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Wikipedia has an article about historical computations of Earth's circumference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_circumference#Histor...

They used some pretty low-tech means to do so, which you could probably reproduce if you were so inclined.
If it's at all possible that it's behind us (which I believe it is), then this finding would be bad, because it necessarily shifts probability density into our future. Probability density must sum to 1. So eliminating one large chunk of possibility will necessarily increase the odds that the filter is in our future.
But with that thinking society will never progress. If we take everything in the past on faith, then we will stay stuck in those ideas of the past. New ideas often come out of challenging the old ones, especially when that change is revolutionary.

It's not a matter of mindset but the sheer impracticality. As individual, we can only question small parts of humanity's knowledge base.
I think an absolute minimum barrier to widespread adoption of XR is the clunky uncomfortable headsets. They are an absolute nightmare to wear for any longer than a half hour. Until the headsets have the same form factor and weight as a pair of sunglasses, I don't think the "metaverse" is going to impact anyone's lives beyond news articles. And even then, there's a long way to go before XR becomes as convenient as a screen.

I'd love for XR to take off in a big way, it would be heroin for my inner nerd who has wanted a HUD ever since I played Metroid Prime as a kid. But I try to stay realistic.
I think the modern version of this is forgetting where a script, cron, lambda or whatever is running from.

I have something that sends me an occasional email. I haven't needed it in years, but it's not in any of the AWS regions I remember ever using. Nor in the obvious places I might have put it playing around with azure or google cloud or whatever. I'm sure I could find it if I really tried but t only emails me once or twice a year so I just let it be.
Shot from seasonal ailment two seasons ago not effective this season, here is the most random news source you can find to tell this obvious truth
> Messing with Ukrainian democracy has started on April 3, 2008,

Aha, checks out. Welcome to HN Internet Research Agency employee
Yeah. F# is possibly my favorite language. The tooling was really rough on Linux last time I looked (admittedly, quite some time ago). Its compiler was also not what I’d call fast (compared to ago or OCaml). But yeah. It may be a good candidate, actually! I’ll try kicking the tires this week.
Snow Leopard was great to work on. When we were told the next release of OSX would focus on stability and performance, morale went way up. Having a massive backlog of bugs felt like an unseen energy vampire, sucking away the will to live. You just knew some user out there is hating life because you don't have time to address their issue. The Radar issue count for Finder was in the tens of thousands alone and it could be argued each bug was worthy of being fixed.
There is nothing wrong with the product vision. Remove the part about the handcrank and monochrome screen, and you are basically describing a modern day Macbook. Unfortunately they did not have the budget of Apple to deliver such a device.
In fairness, a big part of the soap-opera tier drama from the 90s emu scene was centered around one very big thing: ROM begging. I mean, you go through all the trouble of writing an emulator, you release it at no cost, and for your trouble you wind up getting an avalanche of people begging for ROMs... yeah, I'd be a little annoyed too.
There is a reason tired old tropes become tired old tropes.
I'd say this is a fair assessment of the project. It came off as overambitious with a number of high-risk project management decisions made at the expensive of a minimum-viable initial product. And this was just looking at it from an engineering point of view, ignoring whether it did actually provide value over other options for educational spending in developing countries.

Funny enough it seems like the hype it generated was its main contribution, which led to the netbook product segment and ultimately Chromebooks. I'd say its spiritual descendent is the humble grades 7-12 school chromebook with much more conventional hardware and software choices. The killer app for school Chromebooks is the combination of Google Docs and whatever Google's classroom management software is, provided cheap to schools in a long-game move by Google to hook a future generation on their office suite. Ironically, despite the very agressive price points of sub-$200 Chromebooks, their current market is limited to the US and the wealthier Commonwealth nations.
Just imaging if people showed similar levels of skepticism around the Mohs scale as the did global warming etc.

The Mohs hardness scale is actually extremely difficult to demonstrate across a full range of natural materials. It’s intuitive that if A scratches B and B scratches C then A should scratch C, but testing a few samples is nowhere near enough to demonstrate across every natural mineral. It’s even more difficult to show this is a stable property that doesn’t very significantly over time.

So, sure a teacher might hand out a few samples and show what the idea is, but that’s little more than hand waving.
These contrived examples seem appealing at first, but when you start having deeply relational, nested data, with M-M joins, the relational model is much less appealing. SQL is just one popular declarative approach that people are familiar with and is reasonably easy to read by non-devs for simple things.

Modeling all data on SQL is definitely an improvement on most ad-hoc data manipulations people do.

But say you want to stream updates from your SQL queries, this is something the relational model and SQL dbs are not great at doing efficiently and actually hinder.
There are two separate questions:

Does an extra booster prevent infection?

Does an extra booster reduce hospitalizations and deaths?

