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The problem is that it is all or nothing. You can't accept each new feature separately only all of them at once.
And here it's email first, phone second, sms if I can't be reached immediately. And I guess there are as many variations on that as there are people, with the number of comms options comfortably exceeding 33.
I toyed a little bit with an approach to async drop; let me know what do you think

https://crates.io/crates/arcy
They used to. Do they still?
Is the CDC (1) a scientific institution or (2) a government agency enforcing regulations?

If you think of it as (1), you see failures in scientific communication.

If you think of it as (2), you see an authority expecting to be obeyed.
>Stick to the plan and keep showing up, for longer than you think you'll need to. It's an underutilized approach and, for certain challenges, the only one that works.

I've had this experience with my ebooks. Plenty of ups and downs, but somehow I kept writing and it pays off in spurts now and then.

The article also reminded me of "The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday" (https://typesense.org/blog/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of...)
I think of Mortal Kombat at the arcade before there was any version to play at home.

Nothing can ever compete with that. The finishing moves were like this occult knowledge that you would see certain kids have and think of them as some kind of martial arts masters. No internet to tell you how to do them. Would just have to try to watch the master and figure out what they were doing when they did the finishing move.

Scarcity of game play the coin created along with having to be social at the arcade. Just an awesome experience as a kid.
The requirement to have all the source if you're not happy with C-style ABI boundaries comes from Rust itself not from its Editions. C++ leaves a bunch of performance on the table here because it insists on pretending your code from last century should get to dictate how a CPU designed last year works.

Hyrum's law will indeed bite multiple Rust implementations, as it already bites Rust on non-x86 CPUs because a low level language cannot entirely conceal implementation details. This is already a huge leap over C++ where you get to tickle previously undetected Undefined Behaviour if you change compilers because (safe) Rust stays safe even if you're astonished that e.g. documentation saying "the order is not defined" really means "the order is not defined" despite the fact you tested it on your laptop last week and that's how it worked. Your bad program might have bugs but it doesn't suddenly exhibit nonsense behaviour.

Fundamentally Rust's Editions are about the fact that we don't get it right first time every time. In C++ having settled on the claim that (quoting Stroustrup) "this array concept is inherently low level" the built-in array is basically abandoned as unusable garbage forever because to do otherwise would admit a mistake. In contrast Rust says sure, arrays don't yet have all the features you expect of first class containers, we will improve the language to deliver that.

I think this is a healthier philosophy and it's already successful. It isn't a panacea, but it is a very noticeable improvement.

As to taking care of items that are yet to stabilise, what's to see here? Even for something like generators that is far from finished, the keyword is reserved already, you probably wouldn't wait for an edition to land it, once it was stable you just flip the toggle and it works.
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Model S and X have an instrument cluster directly in front of the driver, the 3 and Y do not.
I’ve found that AWK is frequently surprisingly readable actually, as long as you understand the execution model. I think people tend to think of it (with some justification) as in the same vein as Perl, but it isn’t nearly as surface-level cryptic. The syntax is just “C-style” with dynamic typing and built in regular expressions.

I have a couple of AWK scripts to handle my personal finances (basically, consuming various bank/credit card statements and turning them to Ledger files) and it’s just the perfect language for that kind of task. My scripts look fairly similar to the examples in the blog post, they also use the same state-machine trick. With the possible exception of Perl/Raku, it’s my favourite language for that kind of thing.
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Mesmerism is super interesting. Describing it as "just a placebo effect" or "just in the mind" misses the point, because most treatments don't get these kinds of effects. There was a theater to Mesmerism that is still poorly understood. I would consider it closest to something like Landmark or Est -- almost certainly going to be more effective than the majority of psychotherapies.

