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I’d love to have a good Mac-friendly backup solution that was independant from Time Machine, so that I could restore my system from an alternative backup solution in the case that both Time Machine and CarbonCopyCloner fail to do their jobs.

Of course, I’d also like to cover non-Mac platforms as well. Mostly flavors of Linux, but maybe also FreeBSD or other BSD family members.
Is that borg+emborg?
In the home cook world I guess? In professional circles he's respected within his niche (making advanced technique accessible to home cooks) but not particularly influential beyond that.
The clowns you are referring to are people with brains that look at more than just leetcode problems.
It’s not that a given trauma center has all the entire supply it’s that it can’t find replacements quick enough if too many people are hired away too quickly.
Exactly it's just a scam (until now).
From this Ted talk on making tough decisions. https://www.ted.com/talks/ruth_chang_how_to_make_hard_choice...

If your making a tough decision, you have already determined that both options are equally attractive and equally good decisions. If this wasn't the case, it would be an easy choice. So if you are choosing between two seemingly equally good decisions, your choice doesn't matter. They are both equally good options, and so are the same level of risk in having a bad outcome.
unless you walk with a partner who knows how to read the position of the sun or remembers landmarks
His house is very ugly. I hate it when architects think they are painting an abstract picture with wood and marble. Good architecture feels good to live in — it’s not an accessory or a statement.
>A strip is not a "cheaper" steak than a filet.

But objectively speaking a strip steak is cheaper. Based on my observations of supermarket sale prices, the ranking goes:

fillet > ribeye > strip > others that I don't bother with (sirloin/round)
I agree with you, and I’m not entirely sure why, because I think it involves more than just the crust. It has something to do with the interior of the meat as well.

I own a small Breville oven, and since it’s PID controlled, I set it at a very low temperature like 160 F and then put a separate probe in the meat to pull it at just the right temperature (takes a few hours). I end up with edge to edge evenness and a nice crust as well. It beats the Joule every time I’ve tried it.

I will say that I haven’t found anything that beats sous vide for chicken and duck though.
That sounds really interesting! Crazy to think of the people that made such a big impact on software and also internet history (meme history I guess)
Perhaps the leading sentence by parent was not a true speculation, just an elaborate setup to the slightly altered quote as the punchline. In an alternate universe, if Conan Doyle took more interest in the digestive system of the human body, Sherlock Holmes would've explained everything with gut feelings instead of making extended retreats to his Mind Palace.

"It's alimentary, my dear Watson!"
Of course, I’d also like to cover non-Mac platforms as well. Mostly flavors of Linux, but maybe also FreeBSD or other BSD family members.
Also, certain supernatural abilities would have been so useful in stone age societies that they would have given an evolutionary advantage to the individuals possessing them, and hence we all should have those abilities by now, as evolution should have made those adaptations more common.
> … like an individual cell, cannot reproduce.

The prokaryotes beg to differ. If we are talking about human cells then the cancer cells would also like to raise an objection.
I was even taught #5 in school.
> Too many people have an emotional stake in home ownership as its own end, and they would be better off seeing it as a tradeoff made coldly.

This assumes risk neutrality. If rents go up to where someone is priced out, their kid lose their school, and all sorts of other Bad Stuff happens. Home ownership with a mortgage is stable.

Home ownership once the mortgage is paid off means your life is stable even in a crisis, job loss, or economic downturn; you can rent out a room, and so long as you bring in enough for food and taxes, you stay alive and you're not homeless.

For most people, home ownership is a rational choice. It doesn't maximize expected future $$$, but it does maximize expected future outcomes.
> Can someone clarify what they mean by resting uncovered on the fridge?

From the article:

"Or better yet, salt them and let them rest uncovered on a rack in the fridge for a night or two, so that their surface moisture can evaporate. You'll get much more efficient browning that way." (emphasis mine)

>I remember being told once that food should always be stored covered in the fridge. Is that another myth?

AFAIK that's for food safety reasons.
I only recently learned about myth #7 ("poke test") and managed to cook a great steak using it.
Agreed, though of course not every organometallic reagent is alike. It's quite alright to let students try to do a Grignard reaction (the generation of the Grignard reagent being famously finnicky in the hands of beginners and experienced chemists alike) once they have safety training behind them, it's quite another thing to let them work with even more flammable, explosive or toxic compounds. Some other more benign organometallic compounds are porphyrin and phtalocyanine dyes and various nicely colorful coordination complexes.
One other sad incident with organometallic reagents was the death of Sheri Sangji[0], she was scaling up a reaction involving tert-butyl lithium, which resulted in a deadly fire. It was thought the accident was a result of a series of safety failures (bad safety education, bad ppe, weekend work) and the university and supervisor were (imo, correctly) held culpable for creating the conditions in which such a horrible accident was possible. This one is also quite scary because many organic chemists will routinely use n-Bu-Li and occassionaly tBu-Li, the deadly and more pyrophoric agent involved in this accident as well.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheri_Sangji_case
No need to “entropy maximize”.