Seems this study only addressed the first question.

But instead of giving a fourth shot based on the OG Covid, seems an updated version based on omicron, delta, and any new variants of concern would be a better idea.
Were talking about initial entry into a market. Apple always enters with middling specs.
They're being semi-facetious about crypto having adverse uses. ("Too"?)
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I am living in Israel, i doubt that it is possible to state anything definitively on the subject: regulations and decissions are being changed on a daily basis. I am not a healthcare specialist, however all this is giving the impression of being one big mess...
A lot of this looks like functionality offered by other, more popular libraries. Jodd JSON looks functionally (and syntactically!) similar to Jackson, but Jackson has a lot more users:

https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.jodd/jodd-json

https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.fasterxml.jackson.cor...
I would suggest taking a look at strong migrations[1]. It's a rails project, but the readme does a great job explaining what it checks for and what safe alternative to use instead. I still link to their explanations in PRs for non-rails projects. The examples unfortunately use the Rails migration DSL instead of plain SQL. If anyone knows of a SQL-first reference, I'd love to hear about it.

[1]: https://github.com/ankane/strong_migrations#checks
I think I'm effectively a flat earther because I wasn't able to generalize Bostock's "Command Line Cartography" [0]--totally got stuck trying to work out projections for different shapes. I notice that no other comment has brought up the challenges of calculating different projections, does it just come naturally to other people?

0. https://medium.com/@mbostock/command-line-cartography-part-1...

1. https://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/nad83-california-alber...
The iPhone SOC has been capable of running a Quest like product for a few years now.
Surprisingly, there have been a few vapourware announcements by Apple over the years. Another was the “Restart to Windows” item under the Apple menu when Boot Camp was first announced.

Would love to have been a fly on the wall after the keynote where Steve chewed out the engineer that left that in.
A while back, people ascribed the “need” for a college degree to politics of the day. Undergraduates/graduate students didn’t/don’t count as part of the “labor force”,

https://www.thebalance.com/labor-force-definition-how-it-aff...

and thus didn’t count as “unemployed”…leading to an lower official unemployment rate. More (employable) young people in college, lower official unemployment rate. Politicians in power are happy, but some young people end up getting implicitly incentivized to earn “junk” college degrees.
"Dissolving the Fermi Paradox":
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404

>The expectation that the universe should be teeming with intelligent life is linked to models like the Drake equation, which suggest that even if the probability of intelligent life developing at a given site is small, the sheer multitude of possible sites should nonetheless yield a large number of potentially observable civilizations. We show that this conflict arises from the use of Drake-like equations, which implicitly assume certainty regarding highly uncertain parameters. We examine these parameters, incorporating models of chemical and genetic transitions on paths to the origin of life, and show that extant scientific knowledge corresponds to uncertainties that span multiple orders of magnitude. This makes a stark difference.
> I think if you focus on the need to feel special, there is a desire to have 'figured it out' and to be 'smarter than the mainstream'.

IIUC you're saying that those traits explain why many conspiracy theorists fall into that camp.

I don't like leaning on ancedata, but I think I've seen persons like that in every ideological camp I've encountered. So I'm a bit skeptical that it's strongly correlated with being a conspiracy theorist.
I think it’s a bit more complicated than that — wasn’t Negroponte involved with it?
Yes, thank you for fleshing out what I meant.
You don’t think. How many units did quest and quest 2 sell?
Good point. I wouldn't know how to answer most of the tik tok girl's questions but I wish I knew.
Sadly, it's true - https://www.thoughtco.com/critical-theory-3026623
It's adults who need to keep their devices around where kids are.
Do you do this during build time or debug time?
I use it to transcribe English robocalls. Vosk gets all the words right as long as I use the "Accurate generic US English" model. PocketSphinx (with the default en-us.lm.bin model in the distro package, no idea what it is) didn't get a single word right IIRC. I didn't try anything else.
I haven't met anyone who believes in a flat Earth. I'm also wondering if anyone here has. Or if anyone anywhere has. I wonder if they really exist. My current theory is that the belief is a wildly successful joke which has created a community in which they can all share in. Maybe the flat Earth people are the good ones.

ETA: Which also means I screwed up a great opportunity to continue the joke by posting information on why the world really is flat.
> Algorithmic traders, yes. Market makers absolutely not. MMs want to be there as much as possible in liquidation cascades, because bid/ask spreads are huge. MMs effectly print riskless money in these situations (which is why you see Alameda and DRW issue so much USDT in these events).

