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Ohh, he is literally talking about a USB-c port on the back of the graphics card. That port isn't Thunderbolt, nor has it ever been advertised as such. It's a weird port meant for Virtual Reality....so yea not sure what to say about that.
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and then the blog proceed to write some political article called "gift economy" even though it promises to not be political.
Amplifying information over 2.3 fold is clearly immoral and should be illegal. It's double plus bad. Straight to jail/re-education. Credit score to 0.
I think one thing it can do is allow you to view things with fewer of the biases, assumptions and other mental stuff you've accumulated over the years. Having a fresh (childlike?) view of things can give you a newfound appreciation for many things (e.g. the environment).

> You know you're taking a drug that reliably induces feelings of "oceanic connectedness". Why should you change your worldview as a result?

Isn't that a little bit like saying that you shouldn't change your views after reading a book, if you are aware that the book commonly changes views?
> today: the Amazon shopping experience is so filled with bullshit that it’s actually easier to buy from the producer’s website and pay shipping

This is where I'm at. I only order products from Amazon that are sold by Amazon. Pretty much any legit third party seller will have their own website I can order from.

I still read reviews on Amazon before ordering elsewhere, although they've banned me from leaving reviews and wiped all my past ones for no discernible reason. I guess I left a review on some product that had a lot of fake reviews and I got caught in the crossfire.
Isn't it a little suspicious that they claim more of their existing vaccine will protect that well against the new variant?

I don't want to question the rigour of their scientific testing, but it might be good to have independent tests done. Of course in parallel to giving out more booster shots, which can only help (by an unknown amount).
Frankly, I hoped for years for things to be other way around with AWS to take DocumentDB Open Source and keep hosted version on steroids powered by Aurora PostgreSQL.

Having said that I think there is a lot of value in FerretDB for Cloud vendors which will be able to use this project to offer MongoDB Compatible DBaaS experience
There are plenty of threats to the vulnerable in the world. Should we therefore impose coercive blanket policies on everyone and across the board under the pretext of "compassion"? Is collateral damage unimportant?
I'm constantly shocked at how myopic and self-centered people are when responding to comments like this.

There are other ways that this virus impacts us all beyond just transmission. It's not all about you and your "plan" to deal with it if you get it.

For instance, it's impacting people that need medical attention unrelated to COVID. It's impacting the lives of those left behind trying to piece together the assets and debts (ICU!) of those that died from COVID without a trust or will. It's impacting those that now have to attend a large gathering to celebrate someone's life. It's pushing doctors, nurses, etc that are directly exposed to this madness to their limits, thus impacting quality of healthcare for the rest of us. It's driving up the cost of healthcare for us all. I could go on.
Fun little critters. They're cute, but stink even with their scent glands removed. Vicious even when domesticated, too. Our 60lb Rhodesian Ridgeback cross was scared of ours, while it tried to "play" with her. Bloodthirsty. One day my brother's pet ferret escaped from the house and went over to the neighbours garage and killed 8 or 9 kittens with a bite to the back of the neck and then just left them. Eventually it escaped one last time... when an owl caught it. Cycle of life.

How's that for off topic?!
"supplanted by" or "attributed to?"

There's always some reason to criticize other's behavior as bad, for them or society or whatever. There's always the problem of "you don't see the value the behavior gives me the same way I do."

Even if the effects are legitimately objectively bad for someone, was the cause really "internet addiction?" Or was that merely a convenient label to apply or even a pet cause that could be furthered by latching on to a new fad? The folks who were worst affected by "internet addiction" in 96 were not likely to have been pursuing wildly different lifestyles without it.
>>> web-based emulator is intended for computer graphics education

Vulkan ShaderToy in the browser! This is huge. ShaderToy is used everywhere. And a LOT of people are struggling with getting great ray tracing results.

Have you tried porting the NVPro samples?

https://github.com/nvpro-samples/build_all
Boosting with the original vaccine was effective for delta.
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So I'll sketch a caricature answer.

let's say the patent is released, and a year later every household in the world is thrilled to have black morels every night for dinner, for free, out of their DIY morel cultivation box, and nobody anywhere in the world can ever sell a morel to anyone else again.

Have "the taxpayers" seen benefit from this? In terms of currency return on investment, no. But in terms of access to a desirable commodity, heck yes. How much value have they seen? Something like 365 times the price of a meal's worth of mushrooms.

The best government research generates benefits this broad.
Those are all socially constructed to a degree, though.

