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> I'm having a bit of difficulty getting into RE4. I kept getting killed in the first village where the chainsaw man is, near the beginning, and I was playing it on the easier setting.

I agree that was quite a shock for me too. The enemies are infinite, I ended up circling around the village until the bell rang. However you can find a shotgun/grenade in the second floor of one of the houses, you can then exit to the roof and run around there, you can also lock yourself in the top of the bell tower (via ladder) and hide in a corner so the molotovs don't get you. You can also barracade yourself in one of the houses and push wardrobes so they cover the windows. Lots of options, but the game design isn't great!

Another general tip is to headshot them until they stumble, then run up to them and kick them. When they're on the floor slash them with the knife until they die. That's the most efficient way to kill them and save ammo. Headshots seem a lot easier in VR than with a controller! Later on when underground, if you see water below you with fish in it, throw a grenade then climb down and collect tons of free food!
The Dyson sphere hypothesis always bothered me because it rests on a lot of assumptions, most of them are anthropomorphic in nature, unless, of course, the hypothesis is only meant to recognize a very specific, human-like civilizations with human-like motivations and needs.

Who is to say that alien life would form human-like civilizations at all? Or that Dyson spheres are the "obvious" next steps for even our own civilization? Or that Dyson spheres would even suit the use cases of alien, or human, civilizations?
Isn't it best to tell people life is meaningless if that's where the evidence leads? After a few decades pursuing 'god' and sacrificing to ascend I think teaching false hope (with or without strings attached) is worse.
English National Opera Breathe Programme for Long Covid Sufferers
>The context of this discussion is deterrence of drug dealing in a city…

No. It literally is not.

This article is about:
“CA Appeals Court Rules San Francisco Cannot Ban Tenderloin Drug Dealers”

Subject: California Appeals Court
Verb: rules (against)
Object: San Francisco(/SFPD)

What has happened in this news article was an accounting of how multiple courts in California have ruled that this injunction violated people’s rights. The SFPD suffered an embarrassing loss because they tried some absolutely bonkers loophole-building as part of a petulant tantrum, and multiple courts struck it down for good reason. That’s what the article is literally about.

You would like drug dealing to be the topic, or overreach by prosecutors (but not police), or a weird bad-faith equivocation with protections for abused spouses, or some abstract concept of what’s mathematically optimal or acceptable for jail populations.

However, the article about how multiple courts have ruled that the silly baby attempt at Judge Dredd was unconstitutional is about… how multiple courts have ruled that the silly baby attempt at Judge Dredd was unconstitutional.

Anyway, you can buy fentanyl in prison! Or order it off the dark web and get it sent to your mailbox. I am assuming you know this, which means your request for a wild expansion of police powers, despite courts ruling that is terrible for human rights, is something that you would advocate for anyway.
> We're not selling your data, we're transferring it.

To be fair, if they get purchased or otherwise change hands, you'd want the data transferred and not deleted or siloed so it can't be used for its intended purpose.

> in which we are acquired by or merged with another company or we sell, liquidate, or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets.

This reads to me like "if we or our product become part of something else, that something else is now us".

Only the most aggressive reading... "we sell... all or a portion of our assets" can be read as them selling your data for profit. Does that mean they won't? No, but the terms look like they're either hiding it well or it isn't their intention.

I don't have great trust in tech companies, but I have some faith when the marketing is predicated on privacy, that a sale would ruin their reputation.
Maybe cars with known technical/mechanical defects that will result in death could be recalled even in cases where it eats a bit more into the profits of the auto manufacturer than it would if they just paid settlements to the families who lost loved ones. That seems like a pretty good way to imagine this to work.
I can rent the best house. For hotels I guess you could get the Four Seasons but that’s more expensive than what it gets you
https://astronomy.com/-/media/Images/News%20and%20Observing/...

picture of it from PanSTARRS/ DR1--
I'm not sure I'm comfortable with equating "these numbers would eventually be found in the digits of pi" with "this is 'stored' in pi."

Do the digits of pi exist independent of doing a computation process to turn pi into a digit-by-digit representation? In which case it gets into messy stuff about infinities, right, e.g. it could take an infinitely long amount of time to find the sequence you're looking for. And is it valid to say "any circle contains an infinite amount of information" just because there's this ratio, given that just from looking at the circle, you couldn't compute the ratio to infinite precision? Whereas if we're talking a theoretical circle, and the equations for finding all the digits of pi, how much do those concepts truly "exist" in a way that they could "store" information?
Something worth considering is how tiny the UK is compared to the US. The Appalachia region is 200,000sq miles, over double the area of the UK (94,000sq miles). The UK is smaller than the top nine largest states in the US, you can drive the entire length of the the UK in 14 hours.

