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> I recall a hurricane knocking out the electricity for several days. At least back then we still had working gas-powered vehicles and landline telephones

I know. I really feel like wireless landlines should have more protection against that sort of thing. With the ones I've had at least, if the hub connected to your phone line loses electricity, the handsets are essentially beeping bricks nagging you about a power cut. I really wish this was factored into the design more.

It would be interesting to see a wireless landline that also worked as a standard phone, when docked into the main hub. When you dock the phone in the hub, there's two copper prongs that make contact. Surely they could be used to pass-through analogue telephone signals in the event of lost power to the hub?

Oh, addendum: I actually have an old sage rotary telephone I can put my hand on, but of course the line doesn't support pulse dialling so you can't actually ring out on it (though it can take incoming calls). It can't 'press' numbers, either. Such a shame.

You can actually convert pulse to tone signals through something called a DTMF module. In short, you take apart the phone, move around some contacts, add one or two resistors (and of course the module) and you're off to the races.

Oh, while writing my comment I found out there's actually discrete modules for pulse to tone conversion that you MITM your rotary phone with, so no DIY required. You can buy them from a few online stores[0], too.

[0]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pulse+to+tone+converter
Terribly misleading headline.

The study in question seems heavily biased toward people who were hospitalized with COVID:

> Findings: From a total of 2100 studies identified, 57 studies with 250 351 survivors of COVID-19 met inclusion criteria. The mean (SD) age of survivors was 54.4 (8.9) years, 140 196 (56%) were male, and 197 777 (79%) were hospitalized during acute COVID-19.

79% hospitalization rate is obviously not correct for the average COVID infection.

However, the study results are still significant: A large portion of the hospitalized COVID-19 patients are experiencing long COVID symptoms.

A separate question (that isn't really answered by this study) is how many non-hospitalized people are experiencing long COVID. That's a difficult question to answer because "long COVID" has various vague definitions. Unfortunately, I think we need to introduce multiple levels of long COVID to describe the symptoms, as the current definition is so broad that it covers everything from people experiencing mild nagging symptoms to people so debilitated that they struggle to be upright for any significant amount of time. Lumping the entire spectrum into a single definition seems like a quick way to downplay the severity of severe long COVID.
The Science of a Good Nap
You keep making these wild associations. Again it has nothing to do with stormfront. Nobody is shoving anything down anyone's throat.

This is about two consenting adults not being able to exchange text messages with each other because the middlemen censors do not approve of the contents.
> when it's going pear shaped

I think this means “when it’s going bad”, but what does “pear shaped” mean? And why a pear?
To whatever degree a thing is treatable with medication, I think it can be deemed to be a medical condition with somatopsychic side effects. And we should strive to embrace that idea and figure out how to heal whatever is wrong physically, in cases where that is one element of the issue.

Mental health issues are hard in part because the person who has it can't trust their own judgement. If people around you don't understand or are trying to force a solution on you against your will that isn't actually in your best interest, that combo can help keep you stuck.

I'm glad it's getting talked about. That's definitely a step in the right direction.
Covid is real, vaccines are good, etc, etc.

But why has everyone switched like thi? Freyr is correct. The OP put forward the proposition, it's up to them to provide data that makes the case.
> My wife was married before me, it was terrible, and eventually divorced him.

And yet you dismissed my original comment with a cheap shot about my friend not honoring his wedding vow and just chasing a selfish happiness. You might consider that there are many other people who find themselves in terrible marriages, as your wife did.
Past exposure to vaccines and subsequent risk of Alzheimer's disease
As someone who has studied and passed before in this manner, and is now an interviewer, I have a simple solution that other companies should follow:

for at least one round of interviewing, let me (the interviewer) use my own custom question, where the goal is not so much to solve it but rather to reason outloud collaboratively about many different aspects of the question.

I like to use 3d graphics as a domain that candidates most likely havent seen before, but sufficiently motivated/smart ones can hold their own in. If someone doesn't quickly and intuitively grasp that a shape is a collection of faces, and a face is a collection of points, and a point is a collection of vertices, I'm not sure that they have what I am personally looking for (even though we dont do any 3d graphics in our project)
I wonder when fecal microbiome transplant will be the next 'just try psilocybin / ketamine' and if it will work well.

Find a happy friend and freeze some of their poop, put it in gelcap, swallow it. See if it fixes the eternal sad.
Thanks for sharing your experience and these resources. I read/watched each of them.

The OCD ones were especially interesting — I actually clicked around to some of the other articles on that site. I relate very much to the “obsessive” bits, but not so much to the “compulsion”. I spend a stupid amount of time thinking of past events, worrying about my mental health, and rehearsing imaginary conversations. I also obsess heavily about aspects of my girlfriend’s past, and this is something that has been observed by my therapist. I don’t know that I would qualify as OCD, though.

