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> Absurdity. $180k per headset delivered? Did they mean $21.88mm?!

nope, this is just how expensive doing such projects where none of the participants is able to undesrtand how it all comes together; because of military level safety requirements.

but also, becuase if most people knew what they are working for they wouldn't do it. none of them want more snowdens, and these are costly to 'prevent'
I need this, I just caught covid recently and I struggled to read the title
The point is that you're not supposed to receive the text by itself, the text is only there to entice you to visit the site, but you're supposed to click links, subscribe to the newsletter, get tracking scripts served to you, and buy whatever product/service they're luring you towards with those blog posts.

Nowadays every marketing person will strongly insist on producing tons of semantically meaningless "blog posts" just to generate some new "content" on the site so that google ranks it higher. The blog very rarely exists for you to just read it, most of the time it's a marketing tool supposed to steer you towards something else, and it's not in their interest to allow you to just read the text without the accompanying cruft.
> It seems like this would be good practice these days for any international travel.

This also seems like a great use case for privacy focused OSes for unlocked phones. I’ve been trying to get into CalyxOS or GrapheneOS for a while. Just waiting for either to come to the Pixel 7 Pro. I wouldn’t throw it afterwards, but probably wouldn’t connect it to any home networks without nuking it once or twice.
> Absurdity. $180k per headset delivered?

The Army didn’t ask for a ruggedized Hololens, they asked for[1] a globally capable end-to-end real-time augmented reality solution for waging war.

1. https://www.peosoldier.army.mil/Program-Offices/Project-Mana...
Folk are already using lower end cards with Stable Diffusion, even the 4GB models.

My 3080 is well capable of generating 512&768 images with a high step count in under a minute, and 500 odd steps (just for fun) in around 2 minutes (or even less with different samplers)

The interesting bit is when we get more VRAM (24-32GB) and can actually train the models with off the shelf hardware without breaking the bank.
“powerful lawmaker”

Ever heard, vaguely, of Chicago-style politics? Well that’s the “powerful” guy here: Michael Madigan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Madigan

https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/december-2013/mi...

The longest-serving leader of any level of government in the country. He was old-school. No emails. Ran a foot soldier get-out-the-vote ground game. Massive conflicts of interest. Possibly torpedoed his own daughter’s run for governor. Never gave interviews.
No, if the rules specified that level of detail, they would probably be all right. The NRC rules appear to be higher level, and built around specifying "safety methodologies", and it's the translation of those safety methodologies to concrete (haha) level detail that gets messy.

Although to fair on the NRC, there was a case where, due to lack of experience, the contractor cast an enormous slab using the wrong rating of concrete, which then had to be removed at great expense and delay.
It also failed the 'does it make soldiers want to vomit' test.

> US soldiers using Microsoft Corp.’s new goggles in their latest field test suffered “mission-affecting physical impairments” including headaches, eyestrain and nausea, according to a summary of the exercise compiled by the Pentagon’s testing office.

> More than 80% of those who experienced discomfort had symptoms after less than three hours using the customized version of Microsoft’s HoloLens goggles, Nickolas Guertin, director of Operation Test and Evaluation, said in a summary for Army and Defense Department officials.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-13/microsoft...
And what good does "following the money" do anyone? In a world with no consequences for politicians' conflict of interest, how is that different than flat out bribery?
.. and this is one of the biggest sources of antibiotic resistance: people not finishing the course of antibiotics becasue they 'feel better now', rather than eliminating the pathogen so it can't gain resistance. Generally, there should never be leftover antibiotics.
He is a psycho-linguist and his field is evolutionary psychology. He never claimed a complete resemblance between the savannah and suburbia, but just that both contain many of the key features which would make it highly suitable for the species, at least from an evolutionary perspective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Pinker
Just a reminder mouse physiology is not human.
This is a great start but hacking biology is not the same as pcs.