There’s only ~12k-13k five letter English words in the dictionary. Check /usr/share/dict/words file (if you use Windows, go find a dictionary file elsewhere).

The first word should be a word that roughly eliminates half the words, regardless of getting any letters right or wrong.

Count the letters in each position and calculate & rank the words that closely eliminates 1/2 the whole list. Use that as a filter and binary search until there’s only 1 word left.

Wordle is the same game as mastermind and hangman and wheel of fortune.

I’d argue Aeros is not the optimal first word in order to filter and binary search the list of five letter words. Homework to be left to the wordler.
None of those are reasons we've stopped doing anything else why would we stop eating beef.

Not that I'm endorsing this stance, but dodging large-scale consequences for our indulgences are one of the privileges of being well paid professionals in the imperial core. I don't think people here will be particularly affected by this shift.
have you found this approach to work on anyone, regarding any topic?
Covering food keeps it from drying out (otoh, if you have mushrooms in the fridge — why? — let any vapor escape. Ditto some raw veggies.

Also makes things less likely to spill or have stuff fall into them.

So not a myth. Also nothing exotic, just common sense. It you want something to dry out by all means leave it uncovered.
What happened with Bem?

Did his studies get debunked or he is still able to prove things? And the other guy runs same studies and gets different result ? WhT ?
As someone who doesn't floss every day and has no dental issues.. am I missing something?
In my opinion respect should be granted by default, and rescinded if the person has earned that
I don’t think it comes from being evil as such. Not a hollywood villain evil, at any rate.

Antropomorphic personifications of Shell or BP would sure come out as very ruthless businessmen with enormous egos, deeply afraid of criticism and dealing with it dirty at times. But people who make up those corporations and direct them and so on are often driven by desires to do their jobs as efficiently as they can, make their dime, and deeply wishing that could please some unintended consequences of their jobs please be someone else’s problem. Please? “Will no one rid me of this turbulent environmental activist?”

In other words, a pretty normal situation in a big company.
Yes I think they can be removed with linting rules once you are ready to hit production.
And the best part is that they know exactly what videos were deleted and they'll never 'forget' it yet they won't show it to you. Drives me nuts too.
This "anti-science" phrase is pure cancer. Most of the people who use it aren't pro-science. They're pro-authority. The science for them is whatever the authorities have greenlighted for them to believe.
Shouldn't parents, regardless of political affiliation, have the ability to decide what's appropriate for their own kids?
IMO the attack helicopter is a better modern equivalent to cavalry than the tank. Hard to make a direct comparison since increased firepower and command-and-control have made military forces incredibly dispersed.
Whenever you wants, just contact me, im from Argentina and happy to let you know how to cook beef.

People from USA just burn the beef >.<
Exactly. Division of labor is essential for any complex project. Whoever says the opposite has probably only worked in simple/small systems.
Even then, you have better options (main one: pascal).

P.D: My main gripe is not about why C was made how is made. Is that it STAY like that until now. It must have been deprecating dangerous stuff long ago...
> I question the need for scale in 90% of the places where the tech industry has cargo-culted it.

Certainly our industry does a lot of premature scaling. Sometimes this is the best bet, because it can be so difficult to scale later. But certainly sometimes it’s a huge waste and creates unnecessary complexity.

> Not using, reimplementing and copying are the closest thing to solutions I have right now. You're right that they're not applicable to most people in their current context.

Yeah. This again makes sense if you don’t really need the library. If you’re only using some tiny piece of it.

Otherwise this looks a lot like Not Invented Here. Reimplementing huge pieces of functionality is rarely a win. Copying can be better but is again rarely a win. It works for cases like Chromium where a massive team was created to maintain the fork, but in general firing code comes with huge cost.

Reimplementing and forking are generally not value adds. Building software is today about creating/adding value.

Certainly it pays to be suspicious of new dependencies and ask if they are necessary. I’ve seen unnecessary dependencies cause significant pain. I have also seen variants of not invented here waste years.

> I'm saying software should reduce the pressure on people to be experts so that we can late-bind experts to domains. Not every software sub-system should need expertise at the scale at which it is used in every possible context.

