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- I still firmly believes elections are always about economics, if you believe person A will make you better off economically you vote for them, or if you believe Person A will make you worse off economically you vote against them..

This is literally the last thing I consider. I'm not an economist, hell, even economists can't tell you the outcomes of changing certain fiscal policies. I vote on social issues alone, which obviously has overlap with economic prosperity, but whether or not some politician will save me 1% on my income or property tax is not on my radar whatsoever.

The opportunity cost to that savings is normally much higher than some fraction of a percent of money I get to keep. That 1% doesn't affect my life in any meaningful way, but cutting school taxes or something does, in a much greater effect, over a much greater time period, and a wider geographical area.
> The first is almost every sighting story comes with how their commanding officers and authorities silenced them.

This is a telltale symptom of quacks and cranks. "My truth is being suppressed". The more normal explanation of superiors telling someone to shut up is either because it's top secret information about military tech or plain old bullshit. Only quacks come to the conclusion that "they want to shut me up". In fact, it's one of the items in the crackpot index.

> The second is I would suggest that if I were a scientist who implied something originated from an extraterrestrial advanced civilization, I would be actively isolated and discredited, which to me implies a very strong anti-ET bias

This has trivial counterexamples: SETI exists and it's a real scientific undertaking, if low priority. There's also the search for extraterrestrial life (either existing or traces of past life) in Mars. None of these are met with scorn.

But also, as a sibling comment mentioned: UFOlogy is the realm of woo. Therefore, before making assertions about ET life you must have really solid evidence and the patience to weather the association with woo and quackery, but this is not an anti-ET stance, but rather an anti-woo one.

Who wants to be associated with some weirdo claiming he was sexually abused by space aliens?

But if you have solid proof of real phenomenon, instead of shaky footage and unreliable witnesses, it would be a major scientific achievement.
My wife also likes having super-bright lights in her home office. We ended up getting something like this: https://www.amazon.com/150W-Adjustable-15000LM-Deformable-Wo...

It's not quite 20k lumens, and you can't adjust the color temperature, but it is very bright and fits in a standard light socket. For other bright lighting options look for "high-bay" or "shop" lights. High-bay lights are intended to be installed in warehouses or places with very tall ceilings so they tend to be very bright.
I assume you’d trigger a write some other way - if using this to mess with the shadow file, say, change your password at the same time to flush the file.
I remember a project that would amplify videos of very subtle movement. I wonder if that sort of tech could be applied here.
"The sudden rise in Solar PV installations in Australia since 2018 dramatically propelled the country from being considered a relative laggard to a strong leader in Solar PV development by mid 2019. With an installed photovoltaic capacity of 16.3 GW at the end of 2019, Australia has the highest per capita solar capacity"
Desmos.com/scientific is my go to. Best calculator ever - understands some LaTeX but also has the buttons for scenarios where I don’t know the LaTeX
The opposite could be said as well, no? There are vested interest, both corporate and consumer, on both sides.
I think it's a kind of rope that frays on both ends for systemic reasons:

1. Students in math courses and their parents grow to prefer(through the overall institutional constraints) to have a simple exercise that guarantees them credit - while actually doing math is a matter of crossing the Rubicon into tough puzzle-solving, and it needs some guidance for unexceptionable students to start enjoying.

2. Math teachers, particularly in the lower grades where qualifications are lower, have a harder time teaching concepts than they do exercises. And they are also incentivized to hand out a grade, preferably one that satisfies the parents.

So no matter how the high level is set up, everything converges into giving the kids a worksheet to "plug 'n chug." Which is just a confusing, badly paced grind, and therefore an easy reason to hate math. Either you get it completely and are just sitting there chugging through the problem set, or you have no idea what's going on and it's due tomorrow so your grade rests on something you feel defeated by.

I actually think that for the parts that are currently treated as rote memorization work, the curriculum should lean into it and treat it like learning the alphabet, with worksheets where you literally fill in the dotted lines repetitively; hand them out to everyone as a portion of the homework. And then the logic and critical thinking aspects need to proceed like a philosophy course, with interaction through a step by step process, not "get the answer in the back of the book". This element is something I've long thought could be automated in some degree with computer systems that let you play with the concepts, and therefore correct your thinking.
It very much depends on personal experience.

I lived in SE Asia for the first 30 years of my life, then moved to the US. There are so many things that Americans and first world people take for granted what would be considered luxury in the other side of the world- and you have to live through that experience to come to that realization.
>increase LDL, which is bad for heart health

This is a gross over simplification

Many people have high Ldl and no cardiovascular disease.

Some have low ldl and have cardiovascular disease.

The reality is there's multiple forms of Ldl.

If you eat a diet high in sugar and fats, your triglycerides will be high and your Ldl will be high. But it'll be a form of Ldl where the particle size is small and much more likely to clog your arteries.

