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I was listening to a podcast that made a really good point about the varying reliability of different sciences.

In psychology, for example, a theory might have been validated in only a small experiment and fails when replicated.

Meanwhile, something like Maxwell's Laws of electromagnetism are replicated trillions of times a day. Every time your cell phone or wifi works correctly, that is another replication indicating that Maxwell's equations were correct.

When the science becomes engineering and we can build functioning things based on the theories, that is a good indication that they are correct.

Maybe you didn't personally verify that the Earth is round, but the people who built the GPS system used that fact. If the Earth were flat, the GPS wouldn't work. So far, no flat-earthers have built a functioning GPS based on the Earth being flat.
Exactly! Exactly! Exactly!

I still cannot understand why the US and other countries with high tech allowed themselves to become so absolutely dependent on China.

When their own companies killed of local manufacturing and went to China out of greed and increased profits then governments should have stepped in on strategic grounds, so why didn't they?

It was obvious to me some 25 years ago and I've no monopoly on this insight so they must have been well aware that this would happen. In essence, these countries have been shooting themselves in the feet for decades.

The question is why.

Edit: I can remember the time when the US military required certain components, chips etc. to be able to be second-sourced from multiple manufacturers before they were incorporated into equipment. Does anyone else remember this?

Clearly governments, not only the US, have been aware of the problem for many decades and have chosen to do nothing about it. Moreover, what brought them to abandon this once good policy in the first instance?
Excellent article! A clear-headed explanation that places NFTs within the larger picture of financial instruments and investments. Well-written, amusing, informative, and appropriately snarky.
Yes, what you are saying sounds like evidence that these things can be made easier to repair.

I still value people that can be technical — just don't want to need to ask for help for basic maintenance on grocery getter shitbox!
If you cant be bothered to spend 5 minutes researching this for an important document, what makes me think that you will spend 5 minutes trying to be good at your job

Bullshit. There are many things person may care about and many things they may not. If this position is unrelated to professional writing, it's just irrelevant. Are you questioning their abstract ability to "care" and trying to translate spelling care to job care? Bad news, it doesn't translate (aside from the fact that ideal perfectionists can't get shit done ever; your best candidate still figures out the ideal form of his resume and is too anxious to click "publish").
> but I must be missing something here.

As a Java developer for all my career here is my take. In Java world there is this cultish cottage industry of "frameworks" for all sorts of work. Most Java developers are not expected to write plain code with JDK standard + some external libraries. Creating an object via "new Obj()" might cause programing universe to collapse so DI framework is must for enterprise Java developers.

If I were to tell at work that Go has inbuilt http server where we could implement a few handlers and have a basic service running. They would not be shocked that a http listener could be this simple but rather ask "Does Go bundles "weblogic/websphere/tomcat/netty" server with it or else how can it work? Same with testing, no understanding on how, what is to be tested but everything about "JUNIT/Mockito/Mockster/SpringUnit" or whatever.

There is no requirement for understanding basic concepts for testing, client/server, dependency, error management etc. So even basic functionalities are understood in terms of a branded framework. This is their main frame of reference.
> And I can only imagine many people would be happy to mandate a fourth as soon as possible.

I'm sorry but I'm not understanding the logic. The booster was recommended after several rounds of research across multiple countries suggested it was a good idea, with Israel doing some of the first testing and reaching the conclusion that it was worthwhile (and it was, by a substantial margin).

Their research is now indicating that this is about as far as it goes, which is quite reasonable as most vaccination regimens generally require two or three shots to achieve maximum effect.

The subtext of what you're saying is that politicans came to a knee-jerk conclusion that a third shot was necessary and inductively any further shot will so as well. The science does not bear this out, and the third shot was backed by science, not by politicians wanting to do something.

Your position sounds like misplaced skepticism.
> But how do you handle configuration then ?

In the main method, then you can pass the configured values wherever you need to when new-ing classes.

> At some point you want a user-facing UI where the available features (which are generally classes) are listed and the user can choose the feature, say which log backend is enabled, without having to change code - that's the whole point of it. (And the most tedious code to write by hand - a complete waste of time)

I consider DI a valuable pattern, but I've never experienced anything close to this need.
Probably a loop mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) based diagnostic like the Lucira test. The time-frame is about right, as is the cost.
In more recent news, this tech https://handshake.org/ is aimed at this kind of jurisdictional issue. Limiting the reach of a US court or any other central org for that matter at shutting down a domain .com, .net or other.
>The article talks about the number of possible page combinations as if it's a meaningful indicator of difficulty, but I don't think it really is unless you're actually trying to brute force the solution.

Yep, my first thought is the Rubik's Cube. Pretty much any scramble is equally easy to solve when applying one of the common solving methods, so the ridiculously high number of possible permutations doesn't matter at all in practice.

