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> Years ago when smart phones were just emerging, people made the same complaints about them too; saying you cannot walk and text at the same time

I'm still annoyed by this when texting while driving and having to look at the screen.

Downvote all you like, your moral judgement is not gonna change what I do.

I loved the T9 keyboard in my right hand and steering wheel in the left. I'm good at steering with my left knee (unless we're talking slow speeds and bendy road) so taking my hands off is not an issue - the issue is taking my eyes off the road, constantly switching between road/phone/road/phone, which is annoying as fuck.
> It is really hard to look at it and not see it as a physical manifestation of all that was wrong with Communism.

This strikes me as a limited way to perceive things. History is complex, and the conditions leading up to the construction of such buildings deserve a bit more consideration than "yup that communism sure was bad" by an American tourist.
> I would argue that outsourcing your email to Proton or Tutanota is not running your own "artisanal" email server.

That's not a claim I'm making. The goal of my message was merely to help people see that there are several steps you can take from using a gmail account to relying on no third party. When I talk to people, they often don't realize this, and especially, how easy it is to set up #1.

> No, having quality spam and fraud filtering, and quality security, that you host yourself, is by far the much harder problem.

Handling spam is not an easy problem, but it's one where you have all the cards to take actions. On the other hand, having your mail properly delivered is something where people have wildly different outcomes, and for people with bad outcomes it's "impossibly hard, and there's no action you can take about it, unless you personally know the right people at the right places".
Your wording (hyperfocus, sudden loss of interest, lots of projects) makes me think of a common symptom of ADHD; have you had a diagnosis before?
You miss the point. It is absolutely true that making a living by writing FOSS is really hard, but it's not just about money. Monetizing out of personal data and advertising has never been profitable like today; Open Source is the only defense against abuse in that context. Look at what many popular closed operating systems and products, hardware included, became in the last 10 years or less: they stopped being tools in the hands of the user to morph into business platforms that mine users' data and/or bomb them with advertising.
Many people probably would accept to live in a world in which every square meter is plastered with some ads and every move is analyzed to infer users habits and ultimately find what would be the easiest way to grab the most money from them, but I don't. All this privacy and security aside, which in some countries can make the difference between being poor and being poor and jailed or dead.
FOSS is the last line of defense against that kind of abuse, being a bit extremist when dealing with abuses is a sign that someone, somewhere, understood what is going on.

BTW: if making money with FOSS is hard, it's not FOSS fault, but rather it shows how badly our economic system has failed.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoactive_cactus
FPGAs Aren't Magic (2018)
Not sure what you meant by "Also, huh, that's constant movement you'd be getting rid of isn't it." this does not quite parse in the context or by itself. I suppose it's somehow related to navigation? Navigation is quite useful in other cars and it does not create constant high frequency motion in the cars I've seen.
Just fyi, Rider is quite good and very familiar to the IntelliJ dev if you ever have the need.
> If I had to share a lesson: don't invest too heavily in someone else's IP.

To extend this lesson: don't invest too heavily in someone else's API, either.

Wasted a lot of time learning that lesson.
The Iranian calendar defines its new year based on the exact moment of the northern equinox; if the equinox is before noon (Iran standard time, I believe) then the new year is on that day, while if it's after noon the new year is on the next day. As a bonus, the month lengths are designed to be longer near aphelion, when the corresponding solar months (periods between 30-degree solar longitudes) are longer.

The Chinese calendar is defined (since 1644) based on the days of true new moons and solar terms (corresponding to 15-degree solar longitudes), which also makes it purely astronomically defined.

The various Indian calendars are mostly defined using traditional astronomical texts, but I think there have been occasional attempts to update them to modern astronomical knowledge.

I'm not sure where the rate 0.003% of a day per year comes from in your comment; even the error in the Gregorian calendar is longer than this (if measured based on the northern equinox, about 12 seconds; if measured based on the mean tropical year, about 27 seconds).
>I wonder if people would be OK with less restrictions, no vaccine mandates but perma n95 in public indoor and outdoor spaces ?

