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The true power of markets is that these sorts of editorial mismanagement only mean one thing: people stop purchasing an increasingly subpar print.

I used to read SciAm regularly. But this type of Wokeism into everything and calling great people horrible things after they die is so disgraceful.

How can anyone take the magazine with an ounce of seriousness anymore?
I mean that would be even funnier. Sorry for the typo.
The father was an imbecile for giving a child a knife.
That's what I tend to stick to, CORS is a headache and very easy to do wrong and you shouldn't do it unless you make an open API that can be directly integrated into other websites - which is probably a bad idea.

For most if not all use cases, you can set up a proxy in your front-end's web server so that it doesn't need CORS.
I read (not extremely closely, but better than skimming) Aaronson's foreword, the guest post, and the article in question; and I still don't know what about Wilson's work was supposedly "problematic". It's apparently something to do with the "nature vs. nurture" question, but I can hardly remember reading so many words with so little substance. For somebody not involved with the field (e.g. me), this omission of substance makes it very difficult to evaluate the merits of either perspective.

It also sets off some alarm bells, since it's difficult for an intellectually honest (edit: and competent) author to write on the order of a thousand words of evasive fluff and deem it suitable for publication.

OP's link aside, I don't think the SA article comes anywhere close to justifying its attack on Wilson ("racist ideas"), and the quoted bit regarding normal distributions is beyond the pale.
The Marek disease scenario is more a result of massification of poultry industry and the fact that Marek-infected chickens are infectious for life, rather than the vaccination itself. That's several orders of magnitude higher in terms of mutation lottery tickets.

If you're gonna use the ever-classic Marek scenario to push against vaccination, at least use it against the vaccination of a disease that shares some basic characteristics with MD.
Also, it’s just not that hard to “undo” a nailed framing joint. Bang the top piece of wood with a hammer from the underside. It will separate from the other piece with the nails still in it. Now bang the nails out by hitting the pointy bit with your hammer. Job done. 45 seconds of work, just need to be comfortable on the tools.
What makes you think it reduces severity when breakthrough cases are more common than the unvaccinated getting sick? You're talking about data from before ADE became a problem.
Annotating Pdfs also works fine pre-beta with an external Pdf-Viewer that is capable of hilighting and adding comments, like for example Foxit or Pdf-Annotaor. Simply double click to open the Pdf in that viewer (has to be default app for file type), annotate, save file and back in Ztero it is possible to extract the annotations into notes with the Zotfile plugin.
Was pretty good when Mark Rober tested his new “Fart Spray” on Macaulay Caulkin (the kid from Home Alone). Video here at 1m50s in https://youtu.be/a_TSR_v07m0#t=110
I don’t consider myself a Lisp wizard and mostly stick to pretty simple code but to name a few cool things that would have been tedious or impossible in another language:

- A desktop application for a bank in which not only the gui’s content but the look and structure was generated or changed on the fly mimicking the status of a database.

- An interpreter in which most of its classes and methods were automatically generated. The Java rewrite took pretty nasty code generation hacks, visitor pattern madness and way more LOC.

- Some program with a huge cache (glorified hash table) that was not catching simple strings or objects as keys but actual code as s-expressions. I always thought that was pretty cool.

Most if not all of my Lisp (and Perl) projects have been eventually rewritten in Java, and not exactly due to technical issues. I mostly put up with Go these days which is great most of the time but of course makes me yearn for a more powerful language or wished I never dabbled with those.
3M offers FFP3 masks without valves [0]. I found a couple more companies with disposable FFP3 masks, but none with N99 certification. I managed to buy EGE masks (made in Turkey, but certified in EU) [1] when I was in Bulgaria and they were less than $2 a piece. The other part of the math of masks is that a $2 FFP3 mask is actually cheaper than a KN95 mask, which has a shorter lifespan.

