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>one time boost

That's not what you would expect if you look at the graph of six years of year-over-year SPEC performance gains on iPhone cores. Their history shows a pretty reliable 20% gain per year.

>Whilst in the past 5 years Intel has managed to increase their best single-thread performance by about 28%, Apple has managed to improve their designs by 198%, or 2.98x (let’s call it 3x) the performance of the Apple A9 of late 2015.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...
> They are more for public health usage to prevent spread rather than diagnostic like PCR.

Like the grandparent, I know several people that have all of the covid symptoms, but tested negative early on. These people just go about their day because they think they have some other cold, then stop testing until their symptoms go away. I would probably do the same.
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I use a 3ds for that, it's easily modded and can emulate a lot of consoles:

https://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/List_of_3DS_homebrew_emulators
Because we were at the mercy of NCSA Mosaic, Netscape launched as a Mosaic killer. Then as Microsoft awoke in alarm because they were at the mercy of Netscape they launched Internet Explorer, effectively killing Netscape which spun out Firefox in response. Google became alarmed by the prospect of being at the mercy of Microsoft and so launched Chrome.
I saw an interesting video the other day talking about hypertumors, tumors that grow on other tumors.

Don't know why that came to mind thinking about a BI article about a tweet thread about Bitcoin.
I would rather have healthcare tied to employment and enforceable rights over a tyrannical government that can easily spy on everyone
Microbrute is totally a good starter hardware synth, but I’d suggest people strongly consider the Korg Monologue. It has no patch bay, so if you’re headed towards modular it’s maybe the wrong purchase - but it’s built-in oscilloscope REALLY helps visualize what you’re doing in a way that I think a lot of people would find helpful.
In Denmark ~95% of the population receives all communication from the government on both national and local level electronically. The rest are exempt and receives them using plain old mail.
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https://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/cardiovascular-dis...

I wore a heart monitor for a month and we observed about 30 seconds worth of AFib right at the very end. (Oddly I had experienced a very interesting setback in my personal life around then.)

I had the signs described above. My doc said I should go on exercising but I shouldn't train more than 1 hour a day. (In a time when my life went to crap I had got into the 2 hours a day habit to fight my depression.)
If your store closed for a few hours would that really be a disaster? Would you manager actually fire you if you refuse to work that much overtime? You're not obligated to work yourself into a mental breakdown.
Yes, I am leaning towards that.
And historically vaccines used to provide immunity against disease.
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This seems like something Buddhism attempts to address (from my understanding)
> Desire is like an never-ending thirst
> No amount of success ever will quench it
> Their solution - Remove desire.

The only way to get everything you'll ever want, is to want nothing.
Quite the contrary:

> The deal still leaves Riot with a largely independent remit, however, with CEO Brandon Beck telling press that Tencent see Riot more as investment partners than as a fully-owned subsidiary.

> "Riot is going to remain completely independent. There are no redundancies, no layoffs, no synergy fishing, no leadership change," Beck told Gamasutra. "Nothing is going to change other than they're dramatically increasing their holding in the company. They see this more as an investment in a partner.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2011-02-07-tencent-ac...

I remember reading somewhere that Tencent has the reputation of not interfering with the game studios it had acquired.
I am admittedly not a virology expert but my understanding is TCID50 signifies the concentration at which 50% of the cells are infected when the sample is inoculated with a diluted solution of viral fluid.

Ripped straight from https://www.bio-rad.com/en-us/life-science-research/overlay/...
It is still legitimately useful. Positive test means you can get sick leave at a lot of places, even if you dont have any sick time left. This is a tiny amount of money and for a generally good thing.
Easy way to remember: It's called RAID 0 because that's how much data you get back if something goes wrong.
What everyone else has said about why there are so few new cleanroom browsers. If you're looking for one of the few examples that isn't based on Blink, Gecko, or WebKit, it's Flow. https://www.ekioh.com/flow-browser/
I have a friend at a workplace who setup a different bucket to bill time off for COVID against than regular sick days. That would be one reason.
> This smells like the printer cartridge problem that HP and others have, where, if you replace the cartridge with non-HP, the printer will lock up and cease to function...

That's pretty much exactly what is going on.
Completely unrelated to the content of the article, but I find this website very annoying to read as it changes the scrolling behaviour adding some inertia. It takes a fraction of a second to stop scrolling after I've stopped moving the mousewheel. This makes me continually overshoot and having to compensate by scrolling back a few lines because the part I wanted to read is no longer in the viewport. When will web developers learn not to mess with the default browser behaviour?