The second and third most populous states in the nation have banned Covid restrictions. I think the answer to your question is… absolutely not.
The sheetrock probably helps prevent the quick spread of fire. So it's not exactly cardboard.
wget -S ?
> popping to the pub for lunch and meeting the locals, knocking on neighbour's doors to introduce yoursel

No one will talk to you in pub, "locals" are with their established friend group or at home. And knocking to introduce yourself is weird, and still people won't socialize with you because you knocked. They have own plans and ow isolated lifes
Solving an embedded mystery in ten easy steps (2017)
Nobody needs a Facebook account but there is a lot on there to like. Instagram has a tremendous amount of creativity and craft (and a bunch of butt shots), WhatsApp is a low cost way for billions of people to text, Facebook lets me keep updated on old friends and acquaintances. Overall I think I get positive value from it.
Who's the author for Immune? There seem to be quite a few books with that title.
Ew. How can there not be some better way to do it?
Ah.. OnePlus is a special kind of brand pulling an Apple move when it comes to charging.
Only their chargers will do fast charging. Nothing else. I've got an anker charger that supports 60w PD and QC, other brands of phones and devices quick charge no problem, but not my two OnePlus devices - 5 & 9 PRO

P.s over the years I have tested a handful of portable batteries and chargers from other vendors. Nothing seems to work.
I used to do this but switched to iCloud Beta for custom domain this year. It’s $1/month (free with any paid iCloud plan) and integrates with iPhones/Mac, supports push email for iPhone, and is free of Google spying.
I had the IP for probably five to seven years- but my outbound mail volume was less than ten emails a week. Which, of course, was tough to increase when delivery was poor - chicken and egg.

I monitored all the blacklists, filed ownership attestations with receiving domains, the whole nine yards. It’s sad that a microscopic MX server can’t be default trust instead of default spam for the first two messages a week.

(I want to repeat, this was a single user exclusively personal domain. Writing to a friend, to grandma, to a colleague)

I was probably in a bad ASN, but at that level trying to find a good block you’re just rolling dice. I wasn’t willing to play anymore.
The next incoming trend of startups is Buy Now, Pay later. A series of companies will offer you to keep your standard of living and assume you can pay it off at a later date.

Many will abuse these services assuming they can have their pre-Covid lifestyles and just “wait out” whatever recession.
You're committing the fallacy of gray ( https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dLJv2CoRCgeC2mPgj/the-fallac... ).

> The Sophisticate: “The world isn’t black and white. No one does pure good or pure bad. It’s all gray. Therefore, no one is better than anyone else.”

> The Zetet: “Knowing only gray, you conclude that all grays are the same shade. You mock the simplicity of the two-color view, yet you replace it with a one-color view ...”

> —Marc Stiegler, David’s Sling
I've used VSCode for Go and TypeScript/JavaScript for years. I recently tried switching to IDEA, and the difference is just stunning.

The Go support in VSCode relies on Gopls, which is a buggy mess. It frequently just stops working. It also lacks most refactorings (and no refactor preview). The Go debugger integration is okay, but Jetbrains' is miles better.

IDEA has tons of features that makes VSCode feels positively stone age:

* The "find/replace" across files has a result view with live editing.

* "Find implementations".

* Lightning fast search across many projects in one window.

* Symbol search, also lightning fast, across many projects.

* Extensive refactoring tools. Not just things like "extract method", but also linter-driven ones like removing an unused function argument, or fixing an identifier's spelling (updates all uses).

* Git support is tons better, including things like "Compare with..." allowing instant diffing against a branch or revision.

* Diff view is much nicer. It's also "live", like many things in IDEA; if you compare two files, the diff view updates when the files are change.

* GitHub integration where you can, for example, create, view, comment on, etc. pull requests within the IDE.

