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Humour is one of the few things I take seriously. I must have been too young to understand it at the time, as Name of the Rose I both read and saw the movie, and I couldn't summarize the plot of it like this article did for the life of me. The question of the role of laughter is something I think about a lot, because I believe sincerely that it prevails. One of my favourite observations I heard was Rogan stating that laughter is an involuntary response, but moreso, it's one of our very few honest responses. Fake laughter is almost universally detectable. A joke that is funny enough to provoke it is an honest signal of underlying sentiments. It's easy to set up the church as a sanctimonionus buzzkill the way Eco did in Name of the Rose, but as the article mentions, Hobbes examined humour as well, because if you are in the business of orchestrating a state or empire, undeniable, involuntary truth is the most powerful factor you need to manage. An old friend of mine did standup, and graduated from being a standup comedian to a standup philosopher.

More than a few comedians have made the transition from clown, to philosopher, to statesman. In very recent memory, Italy's Beppe Grillo, Ukraine's Zelynsky, Minnesota's Al Franken are examples that come to mind. Arguably, you could include examples of journalists in office as well, but we tend not to notice their progress in that path because they skip the philosopher stage.

Our relationship to humour hasn't really changed much since Hobbes or Aristotle either, as the entire culture war and censorship regimes at platform companies are about suppressing humour under the auspieces of hate and misinformation. That's what censors do. They don't care about the disgusting or stupid, but the funny remains dangerous because there are more than a few regimes in place today who are only just a good one liner away from cascading into collapse.
The price is too high for me.

But I already have an external blu-ray drive that connects via USB, and I don't ever need audio beyond the headphone jack. Those who do can use the USB-C ports for that.

Maximum flexibility via USB, without a bunch of ports and parts that will be unused by most people, please.
The 12-pack-in-a-weekend part makes me think you’ve got a problematic relationship with alcohol. You might start with an examination of why you’d choose to do that on a particular weekend instead of something else. I spent a decade ramping up to about 5 beers a day, and it initially had a lot to do with anxiety and feeling trapped in a life that wasn’t fulfilling to me. Even after I addressed those things aggressively, the drinking remained. I failed to control it every day. Only until I could visibly see the effects it was having on my body was I able to quit. I quit because of vanity!

It is hard to offer universally good advice on this, but because I personally can’t drink moderately, maintaining an intentional and holistic relationship with myself is the way I’m able to stay off it. I try to remember that regular life as a goldmine far more rewarding than alcohol.

Last thing: self-hatred and alcoholism go hand-in-hand, so find ways to treat yourself well, whether you drank too much or not.

Good luck :)
Indonesians are siding with a hacker who exposed 1.3B SIM card details
I think there was an episode of Drunk History about this. Jack Black played Vincenzo if I recall.
Agreed.

In my moderately sized southern city of 200k, we logged/censused 576 homeless a few months ago. Of course these individuals were the ones able to be counted; there's likely more. So roughly a quarter of a percent per captia.

As with most US cities of this size and economic demographic we have a few areas where those without housing tend to congregate. Pains me and I wish I could help more than I do. And from what I have seen in my many decades of living here, these areas are totally devoid of this "open air drug market" characteristic. Not to say transactions don't happen they most certainly do, but that's true of every square foot of any US city, and the people in these places shield their behaviors from public eyes as well as anyone else that procures such things. My city is experiencing a staggering increase in violence this past year at a seemingly disproportionately faster rate than other nearby metro areas if my napkin math holds true and yet none of that violence is noted as occurring at these areas I'm describing. I think that's worth noting too.

The interplay of homelessness, mental health, drug dependency, economic struggle and societal rejection is a very complicated and interwoven problem. It's disappointing to hear that there are individuals who feel so self assured in the sources of these problems when it's evident that the qualities of these problems widely differ from place to place.
There is an SRO less than a block from my house (one of very few left in the city). They have strict rules around intoxication outside of your room. It does have the impact of meaning people who can't control their abuse have to find other housing. We should have a place for those folks too, but I'd rather there be a place that doesn't solve all of the housing issues, but can get some people off the streets rather than wait for a solution that solves every issue.

As an aside, they are perfectly good neighbors. As is the studio apartment complex next to it, that is a single tier above the SRO. I have a lot more trouble from the fast food wing place on the other side of the block than I've ever had from my neighbors.
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Isn't that mostly about the headsets having a (relatively) limited feld of view. With (insanely fast) eye tracking you might be able to avoid rendering part of the screens you are not looking at but the lense/screen will still need to be physically wide enough for you to look at those parts.
After twenty years of daily wine drinking, I woke up feeling terrible and looking worse, and just--quit. I was curious how things would proceed if I just didn't drink alcohol. I put a hash mark on my office whiteboard, and wondered how many I could accumulate.

