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Caffeine is the real gateway drug. Cola gets them started, then it's a slippery slope down from there.
Dispensaries deliver. You can also order CBD online, I highly recommend Lazarus Naturals.

Your internal dilemma seems self imposed. Even if it provides you a placebo effect, so what? And, look, triple vaccinated doesn’t mean much as it relates to catching or transmission of omnicron. Clearly it will protect you from dying but I know dozens of triple vaccinated people that had covid over the past couple weeks. You seem to understand this, which is why you are even considering the CBD. So order it online. Literally no reason not to if it will give you peace of mind.
We don't all subscribe to the philosophy that the only valid limits to something are those imposed by market forces.

If something is slightly bad for a great many people we're allowed to just prevent it. We don't have to wait for the market to decide, there's no virtue in doing so it doesn't sanctify our decision.
I can see the benefits of more competition for politically entrenched ISPs, but I’m afraid of a potential Kessler Effect happening
EmEditor is so much better than Notepad++ it's not even close.
Ralf Jung has a blog post looking at some of the claims in this paper [0]. Some hopefully representative quotes:

> The paper makes many good points, but I think the author is throwing out the baby with the bathwater by concluding that we should entirely get rid of this kind of Undefined Behavior. The point of this blog post is to argue that we do need UB by showing that even some of the most basic optimizations that all compilers perform require this far-reaching notion of Undefined Behavior.

<snip>

> I honestly think trying to write a highly optimizing compiler based on a different interpretation of UB would be a worthwhile experiment. We sorely lack data on how big the performance gain of exploiting UB actually is. However, I strongly doubt that the result would even come close to the most widely used compilers today—and programmers that can accept such a big performance hit would probably not use C to begin with. Certainly, any proposal for requiring compilers to curtail their exploitation of UB must come with evidence that this would even be possible while keeping C a viable language for performance-sensitive code.

> To conclude, I fully agree with Yodaiken that C has a problem, and that reliably writing C has become incredibly hard since undefined behavior is so difficult to avoid. It is certainly worth reducing the amount of things that can cause UB in C, and developing practical tools to detect more advanced kinds of UB such as strict aliasing violations.

<snip>

> However, I do not think this problem can be solved with a platform-specific interpretation of UB. That would declare all but the most basic C compilers as non-compliant. We need to find some middle ground that actually permits compilers to meaningfully optimize the code, while also enabling programmers to actually write standards-compliant programs.

[0]: https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2021/11/24/ub-necessary.html
Difference being, the software (at least more or less) works; what's annoying people is the usability and consistency of the UI[1].

Designers deserve to be laughed out of the room; developers don't.

___

[1]: Until they get their shit in order, designers can kiss my ass for their pretentious "UX" claptrap. The actual experience is only max-half interface, min-half functionality. Where the latter is provided by lowly coders.
Source? Disclosure I work at soft-micro
Only works if you actually cut yourself in the fingertip though. Will you guilotine your entire hand if you cut a bit higher?

I mean… probably, but you’d need a bigger guillotine. And now having a hand sized guillotine in the lab is a bigger safety hazard.
Seems that it does: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/household-blea...

"A 5-minute soak in a 40% solution of household bleach decontaminated stainless steel wires coated with chronic wasting disease (CWD) prions, according to a new study by National Institutes of Health scientists."

Although it notes: "Notably, the study failed to find an effective method to decontaminate CWD-infected solid tissue. Pieces of CWD-infected brain retained prion activity even after a 30-minute soak in 100% bleach. Investigators note that bleach fails to penetrate tissues and should be used only as a surface decontaminant."
Even if you uninstall the apps, you have a web browser right at your fingertips.
Slack is great, but it doesn't have to take all of your attention
that is my impression too and i've honestly forced myself to mentally take a few steps back and consider that maybe i got something wrong / misinterpreted.
I was assuming that the "fair" part was about the gender of people because that seems to be what most of the article is about. The rest of the reasons for doing this make sense so my question was mostly, what does this have to do with people's gender? It seems like they imply that this is a bigger problem because of the distribution of people's gender, than it would have been with another distribution.
>Being vegetarian is also a complete defence.

Lady in the story could have been a Vegetarian yet still died from a Prion. As others have pointed out swimming in bodies of water is possible vector for prions.
I'm not against subscriptions per se. I subscribe to a number of things.

It just happens to be abused badly, from subscriptions for things that never need to update (I'd almost bet a dollar there is or has been a flashlight app with a subscription somewhere), to subscriptions for things you use a week and then are finished with to a certain alarm clock app that both charges multiple dollars a month and then has the guts to try to track me on top of that.
> I think if enough people start actually using it other browsers will eventually implement support.