* Unlike VSCode, the experience out of the box is much more complete. I only had to install a few plugins (Prettier, my favourite colour theme, etc.).

I don't mind the extra gigs of RAM when the experience is so much better.

I don't like that it's not open source. But IDEA is a classic case of commercial software being vastly more mature than open source counterparts.
> Because whether we like it or not the virus is still going to be around and kill people and saturate hospitals.

Still be around and kill people? Sure, but that's true of the seasonal flu, and even the common cold in rare cases. Saturate hospitals? No.
If you like your job, there isn’t much reason to stop doing it as you age out, as long as your health holds out of course (and why retirement seems to cause death, they probably retired due to health reasons). But there are a few reasons retirements occur:

1. Not happy with career stuff at that point anyways, so why keep doing it? My dad liked his job but didn’t like where his job was (nuclear power is bad like that), so he retired a bit early.

2. Your niche ages out (eg a mainframe programmer before they were back in demand again).

3. You simply want to do something else.

4. You are in an industry that pushes out older workers regardless of their desire to keep working.
LOL. I just did eight years in jail because someone drafting a statute accidently switched an "and" and an "or" and it wasn't noticed for several years.
Lots can go wrong unpredictably or fail over time but that is not the same as the way a chemical battery degrades (roughly) linearly. If I let my car sit for 5 years my experience is you can’t really predict what needs to be relaced (besides wear items like tires, battery etc).
Well to be fair it was Diet (so not the load on the spleen that a sugar load would be) but alas, I could easily consume several cans per hour. One engineer at NetApp joked they knew how long the meeting I was attending was going to be by the number of cans I brought with me.

Not a regimen I recommend but as vices go it was relatively benign. A couple of years ago I stopped all consumption, and then when started dieting added a '1 per mile walked' incentive program for myself. Very effective at insuring I got all the walking in I needed to in order to hit my goals.
You should give the motherboard model. There usually are tweaks in the bios for charging that might need to be set.
Loss is hard. When we lose friends and love ones, we lose a part of ourselves that we can never get back. In the same way, though, we can take this time now to remember those who we have lost and the happy memories of them that we still have. We can recognize both the pain and the joy and know that this is truly what it means to be human.
I don't like newfangled syntactic constructs since they hide what is going on. :) The example in the article was a Point3D class and for that namedtuple is a good choice (points should be immutable). It's unlikely that you'd want to add fields without also making other backwards-incompatible changes.
> But it's not the same as it was for the first wave, the vaccines were very specifically developed and tested in that setting and every future mutation had a worse response, due to attenuation due to time and mismatch with the target.

Again this is just wrong.

If you've been vaccinated then you have B-cells that match Omicron, even though you weren't vaccinated with Omicron's spike.

Maybe my analogy didn't work, but you have a flawed understanding of the immune system.

As a concrete and well-studied example, the H1N1 strain of influenza stopped spreading in the human race in 1957. Nobody after that was exposed to it, everyone born before that was exposed going back to 1918. It was displaced by the H2N2 pandemic in 1957. It mutated in pigs for 50 years. Then it underwent triple recombination in 2009 and jumped back to humans -- with an H1 gene that was derived from the human strain and an avian N1 gene that hadn't ever been seen before.

The impact of that 2009 pandemic was considerably blunted by human cross reactive T-cell immunity in the older population who had seen the long-lost relative of H1 protein back before 1957. That 50 year old "pre-vaccination" did not wane and was cross reactive after 50 years of mutation and adaptation in pigs, and was still effective enough to protect against severe disease and death.

Nobody had immunity against infection of course, but that cross reactive immunity to H1N1 in all the older people helped to dramatically blunt the impact of the 2009 pandemic to the point where the human impact was lower than normal human influenza.

Cross-reactive B-cells and T-cells to future variants to SARS-CoV-2 are going to work the same way. Most of the epitopes will still be conserved and the T-cell reaction will be able to clear the disease and protect against severe disease and death.