Benjamin Franklin was on the committee that proved that the purported mechanism of Mesmerism was invalid. There is no "mesmeric fluid." But no one doubted the efficacy of the treatments.
It’s important to understand that “middle class” has a very different meaning in the UK than the US. In the UK “middle class” generally means “posh”, you could see it as a shorthand for “upper middle class”.
To be fair, lab testing can take a day or more, if you need to include an antibiotics screen, even more. Sometimes an infection can get very severe in this time span, so sometimes antibiotics are given prophylactically without waiting for the results to come back.

I hope the massive advances of sequencing will reach the clinics soon, it should be possible to get the genome of the infectious bacteria/virus in a couple of hours with today's tech. You can even infer the antibiotic resistance from this info, so you'd know how to treat the infection in a very targeted fashion.
I'm not sure Elon ever claimed that.

Unless poster is talking about 4680 batteries, which are going to be used in production cars in Q1 or Q2 2022. But those are 20-30% more efficient/cheap compared to the 2170 form factor
I didn't say we were nearing post scarcity. I said that's the only ideal outcome. We're closer to a cyberpunk dystopia where gigacorporations are more powerful than governments.
Why do so many pop stars die young?
There's a certain level of truth to it, as none of the Android phone makers appear to be able to push for a customized SoC, even the ones with own designs (Samsung) appear to keep a "wall" between mobile and SoC divisions.

This means that relatively easy wins like throwing a lot more cache on high end phone, are unavailable because instead they are just one of the many customers for the SoC with different priorities resulting in a compromise design.
> I've had Libre Office completely destroy hours of work multiple times.

And I've used it (well, back before it was forged) to clean up things that others had messed up to bad in MS Office.

> one example: In Excel, I was going great work dissecting raw data provided in another worksheet tab, and apparently writing formulas that LO couldn't understand, so upon opening this file in LibreOffice, LO stripped those cells out. just completely emptied those cells, and then saved the file, all without a warning or a prompt or anything.

I've never had LibreOffice save the file without asking.

In fact I think it also usually tries to convince me to make a copy in the official LibreOffice format instead.

I'm going to be extremely blunt here and ask you to look for a PEBKAC.
My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmware over the WiFi
I still hope some indie dev will build something similar to Spore. Probably my favorite videogame as a kid.
Rust in 30 Seconds
Alternately you can devise a good way of sharing the things you use (keys, maybe a pass db, etc) over all your machines automatically (e.g. via SyncThing or something along those lines).
Had some discussions here and i might conclude with the following:

It's important to note, that the first authorized vaccine ( BionTech/Pfizer) was not funded by operation warp speed and they explicitely denied it to avoid political interference.

Pfizer did a flawless execution ( they were chosen by BionTech because of their experience), simultaneous clinical trials ( funded by governements) and faster approval by governements made the BIGGEST difference from multiple years for a vaccine to just one year. Doing that process almost flawlessly by Pfizer is not an easy task!

The Cold Storage pipeline was already mentioned since 1976 and many countries outside of the US had a very good execution. The logistical issues were also ( not coinsidence) not "rich countries" unfortunately. Ebola paved the way for a lot of regulatory changes too as a lot of bottlenecks were discovered before Covid.

Also the reduced requirement from -60° to -20° made it easier to hook into the existing cold chain pipeline ( but not without hurdles ofc, but the tech was already available - https://www.unicef.org/supply/stories/historic-push-provide-... )

The US started to deliver vaccines 2 months faster ( Europe didn't do premium pricing, did more in cooperation which made it slower ( > 25 countries!) and didn't waver pharma responsibilities. They also bought more Astra Zenica which wasn't the right bet).

My POV of Operation WarpSpeed: buy all possible vaccines at premium pricing and then distribute it like the others, while leaving last-mile delivery to the states themselves is really just picking the easy work and letting others do the hard work.

Long-term: As it's the governments "initiative", they should have promoted the vaccines more and made more information available. Other countries greatly overtook the US by vaccination rates by now and the "total package" should be compared.

It's not the start that counts, it's the finish that matters.