We’re a tiny nation compared to the US (we only have a single power distribution grid!). Creating meaningful regional advantages can be tricky in the UK because the regions are so small, and so close together. Interestingly the approach we seem to be following is increase mobility and regional integration, thus making it easier for companies to hire outside of London, without taking a hit due to distance. That way companies and employees can take advantage of lower wage and cost of living respectively, them that outflow of money can pour into local communities around the UK as employees spend their wages.
If you have no strong opinions on the meaning of your life , strong religions would come and greedily take any ground you were willing to concede. If you really had no idea what you want to do you might as well end up in a covent or an abbey.

The presence of that extreme also allowed not being religious to be itself a strong voluntary choice.

It doesn’t prevent alcoholism or other human problems, just force filled the “why am I here, what am I going” gap whenever people found nothing else to fill it with.

I think we are less religious overall for very good reasons, now we should pay more attention to the gap that is less empty and what would come to fill it.
Aircraft Carrier That Had Multiple Suicides Occur On-Board is Uninhabitable
How would one explain triple the population size in India and China in comparison to the US and Europe?

The answer is not less infant mortality. The answer is rice, versus potatoes/wheat. You can harvest rice 3 to 4 times per year versus just once per year for potatos. And rice doesn't grow in Europe, it doesn't have the climate.
(Separately) I am enjoying the Quest 2 but would be open to buying a gaming PC if PCVR is worth the money. Any PCVR-exclusive games you've enjoyed? Other than Alyx of course!
I’d recommend you get your testosterone levels checked. One of the symptoms of low total testosterone is depression in males.

When I was checked I was on the lower end at 200 ng/dl and had the symptoms you describe. My doctor prescribed me first stanolone (DHT) and then switched me to regular testosterone. All I can say is it has changed my life. It may not be applicable to your situation but it might help.
How is a black hole of the mass of a planet more dangerous than a planet of the mass of a planet?
Any tips on what type of therapist (psychologist, therapist, counsellor, etc.) and/or treatment you found effective? Sounds like talk therapy -- but did you go through other stuff as well?
Facebook to disable nearby friends and other location based features
>It’s both, right? The competitors may very well be just as safe in those conditions, but we wouldn’t know based on their liability stance; the Fight Club equation simply doesn’t apply.

I was referencing Fight Club as an example of an auto manufacturer making a life and death decision based off their financial incentives and not the best interest of the customer. The decision to take on liability is about money, not confidence in safety.

>With Mercedes, the Fight Club equation gives something like a mathematical guarantee of their estimated confidence of the safety of the system. There are no mathematical guarantees from the competitors.

You also have to factor in the marketing aspects. I'll reference another movie here in Tommy Boy[1]. Mercedes knows a move like this is attractive to consumers. People will look at it and think it means the system is safer. This decision will sell cars. But a guarantee doesn't tell you anything about the quality of the product. As Chris Farley's character says, you can "take a dump in a box and mark it guaranteed".

Maybe the system is truly dangerous and taking on this liability would be a losing proposition alone, yet adding in these additional sales from the marketing of this liability coverage yields a net positive for the decision. Or maybe the system truly is incredibly safe. There is no way for us to know. I am simply pointing out that this decision about liability is largely meaningless when judging safety because safety is only one of numerous criteria used to make the decision.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEB7WbTTlu4&t=49s
The proposed alternative, I think, is that the car company values a customer's life at more than the expected cost of settling.

The cost of settling is supposed to approximate the value of a human life, but it sounds pretty bad to say "yeah, we knew this defect would cost $50MM to fix, but we estimated only 5 people would die, and each person's life is worth less than $10MM because the settlement is only like $400k per life".

The proposed alternative is that the car company has to say "We calculated this defect will probably kill 5 people, so we will spend any amount of money to fix it, up to and including us having no profit"
Yeah and they certainly have a lot of data because of their approach. I just wonder how (or if) they’ll make the shift to level 3 without angering customers. Or, if they’ll choose to stay at level 2 so they can have more features.
Turns out the phrase “eat shit and die” was completely off.

This’ll prob get downvoted but I couldn’t resist.
That person said they were scared by other's views. And implication I took from that: those scary views should not be aired.

I'm not interested in having one-way discussions, especially if it's run by "the most scared wins". Clearly there's bounds to that, but the view expressed above was not something I'm interested in, and I don't think I'm alone.
>Panic is idiomatic error handling. Take something as basic as indexing into a list. Get it wrong and Rust will panic.

This is not really true. If you are indexing into something that may fail you use the `get` method which returns an `Option` if the index is out of bounds. The index operator is just a shorthand for `v.get(i).unwrap()` pretty much.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.slice.html#method.ge...
Why would I bother checking Google Maps? But basically, yeah. If Google wants my expertise and data collection ability, they can pay me for it. As it stands now they just cold call businesses and ask them with an AI thing.
How are they going to address the problem of connection creep? (Over time the number of people you add to your friends network increase and cause context collapse)
There isn't a logical rule that says everything must have a beginning.

