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> Not sure why you bring up solar.

It's an example of a solution people, companies and politicians are pushing that, in the end, is a myth.

> I think your overall point is ignoring the ability to develop carbon sequestration at industrial scale.

No, I am not. I have yet to see a solution that doesn't include some element of "then a miracle occurs".

It always boils down to a massive requirement of energy and resources (minerals, materials, transportation, construction, etc.). I also always ignores that this is a planetary scale problem. This isn't about plopping a HEPA filter in an office.

Following-up on that example, cleaning a mess always takes more energy and resources than what went into creating it in the first place. I have actually designed and built large cleanrooms for aerospace manufacturing applications. You'd be surprised to find out just how expensive, difficult and energy hungry air cleaning can be.

One of my favorite over-simplifications is the idea of dumping a bucket of dirt into an Olympic-size swimming pool and allowing it to circulate. The task, then, is to clean every particle of the newly introduced dirt --not the existing dirt, the new stuff-- from the water. The comparison between the energy and effort required to collect and dump a bucket of dirt into the pool and that required to remove it is of staggering proportions.

We are talking about a planetary scale problem. Having played with the numbers, I very much doubt we can develop any kind of energy source that will allow us to accelerate CO2 removal to a rate a thousand times faster than the natural baseline. I don't think it can be done. The numbers are horrifically large and too many variables conspire against anything we might do. One good forest fire or volcano eruption and a year's worth of progress is gone, if not more.
What I really need is something like:

SELECT -col1, -col14 FROM table LIMIT 50;

Where the minus sign means I don't want these two columns. I still don't see a way to do it easily (for Vertica and in Datagrip).
I meant plant the seeds ?
Hasn't society decided that private entities still have to follow some rules? For example, private employers can't fire someone for getting pregnant, and private landlords can't enter their leased properties on a whim.
why do you care about animal studies which are fairly unreliable when it has already passed human studies?
> if Omicron is as mild as shown by the current data, you won't be able to show any kind of baseline difference between boosted and unboosted.

That's a massive if to base a health care system on.

Like, look at the incentives. If they over-react and Omicron is much less severe, people will be upset but they'll get over it.

If they under-react, and it turns out to be Delta-level with much more vaccine escape, that will be much, much worse.

And this is one of those un-reversable decisions beloved (or hated, I guess) by Jeff Bezos.
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When I took the vaccine I was sick for a few days. I don't have any risk factors. I have multiple double vaxxed and non-vaxxed family members for whom covid was a minor cold and none for whom it was serious. I assume that as I am genetically closest to my family members they are a good predictor for how I will fare, if I haven't already had it without knowing it.

Why would I sicken myself for a few days with the next vaccine shot to marginally decrease the odds I will be sick for a few days from covid?
Well...the word "likely" is a weasel word and not very comforting.
I just watched the video. AOPA puts out great stuff. Everything they say here is spot on.

It's not simple failure to get high enough. That was not the fatal mistake. It's multiple mistakes, the accumulation of which results in no more choices. Poor flight planning, possibly an inhibition of an ATP to ask "lower ranked" local pilots about various routes, and waiting too long to abort. They lacked an abort plan. They could not have been asking "what do I do right now if the powerplant fails?" Because they not only accepted going passed the point of managing a powerplant failure, to the point where they had no options even with a fully operating powerplant. There was nothing wrong with that airplane. It was all errors in judgement that lead to no choice but a crash.

Having flown in and out of Aspen many times myself, I have never used Independence pass. I've opted for the down valley northwest route for climb out, then north, and finally east to Corona/Rollins pass. Many choices before, during, and after pass crossing. A local pilot would have given alternatives to Independence, and their reasoning. A local flight instructor would have reminded them about density altitude, leaning, and even the option of not taking off fully fueled in order to improve climb performance, and fully fuel on the other side of the mountain range instead.

Colorado sees this same lack of awareness of the effects of altitude with hikers all the time too. Folks from New York and Florida and California, regularly climb 14ers in fall and unwittingly get stuck in snow storms while Denver is clear as a bell, having no imagination at all for treachery. And their families are appalled when the search and rescue is called off because it's even too treacherous for S&R operations. Happens every year.
Section 242 of the U.S. Criminal Code:

Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects, or causes to be subjected, any inhabitant of any State, Territory, or District to the deprivation of any rights,privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution and laws of the United States . . . shall be fined not more than$ 1,000, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

This law has never been used to protect First Amendment rights. But, on its face, it could be.
Medicine may not fit the pattern (personally I'd want to know where I stand, even if the news is bad), but I took the OP to be saying "American firms prefer not to go on record saying they screwed up, since that would naturally be brought up in subsequent legal proceedings".
My experience has been the opposite. If I jump into a random Go code base, it’s been easier to figure out what’s going on than with languages that provide a lot more abstraction power. The reason, IMO, is that a bad abstraction is worse than less abstraction, and people are more likely to create bad abstractions than they are good ones.

