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> The freeze is part of a class-action lawsuit filed by residents and business owners in Ottawa against protest organisers and participants, as well as against all those who donated funds after 4 February.

What does this have to do with the government using extra-judicial powers?
Also, smarter or more disciplined kids might have realized utility of small less selective private college is not commensurate with costs, so they are opting to go with lower cost government supported schools or focus on getting into more selective schools.
Socrates didn't leave any writings
I saw this video yesterday -- cool to see it pop up here today.

I also watched this Defcon breakdown on hardware hacking where the presenter goes over the specialized tools to both mount the chips as well as the software to pull firmware at rest to reverse engineer it. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxvpbu9STU4

YouTube channels like My Mate Vince, Northridge Fix, Necroware, and others show folks without any electronics degrees troubleshooting and fixing hardware and I just can't help but want to watch them and think about how fun it would be to get involved...unfortunately I already am at a limit to my hobbies.

The older I get, the more I enjoy thinking about EE topics and wondering where I would be today if I would have found out more about this discipline vs going a more traditional administration/IT route.
No, this is not an example of politicians being idiots or incompetent.

In crisis scenarios, you do things to mitigate risks. You can't project capacity for an unknown threat, and the costs of over-preparing are much lower than the costs of being underprepared. Overstocking is better than understocking

When COVID19 appeared, the logic course of action was to:

- Maximize vaccine capacity

- Maximize ventilator, N95 mask, etc. production capacity

- Maximize available hospital beds

- Prepare the economy for total and partial shutdowns

- Engage in heavy contact tracing to minimize spread

- Tell everyone to wash their hands and run dopey videos on hand-washing

- ... and so on

At that point, once you understand the threat profile, you scale back.

COVID19 has cost us trillions of dollars. These kinds of preparations cost millions or billions. That's 1000x-1,000,000x less.

Indeed, the failure of COVID19 was a lack of planning, lack of preparation, and lack of risk management. We did everything a little bit too slowly. The whole thing could have been avoided in 2020 if we had acted more swiftly to contain COVID, at a cost of billions rather than trillions.

And yes, like here, HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of dollars would have been wasted, probably much more. It reminds of Dr. Evil asking for one MILLION dollars.

Likewise, with the war in Ukraine, we ought to be ramping up weapons production capacity right now, as well as preparing to help rebuild a country. The same goes for climate change and a million other issues.
Here's the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation post from when Australia discontinued AstraZeneca for people aged under 60 (and made Pfizer the preferred vaccine instead):

https://www.health.gov.au/news/atagi-statement-on-revised-re...

From early April to 16 June 2021, 60 cases of confirmed or probable TTS [thrombosis and thrombocytopenia syndrome] have been reported in Australia. This includes an additional seven cases reported in the past week in people between 50-59 years, increasing the rate in this age group from 1.9 to 2.7 per 100,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses.... TTS is a serious condition in a proportion of individuals who develop it. The overall case fatality rate in Australia (3%; 2 deaths among 60 cases) is lower than has been reported internationally.

At that time, more people were dying from AstraZeneca than were dying from Covid in Australia. During May & June 2021, no one died of Covid in Australia: https://www.abs.gov.au/articles/covid-19-mortality-australia...
The Church didn't "beat authoritarian competition." The Church was Europe's authoritarian religious dictatorship. Kings and local war lords were its executives, not its competitors.

Have you not wondered why the Divine Right of Kings was so heavily promoted? Or why - until Henry VIII - the Pope could veto any aristocratic marriage he disapproved of?

The Church had an almost total lock on political power, moral authority of all kinds, class relationships, and intellectual enquiry. It was at the top of the feudal hierarchy - the biggest landowner, the biggest collector of feudal tribute (both voluntary and forced), the sole repository of all knowledge, and the biggest organiser of military campaigns (the Crusades.)

