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You know, I get where you're coming from. One of my good friends was a disfellowed JW -- which is kinda like excommunication, except they're not just cut off from their church, but their community and family and friends too, altogether. This person had horror story upon horror story to tell about JWs. I certainly would never choose that path for myself.

However, I don't think I should be the one deciding what the OP is interested in or not. If they want a religious discussion they are free to follow up, or else they can ignore it. I just didn't want to erroneously mark it as spam.

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Really though, what's the difference between a cult and a religion? The amount of real estate they own? Every mainstream religion presumably started from a small cult at some point. Yeah, there are some questionable JW practices and adherents who do shitty things, but you could say that about any religion, or really any group of people. As an agnostic outsider who never believed in any religion, they all seem kooky and silly to me, but I also recognize that they fulfill deeply-rooted human needs for belonging and meaning.

The OP is already in a rough place, between the chronic pain and the depression. It's not up to me censor their options. If they can find some respite and peace, be it in a religion or in mindfulness or in nature or in community or in harmless drugs, you know... good on 'em. As long as they're not hurting themselves or others in the process, not my place to judge how they find solace.

Our society is so obsessed with materialism and the worship of greed that sometimes even just asking people to consider other spheres of being -- spirituality, community, personal meaning, whatever -- might open up avenues they wouldn't even have considered otherwise. IMO, when you're truly desperate, no option should be off the table.

But of course others are free to disagree, and I'm also glad the OP is getting informed about the downsides of JW so they can make a balanced opinion of their own.
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First, to respond directly to the post: having a (stable, one you don’t tinker with every other day) k8 setup isn’t bad, its only bad when you have to pay the setup overhead.
I built a boilerplate app with:
- authentication (Google auth) - cloud run backend -CDK - CICD (GitHub actions) - full-boilerplate frontend - full boilerplate backend - Signal error reporting - Postgres - graphQL - all my other preferences like git hooks, linter rules, vscode workspace, local environment etc.
Now, whenever I need to build an app, I just git clone this repo and its plug in credentials and play. My backend cluster doesn’t ever run more than one instance, so I guess having a scalable backend is pointless, but who cares? It’s free, time wise (and almost money wise since cloud run is pretty efficient). I built it a year ago and don’t touch most of the dev ops for any app, except to maybe rip out authentication when I don’t need it.
Imo, I think this is a highly effective method of engineering. Everyone has their favorite stack, so it might be worth it you to take a weekend and fully build out your boilerplate app so that if you ever need to, you can get straight to building the actual features.
At the time I thought Cow Clicker would be an eye opening moment for the Game Design Gatekeeperati, but they doubled down. This turned the whole thing into performance art, with the unwilling professors of fun as part of the show.
> In stocks, I can point to a price-to-earnings ratio or a price-to-sales ratio

> In Bitcoin, [...] what can I use to distinguish between "excessive" growth and appropriate growth?

I suppose it depends on what you think Bitcoin is.

It sounds like you think it's a stock.

The SEC thinks it's a commodity.

Clearly it was intended to be a currency, although a very gold-like one.

https://journal.bitcoinreserve.com/can-we-calculate-bitcoins...

[...] researchers determine bitcoin's value based on its use in the following "addressable" markets—areas in which the asset can find the most use:

The unbanked, Tax evasion, Remittance, Online transactions, Store of value, Micropayments, Reserve currency, Offshore accounts, Medium of exchange

Reserve currency counts among bitcoin's many capturable "markets." Arguably this market is one in which bitcoin could wholly dominate—by becoming a global reserve currency.

(...the article goes into more depth.)

> There is a critique that can be made of the stock market that it is essentially a speculative game

Stocks have clear utility:

You don't have to own literal grain to be invested in our food supplies.

And you can hedge some of the risk of literally owning grain to people with money.

Whatever the underlying value of an asset is, the asset itself provides ability for hedging, which itself is valuable.
> In AI workload these days, how to schedule thousands of parallel threads(SIMD style) becomes more and more interesting, wish someone had a good write on that topic.