The fact that the white-green edge can start in 12 different spots doesn't matter when you just look for that piece and then move it into place. You take it all a step at a time. A "hard scramble" will barely affect solve time by a few seconds at most.

Having the piece in the right spot but rotated the wrong way is about as hard as you can make it, since then you have to "take it out" and "reinsert it" the other way versus just inserting it from elsewhere the proper orientation right away.
True. I thought of it as apt because the exchanges/miners, etc. take a fee.
I wasn't try to. I'm saying "modern economic theory" isn't really a position of strength to reason from. It's not like economists have done a good job at anything. Endless unsustainable growth, a disaster of a financial system, every natural incentive is completely upside down and inequality keeps rising.

Is a deflationary system better or a solution? I don't know.
This is click bait verging on vaccine minsinformation.

The headline could be: "4 doses may not more effective at reducing Omicron infections than 3 doses, but 3 doses is actually very good at preventing infection, hospitalization and death from all known variants - and even 2 doses - while not providing a lot of protection against Omicron infection ... does actually provide good protection against infection from other variants but also hospitalization and death from all variants, including Omicron."

1) 3 doses are actually fairly effective at stopping Omicron infections, at least for 12 weeks - we can see this definitively in data from around the world.

They indirectly mention this in the article.

Ontario data [1]

In the first graph, you see COVID 'cases' increase with the onset of Omicron, even among those with 2 doses - clearly 2 doses are less effective at preventing Omicron cases - but still pretty good at stopping Hospitalization and Death. Later in the time series, precisely when people started getting their boosters, you see a rapid increase in levels of protection against infection, hospitalization and death.

2) The vaccines by all accounts still seem to be effective at preventing cases (and hospitalizations and death) of previous, more deadly variants.

3) The difference between 4 and 3 doses is noteworthy, but it's definitely misleading to indicate 'ineffective when the baseline of comparison, i.e. 3 doses, is actually 'effective'.

4) As we can see from the Ontario - even 2 doses - but certainly 3 doses - are very effective in reducing hospitalization rates and death.

(From that data 'minimum 2 doses' reduces Hospitalization by 5x and death by 20x. That is mixed data from 2 and 3 doses, given the ratio of those having 3rd dose, we can estimate that 3 doses is even considerably more effective than those numbers).

Given the inconsistency between the headline, their own stated information, and easily available data from various legitimate authorities - I suggest that this article, at least the headline, constitutes purposeful misinformation.

[1] https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/ontario-dashboard/
I think it's more the decline of trustable institutions.
Presumably they are referring to other strains of COVID rather than say AIDS.

I don’t know if that’s true or false, but it’s best to take peoples statements in a reasonable context.
Gephi is fantastic, unfortunately it it hasn't seen a new release since 0.9.2 in 2017.
Have you tried Swagger, or another solution to codegen client endpoints/schemas from server definitions?
I have ADHD. Being bored is simply.. not something that happens naturally. I have a zillion unfinished things, too many hobbies, too many games, too much work that I was supposed finish yesterday. My brain gets filled with all of this junk every day. As the day passes my thoughts progressively get more and more cluttered and noisy, like I've got every radio station on at the same time. I also get really anxious if I've blown past a few too many deadlines, which compounds the issue immensely.

The only way to fix it... is to make myself bored. To FORCE myself to be bored. I sit on the ground with my legs crossed, close my eyes, and slowly count down from 60, 120, 180.. while shoving all the other thoughts out of my brain. It's like meditation, but meditation apps are a bit too interesting. I get distracted over how utterly weird they are.

Eventually, interspersed with all the intrusive thoughts and stressful shit ricocheting around, I start feeling a few brief twinges of boredom. If I'm really worked up it might take 10-15 minutes for these to take hold, finalling boring myself into calmness - at which point my shitty brain has stopped spazzing out and I can go back to getting shit done.

If you're neurotypical you can probably just put the phone away and go for a fucking walk. It will let your default mode network do its usual thing for a while, like it's designed to.
Raise the bar? Maybe they don't want to jump higher.

Not clear how the average is going to be "better" in any way by forcing them to.

> the richness in life that education can provide

The danger to deny the richness to those who can appreciate it.
I have two; a friend of mine had one. We both threw Debian on them and relished in the glorious Pixel Qi display and the nigh-indestructible nature of them. Great for backpacking and road trips in dirty areas, at a then-unbeatable price.
I use graphviz probably weekly and it's actually become a bit of a productivity hack. If there's something I don't want to do, I can often convince myself to just DRAW it instead, usually with graphviz. Once drawn, the actual task is easier, both because the barrier of starting is overcome, and because the drawing is useful in the task.

