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> lies/bad science about cholesterol & saturated fat being unhealthy

Are you saying cholesterol and saturated fats aren't unhealthy? I'm confused.
I know some people involved in Boom. They simply have no understanding of the physical limitations of supersonic flight. Surprise, they’re all software engineers.
I think a good introduction to his prose is Post Office, it's an easy read. If you like that, then you can move on to his other novels like Ham On Rye, which feels more real and dark, especially when he talks about his childhood.

My favorite poetry collection is "Burning in water, drowning in flame", but most of the poems are thematically and stylistically aligned.

He also wrote a ton of short stories, mostly dark and crass. They are all quite short, so literally take your pick with those.

I like the novels above the other stuff personally.
...'better'...

I stopped reading there -- maybe it's prejudice, but it's also my spam filter.
Actually the British monarch has a lot of power, de jure, they just don't use it due to "tradition". They're the ones who appoint prime ministers, and they're the ones who dissolve parliament for new elections. Traditionally they do those things at the behest of others, but de jure it's their right. (Note: those two powers are the ones abused by Hindenburg in Weimar Germany to de facto appoint whomever as chancellor based on his power to dissolve the Bundestag if they disagreed with his choice)
Now, after USA has removed its competitors from the Chinese market, this GPU will be a commercial success, regardless of any technical disadvantages.

So the company that has designed it will survive and it will grow and be able to design a next generation of GPUs, being protected from stronger competitors.

Had China decreed an overtax on imported datacenter GPUs to help its domestic producer, USA would have protested against such a protectionist measure. But now USA has done itself what was needed to protect the Chinese datacenter GPUs.
Yeah I've seen that number before, its average, not median. https://www.osc.state.ny.us/files/reports/osdc/2020/pdf/repo...
> If I really opened to a random recipe, I’d be unlikely to see any of these complexities.

Lots of recipes have optional ingredients. I don't think this person is very familiar with cooking. All cooking apps handle optional ingredients fine. Nobody would use the one you finna make that doesn't have that.
Anyone remember the SAP / Intel
joint venture called Pandesic?
"Welcome to the Soap-of-the-Week Club! Every week we'll send you some tiny bars of soap in a little stack. You may not revoke your membership."
The question wasn't posted by the manager though, but by someone on the team.
It turns out that at one moment the value simply disappears? Or maybe it's just a matter of support after the transfer of the code.
Somehow I thought there is something like "disable shell expansions" option or "raw strings mode" in Bash. Seems like I was wrong.
Clients fetch content from stratum 1 servers as needed. Multiple layers of cache are possible/recommended, including
1) a local SQUID proxy (in the case of large infrastructure)
2) the client's local disk
3) a networked/parallel filesystem

Cache invalidation happens through checksums and catalogs (each revision has one or multiple nested catalogs, content is checksummed, and clients can know if one or multiple catalogs are outdated by comparing checksums they have to upstream checksums).
reminds me of a lot of "support" these days: figure out which script contains words which sound like the problem being described, then follow it, without actually taking the time to understand the problem
They used to call it "Adam" when it was sold openly in Dallas, TX bars before it got emergency scheduled and banned in '85. Only had a brief year or so legally before it called down the crackhouse on its popularity then was banhammered federally and kicked.

https://maps.org/news/media/playboy-ecstasy-was-legal-in-198...
My (completely speculative) hunch is that they may have been chasing efficiencies beyond the scope of uniforms, or even beyond the scope of the army.

For example, the solution may not have worked well with other procurement items and they wanted a single platform. Or the navy already had an SAP contract that could be leveraged without spending money on a separate stand-alone army solution.

So it can look like a bad decision that generated local inefficiency while globally it was a better choice. That's not to say SAP actually delivered on those promises.
Yeah, I can't see any better argument against contracting an ERP package. This is exactly true, and those 3-5 way more expensive new developers you are hiring through a 3rd party won't create anything better than the original one that knew your company. (They are not temporary either, because the duration of the ERP project is forever.)
are these all juvinile penguins?
The last system I built for myself was a Sandy Bridge based system back in 2011. It was the first time I built one completely from scratch. After a month I ripped it all down and sold it on eBay, then bought a refurbished 2011 iMac. I still use that to run Linux.
I consider all online accounts as breached. That is why I use unique passwords.

If my CC is compromised, i'll notice in my monthly statement and report the bad charges (this has happened twice in 10 years). ...once from using the card in eastern Europe and the 2nd time at a hospital recently.

Not using services online because you're afraid of a breach is highly inefficient.

Better to share as little as possible and have consistencies when there are breaches.
How is 3D acceleration for things like ATI Rage?
> You might be able to use less in town but swapping 5 or 6 canisters every day sounds less pleasant than simply unplugging your EV at the start of the day and plugging it back in later.

