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> I learned last night that Richard M. Stallman (RMS) has articles about him on Vice that are narrowly focused on some of his weighing in on the Epstein case.

If you mean https://www.vice.com/en/article/9ke3ke/famed-computer-scient..., please note that that article misconstrues what was said.

Both the headline and the article claim that Stallman said Giuffre was "entirely willing;" a read of the provided emails shows otherwise. He said that she probably appeared to Minsky to be "entirely willing;" that Minsky would have been unaware of coercion, not that there was none.

There are absolutely things to object to in what he said, but we should be objecting to what he said, not the words some (apparently) shoddy journalists are putting in his mouth.
While this is of course possible in theory, it's not at all what was being done in this experiment.
Once in a while, some DRM does work in buying some time for the copyright holder. Denuvo has sometimes led to games taking longer to be cracked, in some cases for a few weeks or even months, enough to perhaps capture some of the initial rush of purchases for a video game. Of course, there will be consumers who don't want to buy games with DRM as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denuvo
Interesting, I did not know this. I'm now curious!

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02550-8 is a brief Nature post from Peter Tsai, who invented this electrostatic filter. In it he says that the charge are "permanent," and adds:

> They wanted to sterilize the masks for reuse without damaging them or destroying the electrostatic charge. I knew that heat would not alter the charge, but that alcohol would erase it.

The N95DECON project says that masks can be reused if stored at room temperature and do not lose efficiency: https://www.n95decon.org/publications#time

I see some studies that find that various decontamination methods (high heat, various disinfectants) can cause the charge to dissipate, e.g., https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7724761/ - but I'm not advocating doing any of those, I'm just advocating leaving it hanging on a hook by your door when you get home. And, interestingly, those studies show that while filtration may drop below 95%, it's still pretty high, so I think that yes, a discharged N95 is still more effective than a cloth mask. But it'd be good to find a direct study.

I'm having trouble finding a source that says the filtration performance drops after a day. I did find something that says that the N95 standard requires it must keep working for at least 24 hours, but that's the other direction.

(And, anecdotally... the masks I ordered are shipped stacked together, not individually wrapped, in a cardboard box. They've presumably been in the box for a while at the warehouse. While it's true that cardboard is an insulator, so is air, and I'm not sure that the mask hanging by my door is losing charge any faster than the mask sitting in the box.)

One thing that does seem to be true is that getting the mask wet can cause the charge to dissipate. If I'm wearing my mask in humid conditions and biking (I usually leave my mask on if I'm stopping frequently), I'll notice that it gets damp, and I do change it when that happens. If your home is extraordinarily humid, maybe put your mask in a brown paper bag or something.
That ship to Benghazi sailed a long time ago.
Conducting investigations is something that congress does, and has centuries of precedent supported by the Supreme Court, including the investigation of crimes
I once came in to work on a Monday to find a 200 email thread from a clique of idiot coworkers who had been feverishly working on a bug over the weekend, only to discover that our locks were fundamentally flawed, though that was at email 50. Around email 52, someone who actually knows how to use a RW lock (and has written research papers on lockless data structures) says, "no, they are fine, you're just doing it wrong, see [link]". The rest of the 150 emails were the idiots talking among themselves learning how locks work, and convincing themselves they now knew how to "work around" the bug (i.e. use the lock correctly).

This is not a thread about idiots, and actually these guys were trying their hardest to be conscientious employees... It was just a noisy and stupid way for several people who should have known better to learn how to do a simple and fundamental part of their job. (The one who falsely diagnosed the bad locking code was a 15 year veteran "senior" engineer. <scoffs>)
I'm currently a student getting a master's in computer science. In my experience, having the code available in research papers is rare, but useful. Many times I find myself struggling to understand how something can be implemented or, when presented with choices, choosing one when reading research papers. When the paper has the code published I am able to follow it better.

Some papers link to the code instead of including it. Maybe I'm just unlucky, but this usually leads to dead links (but that's a different topic altogether).
They are trivial to implement, but not desirable if you want your project to integrate with the company's existing codebase and be able to draw on a large base of preexisting algorithms.

A company like Google/Facebook(Meta)/Amazon doesn't want many redundant copies of binary tree implementations per language in their code base. In general they'd want one implementation with a suite of algorithms that can operate on it.

Maybe if your implementation is very specific to the task at hand it might make sense; otherwise I'd expect to use a binary tree via something like a sorted container interface. For example, in Java, something like java.util.TreeMap [1], which I understand is implemented as a binary tree.

Unless you were building a compiler or data store or something very specific and optimized, I see the need for building one as unlikely.