Congruent depression is something I wonder about a lot, although I haven’t heard it described in those terms before. I most often think about it in the context of Johann Hari’s TED Talk [1]. If I have congruent depression, it’s because I’m lonely. At the same time, I have no desire to hang out with people. This problem has really been exacerbated by Covid since I’ve been working remotely. I used to get “enough” social interaction from being in the office, but now I haven’t seen any of my coworkers in nearly 2 years.

Thanks again for sharing. Would love to hear more of your thoughts if anything else comes to mind.

[1]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MB5IX-np5fE
I had come across a book where the author had divided chapters into two categories, i) Regular chapters and ii) Sidebar chapters.
This book was about building something with a particular framework.

Regular chapters were about the topic itself. And sidebar chapters explained what's going on with the framework behind the scene.

The first time when I read the book I skipped the sidebar chapters and later once I had some experience with that framework I went through the sidebar chapters.

So, yeah I also believe that "The right length for a book is between the reader and the topic." And wish to see more topics/technologies covered in that manner.
What's the rule this uses?

I think I'd use FreeCAD to try out different ways of doing equal spacing or equal center distance or what not and see what looked right.
Get a therapist as soon as you can. They can help you reason through this and come up with a strategy to resolve it.

My burn out cost me a job and my confidence. It takes a long time to recover.
I no longer have access to the code, and the kernel has since been patched. Mostly doing some observability around new network connections.

We definitely hit this one at some point: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1763454

We also ran into a couple of similar but unrelated panic bugs on much newer kernels on non-Ubuntu distros.
It's directly linked in the article anyways
I do not even want to think of what grad school would have been like without Zotero. A shudder-inducing thought.
FWIW: I'm genuinely confused that you believe she was better off because you left, yet you feel like a monster and crave some kind of outside validation.
Decimal floating point has been specified in IEEE-754 since 2008.

IBM implements it in hardware on their big computers.
Be honest: a candidate that works through a seemingly novel problem correctly is getting a much better review than another candidate that admitted they've done the question before and breezes through it. And this is assuming your interview round doesn't get thrown out entirely to begin with.
> If you've seen the question/answer before just say so!

In my experience failing to answer the alternative question you give me has (on average) a much more negative impact than pretending I don’t know your question (especially when I can explain it).
Which colouring agent is doing that to you?
Adam has definitely advocated that approach. Not that I'm some kind of authority, but I strongly second it.

Early in life, my uncle Ray suggested doing that and showed off an impressive collection of tools. And he was that fix it uncle that had a big influence on me as a kid. We tore into basically everything and I never saw him without some book or other close by. One thing he liked to do was stock the car trunk in addition to the shop stuff. Road tools get lost, loaned out, abused, whatever it may take to deal with a scenario on the road. To that end, I've put some of those cheaper high count sets that come in the fold up containers. Perfect for the trunk.

And a diverse collection is really the other side benefit. Gives a person a lot of options. Most of the time they all see light use except for a few. Going expensive limits the collection unnecessarily and that limits what one can do, or might attempt to do, again unnecessarily.

The value from having a broad set of stuff generally exceeds the replacements that will come along the way. And that's mostly true, even when there are periods of inactivity. Others may benefit. Doesn't hurt to lend a tool, or a hand to help someone else get through a project.

And frankly, as people gain experience, learning where tool limits are tends to cut back on the wear and tear on even cheapo tools. It all tends to add right up.

The other strategy I would suggest is scoring tools every year at yard / garage sale time. Estates are often great for this too.

Sometimes I will see a collection and just bulk buy if I can. Over time I've lost some while moving and that was a great way to stock back up and have a lot of options for not very many dollars.

The only variation I would suggest is to avoid very rock bottom stuff, like dollar store, or that crap in the hardware store promo bin. Some of those might not even survive the first use! But, it can be hard to tell too, YMMV.
most VCs are soccer stars.

startups are basketball.

soccer and basketball are conceptually similar. both involve teams of players dribbling, passing, and shooting into goals. both require agility, teamwork, and endurance to succeed.

yet they differ in key dimensions to the point where no one assumes skill in one translates to the other.

similarly, investing and entrepreneurship share much in common but diverge in key areas. two cardinal rules of investing are: (1) diversify and (2) don't lose money. in entrepreneurship, these are cardinal sins. because of limited resources, startups fail when their bets aren't concentrated. startups also fail when prematurely optimizing costs because innovation is inherently wasteful.

to be clear, many VCs offer immense value and are instrumental to startup success. most are extremely intelligent and business savvy. the best ones adopt advisory roles, not managerial ones, providing insights and guidance that alter company trajectories, recognizing that it is your vision and drive, not their capital, that produces lucrative exits and world-changing companies.

if you have an opportunity to partner with talented and trustworthy VCs, strongly consider the option.

the simplest heuristic for evaluating VCs is this: if you removed capital from the equation, would you still hire them as your boss?
I see clinics doing sports medicine, endoscopies and sexual health. Lots of comments about “super expensive”.