There are several specs (like USB, Bluetooth, and MIDI) which are Chrome only, and for which other browser makers have explicitly stated they don’t agree with and will not support. Further, they have said that their rejection of these specs is due to security issues (e.g. providing full access to local hardware behind a single permission prompt)

This is much a higher bar than just lack of interest or resources to getting cross-browser compatibility.
Oh boy that brings me memories. Been MacOS user now for about 8 years and completely forgotten about this gem. Glad they keeping it alive and well.
I think it is your privilege to give such opinion, however, I can see the various advantage of Starlink. Many ISP in the US simply refuse to provide proper bandwidth and people have to live with ISP shenanigans, Starlink has helped those people. Sometimes submarine cables are destroyed. We saw that in a recent disaster where a volcanic eruption was responsible for an internet blackout, Starlink would have been helpful there.

And to counter your same example, in India around 41% of people have access to the internet. I think the internet is a basic right, at least in this century, so we shouldn't deprive people of the internet. I do acknowledge that Starlink might be costly but something is better than nothing.
My SB24 is going from 18.47 Euro to 29.00 Euro.
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just as one data point:

my current energy provider increased it like this
(prices in Euro Cents)

Energy:
27.85 ct/kWh --> 40,7 ct/kWh
Gas:
5,71 ct/kWh --> 19,87 ct/kWh

I am already in the process of ugprading appliances and decided against building a second home server I was planning.
We're actually having a worse situation re/ animals than our ancestors. We nowadays cram farm animals in stables so tightly that without antibiotics and medical treatment the animals would almost immediately perish. Our farms and our animal "care" practices have been the breeding ground for all recent global pandemics (swine flu, bird flu, SARS/MERS/SARS2). Not to mention the conditions that farm and slaughterhouse workers have to work and live in (as evidenced by massive COVID outbreaks).

The chance of any infectious agent "jumping the species" due to cramped conditions or because of exposure of workers to contaminated animal parts in unclean slaughterhouses is immense - the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in my opinion is a warning signal of something much worse to come, and no matter what kind of agent it will be, we're pretty much screwed. Half the population or more of the world doesn't believe in vaccination, a quarter or more don't have access to vaccines or any kind of modern medicine at all, we are already running out on reserve antibiotics...
From the article:

> In June 2019, an INRAE lab worker named Émilie Jaumain died at age 33, 10 years after pricking her thumb during an experiment with prion-infected mice.

The HN headline:

> Woman dies seven years after pricking finger in prion research lab (science.org)

Where did the "seven" year quote come from?
This type of humble and helpful answer from a vendor is refreshing.
Did you miss the part where the kid became a heroin addict? Heroin will certainly provide long term impairment in the form of a lifelong addiction. Hard to find the effect of MJ in that long shadow.
I think you and u/rreo8 have it. It's away to suggest control even in a loss
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TMZ says they have sources confirming it but it’s TMZ, so grain of salt.

https://www.tmz.com/2022/01/21/meat-loaf-dead-dies-singer/
Apparently a lot of the "university rankings" that you see are based a similar method -- faculty/staff at various universities are asked to rank (other) universities and their results summarized. So, for example Harvard is the #1 US university because many people at other universities think it is! There are other attempts at rankings that try to be more objective (such as number of papers published, number of Nobel Laureates on faculty, etc.) but those of course focus more on the research output of the university rather than teaching.
Somehow I prefer the timeline where the earth is blanketed in internet.
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I did start a site where I was logging what I could at outagereports.net, but I let it lapse when cpanel fees shot up. Dan Luu's site referenced below is a good source [1]. I think also there is a big list on github somewhere of all k8s-caused outages.

[1] https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems
The article has a different understanding of the new coke situation.

The article is also well thought out, thoroughly researched and cites the opinions of marketers at the time. I urge you to read it before overriding it with your one paragraph "understanding" of it.
Strato increased prices too, from 5€ to 8€ in my case. Not pleased ofc, but well.
It is hypothesised that Kuru (and vCJD) in some individuals (due to genetics) might take 40-50 years to develop if introduced through intestine. Well after the individual had a chance to reproduce.
Yeah my girls loved swimming in my in-laws pond behind their house. This ruined that. Statistically almost zero chance it will happen, but the ghost of the idea is there.

Especially when you see micrographs of the little demon: https://www.newsweek.com/brain-eating-amoebae-strike-again-t...
This is spot on. Adobe went subscription once their software was more than mature. Now that it's SaaS they're using paid subscribers as beta testers of features. Every once in a while something good comes of it. But then there's features no one asked for which introduce new bugs.
> One way to do it is insurance. The customer pays premiums so they never have to pay more than e.g. ten times the ordinary price no matter what the true market price is, or buys from a retailer who charges somewhat more in order to do the same.

Sure, that's one way, ultimately all the way to the end user paying a flat fee, which I guess is what a majority of residential customers are in fact doing.

But I wonder, if all the producers and consumers are hedged in one way or other against too low/too high prices, why have that wholesale price in the first place if it's just a fantasy number that affects nobody?