Which is why it maintained power across Europe for a millennium.
As usual, without mentioning the insane ecological impact of the "creation" of such "natural" tokens. Bitcoin is no more natural than, say, an extremely power-intensive industrial process used to create a particular crystal.
Of the top of my head (not my primary space), a gadget is a piece of code at a known or guessable location that provides specific functionality.

This is important as modern no-execute et al. prevent you from simply dumping arbitrary code into memory and running it.

Consequently, modern exploits tend to look like: (1) figure out how memory is laid out, or close enough, (2) calculate where a useful function is, that you can call with arbitrary parameters (aka a gadget), (3) abuse that function to do your bidding by controlling its parameters and the instruction pointer.

(2) gets around your inability to write + execute code directly, because the system is by definition already set up to allow built-in code to execute. And that built-in code generally does lots of useful things (like reading and writing memory).

ASLR makes (1) harder, but fundamental efficiency reasons at the operating system code level mean than usually "everything" isn't fully randomized.
If you're in the UK, save yourself the shipping and check out the food hall in the nicer department stores (Fenwick, John Lewis, Harvey Nichols, etc). They usually have a few bits from the Niederegger range, particularly around Christmas.
Work is different.

Most work stuff can be considered bullshit, but it pays the bills.

For those 8 hours - 8 hours I'd spend anyway - I play the game in the way it needs to be played to paid handsomely.

Sure I guess I could go and do my own start up and be my own boss, but life is too short for that. Swallow the corporate pill, play the game, and come out at 5pm with loads more money you'd make unless you were one of the 0.0000001% who are unicorn founders and walk away with xx millions.
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The older Moderna / Pfizer shots also prevent deaths and serious hospitalizations, if that's what you're worried about.

It's not what I'm worried about.
> The older I get, the more I enjoy thinking about EE topics and wondering where I would be today if I would have found out more about this discipline vs going a more traditional administration/IT route.

I wonder if the EE folks wonder other way around?
I have a Celestron scope. It has worked fine for all of the years I've had it, though it doesn't give live video out to the PC itself, just to its own internal monitor.
>but I tend to be scared away instead.

I think a lot of the myth-making around the power and the cleverness of long time emacs wizards paradoxically achieves exactly what happened to you, it makes Emacs seem more intimidating than it is. Also true for a lot of programming languages with that reputation.

Is emacs old, has weird keybindings and weird UI paradigms? Yes, but it's also just a piece of software and there's nothing in the way of learning it. It calls itself the self-documenting text editor for a reason, it has plenty of learning tools deliberately built in. Despite its reputation, from language support to help there's very few pieces of software that have put that much emphasis on being accessible.

You can still use other software, don't need to go all-in, etc, but I'd always recommend everyone to give it at least a shot.
Steam Deck is a great console.
Note that this is a PC game using the Unity engine, not an actual PS1 game. It just attempts to vaguely look like a PS1 game.
Toyota has demonstrated this on the Corolla H2 Concept. Their CEO, Akio Toyoda also raced this car to emphasize safety. The engine is not fundamentally different from e regular ICE engine, probably other seals, fuel lines and injectors. A quote from the press release[1]:

The car utilizes the turbocharged inline-3-cylinder engine from the GR Yaris, but with a few alterations to accommodate the hydrogen fuel.

Because the hydrogen is delivered in pressurized gas form, the same kind used in its Mirai FCEVs, Toyota teamed with Denso to develop special fuel injectors that could safely and efficiently introduce the hydrogen—which has a higher ignition temperature than gasoline and eight times the combustion speed—into the combustion chambers.

“Controlling abnormal combustion is the key to hydrogen engines,” said Naoyuki Sakamoto, the Chief Engineer of the project. “The abnormal combustion has the potential to add stress to the engine hardware. Therefore, we developed high-heat parts as well as adjusted the ignition timing and fuel ratio for the Corolla Sport H2 Concept.”

1. https://pressroom.toyota.com/the-familiarity-of-sound-sensat...
You should learn when not to code.
Explain to me how Bitcoin survives in a world where miner rewards collapse or cease to exist - ie after all Bitcoin are done being unlocked through PoW.