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/TreeMap....
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This should not be difficult to do yourself. That is, you should be able to provide an improved format! with this feature as say renox::format! and provide popular format-using macros like renox::println! and renox::print! too based on the existing code, simply using the same license as Rust's standard library.

Only the macro knows the name of the variable, so you can't do this inside the formatter itself.
I got my first computer in the days of CD-ROM and was amazed that a CD could hold more data than my Win95 (later Red Hat 6 (not RHEL)) Pentium Packard Bell's 512MB HDD could.
"Also I think we have shown using a variant of Galois theory that there can not be a closed from solution for the nth prime."

I don't think this is correct. For one, it is not clear what "closed form" would mean in this context. I think a reasonable variant would be "is there a polynomial time algorithm that, given n, outputs the nth prime." While my guess would be that the answer is no, I am certain that this is not known (and probably far, far out of reach).
> If you want to subpoena information, you need to be specific and targeted

On one hand, a congressional subpoena for "non-public moderation discussions and policies" is broad. On the other hand, there is certainly some version of that request that is within reasonable scope for a subpoena. In the hypothetical world where passing legislation in the US were still possible and Congress was capable of regulating Big Tech (e.g. changing Section 230 or so on), this is exactly the sort of thing a Congressional Subpoena would make sense for, since there would be a germane policy making interest in obtaining this information.

> I just don't see what warrants this round of grandstanding.

The paradox of Big Tech: everyone hates Big Tech because they think their political adversaries control Big Tech.

The Left views Big Tech as monopolies controlled by techno-libertarian ultra-billionaires. The Right views Big Tech as Democrat companies controlled by radical leftist censors.

(As an aside: in a sense, both views have a kernel of truth. Big Tech employees skew left, especially on social issues, although not nearly as homogeneously as the right seems to think and individual FAANG employees have far less power than people seem to imagine. On the other hand, the leadership of these companies are definitely not natural allies of progressives, but are also not -- AFAICT -- nearly as villainous as the left seems to think.)

But the real thing that both have in common is conspiratorial brain candy with Big Tech as the modern stand-in for Illuminati or whatever.
If you have a better solution, then start your own company.
> Good, US has been spending unfair share and has been the nanny of the world.

Do you really believe the US has been doing that selflessly?

I mean, it's OK to no longer want to be an imperialistic nation. The feeling I get from people with that kind of message, though, is that they usually don't want to lose the benefits of being hegemonic. They just don't want to pay the upkeep for it.
I think that phoneme sounds and looks silly. The whole putting the tongue out in order to properly pronounce "th" is very weird for Portuguese speakers. Like in this scene from The Hunchback of Notre Dame, where Claude Frollo says: "The sentence: death!":

https://i.imgur.com/lBEU5Zk.png

It's very funny to watch this in Portuguese because the word he uses is "morte", and he looks very stupid putting the tongue out after saying "morte".
Wow I wonder why the climate is dying. No way is the desire to take the easy way out related

/s
Hackers Bring Down Government Sites in Ukraine
What money?
I think chat bots exist in our world because people would rather "ask a question on a forum" than search and have direct access to an answer. It drives me crazy too, but it's how we get "does anyone else ever..." memes in this world. People don't want information, they want the experience of asking the question and the discussion. The answer is not the primary force of their effort.

It also seems to be the conversational model in use at parties.
Using rails 7 at work and we’re building new features with Hotwire and sprinkles of stimulusjs. So far so good. Happy and productive as promised.
It's possible the author has multiple personalities, it's a good thing that they are running a multi-user operating system.
Hyperbole, but not a joke. Our current infrastructure is based around AC because it was the superior technology in 1880s. It won the current wars. It was the superior technology until just recently.

(U)HVDC is more efficient at transmitting power over long distances. Solar power generation is becoming more viable. And local grids are going to become more necessary than ever. All of that points toward DC being the better candidate for power generation and use in the future.

Obviously AC is still needed today, and will be for a long time while DC technology keeps ramping up. RVs and Boats and tiny homes are all increasingly switching to full DC appliances with no inverters.

But to consider that the argument between AC and DC is settled 150 years ago neglects the technology we have today.
How many people do you think were actually there to delay certification of election results? The overwhelming majority of people who stepped onto the Capitol grounds are charged only with simple trespassing. Even most of the people who entered the actual building were just trespassing and did not take things further. There were nearly 10000 people who marched from the earlier Trump rally to the area outside the Capitol. A few hundred entered the Capitol grounds, and my guess is that most of the rioters were intending to be peaceful protesters and got carried away.

> If they had control of more institutions, it would likely have been more successful.

