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Hmmm, well, his very first post ("Who Doesn't Go Nazi?") is about being an anti-vaxxer, saying how anti-vaxxers would resist becoming Nazis, and comparing anti-vaxxers to the Jews, which already has me questioning his critical thinking skills.

I looked at a couple of his other articles, and despite being a good writer, there's some subtle, and not-so-subtle, points he misses. E.g., in "Storms and Teacups", he thinks that Jezebel celebrating women's "equality and self-determination" means they are hypocritical to criticize Michelle Williams for dressing up as a Native American, and the fashion industry because they "didn't objectify a woman in a tasteful enough fashion".

This shows he doesn't understand that 1) "equality and self-empowerment" are not to come at others' expense, an unstated, but real, caveat, he seems to have missed, and 2) criticism of an industry doesn't have to involve every possible complaint all the time. That's just editorial focus.

Ironically, towards the end of the article, he says "We don't want to talk about the full complexity at play here", while parroting standard responses. I'm 99% sure he spends his time digging up things that confirm his viewpoint, locating the 1% of outliers that support him, and no time engaging with the scholarship of the majority of the other side. It's like trying to talk about racism using only Candace Owens' talking points.
Covid hysteria made it all too real. My super woke prime minister doing afro and blackface, and the judge that ordered the pastor to read out a pro mandate statement he wrote for him, every time he speaks publicly against it, really took the cake in my country. More vaccinated covid cases than unvaccinated in Ontario from the safe and effective vaccine is the cherry on top.
Aren't women of child-bearing age discriminated against in the job market regardless? Did the USA really solved this issue by not providing paid maternity leave?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokeh
They used to censor nipples too, and then at some point they just didn't. I guess the Japanese government relaxed their guidelines a bit - after all, they've now recognized that manga and anime are effectively their Hollywood, and are very busy promoting them around the globe. I expect at some point they will quietly drop prosecutions of uncensored drawings altogether.
One of the best predictions from Idiocracy is our reliance on AI that no one understands anymore. They made all of these systems that did everything for them and decades later, after barely even needing to think for themselves for so long, they’re dumb as rocks and have no idea how anything works.
Oh please, I pay 6000GBP a month for my apartment. I know all about crazy rents, I also know that the purchase price would be disproportionally high compared to the rent I’m paying.

Most landlords here are betting on property values continuing to grow, they’ll never turn a profit on rents.
It tries to predict patterns from blurry shots. It might introduce artifacts that were never there: some drawings I upscaled turned distant woods into houses. You can see why this might be bad when viewing something for historical accuracy.

See e.g., https://www.topazlabs.com and https://github.com/nagadomi/waifu2x
You were right that it was just AA for most of the war, due to the desire for secrecy, but starting at the battle of the Bulge in late 1944, proximity fuses were used by US artillery, on land.

Otherwise, I strongly agree with you.
> Well, for "local" TCP, it's pretty straightforward to see how the kernel can be smart and just copy the sent data into the receiving process' buffer directly and skip ACKs and other overhead if no-one's looking.

I didn't mean the TCP ACK packet, I meant the application layer return saying "Thanks, I got your query".

It is never a good idea to blast some data off into a transmission channel without knowing if the receiver ever got it, hence the receiver always sends something back to say that they received it.

> Neither the sender nor the receiver actually care whether network traffic occurs as long as the semantics of the operation stay the same.

Whether you are sending over the network or over a local UNIX socket is irrelevant, the context switch is going take place for each `write()` and for each `read()`.
Beware that even "serious" companies are now starting to include emojis in the subject line. I had a flight cancellation notification email come up with plane emojis in the title... I almost overlooked it as some kind of quasi-spam marketing email (the titles was something like "[plane emojis] about your flight [plane emojis]"). Perhaps it was the intention since it included information about EU regulated refunds.
You should check out SQ3R
http://sq3rmethod.com/
This is a really good example of not liking a solution and resolving that conflict by denying the problem. Was there a single point in your life where your worldview crystalized or was it an evolving process? I'm genuinely interested in how people arrive at the place your at.
I do not think the point of this thread is to discuss our personal liking of these movies but just to add another data point to yours, as much as I agree with the message of Idiocracy and found it merely funny, Don't Look Up was a really good movie for me.
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>She has made commits to the Linux kernel that have been merged and she loves hentai and porn but is no longer in tech because she literally makes more money being a cam girl and it's way more fun.

I'd argue this proves my point though. Your fiance is someone who conformed to the existing male dominated culture and succeeded despite the structural roadblocks in place. But the other 50% of women who may have otherwise made a career in this industry were driven out.
I was going to engage with this but honestly I'm so tired of you misrepresenting me and projecting your bizarre mishmash of gatekeeping and victimhood onto me that I am going to bow out of further interaction with you.

