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Surprised the article didn't mention Neil Postman, especially Five Things We Need to Know about Technological Change (1998):

> The first idea is that all technological change is a trade-off.

> This leads to the second idea, which is that the advantages and disadvantages of new technologies are never distributed evenly among the population.

> The third idea, then, is that every technology has a philosophy which is given expression in how the technology makes people use their minds, in what it makes us do with our bodies, in how it codifies the world, in which of our senses it amplifies, in which of our emotional and intellectual tendencies it disregards.

> Here is the fourth idea: Technological change is not additive; it is ecological. ...A new medium does not add something; it changes everything.

> I come now to the fifth and final idea, which is that media tend to become mythic. ...[Using] the word "myth" to refer to a common tendency to think of our technological creations as if they were God-given, as if they were a part of the natural order of things.

https://student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs492/papers/neil-postman--...
Mine is the last manual v8 Dodge dakota sold, possibly the last made. 230k miles and still have a sliver of the original clutch.
Thanks for replying. I appreciate it.

FWIW the argument still seems weak to me. The methodology here is still unclear:

> You look at the rates of people attempting suicide a second time if their first attempt was interrupted, and you do your best to identify only the serious first attempts

You find people that definitely attempted suicide and were interrupted, then track them (for how long?) to see if they try again? An attempt is counted as "serious" only if they try again (within some time frame)?
Are you saying that 2/3 of them don't try again?

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> if you already have a gun you will use it when overwhelmed as opposed to attempting to kill yourself in a less successful way.

Okay, but then what's the intervention here?

Are you saying that we remove guns from everyone just in case someone has a really bad day and offs themself? (I do not mean to sound flippant, I hope I'm not coming across that way. I'm thinking of Hunter Thompson here, RIP, who arguably should not have had access to firearms in his condition.)
You didn't mention MFA. You didn't mention SSO. You didn't mention self-serve reset flows. Your approach doesn't work well with mobile apps. These are not rare, exotic things in 2022.
It would contain a greater number of everything if you resolve to put everyone's perspective in. Would it contain a greater proportion of lies? Maybe - there are a lot more lies about a thing than truths about a thing. And if there's a consensus truth against a 0.005% lie, that sums as 1 truth and 1 lie. But:

1) what it would completely eliminate, though, is lies that are presented with no opposing perspective. And, along with that...

2) it would have more truths. If you're the victim of a lying culture/government, there would likely be truth in one or more of the opposing perspectives, where normally there would be silence.
how inane
I don’t have a subscription, but I’d be interested to know how long the IF protocol was (both duration of fasting and number of weeks of IF) and what the human equivalent is. I understand that there are reasons why a short IF regimen in mice equates to a very long IF regimen in humans.
People still can (and do in some places) today. Only question is are you able to or will anyone help you defend it.
Arguably cats and dogs should be banned too!
>> A good manual transmission is a core part of the driving experience.

Which cars have those today or in the time-frame of the F-series BMWs from TFA?

Every fiat/chrysler gearbox is sloppy gooey junk thing, even their performance models have horrific manual gear shifts.

I'll cut to the chase instead of listing Ford, Peugeot, etc. etc.

The Porsche Cayman 982 manual shift feels awesome to use, it's a delight but that only opens up a new can of worms, the gear ratios are farrr too long (emissions targets i suppose), utterly ruining the experience. The PDK is the better choice (and it even has shorter ratios to boot!).
Our mornings are very humid, often +80%. It tends to burnout late afternoon making hotter evenings actually more bearable than cooler early mornings IMO.
That sounds about right, actually. People (especially in the developed world) really, really overestimate how much thermal regulation the very old and very young can do.

Even in our safe, structured, developed cities in the US, we lose several people every time a major snowstorm hits from elderly folks getting locked out of their homes and dying before they can find help.
You ever smell a dog after she's been playing hard in the sun for a half hour? It doesn't last that long, but they can get a bit fragrant.
It's not for those times. Two things:

1. The acquisition was in 1987. To put that into context, that's before the WWW even existed (1993) or people even having corporate email. Working remote wasn't even possible at that time because everything was done in-person and/or on paper. As such, it was commonplace for acquisitions to be migrated back to HQ (this also explains why so many older companies have such big corp HQs because there was a date and time when everyone worked at that location).

2. "Key personnel" typically means founder and executive staff. It's totally reasonable for an acquirer to want the key people to stay engaged and get fully integrated (because why else acquire the company). And because of #1, it was common place to ask for this relocation. Keep in mind, they didn't have to accept the buyout offer but they did.
Too high. For example in the northwest U.S. last year we had an unprecedented heat wave, over 110 degrees for multiple days in places where air conditioning is not common.

