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You don't even sound like you have any idea what's going on inside the EU atm.

Do you know that in Italy already a right-wing party just got elected into government?

Do you have any idea about rising sympathy for the right-wing AfD in Germany?

Do you have any idea about rising energy prices and how they are about to mass destroy businesses? How people are beginning to struggle paying for their energy bills?

This oblivious attitude to what's going on is exactly going to be the reason for the downfall of the EU.

Why do I never see these types of people address the facts and numbers? All I see is mockery and complete oblivion to reality.

Probably the same thing the US did in Afghanistan up until the moment they suddenly had to gtfo.
I agree that this is a big thing to consider here too. I set up a computing cluster in grad school and it was much less costly to make a mistake there than it would have been in a cloud service. Re-running something only wasted wall time and not any money. That said, money is not the only scarce resource here. Researchers can get allocations at university and government HPC systems, but you then have to be quite careful with your allocation of computing time. I remember keeping track of the number of SUs (core-hours) I was burning quite carefully when I used university clusters, since once it is gone, you might not get any more time.
I remember seeing "pros" in the arcade doing combos with something like 40 hits. They were using that character with the crowbar, can't recall his name.
I agree there should be a mandatory retirement age like there is in pretty much every other vocation. How old will Trump be when he tries to get in again?
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My ideal work environment is something less than 5 days a week (my most recent job was a Tues-Fri shop), but I'm open to discussion on that. I'm open to full-time, part-time, or <=32h contract/retainer types of work. Flexibility in working arrangements in general is the best way to catch my eye! In a truly ideal world, I'd love to continue to work on open-source stuff, or things adjacent to it; as seen on my GitHub (@klardotsh) and GitLab (same username), I love contributing to the scene that has given and taught me so much. But, I'm open to just about anything stable, and preferably smaller-scale (teams where you can remember everyone's name without much strain!).

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But it's also not why the law was made.

There are other regulations to keep people from installing Steam on their ML workstations (which also cover machines below the threshold).

It's entirely about one grant-giving entity not wanting to pay for a piece of capital equipment that will have use beyond the project they're funding. It's a federal regulation, and it comes up far more commonly with lab equipment than it ever does with computers.
So Congressmen ponder the current Gulf defense treaties. Tom Malinowski said, "I just don't see any good reason for us to maintain troops that are there almost solely for the purpose of protecting their oil fields and their security interest. It just doesn't make sense to me."

[1] http://www.npr.org/2022/10/06/1127212442/democrats-saudi-ara...
It's fine if the tactile letters intended for the blind don't look the same as the visual ones intended for the sighted; you can associate the whole set in a single day, provided that you're genuinely interested in doing so. (People don't do it because they don't see the point [pun not intended] in doing so.)

The actual issue with Braille, is that letters are often tactically similar. Even tactically, people identify shapes better than absolute positions over a grid; in this sense Braille is flawed by design (why just dots? Why not a mix of dots, curves and straight lines?), and Fakoo's alphabet doesn't solve this.
I think you’re mixing up RFID and NFC.
Wow, so much wrongness...

> excess deaths as in Covid

Deaths from a nuclear accident are much more diffuse than deaths from Covid were. Unlike the deaths from Covid, below a certain rate they are impossible to detect. The statistical noise in ordinary cancer deaths swamps them.

> Yes, there is. High natural background-radiation areas don't show an increase in cancers for residents.

This claim is directly rebutted by the NRC in their response to the LNT petition. The results cannot be disentangled from non-radiation effects on cancer rates. Epidemiology is a blunt instrument.

https://www.regulations.gov/document/NRC-2015-0057-0671

(look under "Comments Supporting the Petitions—Assertions That There Are No Observable Adverse Effects From Background Radiation")

> It's not a game and we aren't rooting for a team. We want the most accurate models.

No, what you want is something confirming your biases. This is apparent from this nonsense you are emitting, nonsense that is in direct contradiction to the non-cherry-picked and properly interpreted evidence.

> No, that is the LNT model.

Obviously not. There is some nonzero radiation level at which LNT is at the limit of statistical detectability. Below that radiation level, the effect by LNT becomes progressively weaker. So, at those lower radiation levels, the conservative estimate of the effect (as I defined it) will be larger than the prediction of LNT.
> I pay a monthly fee to a business for my mail server, and I chose a business that makes data privacy a top selling point.

And you're free to pick a mastodon instance that offers the same (if that's something you cared to do). Do you also complain that it's possible for any rando can spin up their own email server and start passing out free email addresses?
I've been on municipal Broadband and it was fine. I ended up moving to a private provider because it was better and cheaper.