I add this warning because I'm seeing a lot of younger software engineers try out custom peptides to boost their iq, memory, and work ability.
Not only taking currency out of the country, the same limit applies to bringing money into the country. The control is over foreign exchange. If you have a valid reason, buying a house abroad, going to study, go traveling, you can exchange foreign exchange beyond the $50k limit.

I'd say it has something to do with the policy placed when the country needed dollars in 70s and 80s, and no one is taking the risk of removing it. China doesn't want to free foreign exchange on Chinese Yuan, mainly because it has shielded its financial institutes from western hedgefunds attacks. The Chinese financial institutes are new, and not as sophisticated as the western counterparts, IMO, this has been something working well for China, and I would hope it can continue to serve this purpose.
Google engineers joked about how incognito mode isn't incognito
Occam's Razor seems to point to the cosmonaunt, no? It's likely Musk talked to the astronauts before the launch, and he probably couldn't have resisted chatting about Ukraine with the cosmonaut, who was no doubt greenlighted by the Kremlin to give cool-headed and rational explanation of Russia's position to someone who probably wasn't deeply versed in the opposing position.

It also matches with Musk's denials. In essence, he would have been talking with Putin without actually talking with Putin.
> some compromise of both sides

If you interrupted a rape, would you suggest a compromise where he promises to finish up quickly in order to keep it peaceful?
Looks more like Yahoo Finance than Bloomberg Terminal. Maybe this is for people who hate all the ads and pop-ups at Yahoo.
> twitter dog-piling can arguably be considered an anologous form of political mob violence.

I would argue with that. :-)

In general, the rhetoric over "cancel culture" feels very over the top to me. There's a level of fearmongering and victimhood that's not warranted by the empirical facts, much like whenever it's claimed that there's a "crime wave". I'm not saying there's no crime, or no cancellation, just that I don't see totalitarianism as a natural next step from Twitter.
I wanted a DAW to record my own fledging attempts at electronic music. I took a vow in the 80s to never use Windows, Apple systems seemed overpriced, and I had years of *nix experience, including a bit of Linux. In the late 90s there was a Linux app called "Multitrack" which seemed capable on the surface, but it turned out not to be. I called Digidesign to ask them if I could port ProTools to Linux for them (for free), and they laughed. So I thought "how hard could it be to just write my own?" ... 22+ years later, here I am.

A longer version is here: https://discourse.ardour.org/t/ardour-20th-birthday/102333
Sounds like genetics?
> It always surprises me to see professional fiction author with books ranked >1M on Amazon, as that implies that they're selling single-digit copies per month.

As a decidedly non-professional self-published writer, at present my two novels so far are around the 1M ranking on amazon.com and ~270k on amazon.co.uk... I'm above the single-digit copies per month for them, but not a whole lot, so can vouch that your numbers are pretty reasonable.

But with respect to being surprised, recent numbers from the UK - I wish I remembered the source, suggests the average income for authors from their writing is around ~13k/year, while average household income for writers was ~80k/year.

In other words, even most "professional" traditionally published authors are either doing it as a second job or has a partner in a high paid job. Writing is very much a "job" that for most people is a passion that may or may not even break even, and where only a tiny proportion of writers ever get to the point of making a living.

Part of that is building up back catalog, and building up an audience. I recall Charles Stross, to take someone who is living of it now, mentioned on Twitter a while back that it took him about a decade before he made 5k in a single year from his writing.

To take a more extreme example of this, Georges Simenon (Maigret etc.) at one point sold only ca. 8k copies per new novel from his French publisher. He was still wealthy, but because of the sheer number of novels (he wrote several hundred), number of translations and number of adaptations, but each new novel added just a trickle and mostly served to keep interest up.

A Norwegian author, Kjell Hallbing, mostly writing as Louis Masterson, sold 20 million books before he died, yet all but his last 6 or so sold in tiny numbers[1] But he wrote well over a hundred novels, and they were translated to more than 20 languages before he died (but not to English; the first English translation came years after he died, and they're not great).

