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> the military dictators of Japan did not plan to surrender

The U.S. was on solid ground in its conduct of any form of bombing up until a Japanese surrender-including massive conventional bombing campaigns and atomic bombings. Japan launched an unprovoked attack on the U.S. at Pear Harbor to initiate hostilities. Fighting, as the U.S. approached mainland Japan, became more fierce and costly. Any number of dead Japanese—military or civilian, was better than one more dead U.S. serviceman.
This is a good use of bitcoin.

A better solution would be to interconnect the electricity grid with neighbouring grids. With sufficient size, time-dependent peaks and troughs would be smoothed out.
I don’t remember government officials saying that once vaccines were available we’d end all lockdowns.

Could you point me to that?
A loophole is useful in the scenario that Google wants the good PR of being seen as as privacy-focused by restricting location tracking, even to itself, but still wants to collect as much location data as it can.

That said, I don't believe this is what's happening for the headphone pairing case. It's easier and likely more fruitful to limit functionality of popular apps unless fine grained location and is enabled and you are logged in to your Google account, which is what I believe they do with Maps.
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> Just pointing out it's difficult to call something a "crime" if there was limited legal basis for it (no international treaty) at the time.

You are unaware of the Nuremberg trials, it seems?
As with almost everything there are countless reasons why Japan didn't surrender earlier. [1] By June of 1945 Japan's leaders did want out of the war, but were still hoping for a surrender that allowed them to keep much of their holdings (I think people often forget how much of East Asia Japan had solidly controlled for almost 10 years at this point). And they were being strung along by the Soviet union who was supposed to mediate peace, yet had their own motives to prolong the war until they could join.

And even after dropping 2 nukes, and believing the US had 100 more, it took days more, and some additional attacks, to convince Japan to surrender. And even after all this, there was a serious attempted coup.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_of_Japan#:~:text=T....
There are some geographical exceptions - Norway literally does not need anything else other than hydro.
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Well, I wasn't really thinking of much in TFA as "the rules of western music theory" - it didn't really get that far. There was another comment that talked about how TFA didn't cover things like chord voicing and inversion, and there is just so much more that wasn't covered that really forms the meat of "the rules of western music theory". TFA really just covered "one basis for 12T, what scales and chords are", which is barely anything to work with.

"Western musical theory" is full of ideas about harmony (OMFG, so many rules), often with non-musical semantics overlaid on top of the actual musical elements. These are the "rules" that you get play with as a musician, and the very best of them do in fact break them frequently (but expertly). Why do so many people remember "Take 5" ... because it's in 5 not 4! Why do people consider Coltrane to be a genius ... because of the games he played with harmonic relationships mostly connected to the circle of fifths but deeply subverted. Why do some of us still celebrate the "genius" of Schoenberg, Stravinsky or Bartok ... they upended traditional rules about harmonic resolution, even the very notion of tonal harmony in some cases. Even within this thread, we see people noting a striking detail of a recent Adele song that consists of (almost certainly deliberately) singing somewhat off-key to strong effect.

There is a huge amount of recorded music that plays entirely by "the rules" (the ones that go way beyond TFA), but a lot of what people think of as musical genius is precisely the stuff that flouts the rules (with enough knowledge of the rules to make this work).
Mozilla leadership is an embarrassment. They just need to make things that Google cancels - RSS/news aggregator, Google Inbox like email client, etc.

Make it and sell it, generate revenue and get off Google’s tit.
I presume you're hoping he was poor enough that he would have remained imprisoned until his trial, if cash bail were imposed?
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You could offer a free version and lock out the enterprise-specific features behind a subscription, or just sell support - a lot of companies seem to do fine on an open-source product and selling support or managed services.
> The skills are not transferable

I don't know about that. Yes, if you are only learning frameworks then sure. If you are digging deeper and understanding, GPU programming, math, performance optimization, architecture, physics modeling, network programming, all of those are very transferable skills.

I think that some of the problems boil down to the language used. Game engines tend to rely heavily some Editor (be it Unity, Unreal or Godot).

I'm hoping that Rust will solve some of this by having you use a pleasant language instead of relying on GUI tools.

I legit think that it would make sense for high schools to structure their curricula around game making. You will learn math, physics, writing, art, music, programming etc etc. And you will have fun doing it.
My point is that, in 2022, the overwhelming majority of people do have the necessary resources required to run Electron apps on their laptops and desktops.