Have you been using an EV in your daily life for at least a few months? Honest question.

I haven't.

But still I'd imagine I'd strongly prefer swapping the canisters (even several times a day) over having to basically plan the structure of the day around the charging of the EV, as the foundational element. Which is what you'd probably have to do, if you don't always make short trips that only use 15 % of battery capacity.

Being spontaneous is really what makes owning a car useful for most people. And I think you'd loose a good part of that with an EV. (I don't even own a car, by the way. Nor do I drive one more than a handful times a year at most.)
Yay another fear porn article.
I also wanted that too (and a good mug of tea!), but when I travelled back home I found that the HP sauce was somehow less tasty and had less zing. Dunno if it's me or if they changed it.
Well, if you can get the user to install malware on their computer ("you must update your flash plugin to continue ...") then you could potentially fiddle with their certificate store, or many other things.
This needs to be higher up. Big points that SAP has going:

* Compliance
* Standard Processes
* Interoperability between companies (a lot of purchasing runs automatically through some sort of SAP Software)

What mostly fails in my experience is the customization. Everybody thinks their process is super special and important and needs 100 escape hatches. But if you ask them to draw their process on a whiteboard, they couldn't do it for one single process without drawing 100 question marks.

That is where SAP shines: The whole thing is so bureaucratic, coming from Germany, which is something you will need after your company has grown beyond a certain size.
Cats have a several of those signs. Slow blinking, still tail, etc. Seems like it's very important to signal when they're relaxed and secure and when they're not; likely because they're full of claws and teeth.

I inherited a male cat, now about 4, with a property. He couldn't follow the previous owner because he mostly lives in the woods and there is none at the new place. He is wonderful and amazing. I send videos and the guy tears up when he gets them. One nick name for him is Garage Lion.

Yesterday I had to invent 'cat sticks.' He likes to sleep curled up in my planters and that kills the sprouts. So all the planters but one -- the designated cat planter -- have random sticks now...
I don't live in Hawaii but everywhere I've known people to do this, they just tax you based off what they can see on the lot after a certain number of years. More recently some jurisdictions seem to buy satellite imagery and use that to identify improvements like decks, pools, etc.

My dad's house has been "under construction" for nearly 20 years now. They just sent him a notice about a year after he started saying the tax value was being adjusted and if he wanted to dispute that he could ask for a hearing.

Same thing with my house, I've been "under construction" since late 2019. Got my new notice of property value sometime in 2020. There is no inspection process for the improvements, so I'm "under construction" until 2024.

Also if I had to guess he isn't really "threading multiple loopholes". He probably just applies for a construction permit renewal every time it comes up. The place he built really isn't an eyesore, more of a nice little bungalow. I doubt he intentionally pisses off his neighbors. So the city planning and permitting folks likely just collect the fees and move on.
In my department, we only use LaTeX

(but it is in academia)
I don't understand your argument. Most active ingredients/medicines/chemicals that have some sort of effect on people (good or bad) are more or less controlled. Their are called medicines (drugs) and are under subscription (also during research and clinical trials they are under strict control). You can think cancer medicine, HIV medicine, insulin, whatever.

Just because some medicines have kind of happy or fun or hallucinating effects don't make them more or less controlled.

And your argument about MDMA, it's already a developed medicine which is available under subscription. Why do you talk about delays?

And most medicines take more than 5 years to develop and release to market (also those without funny side effects sought after by drug abusers).

It's funny how you talk about ketamine being not 'marketed'. Why should a drug be marketed? It's a medical doctor who should subscribe it to patients he sees has a need for it. For sure medical companies might market it to doctors, but overall drugs should not be 'marketed'. Just see the issue with Purdue Pharma and the opioid crisis in the US.
Google employee here, for my role I work almost exclusively in Go.

A lot of legacy code is C++ or Java, but almost all of the new software being developed uses Go.
Changing the default search engine is incredibly difficult and sometimes even impossible.

It's in fact so difficult that you'll have an easier time getting people to use your search engine if you ask them to install your extension or even your own browser.

If you want somewhat fair competition that's 'easy and cheap' then it should be possible to prompt for user permission to change the default search engine on any browser. It should be possible to avoid abuse by restricting the search engine change to the domain requesting the change.
> "However, the effects of individual exposures remain largely unknown. To study early-life exposures and their implications for multiple cancer types will require prospective cohort studies with dedicated biobanking and data collection technologies."

What that means is analytical body-burden data collection should be a medical norm, for a variety of substances: polychlorinated biphenyls, triazine herbicides (atrazine), industrial solvents like trichloroethylene, brominated fire retardants, nitrosoamines, plastic-sourced phthalates, perchlorates, hydrazine, hexavalent chromium and so on.