TLDR: I don't know where Operation WarpSpeed made any proven difference that couldn't be done by buying all possible vaccines.
See Elon Musk's claims from Battery Day: https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/elon-musk-reveal-battery-...
My 2012 Honda Civic does not let me drive and watch movie. If the car starts moving the video is stopped.

Has the regulation changed? Is it now legal for a car to play Netflix while you are driving?
PgSQL table based job queues should be able to handle that kind of load, but to support it you will need very high IOPS based disk. If you have NVME SSD paired with decent CPU, it should be able to manage this.

This is mainly because PgSQL based queue is durable by default and based on how you implement your inserts, every new message will need a disk based commit.
When at home - pushups, pullups, situps can be done right next to your computer. If you are in an apartment - use the stairs rather than the elevator. If you need to go to the store - walk if possible.
Yeah. I can easily run FORTRAN code from my PhD supervisor's PhD supervisor, written way back in the 1980s, but I cannot run some of the Python scripts written by a post-doc 10 years ago. It's a mess of abandoned libraries and things that work only with some specific versions of some libraries, and compiled modules that rely on the dodgy behaviour of an old compiler. Perl seems to be better, if only because people used to rely much less on external libraries.

But properly running code is not the solution either. I can count on the fingers of one had the downloads of some of the codes we've published (easily compilable modern Fortran), and AFAIK nobody ever published anything using them. Having a multitude of codes available does not mean much if nobody runs them, assuming they can be compiled. And I would guarantee that none of the scientists who download these codes would be able to understand what they do in any detail.
I'm not a Django expert, but I'm generally a fan of simplicity and great design which I would definitely apply here. Thanks for your feedback.
It might sort of work, but it's still less than ideal:

- A Class 92 in DC mode is limited to 4 MW, whereas on AC it can output 5 MW (and other, more modern four-axle electric locos manage 6.4 MW), and even that 4 MW capability already required significant infrastructure upgrades (I think they basically had to double the number of substations along the designated freight corridors between the Channel Tunnel and London)

- Anecdotally, even with just passenger trains on some heavily trafficked sections of route they're running into the problem that the current draw becomes so high that it becomes hard to distinguish between regular operations and an earth fault (and building even more substations isn't cheap, and if you compare it with the amount of substations you'd require for high voltage AC…)

- At switches and crossings you get unavoidable gaps in the third rail, and especially at the complex track layouts around some of the larger stations those can occasionally combine into gaps of substantial length. Multiple units with distributed traction (which have dominated passenger traffic on the Southern Region for a long time) can handle those better because there are pickup shoes distributed along the whole length of the unit, plus possibly a traction power bus connecting those pickup shoes together (at least within a single three-/four-/five-car unit). So all in all it's relatively unlikely that a multiple unit will find itself completely off the traction supply ("gapped").

With a freight train powered by a single locomotive on the hand, power supply to the locomotive will always be interrupted by anything but the very smallest gap in the third rail, which means that the tractive effort gets interrupted on each of those occasions (and to avoid jerking the couplings you want to turn off and re-apply power smoothly, and especially the former will make driving more complicated), you need to power the loco's auxiliary systems through all those interruptions, and if the train comes to an unscheduled stand within a junction (whether due to a technical fault, external influences like trespassers, a driver error, or whatever…) there is a much higher risk that the train ends up gapped and will then cause quite a bit of delay until you can somehow get it going again (if you're very lucky the track gradient might get the train rolling again, otherwise you either need to connect up some extensions leads up to the loco or else give it a push with another train/loco, all of which takes quite some time to set up).
> I personally think that a lot of vaccine scepticism comes from the perceived force involved. For example, via passports and mandates.

You would think that, and they promote that, but it does not. It is obvious when you consider that all the vaccine skeptics were also vaccine skeptics before there was any hint of force involved.
The same policy for assigning housing or employment would run afoul of federal racial discrimination laws. I propose that those laws should be extended to make racial factors in medical treatment illegal as well.

