow need to do this to make sure no unsecure packages are deployed as part of the transitive dependencies. I would just like to use this to make sure that the minimal version numbers actually work as part of a CI run and nobody accidentally used too new features.
Think about the chef who has cooked 5000 lobsters in his career, are you really sure that you (a policy maker) want to micromanage that guy and tell him how to do his job? Don't let your moral crusading get in the way of people who are just trying to eat.
>except for

Ok, so you don't have free speech.
>they saw the list and were left with the suspicion that those on it had been singled out with racist intent.

They aren't wrong. Earnest had no business remarking on students' appearance in or how they express feelings in Theater.
Illustrator is, but I don't think Inkscape is. I haven't been able to find any real information about Inkscape adoption rates, but I participate in several vector forums and Inkscape only ever comes up in terms of amateur illustration.

I would love to be wrong about this.

Figma and Adobe Xd are pretty popular, as is Affinity Designer. Microsoft Visio is popular in certain contexts, and InVision Studio is also popular.
Never seen it before, looks interesting. I'd rather spend $12 than install the Epic launcher, it's on GOG and Steam too.
Yes that is the case with us as well.
> For many teaching is just a steady paycheck and generous time off.

A tiny paycheck and... I'm sorry, I have no idea how to read "generous" time off; are you referring to summers when they don't get paid, or something else? My impression is that most teachers are working significantly over 40h/wk and either don't know that they're victims of wage theft or somehow don't care.
I think it's fair that being the one remote member on a team is difficult. But especially going forward I don't expect that to be the norm. And in practice I'm generally communicating with people in a lot of different locations anyway.
Remember that other part about... what did PP say? A member / part of the state?

That's not about privacy.
You really don't understand the split then, huh?

Break the law, but don't harm anyone = Chaotic.

Help people (be a medic) = Good.

I mean, just because you don't like someone doesn't make them bad.
i think it's more that knockoffs are catching up. i certainly dont feel that my newer lego is any worse than before. i suppose you could say newer specialized pieces are inherently more fragile? i wouldnt make that argument myself though.
If you're going to go this route, just pirate it. The game is good, definitely deserves the price.
Introduction to Rails Event Store
Such a cringe headline.
You really don't understand the split then, huh?
Break the law, but don't harm anyone = Chaotic.

Help people (be a medic) = Good.

I mean, just because you don't like someone doesn't make them bad.
I think it does make a difference. Its a small one, but one that hits home. After all, when you see those videos online of the Biden admin with 1000s of dislikes...don't you feel that there is a segment of people out there that don't go along with the cultural zeitgeist of the internet? That maybe left-wing opinions (although dominant on the internet) may have some push back in the real world? When you lose that ability to voice opposition you get something not exactly dystopian but something marching closer to it.
I am advancing this even further and going to call out creating pure breeds for no reason is an animal racism.
...of some people but not the recommendations?
Not really. It's mostly a clown show orchestrated by old people that have never touched a computer and still think the internet is a new thing in 2021. Sometimes by pure chance something good happens, but is then soon attacked again. Examples: The Vorratsdatenspeicherung (metadata surveilance) is suggested again and again but then gets shut down by some court. Only to be revived again when Football distracts the masses. The Hackerparagraf puts you at legal risk working or developing exploits, upload filters supposedly check everything you upload for copyright infringement, Leistungsschutzrecht tries to keep obsolete paper based business models alive. There are public projects that tried to use 5 blockchains and other embarassing nonsense. It's tiring.
To be accurate, there are no COVID vaccines by the official definition. There is only pharmaceuticals being labeled as vaccines.

Real vaccines induce immunity.
Not going solo earlier. I earn more, work less and no one bats an eye if I change assignments every 6 months.
Looks like it's available via steam paid, maybe I'll just buy it.
I think invoking literate programming is spot on.

One of the keys there is that it lets you discuss additions to previous parts of the code really well. Something that no other style really does.

And is one of the things that makes "readable" code so hard. We want a view of the code that acts as a parts list and as a narrative all in one.
I feel like people who make comments like this have only experienced NYC/SF and the deep suburbs of those areas.

There are so many places around the world where you can live in a slightly smaller urban area, live down town, walk to everything, typically have a stronger local community and pay a fraction of what you do in a large metro for a bigger apartment.