When I was growing up in the 90s, my strong preference for online communication prevented me from making/doing some connections that were, at the time, considered mandatory: It was thought that there was no way I would meet a mate or land/keep a job if I spent my time online instead of partaking in a more 'acceptable' activity.

Such harm can also vary based on the person and their place in society. I'm female and one reason my time online was so disparaged was that it 'wasn't useful' and my interest in/passion for web development was seen as WRONG and a sign of possible sexual deviancy (I AM a lesbian...). I was also gently guided towards being a librarian because that was an 'acceptable' career for a smart girl who liked reading, and reading was an 'acceptable' odd pastime for a girl as opposed to my other obsessions (Tech! Building! Math!).

Some problems are socially constructed.
Given how sick the second dose made me, I'm not keen on doing this every 6 months. Not keen.
Different light wavelengths may penetrate a given material to different degrees. We'd need to know the relative differences in those rates between UV & blue spectrums in order to evaluate whether a typical t-shirt would negate the effects observed in this study.
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Rust also has the vocabulary types required for interoperability, such as Future and Waker.
Or what exactly make C++ more interoperable?
I think this is a good step forward that generalizes an algorithm to play both perfect and imperfect information games. However, table 9 shows (I believe it shows, it is not the most intuitive form), that other AIs (Deepstack, ReBeL, and Supremus) eat its lunch at poker. It also performs worse than AlphaZero at perfect information games. So, while a nice generalizing framework, probably will not be what you use in practice.
>Do you really want to roll the dice on an infection and long term consequences including permanent loss of smell (and taste)?"

Do I want to roll the dice on taking constant boosters from a vaccine that caused me nasty side effects? For a disease that I have a .0007% chance of dying from and most likely getting mild cold symptoms?(probably even less since I'm not obese or morbidly ill already). Give me a percentage on how many people have had "long-term" loss of smell and taste.

>The risk from the third shot is essentially immaterial to a healthy adult.

What age and what sex? This idea that there's no risk to healthy individuals taking the vaccine is pure bullshit. Besides it's typically the unhealthy that need vaccination for this disease.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8270733/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8416687/

I'm fascinated by this weird trend towards authoritarianism when someone else not getting vaccinated is zero threat to you. The only logical explanation for this is perhaps fear of hospital burden but right now there's still plenty of room https://protect-public.hhs.gov/pages/hospital-utilization. However, if you believe this is an issue I would ask why the hospitals keep filling up when our high risk population almost 90% vaccinated....

https://data.cdc.gov/Vaccinations/COVID-19-Vaccination-and-C...
Also Ferrets are smart and nimble and make great pets :)
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Maybe our past definitions of professional and social effort were arbitrary.

Point to a past social meme or industrial behavior that’s stood the test of time.

“Past worked like X so future must too.” is not a reasonable or rational position to hold given the evidence it will just change.
This becomes especially true as the price for something goes up. The manufacturer is sometimes much cheaper.

Random example I bought a few weeks ago, a dive light:

Amazon, $80: https://smile.amazon.com/DL07-Flashlight-Underwater-Recharge...

Manufacturer, $55 (free shipping too): https://wurkkos.com/products/wurkkos-dl07-mulit-color-led-fl...

I still buy a lot of items from Amazon, but at this point I always check other sources for products >$50.

I have noticed a massive uptick in sponsored listings, which are rarely what I want. The utility of basic search is dramatically worse than it was a few years ago. Can anyone recommend an adblocking browser extension that kills off sponsored listings?
Is that because it's closer to the skin, or changes the refractive properties? (or both?)
I was not vaccinated because I am concerned about the effects of the spike protein on the brain. An early study showed significant damage to the blood brain barrier.[1] A more recent study shows the vaccine actually suppresses the immune system in certain individuals.[2] Natural immunity is far more robust and is long lasting whereas the vaccine has proven to wane in effectiveness over the course of a few months.[3]

Your side downplays the risk of mRNA technology when the long-term risks are in fact unknown. You also tend to ignore that there are more viable options than simply taking the vaccine or being permanently debilitated. Pfizer and Merck have an effective treatment right around the corner.

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201029141941.h...

[2] https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/232396/immune-imprinting-cau...

[3] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...
Yeah, they definitely are. Though they're still not cooperative enough to make it so NVIDIA hardware has a good basic level of performance with the OSS drivers. :(

While this Change currently describes the effort for GNOME, KDE Plasma is likely to also be ready for Fedora Linux 36 for this. There a couple of other blockers to deal with, but hopefully those are squared away in time...
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My favorite is Eschatologist (temporary name) lolololol
yes, but that makes a very big difference for the usability for cyber mobbing, extortion and similar.
This is not necessarily true because wealth parked in such a manner doesn’t enter the economy.