For example, I had to parse DWARF debug info recently to scrape type information, something I dreaded doing. Instead of diving into the DWARF specs, I set out to adapt one of the pyelftools [1] examples to produce a .dot file and graphed it with dot, producing [2].

Now looking at the picture, it's nearly obvious how functions and structs and types are stored. The rest is trivia (How do I access this attribute? How do I iterate over a DIE's children?).

Here's a simple alias so that anything that writes to /tmp/tmp.dot can be viewed with a single command:

alias graph='dot -Tpng /tmp/tmp.dot -o /tmp/tmp.png && open /tmp/tmp.png'

[1] https://pypi.org/project/pyelftools/

[2] http://tmp2.dreamhosters.com/draw-dwarf-graph.svg
The DNA would be sequenced, compared to Earth's life forms, and if no relation is found then it should be explained. For me it would exponentially increase the probabilities of more life in the Universe.
Easier to switch from SWE to PM or vice versa?
Nvidia also makes CPUs.

The reason the research is coming out of nvidia is because this kind of research is inherently GPU limited. So if it came out of AMD, Intel, Google, or Apple, it would be dependent on either GPU, or non-programmable NN specific hardware. If it came out of academia it would still be on a GPU, because none of this is remotely practical on a CPU.
When did SRV become deprecated?

The standard[1] doesn’t show it was obsoleted by anything else.

1: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2782
Yeah, it's too bad multiple functioning neurons wired together seems to be a necessary condition for cognition.
That's not fair. You are taking a perfectly innocent -albeit stupid belief and tying it with an entirely unrelated reprehensible one. This is a poor method of shutting down a conversation because a)it's intellectually dishonest and b)is a sweeping generalisation.

I'm seeing a lot of it and i think it's terrible and has disastrous results. Instead of settling a debate, it ends up alienating and dividing people.

Now, i'm sure you didn't mean to do that and it was just a passing remark with no particular intent. But i feel it's a broader issue which ties in with the subject being discussed.
‘Foxhole’ players launch organised in-game strike to demand change
> I've accepted a lower salary a few times to move on from an org to a better work life balance. Usually it involves moving away from NYC companies. Salary shouldn't be the singular reason for not accepting a position if it's competitive.

I'd be hesitant on giving this advice because it's the exception - not the norm.

I've done the same - taken less pay for a chance at a better work environment. But I was going from like $1m+/yr (IPO gains) to $400k/yr. It was a huge cut but it wasn't going from market rate to below market rate which is what your advice is kinda leading with. It was going from a very "above market rate" (tbh - it was probably still below market rate because I had done startups before that hadn't worked out... This was one that was kinda working out) to something closer to market rate.

I plan to change jobs and find one with better hours, better environment, etc... I plan to make about $500k/yr at the next job.
> If you are forbidden by law from sending money from A to B you cannot send it

the crypto-dream (which, i admit is a nice outcome) is that no entity _could_ make such a transaction forbidden under a new regime of crypto finance.

And it is true that today, some gov'ts can have an outsized effect over people that would not be under their juristiction - such as people in iran being sanctioned by the US.

Unfortunately, crypto is hardly being used this way, nor will it be in the near to medium term future.
That's how science works: when the facts become updated you update your decisions. Israel has been among the most science-driven governments in Covid policy. I'm not really sure why your "impression" should be mentioned given that you expressly state that you're not a specialist.
Given what happened with delta, it seems likely that by the time a variant-specific booster is ready (i.e. gone through safety trials and bureaucratic approval and have manufacturing lines switched over), the variant will already have come and gone.
For some of its diagrams, yes. And yet PlantUML results still look better. I think the problem is that Graphviz's glyphs are somewhat crude.
"Testing positive" isn't the main question.

Are they dying? Are they in the ICU?

And those officials that you distrust so much have been quite upfront about the fact that vaccines aren't all that effective against infection with Omicron. But they are quite effective against death and serious disease. Fauci's own words are that "just about everybody" will get infected.

If you want anecdotes, at least talk to an ICU nurse. Ask what they are seeing regarding vaccinated or unvaccinated.
wallstreetbets

Seriously though, be wary of online sites for investing advice. Better to come up with your own plan and do your own research since it's easy to get caught up into something you'll end up regretting
QT, Gimp and Open Office are 100% considered userland. I'd be surprised if you could find very many people who disagree.
> "The 80-page giant comic cost 25 cents," he concludes, "but I bought it anyway." ... Miller doesn't mention who wrote, who drew, who edited the book that made him a fan

For a professional comics journalist and fan of the Dark Knight detective, it's strange she brings this up as though it's some dark historical mystery. A little online research suggests that it was 80-page Giant #12, published July 1965.