CPU Shaders have a very simple scheduler. Blocks are scheduled one block at a time likely in some very simple heuristic (likely from lowest index to highest index, though nominally you don't know what order they're executed in).

That's good enough in 90% of cases. The last 10% can be served by a variety of techniques, including long-running kernels, data-structure queues, dynamic parallelism, etc. etc. But mastering the basic kernel invocation in the classic "matrix multiplication" scenario (roughly lining up with OpenMP "static scheduling"), and its benefits, is a good idea.
Buckle up, because Brad Marshall over at fireinabottle.net has a six part series on this complete with footnotes.

https://fireinabottle.net/how-seed-oils-cause-reductive-stre...

https://fireinabottle.net/the-mitochondrial-bottleneck-as-th...

https://fireinabottle.net/acetylation-turns-on-lipogenic-gen...

https://fireinabottle.net/what-happens-to-seed-oils-when-you...

https://fireinabottle.net/seed-oils-make-lean-people-behave-...

https://fireinabottle.net/pufa-as-an-obesogen-how-seed-oils-...
In the short (~decade) term, we do tape backups of calculation data in Berkeley, and offload data to an independently-funded European project (NOMAD), to ensure data is in at least two locations. Likewise, our production databases are automatically backed up in the cloud, but we also keep a local mirror on a bare metal server. In the longer 2^6-year time frame or further out still, I would just be flattered if the data is at all still useful for people. I think it's fair to say our community has a lot of challenges to face before we get to that point.

We don't seed any torrents ourselves and only support API access (mainly because we're a small team and have to focus our effort), but with the open license I hope the data can live on wherever/however it can.
I've seen convincing cases for both.

Obesity: https://fireinabottle.net/how-seed-oils-cause-reductive-stre...

Heart Disease: https://www.jeffnobbs.com/posts/death-by-vegetable-oil-what-...
> I can't follow your argument. You seem to imply at the same time that my numbers are too small and too high. Which one is it?

The devices are too small and the numbers are too high. (These things can be looked up.)

You know, kind of like how if you build a $300k machine out of A100s, and then try to match it with 3090s, you end up spending $800k.

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> The conventional part of the power plant is listed at $1.4 BN (page 107), which comes at about $640 MM/GW, in line with the estimate from my previous comment.

Sorry, no, your comment was about the turbines, and the document you're linking to is about *the entire plant*.

Please stop trying to google-fight your way through this. You can't learn with your finger in the air.
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Doesn't it depend on the absolute amount of profit per customer per hour?

For instance, if a person goes out and has 3 beers over two hours at $6 each, say the profit is $5 per beer or $15.

Instead if that person comes in and orders a meal for $30, with a 50% margin, he's made the same amount and likely didn't stay as long. Basically food is more absolute profit per customer per hour. And you get the benefit of not dealing with drunk people. That's why they they often don't let you take a table if you're not ordering food.
Can an admin delete this please? It looks like spam. It tastes like spam. So it probably is spam.

Thanks!
Are you still using your Galaxy S2 or is it possible it wasn’t perfect despite managing to list all those things on a spec sheet at the same time?
i mean. that's kind of what us nuclear submarines are, just, all jules verne-y
And, unlike Android, iOS doesn't give you the APIs to use your own personal server in place of iCloud with the same functionality.
I found your article useful and referenced it in (yet another) exploration of the sandbox here https://7402.org/blog/2020/macos-sandboxing-of-folder.html
i posted my list here https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts
If you post nonsense replies you are just disincentivizing anyone thoughtful from posting here.

To reply (though you were perfectly capable of this thought yourself):

Obviously; but it gives us a frame to understand geopolitical behavior by the US as it happens, and before it happens.

Edward Gibbon described “secret intrigues of the palace” (palace intrigue) as “those trifling but decisive causes which so often influence the fate of empires.” Stratfor is the Pentagon's palace intrigue (several steps removed).

If you've ever read Stratfor you know they expect, and plan for, the disintegration of Russia and China into smaller republics; and you can tell I don't believe in that.