[0]: https://www.3m.com/3M/en_LB/p/d/v101158114/

[1]: https://www.egemaske.com/ege-700-ffp3-nr/ege-700-ffp3-nr-d.h...
Causing problems for who?
I'm pretty close to re-calibrating my trust levels to 'untrustworthy'.
Subdomains absolutely have value! It doesn't matter that we have those tools "today" (it's not like we didn't have reverse proxies many years ago), different domains are still the only way to truly split up traffic. A reverse proxy by definition doubles your total bandwidth requirement, which is expensive and inefficient if you aren't running everything in one datacenter. You'd need to not only get servers with enough bandwidth to cover their traffic, but another server with the sum of all individual server bandwidths to handle proxying. And if you want to do geographic sharing, you either need to shard all services, or be fine with an increase in latency for non-sharded services.
I don't know the details of their agreement with Microsoft but it looks like they are not allowed to compete in the mobile devices market directly, so they concentrated on the infrastructure instead.
“We have detected misuse of our services. As a consequence, all your Google accounts have been terminated.”
I didn’t understand what they were trying to say (e.g. who is supposed to be "burning in hell") and asked for clarification. Asking people to clarify when their statements are confusing/ambiguous is a pretty normal part of human conversations, and is not as a general rule intended as an attack.

Nobody has a secret agenda here. Nobody (except you?) is attacking anyone, correcting them, telling them they are wrong, policing them, threatening them, insulting them, putting words in their mouth, invalidating their feelings, ....

You seem to be really dramatically upset about this. I don’t really understand why (I assume you are grossly misunderstanding my intention – e.g. “hellbent”?!), but I am sorry to have deeply offended you. I sincerely hope you feel better soon.
until reddit starts getting native content too. We already know people game that site as well.

Also reddit can unfortunately be unsufferable.
Editorial stances are one thing, but publishing articles maligning the "so-called normal distribution of statistics" (!) as racist (!!) is another.
Butterfly knives _are_ cool, and a lot of fun! Of course a 12–year–old is going to ask for one; all of them do. We all wanted butterfly knives decades before Youtube existed so clearly this is not something to can blame Youtube for. I have a sneaking suspicion that our parents wanted butterfly knives when they were our age, even though they acted like it was a terrible idea when we asked for them.

But certainly a person’s first knife should be rather more utilitarian than that. It should be a size suited to their hand, it should be a single–edged knife intended as a practical tool, and you should be able to teach them how to use it effectively and safely to accomplish useful tasks. A simple pocket knife is probably the best choice.
US citizenship is also one with most burden from having it. At least compared to many other stable ones. Yes, you can make great money there, but also the taxation is not done by vast majority of other citizenships. So getting rid of it for anything slightly worse makes lot of sense from individual stand point.
Indeed, ChromeOS takeover on the Web appreciates the wide deployment of Electron packaged apps as yet another means to deploy Chrome on user's machines.
Can you list some examples?
Consider that unvaccinated must quarantine before entering countries like France, and are being removed from the workforce and military in countries like USA, reducing the number of edges on their graph.

Maybe I’m missing something but the pattern is what I’d expect at this stage. Most people acknowledge the risk to themselves of traveling or congregating, and subsequently to others who are immunocompromised or unvaccinated. What’s unpredictable is whether new variants will spread more readily, but we’re discovering that now, I guess.
The website is down for me.
Can we not say cool-sounding words anymore like "colony", "supremacy" and "master"?

I'll admit that "master vs slave" might perhaps be in bad taste (but not "master" on its own). But cancelling "blacklist", "colony" and "supremacy" is pretty incredible.
I've completely lost faith in Scientific American after they tried to "cancel" James Webb (yes, JWST telescope name) for complicitness against LGBTQ people some 70 fricking years ago, more details here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29690749

I consider Washington Post quite left-leaning and the comments were resoundingly going 'WTF!': https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/10/13/nasa-james-...
It isn't. I admit in the past I've taken time to write comments.
I remember painful memories of late 90s and early 2000s. Until DosBox, it was impossible to run DOS applications under Linux.