Her questions about who wrote, drew, edited it are answered in the link below:

https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/80-Page_Giant_Vol_1_12
1. I want at least photos of a demo before I sign up or ideally a very simple toolbox for me to paste maybe 10 lines of code in and get an explanation. But still curious, so signing up anyway.

2. Ublock Origin seems to break your sign up page.

3. Have a warning that it is slow.

Otherwise, this would be great to use for SQL.
If we're talking about general artificial intelligence, then the only intentional notion is to learn from the world. What happens after that is completey shaped by its environment / input. For ex see Microsoft's chat AI that quickly become a racist bigot after reading Twitter https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-ch...
Very true! But management is sold on "best practices" from VMWare suits. So any practical difficulty is just an excuse for not learning the latest, Next generation technologies.
> When was the last time anyone actually trusted a government?

My feeling is that people trust the government to the extent it does things their perceived enemies dislike. It's not about evaluating what's good for yourself or others; just knowing that your enemy dislikes it is a good enough signal that it's the right thing to do. Also, if your perceived enemy likes something that happens, that means it was automatically a wrong thing to do.

The government is just a cudgel each side uses against the other. And each side adds nails to the cudgel each time they possess it, even though they know its possession is likely to return to the enemy.
There are hollow critics and there are critics that have seen how deep the rabbit hole goes and have found there is nothing of interest at the bottom.

Catholicism has it's own unique flavours of gloom with purgatory. But the issue beeing critiqued is non-specific to any branch of Christianity. It is a core at the root of all Abrahamic relicions. All Abrahamic religions have a morality core. Morality of people is a prime concern of these religions. The moral framework is primary component of the dogma. Yet that very core is hollow.

I have detailed in a separete comment why the focus on hygiene was on point.

You claim that others do not get the narative and the meaning. Make no mistake, we get it. I am perfectly capable of playing your role in this debate. I have done so in the past plenty of times. In this entire debate I have not once denied the critique of hypocrisy with regards to pharisee rituals, nor have I denied that there is value in overcoming fear of disease. (These two are the relevant fragments to the discussion.) I have simply rejected that any if this is relevant to the professor's situation. I have critiqued the moralistic vitriol thrown his way. And I have rejected the notion of religion providing a foundation for morality.

We can discuss at length the various profound implications of each passage of the scripture. There are many great moral lessons to be extracted from Abrahamic religions as there are from any other supernatural fiction and a good interpretation can go a long way. But that is irrelevant for this thread, both me and betterunix2 were sarcastically critiquing the daft moralistic comment about the professor being "scared of air".

As for your last paragraph, you are free to believe whatever you want, and for as long as you are able to believe it, it will be wholesome for you and your peers of same belief. And rather gruesome for everyone else. I understand perfectly how liberating and empowering being a believer is. Eternalism is incredibly alluring. It provides the structure to keep chaos at bay. It is far more stable than other stances.

But just as you have found your eternalist fix, others have found their own different and incompatible eternalist fix. And others are fine navigating the stormy seas of other stances.
Makes me think of how there is a huge hesitation to ever use the "F" word with any Mars photos. F - as in fossil.

There are definitely natural mineral formations that can mimic fossils, but then there are fossils too that aren't always obviously such.
If you’re in the US, the federal vaccine mandate was quashed by the Supreme Court, so no need to be terrified.
Why the quasi qualifier there?
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> Just call `new` yourself, instead of having the framework do it for you.

But at that point, why would I want to?

There are reasons I wouldn't want to, but there is no inherent value, to me, in manually calling new.
I don't have a full answer, but if it helps at all, these are all C APIs--so if you can find a way to call C code from your Java program you should be set.
Then you have not been reading a single thing coming from the official sources because nobody has stated that vaccines do much against mild disease in Omicron, but they do prevent the hospital system from being saturated with cases and drastically reduce death rates.

If at this point you're not aware of this, which has been repeated over and over again in media, you should reconsider your sources of information.
The original bsnes back in the day (before higan and the modern bsnes) required quite a high end machine to run playably in accuracy mode so yeah, this all tracks.
Which it is, surely? Don't get me wrong, sites like it are on my most-visited list on every device, but they are for pirating papers, no?
How does it actually compare to other industries, namely defense, aerospace and oil. These are all capital intensive, and if you want to be generous re the term "building", some of those refineries and shipyards are gigantic.
Unless, for example, we were to find Mars had and has single cellular life. That might increase the likelihood that the filter is at the single to multicellular phase by enough to offset the bad news that the filter is not the abiogenesis step.
It does preserve quite a few elements from the religion of Proto-Indo-Aryans, which means it shares significant ancestry both with Western Paganism and with Vedic religion. The myth of the primeval cow is one of these elements, being found not just in Indian religion but also, e.g. among the Norse.
I had a very similar experience in my school in the Chicago suburbs. I don’t know how it is elsewhere.