In the Portland region 72[1] people were reported to have died from it.

Going by the metro region with a population of 2.2 million, and assuming the heat-related deaths were underreported by half (round up to 100) that’s .0045%

[1] https://www.opb.org/article/2022/06/27/portland-remembers-pe...
I suspect this is more due lack critical thinking and lumping everything in with climate change because that is what everyone else is doing. Hivemind may be overwrought, but while I do believe people are affecting climate, attributing thigs that would have happened regardless of climate change is not constructive. It only serves to incite the choir and turn off most everyone else as it appears to resemble chicken little.
Hasn't aarch32 always been optional in armv8? I mean, technically you can emulate it in software.

It was simply no market for solo aarch64 before, since a lot of costumers wanted the backup of having aarch32 compatibility.
Probably because it's difficult to determine the supply of developers for a language. Job boards tend to be companies posting jobs, not candidates posting (public) resumes.

Even if you had resume data, having a language listed as a proficiency doesn't mean that person is in the supply of developers for that language. Likewise, sometimes people get jobs for languages they don't know. I hadn't used golang before my current job, so I wouldn't have been in the "supply" of go developers despite being hired to use it.
A lot of B2B enterprise software follows this scenario:

- Ingest some client data.

- Process client data - so the bit that adds the value for client, normally this will involve some cleaning, normalization, algos, external enrichment.

- Produce human readable output as a pdf (tables, graphs, charts etc)

- Repeat this on a set schedule.

This certainty looks like a solid foundation to use to solve for these types of scenarios
China is trolling rare-earth miners online and The Pentagon isn't happy
Go watch videos of ferrets playing. They are amazing animals. I love mine and would rather have a ferret than a cat but maybe not a dog.
I'd rather use SSO over magic links as a user, for what it's worth.

Email is unreliable, there's typos, people not knowing their email address, etc. Meanwhile with SSO, two clicks and it logs you into the site with the email you're logged in with.
Much as I dislike it, I’m having trouble too. Warfare will push the society to create better weapons (metallurgy, chariot making etc,), better logistics, solidify hierarchies etc. The spoils of war are extremely effective motivators at a very base human level (power, land, wealth, rape).

I doubt peaceful means could achieve what war can.
Not only that, they expected the courts to do all the work of looking for evidence based merely on an allegation with no initial evidence.

Trump even said ahead of time he will contest the election results if he lost.
It is up to us, the people living today, to decide whether Spanish governance at the time was legally legitimate and, therefore, whether the Spanish laws in force at the time should apply. We do not have to accept the Spanish colonial legacy just because the Spanish colonizers claimed to be legitimate.
Is "A connects directly to B" really any less secure than "A connects to C, and B reverse-tunnels the traffic from C to itself"?
Immediately paid for 3 more years without a second thought though the pricing is completely reasonable and I wouldn't have had an issue paying the new price.

Also I give JetBrains massive respect for including the old/new pricing on their pricing page versus what so many companies do which is "our prices have changed" without making it clear and leaving people to using the Wayback Machine to figure it out. Also allowing people to renew up to 3 years at the old price is a move that inspries a lot of loyalty (as shown by my immediate purchase/extension).

I understand if you don't program enough to make it worth paying for a tool but if you develop professionally then the JetBrains products are a steal. I really only use IDEA (PHP, TS, Java) and DataGrip (databases) but I pay for the full product pack in case I ever need another tool. I recently used AppCode and was very pleasantly surprised by it as I quite dislike Xcode for actual coding.
I agree, but that just changes the role and leaves the potential problem. The PM might be weak and not defending the existing backlog.
> neither is the 'less secure apps' flow they invented

You can't have done that recently. Less Secure Apps was recently deprecated and removed. They've been actively discouraging using it for around 5 years. Thunderbird has supported the OAuth flow for Gmail since at least 2017 (I swear it's been there longer, but 2017 is the earliest reference I can find). It's used it as the default option when detecting Gmail since before COVID at least. It did promote the use of "Less Secure Apps" previously and that option was still available after the introduction of OAuth, but not as the default.

I no longer use Thunderbird (I switched to Spark, which solved a number of issues I was experiencing with unread email counts), but it's been a pretty good experience for a long time. Especially if you have multiple email accounts from different providers.
I would disagree with this wording "are trying to manipulate to get what they want." And it sounds like from the rest of the things you said, that you also agree with me that it's important to focus on the unmet need.

Younger kids generally throw tantrums because they have a need that is not being met. It is possible that they may learn over time that a parent gives them whatever they want when they throw a tantrum, but this comes with time.