DOSEMU was unusable. It couldn't run anything. I've wanted dos emulation to play my favorite DOS games, DOSEMU couldn't run a single game I've tried. Actually, as far as I remember, it couldn't run any DOS application that I've tried.

Even wine at that time had less issues than DOSEMU, although I suppose implementing windows API is more complex task.

They've probably done a lot in 20 years (and even changed the name/forked the project), but no, I'll stick with DosBox.
While Google thanks those developers that help to push ChromeOS agenda.
From your link:

> Chickens become infected with MDV by inhalation of dust contaminated with virus shed from the feather follicles of infected birds. In a contaminated poultry house, chicks are infected soon after hatching and remain infectious for life

A "leaky" vaccine isn't a problem in itself if it helps clear the infection faster, because in fact that means there will be fewer chances for mutations. Now in a massified poultry industry, that vaccine only helped chickens not die while remaining infectious, and that's obviously turning farms into mutation making machines.

The Marek scenario applies to very few diseases.
C++ has been trying modules, and Gabriel Dos Reis from Microsoft has gotten a pretty decent standard and implementation done. It's likely it will be added to the C++23 standard.
The biggest issue seems to be "What cross compiler format do we use for the compiled modules" (the equivalent of DCUs).
The other problem is that macros have to still work, and code that uses them will not benefit as much from modules.

The gains in compilation speed (including linking) and dependency information tracking is phenomenal though. It would certainly bring C++ in line with languages like Java, Rust etc.

The CPPCon 2021 talk about this is enlightening.

If C++ gets modules, there is no reason why C can't use the same model - since the compilers will have that stuff anyway.
I write most of my blog posts using Sublime text directly into html code.

There's no spellchecker, it's annoying wrapping paragraphs in <p> tags, but my quality of writing is 10x better.

Something about my weird coder brain is way more comfortable doing my writing as code. I can also tell when a piece of writing is good, because the code looks "nice", the same as if you write a nice elegant function. It's weird to describe but I swear by it.

I tried writing using Google Docs, but my writing ended up being bloated and waffly, and the overall blog post was pretty meh.
I get the feeling you didn't read anything other than the title. Dismissing it because you don't like it or think it's "polarizing" is intellectually lazy. Judge it on its merits, not your existing biases.

The article goes into great depth about how the title premise is possible. Essentially, Trump getting a second term could have drastic consequences for democracy in the US. We are not immune to the things talked about in the article. Because they haven't happen in the past does not mean they can't. I agree with the article that we are closer to a crisis of democracy than at almost any other time in our history.

I also think the author's Canadian citizenship and field of study gives him a far more objective, and probably globally representative, view of the current US situation.
It’s not – I like to summarize my tutorials comprehensively. I am not a native speaker though; I apologize if the sentence isn’t structured correctly or sounds inelegant. Corrections welcome.
My little brother died this year. He was electrocuted and his heart stopped immediately. You can keep someones brain alive with cpr for around thirty minutes but they didn't have any available first responders (they have defibs) because of covid calls. They showed up an hour later.

Does he count as a covid death.
So can we place the whole body in a response header called X-Body:?
As an avid cyclist too, I think the biggest misunderstanding is you mentionned "trail", which you are probably confusing with "non paved path". That Bike Shaped Object mentionned up there would totally be destroyed in a few hours of riding any challenging trail at a decent speed. The fork would bend and lockup itself, the brake pads would be dead before reaching the bottom of the hill.

Another problem with buying such a lowend bike online is they are very often badly assembled. You might find quickly that it becomes noisy because some parts were installed without enough grease, or components may become nearly impossible to remove because of oxydation when it will become time to replace them, and it may just be unsafe because something hasn't been torqued to spec. I once had a thorough look at these kind of bikes and a sticker on the fork clearly stated it was not really rated to be used off road. Thanksfully the CE norms have been done so that bicycles do not explode on potholes filled roads so even a bike not made for off-road is made to survive common abuses on and off the pavement.

