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Why doesn't solar cancel wind far up north like it does elsewhere? The sun shines longer in the summer, and it's less windy in the summer.

"Well, Denmark is tiny so if its not windy in one location then its unlikely to be very windy in an other. Same for the sun."

That's true to a large extent for Denmark, but untrue to a large extent for the EU or larger countries. That's why I said that the EU can get over 80 percent of its energy just from renewables without storage, for a cost significantly cheaper than nuclear.
I wouldn’t call it evil either. As a general rule, don’t do drugs in foreign countries when it’s illegal. If you must, do them in your home country or where they’re made legal.
not only that but we DO "see" using other spectrums... feeling, hearing etc.

but yeah we're not evolved multi ton machines hurtling around at immense speeds building scary amounts of kinetic energy. we're soft fleshy slow creatures.
Not to mention printing resources. I already had to pause to refill the black toner cartridge twice and reloaded the paper tray countless times, and the end is nowhere near.

I was deceived by a glimmer of false hope: a page full of ). Alas, I then glanced at the page number---far short of the 18000+ goal.
Our participants fall asleep quite regularly. In fact, it's a well-known problem in MRI research.
This is 100% accurate. In fact, I think I've met a couple during my career.
Sounds like symptoms of adult ADHD from what I've read on HN about it.
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>>When Covid happened,

>>do you really think his expertise is worth less than some leetcoder with 5 years of devops experience?

All due respects to your uncle and his life's work. But I was there during peak COVID in hospitals all round. My dad was a post operative patient. Doctors had totally vanished from the scene. They had quite literally dumped all the work on junior nurses, not even the senior ones. I even got abused by one doctor for just asking how my dad was doing, and this on a call, not even a face to face appointment.

Right after this mess, where nurses didn't have a remote clue how to deal with complicated cases and we were making it up on guess work, because the 'experts' were too high sitting on their Ivory towers to even be bothered when patients were dropping dead like flies. What followed next was the worst sort of testing and consultation bills. I have seen people cry outside the gates and sitting on chairs. Much to the heartlessness and carelessness of these people.

There's a reason why so many people just don't out right respect or appreciate doctors in India. Most doctors have a very exaggerated sense of self worth and capabilities. They think they are gods and must treated as such because they think their academic training is long and expensive. For this very reason they think they have a right to indulge in price gouging. They also harbour deep resentment towards professions like engineering where there is more intellectual heavylifting work involved than their own profession will ever arrive at.

In all most doctors are just angry with their own choices for opting into medicine, they resent people richer than them. They resent professions better than them. Its a concentration point for sadist people, who go to any extent to humiliate others and indulge in price gouging.
That’s not really relevant, safety systems should be expected to work reliably, or report to the driver when they can’t (something my car does if covered in snow).
How are you finding working with distributed databases? I've worked with Fauna and Dynamo and they are a nightmare from the DX and iteration speed point of view compared to Postgres.

I'm gonna try CockroachDB next.
The real problem with Welch is all his acolytes that spread his financial engineering to all kinds of other companies. It's like a metastasizing cancer.
Park rangers tried to do this to one of my friends and he just ran. They didn’t have guns and they’re too good of a people to really pursue someone for a useless crime. He got away.
Unfortunately no. There are a few features missing and I don't want to think how hard interop would be.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/vsto/office-p...
assemblies?view=vs-2022

Much of what I work on involves programs that interop with Excel. Yes there are other ways of writing and reading spreadsheets but sadly none are as reliable as using Excel interop. At least if your spreadsheet has to be compatible with Excel. It is possible someone has build an amazing library that does this but I'm not aware of it.

Edit: I could have Windows on a VM but that is awkward and slow. I find I get more done without that added bit of complexity.
If one woman can produce a baby in nine months, then nine women can produce a baby in 1 month.
Sounds good, thanks for the feedback. I'll add that in.
He doesn't need congress to "legalize it" he only needs the DEA and FDA to unscheduled it. He can do that as expeditiously as he likes with an executive order.
No, I'm leading a pretty normal life as an illegal immigrant in Argentina, and it's not legal to deport me (unless I commit a crime). Most countries don't have the level of government involvement in day-to-day life that many European countries do.
each dog should have its own drone and a complement of grenades
No you just read it.
Also, you type something into the form, THEN click the "Say it" button.
I mention the executive branch's ability (via the FDA) to remove it from schedule 1, but that's not the same thing as complete descheduling.
Is this worst-case scenario for linux users any worse than the average-case of windows users downloading an .exe from a vendor's website and running it?

If you do not already have a pubkey for which the code can be signed, then there is no chain of trust to verify in the first place. What signature would you check the code against in such a scenario? One you download from the vendor's same website?
Casio already released a sort of successor to F91W, it's the W217H.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiQSYM_6-es
I'm hoping someone will chime in with a link to some 'quality' discussion on 'crypto'.