It's been five years of complete abstinence. I didn't join any programs or make any noise about quitting; I just quit. I don't miss a thing about drinking.

I think I was successful because I made it simple. I didn't try to taper or wrestle with the conflicting formulas for "moderate" drinking. It helps that there's increased awareness of "sober curiosity," and more consideration for those of us not drinking at social occasions.

You've already been able to quit, so next time, just extend the duration--maybe it'll be forever.
Remember that the MCAS system had to be built into the 737 Max because the jet engine nacelles developed too much lift... so maybe the lift generating capacity is not that easy to judge from aerodynamic look.
Windows 95 went the extra mile to ensure compatibility of SimCity
I was thinking about this with the news about how poor our Omicron booster response has been where only a few percent of people have taken them. I think a significant part of this reaction can be traced back to a year ago when two top scientists resigned over boosters and the scientific community as a whole seemed negative on them. However, the two scientists were authors of a Lancet article that provided insight into their way of thinking, as it largely focused on vaccine equity and was also concerned about scaring people away who hadn't gotten the initial vaccines. These arguments are temporary and do not focus on the merits of the boosters alone. As I predicted at the time, now that the boosters have gotten better and these arguments are moot, the public still remembers their first impression of boosters as negative and unneeded.

Also, around the same time I remember seeing several people comment about how people like me that used masks were "as bad as antivaxxers" for "not trusting the science" by not removing all precautions other than the vaccine. As someone well versed in reading actual scientific papers, it was painful to read these comments.
Same goes for fossil fuels, but that doesn't stop us from burning billions of tons of them per year like we have an infinite supply.

And unlike fossil fuels that are (likely) only found on Earth, Helium is the second most common element in the universe and can be found literally everywhere once you're off planet. Plus we can technically manufacture it from radioactive decay.
Musculature alone doesn't increase basal metabolism by a lot. At least not the muscles gained from typical light exercise stuff. It's a combination of maintaining them and exercise that gets you maybe an extra 300-500 a day average.

Muscle mass also isn't lost as quickly as people claim. It varies based on person and diet. You lose some, but many can get back to their former peak in a few weeks if it has been a year or so. Even fairly muscular individuals.
How do they differ from OpenBSD fork of ISC DHCP?
>Tesla's connector is 10x better

It's smaller? What makes it so much better that you would be happy having to carry an adapter around with you? Is this Apple Stockholm Syndrome?
throwaway because I am in the ecosystem

Stytch... is a weird business. It's unclear to me why they were able to raise so much money with such low revenue. It's almost as if the VCs really really wanted them to succeed, hoping and dreaming and throwing cash into the fire.

there was a lot of fanfare around their founding team but not sure if they did that much at their previous employer.
That was nostalgic
Haha yes. I was very disconnected from EVs and the auto industry before working at GM. Either way it's just surprising they didn't help design the standard and work to make it better.
Yes, the price of high carbon goods and services would go up with a carbon tax.

The lower class is more susceptible to the effects of worsening air pollution and climate change. They see the greatest benefits in those categories as each are improved by a carbon tax.

The downsides for the lower class can be further ameliorated by making the tax redistributive, e.g. increased welfare benefits, lowering other taxes, UBI, etc.
You’re right, and people haven’t watched TV in 20 years.
I don't know about you, but I buy my GPU's with the future in mind. I expect a GPU to last 3-5 years, so DX12 & Vulkan performance is my main consideration.
Introduction to WebAssembly in Crystal
Does the AI spread covid misinformation too?
Housing first approaches are very effective, but simply providing housing isn't anywhere near a complete solution.

Drug addiction and the development of open drug spaces is not just a symptom of homelessness. If you solved housing and it became a human right, you would probably reduce the development of open drug spaces, but it certainly wouldn't be eliminated.
That might be true in Europe, but in the US most of the rail is owned by freight lines. So passenger service can use those lines, but only as a secondary measure. This means that passenger service can never be rapid or even consistent as the freight trains always take priority.

The single trip I took by rail in the US we spent most of our time just waiting on other freight trains to pass us.
This is likely to improve joint replacement surgery’s implant precision and efficacy.
Just turn off Javascript or use Noscript to get around it.
I get spam for that all the time - both for "pen test" and for "seo test".

Basically someone fires up a tool that checks a few things mentioned in a best practices document somewhere, scans as much domains as possible, and then sends out emails with the (subset of) the results.

Invariably, the results are false positives but hey, if you don't know that, they might get a new client. They'll file the (automatically generated) report and presto, easy money and a chance to upsell a retainer.
And the philosophical aspect of what "adult content" is more difficult than the implementation
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> but isn't making a DSL just about the most lispy thing you could do?

10000% agree. LOOP and FORMAT are excellent examples of using lisp to build dsls. so much so that they made it into the ANSI standard
Just FYI: I had 42 years, last month. Got clean at 18. I'd used up my quota, by then.