My biggest issue with these kind of cheap e-bikes with stupid barely functionnal gimmicks such as (badly) suspended fork and chinese low end electric system is they often turn very quickly to the landfill because something end up being non functionnal and the owner do not know how to fix it himself and which component to replace wit. So to the eyes of many what you really bought appears to be waste (or soon to be) which would have been better replaced by something that might last better. Take the same bike, replace the suspended fork with a steel rigid fork and remove the electronics and you have a bike that can be ridden for years with decent maintenance. But how many people will do that instead of sending it to the landfill and replacing it with the same shit when it gets to this point?

Having said that the good thing with cycling is you don't have to have the newest more expensive bike to enjoy riding and as long as you do it within the capabilities of the bike. And suprisingly a bike can be operated for long while being in a very bad state as long as speed is kept low, squeaking and grinding his way to your destination.
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This article is about the origin of the Omicron variant, not SARS-CoV-2 itself. So the lab-leak theory isn't really relevant to the discussion.
I currently work for Youtube. We identify conspiracy-seeking queries, and then boost results from authoritative sources. Don't see why we wouldn't also be doing this on Google. Maybe people don't bother searching for things when the results suck (or maybe they just use alternative means of searching)?
If I am a hostile government I'll simply shut your miner nodes down. It's like wearing blackclad outfit while wielding weapons in the broad daylight, it sends all the bad signal.
I wish they had "unchecked_sub()" instead, and default "-" would work like checked_sub().
Cryptopunks selling for 10 million $: https://www.larvalabs.com/cryptopunks

Or 532 million$ for https://www.cnet.com/news/why-this-cryptopunk-nft-sold-for-5...

A lot of it is greenwashing + fraud (eg. money laundering) + wales upping the price for a ( stupid) digital avatar. I would expect some people also earned a lot of money with crypto and are using it just as a way to show off.

The intrinsic value is yet to be determined. Let's see what happens when crypto drops like after 2017.

Edit: I just crawled OpenSea api and these are the results by it's collection market cap ( 50.100 collections).

The value quickly decimates and there are only 277 of 50100 collections with > 0 eth

Data: https://pastebin.com/NyLMcs7c ( not sure why cryptopunks is not in it though. All data without market cap from the api was filtered out)

Script ( linqpad) : http://share.linqpad.net/wkbrut.linq
I feel like this is what's happening in our household. We have a son at home, he watches a ton of youtube, and here and there he'll emulate what he sees others doing on there. Some of that is AAVE, words, pronunciation, etc, often from memes. And we tell him off for that, because it's not his culture or background. But at the same time, I feel like that creates a stronger divide, an "othering" of sorts - as in "we are not like them", instead of our intent of "you should not appropriate or make fun of African-American culture".
In the words of Donella Meadows, the ability to change paradigms -- very much in the realm of fiction -- is one of the greatest leverage points we have! Indeed, storytelling is one of our most important capacities.

Here's something I put out yesterday, a review of a story that doesn't exist, inspired Borges' Ficciones -- enabling me to get the key points out, without needing to write an entire book!

https://twitter.com/sambutlerUS/status/1477652218832695300
I can relate a lot to this having had mild depression over many years. All the advice and attempts at “fixing” the problem can just make you not want to talk about it. You just don’t want to hear the same damn advise over and over again.

I think what I found hardest is the assumption that a person with depression in addition to doing their job has energy and motivation to do a multitude of activities which is supposed to make you well.

One thing that helped me was to be on partial sick leave. I would go to work but spend less time there. The left over time I would spend on taking long walks. I would just walk through the city and look at old architecture.

It was a sort of real low effort activity I could pull off. A lot of other stuff was just too hard to motivate myself to.

You need stuff that is easy to do and be given the time to do it. With depression you don’t have energy and motivation to do all the normal chores.

The worst is when absolutely nothing is fun or interesting. Everything is just a void. All the things you normally love means nothing to you.