I think it’s better with functional languages like scala and clojure, because bad class hierarchies with inheritance are the worst abstractions, but Go hits the right balance for me and I think for large organizations that have a lot of devs who move on and off of code bases on a regular basis.

I agree that you can get a better result with powerful languages, but that it’s unlikely in large orgs. I think software engineering at scale is more about sociology than people admit or realize.
> There are measurable impacts on cognitive ability: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5...

Good luck driving anything with this garbage paper. Not all published literature is reliable. (Remember the Lancet last year?)
The vaccine doesn’t prevent infection; it mainly prevents death. The other way to interpret this is that they do not want to be responsible for deaths, but are fine with low-risk infections.

I anecdotally know people who had a booster and were still subsequently infected. Packing 200 people in a room over 100 days and these rare cases will happen.
CDC recommends against going on Cruises
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> With a sql injection, you have to willfully provide an input with the hope that it results in injection

If I send you a link that happens to include arguments that happen to be a SQL injection (or my cat steps on my keyboard in just the right way), there was no intent.
Wiktionary dumps are around 1gb for a million words and definitions (https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiktionary/) uncompressed. However this is just raw text.

We have images as well like https://www.vedaist.com/en/w/clarsach.html. Audio pronunciations in wiktionary are sound files. Binary resources take a lot more space.

For mobile apps, if the size increases a lot then the first download experience is not great. After a certain size the app is not usable for low end smartphones.

Hence I'm not sure about fully offline for a rich/modern dictionary mobile app. Downloading partial information offline like a temporary cache is possible though.
This response is directed at the plan to delay in-person instruction (and the assumption that other campus restrictions will follow), not to the booster mandate that is the headline here.
related: pgsql-hackers thread and context

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/1aec0dd0-dc27-40e...
Again, this 10 week (the most data they had) suggested that this was only true for Pfizer, but not Moderna.

It's far too early to be sure though.
OK so getting down into the nitty gritty, we have to distinguish between the types of work that are not directly productive - there's jobs that are indirectly productive, and thus contribute to the productive process (like machine maintainence), and there's jobs that do not. The latter are the "bullshit jobs" - they just exist to protect and maintain power structures, they're not contributing to production in any meaningful sense.
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The problem was not that they used shell scripts. The problem was that the people writing the shell scripts were just bad programmers. If you hire a bad programmer to write them in Python, they'll still have tons of bugs.

The shell scripts I write have fewer bugs than the Python code I see other teams churn out. But that's because I know what I'm doing. Don't hire people who don't know what they're doing.
Note: this article does not actually a "scam" in the common sense of that word -- neither au pair workers nor their hosts are being defrauded. To quote the article, "Everyone involved knew exactly what they were doing".

Instead, author's definition of scam seems to be cases when "economic elite are allowed to buy their way out of the constraints everyone else in society faces."
I think your concern is addressed by the idea further down in proposal; giving the foreign keys the same names as the referenced tables. This example was provided:

SELECT f.title, f.did, d.name, f.date_prod, f.kind
FROM films f
JOIN FOREIGN f.distributors d
Honest question why are the rates of infection so high on cruises but not on say for flights? Is there perhaps something about the humid environment?
yeah, this saves like 10 characters of text in exchange for massive confusion.
Here's a recent example of this in action:

...the racist exchanges have led to the dismissal of at least 85 criminal cases involving the officers implicated in the scandal.

It's possible this hatred and misconduct would never have been exposed. But two officers apparently felt untouchable enough that they felt comfortable spray-painting a swastika on a vehicle they towed following a report of mail theft.

Several of those officers have been investigated for deploying excessive force or killing citizens. In almost every case, they've been cleared of wrongdoing.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211212/15551548112/calif...
> By temporarily defacing the Sega website

I may have missed it but what did they deface?

I see a proof of script execution in what appears to be an uploaded file of a random string of letters and numbers .htm address.

So if don’t correctly there is a near zero chance of any public user stumbling into the site.
Doing basically anything with a computer is illegal in the US. It gives government a lot of power to deal with errant journalists or others.
Then all you need is bullet-proof evidence that transmission is significantly impacted by the vaccines. It ain't a guessing game, do the measurement. Do it all over the world and compare and contrast.
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How much is "to a certain extent"?