My view is backed up by the fact that people do exactly this, with great success. The complaint about memory is not reflective of the typical user experience.
Wholeheartedly agreed w/@danShumway - wish I read this before typing my own response. I might have saved myself some time :)
Energy storage is expensive. Nuclear is expensive. Solar and wind are cheap. If we are going to need energy storage regardless (we will), then why not combine it with the cheapest sources rather than the most expensive?
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The punishment is that one of the principals, Westinghouse Electric Company, has declared bankruptcy and 2 of the construction contractors, Chicago Bridge & Iron Company and Fluor, have been kicked out of the project.
>Just FYI, it was not a systematic starvation program, it was a systematic food export program. And it was not target at Ukraine, but was applied in much the same way all over the Soviet Union.

Food production was initially fine. After USSR central planning shenanigans shaking things up production was less. Those crops were then allocated away from Ukraine because they were last in line to be fed and first in line to starve for political reasons.

Whether that constitutes "systemic starvation" or just "normal starvation" is pretty much an exercise in taxonomy because the fact of the matter is that intentional decisions by the people in charge are what lead to the problem.
I don’t get it? Why would the answer be *******?
Deno missed the library list (it includes an extensive standard library) and I'm glad to see it in included in the runtimes and mention of new things. I just finished moving an app from Nodejs+npm to it and am finding work is quite a bit easier. Initially I'd thought it was completely missing.
Some counterpoints to consider ..

You can get very large differences in computer systems just by flipping one single bit.

Anecdata is not the opposite of anecdata.

But this is all conjecture, if we seek to understand reality instead of just what we imagine, then we need to empirically measure reality.
The obsessive focus on neutralizing antibodies in blood samples is beginning to border on irresponsible.

Circulating antibodies are one facet of the layered immune system response. Mucosal membrane antibodies and T-cells (mucosal membranes have their own 'micro-immune system' which injected vaccines do little to help), general T-cells, etc are extremely important in overall immune system response. One could argue that mucosal immune system health and then T-cell response are more important than blood antibody levels.

Also general inflammation in the body, endocrine system health, and immune system modulation are important factors affecting COVID outcomes. I think there has not been near enough attention on these factors.
What, Wired Magazine won't buy this for $3 Million?
> and the two idiots who were never vaccinated

Why does this make them idiots? Maybe they reviewed the trial data and observed the increased all-cause mortality in the vaccinated group, looked at the history of rushed vaccines, looked at the list of unknowns regarding mRNA technology, and decided "no thanks".

Indeed, hindsight is proving those "idiots" to be quite the opposite.
Use UTC UNIX timestamps (i.e. Date.now()) for ALL time-related processing and only convert to hours/minutes when taking input/output from the user.
> We also need tools for abstracting and generalising these notions, so that composition goes from being a syntactic disaster to a semantic convenience.

I've been speculating for a while that the problem with Java's checked exceptions was principally the impoverished language we had to talk about them. If we could write things like "this throws anything the argument throws, except XYZ" things... might've turned out considerably differently.
> I am not the only one who believes that in the long term the atomic bombs saved millions of Japanese lives.

I heard of the relentless Japanese insurgency growing up. My own research did not produce that result for the time leading up to the atomic bomb and I find the atomic bombing unnecessary. It is noteworthy that I am not comparing potential death tolls. I am comparing ionizing radiation though and its long tail effects, to the lack of them.

I am also mostly of the opinion of the idea that Japan was going to surrender.

There were a lot of proposals between fire bombing and nuclear bombs, some of the proposals are actually hilarious and others are pretty interesting and some even seem practical.

My view of the atomic bombs were that they were dropped because we wanted to drop them. It doesn't cause me consternation to acknowledge that and I just wish other people would. We nuked two cities and told everyone else to never do it themselves, we even gave them their country back and let them whitewash all the education around the event, why not just say that? I view all of the moral and rationale arguments to be surprisingly juvenile, when at the end of the day we do things because we want to. Even when comparing potential allied lives saved, well, surprise!, we can still save allied lives by nuking everyone and its not an argument at all.
Mic drop comment.

Hard agree. Worked for an instrument builder for a decade, of fixed-pitch esoteric instruments. Client community had a distinct minority who went all in on such things as 432 Hz woo-woo.

Happy to make them, with the footnote that instruments made to this or other custom-request references could not play in concert with most others.

No discernible difference, with one interesting qualifier: for acoustic (or emulated) instruments one is familiar with, there is an audible shift in timbre correlated with tuning to different resonances, most dramatically if you retune a given specific instrument.

This is because you are shifting the fundamentals and overtones of the instrument while keeping the natural resonances of the instrument fixed. This naturally produces a different "signature" of relationships between such frequencies and in the case of the instruments I was close to, in their internal resonance, which was completely defining of their "character."

(Something similar is going on with pitch-shifting algorithms which do "formant correction" to try to keep voices sounding natural within modest shift of pitch... we have deeply internalized expectations wrt the various resonant landmarks in human voices because of the bounded variation in their geometry and the physics of voice production; this is less so but absolutely still true of familiar acoustic instruments.)