I can't go into detail, in public, but I didn't do it, myself, and I didn't "moderate."

I stopped completely. That includes all mind-altering drugs (pot is a drug, and alcohol is a powerful sedative/hypnotic). To this day, I am extremely cautious about prescriptions, and there are many drugs that have been introduced, since I got clean. I avoid them, as well.

I hang out regularly, with many others, that have done likewise. Hanging out, together, is a big part of things. We do it One Day At A Time.

WFM. YMMV.
The difference in adapter isn't such a big deal when you're only charging at home or at a Tesla supercharger station. Things with the differing connector only come in to play when you're at a non-Tesla supercharger or wall charger, so I think people are using the adapters far less than you'd expect.
For those looking to not only detect, but also vectorize faces (for later comparison against other faces) -- face recognition, try out: face-api.js

https://github.com/justadudewhohacks/face-api.js/
I'm not buying it. Muscles use energy even while at rest so in the case of an emergency I'm sure the body will first remove the useless consumption of unnecessary muscle mass than to start tapping the reserves.
This post is a nice case study why the year of desktop Linux is unlikely to happen any time soon, or didn’t happen in the past.

It takes large engineering work to write all the software, and needs discipline and people working on very boring areas and aspects of the UI. I find it unlikely any OSS community will ever pull it off, unless there is a clear monetary incentive to fund it and work hard.
I’ve often thought I’d like to subscribe to the changelog of what’s taught in school, as the snapshot I received is increasingly dated by advances in science, refinements to social onboarding, and the continuation of human history.

Maybe historians would be better stewards of meaningful “news”.
4 SIM registrations per citizen? Why are there 1.3B registrations for a country with 273M people?
Yep, I still wouldn't change my moral position from the other day you're complaining about. Posting my beliefs here doesn't mean I'm looking for someone to convince me to change my mind. I'm stating my beliefs!
I did not post the previous comment but I am pretty much the same… I can indulge in alcohol and junk food with moderation (again I think my last hungover was more than 15 years ago)! I think to be able to “control” yourself one must posses discipline and mental health (and good genetics). I don’t drink to “escape” or “relax”… I genuinely like beer and wine for their taste (usually with some good food).
This reminds me a lot of the Earthship community in the middle of the desert, which always focusses on smart ways of reusing water for different purposes, and by not wasting water as much as possible. The houses usually have a clean/grey/blackwater + a rainwormbox system to process fecals and reuse it for growing plants. Their air conditioning system is basically just a pipe in the ground where the hot air flows through, cools down, and automatically gets pushed through the house when they open the windows on the roof.

I was always wondering why there are no systems converting the unused electricity in potential energy by moving water to a higher ground. And more importantly: Why there are no water storages on the roof.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVp5koAOu9M
You might want to tell that to among others Jeffrey Goldberg, who thinks Jews have the exclusive right to define what anti-Semitism is - Google “neocon puppet masters”
What, if any, approaches or policies are you actually advocating for when you talk about "ending" open drug scenes?

DEA raids and incarceration of the homeless? Universal healthcare and ending scheduling of drugs? State/federal bans on overly-restrictive local zoning and international building codes, which prevent the construction of affordable new housing?
The last page looks pretty bad. If you look at the others it's more of a mixed bag, but yeah.

I don't remember what benchmark I ran before deciding to run it on my laptop. Given my work at the time probably pgbench, but I couldn't say for sure. It was long enough ago I also might've been benchmarking against ext3, not 4.
Also a lot of types like this fall back to boxing when accessed generically, which has its own performance issues
This is the exactly the kind of analysis that's sorely needed in journalism. And "racket" is the appropriate term - it may be technically legal, but Americans are cursed by rackets of all kinds, often with the willing participation of those in government. It's sick and immoral - these people must be called out publicly by individual names.
Fortunately, external USB-connected Blu-ray drives are pretty cheap[0]!

0. http://www.pricegrabber.com/blu-ray-external/products/?sort=...
This reminds me of the recent movie about the man who stole the Duke of Wellington portrait from the National Gallery in London in the 1960s.

Both were caught due to their own actions and not those of investigators.

It was amusing because he (Duke of Wellington thief) was only convicted of stealing the frame, as the jury decided that he had only borrowed the painting itself.
Ok then not social security
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This is probably the best use case for this technology. Although I think there's a lot of potential for very realistic fake news
I actually agree. Most at my company, including me, are stuck at mediocre levels.