Collecting such individual data via blood & urine samples (possibly fat biopsies & breast milk as well) on a yearly basis should really be part of a standard medical checkup procedure. That would provide a dataset which could be used to address that question.

This is hardly a new proposal, for example see this 2001 PBS report, in which journalist Bill Moyers got his body burden test results:

https://www.pbs.org/tradesecrets/problem/bodyburden.html

The results are not unusual. Each of us has some load of industrial chemicals stored in or passing through our bodies. These chemical residues – termed the "chemical body burden" – can be detected in blood, urine and breast milk.
They're specifically talking about a CIA textbook (Culinary Institute of America) which has a bit more structure and consistency in their recipes as its used in culinary school curricula.
I have never spent a single $ on a Tesla product so I have nothing to forgive.

People should be able to get their money back for the FSD package, I totally agree. I don't know what the status of that is. In my opinion that it should legally clear that you can get your money back as it clearly does not does what it said on sale but I have not read the contract.

As a costumer that would piss me off if I couldn't get my money back on that and law suite would make sense.

Given the absurdly high demand for second hand Tesla and your ability to resell the FSD package while there are lots of people who pay extra for that package, it isn't nearly on the same scale as what Theranos did. In fact since many bought it of much less then it is now, you might have a change of making money.

And FSD sales are a tiny % of Tesla overall business. That makes it very different from Theranos. What makes it also very different is that Tesla has a reasonable chance at delivering and is continually investing and improving towards that goal. They have the capital to continue to work on that, they are not just burning investor money.

Theranos had no realist hope of ever making money and no capital to continue research.

> If we not make it a big deal for Tesla missing the targets for making the cars cheap and collecting pre-order money for products that not deliver(or deliver late if you kick the can down the road long enough) we can say the exact same thing about Theranos.

No we can't. That's an absurd claim. You reserve a product and you can get your money back if you don't get it, that is no different then many other reservations and is totally common practice in the industry.

And no idea what 'making the cars cheap' is supposed to mean.

> If you choose to put the threshold of "subsidy received" above what Tesla received, you can claim that Tesla did not receive subsidies.

Every large industrial company receives subsidies of various kinds. This is simply the world we live in. But some how it gets brought up far more often with Tesla then with other car companies while Tesla actually received less and they absolutely for certain did not receive enough subsidies to somehow claim Tesla was bootstrapped by the state or had some sort of unfair advantage.

So its really just used to downplay what they achieved, "Oh look they had X subsidy therefore XYZ". The reality is the car and road transport are subsidized and Tesla is part of that market.

I would prefer much of that money being spent on trains but I'm not gone shit on Telsa for existing in reality.
Webdevs are very much part of this community, I don't think anyone will say otherwise. I definitely am not trying to malign anyone, just sharing my observations. This is of course a very subjective matter and I don't deny I could be far off from reality, but it's a personal observation for now. The community here believes strongly in critique and I hope we appreciate critique for what it is.

On the topic, the latest kid on the block is deno. New runtime is cool, but having to rewrite userland is ludicrous. Now you have deno dotenv package, (inspired by node dotenv), oak middleware inspired by koa, semver, base64, a modern web framework... where's the end to this? Reinvent the entire node ecosystem and fragment the community?

Now I never blame the creators because they are attempting something, but if this takes off I will blame the community. People should be up with their arms shouting what a terrible idea this is, but that kind of critique is something that is missing from this community. One of the best things about the web community is their unconditional positivity, but that is also their failing. I fear people will jump on bandwagon and embrace deno with both arms, we will see a race to rewrite all the popular node packages in deno, companies will open positions for deno developers, new developers will be asking whether they should take the node course or the deno course, all until the next asteroid arrives.
I used to think this and I don't think so anymore. Consider a company who develops the de-facto cure for a cancer. Let's say a course of normal treatment to remission cost $200,000.

There's no reason this company wouldn't release the cure. They would simple charge <COST_OF_NORMAL_TREATMENT> * <MARGIN> + <OPPORTUNITY_COST> for the drug. People would pay almost any amount for such a cure. The company would have no problem padding it's bottom line sufficiently.
UK's Faster Payments, EU's SCT Inst, Brazil's Pix, India's UPI, ...

Shifting retail banking to the central bank brings a lot more questions than just worry about what happens to cash.
So, Disneyworld?
"I feel there is a lot of room to develop better tools that are not so horrid"

Probably not. SAP is an everything-to-everyone product. Using Fred Brook's terminology for essential versus accidental, the problem with everything boxes is that even just the essential complexity of such a product is so insanely large that they are sufficient to produce a "horrid" product. Of course they don't have just the essential complexity and add a healthy dose of accidental complexity, but so would any putative "less horrid" replacement by the time it successfully solved the same essential problems as SAP.