We used to speculate on the value of Tulips, but we still want them in our gardens.
Machine translation isn’t for translating literature at the moment. Maybe that’s why you’re feeling it falls short. For conversational vernacular or straightforward instruction, it’s great. I can’t remember the last time I used pork-pie hat in a conversation, for instance.

Perhaps you could qualify your initial statement that we can’t translate literature in a way that isn’t ugly. That would be true. But machine translation is a huge asset every day to people in need of understanding important things in a foreign language. Quite a miracle really.
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I was dissatisfied until about 8 months ago but he’s changed since then. If he can get some sort of voter rights law through I will have full satisfaction.
I'm sure you'd agree that there is a clear excitement gap with their Watch / WearOS and the recent Apple Watch Ultra release.

I assume people are just done with Google branded hardware. It felt like a premium maker in the early Nexus days, but Stadia felt like the last gasp.

This device costs more than Samsung's and Apple's related products, and relies on older internals (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/the-pixel-watch-is-o...).

How did they review that, look at the number, and justify that internally without some weird politics and a purposeful head-in-the-sand attitude?
That naturally shows Feynman's bias as a physicists. A biologist would very likely answer that the concept of evolution should be first on the list of ideas to preserve. A mathematician will yet have another answer...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_W...
Does anyone know the rationale for why the laws are currently written this way?
Check those prices now. And you know about the test utilities included with them? Incredible devices.
They did remove trigraphs in one of the more recent iterations. It's possible that it was as you say, but I have this vague memory that it was ANSI who added them. I think maybe what the ISO added were https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_alternative_tokens.
Didn't actually die for the 40-hour work week, but he did institute one at Ford, possibly because he thought it would increase productivity vs. a 48-hour week and drive demand for cars since workers would drive places on the weekends.
Depends on the type of disaster and what your goal is.

Assuming some kind of nuclear apocalypse and you want to rebuild, a bunch of survival info, basic engineering instruction you or a small group could execute, and encyclopedias would be valuable.

But most importantly, the vast majority of your storage space should be for batteries.
You should really try to find a new job. Crazy hours outside of some startups and super high paying jobs in a few sectors are not the norm in tech. Most people I know in the industry in NYC work 35-40 and do just fine.
Why should it be illegal? I can just order stuff online here, and get some gummies delivered. Doesn’t bother anybody.
> He's not doing his best, he's being pushed (if he's even being adequately informed.)

If this is true, then this is politics working as intended.

Seriously, that is exactly how the system is supposed to work: The officials we elect do what we, the people, want, not just push their personal beliefs at all costs.

I would 1000% rather elect someone I agree with on 50% of issues, who is willing to be swayed by popular opinion, than someone I agree with on 80% of issues, who is going to try to enforce their personal beliefs as law no matter what the people actually want.
Most of the 1600s and 1700s for New England. Quebec for longer, possibly the end of unit 1800s. That’s average number of children per woman, not an extended family. 1800s Ireland, which was probably poorer than the US has been since 1600 had similar fertility.
Ah, the tell-tale signs of re-implementing inputs from scratch! It's not so much "hit C" as "Hit the key with code KeyC"... which means press "j" if you're using Dvorak, and something else if you're using Azerty, Colemak, or some other layout.
Oddly enough, that's a similar idea to a plot point in anime called Dr.Stone.

https://dr-stone.fandom.com/wiki/100_Tales
I’d also add that this wasn’t just a mood change but a response to new laws in several states. When each of those changes happened, some people predicted the downfall of society but by now you have a number of years of evidence that the main effect is a ton of extra tax revenue. That won’t change the really committed but I know more than a few people who basically moved their position to “it’s no worse than alcohol and stoners don’t crash their cars as much” after seeing that.
What is the difference between code and config, other than one is well-typed?
My boss does this every day. Instead of thanks for getting it done, it's why wasn't this done last year? Just an exhausting way to live life.
Which foreign obligation requirements?
I think there's a huge difference between tweets with "promises and plans" (especially from before he was actually elected), and tweets saying "I have done this thing. I am doing this other thing."

It's reasonable to be cautious about a politician making a promise in anything but the most legally-binding possible way. It's not reasonable to straight-out call that politician a bald-faced liar if he hasn't demonstrated a propensity for such lies (unlike some I could easily name).
This study doesn't seem to be very rational, it has meth at a "harm for others" score of 2 whereas tobacco and cannabis are at 15. Second-hand smoke is bad for people but I can't see why that'd be more of a danger than your average meth head.