No hospitals or major research centers that would actually be anywhere near the issues happening in NS.
Yes, I used to use it, but switched to Strongbox due to TOTP support and the accompanying iOS app.
> Eric Raymond went so far as to say that understanding LISP is a “profound enlightenment experience.”

Maybe this is true for language hobbyists or whatever, but every few years throughout my career, I went back to LISP or LISP-like languages and never found it super profound. Do I need to spend more time on a project? I just don't get the same excitement others seem to get.
Curlie: Human edited directory of the web
I found this researched linked to this nice article https://www.alzdiscovery.org/cognitive-vitality/blog/is-ther... - They’re linking to other research too like https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC81665/ and while that one has more test subjects they’re all having kidney disease which could influence the result. I’m wondering though that while there’s a correlation between vaccinations and reduction in things like Alzheimer’s whether the real correlation is that the people who take vaccines are more conscious or focused on their health?
The kernel, however, can and does have bugs. I've seen several thousand hosts get taken down with a perfectly correct eBPF program due to a buggy kernel.
Today, I came across a Tweet from Paul related to this issue - https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1477760548787920901. Looks like this is a growing problem.
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0 impact for me. Data set is 1, and 20-22 months after recovery. YMMV. Hope the rest can overcome what lingering symptoms they have.
My experience with Upwork is that the market is flooded with low quality providers from the third-world such that it's impossible to earn a living EU or US wage.
Height isn't a good measure of health. Taller people are said to be happier but that is likely culture specific.

Did they have real health benefits besides extra height?
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There are lots of things that wouldn’t exist if humans didn’t exist. The question is whether or not math is one of these things. No one is doubting the existence of mathematics. What is doubted by a great many people is whether or not math exists independent of human existence. If math is an intrinsic part of the universe then is logic also an intrinsic part of the universe? If so is it the standard logic used in mathematics? Does it include the Law of the Excluded Middle?
RPM would be nice, too. But maybe that's too much to ask for...

Alternatively, what about AppImage? At least that will run "everywhere".
It's also a common pattern with code review: make a 100 lines change and you'll get at least 10 comments with endless bikeshedding, make a 100k lines change and people will say LGTM in no time.
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That's reasonable, makes a lot of sense.
Has there been any progress on self-hostable Zotero Storage? I got kind of frustrated being forced to rely on their sync hosting and haven't used it in years.

Edit: it looks like they support WebDAV, which I now have set up but didn't in the past. Maybe I can try it again using that protocol.
You can do that in almost any language, though.

There was a furry who worked as a web developer for a small firm. He had built their back-end runtime in MUCK scripting language. (A MUCK is like a MUD, but without the statistics and stuff, so it's much less a role-playing game than it is simply role-playing.) Eventually he was fired, probably because he spent more time pretending to be a highly sexualized female fox on MUCKs than doing his job, but the back end to all their web apps was written in MUCK code -- and few non-furries even knew what a MUCK was let alone how to program one. So the befuddled engineers who remained had to figure out how to modify the code without their vulpine-in-his-own-mind former colleague.

They uh, also didn't notice the backdoor he put into the web server that allowed him to spy on their activities, even though he was gone from the company...
>If you've seen the question/answer before just say so!

In reality no one will do this though. There is way to much of an incentive on the candidate side to lie and work through as if they haven't seen it before.
Inflation is balooning. Even before the recent large expansion of the money supply, holding cash is a losing proposition. Makes way more sense for emergency expenses to go on credit while you liquidate assets, rather than having cash sitting around waiting to get obliterated via invisible redistribution.

I read this more as "lots of rational Americans have the collateral or access to collateral for a loan, and some subset of those can afford to get obliterated by inflation by holding large sums of USD."
> If you've seen the question/answer before just say so!

I did that once at FAANG interview, instead of honesty credits I felt like the interviewer just got annoyed by having to come up with another question.
I've given up using Google or any search engine for that matter when it comes to tools purchasing decisions (other product categories too, for that matter). First use, I buy from Hazard Fright. If it gets janky on first use or wears out with enough use, I search in the forums where the trades hang out in discussing what they use, wince while reaching into my wallet, and pay for a built-for-business grade tool. There are a few YouTube channels I refer to as well (examples are Project Farm and Mike Festiva) for tools and consumables recommendations.