Closer to home, "bug tracking" is an example of an everything-to-everyone product. I can't even count the number of times I've seen a "simpler, less horrid" bug tracker get started due to the perceived horribleness of the current bug tracker, but the new bug tracker simply became the old one once it tried to grow into the same niche. This may sound strange to 2022 ears, but I remember when JIRA was being pitched as the simpler solution and developers were pretty keen on it. There will never be a mature bug tracker that is any fun to use, because by the time it's everything to everyone it'll just be the same morass of being everything to everyone again. It turns out that the "less horrid" bug tracker wasn't actually intrinsically less horrid... it just wasn't everything to everyone. Instead it was a bug tracker for developers, so developers love it. But then if developers are going to be allowed to use it everywhere, it has to satisfy all the other stakeholders too, and it inevitably mutates into an everything for everyone product.

(See also: Salesforce. Letting users configure custom DB schemas is a key indicator of being an everything to everyone product. To some extent, programming languages too; there's a lot of people who pine for something simpler (such as the people who think that if we just went to visual languages, or tried to jam everything into "no code") and don't understand that by the time you have a general purpose language that is truly general purpose you've got a large amount of irreducible essential complexity whether you like it or not.)
They don't exist on a company-wide basis, but I've seen plenty of companies where engineers who are capable of setting their own tasks are allowed to do so. (As a sibling comment points out, this is very common in the stereotypical big tech companies, and in fact your promotions are typically based on the scope of things you can get done on your own initiative.)
Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life
I think Oracle is the biggest competitor.
Amazon acquires warehouse machinery and robotics maker Cloostermans
I really don't see the issue. GPU is specialised hardware for certain computations - faster and/or more energy-efficient. Your analogy is weird too; if a CPU is a car, then a GPU is a specialized car that can go 1000x faster under certain specialized circumstances.

That said, your original issue was with general purpose compute infrastructure on top of GPU, which can be applied to this analogy too; using the Thrust SSC to transport a container is probably not the best. Possible, but suboptimal.
You’re right, it’s amazing how common turing completeness is. Even powerpoint is turing complete. But I just wanted to mention one thing: Haskell’s type system isn’t turing complete unless you have certain extensions on (like UndecidableInstances).
You have to give the thread time to mature. Sometimes initial comments are posted by people with a specific position.

Top comment at the moment seems pretty reasonable.
> It usually (though not in the case of popes) also requires that the holder be part of the country’s traditional aristocracy or nobility.

Not really. Reza Khan was just a colonel in the army before the coup that later established him as Shah of Iran. Osman of the Ottoman Empire and his descendants for a very long time had no aristocracy or nobility to speak of, only temporary (land reverted to the Sultan at death) land owners.
I think a secular/scientific version of some of the ideas contained within religions like Buddhism could move the needle substantially:

https://mindwithcare.com/buddha-teachings-part-one-four-nobl...
You wouldn't believe it, but fantastical.
behind nebulous contracts or ridiculously overvaluating companies

Just as a thought experiment, try to restate that with the poker analogy.

1. behind nebulous contracts

A bluff. You are bidding up a hand so people believe it’s a good hand.

2. ridiculously overvaluating companies

Bidding up a hand because you know the other side can’t afford the risk (they can’t match you when you up the ante, doesn’t matter how good their hand, modest institutions won’t take the risk), so you can take the pot just economically.

Overvaluing a company is to make the sale look attractive to investors (it’s 50bn, must be worth a shit right). Once you have them, your job is done, take the pot, drop the value. A retirement fund can’t stand up to “we need crypto exposure in our portfolio”, they’ll fold and take it.

———

The point is, the economy has this psychological element. What most people are not ready to hear is that in this game, the psychological games leaves any side either fleeced, caught, exposed, or downright unlucky.

That’s why it’s unnerving, because our economy is supposed to be numbers in, numbers out. But it’s not.

It’s not the money that’s the problem, it’s the psychological game.

———-

Government debt printing is the most optimistic psychological game we have in the economy. It’s a bet on the future potential of the country. It’s a risk, the country may not be what we think it’s capable of in the future. But it’s far less insidious than the other psycho tricks.
Excel is a really good tool though that unlocks so much for the users.

What it turns into is another story though :-).
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Contact them via phone or online chat; with no way to test remotely, they will offer to exchange the AirPods in most cases.
> When will we flip it around?

Do you mean software rendering? Or more like baking GPUs into CPUs (already done decades ago, see SoC or integrated graphics hardware).