I will say that you clearly do not understand what I am saying, that you are not interpreting me with the generosity that I'm trying to grant you, and that your reactions are almost entirely against straw men of your own creation. But I don't expect you to be able to hear that, and instead look forward to reading whatever misinterpretation of this comment you choose to latch onto.

Please have a nice day.
In the US "genuinely rectified" is the standard for civil suit ("actual damages" for negligence, and "specific performance" or monetary equivalent for contracts). Punitive damages are added only for malicious intent.

The reason many US companies don't apologize is because they don't want to make restitution, and can get away without paying.
guess you'd better not have kids then. don't worry, i'll do extra
Unlikely. Seeds aren't transparent, which is one of the most important qualities necessary for a functional greenhouse.
In the US in particular, it doesn't matter if the underaged subject exists or not, but I think you'll find the law much more loosely enforced in cases where the subject of the pictures doesn't exist.
Poor intern! </sarcasm>
> I've never seen anybody take the premise of the movie seriously though.

Where have you looked? People have been talking about this for awhile now.

> If idiots are reproducing out of control and that will lead to a bad result

Yeah...

> doesn't that mean we should reduce the reproduction of idiots and increase the reproduction of the intelligent?

Who's "we" in that sentence? Intelligent people are unlikely to adopt foolish plans, by definition.

E.g. consider the (as yet fictional) Bene Gesserit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bene_Gesserit
Incidentally this depends on DeepCreamPy. From the github readme:

> You will need to download and install DeepCreamPy, which is linked in the intro.
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Split the difference, 0/0 = 0.5
The consequences of “Mea Culpa, please reset your master password” seem much less existential than denying and eventually being revealed as untrustworthy.
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> Sad this thing is still going on. What’s really up with the governor?

They are allergic to accountability it seems. That's why once it come out of their mouth, it is impossible for them to admit they fucked up. So double/triple/quadruple/quintuple-down is part of their playbook.
I've been seeing increasing use of the phrase: TT;DR (Twitter Thread, Didn't Read). I'd like to understand what motivates people to publish content like this in numbered Twitter threads instead of blog posts. Is it because of the virality of twitter? Is it because it's easier to write or read snippet bites of text and images? Is it because they don't have a blogging platform? Is it something to do with comments or sharing? For those that write and prefer Twitter threads - what motivates that style instead of blog posts?
Yes, that's true. But still, I'm pretty sure that even by the mid 90's with the writing on the wall plenty of shop owners didn't see it coming, and they were still very much against getting rid of their precious short term parking.
The proximity fuse was used at the battle of the bulge https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity_fuze

However they did tried to avoid them being captured by the Germans.

The proximity shells for AA guns were so sensitive that they with the help of targeting computers allowed the Brits to essentially neutralize V-1 attacks as they could effectively shoot down all incoming V-1’s.
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"likely" "some", weasel words. Corporate marketing speak for we have no idea what happened so dream up some scenario that sounds plausible and do a press release.
The 3-pass approach mentioned in the Stanford page linked in a sibling comment is a good way to start. It's also worth knowing why you want to read a particular paper. They're usually written for communicating tersely with people "already-in-the-know" so you shouldn't expect to get much out of most papers you come across.

Murat Demirbas a prof at SUNY Buffalo has described his method - http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2013/07/how-i-read-research...
Some years ago this same article came up on HN. I remember downloading a special app to run Webster’s 1913 version on my iOS device.

I also remember being very jealous of macOS users for having a dedicated dictionary.app. Now I happen to have a Mac myself so guess what daddy is going to do this evening? Indeed, get himself an upgrade .
There are plenty of reasons to question whether the Flynn effect (rise in IQ test scores) actually reflects increases in general intelligence rather than testing skills. Just now, reviewing the Wikipedia article on the subject, I don't see how the Flynn effect is incompatible with the mass psychosis induced by political polarization. People can excel at their jobs and yet rant absurd conspiracies as soon as they get triggered by the wrong political BS.
>but most games are simple ones

PUBG? Fornite? Genshin?

>most apps are quite simple

Twitter is simple, but Twitter App is still better than Twitter on Web. My answer is find me a decent app made with Web technology. The only one that is good enough is VSCode. And that is with lots of native component to speed things up.

Does web apps works? Yes, are they objectively better than Native Apps, best vs best? No.

I think you need to look at how consumer use computing, and not semi pros, nerds uses it. There are people who still have difficulties using mouse as pointing devices.
It's not just internet points, it's what makes the whole thing practically viable.

If you don't give any guarantees beside "it's a hobby project", you can't expect anyone else to use your software beyond hobby projects either.
Alas, yet another article that displays the incompetence of my state's governing body.
> "The underlying message of course is that humans ought to take such things as science, research and knowledge seriously, lest we create our own Idiocracy."