Ah he idea that Ethereum was funded by VCs is a really funny one, that has very little relation to reality. The funding was actually quite small.
I don't think that's what the professor is doing. From the article:

> specifically. Please note, I am not trying to “blame” students for their failing performance; rather, I am trying to understand it. Remedying the situation will require action by both students and faculty.
For the record: I am unaware of anyone forced to take the AZ vaccine anywhere, and I do as lot of global work. It's perfectly possible someone somewhere might have been forced, but forced on everyone? You should know that's dishonest.

If you're saying dishonest things, you're probably either being intentionally disingenuous, or you're brainwashed. That should raise red flags that something's wrong, and that it's perhaps time to do your own research.

Everyone I know used an MRNA vaccine, which are more effective and perfectly safe.
Do I still have to see them 15x more times? Geez /s
Seems very unlikely to have a significant effect size
Well maglevs are not used today exactly because of this issue - going past 600 km/h is dangerous - causes noise and turbulence affects the train too much, so it makes sense to venture in another direction, such as maglevs but in tunnels.

What's addressed in your comment? You didn't show any other alternative offering speeds like Hyperloop, in theory, could.

Not sure what you mean by your question about "which designs" - well, Hyperloop. Or do you expect me to hand you a finished project? It's just started. Even bullet trains took decades to get from proposal to project to finished.
Ah, then that’s a shame. (Any links?)
I don't know if this is intentional, but my brain has always connected the word back to the codename used for the nuclear bomb research being done during WWII:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadget_(disambiguation)#Scienc...

The idea being that a code "gadget" is something similarly small and innocuous-looking that turns out to have far, far more powerful effects than anyone would guess just by looking at it.
"...most people will know by now that only 21 million will ever exist, i.e. that you can’t print more of it."

This is, at the very least, debatable: https://www.onionfutures.com/essays/turning-off-bitcoins-inf...
It's not just you.

- They found a higher rate ("almost half") of autistic children "creating imaginary friends" than prior research.

- A comparison is drawn between autistic children with imaginary friends versus autistic children without. Those with had "better social skills" than those without.

- Prior research has found a similar difference in the general population (non-autistic children).
My wife and I have 4 married children and two very new grandchildren by our 2 daughters. Every second weekend we try to catch up with one of the families - 3 are in one city 90 minutes drive away and other family is 2 hours away. We are cognisant that we are probably able to be more flexible (that said my widowed MIL is ill and needs some extra attention at the moment). My own parents aren't the easiest to deal with so while I do keep in contact it can be quite stressful. My sisters are 1000+ KMs away. The reality of family life isn't trivial.
The PS5 is not actually yours, it belongs to Sony. They're just generously allowing you to use it to run very specific software you have licensed. They own the keys to the machine and they determine what you can do with it. Actually calling it a computer is an insult to the term, it's more like a video game playing appliance that happens to contain a computer inside.

Jailbreaking means taking control. It means unlocking the computer within so that it becomes a true general purpose computer. It means being able to run your own software, not just what they approve. It means being able to circumvent their DRM if you want.
> As long as someone cares about fair, censorship-resistant money that is independent of the state, Bitcoin will exist.

With the majority of coins hodled by early adopters, Bitcoin suffers from a wealth concentration much worse than fiat's.

While proof-of-work allows for fair distribution, the extremely front-loaded emission of Bitcoin is not that fair to late adopters, let alone later generations.

Its capped supply, while unnecessary for being hard money [1], makes it more suitable for speculation than for use as a currency.

[1] https://john-tromp.medium.com/a-case-for-using-soft-total-su...
,,If the average life expectancy is ~80 years, my parents are in their mid-60s, and I see them one time per year, the math—however depressing—says I will see them 15 more times before they are gone.''

The math (and life) is even more cruel: there's more than 50% chance that at least one of his parents will die before 80. I'm right now on a vacation with my mom, but it's not the same as when both my parents were alive (a year ago).
Yes, an electric motor is conceptually simpler. Yes, there’s less moving parts. But the powertrain in modern cars is engineered to a point where it is incredibly reliable and can be expected to last to the point where the rest of the car is falling apart too.