I completely understand not wanting to move from a place with easy, walkable access to food + grocery + bar + etc, but there are a huge range of options for cities that you can easily afford a 2+ bedroom and be part of an active down town area.
Sorry, but you're resorting to word salad here. "The welfare of the dogs placed in it's [sic] care" is not at issue, as I'll demonstrate:

Let's say a highly desirable dog, say a beautiful young Golden Retriever, is brought to the shelter, and further, let's suppose the shelter euthanizes all dogs after two weeks.

Normally, a member of the public would adopt this dog within a day or less. They're a very popular breed. How is "the welfare of the dogs placed in its care" enhanced by the Golden Rescue group taking it and deciding for themselves who should have it? (If the foster person doesn't keep it for themselves, which often happens.)

Let's say the shelter has an agreement with them: "if a Golden is slated for euthanasia within two days, you may take it." That seems fair to me.

So the only argument you're left with is "the Rescue group will do a better job of choosing its home." Not proven and doubtful, sorry. Those people are volunteers with no training and no accountability. The shelter is going to be at least as good.
What about the kids who can afford to pay for top tier college consultants and tutors to maximize their standardized test scores? Doesn’t that also exacerbate inequity?
There are some technical objections to the design of flakes, but the controversy in the community is primarily social imo.

The reading I'd recommend as someone sympathetic to both 'sides' isn't really a technical comparison, but this: https://grahamc.com/blog/flakes-are-an-obviously-good-thing

As far as technical pros and cons, it's worth looking at colemickens' PoC demonstrating that in principle, you can use Nix to generate literally identical output with and without flakes: https://github.com/colemickens/nixos-flake-example

> Both approaches

it's also worth noting that prior to flakes, there was no single alternative approach to the main problems flakes aims to solve. There were (and are) a whole bunch of competing and bespoke practices for pinning nixpkgs and other Nix sources. You can take a look at niv and nix-thunk to get a sense of them if you want
I struggle with any article that uses the word "never." We use black (or near to it #101010) on our mobile app. It's great for usability and makes select use of colors standout.
In Denmark there's Galleri Lego (an art gallery) named after the owner Louise Lego. LEGO sued her but the lawsuit went all the way to high court where she won the right to use the name. Presumably people don't easily confuse art with toys.

http://www.louiselego.dk/
sometimes a CEO is elected/employed only to execute these kinds of changes ...
Box Pointers in Rust make recursive types possible
Hmm. I like the explanation and I appreciate some of the concern.

I would personally argue its absence says more than its presence given race is used in other contexts you listed. You simply can't get away from it when discussing demographics, so I question a little your statement that the term is not used in biology or other sciences.

Could you share an example of a paper that follows that 'no race' ( "at all" ) approach? I may very well be wrong. I am pretty ancient.

<< This is questioned constantly, and is far from the standard or consensus opinion for human biology.

You clearly are more immersed in it than me. Could you elaborate a little bit and link to two recent opposing papers? Sorry for all the questions. I am genuinely curious now.
Atypical would probably be an understatement. I'm not an expert of the disease, but having it along with family members having it, there are many more symptoms that would have appeared by now.
I wonder if we swing back to the "Stiff Upper Lip" norm in a generation or two. Next generations will search for their own identity, distinct from their parents'. And if parents are seen as drama queens, the natural antipode is "IDGAF".

Even the 996 workplace culture in China produced the "lying flat" reaction.
> and this is someone working in the medical field

Well, yes, even a crackpot can claim to be working in the field.

This in no way supports your claim of “routine” cures through diet. There is no evidence that a fucking keto diet will cure cancer* and it doesn’t pass any sniff test as at the end of the day your body still runs on glucose. This is pretty much an insult to anyone not fortunate enough for their cancer to go spontaneously into remission - and looking at the loon you posted, both he and a family member had some amount of treatment before diet, confounding any claim that diet was responsible for remission.

* whether such a diet can have some survivability benefits or some better or worse outcome is an open question, which has nothing to do with your crackpot claims.
Let me guess: as long as there's key escrow or equivalent.
I volunteer to be the first person to ride this ride.
Carlsen's grind game is peerless.
It goes on sale for $5 pretty frequently as well.
Totally agree.

I consider views and functions to be my database’s API, and when using a wrapping tool (I’ve used Hasura) I get it to use only the views in a dedicated API schema rather than the tables directly.

In addition to coupling, you want control over what tables and fields you publish.