Has this been quantified? Because I recall Fauci saying it "100%" prevent hospitalizations and it turns out it was far, far less than 100%.
Historically, definitely. Currently? Fairly common. However, what's both historically and currently uncommon is having the sense to not do so while also identifying yourself. For the h4x0r cred, or whatever. Which is of course childishly idiotic, but makes my job a whole lot easier. In my experience, if you're not under any such contract and even if you are going to report such a compromise in complete good faith and have done no damage, you are far better off doing so as anonymously as possible. Nobody likes to be embarrassed, and it's a lot simpler for a corporation with a stock price and public image to think about to pin the whole situation on those damn hackers than own up to even the slightest degree of incompetence. Typing at work in sort of a hurry so, please forgive grammatical issues.
I never used KDE for a very long time, but my first Linux distro (Caldera OpenLinux -IIRC- version 2.3, which i still consider the best put together distro in terms of how things worked with each other, especially considering it came out in late 1999) used KDE1 and i used KDE3 via Slax in some school computers years ago. One of my favorite aspects of KDE was Konqueror and how well integrated it felt with the rest of the desktop.

I was disappointed when i learned that KDE decided to replace Konqueror with Dolphin.
Is that the fault of GSM the standard, though, or the anti-consumer carriers?
Or they could force everyone to pay, through taxes, and then you don't need to worry if your neighbour didn't pay as that could put you at greater risk.
q with static typing and a sensible pricing model would be amazing.

I do think that q's main strength is not its speed, but the fact that qSQL statements are a first class citizen in the language - no network hops, no awkward marshalling and unmarshalling of data, no awkward mismatch around how to use nulls, nans, tz-aware timestamps etc.
The county prosecutor just got the case from the MSHP. It awaits to be seen what the prosecutor does with it- I imagine there are some political pressures at this point. But if prosecution proceeds, it will be a waste of taxpayer money, as it highly unlikely it succeeds.
If it seems unlikely, then someone should explain why it works in a mouse model but not in the real world. If the virus mutates too quickly for a full sterilizing vaccine, then nonetheless, any vaccine that reduces transmission is helpful. If the virus mutates too quickly period, all the more reason for variant-specific boosters, targeted to the strains circulating, just like the yearly flu shot.
> The negative estimates in the final period arguably suggest different behaviour and/or exposure patterns in the vaccinated and unvaccinated cohorts causing underestimation of the VE. This was likely the result of Omicron spreading rapidly initially through single (super-spreading) events causing many infections among young, vaccinated individuals.

That's from the linked paper. The authors don't claim at all that the vaccine has negative efficacy, and the study is simply not set up to measure that anyway. You cannot draw this conclusion from the data in this paper.
> Presumably not much. If you look at the amount of antibodies produced they’re a pretty insignificant amount (if that’s what the concern is).

Trusting common sense is the opposite of Science.
The bulk of the voters?

Go and talk to them yourself. You’ll see.
> Why would I as a user prefer Twitter or prefer web3 decentralized microblogging?

I'm even going to ask "why do you need web3 for decentralized microblogging?"

What problem does this future tech solve that Mastodon does not currently solve? What is the current solution lacking and is easier to solve in a hypothetical web3 world?

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The "use wallet for login" I contend has an even bigger problem than "reuse the same password" for the average person.

Losing a device with a wallet (e.g. phone) becomes an even bigger issue.

Wallet stealing scripts/malware would compromise even more of a person's identity.

Additional difficulties in being able to recover an account if a person loses access to their wallet (e.g. drive failure).

I believe that existing password management systems do a better job of this for the average person and it would be better to have people use those than trying to get everyone to have a crypto wallet.

That has the added advantage that password management systems work wherever there's a password rather than a mishmash of "this site uses this wallet" and some sites will never get to the point of using a wallet for account management (compare how many have a 'login with apple' even though that's been around for a while and is pushed by Big Tech).
> The previous ruling coalition was also center-left.

That's not true. Maybe center-left compared to US politics.
TIL: Donald Trump's uncle was the "salesman" for the US / UK Electronic Jamming squadron. Life is surprising.
In this example D is the target table, FK's natural relationship could be aliased (specified multiple times under different names).
Hmm. Are they straight up lying here, or am I missing something?

First, “The attached records are no longer required to be retained by law and are not needed for any pending litigation.”

Then, later, "The city of Inglewood said in court declarations that some records requested by the ACLU should be temporarily withheld pending ongoing investigations."
I don't get it, it says that they've used the data from "Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System VAERS", and it says that "In large part, reports to VAERS are voluntary, which means they are subject to biases. This creates specific limitations on how the data can be used scientifically. Data from VAERS reports should always be interpreted with these limitations in mind."