You don't need reimmunization every time the virus mutates slightly, that would be poor design. The humoral immune system works closer to a Bayesian spam filter (arguably better).
What assembly house did you use?
It means: Don't code while driving. For safety.
Isn't this just scrum? Scrum is very popular.
At this point, I suspect the pattern firstname.lastname@gmail.com is so common that spammers just blindly target it.

My experience is similar, I receive much less spam on my actual mail than I do on gmail.
I've long suspected that this route would be a much more likely path for an interested alien civilisation otherwise disinclined to make contact with us to take.

I also suspect that at least some insects have been utilised for similar intent. The trouble is in figuring out which ones... .
It’s an outlier even on a percentage change basis. One of only a handful of states losing over 0.5% of residents since the pandemic started.

The “bottom five” for percentage change is, in order… DC, NY, Illinois, Hawaii, California.
I use ConTeXt. It is a perpetual moving target. If you want a document to keep compiling to the same result, you'd better pin a version :-/

They keep on adding things, experimenting things, sometimes removing things, changing engines. If they think of a feature or someone asks for it, they implement it right away as a fix. They are very nice and helpful, but the problem is that those small features and fixes are not sufficiently thought out to maintain consistency. They are just there to get things done on the moment.

The documentation is mostly at introduction level, whether it is named that way or not. It is almost never exhaustive, it is often not up to date. Often, the options are not described, you just have their name: no idea about what they do, let alone how they interact.

Because things interact there too, and as with LaTeX, it doesn't always interact well, despite the more integrated approach that ConTeXt proposes.

It (more and more?) shares some of the problems of LaTeX. LaTeX has many different packages for the same thing (let's say tables) and none of those is complete? Same thing in ConTeXt nowadays, there are several table environments, and none of them is a pure improvement upon the others. So a package/environment adds a feature compared to an existing one, but it doesn't include all the features of existing ones. So you often end up with the same category of problem:

-- I want to do A => use this package/environment!
-- I want to do B => use that package/environment!
-- I want to do A and B => you're out of luck!

Yes, I am a bit, no, a lot pissed at the moment:

a. by my constant or growing struggles to get some stuff done on ConTeXt and LaTeX, stuff which doesn't look from outerspace and seems it should be handled out of the box, without needing to get dirty with low-level macros just to get stuff to behave consistently (because often said stuff actually works in some cases);

b. by the lack of robustness those tools are still showing, despite decades of massive time and energy investment by people who have a much better understanding of these shenanigans than I have. This is emphasised by my recent attempt to come back to LaTeX and the subsequent finding that I am hitting the same kind of exhausting inconsistencies I was hitting 10 years ago.

I am so depressed about the situation that I think that it must be impossible to build something robust upon TeX as a programming language. TeX the composition algorithm is probably fine, but building something based on this fragile, clunky macro language is probably destined to end up being fragile and clunky, in spite of the original intent. The automation of composition is already a difficult subject with a great many moving, interacting pieces; having to deal with such a rough language on top of this...
Tilings Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia of Nonperiodic Substitution Tilings
The problem with updating TeX is that everyone has a different idea as to how TeX should be updated, is it eTeX, pdftex, xetex, luatex?
Medicare doesn’t transfer, so you have to fund your own healthcare passed 62-65, when you need the most of it.

Guam is an option for Americans where Medicare will still work. Otherwise if healthcare costs aren’t an issue, I might retire to a tourist town in Yunnan.
Fossil of oviraptorosaur curled up inside its egg
How do I get perma banned? I'd pay to be preemptively banned.

Huh. Potential future social media conceirge service.

I already waste too much personal time on junk mail, spam, robocalls.
> That would mean that, at the start, any service or VM etc. you started on AWS would only work during non-peak Amazon hours.