This is a deep misunderstanding of market structure. Market makers are algorithmic traders. In times of price stability they benefit from capturing the spread many times. But it is not risk free: they lose money when offering liquidity to "informed trades" (those followed by a price move) because they are holding the wrong position through the price move. For that reason, every market makers implements fail-safes that stop offering liquidity when they are not confident they will be able to clear their position at a break even price.
Default SQLite package requires gcc so you need to use one of the alternatives.
None of the shots helped with immunity in general.
I attach labels to them so I know what they were originally for, and when I bought them. I have a custom-made filing cabinet to organize them by function, length, and color. I am building an app in Rust, React, and MongoDB to catalog the cables so I can quickly find the cable I need and locate it in the filing cabinet. I plan to offer this as a SAAS as soon as I can find a technical co-founder.

I'm considering issuing NFTs for each cable, that may generate some revenue faster than the SAAS idea.
Maybe OP just wanted to share something interesting and is unaffiliated with the site?
MIT License! Your wording had me worried it was just visible source, and all rights reserved.
I'm very skeptical of any thesis that this phenomenon is about a failure of people to be able to discern fact from non-fact (or "critical-thinking" as it is often characterized). As it misses that the common thread among all these, formerly esoteric and now increasingly mainstream, subcultures. They're about "belonging" and in-group/out-group signaling. It may be true that they're ill-equiped to discern such things, but it's also the case that there are social incentives for them to not want to adhere to facts, self-derived or otherwise.

It's possible, I suppose, that teaching people to discern and derive some domain of facts might coincidentally produce a broader cultural "in-group" of people that value social cohesion with others like them, but underneath it all this is all culture/counter-culture dynamics, not whether or not people have the tools to figure out the curvature of the Earth based on basic science and mathematics.

There still exist religious scientists. Heck, I even know creationists who fully understand how carbon and uranium dating work, and yet they're still creationists. Getting them to abandon their creationism is at a minimum a matter of getting them to be willing to overcome the in-group judgement of their family, their friends, their extended social circles, etc. Unsurprisingly, outside of specific trauma they're not likely to embark on such an upheaval.

People mostly behave like the people they're around. Being shunned or ostracized is (or used to be) an effective mechanism for social cohesion for this category of issue. The trouble at present is that social media makes it much more difficult (for better or worse) for shunning or ostracizing to improve that flavor of cohesion because it allows the universe of the shunned and ostracized to find cohesion amongst themselves, so the local fringe morphs into the global mainstream.
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Christianity is what actually fulfilled Second Temple judaism. There was no need for such a Temple anymore, as now people themselves were becoming living temples. Lord Jesus, apostle Paul and Hebrews explain all of this way better than I can.

Obviously rabbinical judaism believers see themselves as the actual following: and that's where we disagree. However their explanation seems stranger than the christian one: we stopped having major prophets because the Son of God Himself came to reveal the Father and to save us, we don't need animal sacrifices and a Temple from human hands, because they were just a shadow to the Cross, prophesies from OT were fulfilled with the promised Messiah.
The rabbinical judaism: they don't have prophets, because ..? Why would God let their temple be destroyed, if they were right about Jesus? Where is their messiah?
My app has been removed from youtube oauth multiple times because we keep getting different verifiers. We've even had permission revoked after being approved. All we do is use a oauth to get their userid and read their livechat for a chatbot. They just can't get their shit together.
> If the server hall loses both primary and backup power, there is a real risk that the administrator does need to travel there to bring the machines back up. That would be one of the major trade offs, through I would still recommend administrators to do that, compared to the risk of an unencrypted disk getting lost, stolen, or cases where someone comes in and takes all the servers.

Yeah, I agree with all of this. My nitpick is just basically requesting the doc talk about this being a conscious tradeoff where your infra availability and your lack of tolerance for frequent fail-closed events might lead you to intentionally weaken the security guarantees by lengthening the timeouts. In other words, you set the timeouts as short as you can tolerate, based on your infra.
I think this claim of how western education works is rather broad, and really depends where you are.

Where I live (New Zealand), high school questions are graded based in large part on the methodology used and/or how well you demonstrate grasp on the concept. You could get every physics question wrong on an exam, but still get an above average grade if the way you articulated understanding of the topic was very in-depth.

In contrast, I’ve heard that in places in the USA for example (don’t know how regional this is, but even big stuff like the SAT), multiple choice questions are commonplace.

I don’t think I encountered any marked work with more than one or two multiple choice questions, and even then you were still graded on your work not just your mark.

The system I’m used to emphasises clearly understanding of the topic, multiple choice does not. Your marked work was also returned to you, and you could apply to have it re assessed if you felt it wasn’t fair.
> At least until comics are no longer being produced because the straight male-hating audience is actually not as big as they think it is.