There will be plenty of “weird running issues” from software bugs and electronics failures, which are the worst and least reliable parts in ICE cars as well. An EV is not just a simple electric motor packed into a case.

Finally, as I noted elsewhere in the thread, Tesla is offering the same powertrain warranty on Model 3s that Kia is offering on their ICE cars. Clearly Tesla doesn’t have any more faith in electric powertrains than Kia has in ICE powertrains. If the EV powertrain was really so much more reliable than ICE, Tesla would be offering a standard 250k mile warranty on the powertrain instead of the same 100k warranty offered by some ICE manufacturers.
That's not quite right. The affordability increased slightly with the falling prices. But the merge basically opened the floodgates. It was a change in technology rather than a "market change" (as in business incentives balancing over time) that caused it.
Most recently I think the spirit of this kind of device has been captured in the Playdate (https://play.date), but you're right that there are no new handhelds from the big companies
This is the "economic calculation problem" critique of economic planning proposed by the Austrian school[0]. A planned economy is sort of like having a single sysadmin manage all the resource levers for a data centre, whereas the free market is more like Kubernetes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem
Truth Cultures and Rhetoric Cultures
Los Alamos is a long way from any ocean. The amount of security needed to haul this stuff outside the secret city (at that time) would have been prohibitively expensive and a distraction from the mission.

In later years when the city was no longer secret, the excuse was mostly the lazy one of "we've always done it this way."
Artificial Life with Few Rules
Can you give some clues about the alternative to PP?

Credit cards - yes you might lose 20% of your customers - but can u find a payment processor to handle your business?

EDIT: the story from your other comments is pretty hair raising!!
A 95-Square-Foot Tokyo Apartment: ‘I Wouldn’t Live Anywhere Else’
> Ah he idea that Ethereum was funded by VCs is a really funny one, that has very little relation to reality. The funding was actually quite small.

Oh come on, Buterin was knighted by Thiel as some kind of boy genius. Buterin also spoke at TC Disrupt, etc. The argument that VCs played no role in Ethereum's meteoric growth is plain wrong.
Math papers aren't opinion pieces or editorials.
Fair enough. But just like every job has bullshit, every part of life has some level of bullshit. I don't think in terms of "eliminating" bullshit, but rather minimizing it.
The internet and all related technology is largely funded by advertising. It would indeed be very fun to watch that all disappear.
> Our study at Davidson College showed that in-class transmission of Covid, for instance, was very low. Despite that, attendance was very poor in my introductory economics course.

COVID transmission over video conferencing is typically zero. Still blames students for not showing up to class during a pandemic.
That's a useless word though.

It's like "all lives matter". Nobody but psychopaths disagree so why do people bring it up? What's the point?

Mostly to defend the status quo where some lives matter less than others.
Each of us has two lives. The second one begins once you truly realize life is finite.
I’m not the commenter you were trying to respond to, but I’m not sure that’s particularly responsive. Many people treated the flu shot as a different category of vaccine well before COVID. Many people who have their kids the standard vaccine program etc. made jokes about the flu vaccine for exactly the reasons you cite.

Surely you acknowledge there’s a difference between the expectations people have about the chickenpox vaccine (basically eradicated noticeable childhood chickenpox disease by giving all kids a live viral vaccine with an attenuated strain) and the flu vaccines.
"Eliminate corporate jargon."

kpop has the highest number of jargons: nugu, sasaeng, maknae, pak, lead vocal, main vocal, black ocean, relay dance, aegyo, fancam, girlcrush, visual, bias

Guess what they mean.
Thanks for reminding me about that channel... Was thinking about it, but has forgotten it.
>Explain to me how Bitcoin survives in a world where miner rewards collapse or cease to exist - ie after all Bitcoin are done being unlocked through PoW.