As for the actual content of the article, I'm happy that the court recognised the technical reality of the case.
You are probably right. As soon as the payment implementation is in place I will do that.
I took a self test after having symptoms and it was positive so I just isolated myself instead. I skipped doing an official test because just as you said it does not provide any relevant information to me other than what I already know.
I don’t know. Maybe I’ll have time later today to look for research on the topic. I believe it’s the typical case that low income earners pay less (in federal tax, at least) as that’s the point of a progressive tax structure
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://drodil.medium.com/the-lost-s...
It defines also -0 == 0 and NaN != NaN.

That's alone makes it rather weird
Right. My point was that we don't punish gamblers. instead we regulate the environment in which they gamble to limit the extent of the damage.

Otherwise, yeah. Negative things don't disappear just because they are negative.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://drodil.medium.com/i-cannot-b...
And that’s okay. It’s about the story. Used to be we experienced stories by voice, for example we return from a hunt, recounting highlights and rehearsing along the way, and tell it to the rest of our group after sharing the meat.
I read via TTS (still looking for a flawless option), audiobooks (converted to 24kbps mono .opus for smaller size), .epub on Kobo (with KOReader and Plato, preferring the former so far, but Plato does load books more quickly), and text on paper. As I get older and more accepting of death, I let go of the things I once held so dear. I see books as a luxury, and when I’m too blind to read from a page, and/or too deaf to hear narration, I’ll probably still have touch and smell and some memory for context.
I'm curious what the scare quotes around the words _vaccinated_, _vaccine_ and _hospital capacity_ are meant to convey.

The vaccines, imperfect as they are, seem to have dramatically reduced the incidence of severe symptoms requiring hospitalizations and of death due to Covid. My wife is a vascular surgeon & one of her colleagues handles the placement of ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) for patients with severe respiratory failure. Since the vaccines have become available, the only patients going on ECMO are unvaccinated.

I'd call the Covid-19 vaccines pretty remarkable and only condemnable if your criteria for success is 100% effective in preventing all cases of Covid-19 with no risk of adverse effects.
This is actually very useful. I've been spending the past few weeks working on a cross-platform, native dev assistant app like this written with GTK3 and Rust. It's been a really good exercise in designing meaningful GUIs and, well, usable code. I don't have anything to show right now, but when I get it to an MVP state I'll be sure to share it with everyone!

I'm curious to hear what things people want to see out of an app like this. What utilities are you constantly Googling for that you'd rather have on your desktop?
This is going to come across as harsh, but if that is your favorite interviewing question, and you are not hiring GPS engineers, then it is a ridiculous question to ask and serves no purpose but to "haze" candidates.
> why do people need to test all the time these days?

We don't! I've had to use a bunch of these lately, as you are supposed to test twice if you have symptoms and test negative the first time (yeah - read the instructions!), and it's cold&flu season.

My entire family has had cold and flu symptoms multiple times in the past 2 months - that's 10 tests each time if we're following protocol.
In our area, when kids test positive, they don't have to be tested for many weeks after. I know several that tested positive a few weeks before Omicron hit, then were refused when they eventually had Omicron symptoms.
Considering the UK press (and the MET) sat on that story for months, and it would probably never have gotten out if Cummings wasn't so pissed about the way he was treated, the UK pols have little to worry about from the press or the police.
SO insisted on the testing, not me, because she works around a lot of other people and children and did not know if she was contagious.

She also thought it would be helpful to know if exposure = any additional immunity down the road, since all of the facts constantly change
link: https://citizenlab.ca/2022/01/cross-country-exposure-analysi...
You can self-host it. That’s what I do.
No validation whatsoever. Smells like abuse.
The amount of virus necessary to affect half (50%) of the cells in a sample.
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FYI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fried_dough_foods

Be careful, though, the article can trigger an uncontrollable salivating and induce an urge to ravage the fridge.
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That does seem to be changing now that we've all been vaccinated, though. It seems that training your immune system to recognize the virus leads to symptoms developing earlier in the course of disease, below the ~10^6 copies/mL threshold a rapid test can detect. I don't know if everybody who is vaccinated is getting early symptoms but anecdotally it seems to be pretty common.
As a statistical aside with respect to worker shortages and unemployment in the U.S., here's some BLS data:

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm

For reference, unemployment rates in the US are recorded by six increasingly-broad measures (from U-1 to U-6). U-3 is the internationally-defined "official" unemployment representing 'everyone actively working, or actively looking for work'. U-6, the broadest measure, includes U-3 as well as "all persons marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force" [basically, unemployed people who stopped looking for work (but theoretically want to work), as well as the underemployed].