When it comes to the right trade-off for the housed and the unhoused in terms of email service, I'm skeptical that the solution is regulatory. It seems like there is a large number of email providers that already offer what the homeless need. The problem is simply setting them up with the correct provider and user settings.

This seems like a job for people that work with the homeless.
That doesn't address the 2 vs 3D problem the person you’re replying to outlined.
Can you tell me more about this? I've never heard of it, and have always thought that it would be cool to upscale old videogames.
I think I know this company: stoke. mobile backhaul SeGW is a big market, it just stoke didn't make it in that market, and its deployment in DCM was replaced entirely not a few years after.
You’d think they’re stuck in a luggage area and airtags would help you hasten them getting to you? Not sure how it’d solve a logistics problem that is not yours but the airline’s.
Thinking further I think the airlines should stick their own air tags on luggage while in transit and get it back when customer picks up their luggage (could be a deposit based system). This would help them automatically track all luggage.
Thanks! This is pretty sleek! I'm going to have to dust off my homelab and play around with this.

What is the stack written in? Looks like a lot of javascript and makefiles from the github side of things but idk if that's the whole kit and caboodle.
Forcing introverts to get out of the comfort zone and talk to each other has lots of benefits.

Async Slack gives everyone the opportunity to tune out, which they definitely will.

A blocker can be resolved either on the standup or during a quick follow-up call that happens right after. Going async risks that the same blocker will be resolved in 1-2 days.

I strongly recommend against it.
There are two kinds of bags: carry-on and lost.

I first read the above quote on a site dedicated to techniques on packing only one bag per person on a trip of any length - and it’s been a mantra ever since.

So much easier to skip baggage claim and walk out of the airport.

I still put an AirTag in the carry-on - helps in case it gets stolen at the hotel/etc.
Gmail already has a system for using one account to unlock another, so no changes required there. A bank, USPS, or DMV generally requires ID or other identifying documents. The people we're trying to help often struggle to retain physical possessions like ID.

It's not that I'm determined to not find solutions. It's that I am determined to find solutions that don't create a degraded security state ready-made to abuse people's email accounts. Sometimes finding a good solution requires looking somewhere other than under the streetlight.

Like others, I'm led to the conclusion that perhaps Google isn't the party best positioned to solve this particular pain point for our most vulnerable and marginalized community members. Maybe we should be paying more attention to why Lifeline numbers aren't portable.
Maintaining anything takes effort, so who's gonna do it for free?

Maybe there could be a variant of NNTP which allowed some amount of advertisement posts in between. Then let the maintainers keep the proceeds from those?
Good stuff! Github is one of the sources, but not specific repos. I actually think we can break out Github into individual repo sources pretty easily.
I don’t see why it’s problematic to see where your bag is. The employee isn’t driving from their home with your luggage- and if they were, there are bigger problems.

You have a point where he may make multiple stops which may include the personal addresses of folks also on your flight. But I can’t imagine you have enough ability to match a person with an address this way.
I'm secretly building a next-gen search engine that does everything else search engines should, and does it well. Every SE is focused on optimizing search, but that's a fragment of the big game people play to find stuff. I use it daily to research and come up with new killer features. I'm proud of being user 1. When this SE is released I expect BigCo's will want to buy it, to burn it, because it shows what people should expect from a real search engine.
> You're supposed to put your phone on airplane mode in a train or subway too,

That's a pretty insane claim in most of the world. Lots of people expect and enjoy full coverage on train or subway rides. I work at a carrier and the signal strength and cell capacity on trains are part of the top metrics we use to benchmark the quality of our network and the customer experience.
So on a typical 747 flight 40 people will have their luggage lost when we get to the reclaim? That seems really improbably high. How come I don't see hundreds of people standing around getting angry at the belt?

At Heathrow, it'd mean 20,000+ people a day with lost luggage (if they all checked luggage). You'd need more than the entire taxi fleet of London to get their luggage to their hotels.

Really doesn't pass a common-sense check.
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Is regulation E new (in the past decade)? I had a fraud related issue on Simple.com about 10 years back where Kroger decided to keep erratically billing my debit card up until it hit $1000 (I went in and spent probably $20 and their payments system seemed to just go haywire) and I asked their support for help. It took a month to get money back. That was my final straw with debit cards.
Because you forget that you need to build your contact list (if you don't use the phone numbers), which for 99% of users (including me) is a major pain.

Then your backup idea works, but kind of sucks in terms of UX (at least in Signal's point of view), and therefore they decided to go with phone number first, and work on going towards usernames later.