One of the similarly anecdotal but significant "tells" of the placebo nature of perceived difference in 432 Hz and 440 Hz is to my memory, very few players were incapable of telling instrument key, let alone pitch referent, based on hearing them alone. (Knowledge of available instrument keys and tunings was commonly deep given the cult following they received.)
You're right, this part can be a bit confusing. I tried to prevent it by adding short descriptions to the modifiers but there's definitely room for improvement.

I never heard of oklab before. Guess I have some reading to do.
But I also wouldn't say no to a PR that adds support for it ;)
You had a 3d monitor for gaming. You need a high refresh rate for 3d with shutterglasses since you only get half or it for each eye.

Office work benefitted in the CRT time when <85Hz would cause perceptible flickering giving you a headache. Since TFT's are slower there's no flickering anymore. Scrolling benefits slightly with higher refresh, and of course the top 10% of gamers will care about the latency, but I don't think I'll be typing any faster on a gaming screen ;)
Did you release the ASCII beat-em-up? Care to share a link? :)
Another video from a former NewEgg RMA inspector: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADdxoewAdQw
I think it's more important to be as I am, with whatever messy contradictions show up. Partitioning that into abstract roles feels weird and false to me. I wouldn't like to work that way, and it would make the relational aspect between mods and the community much harder. Since the relational aspect is the most important thing, that would be a bigger mistake.
err, sorry, but what? HTTPS everywhere does not help ads/trackers at all. It _does_ prevent your ISP to inject ads in your webpages, something that was done by quite a few US ISPs. And more importantly, it prevents anyone not between you and the TLS termination from snooping on the contents of your communication, which is a definite upside.

There are a bunch of valid reason to dislike Mozilla, this is a really weird hill to die on...
Read this about 2001 enron BS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%9301_California_ele...

20X increase in energy costs at that time

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ELI5:

While you're speaking that SPOT crude remains relativistic constant/regular over time, may you please explain if this is true, what the cost increases at the pump are directly related to?

When I began driving, the spot price tracking you mention was the same, but the pump price was $.99/gallon for gas...

So, I admit I do not have an understanding of the reasons behind the price at the pump, but shouldn't that price match the same graph?

If not, please ELI5 how it now apparently costs 5X the cost to deliver gas to the pump?

Shouldnt any company be seeking economies at scale and more efficient everything - especially in OIL/GAS where they are really reliant on compute for the future success of their industry and the power of compute is 10,000X more powerful today than in 1990?

Yet - the pump always goes up...

(I'll go ahead and you're going to excuse it as "the cost of doing business/expenses have gone up)

If true, then why isn't toilet paper $50/roll? Trees are not going to replenish themselves at the same rate as our consumption... so shouldn't toilet paper be super expensive?

What is your opinion on the following video on the origins of oil and the origin of the term "Fossil Fuel" coined by Rockefeller:

https://youtu.be/vdSjyvIHVLw
I feel like saying "charge people money" and "losing large sums of money" misrepresents what bail is. It's a deposit that gets refunded to you in full as long as you don't skip town instead of showing up for your trial.
> I hope this helps increase Firefox's market share to make it more competitive to Chrome.

It's got a long way to go :(

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

As of posting, it's at 4.18%, similar to MS Edge, and basically in the bottom-rung of the also-rans. For comparison, the real contenders are Chrome at 63% and Safari at 19.84%.
That's actually a very interesting observation. How much bits should a checksum take for such payloads? At least the 9000 jumbo things.
Alas, the character limit is small and the study title long.

I’m still in the window where I can edit the title (though it’s closing rapidly) so I’m interested in your suggestions.
This also increases the sheer quantity of "not good" games. And the ability for copycats to copy games in record time.

Relevant Escapist video about out-of-control rampant copying in Mobile Gaming:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q30qZSEnI9Q
Music theory is both the languages of music and the formal study of those languages. Improv musicians communicate with something, and it often looks like the body of music theory around that tradition because the body comes from the tradition.

Trying to separate theory from its basis is folly. Like the scientific method and the body of scientific knowledge, it's important to remember one follows the other, but I'm still employing centuries of science every day even if I can't name it all.

Jazz musicians who can't cite theory don't use 7ths by accident.
Part of me wishes the author just took common passwords from rockyou.txt so that they're at least guessable. Though random really does add to the absurdity.
Pay poor people to turn cranks on magnets. Efficiency losses of only 99.9% /s
No, sorry. I also don't have documentation that I can give. When I left the company, the Beaglebone community was pretty well into a C compiler, which is probably complete by now. There was also some coprocessor library being developed, to provide a nice interface to the host. It was all asm and kernel modules back then. I'm sure things are much easier now.
Disclaimer - I only took one reactor course 17 years ago.