The author of this article reached a fairly backwards conclusion. If the smart people hadn't prioritized careers in science and research over creating a family, idiocracy would not have occurred; the smart people would have procreated at the same rate as dumb people.

But I agree that it's more a critique of a "dopamine" driven culture that has no critical thinking skills.
That's more Wall-e than Idiocracy, I think. Was there any talk of AI in Idiocracy?
Or, you need to ensure a proper net in terms of higher education, health care, etc, so that even the children of "idiots" have a chance at breaking the cycle.
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There is a pretty accurate list of 'weak spots' (as in: could not handle a very substantial rise in sea level today) floating around but I just can't seem to find it.
Idiocracy doesn’t actually go far enough to match current-day reality.

In the film, people were smart enough to understand they weren’t all that intelligent. Even the president was willing to defer to someone who knew more than him.

The last couple of years have proven that to be rather naive when it comes to our real leadership.
WASM will do what you want.

You can certainly have client side JS produce a hash using some other credential as the salt and then encrypt the information server side. What you really lose is the ability to do low cost comparison, because most password hashing is done deterministically. Instead you would need to retrieve the record, decrypt with the server side key, and finally compare.
this site has a TON of information on lenses and cameras. If you cant get answers here, i'd bet there's links to where you can find them. He probably would reply to a request for more info...

https://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/fe2.htm
> I suspect the problem is that the author didn’t try generating the real and imaginary parts.

I’m not sure I understand what you mean. He definitely does describe generating a complex number, and ensuring the imaginary parts are designed to produce an output image with real-only values after the FT. Can you elaborate on how magnitudes and amplitudes are being conflated?

The problem, as I understand it, is the output is Gaussian distributed rather than uniform, not a simple bug or misuse of the DFT like you assume. Perhaps this implies that a using white noise source in the frequency domain is the issue, maybe the forward transform of blue noise is not white along the outside of frequency space, and so generating a frequency space image using white noise might not be expected to work?

Maybe worth playing with it when you have time?
U.S. weekly jobless claims total 198K, less than expected and around 52-year low
yo, i work in the energy industry. it's not quite as terrifying as it looks. energy retailers typically sell electricity to end users at a fixed price. prudent retailers _hedge_ this exposure, i.e. they buy the electricity on wholesale markets that they promised to delivery to you at a fixed price, in order to reduce their risk to wholesale prices going up.
wholesale price went up (A LOT) which drove many retailers across europe into bankruptcy, but well - they didnt hedge so well..
if you want a proxy for retail electricty prices is worth checking the wholesale markets, you can do that yourself on EEX's website: https://www.eex.com/en/market-data/power/futures

you'll see the following prices for trading day 2021-12-29: Year 2022 settled at 225EUR/MWh or 22.5c/Kwh -- which is admittedly crazy high. But year 2023 settled at 128 EUR and the following years below 100 EUR. This is plausible as we the high prices we have now provide a strong incentive to build new electricity generating facilities in the future. and wind and pv are already profitable at prices 50-80 EUR/MWh without extra subsidies.
lastly: there are still enough retailers selling you power at prices below what your retailer wants to charge you, check https://verivox.de/ or the likes for alternatives
Make a habit of drawing connections between disparate concepts, but be careful not to go too crazy with it.
The parent makes a fair point (and period vs modern tech really isn't the issue). But even if the photos were on completely equal footing, I think the genius of the improvements shown would be no less stunning.
I wonder if that governor will charge prisoners who look out the window for 'felonius escape rumination'
This is really wonderful! The discussion about lay people's knowledge of sql reminded me that the Pandas API is often useful for non-sql folk. Likewise there are some projects similar to dirtylittlesql to bring Python data manipulation to the browser.

https://github.com/jtpio/jupyterlite

https://github.com/gzuidhof/starboard-notebook
People are right that Ethereum has used the web3 term for a while. The recent uptick is from Chris Dixon and other VCs doing a marketing push on it.
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Idiocracy mixed being educated with being intelligent. Being educated is not hereditary and does not (I think) affect intelligence of your children*

Satisfactory nutrition and exposure to positive and engaging environments during childhood affect your intelligence no matter who your parents were

* other than that educated parents are more likely to provide the positive and engaging environment, maybe? Not in the least due to the correlation between education and $, which certainky affects both nutrition and the environment (e.g. toys, lessons, travel, etc.)

Late disclaimer: I have no idea if this is what the scientific areas that study human intelligence believe
This sort of scheme is common so that you do not have to share the encryption key with the provider. You derive two keys from your plaintext password: one used for authentication and one used for encrypting / decrypting the blob. This way, Lastpass can authenticate you without having to see the key to decrypt your data.