Don't worry, you haven't invented anything. It's just that your idea is not at the level of UX provided by WhatsApp/Signal, and the solution is more complex than you think.
I had a Jewish friend who once remarked that he knew when rosh hashana and yom Kippur were upon him because it added another forty minutes to his commute in Los angeles. he affectionately called it "the ten days of 'awe come on merge already'"
I paid into it with no choice of my own so I expect to get it back. If I was not expected to get money from it then contributing to SS should have been entirely optional.
I went on six flights this summer and on each one at least one person was talking on the phone during takeoff. The flight attendants didn't even say anything. I think this request has passed.
1) The FSF is on the winning side of the war they are fighting, the GPL is nearly everywhere except firmware and phones. Their job is to keep fighting that war. If you want to start a new war, start a new group with different goals.

2) There has never been a time when using free software & hardware didn't end up with a weird system. It isn't like FOSS was a beacon of great engineering through the 2000s. We were lucky if half the hardware on a given computer worked even with non-free drivers.

3) The FSF needs to be a lighthouse on this issues. Compromising will mean the lighthouse is in the wrong spot.

The FOSS movement has the best system for letting people disagree of any organisation - it lets those who care, do. Let the FSF do its thing. If you want compromises, start a Compromised Free Software society or a Partially Free Software Foundation. Maybe even all it the Open Source Initiative, hint hint. Someone needs to be standing up for raw freedom, devil take convenience.
> End-to-end encryption doesn't stop the operator from decrypting your data.

It's literally the opposite. E2EE means only the participating parties can decrypt the messages.

> In fact, pretty much everyone has to, since raw encrypted TLS data can't just get slotted into your OneDrive/iCloud account.

TLS is not designed for e2ee, it's designed to protect traffic in the client server model. This is referred to as in-transit encryption. SSL got traction mostly due to e-commerce.

> I genuinely don't know how you would engineer a more secure architecture here.

Prior to computers, people pre-shared their symmetric secret keys only with those they trusted, precisely to make their messages secure from spies, couriers etc. This is e2ee.

You are right that "you have to trust our almighty server" is commonplace, but they absolutely do not have to. In 1991 came PGP which let you have e2ee over email (even if your peer is offline). Signal, Matrix etc use more advanced protocols to provide even more security and useful features. Even whatsapp and telegram have e2ee in most ways, although they have been criticized for not satisfying all criteria.
I’m pretty sure that this ban is impossible to enforce, because it’s not just AirTags that use the Find My Network — AirPod cases and other Apple devices have the same functionality. Someone who knows more about the technicals of the Find My system might disagree, but it seems the airlines would have to literally ban carrying Apple devices in your luggage.

This also seems to indicate that a “workaround” would be to drop a spare Apple accessory with Find My capability in your luggage. Again, I could be wrong, so hopefully someone with more domain expertise can correct me!
> They are the Toyota of the computer world.

The hardware lasts, but the software compatibility stops way too quickly. So for people who aren't willing to install linux, etc it isn't known for longevity.
Odd text. Take a look at the first figure with the heading "Landfalling US Hurricanes have declined".

1) If the citation indicates that the figure comes from the year 2018, how can there be data until 2021? If you look at the original figure (Fig. 2 in [1]) you see the same layout with data until 2017, indicating that Shellenberger added data to it.

2) The figure title "Landfalling US Hurricanes have declined" is not in part of the orignal figure which is important because:

3) Shellenberger conveniently leaves out a very important fact in the original figure caption: "The p values for the linear trends are 0.33 for landfalling hurricanes and 0.61 for landfalling major hurricanes, indicating that neither of these trends are significant." (emphasis mine)

In other words: The linear trend is due to statisical variations and insignificant.

The lower half of the text tries to frame the picture of "Alarmists vs Scientists" by using N=1 empirical evidence, coincidentally thats also where he starts to use adjectives and more 'emotion-painting' words like villified, vicious, etc.
Incidentally, we also hope that this deal will encourage more founders of any age and from every demographic group and geographic location to take the leap into the startup world, apply to YC, and build their own successful startup.

This is a rare example where I see an "equity" thing like this making sense with little downside. One one hand, I think YC might be cooler if it offered less money and gave more support of other kinds. But that means that only funded or independently wealthy startups could do it, which probably doesn't achieve the fund's ostensible aims of searching for the best ideas / founders. So more money means people don't have to worry about money as much, and YC gets access to more deal flow
Jackson's "enhancements" to The Hobbit were failures because he wasn't a good storyteller. He turned it into a Disneyland ride. You can see that in other Jackson movies, like "King Kong".