It is merely an indication that the US likely now sees Germany as a second-rate ally, irrelevant to its geopolitical future; and therefore doesn't care about the sanctions' effect on Germany. That is the only reason I brought it up.
That and pubs and 3rd spaces are closer. I have a pub 30 second walk from my house. Probably 10 within a 20 minute radius (walking).
I'm not sure about GP, but about a decade ago I decided to stop being fat and lazy and started playing soccer, running, and later doing BJJ and some strength training (cannot seem to stick to weightlifting, but bodyweight works well for me). After that change, I slept less, but better, and had more energy throughout the day and into the night. I got more time back by being in shape than I lost from the exercise to get me there. And I was spending time with friends when I was exercising anyways (friends from before I started exercising) by joining their soccer team, going for runs and hikes and rafting trips with them, and similar things.

At work I became more productive because I wasn't struggling through half the day feeling fatigued and worn out, or pushing into a panic attack from all the caffeine needed to keep me conscious. Outside of work, despite (and as mentioned in many cases because of) the exercise I spent more time with friends and family. And I probably bought more than 2 years at the end of my life. I was on track for a heart attack in my 40s the way I was going.
Records of what?

It's not like there's a Dark Pattern Brainstorming meeting every Tuesday at 2pm. Big companies being evil is an emergent phenomenon. Nobody needs to be told explicitly that the offboarding flow should be as irritating as possible; all it takes is ICs understanding the business and realizing that they will be rewarded for positively impacting the bottom line and making their boss look good.
Just subscribed, thanks

An AI in control of humanities resources was also the plot of one of the stories in I, Robot (the book, not the movie).
In a fail over situation, such as a small biz scenario with multiple providers, but no BGP, you'll have to deal with rotating prefixes. One alternative would be to NAT to the other provider prefix's during fail over (actually NPt: network prefix translation.) Depending on your firewall / router this may be easier said than done.
Calling a single sceptical statement "counter arguments" is disingenuous at best. The linked bidmc article is a good starting point if you really are interested.
Why do you run to a victim/perpetrator binary. It’s totally possible to observe that people’s behavior is wildly inappropriate without any baggage of claiming victimhood. Seems like projection for you to go there. Jan 6 was totally inappropriate, bombing abortion clinics is totally inappropriate. Defending people or politicians who support those acts seems like a strange position to take, to put it mildly.

Do you have a response or will you change the subject to mock a straw man for claiming victimhood.

Also, dude, these are your downtrodden forgotten rural masses: the trump rioters all paid their way to go to DC on a workday! Including hotels, airfare, you name it. Give me a break with this crap about them being under the thumb of the oppressive elites, it’s mawkish sentimentality and blatant rationalization for misbehavior.
Are you sure that the crypto you use was done by somebody who wasn't an expert in crypto, by themselves?
> about Javascript and web developers

I’ve heard that the original React was built in SML, rewritten in OCaml, and later transcribed to JS (and now is developed in ReasonML)[1].

We shouldn’t downplay the unmitigated[2] disaster of language design that JavaScript (and more broadly, the engineering disaster that dynamic typing) is.

Just the fact that React was/is created by a person who is functional, static, strongly typed language aficionado is a testament that good things in the JS world comes simply because of its entrenched status due to being the only directly supported language in browsers — not because of anything inherently good about JS.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15209814

[2] Now partially mitigated by TypeScript.
This is why I like slack. I work with people across the globe, so they want to message me without fear that I'll be notified at 2am. Slack won't send you a notification after hours, unless the person presses "Notify anyway?". I've never had that happen in the last 3 years or so of using Slack where I am.
Note “landlord” doesn’t mean the same thing it does in the US, it means the person who actively operates the pub.
Ok. So we revive letters of marque and the old privateering system, but anyone who takes them has to use an 18th century pirate ship, weapons, costumes, the lot. Flintlock pistol and cutlass, rum and hardtack, sodomy and the lash. If we're going to use 18th century laws, we should stick to 18th century technology and custom, it's what the founding fathers would have wanted. Except no slavery. People aren't cargo.