Not sure the specifics of how lastpass implements this but this is a really common approach for end-to-end encrypted apps.
My favorite has always been Day.js [0] - it is really small, has a very clean API, great documentation and does pretty much everything I want.

[0] https://day.js.org/
I mentioned the T480s. The T480 is much more user-serviceable than a Macbook Pro, with upgradeable RAM, SSD, Battery etc, and much cheaper, so not a valid comparison.
Incompetence would mean they have no clue. I genuinely believe that is not the case, and opportunity is really what this looks like here. I've found many politicians and legal professionals to really just use whatever they can to get what they want and throw as much at the wall to see what sticks.. Incompetence at least means some good faith that they do not know better, but I believe in most instances they do but they don't care.
Parson wasn't an elected governor initially. He was the Lt. Governor from an appointed position previous election cycle. Governor and Vice Governor resigned due to a scandal, and Parson took office similar to how Ford did after Nixon. Parson did win 're-election' riding on former President Trump's coattails.
The thing that bothers me about most contemporary praise for Idiocracy is the failure to view it through the appropriate historical lens, and so most of the praise ends up being shallow in the retconned context. Idiocracy was created in a specific time period—the same one that American Dad! was born in. (NB: "born" being the crucial word in the previous sentence.) It's possible in 2021—or 2011, even—to have watched and enjoyed both for the first time and still not understand why either were created.

I'm seeing more references to Idiocracy now on social media because of Don't Look Up's recent release (compared to, say, how frequently Idiocracy was mentioned last month). There's a lot of problems with Don't Look Up that make for it not being an example of greatness or even very-goodness, but one thing in particular in comparison to Idiocracy are the movies' protagonists. In Idiocracy, Not Sure is a pretty average guy—maybe even a little dumb. This is what the writers of Don't Look Up missed out on. Idiocracy is smart people writing about about a dumb-to-average "hero" because the egos of those involved (the creators and their audience) don't require him to be bigger than they are. In contrast, Don't Look Up is a movie written by people who are as smart as Not Sure is dumb, trying to write for characters who are supposed to be smarter than the writers themselves and the people who are supposed to enjoy the movie the most.

Some reviews called Don't Look Up smug and sanctimonious—and they're right. With Idiocracy and Don't Look Up, the humility and lack thereof, respectively, when comparing the two accounts for a lot of why Don't Look Up is worse than it should be. (Given what Don't Look Up tries to do, it should do it better than Talladega Nights does, for example, but it doesn't.) Also accounting for a lot of what made Don't Look Up a not so great way of cribbing from Idiocracy is that Idiocracy was taking aim at the zeitgeist, whereas Don't Look Up is a very safe movie to make.
Idiocracy was satirical comedy, Don't Look Up is just satire.
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LastPass wrote that there was a bug causing these emails to be sent.

That may be correct, because several persons have reported reproducing that issue before the LastPass fix - they have written that they logged on with incorrect password while using an IP from another country and still got the email that their master password was used.
You say that but the 28 foot context menu with every possible action from every application in Windows' File Explorer (and in file selection dialogs) is the thing I miss in Linux.
I was just replying to the class vs prototypes part. There usually is a once-in-a-year situation that is solved better with classes, so I somewhat agree with your 99% code doesn't need it estimation.

Also I should mention that in the rare case when I did use the prototypes, I always used the adapter pattern (an adapter function that takes a slice of "this", calls an independent function, and merges it back to "this"), it was easier to test.

But people are so unused to declaring dependencies as parameters (even function dependencies aka services), they cry untestable whenever they see independent (static) functions. I know this from the PHP, Java and .NET world. To this day, it didn't help to explain what they call DI is just passing parameters (but rather more bureaucratically).
> narrowly escaped this not so cheap hobby

It's a way cheaper than collecting new lenses anyway :) Not sure about F-mounts, but I kept an eye on M42 old lens market. You could (and probably still can now) get a very fast (f/2 and below) lens 5-10x cheaper than their modern counterparts. Yes you loose automatic focus but this is probably no big issue with modern viewfinders.
I loaded up the suggested Webster's 1913 dictionary on my ereader to test it out. I picked two random words on the current page of the book I'm reading. Neither "condolences" or "constraint" were in that dictionary. Quality of definitions doesn't help if you don't have the quantity because the dictionary is over 100 years old.

I also agree with other commenters regarding the OED.
Could you link to anything about the vacuum tubes? I am one of the people that didn't realize that was a thing.
It might help to think about the idea that the "little" players here are the public who, in aggregate has the largest stake in the game but who simultaneously has the lowest financial stakes and the least monetary incentives to lobby for their real interests.

I say that as someone who has produced a whole lot of content at the least-monitizable end of the system.

Disney is the one who is winning right now, both in terms of me "as a content creator" and me "as a member of the public".
The account is 17 hours old - best to not feed the troll.