Just as employment discrimination has exceptions (is permitted) in the case of bona fide job requirements (eg. it is permissible to hire an actress to play a historical character with a requirement that the actress be able to visually match the race of the historical individual), so too would we need exceptions for bona fide medical relevance. For instance, it makes no sense to give people-of-color preference in screening for sickle cell anemia, but it does make sense to give preference to people whose ancestors are from a group known to carry the gene.
For many games, idle games are a special case though, I don't think anyone who plays an idle game would want the logic loop to pause. They typically take a long time to play so minimizing and checking back every now and then is a very common thing.
> Can I store SSH keys in my Excel-File?
> Before I get killed here for using Excel files for credential storage...

I don't want to be that one who points it out, but - how about switching to the password-store [0] (or gopass [1] - way easier), which works under all operating systems and keeps secrets versioned (via git).

With pass(1) you name your credentials accordingly to their purpose. For example, you could use following naming pattern: [client-name]/[website/subject]/[secret-name]. e.g. acme-corp/github.com/ssh/public-key, other-client/github.com/account, personal/gmail.com/password etc. That way, removal of old/unused secrets is just simple as doing "gopass rm -r [client-name]". There are also many more commands to list or print a tree of stored credentials.

Generally speaking, pass(1)/gopass(1) is a very simple way to manage credentials. I can't say how much I recommend that flow instead of using KeePass or plain-text files. Additionally, if you need those secrets on mobile phone there is an Android app [2] that might be very handy in some situations. This Android app and also gopass(1), have OTP code calculator (similar as in Google Authenticator), so you might be more happier with adapting yourself to use 2FA.

[0]: https://www.passwordstore.org/

[1]: https://github.com/gopasspw/gopass

[2]: https://github.com/android-password-store/Android-Password-S...
IANAL and I have no idea which country/jurisdiction this theft belongs to, but the objective issue (highlighted in the article):

>One effort aims to help victims by creating a website on which they can download records of their holdings being stolen, for presentation to police. The Register wishes those whose coins were purloined the best of luck when they visit the local constabulary with that documentation.

sounds to me very real.

You go to your local police station with (I presume) a few pages "printed off the internet" full of (senseless) alphanumeric strings and tell them that seemingly 0xd01ae1a708614948b2b5e0b7ab5be6afa01325c7 stole your (crypto) money that was deposited in a third party "vault" (or account or whatever)?
So with a capacity of 1k cycles and recharging on weekdays only, the battery should last about 4 years?

Is that enough to make electric cars viable for all use cases? It depends on cost --- of the car initially and of a battery replacement. It would have to be less than the cost of current electric vehicles which have a much longer expected battery lifetime.
I think what they are implying is that car with so many safety features should be able to handle this situation. Volvo has lot of "collision avoidance" safety features, so one would expect that they could handle this as well.

This is common feature in other cars - I rented mazda few years back and it did automatically stop when I almost reversed into another car.
Teenager seeks $50k from Elon Musk to delete Twitter bot tracking private jet
Should I be penalized if my interpretation of the Israel data is that Jews are dirty and should be exterminated? That would be a pretty outlandish interpretation! I would HOPE I would be censored for that!
Looks like Chrome Dev Tools: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/evaluate-performa...
Ah, so you're an abrasive jerk. Noted.
midi interface was one thing, but what really sold ST as a music computer was 640x400 72Hz 12 inch mono monitor. Sharp picture, no headache inducing interlace.
I'll answer from the perspective of wrenching on bikes, which I did on a volunteer basis for a couple of years around 2006.

Walmart bikes are typically made with fairly low quality components. They're a total pain to put in correct adjustment, and they rarely stay correctly adjusted for long. It's also incredibly rare that they're put together right and adjusted properly from the store.