If you eat low to moderate carbs (20-150 net carbs a day) your triglycerides will be low, HDL will be higher and IF your Ldl is high it's likely the ldld particle size is much larger and poses far less of a danger.
> It's oversimplifying a lot to say Russia "dumped START II"

It is perfectly accurate to say that they did so (and that it was a direct response to the US withdrawing from the ABM Treaty.)

> NATO's "nuclear sharing" makes a mockery of NPT

NATO’s nuclear sharing agreements predate the NPT, and no new ones have been entered since the NPT, and the continuation of the existing ones is consistent with the NPT.
Can confirm, I bail if you ask any amount of time at all be put into a "weed out" exercise before even talking to a real person. If my resume's not enough to get you interested in a conversation, I'll look elsewhere. If you have that many candidates and you find enough of them equally interesting that doing this is necessary, I reckon my odds are terrible anyway, so it's just a waste of time doing work and not just not getting paid, but very likely not seeing any kind of reward whatsoever.

Moreover, if this is necessary, I kinda assume the pay is mediocre at best. If you knew how to get enough value out of me to be able to pay me really, really well, and if I look like a good fit for the job, then again, my resume ought to justify our talking. If any of that's not the case, then it seems like the pay's gonna suck or I'm just not a good fit, so I'm out either way.

I want someone who's fishing for me with a lure, not by dragging a huge net through the water. Seems like a better sign all around.
A very well thought out set of functionality. It covers a lot of ground. In particular:

• The reference counting of the bft_view can simplify reasoning in a C program.

• The cheap bft_view may keep programmers from copying as much data. It's easy to fall into a "copy everything" mode in C since that's what the runtime library provides and consumes. Working with slices reduces your cache pressure and is just generally faster.

• Allocating only blocks sized by a power of two is potentially memory wasting. The exponent for the size has a range of 0...255, but it only needs to get to 2^32 since that's the largest allowed length. I suspect there is some clever base between 1 and 2 which is trivial to compute the exponent and inverse in integer arithmetic. (Or similarly shaped function, it doesn't have to be an exponential, just something that grows about like one.) This would provide better granularity.

• Alternatively, some bits could be harvested from 'cap' to say how the memory should be freed, usually it is 'free', but one could imaging adding a few lines to support 'mmap', then the release becomes 'munmap'.

• Now that we have imagined up mmap capability, this looks like a very nice way to handle many kinds of data files which are not character oriented streams processed sequentially.
US scientist falsely accused of hiding ties to China speaks out
This david attenborough doco shows the covid change pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XswV_yqPq28
First off, I think you want to be running a filesystem that supports versioning and snapshots. If those features aren't available in the source operating system, then I think nothing else really matters.
Except the author is not claiming that Latin's masculus and femina/femella are unrelated, but instead that English's male and female are unrelated because "one is taken from Latin and one is taken from old French." That the French words are inarguably related and the lineage all leads back to the definitely-related Latin words, would mean the English versions are also related.

Given the article's premise of words being unrelated, I'd say that's more of a massive plot hole than a "nit."
There should be a direct trade off in terms of opportunity costs. Gasoline is not a "waste product" of refining...

Longer chain hydrocarbons can be cracked and broken down into short chain.
These superblocks are also used a bunch in china in newer cities. When subway's come to the edge of the superblock where you live its pretty nice -- you basically never interact with cars or potentially once or twice even though you live in the middle of a huge city (Shanghai for example in certain areas). After work you see tons of families walking around, people on dates, dancing, etc doing whatever in the central squares between the big apartment buildings that surround the area. And since many other superblocks have their own area like this, typically the park area is not overcrowded.. vs. like going to golden gate park in the evening or weekends in the summer.
These calculations are all kinds of silly. No one should be exercising in the first place if you apply this kind of logic since humans are terribly inefficient (~25%) and the western food mix takes many many kJ to produce one kJ of nutrition.
Yes, but if you were planning on exercising just to burn calories, just don't eat them in the first place.
The real money lies on selling everything you produce with high certainty and minimal storage. Thus the real money lies on supplying whatever the market you have contracts on will accept. The plastic market is just not big enough to consume every byproduct of oil processing.

Besides, a lot of plastics come from the lighter factions, and some come from the middle ones. The heavy fractions are often cracked into lighter stuff, and when it isn't, it's turned into things like asphalt.
Google instructed its auditor (E&Y) to withhold 6,232 (98%) of discovery docs
If Governments put the same kind of resources into more sustainable technologies as they did into COVID response, then a similar death-minimisation outcome may be possible.

I see the problem is entirely political, in which the more morally bankrupt / desperate politicians use climate change to score political points by telling people the safe, comforting answers they want to hear, or conversely and more commonly, say that "the other side" are going to take away your X, Y, and Z.