The second part of the miner reward consists of transaction fees which will compensate. Most small scale transactions will be done on second layers such as lightning, thus being unaffected, while big transactions for which the extra security is worth it will be willing to pay the high transaction fees.
PSP was swaploit. I wouldn't diss web too hard, it's just the biggest attack surface. Plus this also used a kern vuln.
I find it much more surprising that it uses a CVE which was fixed upstream in 2020, I guess PlayStation don't pull upstream often

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-20:20...
i started riding a bike on a regular basis. also i lift some mediocre weights once a week. never felt better.
50 years from now there won't be gasoline. You must change.

biodiesel will likely be available but not at scale.

ethanol will almost certainly power old cars, but gas stations will be rare.

hydrogen is a non-starter. 95% of hydrogen comes from fossil fuels already and electrolysis is tremendously inefficient. Not to mention a hydrogen car is really just an electric car with hydrogen range extending.

Everything points to it's going to be EVs.
> The funding was actually quite small.

The loss of something (in multiple hacks of various coins) is still an "investment", for those using it.
Seems to be a different exploit, since the one you linked mentions you can't run arbitrary code with it nor install custom packages, while the video in the Twitter does allow you to install new/overwrite packages.
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If the only hope that Firefox has is that other browsers will do worse, then Firefox has already lost.
Indeed... So many PS3 games I missed out on because of Sony's negligence. They used to be better. The PS2 included PS1 hardware inside it. Early versions of the PS3 included PS2 hardware.
> "Vaccines are also supposed to prevent you from getting a disease."

By now everyone should already know that this is not how vaccines work.

You will still get sick, but the vaccine has trained your body to recognise and fight the strain, so you're chance of survival will be much higher.
It does seem to be One Weird Trick that nobody knows about: bother the professor and the TAs whenever you need help – whether that's over email or during office hours – and most of them, most of the time, will help. Never had the courage to make use of office hours when I was still in college, and now as a TA I realize how much of a fool I was not to.
It's all about the bragging rights, everything, every moment you feel is worth remembering: so you can tell others. But that is not a bad thing, we're social animals. We just need to drop the competitive aspect and share joy in others achievements, rather than use them as a mirror for self depreciation.
I just moved to London from Sweden, and I miss these european gym prices :(

In London, I can't find a gym/pool combo that is under 120gbp a month, and even at this minimum price; they're 1.2 meters deep and filled with sand, band-aids...and I am not kidding I saw a menstrual cup in one of them once.

I haven't been swimming since then.

I don't get London.
The author then goes on to blame students in 4 out 5 of the following points.

To his credit he does suggest several changes he and faculty could make by the end of the article.

But I think he's missing the most relevent point: with the vast number of online educational resources on the net, many students have been exposed to what great teaching looks like. Decades ago when this guy started teaching he did not have to survive that competition and comparison. He should stop entirely worrying about what students need to do and up his own game to at least match what anyone can find for free on video streaming platforms and elsewhere.

He is the paid professional here. When he has eliminated his own shortcomings then he can perhaps start to correctly identify things that aren't a result of those shortcomings.
SEC charges Kim Kardashian for unlawfully touting crypto security
Yes, except the keystroke to "close a file" is C-x k (for kill buffer).

Like you said, muscle memory. It's not surprising that you didn't remember the exact name of the keystroke because normally, you just do it.
Almost all blockchains are digital scarcity. Most of them could theoretically work at a scale larger than a local supermarket. None of them have adopted a change to their fundamental operating parameters that forces such an inability with zero justification whatsoever coupled with papering over the manufactured vulnerability by implementing the exact same centralised and controlled financial systems which the original bitcoin was designed to disintermediate.

The only unique attribute of BTC amongst blockchains is its wholly manufactured failure. Of course, such a thing is extremely useful to parties that desperately do not want the promise of functional blockchains to succeed.
Is there any way you can make this into an installable plugin for OBS for Windows users? I'm no programmer by any means, so making this work as-is is a no starter for me.