For me one of the most painful things was completely losing the joy of playing with my children. I had a lot of fun doing it before depression. But depression more or less permanently robbed me of that joy.

You feel terrible when playing with your own kids become the worst chore possible. You so want to like it. But you cannot because something is broken in your head.

Only positive I think has come out of it is a stronger ability to empathize with other people who struggle. It is easier to see how people are not necessarily living the life they want to live. They are just managing as best they can.
How do you guys like your coffee?
I like it the Bangalore way - traditional filter coffee. Hot and aroma-ful.
Newspaper can be sued. Twitter can't (section 230) because they are a platform that can't choose what to publish. But they now giving Congress the finger by acting like newspaper and still can't be sued. Essentially, new media are given protection while old media constrainted. I favor 230 removed or explicitly nullify if media show they can censor.
I just checked my Cloudflare account and assuming it hasn't changed too much since they set it up, on the API key creation page one is offered a number of common permissions setups none of which allow this type of attack. I believe this is sufficient evidence that the API key wasn't considered safe to distribute even internally around the company.
Anything beyond the scope of the next few weeks or max 1-2 months is hard to predict. Things change fast and suddenly priorities have to shift because of XYZ.

That is why we only communicate what we are working on at the moment. Thanks for checking in on the roadmap, it will be the place we will say when we start macOS.

For now I can tell you macOS is unlikely to be worked on in Q1 2022, as our resources are focused elsewhere. Beyond that, we honestly do not know.

fyi, in case you are not already, you can subscribe to the rss feed or the newsletter - which is a short version of the progress updates - to reduce friction of staying in the loop.
I disagree

If this variant is mostly asymptomatic, but spreads rapidly, in the vaccinated population, then you would also see higher rates in the vaccinated population, given that vaccinated people only test after they are notified that they have been in contact with someone who tested positive.

This gives a larger window for the virus to spread further among the vaccinated part of the population before containment.
This is so fucking desperate.
This whole thing is so fucking fucked up.
Somebody I love has been in depression for almost a year. I tried everything, including this suggested "stay with them in the dark until they are better, oh wait that time could never come, but you do stay there with them nevertheless". Thanks for the "advice". That's what I've been doing. It's draining and it's killing me. Burning out through such experience is a matter of months, unless you are fully well, physically and mentally happy and stable yourself w/ a lot of overage to give. Surprise - most people are not.
The article doesn't mention that at all.
Doesn't answer the question where the hell can we find the resource and support to sustain ourselves while also being in the somebody else's darkness.
Doesn't even mention that as a fundamental question.
And for many of us the situation of "can't leave my beloved one, can't live with them in the darkness" will result in a endless cycle of two depressed people locked up in the cave of mutual drowning.
I'm still here and I'm not gonna go.
It is a classic set of false alternatives. It isn't necessary for either side to dominate the other. More than that, there is obviously a wider breadth of preferences than the binary presented in the article. It is worth asking why this arguably dishonest premise is baked into the narrative.
Exploration of Workflow Management Systems from Users Perspectives [pdf]
For many decades now, but particularly strongly in past 6 years or so, being perceived as racist against so-called “marginalized groups” equates to career death in the professional world. This is true even if you are perceived to be racist only 3% time. For this reason, false accusation of racism is an abhorrent crime. If 3% racists aren’t given a pass, why should we give a pass 3% garbage dump rags?
For most services, if the static server is down, the service is down as far as the user is concerned.

Therefore the added dependency may not reduce end-user-percieved reliability.
What would he gain from doing that?
I strongly disagree with that. As we grow up we need to be exposed to dangerous things in a safe environment, so that we are not confronted with them later when we have no one to teach us. We are surrounded with dangerous tools (such as stoves, cars, freezers, furnaces, lawn mowers, credit cards, the internet, television, casinos, fast food, etc, etc) that absolutely require training to use. As a parent it is your job to provide that training.