For example, do you think it's necessary to ask what created the natural numbers? When did they begin existing?
The Great Filter doesn't refer only to extinctions. Anything that makes it highly improbably for a civilization to advance from our current level of technology to significant space colonization would be a Great Filter.
The Meaninglessness of the .Org Domain (2019)
Milkshakes – Phoenix Metropolitan Area – Google Sheets
Hi HN. I am looking for the best fast food milkshake, and am slowly growing my dataset and waist size.

Here's a laugh for the weekend.
Where do you suggest then? Both my partner and I have friends & family in that area, which makes moving across the country easier.
>IME, Plaid is lightyears ahead in terms of reliability and overall developer and end-user experience.

I don't know. Maybe their competitors are even worse? But as an end-user Plaid's experience is far from good.

In their current state I really don't have much control after I gave them my banking credentials. If they can actually implement an OAuth model for their paying customers (e.g. third parties using their API) to integrate, that would be much better. For example when I try some service first I can initially only give it access to one of my least important account, evaluate whether it's useful, before giving it more of my accounts, or revoke it access to all my accounts. I have none of those controls today.

I actually also interviewed with them several years ago, and mentioned the OAuth thing during my interview. But after all these years it's still not there. If I have to _guess_ why, I would guess they fear such a feature will make their paying customers (API users) less likely to use their product, e.g. their business model actually relies on the end users' lack of control.
The most likely alternative energy soruce is fusion. Personally I'm not convinced this will ever be commercial. I'm not saying it won't be but there are huge problems to overcome, most notably destroying the container and plasma turbulence.

We already have the tech for space-based solar. Putting it in space makes it much more efficient. It's relatively low tech and doesn't require exotic materials or solving the massive engineering problems that fusion (for example) does.

Then there are other way more exotic methods (eg antimatter, black holes).

But all this misses the point. If you generated 10^26 Watts of power on Earth using fusion power you would still need to dissipate that heat into space or you'd quickly cook the Earth. So you're pretty much back to where you started.

What I like about the Dyson Swarm idea is that it requires no new physics and is relatively low-tech. So even if there is something far-future that's an option (eg antimatter, black holes) you have to ask questions like: Will everyone reach that point? Will civilizations build Dyson Swarms as an intermediate step anyway? How long is that reality? Will there still be a mixed-use future with both space-based solar and exotic enegy generation?

The Sun radiates a ton of energy into space. Capturing it is relatively simple. Dismissing that seems to defy credulity (IMHO).
In San Diego we just use a blanket "be there in 20 minutes" no matter where you are going.
In mice*. Fecal transplants and their benefits in different areas have come up for a fairly long while now, however I don't think I've seen much in the way of human research. Wouldn't something like this be fairly straightforward to try and replicate in humans so long as you find willing participants?
are you being intentionally obtuse to deflect from how the reality doesn't change, or just pedantic because “if (wealth < prior wealth) return “it reduces wealth inequality””

because the latter is exactly what I’m saying is a bit of a distraction from reality, not that it isnt true

Is that a conversation you are willing to have, because we can all do math and just move on to the people that want to acknowledge the relevance of the realities
Do you know of examples where this was the case? I've never heard of therapists having any such mandates.
nothing more to add, not much less to dedact, thanks for your concise words.
EU blocked rt.com. I'm no fan of russian aggresssion, yet don't want my internet access censored.
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> each time I pick up a book I think I can probably do a little bit of work or practice some interviewing skills like leetcode rather than reading

> I tend to read 10 min summaries

You mentioned two things you prefer doing over reading books. Why do you want to read books? Which book do you want to read? What have you tried?
Oi! You got a loicense for that internet?
At this point, overlay networks like Tor, yggdrasil, and CJDNS need to be normalized and preinstalled on every smartphone and PC.
I agree on the automation part, that's an important objective in our backlog (like we did with Terraform plugin etc.)
There are scientists who think we could be in for an extinction level event solely from climate change.

We could enter one due to environmental pressure from the death of a key part of the biosphere, not even related to climate change.

And finally, food scarcity in a world of climate change increases the likelihood of conflict, including nuclear conflict.

Sadly, it is reasonable to be concerned about this possibility.
I’m just sad to watch the world following Turkey’s steps on Internet control.

These ISP level “security filters” have been a thing in Turkey since 2011. They are optional but they always try to trick people into enabling them. There’s even safe internet day(5th February), they send you an SMS with a link to instantly enable filters to celebrate internet safety day.