A simple view is literally one line of SQL; it’s hardly a burden.
Between 2 and 4 out of every hundred thousand people were getting sick from it, I don't know the exact maths but it seems believable that all of these statements are broadly true.
So if you want to kill a mentally ill person with their consent, that's also none of our business?

Like was this guy [1] right in what he did and his punishment was unfair?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes
Great article, OP!

>Could we do more to make programming an accessible activity to the 99% of people who don’t program, by putting greater emphasis on intuitive physical analogs?

I think this would have to be done carefully.

Being able to articulate your thoughts and compute without resorting to physical analogies can greatly reduce the processing load on your brain. This is partly due to the fact that analogies always come with a baggage of extra features that are unrelated to the concept you actually care about.

Perhaps a good way to overcome this would be to carefully pick a set of analogies for a concept,then identify what about these multiple analogies helps you understand it. It would also help you abstract away the additional semantic load that comes with the chosen physical analogies.

I am however, a strong believer in the power of metaphors to democratize complex craft.

Music composition per example, can be made more intuitive and accessible by thinking of sounds events in terms of their physical analogues. In the case of sounds however, the extra semantic fat may very well be marbling on wagyu beef.

In fact, it would help us think of musical composition in a more... compositional way, i.e. combination of parts with different semantic properties that when combined following certain rules, generate an expression with a particular meaning.
But you're not using black. So never is applying to you as well.
Defense industry is looking for new customers. Heard they have warlord week.
I went looking at the names because "manufactured outrage" connotes politics or culture war. It's the sort of accusation you'd expect to see if the list was full of names like Jordan Peterson. Instead I see Tao who on his blog comes across as apolitical, mild-mannered, even humble. Not the kind of guy who's into culture fights. Or Kay whose book recommendations had a kind of 60s lefty flavor, as far as any political leaning came across to me.

There's a bigger argument here, but I'm just addressing this one unmerited accusation in this thread.
False dichotomy. Systems of reasons affect decisions.

E.g. I'm willing to add a fully vaccinated office to my risk profile, but how do I get there? Even if I could trust everyone in the office was vaccinated (I can't), public transit was my only option before. Will the company send me a taxi with a vaccinated driver? Of course not.

Companies are asking people to take unnecessary risk for questionable speculative gain and burdening employees with figuring out (and paying for) how to do it safely.
> Technically, the activity of lumbering golems constructed by unthinking strands of DNA seeking to make copies of themselves, and if it weren't for that meddling virus...

This is frankly insanity. You can't think this right minded?
Did you watch the video? In what world did none of his pursuers not know he had just killed someone? And to be a pedant, he was only drawn on after the second murder, even though they were in close succession.

[0]Mr. Rittenhouse seems to make a phone call and then flees the scene. Several people chase him, some shouting, “That’s the shooter!”

As Mr. Rittenhouse is running, he trips and falls to the ground. He fires four shots as three people rush toward him. One person appears to be hit in the chest and falls to the ground. Another, who is carrying a handgun, is hit in the arm and runs away.

Mr. Rittenhouse’s gunfire is mixed in with the sound of at least 16 other gunshots that ring out during this time.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/us/kyle-rittenhouse-kenos...
Soy is exported at about 380 USD per ton, and yield is something like 3 tons per hectare.

I'm not sure how much the farmer doing the deforestation gets though. But deforesting the Amazon is sadly very cheap. Much cheaper than it should be given the value of the Amazon. It's a disastrous market failure.
Well done to Magnus. To Ian. To the commentators. This was an unbelievable 'play' in three acts. A game for the chess books. Great quality match so far and I hope Ian comes back from this blow and makes a fight of it. I believe he will.
Three problems (at least) with positivism:

1. Polanyi's criticism: Human observers are not objective. They start with their own biases. That means that any observations of events cannot be 100% trusted as a source of truth.

2. Francis Schaeffer's criticism: Within the structure of positivism, there is no way to know that what you observe is actually data. It has no basis for saying that it should be data.

3. Greg Koukl's criticism: Since positivism is a set of statements in epistemology, and not either direct observation or true by pure logic, positivism says that you can't know that positivism is true. It is self-inconsistent.

Positivism "alive" only by inertia. The position doesn't need to be "surpassed" by something, it only needs to be refuted in a way that can't really be answered - and it has been.

Anyway, none of that was my main point. My main point was that it's not positivism that is driving the closing of minds and narrowing of discourse on campuses.
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