I think that whether you're dealing with a manipulative child or a manipulative adult, there is always a need that's not being met, whether that's a need for love, validation, more sleep or a healthier breakfast. Rarely is a young child going to consciously decide to throw a tantrum to get some naughty, forbidden thing. Let's be realistic. THey're not criminal masterminds. These tantrums are rarely pre-meditated.

Why not trust your child, give them the benefit of the doubt and not assume they are lying or trying to manipulate you? I bet if they see your trust, they'll tell you the truth about what's really bothering them. It can be confusing for a young child to try to sort through it all and figure out what they need. So you can help them!

And if you really feel this tantrum is just a ploy to get what they want, then you may have taught them that they did get what they want when they threw tantrums in the mast. Maybe consider having a talk with them about how the past where you simply say, hey, I know that in the past I've given you candy when you cried, but I'm not going to do that anymore because I see it's making you cry more. I understand you are sad and can continue to cry for candy if you want, but I'm not going to give it to you. THe time you will get candy is xyz.

Janet Lansbury did a whole podcast on how to address a situation where a child's emotions seem fake and manipulative here https://www.janetlansbury.com/2021/04/when-a-childs-emotions...
And it was evolved for the African savanna which is relatively dry. We already had enhanced sweating by the time we moved into more humid locales.
Everything is great about NGINX (features, source code, performance) but the DSL can be pretty painful. The C module API is not exactly intuitive either.
> Why isn't this destruction of essential information infrastructure?

Because it doesn't scale. Unlike spam / fake news, the effort to take down something like this is smaller than the effort of creating it.

Now sadly when people start using GPT-4 for the same thing, the balance changes, and we're not far from that..I'm much more worried about that.
> Earlier today, Mandiant published research that analyzed a Beijing-linked influence operation, dubbed Dragonbridge, that used thousands of fake accounts across dozens of social media platforms, including Facebook, TikTok and Twitter, to spread misinformation about rare earth companies seeking to expand production in the US to the detriment of China, which wants to maintain its global dominance in that industry.
What's a cause of death? Everyone dies of something... usually more than one thing.

AIUI, they've basically put a bunch of factors in to create a regression model which outputs "number of deaths in this area on this day", and the factors for "very hot day or very cold day" are multiplied by the actual number of total deaths to get the "5 million" figure.
So happy that thunderbird is still alive :)

I like the new UI - seems a bit more compact than previous one - a nice chnage comparing to useless space wasted in most of the apps we have today.

Hope they will focus on editor in the upcoming versions - if only they could make html tables as good as they are in Outlook...
https://theamericangenius.com/business-news/ai-generated-con...
Worth noting that this article is from June 2021, still terrible but not a brand new change.
I moved from Jetbrains to VS code and the speed increase was phenomenal. Jetbrains was pretty sluggish and buggy on my MBP compared to VS code.
Doesn't the fact that it's reported in state-owned media suggest, although not prove, that it's not state driven? Why would they invite extra scrutiny to their disinformation campaign by publishing an article about it?
While it is a great perspective, my experience has been that engineering managers feel like non-important things are:

- Documenting your API or product for internal stakeholders (i.e. how the thing works)
- Training support

Often enough, there's 0 of any of that. So what you see is the support superstars do it after hours. Then they get hired by engineering, and the cycle repeats itself, you've just created an attrition pipeline for talented engineers, and customers pay the cost in pain. Then the engineering managers grumble that support is incompetent and annoying.

I have seen this literally at every software company I've worked at.
This is the studio that made it explaining with examples what is what capable of doing.

https://studioforcreativeinquiry.org/project/terrapattern
Klaus Barbie? The Butcher of Lyon?
The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm
> E.g. The CCP recently declared that Hong Kong was never a colony of the UK, but "under ruling of a colonial government" [1]

I don’t really understand the strenuous objection to this. This seems less like “1984-style rewriting of history” and more like completely routine nationalism that you see all around the world.
I think the trouble is that you're emotionally wedded to the idea that war is absolutely bad. That's preventing you from even considering the possibility of higher order consequences of war having positive aspects. It's conceivable that warfare improved the human capability for advanced cooperation, motivated engineering advances, inspired great art, selected for stronger and healthier men, lead to beneficial gene flows between populations, and had other largely positive effects.
We've changed the length of a year several times in history, what's one more?
That's basically how every nation on Earth was founded.
I would disagree --at advanced age, multiple systems and organs are near failure, so while one may identify one as being the proximate cause, if not that today, it would have been another tomorrow and that offers a false sense of certainty or precision.