I think this chart that's linked on Wikipedia[0] that's from this study[1] is more accurate, alcohol is still near the top of the list but heroin, crack and meth are still higher.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recreational_drug_use#/media/F...

[1] - "Development of a rational scale to assess the harm of drugs of potential misuse" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17382831
COTS applications always have awful documentation. I suspect it’s because companies want to sell you a support contract.

As someone who grew up reading Linux documentation (such as the Arch wiki), there’s no reason why paid products should have such an unintuitive and terrible “knowledge base”.

I literally can’t think of an example.
That used to be the case a decade ago, but I find that most wifi hardware supports linux these days.
Is it 1500 for everybody or 1500 for Asians, 1400 for whites, 1300 for African Americans and so on. Just curious?
you’re right, thanks!
Books, videos, guides on:

- Homesteading, Animal Husbandry, Agriculture

- DIY, Construction, Electronics Repair

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- Maps
Without meaning to undermine your point, I think a greater proportion of married couples did sleep in separate beds back then. My grandparents had separate beds.
> What's odd is that there hasn't been a push for clemency/pardons when legalization happens.

There absolutely has been though.

California: https://www.pubdef.ocgov.com/programs/dismissal-and-re-sente...

Washington: https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/legal-pot/washington-gov-i...

Colorado: https://www.colorado.gov/governor/news/6986-governor-polis-g...

etc. etc.
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I don't think people commenting here understand that this is not a new problem, and that the precious things they've viewed in museums over the years have in some cases (many of which were never made public) been lovingly repaired after acts of vandalism.
At least they were less inclined to double speak; in Greenspan’s day they wrote about their goal to fuck the worker bees: https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-o...
There are other ways to work. My team has a mid day standup a few days a week and it’s ok to miss sometimes. You’re expected to communicate primarily in writing and people keep different hours, it’s quite nice. We’re all adults here.
Just build a rosetta stone; e.g.

(x < y) ∧ (b = c) .... (x < y) && (b == c)

(p1 → e1, ... pn → en) .... return (p1 ? e1
: p2 ? e1
: ...
pn ? en
: NULL)

Wow, so much less cryptic!

Hope this helps.
The first black president making weed legal would definitely be abused in headlines by multiple major news organizations
I'm glad it's not just me - I remember trying to improve site response times for a site using CloudFront and I thought I'd done the right thing as far a settings go, but got no improvement.
>Like, there's no better candidate

There is a better candidate.
The corona virus has the same known side effect and it's more often and more severe.

A pre vaccine study already showed that an corona virus infection increases the risk of heart failures even after more than a year after infection.
This is a great example of why the war on drugs has been such a tremendous failure. You shouldn't have to risk life and limb to explore your consciousness
To be completely honest, with cognitive labor, i.e. what programmers and other "knowledge workers" do, the relationship between time spent working and productive output is completely erased. In contrast with the factory and plant work, where it's pretty easy to say that in N hours a worker can produce Y units, knowledge work can't be reduced to value/time spent.

Anyone who has been programming for very long and been asked to give and adhere to time-based estimates knows this problem. The best we can do is look at a task and say how big or complicated it looks, but putting an hour or day number on it is impossible.
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I'm not trying to say that you can't incur technical debt if you pay it off. What I am trying to say is that a culture of technical debt stagnates growth.

I would point to twitter as an example of the point I was trying to make, so I don't think it's a very good counter example:

11/07/2013 $44.9 117,633,000 $45.1 $50.09 $44
10/06/2022 $49.39 68,511,080 $50.98 $51.55 $49.29

Practically no sustained growth in almost a decade. Poor code and operations hampers the ability to prototype new features and destroys innovation.
thunderbolt is janky as fuck compared to pcie as a whole though. intel's tb3 is not great and nobody besides apple ever managed to pass official certification, which functionally requires bug-correctness apparently. hopefully it eventually gets straightened out with third-party usb4 implementations.
"months and months"

At the beginning of this year, most technical people would have told you that graphic design was a decade from being automated, and creative video production more.

Now we are at "months and months".
Hah! My car is even older than that. But it is still far more interesting than useless saas apps. Nice try though.
>This is also partially enabled by their extensive public transportation. It's much less of a problem to not be in the heart of the city when getting there costs ¥500 or less and is a ~30 minute ride that you're free to read, catch up on email, etc during.

Don't forget, this commute is actually free for most commuters, because their companies pay for it. It only costs money to use the public transit if they stray from their normal commute route (and this is automatically calculated and handled by the system), or go somewhere on the weekend.