Isn’t this the pot calling the kettle black? The political left does control most of the institutions, including most mainstream press outlets, virtually all academic institutions, and all notable tech companies. The one thing I can take away from January 6th that is about the security of our elections doesn’t relate to the security of physical buildings. One political side was able to compel all these institutions to take up their political cause, and have engaged in state-motivated censorship of political adversaries. Hiding behind the legality of whether a private organization can censor is not really meaningful. Democracy begins a lot earlier than when we line up to vote. That to me is a much more direct threat to the stability of our country than anything else.
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I think if rioters were killed trying to breach the senator room it would be a lot less of a political issue, with them clearly being portrayed as villains even by republicans.
Might need to use a credit union instead of a traditional bank.
It's absolutely possible to be rational and yet wrong. It's also entirely possible to promote or allow something for a while and then decide it has finished serving its purpose.
That sounds quite like the Azorean Portuguese I'd hear in the SF Bay Area, except I think modern Azoreans in the Azores probably have been exposed to a lot of Brazilian TV and music and so have probably "normalized" a bit toward the "centroid" of a pan-luso pronunciation. The SF Bay Area Azoreans I'd hear probably stuck to an "older original accent" and so were probably further from the Brazilian Portuguese I grew up with.
Youtube recommends videos you are likely to click on. It is unclear to me what else they are supposed to recommend.

It is also unclear to me that the recommendations ought to be moderated by some embedded state entity to make sure the results align with what is in political vogue.
Classic subscriber here, same.

- I never really liked the Humble Choice mechanism. More quantity, usually less quality
- I certainly don’t need another crappy game launcher
- Despite moving all my gaming to a windows box after macOS Catalina, I’m disappointed at the loss of macOS/Linux options

I’ll stick with Steam, GOG, and itch. And resentfully Origin and Ubisoft when I want to play Mass Effect: LE or an Ubi sandbox.
I mean this is just unrealistic. There are plenty of valid reasons not to want to publish code. For example, you want to commercialize the product. As long as you are given a description of the system you can always go and reimplement it yourself if you are not being lazy.
Great to see this! Not to the same scale as seizure but using buymeacoffee.com for OSS donations PayPal would lock my account every month or two until I uploaded a bunch of documents (which were always the same docs each time). Each time it was a little uncertain if I'd be able to get my money out or not. Meanwhile PayPal would happily continue to receive money in my name that I didn't have access to.
All banks I've using have strong 3D secure. One of the banks require biometrics approve with installed phone app. I have no issues directly use credit card on random merchant sites for years. Especially when most of them use one of the popular payment aggregators.
Via TLP on Linux, I've been capping my laptop's CPU (i7-8665U) to 800Mhz whenever I'm on battery. 800Mhz on a relatively modern CPU is quite remarkably fast and sufficient for most things.

Out of curiosity I've got CPU Frequency being polled periodically and updated in my taskbar, and the CPU spends a remarkable amount of time bouncing between ~600Mhz and ~800Mhz, because even when actively working, it's quite quiescent. Obviously compiling, running test suite, browsing etc. etc. will cause it to jump up to full speed (4.1Ghz with turbo, or there abouts).

One of the things I've found myself doing is paying a bit more attention to _what_ is consuming CPU resources when that frequency goes up. For example, I noticed that Zoom will randomly consume a couple of % of a CPU for about 20-30 seconds periodically. I know it also maintains some kind of notification hook to Zoom infrastructure. I don't need that persistent feature, so now I have a lightweight bash script that looks to see if I'm in a Webinar or Meeting, and if not, nukes zoom. The advantages are probably minimal, at best, but it took my fancy for whatever reason :)
Nanny as in defense pacts and treaties with other nations, which is why the MIC is sustained. It’s a strategic tool. Selling defense equipment is big business.
No way to fail it but you also can't pass a non-existent test. N/A for cases like this would be more accurate.
Sometimes revolution == acceleration

For example if French just guillitoned one bad guy per year, it probably would not be called French Revolution
Scale, context, size, and defense of the actions of the rioters mostly.
Given the martyr treatment Ashli Babbitt has gotten, I would not be so sure.
Didn't the certification end up taking until January 7th anyways? IMO the bulk of the impact was purely symbolic. Even though Congress didn't declare Biden president-elect on the assigned day, his inauguration still happened on schedule.
Richard Parry-Jones, former CTO of Ford, said:

Some in the company would say, "Richard why are you doing that? Spending all the money on chassis and steering? Customers never ask about things like that." But they were wrong. People got into a Focus and said, "I really like driving it." You'd ask why and they'd say, "I don't know; I just do." Understanding why they like it is our job. I tracked customer satisfaction against attributes like steering, brakes, spaciousness, and so on. To people's amazement, I was able to prove that steering was the most strongly correlated, because bad steering is tiring.