U-3 alone does not provide a full picture of unemployment. Sometimes U-3 can go down, but U-4, U-5, or U-6 increase because workers are leaving the labor force entirely.

Based on the BLS data, unemployment has been trending down by all measures. This suggests to me that the continued decreases in the unemployment are real and not misleading.

Other tables also indicate that U-3 has decreased among all industries and age ranges:

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t14.htm
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t10.htm

My armchair suspicion is that, though the "worker shortage" was a very real issue in 2021, the problem [at least nationally] has broadly leveled-out, and that discussions on a national "worker shortages" continue to emerge from a type of, say, 'conversational inertia' when discussing localized labor shortages (e.g. problems with industry X in state/county Y) or acute shocks to supply (e.g. large numbers of people getting sick at the same time). Localized shortages or acute shocks are also meaningful and need to be resolved as they come up, but they may be only tangentially-related to a national worker shortage.

I'd love to hear more thoughts on this if others want to chime-in. I didn't do any sort of rigorous analysis on this. There could also be still substantial multi-state/regional shortages hidden among the numbers. I didn't really delve into "reality" or how the data may not actually reflect "real life" or other labor-related issues (e.g. income) -- I just like looking at these stats every now and then.
Nice simple article describing a technique to parallelize tests and a quick fix to an issue blocking it.

It is interesting to observe the time that things take in various environments. I worked in ad tech previously with lots of offline big-data jobs. Test completion took a few minutes even fully parallelized. Now I work in HFT and our test suite completes on an M1 Max in 21 s and it's got higher coverage.

The situations aren't really comparable. But it's interesting to see the different baselines.
In the same way that you don't need a mirror to reflect your appearance; a bowl of dirty water does just fine.
The article says throat first a couple times
The person selling you tests says you need to use more of them than is recommended?
Just ran into this buying a laptop! I bought the Windows one, nuked it, and had Ubuntu installed in like 15 minutes :D
I'd hazard it's probably due to order of magnitude different absolute profit amounts.

E.g. you can double your margins on fruit labels, and still be a rounding error for fruit producers

Consequently, being invisible and fanatically attentive to what your customers want (e.g. ease of use) means the hassle of switching suppliers outweighs the cost savings.
And it's up and running! Nice job, USDS.
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> They are not innovative.

I really, really don't want to see the post office innovate on the timescales of startups. IMO "more reliable" > "more features" for this kind of work. I don't want someone thinking of how to put (more) ads on my mail, I just want my mail.
Doesn't Steam offer refunds for he's purchased within 48 hours or something?
seems like she has covid ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Microsoft also got Kotick to leave.

The cultural integration will be a lot easier than other M&A integrations; everyone at Activision is probably ready to move on from their current culture.
Photos and videos are thrown into a multi-drive RAID 6 NAS with TB's capacity as the main central storage. RAID 6 offers redundancy against disk failure and easy plug & play replacement. An external USB backup drive attaching to the NAS does incremental backup daily. Periodically the data are snapshot to other USB backup drives and kept off site.

The NAS server has apps that offer backing up to various cloud services, but I choose not to use them.
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A valid point to raise, but things may not be that bad. The Washington Post has an article (https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/01/17/rapid-coron...) about this.

Three key points from the article:

(1) Rapid tests probably do have a harder time detecting omicron.

(2) Two new rapid tests (from Roche, Siemens), granted EUA in December, "happen" to work "really well" against omicron.

(3) Some of the tests the government will distribute are Roche tests.

Another recent article (https://www.medtechdive.com/news/biden-administration-buy-50...) says the government has contracted with Abbott, iHealth, and Roche for its first 380 million test kits.

So in that first 380 million, 1 out of 3 is already good for omicron. Hopefully as they work toward more contracts for the remainder of the 1 billion tests, the government will try to take omicron into account.
I hear Verona is beautiful this time of year.
Great - got it - thanks!
What a debt your friends have to OP! :)
If you’re going to buy behringer, just buy second hand off craigslist/reverb. There’s so many of them flying around already because people buy them and then upgrade to something more powerful - no need to further saturate the secondary market.
FB/Giphy tho?
Participating in a system doesn't mean you endorse it. 40% of eligible voters not voting is much more worrisome....
One quibble with the article: If you really want a perfect playground for learning synthesis, U-he's Zebra 2 is much better than Diva (also by U-he). Zebra is fantastic when it comes to workflow and flexibility and has a UI that makes how the patches signal flow works much clearer.

I have a boatload of both eurorack and softsynths, but when I want to get some stuff done in a hurry, or on the move, or just prototype, I always wind up reaching for Zebra. Not surprising that even Hans Zimmer is a fan, and that guys physical collection is astounding.