What I find weird though, not all sites are blocked equally. Some are on DNS level and simply using something like Google DNS removes the blocking, others are blocked on IP level and only VPN can help. There’s no consistency between the ISP on site blocking methods.
This is not really new. Iirc the requirement agreed with the government was that users would have an active choice for filtering or not, which I think is required for mobile connections. This is an age gated thing essentially, and can be removed at the request of the user (or never added). Age rated things require some ID I think.

That archive.org, a place to archive essentially any content , gets flagged as potentially 18+ or some other content warning is not really surprising.
The comment in question is: "Increasing pop politics seemingly shoe horned into everything I'd turn on." It's right here, please go have a read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31278073

They absolutely did not mention of black or gay people. You are straight-up wrong about that.

It's nearly impossible to take the content of your message seriously, given the way you mischaracterize their actual statement.
Plants are amazing.
To establish supply lines. If Alpha Centauri has something of value you could send out a self replicating robotic AI entity. It establishes its footing then start sending deliveries to Earth. If each one way trip takes 50 years, after say 120 years you could have a steady supply of resources.
Get a star to eject mass is probably one of the more reasonable ways to go somewhere else in the galaxy.

You need a pretty big vessel to be self sufficient.
My therapist asks me the same question.
Ah, ok. So then the question becomes "why not Mastodon/Pixelfed/Pleroma", especially now that they are implementing "private group" functionality and you can choose who gets to see your posts (besides the usual public/followers-only/private message)?
You can only get so much power before something vaporizes. Some sort of ship emitting enough power to be detected at a non-trivial distance from Earth (see inverse square law) would vaporize itself.

Just because stealth in space doesn't work doesn't automatically mean you can see everything in space at all times. We need to build giant telescopes to see stars thanks to the inverse square law. The bigger our telescopes with better light collection the narrower their field of view. An antimatter spaceship could fly past Pluto tomorrow and we could easily miss it since we can't monitor all 4πr^2 of the sky at once with powerful telescopes.
It is getting real folks. Time for all you techies to do something. You all hold the power. Use it.

I am doing my part, by telling everyone I can to boycott everything on the internet.

See you all.
To be clear, this is an adult content block, not a copyright thing.

"Even" Reddit (which, to be fair, does include actual porn) is blocked on at least some networks unless you unlock the account.
I imagine that they'd ddmit that the car as designed is bad and fix or replace the bad cars. Leaving cars on the road that have a design flaw that randomly kills people, because it's cheaper to pay off dead people's families is reprehensible.
Use URL.createObjectURL to make your videos start faster (2018)
I’m sure these services exist in every country. I don’t see the problem if they’re opt-in.
Only tangentially related, but I solved a problem at my work this week with a couple of cleverly crafted MILP programs. Its really exciting in the nerdiest way possible and I need to share it with someone, anyone! I can't write a blog post about it because I don't have a personal website, plus it'd be a trade secret anyways. Most of my coworkers aren't technical so they're happy to get an answer to their problem, but they don't really care about the how part.
Not saying I disagree, but I can see how someone could read it as such. Good faith effort is good faith effort.
Possibly it's just a matter of astronomers being particularly interested in this topic and pursuing it the way they're best qualified to, because we happen to already have all sorts of equipment for gathering signals.

I like the idea of gathering more data on UFO sightings as there have been very credible reports shared by the military lately, but what other sensors do you think would be practical to deploy? They may happen a lot overall, but you can't predict where to place sensors. We see them now because someone happens to have a camera pointed in the right direction, or because they show up on some broad-area radar. What else could be deployed in a practical way to gather meaningful data?
Also even if we got lucky and found AM signal of some alien speech. Would we have any idea how to translate that? My understanding is that we already have human text which we cannot translate. And that has some ties to existing concepts we know of. With truly alien speech we would have zero context or share concepts.
"The driving force behind par-baked is economics," explained Russell Chapman, c.e.o. of Ecce Panis, Carlstadt, N.J. "Scratch baking is very labor intensive and requires skilled labor, which is extremely difficult for our customers to find. The par-baked method is not so labor intensive, and it allows food service operators and in-store bakers to hire less-skilled workers. Basically, they just take product from the freezer and pop it into the oven. Par-baked takes the labor out of their process while allowing them to offer consumers a great quality product."

https://web.archive.org/web/20030924144329/http://www.baking...
you'd have to be listening for a few decades over the billions of years Earth has existed

Maybe all advanced civilizations are clustered around a certain time. It's less relevant how old the Earth than how old galactic civilization is.
If you take a look at that person's comments, they appear to have started trolling hard in the last few months. Seemed pretty sane prior to that.
There's also nudity on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and Wikipedia. Better block them too.
Hiking through some of the wooded trails here in the Twin Cities, you can get a rafter (?) of these cruising hidden in the darkness. They certainly give off velociraptor vibes. :)