I don’t understand this criticism. If I write some code, I’m realistically the expert. The person who code reviewed for me is likely the next most knowledgeable. It’s not about wanting to silo expertise. It’s about the reality that certain people will understand certain subsystems better because they’ve worked there. If I need to get something done, I’m going to first try to get the experts to do it, not because someone who typically works in another area can’t, but because it will probably take the “outsider” twice as long. It’s not a statement of what’s right or wrong, just what’s efficient. Certainly I’d knowledge becomes too silo’d, it’s a massive risk. But some siloing can be significantly more efficient, at least on large or complex systems.
Well, they come out with three new versions of their devices per month and you probably have no chance of servicing any type of warranty as they are based in China. You're not missing much if you wait for a company who can make decisions to release a better product, and you'll probably save yourself a headache.
FYI if you were able to set this up, it would be trivial for you to share your ADS-B feed with Flightradar24[1]. This would give you a free business plan[2] for as long as you share, which would get you access to that data.
[1]https://www.flightradar24.com/build-your-own
[2]https://www.flightradar24.com/premium
"Treat people how you would like to be treated."
Short answer: No.
Long answer: Also no.
I've used react-grid-layout for a client last month and it seems to work like that: the (x,y) coordinates are only guidelines and the layout engine will try and do its best to solve for size and position constraints.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-grid-layout
I think this is the way to go whenever optimization software meets real humans. I've had some experience with trying to optimize diets based on nutrition, and most of the work goes into making sure the suggested improvements aren't too radical and that the new 'improved' diet feels close to the original. Simply because the most optimal diet is something that no one would actually want to eat, while dramatic changes in suggested foods will simply be ignored by most.
It’s a microstate of 77000 people.
I think that's the established common wisdom, but it's not well-enforced by anything, and it's not innate. Everyone learns this the hard way once.
After all, she had adhered to the safety regulations involving dimethylmercury.

Within weeks of Wetterhahn’s death, Chemical & Engineering News ran a letter on her lethal accident and the alarming results of a dimethylmercury test on the type of gloves she had worn.

It's interesting that no one ever tested them before that.
It is a bit different from mine (which I fixed in 2017). Unfortunately, I didn't think of taking pictures of its innards.

One thing I remember clearly which I can't distinguish in your photo is a microSDHC slot with a 2GB card in it. I thought about upgrading it, but it already has a slot for another card and you can store an absurd amount of books in 2GB anyway.

I settled on an ED060SCE(LF)C1 screen. I couldn't find the differences between T1 and C1. The image on the C1 is a bit worse than the original (which was only labeled as ED060SCE(LF)) but it is good enough.
Regardless of the effects, if you are compelled to hand over your children for N hours a day to a state institution, it seems like an extremely reasonable and modest request to at least be informed of what they are taught.

"If you knew what we were doing, you'd try to stop us" is not a good counterargument.
Hah. Try ordering a steak any temperature above medium or up at some NYC steak houses and they'll give you a charred hockey puck because they're assuming you're going to drown it in ketchup and can't taste the difference anyway. It's not always about meat quality or whatever stick the chef has up his butt about serving it barely warmed over. For some of us uncooked / undercooked bloody and gelatinous steak is downright disgusting. It's a texture thing: I don't want rubbery meat in my mouth.

At least for me, I love it when a place serves steak on a hot metal plate. They usually sear it and go under a little, assuming it'll be cooked further just from the plate during delivery. I can cut my steak into little pieces and push it the rest of the way myself. The chef doesn't try to substitute strip for filet because he's a pretentious snob and I don't have to eat gelatinous, bloody steak for the same reason. Not every wants beef sashimi.
See my response to a sibling comment of yours. Your initial claim had absolutely nothing to do with "broad side effects." You claimed that prednisone is almost never the right treatment. That is false, and runs counter to evidence and fact---hence, it is anti-science, precisely as I have claimed.

Your appeal to other hot-button topics here is an attempt at distracting from the content of the argument. Those topics are non sequitur, and it is clear you are arguing in bad faith.

Please, re-examine your beliefs. You are on a dark path.
It turns out my wife was opposed to an Instant Pot too. Why? I don't know.

But I got one over the holidays anyway[1] because I wanted something for incubating yogurt that could do more than just be an incubator. I've now made yogurt in it maybe eight times and it's come out perfectly every time. I had lots of failures in the past trying other ways of making yogurt. The steady incubation temperature really seems to make a big difference.

I've also used it for a handful of meals, lots of oatmeal, and it's excellent for hard-boiled eggs that are easy to peel.

But I haven't used it for rice yet. My wife just insists on making it on the stove and the reviews I read indicated the Instant Pot isn't particularly great at making rice.

[1] I got the Pro 10-in-1 6 Qt when Amazon had it on sale for $80. I bribed my wife with a Lodge 6 qt dutch oven. It was a fair trade. :-)
Hah, you both beat me too it and I didn't realize until I posted the comment. Cheers
I actively believe several of them despite reading the article, although some for different reasons.

I bring the steak to room temp, sear first, bone in, minimize cutting.

That said, most of these are quibbles with the reasons, not the practices themselves.