If you told me I had to produce music with nothing but Zebra 2 and a sequencer, I could live with that. :-)
If you write all yours tests without spinning up once a database, I'm not vouching for the effectiveness of said tests...

Especially that we're talking about a web framework, the db is a core part of your stack.

Yes there's going to be strictly unit tests but then at some point there are also queries and models.
If they tested positive, they are sick.
Clearly Intel has huge issues or they wouldn’t be making such a drastic turn. For some people whatever happens to intel the picture is always extremely rosey.
I think we'd all be surprised at how many people actually lean conservative in the 20-40 age group. My hunch is that 9/10 people who lean that way stay silent for fear of professional/personal repercussions. Voicing conservative view points in the monolithic tech industry will get you fired and excommunicated
If you're interested in the implementation details of a home made GPS receiver, check out this fantastic writeup: http://www.aholme.co.uk/GPS/Main.htm.
Revolution and the lack thereof is also a kind of voting.
I see it from an optimistic light.

We've got things pretty good in the US. It's why people are trying to sneak across the border in droves-- everybody recognizes the economic opportunities.

It's true that the pendulum swings back and forth. The Democrats control things (as they do now), they make some changes to fulfill campaign promises and they over-reach in a few spots. People always want something better, so they soon vote for Republicans. Who pass things they campaigned on, roll back some Democrat over-reaches, and do a little over-reaching themselves. Then the Democrats come back into power.....

The system works. Along the way, we get social changes like gay marriage, maybe some long overdue restrictions on late-term abortions, etc. Society slowly moves forward.

I just wish there wasn't as much demonization and pot-stirring along the way. There's really no need to throw hate at people actross the aisle, because without them your party would soon run amuck and ruin everything. The system works.
> The Max has barely any improvement core-wise than the first M1.

Isn't that what you would expect in two chips that use the same core design?

There is more memory bandwidth to the Max, and the system level cache is larger, so there are differences outside of the core, but the core itself didn't change.
People voted in a democratic senator and got a Republican traitor instead. I’m not sure it’s anyone’s will just bad luck
It is so, so fundamentally different. It has been over a decade. Chromebooks today run debian. I've got a debian shell right now where I'm working with intellij.
> The vaccines, imperfect as they are, seem to have dramatically reduced the incidence of severe symptoms requiring hospitalizations and of death due to Covid.

Is that why there's now more vaccinated people hospitalized for COVID than unvaccinated? I seriously can't understand how people participate in these mental gymnastics. There's more COVID "cases" now than ever before. How does that lend credit to vaccination?
That is true, but only because a) the market for entire companies is fairly small, and b) Tesla, overall, is vastly overvalued.

If you look at other companies like Dell, or the various acquisitions of Berkshire Hathaway, you would find plenty of examples of people deciding the market price of companies was less than the value, doing exactly what you are arguing can't happen, and making money from it.
While servo shares an ecosystem with Firefox it is far more independent than chromium is so I would suggest it is the most likely emerging alternative browser engine and browsers built on it could become roughly as different from firefox as safari is to chrome.

It's not like other areas are so different, the number of compilers that are keeping up with LLVM and GCC has dwindled to the point that I can't name one without checking if it is EoL.
This is interesting for its breadth, but they are abstracting a huge set of gradient-climbing behaviors that I'm not sure are of the same class. Also, this has been known forever (since before I was born) in game theory / repeated games as "exploration vs exploitation".

But, it's not surprising to me that a mathematically simple, yet provably convergent algorithm appears over and over. For example, reward maximization in repeated bayesian games looks a lot like "Run and tumble", once you add this critical step (from OP):

> When a “tumble” occurs, rather than sampling a new direction from a uniformly random distribution, we sample according to the distribution of expected rewards

You may want to read the book Algorithms to Live By, also.
> Most human brains and bodies are good enough for most human purposes.

The difference is that we know how general purpose computers work. We literally know exactly how they work due to the fact that we built them, but also we have developed very useful abstractions for how to use them. We do not have an equivalent understanding of human behavior.

Humans are not general purpose computing devices that we know how to program. Humans are extremely complex systems that are already running software and we don’t understand that software. We’re engaged in black box debugging and we are nowhere close to actually understanding the software running on the box (and we’re little closer to understanding the hardware).
Christianity/Abrahamic religions can all be traced back to the writings of Akkadian priests
Food aid is basically the US subsidizing its own food producers and dumping free food in countries, thus undermining the already-poor farmers. It's not as charitable as you make it sound, and it has a lot of negative outcomes. If the US was interested in helping the people there, it would use different approaches.