While that's true, at the time I read this "peak Amazon hours" were a few hours on cyber Monday. In fact, that's probably still true.
Indeed. I set up my personal email server on a Hetzner VPS using iredmail. It just took a couple of hours and everything actually works pretty well with very little maintenance. Even Hotmail/Outlook.com accepts my emails.
That jesus wants you to work to pay other people's pensions. Not sure if he ever articulated in this manner though
ADHD Accommodations Guide
There was an article on The Register[0] about something especially nutty Amazon Games Services required of employees, then later backed off on. (Cheers to them for caving to pressure.) Apart from that I've got no good references. I believe AWS typically put the "usual" overbearing clause in their contracts, where any IP you create before or during your employment becomes theirs. Sadly, so do many other employers. My previous employer did, and it was a sticking point for me and one reason for leaving.

[0] https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/13/amazon_game_contracts...
There used to be this thing called advertising
Looks practically designed to get snagged on random things in the water.

My suggestions: the mantle should be one piece of silicone shrouding the whole body. The levers to operate the fin should be wholly embedded, and pivot at the edge the body, not well inside. The corners should not be corners, but should taper off near the ends.

That said, kudos on a good first effort!
Checkout http://tehnologije.ijs.si/TT09/TT-1th-October/Participants%2... and you.com
Yes. There are two classes of calendar: observational and arithmetic.

Modern calendars tend to be arithmetic, based on fixed rules that approximate astronomy more or less accurately. The Julian calendar is one of the simplest; the Jewish calendar is one of the most complicated and most accurate.

Observational calendars are more directly based on astronomical observations. The Muslim calendar is one example: in some traditions, the start of Ramadan can’t be predicted exactly because it depends on seeing the new moon. UTC is also an observational calendar, since leap seconds are scheduled by observation not by fixed rules. The French revolutionary calendar was also (in its strict form) observational, keeping its years precisely in sync with the equinoxes.
By that logic it could also be the British.

Essentially it's unsubstantiated claims made largely out of thin air. It's useless.
I've enjoyed the Huberman Lab podcast a lot.

https://youtube.com/c/AndrewHubermanLab
Sigh. I never had such luck.

During a first year university computer science course, students were told to line up and sign an agreement for access to department computer labs. Most of the students lined up, grabbed the paperwork when they reached the front of the queue, then promptly signed it. I decided to actually read the paperwork, which earned me the privilege of standing at the side until the task was complete. No sneaky clauses, for the better or the worse, in my humble opinion. I simply had the privilege of standing out.

Not that it really mattered. I walked away learning a different lesson since I already had access to their computer systems. I already asked for permission to access their systems, and was granted permission without doing the paperwork. For the most part, these agreements are intended to handle the typical case, and are meant to inform rather than be a rigid contract. (The irony: I consider trust as sacrosanct, so I often over comply with the rules.)
So they should have delayed to next year after the clamp issue? Hundreds of people that were on site from Europe and the US, now go back home. You move the JWST back in a safe storage place, moving it is always risky, as the clamp issue showed.

You now plan a new date in January, knowing Omicron is spreading and countries are starting to close their borders once again, and knowing Kourou had to be closed for like 6 months already once because of COVID, preventing any launch.

Do you want to take the risk of your 11B$ payload maybe getting stuck in a hangar for 6 months? Any issue with the ventilation, de-humidifiers or hundreds of other things could potentially damage it.

Then you bring everyone back on site, and now you have to reinspect everything, rocket and payload and restart the whole process, move JWST back again into the assembly tower, again a risky manoeuver, and as always, many things including weather can make the launch window slides for days. Being stuck in Kourou for weeks is not as fun as it may seems.

So no, it makes 0 sense to move the date around for something non-critical, and I'm pretty sure everyone already on site would rather just get it done now and celebrate christmas with their family a few days late, than add unnecessary stress on JWST and themselves for potentially months.
People have already mentioned Darknet Diaries so I will mention two other podcasts I really liked

The Shrink Next Door:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-shrink-next-door/i...

The Always Sunny Podcast:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-always-sunny-podca...