Also they will be required to talk like a pirate, all the time.
Exactly $499US is all you need even today to get a pretty damn good machine in my book....4.4GHz 12th Gen i5, 4k OLED, 8GB DDR5, 256GB SSD PCIe4.0...from, of all places, Best Buy?

Now trust me...Best Buy is pretty much the last place I would look to buy a computer these days, but I have to give them credit for value here even though this system comes with crappy Intel graphics.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-zenbook-14-2-8k-oled-lapto...
Only with acidic foods
Thiel is a smart investor but even smart investors lose money on some investments. "backed" can have many meanings. I would imagine he has some kind of stop-loss on his exposure to risk here. And indeed, its "Valar Ventures" which has invested, an indirect vehicle.

Note: I dislike the guys politics, but that has nothing to do with an objective assessment of his financial investment chops. Same with Andreessen, he doesn't figure in my 'friends of carlotta' list but he obviously knows a good investment when he sees one.

My personal belief is that Thiel is too smart to have believed any of the bullshit about coins and NFT, and was in this as risk play for the upside. I am sure he made heaps doing this elsewhere in the crypto bubble, he can wear this (small, in his terms) downside outcome.
I think that the bigger impact is improved quality of life when you’re old. Having a higher baseline health after 70 allows you to enjoy your later years much better. You may not live much longer but it’ll more likely be a longer period of relatively good health with a steep decline at the end as opposed to a long gradual decline where you’re able to do much less for a long period
In NSW (a state in Australia) a bar/pub is often just an excuse for a poker machine license, with all the actual revenue coming from gambling
> I think that a language is needed that fundamentally compiles AoS to SoA.

ISPC does that.
What, you mean our system of corporate capitalism that still mostly requires relocating for a job, and incredibly strongly encourages working long hours to "prove yourself" and "get ahead" and whatnot?
The response to a pitch trim runaway (MCAS or otherwise) is anything but an obscure process to anyone sitting forward of the cockpit door on a 737. It’s a memory-item checklist, demonstrated in initial and recurrent training. (The pitch trim wheels are prominent in the cockpit and make a clanging noise while running as well.)
IPv6 has been around for over 2 decades. It is now older than IPv4 was when it went "mainstream" in the 90's, yet uptake is still quite slow. I remember, about 10 years ago, thinking the 2010's was going to be the decade that IPv6 took off. How wrong I was...
The key phrase was you can’t save your way to prosperity. As soon as your company switches focus to profitability (%) from profit (gross number) they are out of ideas
yeah, the same as any other cloud storage. I'm content with the much greater redundancy for some copies to persist and be recovered, not a guarantee, more guarantees than every other option.

the unique issue is how a 51% attack could rewrite history, but that's also mitigated by how often people branch bitcoin from various states in history to their own new chains that have their own miners, inheriting and persevering all the stored stuff.
They do that to spread the rumor
> also means you're spending x times more of your productive years exercising

I'd strongly recommend finding some sort of physical activity that you enjoy, rather than seeing as a chore.
Indeed. In the US, unless you live in a city or a suburb with shopping complexes within walking distance, you have to drive to a pub.
These disks were robust. I saw people successfully boot a Vax from an 8" floppy which looked to have been partially folded.
"dead" as in does not seem to carry the same wave of market. Actually dead? no.
This is really great. Can you please add Net Income after calculation. That would be useful.
Strange. In the USA, many restaurants barely break even on food and make up their profit on alcohol drinks. They live and die by their liquor license. Is it because they go for pricier drinks in the states?
Getting the backing from Linus is half the battle so they are definitely fast tracked here.
Digital Economy Act 2017 increased the already-existing penalties to max 10 years in prison for copyright infringement - which you technically commit every time you fire up BitTorrent without blocking upload. The same act (and its predecessor 2010 bill) compels ISPs with over 400k subscribers (i.e. all the big ones) to monitor subscribers for such activity.