[1] The last six represented a return of his most popular series after a multi-year hiatus - his publisher was mocked when they printed a first edition of 100k for the Norwegian market, but it sold out in no-time; ~30 years of accumulating an audience and building nostalgia among people who mostly will have read just a small portion of his books has an effect...
Madigan is the Darth Vader of Illinois politics. He was speaker of the Illinois House from 97' until 21', when another scandal involving ComEd, if I recall correctly, finally forced him to resign. His other hustle is lowering the property tax rate of insiders - http://www.madigetz.com. Illinois politics is filled with the most ludicrously corrupt characters you can find. One interesting case from my neck of the woods is the Stephens family of Rosemont, who are, nominally, Republicans, but work with downstate Democrats to pass red light camera legislation, after receiving bribes from the companies that stand to gain - https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2020/10/18/21516422/re....

Rosemont is one of the weirdest places I've ever encountered. It's essentially family-run for-profit operation that caters to the corporate clientele of O'Hare airport.
Repeating kremlin talking points after they ignored attempts to negotiate a compromise for months before a completely unjustified invasion isn’t helping. Do you seriously think people don’t try negotiations?

You can hop off Elon’s dick now.

@dang why can’t I flag this bullshit?
If you have the liquids with the properties to handle that you could.
To make it easier you would have to halve each next heat pump specs, so that the earlier pump can deliver to both the condensor and the evaporator.
you might find this interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZndTAbjPqm0 - I think Paul talks a bit about the background of Ardour and it's history
Plus who doesn't like digging a good hole in the ground.
For crypto, copy != counterfeit.
From my understanding, the draw is to “start over” and create a completely new hypertext ecosystem where script-heavy advertising-laden sites just aren't technically possible. Or, at the very least, extremely impractical. It's a moonshot, but I guess that's one of the reasons they called it Gemini, heh.
Okay so I got to the wrap-up at the end, about "why did nobody else find this", the author sets up some logical dominoes but doesn't knock them down. Allow me to try:

Earlier in the article, the author mentions that they recently upgraded some network hardware, and the problem seemed to become more frequent after that.

Packet loss or other network issues would force the stack to fall out of fast-path and update the counter, avoiding the bug.

Running over ssh would avoid the bug. The only time you'd run rsync not over ssh would be within your own network.

So it sounds like (this is my conjecture here) this would only appear to someone running rsync internally, over a high-performance network with no packet loss, and upgrading the switches might've finally gotten the network good enough to expose the bug?
And a reversal of any legislation / actions taken.
The powers that be have established complicated rules that ensure the line between legal and illegal behavior is nonsensical. It's a competitive moat, but for corrupt politicians.
We let them take parts of Georgia in 2008 and some of Ukraine in 2014. Now they tried to take the entire Ukraine and take more Baltic states afterwards.
The war dogs are out and about. The dogs of war and men of hate with their hollowed laughter from marble halls...
When I’ve had surgery that was the joke the doctor told. It’s just a $10,000 version of a tool you’d pick up at Home Depot.

Obviously there are some things that would be different. For example a big issue is you’d want to use non-toxic lubricant on all the parts. Not sure what non-toxic means but I’m sure there is something (vegetable oil? Silicone?)

You’d also want to make sure it won’t fling off tiny metal or plastic shards from the tool. Don’t want that to get into the body. You’d probably have to seal up any ventilation openings in such a way that crap couldn’t escape.

I’m sure mechanically you’d want it to be as tight of tolerance as you could get away with—you probably don’t want a lot of slop when cutting open some dudes skull. Vibration and such probably play into that tolerance bit…

Of course it could just literally be a rebranded Ryobi or something for all I know. But I’m pretty sure it isn’t. Too many additional requirements means it is probably something slightly fancier.
I just don't understand this sudden appreciation for escalation from the same groups of people that have been screaming against that kind of action for decades.

EDIT: I bet the vast majority of the people downvoting and pressing for conflict in this thread have never seen such atrocities up close. The primary goal always needs to be de-escalation and saving lives.
So, I got interested, and did some calculations.