However, I will add that it's not all due to a lack of curiosity. In my case it's because the company isn't focused on efficiency or creating experts (they value redundancy and rotation). The people might be good, but they'll never be true experts if they're switching stacks every 2 years, and half that time is spent in meetings.
How We Boosted Video Processing Speed 5x by Optimizing GPU Usage in Python
I'm anti-AI so I'm biased against this from the start, but c'mon, let the dead rest in peace. It's really bad for the culture, imho, to endlessly repackage the same people, ideas, properties, etc. As much as I don't care for Musk, Joe Rogan talking to him provides infinitely more insight into the world of today than a fake Rogan talking to a fake Jobs.
I understood it (after reading Matt Levine) that it was more an accounting requirement.

Ie the books need to balance today, even though they're always going to balance in 30 years.

You seem to be suggesting that they took an unnecessary risk.

Is this my misunderstanding or yours or is it a combination?
For those that talk about giving people things they "have not earned", I note what we've taken from those same people -- the ability for them fend for themselves and live off the land.

With regard to the mechanism of "compensating for the lease of the part of our living planet they should be entitled by birth", I think any means tested or regulated approach is problematic. Instead provide to them rent checks for the slice of the world society has taken from them, and provided to others for private ownership / exploitation.

Let a market economy sort the development and allocation of resources.
The secret, as I posted elsewhere, is that self-control is something you need to practice, like going to the gym for your amygdala. Every time your resolve wavers, resisting temptations gets harder. Every time you resist, the next time gets easier.

This is what accounts for the stark differences in outlook. If you've practiced this, it feels easy, and it can be difficult to even relate to how others struggle. If you don't, it feels impossible, and it can be difficult to relate to how others find it so easy.

It can be a surprisingly quick process. If you have some impossibly tempting snack you're struggling to resist, if you just grin and willpower your way through it a couple of times, rough as they may be, it takes less willpower each time. By the 5th or 6th time you've done this, it's maybe still effortful, but already noticeably easier. By the 20th time, you may not even feel the temptation at all.

... depending on what's got you hooked, obviously. Substance addictions may linger for a longer time, but the principle is the same. Even if you still crave cigarettes two months after you've quit, it's nowhere near as bad as it was 5 days in.

It's not without reason almost every culture has had rituals of fasting or abstinence. It turns out this is a pretty good thing to practice every once in a while, even if you don't have to become a desert ascetic or go full Jocko Willink in the process.
Nobody Gives a Damn About Fraud Until It's Too Late
I've never been an "alcoholic" but I have occasionally drunk too much and made an ass of myself (like once every through years.) I've had times when I drank very little, others when I regularly drank 2-3 drinks a day.

One fall we made about 30 gallons of applejack from our own apples and I drank enough of it that December that I thought I was starting to become dependent because I'd feel uncomfortably warm if I went a day without drinking any. I didn't have a hard time kicking it though. (I live on a farm and have acres of seedling "cow apples" that are not sweet at all and not pleasant to eat out of hand but horses like them and they make good cider. I've got some good clonal apples in the hedgerows that seeded in the cow apples.)

More recently though I had a doctor tell me that I should stop drinking alcohol entirely and that doctor and another doctor told me to stop drinking caffeine. I found quitting alcohol easy, quitting caffeine much harder. I've had maybe 1 alcoholic drink once a month since, I still occasionally drink maybe 2 fluid ounces of coffee in 6 fluid ounces of milk.

I am a big fan these days of going to happy hour and having a Heineken NA.
Whats the point of having GBs of ram and TBs of disk if you are never going to use it?
Meanwhile Scheme has at least two SRFIs for format strings!

As I suggested elsewhere in this thread, IMO the ideal scenario would be to have both the string and sexpr "interfaces". Since we are stuck with the string version, it would be nice to have a macro that expands to a valid control string. Not unlike how you'd write a macro to generate SQL or HTML.
Play stupid finance games --- lose stupid amounts of money.
They claim 90% efficiency, so I doubt you can compare this to heating a container and them driving a stream engine afterwards.

I suspect they are here also utilizing geothermal heat and heatpumps which allows you to increase efficiency. If you heat water that is already quite hot, then you can get more energy back than you put in. Higher temperature differentials give better efficiency.
Microsoft Azure representatives say every time “data is hosted in Europe this is fine”, while it is obviously not. They get upset and dismissive if you insist.

I know some companies fall for these lies, or decide to break the law a little bit because it’s convenient.
Everyone that is giving advice and feedback should also state their age or atleast age range. My perspective on this topic in my 20s was wildly different than my perspective in my 30s. Experience, much like hard work, is superior to youthful ingenuity.
> Rogan sounds more believable but I suspect you'd get the same results sitting down at Audacity and cutting together an MP3.

I am sure you would. The interesting bit is not having to do that.

> An interesting concept but

The ol' "it's never gonna be as good as..." keeps failing us, and increasingly so. If the recent AI trajectories are any indicator, I'll give it a solid 6 month tops before it's good enough to generate something that fools absolutely everyone (granted, having an interviewee that is, you know, alive would probably be a precondition).