Some are stylistic too, particularly the desire for an even steak. Some like a strong gradient.
I had to pay more money than I thought was fair. It didn't go to judgement - I settled.

I'm forbidden to say any more.
I think if you rule out Dvorak and Colemak due to pinky use, you should also rule out Qwerty. The best option would be to buy a keyboard with multiple thumb keys, so you can press e.g. enter and backspace with your thumb.

(Not using one-handed combinations is the general advice on any typing course -- A and M should use the shift keys on the right and left hand, respectively, as should ^A and ^M.)
It's back for me now as of 6:48 PM EST
The point of covering something in the fridge is so that you don’t accidentally drop or drip something else into it, and so that they dry more slowly. For example, you’ve got a pot of left–over spaghetti in the fridge, then you bring home some fresh chicken for tomorrow. You wouldn’t want any of the fresh chicken juice to drip into the spaghetti accidentally, so you make sure it is covered, or at least higher up than the chicken. You’ve got some limes in there too, but their rind keeps them from drying out. The one you cut in half will start to dry out quickly unless you wrap it in something. Best not to get the chicken juice on the limes either. The rind will protect the part of the limes that you will eat only until you cut them.
Pre-pandemic average life expectancy was lower than that.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...

I realize it’s not really apples to apples, but I think there is a statistical argument to be made that these folks were already above the curve. Age was a factor as much as Covid.

I suspect 20 years from now statistics are going to pretty much show that excess deaths across any 5-10 year period that covers 2020-2022 are going to pretty minimal. Covid seems to have a tendency to more accelerate death than outright cause it.

Younger deaths with no underlying cause may be a more effective measure I think of pure Covid deadliness.
Sure, but that would mean that the company as an entity is amoral, which the previous comment claimed "they are really not".
If you add a laser pointer you'll effectively get yourself arrested within a few hours.

Aircraft get laserd relatively often and it's dangerous to the pilots. We report it to air traffic control with an estimated location, they then coordinate with the police.

Common practice is to turn off exterior lights when lasered, because it's just bored people with a laser pointer and they can't aim when the plane has no lights on. But if you link it to ADS-B that would require switching off the transponder which will cause issues for ATC.
I think the target audience of this type of advice should be young people beginning their careers. True domain experts likely don’t need advice like this. There does come a time when you reach your limit in terms of what you can learn. But young people hopefully haven’t reached that at the start of their careers.
The goal of resting uncovered in the fridge is to evaporate the surface moisture which lets you get a better sear since less energy is spent evaporating water on/near the surface of the steak.

You usually want to store food covered the fridge so that this exact thing doesn't happen, and so that odors don't transfer between foods. Or at least that's what I think.
I think most people liked XP specifically because they could use the classic UI, and in may other areas it was an improvement.
> I'll never be comfortable with any tool for that automatically generates schema changes, as I'm just never sure at what point it decides to delete parts of my prod db.

To be fair, they analogized themselves to Terraform, which can go as far as deleting the database itself (and all the other infra that goes with it). As with anything a good dry-mode and a good process around review is how you minimize the risk.
Fast and Accurate Sparse Networks (2021)
Because those people are probably much much better than you in other ways and maybe you want to improve yourself in those ways.

It's not as black/white as you're making it out to be. Reality is far more nuanced.
"It's not what you know, it's who you know"

Probably not a popular tip for many on HN who enjoy tinkering, but its truth has served me well in my entrepreneurial endeavors, where as my nerdiness less so.

One cannot know everything and we all are bound by finite time, but if you learn the skills and build the network to bring many talents together, you can accomplish greater things than doing it all on your own.

Similarly: "No man is an island"
I added "It's worth noting I don't have a problem with alcohol or being around it." to my post to clarify that this is nothing to do with alcoholism. I just want to. It won't be forever but it is for right now.

Your post is good for people in a different situation to me though.
Bitcoin isn’t a Ponzi scheme, but it’s easy to run such a scheme using a cryptocurrency.

Financial expert Lyn Alden explains what a Ponzi scheme actually is and why bitcoin isn’t: https://www.lynalden.com/bitcoin-ponzi-scheme/
Chances are, if you've chosen Python for a new project today then you're willing to trade a lot of speed for developer convenience already.
Interesting article. I've assumed that route optimization would be a fairly well-developed industry by now without a lot of room for new small entrants, especially with all the well-known companies offering online delivery services. Surely they must have at least the basics of route optimization pretty well worked out.
Documentaries is a great recommendation. I have plenty added to my lists on Netflix and Disney+.
Strategy candidate: pour shade on X. Construct escape route from X to one's Y. Get the word out on Y not X. Siphon cash. Declare success.
Damn Small Linux ran fine under a 486. I liked the black fluxbox theme.
One example: the current US healthcare system with providers, insurers (e.g. middlemen), and end users?