The COVID response has proved that global mobilisation to find solutions is possible. The difference between the two things is, entirely, the political will to 'do' rather than 'do not'.
hes describing a functional regulatory environment, not ond captured by modern day nobles.
Stop buying out of season fruit/veg for your area. That stuff gets shipped 1/2 way around the world to get to your table.

Some dietitians also claim the seasonality of edible plants helps our gut biome (but I can't find that source again)

Also, local-in-season is, IME, lower cost.

One small, kinda easy, step
mimestream (a native gmail client) is a relatively new app and is fantastic. still in beta, but actively developed and solved the one thing I wanted more than anything... to be able to command-tab into my email box.
It is impossible to implement that. The USB standard for some inexplicable reason refused to specify USB 3 to USB 2 transaction translation. That's why it doesn't exist. There is no way to implement it that works as you would expect. It's just not possible. I will never forgive the USB-IF for this gaffe, it is ridiculous.

There are two nonstandard ways to do it. One is what this chip does, which is pretend all USB 2 devices behind it are USB 3. It literally virtualizes and rewrites desctiptors and does a whole pile of horrible hacks to get it to work. It works most of the time, but not always, and it is actually impossible to make it 100% reliable due to peculiarities of the standard. USB is impossible to tunnel or masquerade transparently at the link level due to its design, and since this device tries to do that to bridge incompatible link types, it can never be 100% spec compliant; there will always be corner cases where it breaks down. It's a hack.

The other way, which is implemented by some other niche hub chip whose name I forget, is to use a proprietary protocol to encapsulate USB2 in USB3, effectively making a USB2 host controller that just happens to connect to the host CPU via USB3. That can be done in a 100% spec-compliant and reliable way as far as downstream devices go, but then of course the upstream side is not standard, so you need special drivers for it.

There will never be a USB 2 to USB 3 translating hub that works as you'd expect because it's just not possible to build one, because the USB-IF are notoriously bad at designing standards. Seriously, so much about USB is a giant clusterfuck, from USB2's differential-but-not-really physical layer to the monster that is USB-PD.
Nixon formulated the brenton woods. I would argue that was the biggest poweer play in all of history and is the reason for US dominance. It created the USD as the worlds reserve currency.
Same. Surely this was a joke but man, I hope it stays as a joke.
That's why Kaspersky is important. I wish they survive.
> Poor/inconsistent null handling

That's one of my gripes with the language too. Due to the lack of generics, Go programmers just use pointers to indicate nullability - not exactly the right approach. Thankfully, it's still an improvement over Java, as non-nullable pass-by-value semantics are the default, so if you want a pointer you have to explicitly define one.

I have my fingers crossed that once generics land, the ecosystem switches over to some sort of an Option type.

> have a poor module system

I'm curious, what's poor about it?

> runtime with almost no knobs to apply workload specific optimisations, etc

The approach Go takes is that the GC should "just work" for all workloads. Obviously, this will never be 100% optimal for any given workload, but you know... tradeoffs.

That said, the knobs you're looking for do exist, but they are in the language itself. Unlike Java, Go makes writing GC-friendly code easy.

> Even in Java [...] you have all the primitives at your fingertips, real threads, powerful reflection, metaprogramming and runtime introspection.

Aren't "real threads" strictly worse than green threads?

> powerful reflection, metaprogramming

Those are misfeatures, especially metaprogramming.
To be fair, that feature would help eliminate corruption.
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Hi mstade, I appreciate the interest!

I have plans to add support for 2FA but it may be a little while before that is added - just because there are so many different types of 2FA.

May I ask whether the code you all use is a non-changing (static) string? Please feel free to send me an email at illahi@prodscape.net and I will keep you up-to-date on progress.
Is there a commercial aspect there too? Are there “shop houses” on the first floor?

To me the ultimate superblock is one that has everything needed for day to day. Like a small family grocer, barber, bank, etc.
Ukraine invasion: False claims the war is a hoax go viral
About two decades ago, I was fighting to optimize a thing where the right answer depended on the icache pressure that the rest of the system was creating. More icache pressure -> inlining bad.
You say this like it isn’t inevitable
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That's great advice. Thanks!
No I got the parties right. Democrats are the true authoritarians right now. No amount of January 6th political theater can cover it up. It's too massive to hide.
Irrelevant. Markets work well for society when there is a lot of competition and when winning is aligned with social good. If we can change the rules to help the second while keeping the first, it’s a win win.
Reminds of Tokyo's "blocks". I don't know where to find the details but I went to small exhibit in Omotesando (a part of Tokyo) where they showed how much of Tokyo is built where there are "large" (4-6 lane roads). The buildings on those roads are 8-15 stories tall. Behind the buildings on the main road are lots of side streets with small apartments buildings and single family homes. The 4-6 lane roads and the tall buildings are firewalls and were designed to prevent run away fires.