> Another alternative is to give customers a price threshold at which they don't want electricity. If the price exceeds $2/kWh, just immediately shut off my service.

This is in essence what RTO's are doing today, just for the whole region they are serving and not each customer separately. That is, there is a roof price, and instead of the price going over that limit in order to incentivize more generation to come online or customers to reduce demand, there will be rolling blackouts.

So in general wrt marginal cost pricing, I was thinking of something along the lines of https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323378820_The_Use_o...

This is only going to get worse as more and more generation will be near-zero marginal cost like renewables and nuclear.
Modern hypervisors don't run bytecode and are using the CPU to do security enforcement, not software emulating it like WASM is forced to do (since it's not using a hardware protection domain, aka a process)
You're forgetting the "backed by the richest man in the world" benefit that Starlink will enjoy before any significant market correction happens.
There are a bunch of companies out there that provide this as a service - remote employment. They setup a company in each local country and handle all the tax and legal implications.
yes, but way better even it's not apple to apple

- only big companies need kubernetes (as kesley hightower said, only use it if you building a platform and solving million dollar problem)

while desktop app that runs in browser (games, graphics design, etc) can benefit from wasm, also if you want your service to run users' code, it's better to use wasm so they can choose whatever language they want that able to target wasm
Thats not true. Regional providers which source their energy by regional means without any nuclear, gas, and coal can sustain their prices.

I wasn't buying cheap before and stayed regional and now I am still at about 30 Cents/kWh. It the same with lumber last year.
I have similar thoughts - it would be great to hear if there is an in-significant overhead with wine…
That’s insane!

If I were to sign a new contract right now in Finland I’d pay 8 cents per kWh. Including transfer fees and taxes that comes to less than 15 cents all in.

And prices are extremely high right now over here. Normally you’d pay under 10 cents all in.
I've been able to get cheaper and cheaper servers every few years since 2012, each with better CPU and RAM than the previous. This is the first time in that decade I see a price increase. Only +4% in my case, for my fairly cheap machine.

What type of server do you have?
Just wait 5 years.
Tempting to contrast this with ivermectin.

"It may not help that much but the downside is well known and small, so it could be worth a try"

Is that a reasonable thought, or is it dangerous misinformation and denial? For both or just one of the drugs?

Anecdata: I was smoking at my usual (high) levels when I got COVID in Feb 2020, i had to cut down for a week or so because my lung capacity suffered, and I got back to the usual consumption after that. I happened to have been weighing and logging daily does at that time so have the record. Perhaps it helped moderate severity, perhaps not.
My local city-owned provider ("Stadtwerke" as the general term; I'm in a large city in Bavaria) and my contract details are

Less than 1.400 kWh / year

Price
30,27 ct / kWh
Base price
89,28 € / year
Online-Bonus
10,00 € / year

More than 1.400 kWh / year

Price
27,92 ct / kWh
Base price
122,52 € / year
Online-Bonus
20,00 € / year

I took the standard package and never shopped around. I'm using around this 1400 threshold. It was >1600 before I switched the energy-guzzling graphics card for a minimal one (I don't play games and videos are the only thing utilizing it a bit, on the 32 inch screen). Apart from the PC and 32 inch monitor an Italian all-metal and heat-radiating portafilter espresso maker (with E61 brew group, whose 1961 design did not care about energy efficiency, unfortunately) is the largest contributor to my bill. Lighting is negligible, heating is for the whole apartment building and gas-powered.
https://zbigatron.com/artificial-intelligence-is-slowing-dow...
They are, but almost all proteins are sensitive to the oxidative power of bleach
I have used a Netti pot style device with a very small amount of diluted hydrogen peroxide to treat sinus infections for years. At the recommendation of my doctor.

//sarcasm// But for treating covid that idea is preposterous.
Anything expressed by DNA is a protein, but not all proteins are the same. Prion infections are caused by proteins that change the same proteins in the same way, like how crystals replicate.

A human analogy might be a disgruntled but charismatic worker who starts spreading a disruptive attitude until morale and productivity plummet in their department. As long as one of that team remains, the issue can still spread. Coincidentally, both the potted plants and highly compensated leadership are unaffected.
Why? If the market deems that there’s an actual need beyond “a dwindling rural population in high income countries”, Starlink will survive. If there isn’t a need, then it won’t survive. The problem will take care of itself. Legislation has a cost when there are other more pressing issues. A politician’s time is finite.
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How come your Windows use case didn't require Zadig? I couldn't get any USB device to work via WebUSB without it.
Part of the reason is taxes and carbon taxes. Another part is that growing demand requires investments in new capacity by energy suppliers. And of course European energy suppliers are investing a lot into that. And of course doubly so in Germany which is getting rid of nuclear this year and coal in the next eight years. And another part is that gas prices have risen sharply recently. So, those nice gas plants that were built to replace expensive to operate nuclear plants are now about as unattractive as coal plants are relative to renewables in terms of cost.