Jackson needs a Paul McCartney to tell him "no, take this scene out, and that one, and that one."
I guess it is a 50% increase, but yours is really good, it could actually legitimately be used.
what replaced them?
Oh come on now, you're being a little harsh. They prefixed the comment with "Almost certainly would be a bad idea"
Hats off to your experiment, it's still impressive :).
Also what is the point? Bluetooth is easily detectable too
Re: "Rather, 300-500 cell phones all trying to contact the next cell tower..."

That might have been a concern when 2.5G was cutting edge and HLR/VLR databases ran on Sun hardware of the period. Even then, hundreds of updates in a couple seconds was not a huge challenge.

Like a lot of what airlines tell customers, it is a self-serving version of reality, strongly colored for airlines' convenience and deniability.
Let's be honest: if you want privacy, you use Signal. If you want the nice UX (at the cost of lower privacy guarantees), you use Telegram.

The problem is only when people fail to understand that the only private chats in Telegram are the ones that remove all the UX benefits, and instead believe that their "normal chats" and groups are private.
If you lose your device it's a problem, but at least you don't need a local cell phone plan. (I'm almost locked out of my Canadian bank because it won't accept international phone numbers for 2FA.)

If you know this will be a problem you can enrol with TOTP, using an app but also writing down the initialisation code or printing out the QR code.

This is almost the same as having 2FA recovery codes written down somewhere.

A secure version of luggage deposit, but just for small things. We used to have safe deposit boxes at banks, though it doesn't need to be that secure. The key limitation is that the client can't travel far, and they have to be able to open it based on a matching photo, not an identity card.
Could I switch career when I am 43?

<grin> I switched wives at age 42. That was my biggest life-change ever. That old saying "Life begins at 40" is so very true.

Here's the thing: "YOU CAN SWITCH CAREERS NO MATTER WHAT AGE YOU ARE."

Most of us have opportunities to switch careers many times during our lives. Some of us take one or more of those opportunities as they arise, and some of us don't. It's your choice.

Some of us are forced into different careers, because of external factors. That can be at any age. I was forced to take over the family property-rental business when I was 62. Yes I'm still 'working' a decade or so later, if you call working one to two hours a month 'working'. Money ceases to be a factor in your life when you have more money available than you can reasonably expect to spend in the years you have left.

In my forties, I passed up an opportunity to become a computer programmer in the medical field when my first wife declined to move to a larger city.

Five or so years later, I qualified as a commercial pilot, but the aviation downturn in the early nineties meant I earned more in my normal career as pharmacist at that time, then later on I was no longer able to pass the Aviation Medical.
Our last trip we put airtags in all of our checked luggage. When we arrived at our destination before collecting our bags, 1 of the airtags showed it was still at the departing airport! Lucky for us it was not correct, and for some reason the airtag didnt update. So in this instance they caused more harm than good, but if your bag is missing it seems very helpful to have it tagged.
When they were new, agreed, but now they're both more or less 30yo Macs that roughly cost the same.
They're also learning all the things we learned through evolution (a rather data-inefficient process.)

People's brains are wired for language, it's natural we have a head-start.
Perhaps so, but why choose the 1970 edition, rather than one from the 1990s, or the current online one?

At any rate, here is a quote from a BBC journalist: "In the Wikipedia gullibility stakes, no one is infallible. That means any journalist in any newsroom will likely get a sharp slap across the head from an editor for treating Wikipedia with anything but total scepticism (you can imagine the kicking I've taken over this article)."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-37523772

I doubt any journalist ever got such a kicking because they cited Britannica.
Who said anything about not getting money back? Payments in need to be commensurate with payment outs so that the program is sustainable.

Current recipients put in a pittance while taking out a ton
That sounds... Improbable. When you were passing over Iceland you must have been far too far above the antennas to receive any sort of signal, unless it landed there on the way across the ocean?
Yes, and that's a choice. You can choose UX (Telegram) over privacy (Signal), and I am fine with it. Just don't pretend that Telegram is private.
No; it's originally from the late 70s - I don't know exactly when the various provisions relating to error handling got introduced, to be honest; it's possible it was somewhat different back then.
It’s clear you have an ax to grind against the term capitalism which is quite uninteresting. Environmental degradation is not limited to, or primarily occurring in, capitalist societies unless you define the term so weirdly as to be meaningless. Economic growth to a significant degree has been decoupled from resource usage, and population growth is not solved: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population
I think FIDO2 keys are probably ideal -- people understand the concept of keys.
This is why they're the largest voting bloc.
I wonder if the test sentence is easier to read just because it is very familiar.
Proto-Marain! https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/Marain
That's not an addition: e2ee requires a way to verify keys. Without that it's not proper e2ee.
I misread.

That seems reasonable.