We have a general problem in that people do not consume enough to grow our economy. Now, endlessly increasing consumption sounds bad, but it’s basically required for the economy to keep growing in real terms, since it’s the main component of GDP. Most wealthy people, not even billionaires but lots of run-of-the-mill hundred-thousandaires and petit millionaires, save a lot of their money including their ROI, or at the very least spend money less quickly than they make it.

If people spent money more or said “enough” earlier in their wealth accumulation journey, asset prices would be lower and the economy would be bigger. This is good in a lot of ways because capital goods like land really ought to be inexpensive to allow the economy to grow. Same with stocks. Assuming a constant risk-free rate of return (ie treasuries) it’s actually better for equities to have a lower P/E ratio - it’s cheaper to purchase cash flow.

I think this general lack of propensity to spend, or basically hoarding, is caused by our perpetually low interest rates and also general government policy that is leading to inflated asset prices. But there is also a cultural aspect to it though. There are a lot of “middle class millionaires” these days with $10m+ fortunes who basically don’t spend it. It’s their right to do so, but it’s stifling growth for the reasons I’ve outlined
I just went eight years without seeing sunlight. I keep wondering what the effects are.
Were there any major disruptions during Black Friday? Seems like a pretty momentous weekend for reliability engineers.
Ahem https://codecs.raspberrypi.com/mpeg-2-license-key/
General Mills had studies showing sugary cereals are a part of a healthy diet.
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How long does it take to ramp up production? I'm at 6 months and a few days since my 2nd shot. Do I get a booster now or wait a few months in hope of an updated one?
What do you mean by complete? A couple months ago 2 vaccinations was "complete".
Modern Nvidia cards detect you're trying to mine for cryptos, and artificially limit the performance of the silicon.

It's the opposite of being capable - it's silicon that refuses to play to it's full capacity lest you buy an additional license.
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> "we told you it would be immunization, but actually it's partial and limited, and you have to do it again. Woops, now again"

This is often portrayed as something people say, do they actually? Because that's exactly how it works with e.g. the flu. It's called yearly flu shot for a reason... 'cause it's yearly.

[x] Usually occurs in waves during winter
[x] Vaccine is effective for around 4-6 months
[x] Vaccine does not confer sterile immunity
[x] Transmitted through air
[x] Transmitted especially in crowds and enclosed rooms
[x] Masks work
[x] Infects respiratory tract but
can cause severe auto-immune inflammation afterwards
[x] Can cause long-term respiratory issues
[x] Many people do OK being infected, but long tail of death
You might want to offer this as a theme package for Mediawiki, so it can work on any browser on any mediawiki installation.
same here - used to buy everything I could from amazon, without really checking the price (they were always generally lowest price or close to it especially if you factor in the free and quick shipping and previously not having to pay sales tax).

Now I search on amazon, then do my best to find it somewhere else for cheaper or about the same price - just the same way I do when I search for hotels on expedia or kayak, but always book direct.

Not helping AMZN either is the fact that it seems like they have pretty much given up on rapid shipping - especially where I live - two days (with prime) used to be standard - now It is more like 5-6 days for most things - even with prime. Seems a bit bait-and-switch on the supposed promise of two day shipping.
So you're just talking about buying stock/assets then? I don't know what other financial products you mean.

>Buying stock in an IPO in a multinational corporation based in Taxhavenlandia would be one example.

Even if this were the case, the only bad part would be evading taxes. To generate a profit, it still has to be an investment in a profitable venture, which increases overall economic productivity. (I also don't think there's any indication that this happens on a large scale, otherwise the stock index of any such Taxhavenlandia should show this)
> the absolute number of infected individuals in the Vaccinated (boosted) group is likely to be at least as high as in the Unvaccinated

But if the vaccinated represent a much larger share of the population, the same absolute number represents a much smaller proportion who become infected.
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Agreed and, fundamentally, why not just ssh -L?
> Delta now, which the original jab wasn't designed for.

Current vaccines have still been "highly effective" against Delta, so I think that's why this hasn't been done: there's no point in using the big guns now when the existing weapon works well, and you might really need the big gun soon (and you can't know when).