It’s akin to saying we estimate the newly discovered satellite to be about 1 mile across or 1609.34 meters.
Daily meditation has had a great impact on my focus on task during the day
Not only that, as Crossrail demonstrated one must also avoid the numerous existing tunnels (not just trains, but also utilities and even rivers). Not all of which are precisely mapped or even know about!
Even then, the gap between tunnels in some stations is on the order of centimetres
Great news.

The fact that a company from the unfriendly country collects biometrical data may finally provoke enough outrage that such data collection gets forbidden for everyone.
There is little semblance of meritocracy, especially in larger companies where salaries are not even determined on an individual basis, but more as a function of years worked and meeting the minimum bar to sustain good yearly ratings.

The structure itself is preset, and no matter how effective you are in your role, companies generally recognize that competing for talent has a narrow value range. Companies are hurting for sound product ideas and good business plans more than they are for talented people to implement them. As long as all of their corporate peers are generally in the same boat, turnover is merely a statistic. Talent comes and goes, and you only need to acquire at equal rates to your talent losses.

Hiring is just as hit or miss, and article after article here demonstrates that corporate America has given up trying to innovate on that process. If companies could bureaucratically recognize talent internally, then maybe they could hire better candidates. But that’s expensive, and like I said before, the value proposition is limited. If they hire a 10x person, it’s a risky investment anyway, because they’ll leave a 10x hole to fill. It’s just easier to hire 10x people, which has better statistical stability in turnover.
EU Commission says it cannot find messages with Pfizer CEO
Gee, I don't know. How they handle women's rights, how they handle marriage rights, ... These things aren't state-level actions.
Climate change increases the frequency of previously rare events.

By definition, any unprecedented weather event in the last few years is linked to it. Excluding those, what weather event reporting are you referring to?

People saying it’s a nice seasonably warm day, or noting historically average precipitation last week, and blaming climate change?
Off the top of my memory, I remember speaking up against the no-fly list...
> How can you be an archaeologist and not think war has been a major part of human history?

Archaeologists are not arguing that warfare hasn't been a major part of human history, rather they don't implied idea that warfare benefited humanity.

However this isn't what the study is saying, the study is saying that "the introduction of mounted warfare and the emergence of iron weapons" resulted in an increase in social complexity.

* An increase in social complexity may or may not be a good thing for humanity overall. For instance the indicators of social complexity used here were among other things: size of bureaucracy and size of empire. The fall of the Russian empire likely resulted in a decrease in social complexity for Poland: Poland no longer part of a larger state. Many Polish people will tell you that gaining their freedom was an improvement.

* There can be different types of increases in social complexity. One might be beneficial to humanity and one might be terrible for humanity. These are not distinguished.

* The study is upfront about social complexity not being the same as cultural complexity. You can have an increase in social complexity while seeing a decrease in cultural complexity.

* They are looking at one specific innovation, iron weapons and mounted warfare. This doesn't generalize to all warfare. The war between Carthage and Rome resulted in Carthage's total destruction, this did not benefit Carthage and reduced the social complexity of Carthage to null.

It's a very big leap from, societies that gain a set specific of weapons improvements gain in social complexity as they build bigger empires --> warfare offers more benefit to humanity than it costs.
> I'm also not a big fan of telling someone they don't need to use AWS if it's clearly a side hobby project because that is how we all learned.. by playing with cool modern technology for fun.

I guess I don't really see the appeal of putting a hobby project into a space where a simple mistake can literally cost you thousands of dollars, with very little recourse.

I get to play with the vast majority of the fun tech - I just choose to do it on a k8s cluster I own, with extremely predictable costs, and frankly - more scaling capacity than I think most businesses need.

> Most users here tend to discard cloud platforms for even the most obvious and suitable use-cases, and keep on iterating how their single dedicated server can do all of it.

And this isn't really my stance - I'm absolutely not advocating for a single dedicated server (fuck - even my hobby instance is HA, 3 machines with a network lb, on a 5 hour UPS, with a redundant network. I personally don't care as much about the redundant network, but comcast provides it free to business customers in my area anyways through 5g equipment).

But I do think most (and I mean 75%+) businesses can spend 10k on a single server rack and go for literal years without problems.

If your business is not selling software as a service - don't buy into the bullshit marketing.

Even if your business is selling software as a service, think about it first. Small businesses tend to get sweetheart deals on costs in AWS, GCP, and Azure because their usage costs for those companies amortizes out to roughly zero, and because they know damn well that they'll end up paying through the nose if they make it to mid-size (or even just screw up once or twice - two fuck ups like the one here and you'd have bought yourself a decent server rack!)