Having just read an article about how the author learned to love comics from a creator who hated her, it’s a shame that you don’t think straight males would be able to do the same.
If anything, the public school education I received (US, '90s-'00s) went out of its way to provide this kind of background. Did it sink in for a lot of kids? Probably not. It's really hard to test for that, and if public schools actually tried to hold kids back who didn't truly absorb the material there would be riots.
Yeah, I certainly remember the Eratosthenes shadow experiment making an appearance. That, and plenty of space footage, because space footage is awesome.
could this be used in > light speed travel?
Scott created a lot of friction and animosity amongst various high-level managers and executives. Steve protected Scott. With Steve gone, the other executives had to deal with this issue. I won't name who, as I am sure the story has been told elsewhere, basically said Scott had to go or they would go. Scott may have gotten Apple Maps pinned to him on the way out the door, but there were many, many more issues leading to his departure.
I think it can definitely be stated that having weekly decisions about something as serious and possibly long-lasting as vaccinations are a bad omen. Especially if we consider possible adverse effects in children we should instead opt for partial lockdowns at least temporarily to stem the wave
No, I am not having it both ways. I don’t think cloth masks are effective at all. I’m responding to the “cloth masks are 5-33% effective” for incidental exposure commentary as a positive aspect of cloth masking. It’s a red herring that creates a false sense of security.

My point is that if a cloth mask is only partially effective for an incidental exposure than it must have been somewhat effective at a given moment, but due to virus size and cloth weaving…every moment that the particle didn’t reach your nasal passages due to that momentary chance then that virus still has a 67%-95% of entering you and infecting you every moment it is near you. So any incidental exposure becomes non-incidental.
Everybody always raves about meditation and although it makes me feel nice for a short while after, i always struggle to get anything like this out of it...
Why would you assume this is fake news? Please give references or sources that would back up your claims.

As someone who doesn't know much about the whole thing, your dismissal comes off as an equally fake news'ish dismissal meant to create a diversion.
You just called 1-AREACODE-555-1212 to have a real person (later a computer) look up the name for you. Public libraries used to carry telephone directories from all over.
If you want to be 100% on image capture, you will need some redundancy. Plan your budget for two cameras and backup systems. Local caching invade wifi goes down. Which is more important, that the image is taken or the if taken it is transmitted? That answer will inform where you apply additional redundancy. Maybe plan to take many images plus/minus 5 minutes of your target time in case there is something standing there to block the camera.
Depends what you mean by developer, but there a heaps of ways to accidentally write code that doesn't use an index, and then you need to understand db internals and how indexing works, and so you are on your way to being a SQL dev. A non-developer I wouldn't expect to understand db internals. You can get quite far though not understanding db internals as a non-dev for simple querying until you write some complex mission-critical query that must continue running, but needs maintenance/starts over-burdening the db/etc.
this is true - I was at a street fair a couple years ago with an old Graflex 4x5 camera, just walking around. People came up to me asking to have their pictures taken. This in a town where most except the crazies keep to themselves. It was surreal.
If this source is legit — and I’ve never heard of it, so who knows — the headline is missing a pretty significant word:

> A fourth COVID-19 booster mRNA vaccine has proven ineffective against Omicron infection
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Autogenerated database documentation is often pretty hit and miss but tbls[1] does a pretty good job in that space. Especially when you comment on your tables, fields, views, functions etc (which is a good habit anyway!) the output is quite useful

[1] https://github.com/k1LoW/tbls
The numbers don't add up for this explanation either. The clearance rate is higher in the west
No. To buy and sell on your own schedule, you must take liquidity, paying the spread. This is not what market makers do, they sell liquidity. And it becomes less possible to find efficient clearing trades during rapid moves, because the spread widens exactly because market makers don't want others to arbitrage them.
Conspiracy mentality and political orientation across 26 countries
> Ironically, despite the very agressive price points of sub-$200 Chromebooks, their current market is limited to the US and the wealthier Commonwealth nations.

Most likely, Chromebooks are too dependent on the "cloud" to be useful in middle-income countries with comparatively flimsy Internet connectivity. A general-purpose x86 laptop will simply go a lot further there. (And if you put a lightweight OS on it, you will almost never be limited by performance for basic workloads, even on old hardware.)
We also didn't live in a world where everyone suffered from a compulsion to spill every personal detail and opinion to the world. No social media, nothing to dox.
The domain name suggests it's someone called Laszlo Korte who owns the site and not jonbaer.

Also what makes you think this is a "data gathering" exercise. Neither Privacy Badger nor uBlock Origin appear to have blocked any third party cookies.

I think your comment is somewhat misguided.
The question is does that really bring something good, either way, or is it just a whim. Some HR check the shape of your ears, and if it doesn't match some patterns, they skip.

perfect filter, both ways

Two ways of three. Some innocent person may accidentally put Node.js in their resume and get hired.
Not quite sure about this, lockdowns are having profound psychological implications, especially on the young ones. A child can't be expected to sit in a zoom session all day, it's simply not possible.