What's the point of the system of reporting adverse events from vaccines if it's can't be used in data analysis? How do people have to report adverse effects then? How do we measure valid data?
I know you're probably saying this half-jesting... But the harsh reality is that if a judge cannot understand the minutiae of "browser requested one thing and the PLANTIFF's server sent personal info, unencrypted", then the precedent that is set is an awful one. I get that the amount of technical stuff that needs to be understood here is beyond what your average NON-hacker-news type might understand... but when it comes to prosecution, wouldn't an expert be consulted??
Also — name, date of birth, and sex are considered highly guarded top-secret personal information. Most people would voluntarily publish this and more on any social media platform without giving it a second thought.

And I don't see anything wrong with floppies, besides them and drives no longer being produced. USB sticks are too expensive, and optical media are too delicate, often single-use and an overkill for this purpose.
Children's Risk of Serious Illness from Covid-19 Is as Low as It Is for the Flu
before the current wave of password managers most people didnt use more than one password. they made it easy enough for people to use. now theyre everywhere. the things you list above are the new oddball ui issues, smooth them out a but amd people will use them too.
For example, in Canada and the US, the unvaccinated are hugely overrepresented in ICUs now, including in areas where Omicron is dominant. Most of the initial reports I think you're citing were preliminary when Omicron was new and hospitalization data (which is a lagging indicator) hadn't yet caught up.
> python+pandas

Another advantage is supporting sql-like syntax natively (and not having to use pandas' awkward, bolted-on API)
As an early LastPass adopter, I paid for about ten years of their Premium tier (it was pretty cheap early on). After they were sold the first time, it took them several years to stop billing me every year anyway, so I've still got about a decade of pre-paid Premium. No, they wouldn't refund my extra payments. Strike one.

I'm moving to something else now. Other companies might get away with "we fixed a bug, don't worry your pretty little heads." Not this application. Strike two.

If this is nothing to worry our PLH's over, I wonder what their response to a REAL security issue would be like.

Whatever it is, I want to experience it from a distance. I'm out.
Eh? I don't agree with this at all.

If you have a "certain level of wealth", why would you move from tiny apartment to tiny apartment? You have no need to sell your previous one, or just no need to move. Also, why are they tiny?

It sounds like you're talking about being nomadic on a middle to high income.

Most wealthy people I know own big houses in places like Kensington or Hampstead or whatever the equivalent is. They might also have a pied a terre or three, sure, but they're not constantly moving.
It looked very useful and intuitive at first, but on further thought, I think the only time that you'd truly benefit from it if you SELECT *. For other SELECT queries with explicit field name list, you'd need to know the table the key constraint links to anyway.

SQL Views serve perfectly well for queries encouraged by the schema itself, and i think they are more sophisticated and practical way.
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Ahh, yes. Ascendant fascism. Soooo boring.
But they are forever in C99, which GCC supports.

VLA's crept in to the kernel, which is what this thread is about.

With -Wvla, you can learn about where all the VLA's are being declared in the code base.

Also, don't forget that VLA's are a GCC extension which existed before C99. They are available in the -stdc=gnu89 mode, and -ansi (without -pedantic).

They are available in -ansi mode (diagnosed if you use -pedantic).

They were not "removed" from ISO C; they are optional. If you implement VLA's, there is an ISO-C-conforming way to do that.

$ cat vla.c
int fun(int x, int a[x]) { return 0; }
int main(void) { return 0; }
$ gcc -ansi vla.c
$ gcc -std=gnu89 vla.c
$ gcc -ansi -pedantic vla.c
vla.c:1:1: warning: ISO C90 forbids variable length array ‘a’ [-Wvla]
int fun(int x, int a[x]) { return 0; }
^~~
$ gcc -std=gnu89 -pedantic vla.c
vla.c:1:1: warning: ISO C90 forbids variable length array ‘a’ [-Wvla]
int fun(int x, int a[x]) { return 0; }
^~~

This warning is now linked to [-Wvla] rather than just [-pedantic], so you can have -pedantic on, yet allow VLA's without a diagnostic.

$ gcc -std=gnu89 -pedantic -Wno-vla vla.c
$ gcc -ansi -pedantic -Wno-vla vla.c

Likewise you need -Wvla to police your code against VLA's creeping in, even if you're compiling in -ansi/-std=c90 mode. Traditionally, -pedantic will do it, but it's too strong; it rejects other things you might want. For instance, in the gnu89 dialect, you can initialize local structs and arrays with non-load-time computable expressions, which is complained about with -pedantic.

Dynamic allocation from the stack is something that is quite essential in some situations, and a more efficient approach compared to other alternatives in some other situations.

alloca never goes away, and VLA's are better than alloca in many ways.