So not only do Tokyoites not have to deal with car payments, insurance payments, maintenance costs, and fuel costs if they don't want to, just getting to work and back won't cost them anything but time. Plus they don't have to worry much about being killed or maimed on the way to work.
Nah, depends on the ability to coordinate. Communist governments can suppress wages even with enormous productivity gains, like post 1949 Shanghai. Capitalists mostly can’t though. Even with non state puppet unions completely illegal as in the PRC or Vietnam competition for workers leads to rises in wages. Maintaining a cartel without being able to enforce contracts to that effect is hard with fewer than 10 conspirators. Once you have more than 100 people bidding for workers’ labour it’s impossible.

Unions aren’t necessary for increasing wages. We can tell from countries that they’re illegal.
Wait, genuinely confused here. Do we really want the president to make unilateral executive moves overriding the existing organizations with actual experts on how to do things? Isn't that kind of bad and dictatorial? Weren't these organizations originally created because the president isn't an expert in drugs and therefore should have a fleet of drug experts with the authority to make decisions?
Sigh...yes, I am familiar with the concept. That's why I said that if enough people are on the project, the length of time to completion should be the length of the critical path. If I were committing the fallacy you're accusing me of, I would instead believe that the project would keep getting faster as more people work on it. When instead I actually want to be able to identify where diminishing returns really kick in and a marginal person doesn't produce a baby any faster.

I don't really understand the point of your comment. That projects never go faster when more people work on them? That estimating project length is useless?

Being able to figure out "we can do it in a year with three people, or six months with five people, and six months is as fast as it can get done" is, in practice, useful.
> And work on weekends

I read that Tim Cook has a weekly Sunday evening meeting with his staff; this seems reasonable, since that time might otherwise be wasted on family, friends, or home responsibilities - rather than taking care of critically important Apple business that can't wait until Monday morning.
What is the capital of the country where the Taj Mahal is at?
If the deal is making money there are better ways than even coding, you better off working a job in Gulf, or learning something like stock trading well. Coding just happens to be placeholder for a range of jobs that pay well currently.

>>A doctor needs a decade of effort to make anything similar.

MBBS is just a basic diploma. In the first 50% academic time of MBBS they just teach you how a healthy body works, because often the biggest confusion in treating a patient is to know what's is normal and what is a disease. This is followed by a assorted set of courses which touch upon basic disease-cure scenarios. And some small introduction to chemicals and their side effects on biology.

These people basically spend something like 7 years just to get here. MD is a different deal in India. Because the academics aren't really all that great and its just a detailed introduction into some organ speciality for just 2 years. Most people even here just go by established clinical practices in hospitals(a.k.a cya work)

In all the actual training is just 3 years. Its not an engineers fault that their profession is just trivia, and if-else scenarios for the most most part. This is where the resentment part comes in. Most engineers, or atleast the serious ones which make good salaries have gone too far both intellectually and in productivity in those 10 years.

The vast majority of doctors in India work in their own private clinics earning little money, treating small time fevers and stomach aches because that is the maximum you can do with that kind of training. You will be shocked just how far behind they are generally in the knowledge. Most will struggle to give you basic fitness and nutrition advice.
Also, error messages to stderr, please, and bonus points for not trying to emit cute ansi color codes unconditionally
> so drugs don't incubate in certain countries and end up in others

that’s a vast oversimplification, but sure

> you are incorrectly generalizing Article 6

no, i was misunderstanding the word “notwithstanding” in the clause to be an escape valve for the states, rather than as overruling the states.

again, i’m not a lawyer.

my point is that on an international level, and on a national level, the legal reforms of cannabis do appear to be well underway and nearly in full swing.

and regardless, as i noted elsewhere, according to Congress, themselves:

“Both Congress and the Administration have the ability to alter marijuana’s status as a Schedule I substance.”
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN11204

and if UNODC is progressing as they are, it may only be a short matter of time before the weight shifts in favor of moving cannabis from Schedule I

the US was at that point about a decade ago, but look now
He was already dangerously unpopular at a time when democrats can't afford it. I was thinking this would be an easy win for him, I honestly don't know why he waited this long. I wouldn't be surprised if he does something else high profile to try to win approval. What else would you expect
Yep. Used to have it on my wall. This year's edition: https://submarine-cable-map-2022.telegeography.com/ ("Buy the Wall Map" at the far bottom right of the page).
No I think it's perfect. It sets the tone to what to expect in terms of user experience once it's installed.
It would probably be equally accurate to say that Chrome is the most used browser which naturally makes it the most targeted browser.

So an obvious way to reduce your exposure on the internet is to use something other than Chrome.
Those are not the type of engineers they resent either.

They resent literally the top engineers. Because they think they did better in entrance exams. Only geniuses are supposed to be doctors, and they also paid more fees and spent more time studying. So why aren't they making more money than those engineers?
Even 6 hours is pushing it. I looked around and found that 4 hours is widely regarded as typical for real 'deep' work.