I always observe what tools trades carry when they work on my properties, and chat with them over the drinks and snacks I offer them, on what they like and don't like. That figures heavily into my decisions.

Google's main purpose these days for me is non-mainstream, far niche searches. I've taken to looking into deploying my own ArchiveBox to just store my own curated search results that I like. When I initially noticed the SEO spam around 20 years ago, I began to prepare for it by manually saving into text files the page links off of search results that I used, and that has helped me a lot. Ironically, I'm building my own personal Yahoo Directory. I don't see any solution on the horizon to SEO pollution getting better, so I want to scale up my solution.
> Fewer than 4 in 10 people have enough savings to pay for an unexpected $1,000 expense in cash.

> The rest would have to borrow, use a credit card or take out a personal loan.

What was the income distribution overall of folks in the survey? Do folks not have $1K specifically because they're living paycheck to paycheck, across income levels, or is it because they lack saving habits?
Twitter bans Marjorie Taylor Greene's personal account over Covid misinformation
It originated in the British Royal Air Force where an imperfectly-executed loop-de-loop would go 'pear shaped' instead of round as intended. Interestingly it then played off the British tendency for understatement so that something that meant 'a bit wonky' slid into meaning 'off the rails busted'.
You deflected the deflection.
It's not like you would render and display the diffs in 2k emails at the same time either.
I think the problem is that we all expect to get perfect results. We want automated systems to identify and remove unimportant useless things. But how will those systems get to know that?

We can't build another AI black box to try and do that. There is a option in search to report spam or improve search results.

Out of our laziness and expecting getting everything perfect, sometimes collectively working and reporting bad content-copying websites, etc. would be collectively useful for all.

Search had gotten so good that we probably expected to get perfect results everytime. Untill bad guys started to game it. I beleive it's more of cat and mouse game, and where all users collectively should help and mark as spam.
When interest rates are below inflation, it may make sense for many people to extend themselves as far as they can to acquire assets, nominally spending more than they earn. The current market makes it very tempting to short the USD via low interest loans to buy speculative holdings.
I totally agree. I think that business and self help books are the worst offenders for this: lots of potentially embellished, or plain made up “stories” to wade through, when just getting to the point would work better for me.
I mean that Lisp's composite type, tuple, always has only two elements. Lists are just syntactic sugar over tuples. This means it is pretty simple to iterate via recursion, without special iteration-related functions -- see _evlist in the post for example.

Compared to that, TCL's composite type is "list", which has an arbitrary number of elements, and recursive iteration is not as simple. Yes, one can use "lindex"/"lrange" to do LISP-style recursive iteration, but this is not idiomatic at all and has horrible performance. Instead, people use foreach/explicit numeric indices, and this needs more support and special iterating-related functions, see [0] for example.

[0] https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Map+in+functional+programming
Today, or since 1970ish? https://www.bgsu.edu/content/dam/BGSU/college-of-arts-and-sc...
They do support it, currently only in four regions. My guess is they will enable IPv6 in all regions this year, due to competition from other providers and gov requirements.

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/ip-addresses/configure...
Banning Drones from China Has Hurt U.S. Ability to Fight Forest Fires
I think the Covid vaccines have proven to be utterly ineffective compared to other shots. No one talks about "Covid immunity" via vaccine but the 'immunity' word is overwhelmingly used for other vaccines. Looks like Pfizer/BioNTech made bank and laughing their way while rising in the top billionaires list.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/malaria...

Dec: "The co-founder of BioNTech SE on Thursday joined the world's 500 richest people after the U.K. this week approved use of a Covid-19 vaccine that the German firm created with Pfizer Inc."
You still should need to ask clarifying questions, because the specification of many problems is intentionally incomplete.

Beyond that though, you can just be honest and say you know a problem and they can either pick another or just talk about it anyway.
It’s an interesting theory but the meth from the 1970’s was all P2P and we didn’t see the same impact.
> If the people of China decided to march on Beijing tomorrow nothing in the world could stop them

That is utterly untrue. Have you seen the "Tank Man" photo [1]?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man
> With public key crypto you can implement a challenge response.

Or just use a client side TLS certificate to authenticate instead of or in addition to the username and password.
I find this very insightful, thanks for sharing!
I ended up in jail without any prior notice, for 8 years. You can imagine how much of my online life was still there when I got out.
This is a massive story and hugely under-reported.

Most of the claims for deaths being filed are not classified as COVID-19 deaths, Davison said.

“What the data is showing to us is that the deaths that are being reported as COVID deaths greatly understate the actual death losses among working-age people from the pandemic. It may not all be COVID on their death certificate, but deaths are up just huge, huge numbers.”
Didn't git do exactly that in preparing those emails to be sent? I wonder how long it took for that command to run.