Then you have stuff like this: https://www.digitaltveurope.com/2020/09/17/uk-police-take-un...

The fact that prosecuting authorities tend to go after distributors rather than consumers is simply due to a value-for-money calculation. There is no formal or informal decriminalisation of consumer piracy, if they could find a cheap way to go after everyone they would - and they likely will, sooner or later.
It sure was! I upgraded to 32 megs about a 6 months later, and it was amazing. I had never dreamed of so much memory.
thats not the biggest example. the list is quite long and it wont even make the first page.
I imagine this affects many parents. I would love to know how many parents successfully manage this (or, perhaps, success is simply defined as raising your kids well)?
Bubble sort is offensive to intuition? I would have said it was the most intuitive, because each step is very simple and you only have to remember one numeric variable in your core loop.
GP’s description is accurate. Traditional psychedelics work by inhibiting the reticular activating system(1), which indeed is important for cognitive filtering. Phrases like “clogging” and “damage” aren’t particularly scientific or accurate.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reticular_formation#Ascendin...
http://retractiondatabase.org/RetractionSearch.aspx?
> This is par for the course for law enforcement software

That is also true for the software running on Breathalyzers. Long story short, the few times they were independently tested, the software quality was found to be about the same as that of the crap described here, and test results were wildly inaccurate. People are literally jailed every day based on bad law enforcement software.
> Go's M:N scheduler is an incredible piece of technology that is (IMO) unmatched by any other mainstream language.

I guess it depends how you define mainstream, but in Rust, Rayon has a work stealing scheduler too.

On the other hand, it has existed in Erlang for decades, and Elixir takes full advantage of it.

As for my 2c, I would say Rust is a better choice than Go in terms of the first language to learn. The main reason for this, is it is easy to embed in other languages. When I get to a problem that is too slow in a higher level language, eg. Python or Elixir, Rust is a great way to solve this problem. Just have a look at polars (https://www.pola.rs/).
You're working against millions of years of evolution.
If a cave man is given the options of 4 foods, the cave man who eats the most calorifically dense food is more likely to live and have energy through the next lean time than the cave man who eats the leaves. It sucks but that's just how we're evolved and it's shockingly hard to "trick" those sense with fake sugar etc.
Tamade doesn’t sound in anyway like a Chinese username (maybe Japanese phonetically, but that could easily be a coincidence), but I would let them speak for themselves.
Would you have to assume the researchers and journal editors were wantonly naive to make that kind mistake?
What raising techniques do you recommend?

Say someone has a newborn; what should they do between now and three years (or so) from now?
> Supreme Court turn to the batshit insane side of reality.

Following the Constitution as written instead of legislating from the bench is batshit insane?

Federal protection of abortion rights should come from Congress, not an overreaching activist Judiciary. Also, if you’re in California nothing has changed about access to abortion and nothing will change for the foreseeable future.
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Really there is only 1 guy who has the best cardiometabolic health of all humans.

Probably not me.
> Maybe adapting to internationalized (American at this point) English.

I suggest that in the highly unlikely event this is true that we (the rest of the properly educated British) hunt this person down and dispose of them. After imposing a number of spelling tests first, of course.
QNX was/is simply amazing!

Talk about an OS that should have utterly destroyed DOS and all other CLI-based OSs.

I first encountered it at an oil-terminal company I worked at in the 80's and couldn't believe the features packed into such a small footprint.

It's real-time event handling was top-notch, and it was stable as all-hell...in a sane world it would have dominated the market.
Why Berlin? There seems to be a lot of companies based in other German cities.
Gnome developer calls Arch Wiki contributors “Clowns”
The largest number is at position 1 after the first pass of the inner j loop. In fact it's at the ith position after each completion of the j loop, and it serves to separate the sorted and unsorted parts of the array.

Beyond that it's just inserting the ith element into the list by finding its place and shifting everything over one position.
We have some structural time bombs embedded in the Constitution: https://www.vox.com/2015/3/2/8120063/american-democracy-doom...
Great, yeah I'm all for that :)
Now do the House of Representatives.