So it's better to keep it in reserve. The question now is, is Omicron "it" ?
It's a "you probably never worked in a corporation" type of thing. Someone is trained to write things like this, and it's impossible for that person to do it differently, plus no one is in a position/capacity/incentive to affect that.
Hospitalization and death numbers are definitely directly connected to how long its been since you got your shot. So for now, it does not seem like the whole long immunity/T-B-cell thing is happening with Pfizer/Moderna/J&J at least

There is a very real per month affect, every month after your latest mRNA shot, your chances of getting seriously sick get a little bigger. After 6 months they get so big that scientists concluded its time for a booster. Now we wait and see, but so far things seem to be trending in the same direction, in Israel at least (so, no Moderna or J&J). Its not that we are only measuring titers. Its that vaccinated people are suddenly dying. So there seems to be no or very low memory to making more titers

Then, people get a booster, and boom, 90% lower chance of death again with high titers

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2114228

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm0620

The veteran research which had 800,000 participants showed terrible long term results for J&J
This is exactly why we considered the name after all.
My take is simple - DBaaS is the leading way databases are going to be confused in the future and SSPL ensures MongoDB is akin Proprietary Databases in this deployment mode - same as with Oracle while other cloud vendors can offer MongoDB they have to do it under the thumb of MongoDB Inc

Open Source is on other hand ensures you have choice of vendors
It does work if you rely on actual relevant data. Disparity is a terrible measure, especially when you consolidate the entire world into one pot. China has higher taxes than the US, and far worse inequality as well as far lower median incomes.

Europe has substantially higher taxes and cost-of-living than the US, but lower median, PPP-adjusted median, and median post-tax post-government-transfer disposable incomes than the US.

When you compare countries by their tax rate compared to what the average (median) citizen ends up with, it does not seem to be the case that higher taxes result in greater personal financial security. Frankly, whether lower taxes results in more billionaires is irrelevant to the question of whether it increases the quality-of-life or economic security of your average person.

Imagine pointing at one of the richest societies to ever exist (across all quartiles) as an example of how bad its economic policy is.
Not to mention when you finally do buy something they'll use the worst dark patterns to autoenroll you into a monthly prime subscription.

I'm usually good at finding the opt out link but had no luck with this. Surprised it's legal to be honest.
I tried to open an account a while back as there were a lot of coders on Twitter that I wanted to follow. I almost immediately shut the account down due to 1) the utterly broken search and 2) the sheer number of 'suggested' accounts or trends to follow.

Even if you aren't concerned about issues that this account brings up it is a miserable user experience.
It works for applications, not the entire desktop. Depending on what the person needs, it may or may not work.

There are remote Wayland options, though. I think Waypipe (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe) is one?
Sure, but I'm willing to bet most of the hospitalised are not vaccinated, or at least a disproportionate amount of them aren't vaccinated
Get a booster when you can, it is worth it.

I had mine last week.

We don't know if and when there will be an omicron-specific jab, and a mRNA 3rd dose cuts your chances of bad outcome (severe illness, hospitalisation) from omicron or previous variants to a lot lower than 2 doses ever did.

https://twitter.com/PaulMainwood/status/1458020957457731585

https://twitter.com/PaulMainwood/status/1460191035531878405
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> Jevons observed that England's consumption of coal soared after James Watt introduced the Watt steam engine, which greatly improved the efficiency of the coal-fired steam engine from Thomas Newcomen's earlier design.

This is good, I believe efficient use of resources is key to a better standard of living.

But all externalities should be priced-in: the cost of pollution should be paid to the people suffering from it.
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As someone who has quite some experience in running operations based on data, numbers and metrics the German approach to COVID on that front alone really puzzled me from the beginning. First the incidence of 50 that they pulled out of their ass for contact tracing, which was ignored basically the next day. Then the fact that resources weren't really increased to improve contract traceability. Then the decision to use a backward looking KPI, ICU occupation, to tackle a highly dynamic situation. Which also meant to ignore the incidence, the only real predictive metric we have. And it is good at predicting ICU occupation and severe cases when combined with vaccination levels.

That's simply amateurish, and means all measures, not all of which are bad, are usually a couple of weeks late. Even better, the 7-day average incidence is based on the daily numbers. Those numbers are, what a surprise, limited to the testing capacities of laboratories, so the incidence is reported based on the day the test was analyzed, not when the sample was taken. This flattens the 7-day average curve. Well, until the new numbers are reported once labs git through their backlog. Thing is, the 7-day average is not changed once published. Again just amateurish.
The current work

https://proceedings.mlsys.org/paper/2021/hash/3636638817772e...

seems mostly about tuning the original idea instead of expanding its scope. But it's still a neat idea. I guess it could be possible to adpt many of the approximations used in the SLIDE idea to GPUs too though...