I don't remember if this design was in response to 1923 fires or WW2 fire bombing. But, I did notice that I can except for a few spots (West Shinjuku, or Otemachi), I can be in a crazy popular famous busy part of town (Shinjuku, Shibuya, Harajuku) and just a few steps off the main street it's suddenly quiet and pleasant. It wasn't until I saw the exhibit that I realized one of the reasons.

Compare to much of SF, NYC, I almost never feel any moment of "peace and quiet" during the day at least.
It's not just Mac software - desktop software in general seems to be stagnating.

As noted, several app categories seem to have "matured" and/or ossified and are dominated by one or two players. For example, Microsoft and Apple dominate the "office" productivity software market on macOS.

Moreover, apps like Discord, Teams, VS Code, etc. seem to be cross-platform web apps which are clunky and unsatisfying compared to native apps. (Other web apps don't even have desktop versions and only exist in the browser.)

That being said, Adobe's offerings are expensive subscriptions which have opened up a market for Affinity as well as Pixelmator and Acorn.
There is also this https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-23/nt-sun-cable-project-...

Huge solar farm in the works for NT, Australia.. though it's to help power Singapore... But at least it'll bring some work/income to Australia.
It's kinda what you'd expect the Australian Govt to be working on though, for its citizens, and to export.
>All you need to do is convince one of their customers that you are speaking on behalf of the lawyer and get them to send the money to you instead. I know this because I've been a victim of this attack.

IIRC, there was a guy who was sending letters to the finance department of big tech companies and was claiming to be the CEO and that they had to make various payments to his accounts, and they were paying him without anyone at the company questioning this. He got away with millions before getting caught and he wasn't part of some crime group but some random guy sending letters from home, lol.

Maybe people should be trained in snail mail phishing detection too.
delusion of crypto is that the value of currency can be negotiated without any centralization of exchange
This reminds me of when people say “real communism has never actually been tried!”
People are extremely sensitive to rises in gasoline prices because they are so visible. But the crisis was triggered by a wave of people bidding prices on houses higher and higher, taking out loans they couldn't afford, hoping to flip or accepting balloon payments they thought they could escape by selling at a higher prices, because home prices are guaranteed to go up, right?

Some people bought houses a very long way from their jobs and may have been hurt by an increase in gasoline prices in some areas, but if so, this only affected the timing of the crash, perhaps moving it up a little. It was an unstable structure that was guaranteed to fall apart.
The over-the-internet IPA uploading seems to be a crux. Thanks for the insight.

Also, I'll see if I can modify the landing to show an actual example map - or maybe even a video.
I think GlassWire's bandwidth monitor is great, but don't think their firewall feature is equivalent to "Block on First Sight."

Taking a quick look MAPS block at first sight, it appears to look at both the executable file and non-portable executable files such as JS, VBS, or macros, then stop execution, however it isn't clear if this also includes things such as dll files or the python script being executed by python.exe.

The firewall feature of GlassWire, or any application level firewall will only block traffic for your typical, well behaved programs, to save some bandwidth, and possibly block some telemetry if the program isn't too mischievous. This is because GlassWire doesn't stop the program, and can't tell if you're the one running the executable or another application is running it programmatically, so if EvilApp.exe notices it can't connect to the internet, it could just use something innocent you've allowed such as Firefox or python to send/receive data on its behalf (or just do that from the start).

This is why it's still important to check the bandwidth of programs you trust for abnormalities, even if you've only allowed trusted programs and block everything else, and why it's so important to keep programs up to date and only run stuff you don't fully trust in a sandbox (since I doubt MAPS block on first sight is perfect either).
A US CBDC would likely be a private / public partnerships. They know that a government monitored account would never pass. The Fed will issue the currency and the banks (possibly thin banks) will manage the accounts. Normal means for law enforcement to gain history will be put in place.
Yes but one side says Cheese-its and Pringles are OK and the other side is saying eggs are.

Make your choice. What will it be? The side convincing you Crisco is healthy? Or the side thst says a steak isn't that bad in moderation?

This other side aren't just grifters, they're dangerous.

50+ years of their shit science has made our society fatter and increasingly unhealthy and their solution is more of the same.
That’s what I had to do, use Safari’s reader mode.

I too found the charge level indicator too distracting to be able to read the article as-is.
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> The Russian gov't looks the other way. Hackers in any other country might fear prosecution & extradition, but Russian hackers are protected as long as they don't attack Russians.

You can see some of this with Anonymous and the FBI these days, too, and NSO Group and Israel. I wouldn't be surprised if most countries do this, now.
For Linux and Bsd a good calculator repl I've used is Genius.

https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.gnome.Genius
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