That said, I don't begrudge anybody for what they ride. If you're happy, I'm happy. If you find yourself riding more and visiting your LBS more in the future to get little annoyances taken care of, that's when it's time to spend more money on a slightly higher quality bike.

And if your LBS is a bunch of dicks about your Walmart bike, by all means go find a different shop. Good shops will educate you without talking down to you and let you make the right choice for your needs. If it puts a smile on your face when you throw a leg over it, it's a good bike for you!
Does the display have a HDMI ports or only the connector box? If the screen has some, it would be awesome. If it is only the box it would be crap.
Outsourcing for knowledge jobs is currently a giant pile of disasters (as in, not one time have I seen folks happy with the result). Given that this is the case, I wouldn't worry too much about outsourcing as a general trend.
Maybe this article is way over my head, but is it not really simple?

If my function to generate a circle is a simple for loop 0 to 2 PI.

Then the inverse of that maps each point on the circle back to a line with points between 0 and 2 PI.
You don't need to do that, just put this config setting on the page

https://github.com/city41/neo-geo-dev-book/blob/main/src/pag...

Here is that page: https://neogeobook.mattgreer.dev/
I am not sure if you are claiming that MS is bureaucratic inside or the tools and applications they create are hard to use.
If we are talking about the inside then it does not seem to have stopped them from becoming gigantic.
If you mean that their tools and products are hard to use then I think it differs a lot between products. VSCode is for example very easy to start and use. GitHub seems to get better all the time and is also easy compared to other similar tools and so on. You could say that things like Office is hard but I think they are easy to start using. The hard part is learning all/many of the advanced features and that is ok IMHO.
There were people during every atrocity (e.g. genocide) who argued the atrocity didn't affect their lives. Did that make it a borderline issue? No, it did not.
Have you here contested claims that hemp - biocomposite with resin - has greater Tensile Strength and Compressive Strength than steel and aluminum (and carbon fiber with sustainable binder)?

If this were OT, we could reference ScholarlyArticles which describe experiments which return scalar intervals for: Tensile and Compressive Strength, Melting point / deployed heat resistance, production cost in real dollars, carbon cost (reduction in carbon tax credits because unnecessary with alternate sustainable inputs), resistance to corrosion due to sodium chloride, [in-space without water] repairability, magnetizability, water transport and filtration cost, and other factors; with a fair standard panel for relative comparison.
I’ve witnessed somebody piping dd over an ssh tunnel to write blocks from one machine directly to another. Highly NOT recommended but still one of the neatest things I’ve seen. It worked.
I wish reading was as immersive for me as it was when I was 13 and I pictured entire worlds in my mind while reading.
A website that generates a fake horse from a neural net
You wouldn’t be charging from 0-100% every day though. For most people it would be more like 1-2 cycles per week, if not less.
Haha, yep, NZ, and the 2005 MPV :D

That's not a bad idea at all on the head.
In what way are we not? The food was fine, the power stayed on and I had water. Sure, it's harder to buy computers but the lifecycle for them was too short anyway.
That isn’t usually how “cycles” works out, no, unless you deplete the battery completely every day.
And the staff is truly amazing. They know literally everything about all these old switches and are able to demonstrate exactly how things work.

Possibly the best museum I ever visited.
I'm presuming no UX team anywhere has stated "We're done here, there's no way we can improve on this UI". Hence to keep busy changes need to be made. Same with Health and Safety requirements, once a team is in place H&S 'creep' is inevitable. I once worked on a risk assessment for a laminator.
Anyone can make a video about anything. There are lots of videos explaining why the moon landing was a hoax. Was it?
yeah, its from £35k to £70k, nothing that breathtaking, but significant for me
It also helps with user empathy! I work on the web rather than on games, but I used to have my small team walk over to Best Buy (American electronics store) and load our site on the worst laptops we could find to actually see what performance is like for worst-case users.

You forget what “real people” experiences are like when you’re on your $2000 beefy rig.