Of course Hetzner can choose to invest in generating their own energy. Those roofs over their data centers would be a perfect spot for solar. And in related news, that's exactly what they are doing: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/hetzner-online-ho...

Makes sense, it's what the big cloud providers are also doing. Consuming large amounts of electricity from the grid is not a great business plan when there are cheaper alternatives. And of course they get to advertise how green they are.

IMHO skyrocketing or unstable grid prices are a good thing in the sense that it makes people more likely to spend money on solutions like this.
> Software should not be free (in cost), yet always receive new features and updates.

That sounds like an extension of "you wouldn't download a car".
The discrepancy between the article conclusions and this comment section is hilarious.
They may be suggesting that prions don't have a large space to evolve within through random mutation
One could argue that MS Office and Adobe products were always "subscription-based", if companies and professionals never left the update treadmill. After all, if all you need is MS-Office 2000 or Adobe Photoshop 6, no subscription is needed and you can still find licenses around.
Not sure if this has new info but the study from some days back said that the effect was only pre-carb - if you were smoking you were eliminating the upside
This is why I wanted orbital space to be treated as Antarctica. But the US and China are in a new cold war and both sides have no stomach for accountability.

Musk just destroyed America's moral high-ground on the issue as well so 10 years from now when we look up we'll see corporations battling it out.
Word is a solution looking for a problem. It exists because of MS wormed itself into public systems around the globe, and it became the standard for writing and publishing. It does both of those tasks horribly compared to any alternatives (markdown, latex).
no? if I create a meeting at 9am pacific zone that happens every wednesday it will move around for people in australia being a different time throughout the year. Meetings are also not the only reason to want to know what time it is for colleagues. There is also setting up on-call and knowing when to message people.
It starts from day one. Pitch decks that don’t have a subscription revenue model are routinely ignored, so founders find a way to shoehorn subscriptions in somehow even though the product isn’t a “natural” fit for subscriptions.
Alt-T-L, mofos.
Yea fair point, it's indeed a lot easier to look at surface level reasons and take them at face value, while instead we should be critical of that. Good point.
> Images online show that Windows 8 still had colored title bars

Depends on exactly which window, doesn't it? For example, the main Outlook window on my work Windows 10 PC has a blue title bar, but the pop-up-and-hover appointment reminder's is white. Don't think I ever used Outlook on Win 8, but I could well imagine it was the same.

And so on for a lot of other apps.
Not at all, I am still working with modern versions of them.

In fact I consider Kubernetes much worse experience, regardless of how much hate Websphere and Co might get.
I’m going from 20.99 to 29.00. 38% up.

Like, energy prices over the past year have gone up from €20 per MWh to €120 per MWh, so I sort of get it, but still.

Who would have thought the cost of the hardware would be irrelevant compared to the cost of the energy (or hell, the IPv4 address space)
Spliffs are the norm most of Europe. An entire continent is hardly atypical.
It is not a zero sum game. There are just finite resources, but that is nothing unusual. In the grand scheme of things there are finite resources in every physical system.
The headline is wrong. She pricked her finger in 2010, started experiencing symptoms in 2017, and died in 2019.
I'm still wondering why the US is the only country with a steady supply of serial killers.
If indignation of others is strong, tread carefully.
I use Kate on Linux. I find it very nice.
Total commander - a windows binary in the same ‘league’ as np++ - can’t live without it!!!

I can’t live with any other file manager…!

Am even considering using it via wine on Linux…!
Many people, especially the young, can not find a peaceful time or place for meditation. The demands placed on them by western society take up too much of their energy.

For them, drugs are a must because otherwise they will grow up without any spiritual life at all.
Im not sure where your judgements of JP come from but they certainly are not negating or invalidating his message. On the "making ones' bed"; it is a practical and old advice practised in all military academies I know of for, among others, this reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmbQfFVyxhU
> I don't see how these are user hostile.

They lock you in to continuing to pay even when you no longer derive value.

Say you stopped using Photoshop years ago but suddenly need to export one of your old documents. You’re now forced to pay rent to Adobe for at least one month to access one of your own files. And Adobe won’t make it easy to unsubscribe again, which adds to the hassle.

> The pay per update model forces the creator to release big feature updates, even if the features are just bloat, as bug fix releases and stability work will usually sell much worse. That's mostly fixed by the subscription model.

Perpetual fallback licenses[1] solve that issue without forcing users to keep paying rent.

[1]: https://github.com/vitorgalvao/perpetual-fallback-licenses
Keep in mind that English, as a lingua franca, is one of the most heavily exceptioned languages in the world.
How can otherwise intelligent people believe drugs are outlawed because people were having too much fun?