This article is not arguing for manual steering, since that's pretty tough for big cars, but I had a Miata for 28 years with manual. Wow, what a difference! But I have to say, parallel parking was quite an effort.
First, you should be proud of yourself for striving to do "the right thing".

In the field I follow the most (Computer Graphics/Rendering) I think there is a big problem with reproducibility as well, and to be honest, I think some of the major players actually have little interest in making this significantly better, since they can take advantage of the visibility of a flashy render/fps counter shown at an event while still keep on building a "moat" between them and others that want to adopt the same methods.

Which is in the end partly an answer to your question: your paper could clearly describe all the elements needed to implement a method correctly, but by providing a sample implementation you allow others to "stand" on your shoulders, as they say, instead of having to climb there first and then proceed. You can not worry too much about the state of your codebase by making clear via README/documentation/license that it's still in "proof of concept" phase.

One reasonable observation I have heard is that in some fields, during peer review, some reviewers seem to like to nitpick on the code rather than the paper, sometimes in subtle ways. Because of that, I think it can be (unfortunately) OK to release the code after acceptance or publication. But apart from this, I see only advantages.
Cassandra Trie Memtable Implementation
Is it too late for you to edit the submission? Might be better/more relevant now you know! Does look interesting, but no point submitting separately.
This is devastating to those users affected by this, but I believe that the blame doesn't lie solely with PayPal. Unfortunately there are many laws they must comply with that delegate enforcement to private companies like PayPal rather than where is belongs - the government.

From the article:
PayPal allegedly sent his wife a letter that says she "violated PayPal's User Agreement and Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) by accepting payments for the sale of injectable fillers not approved by the FDA."

If PayPal DOESN'T freeze the account and hold the money, they can get in far larger trouble with the government. Why should PayPal be involved in this enforcement at all? If the FDA doesn't like what this seller is doing, let the FDA themselves go after the seller and leave PayPal out of it. But the law doesn't work that way.

I had $10k's in an account with BofA that was frozen and nearly killed the closing on a house I was buying at the time. Because they had a mailbox address on file for me, rather than my home address. It was horrible for me, but that's what the says that they had to do, and if they didn't the could end up in trouble with the feds facing huge penalties.

Let's try to empathize with all parties and think rationally about the incentives and constraints that they face.
While I acknowledge the irony you are pointing out, even that is a feature of the world we live in, where humans are unable to coordinate. Eliminating DRM is just one of the many wonders we could accomplish if we could "simply" coordinate the efforts of all software engineers on the planet.

Because if you don't implement DRM, then you simply raise the marginal price that it costs a company to do so, and you make another engineer – who is willing to implement it – marginally richer, thus indirectly rewarding behavior you despised in the first place!

The only ways to eliminate things like DRM are to either globally coordinate all software engineers' efforts (probably impossible), or somehow... socially change the incentives such that DRM is a net-loss for content producers? Also seems probably impossible.
Around 75% of republicans believe Trump won the 2020 election, and that number has been substantiated by multiple polls at this point. I'd like to say that the coup attempt didn't have the support of the populace, but frankly I'm not sure.
You're really making a fool of yourself.

“Amateurs discuss tactics, professionals discuss operations, teenagers discuss gun caliber”, here we are.
Maybe this worked for you but this isn't going to work for many people. I'm guessing clothes coming off a chrome shelving unit would look like you put them in a waffle iron. You can buy drying units that use dehumidification. The problem is they take a long time to run and they're expensive and prone to failure. There are more sources of energy than just the electricity that comes out of the wall. How much energy went into creating that heat exchanger? How much energy is going to go into the repairs when the evaporator drain backs up and causes water damage? What about the service on the compressor or a coolant leak?

How many clothes could you possibly get onto an Ikea rack? 10min to rack the shelves but how many racks of cloths? If you were working all day that would be one rack worth per day. Maybe you're doing some sort of minimalist thing but this isn't going to work for a large number of people. There is no way an Ikea rack is going to be able to handle an entire load so you're either leaving most of the cloths in the washing machine wet while you dry each rack or you're running extremely small loads which has its own environmental impact since it's much less efficient than a single large load.

I've seen this a lot with "eco" solutions. When you start counting all the real costs, all of them, like bringing in a plumber because your "eco" solution screwed up the plumbing or to fix the Rube Goldberg machine you've created to save one watt of electricity, or the enormous material costs of your complex solution you find that what you've already got is probably close to the best you can do. I could replace my less than optimal window and it would probably cost me $300 and I doubt I would even see the difference in the heating bill but just consider how much energy it takes to melt glass. I'd be willing to bet it's more energy than will pass through that inefficient window in its entire lifetime.
I moved to mac to avoid thinking about config file from linux and drivers from windows. And it does exactly that.