The rods soak up neutrons. the reactor is designed so that its power would increase if the rods weren't there. The rods are what keeps the k == 1 (basically how the neutrons change in time. K == 1 is no change).

So don't think of the rods as a throttle valve in your car, i.e. this throttle angle corresponds to this much torque and therefore power. The rods are best thought of as controlling the rate of change of reactor power.

This is why the reactor is built so that the neutrons increase when fully withdrawn - because you have to start it! If the reactor is being started, the rods are withdrawn until the power wanted is achieved. Then the rods are lowered.

Note this is a far more complicated problem; this is a very serious operation because at the very start, except for your neutron starter, you only have "prompt" neutrons that can very quickly cause an increase of power. Once the reactor has stabilized the "nuclear waste" inside it releases non-prompt neutrons that are part of the neutron budget and are easier to control.

So, while waste in the reactor is being accumulated and while the fuel burns up, the position of the rods to achieve stable power changes! Furthermore these changes are different in different parts of the reactor so each rod is individually changed (actually I think there are two sets of rods, not all of them are individually actuated)
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That is interesting. When I read your initial comment, I was completely bewildered because the software keeps getting better and more reliable and the new browser extension saves me lots of time. It wouldn't have occurred to me to use that right-click menu for anything, though, and I can see how it might have done something useful in the past for you. Different experiences that happen to share a product name!
I've been bit by bugs when coming to moment.js from other languages. It's the only datetime library I knew of, before you'll tell me about all the others, that mutates the datetime object when you do arithmetic.
I'll take "fastest ways to kill a web browser for $200", Alex
> The "problem" with just intonation, if indeed it is a problem, is that if you define two series of notes (call them a scale, if you like) using these integer ratios but starting from two different notes, you will trivially find cases where "the next higher E" is a different frequency. So starting from (say) A and moving by integer ratios gets you to a different (say) F than if you start from (say) B.

A nice example is this:

On an 7 octave (85 key) piano, if you start on the lowest note and go up in perfect fifths, after going up 12 fifths you will be on the highest note, i.e. up 7 octaves.

In just intonation you multiply the frequency by 3/2 to go up a fifth, and you multiply the frequency by 2 to go up an octave.

But clearly (3/2)^12 is not equal to 2^7 (129.7ish versus 128).
I'm just repeating what is on the wiki page and saying that 70 years ago != today.
There's a large difference between running on top of a platform built by an ideologically-opposed organization, and actively aiding an ideologically-opposed organization with marketing agreements.
It's not a security measure because the original comment spoke about how they couldn't even search for the login inside of the autofill icon. I've had that issue too and it's very frustrating. Yes, it makes sense not to show it by default, but to disable any sort of search functionality inside of their new autofill UI is annoying.

Edit: This was not an issue before 1-2 years ago when they pushed massive feature updates. It used to be Ctrl+\ or Cmd+\ to autofill and boom, the login was filled. But NOW they have decided to drop a "1Password X" browser extension that throws itself into every single login item on the web and constantly harasses the user any time they use keyboard shortcuts to navigate. Typing an email address and see your Firefox/Chrome/Safari autofill show up with a dropdown of emails to choose? You can't even use the arrow to go down and choose one; 1Password X will rear its ugly head the minute you hit the arrow down, and it'll either prompt you to autofill something or save what you just typed into 1P.
Regarding the OPs comments on the non-transferability of learning Godot and Unity to marketable jobs skills as compared to learning about AWS, GCP etc. in your spare time - I somewhat agree with this. A potential way to make learning game programming potentially more useful on the job/marketable is when you get into the multiplayer gaming aspects of game development.

There's a ton of realtime networking concepts (web sockets for realtime chat, etc.) as well as potential investigations into cloud management and realtime databases for multiplayer game state/sync etc. that could be useful during a technical interview.

It might even be that multiplayer games are probably on the leading edge of the application of some of this technology and would give you a leg up compared to other candidates.

There's also the potential you could end up with a more social game that broadens the potential audience for the game in terms of players and code contributors.

Specifically with godot:

Godot Multiplayer Docs
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/networking/...

Godot with Firebase
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vDNk7BzOGc
> you can't seriously be saying it's justified to kill 200k Japanese civilians to save a small handful of allied lives

I absolutely would argue in favor of this. In fact, I would argue that it would have been morally just to kill every last Japanese person, military or not, if Japan refused surrender (which was part of the Emperor’s plan for self preservation). Remember the context: 1) Japan attacked the U.S. to initiate hostilities and 2) Japanese resistance became more fierce, fanatical, and deadly (ex: suicide bombings by both military and civilians) as the U.S. approached mainland Japan.