In my neck of the woods (50 deg North, not as North as Sweden), I get a reasonable amount of sunlight. Let's just imagine that 1/3 of the days during winter I get 5 hours of sunlight. I'm going to ignore electricity and just concentrate on heating, because heat is way easier to store. From my meter readings, in the depths of winter I seem to use an average of 2.2kW-worth of gas, most of which goes to the boiler for hot water and heating. Some of it would go to cooking, but I'm guessing not much.

So, if I wanted to collect that much heat from solar, assuming I get 5 hours every 3 days, I would need to collect 2.2×72/5 = 32kW while the sun is shining and then store it for use later. Sunlight is just over 1kW per square metre, so I'd have to have about 32 square metres of parabolic mirrors concentrating light onto a black water pipe. The South-facing side of my house is easily that big.

Then storing it. Water is extremely good at storing heat. Water stores 4194J for each kilogram for each degree centigrade in temperature. If I were to get five 2.4m×1.2m×10cm polyurethane foam insulation boards, I could build an insulated box capable of taking a 2000l hot water tank, which could be put in a shed or something. If that were heated to 90 degrees centigrade, it would be able to return 80kWh of heat before dropping to 55 degrees (which is the lowest acceptable temperature to run a heating system at, before you get Legionnaire's disease). The insulation would lose about 250W, which is small compared to the heat demand from the house.

Yes, there would be times when the stored heat runs out. A sensibly-designed system should hopefully be able to fall back onto the existing gas-fired heating when that happens.

So, these numbers are all very feasible. It'd cost a fair bit to achieve, but it would probably pay itself back within a couple of years, which is way quicker than PV. One of the key factors in that is efficiency and cost. Collecting solar heat is very efficient and uses cheap materials. PV is expensive and still not very efficient.

There are three main requirements for such a project: Enough sunlight when it is cold (and you can adjust the collecting surface area to compensate, so this basically means anywhere outside the polar circles). Enough space to put all the stuff (and as a corollary enough patience from family members to put up with it). And finally a suitable control system that pipes the heat around in an intelligent way, prevents the water tank being over-heated, falls back on gas when necessary, and satisfies the various building standards laws.
I only don't think he's a troll because the non-illusion options seem just as wild to me. I think it's fair to say we've made almost zero progress on how sensations/experience physically work, and there's not much more room to look. For one critique of the progress toward a computational theory of mind, Tim Maudlin (philosopher of physics) says we are no closer today than thinking water and trough computation could get us to explaining how toothaches feel.

As for how illusions occur and from what things, it does hardly seem possible. But the alternatives are hardly better.
As a free citizen of America, Elon should know better than to speak his mind about things. He's not qualified to have an opinion and should instead defer to the experts, the government.
In my youth I used to work in a laboratory that tested mattress flammability and we used the NIST standard cigarettes. I remember people used to pocket a few of them and smoke them on break, not sure how good an idea that was.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-kremlin-peskov-details-musk-...

Literally first DuckDuckGo result.

Third:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2022/10/12/kremlin-de...

He has access, has talked in the past, repeats kremlin talking points, threatens to withhold access to strategic technology from the kremlin’s victims, and then claims to not be involved when he starts taking heat for it.

Musk is notoriously dishonest, I don’t know why his claims are seen as trustworthy given the surrounding context.
I always felt nervous about resizing a filesystem that has a swap file on it. Never had a kernel panic but would swapoff the file just in case.

If I created a swap partition in LVM I can force it and move it around to the best location WRT multiple hard drives and possible mix of HDD and SSD. With a file its a little more abstract and I could emulate it with some pointless abstraction, but why bother. A typical "this century" example would be running my boot and swap on local disk and storing all real world data on the NAS over iSCSI. Obviously now that "Everything" is virtualized this kind of system administration is void unless you're admin on the cluster itself LOL.

The problem with swap is memory seems to have gotten cheaper than storage and swap of any form takes storage space. Its not the capex that's the problem, its the opex of now you've got an extra 32GB that "has to" be backed up and "has to" be virus scanned or whatever security theatre, and that swap file "has to" be treated as the highest security PII HIPPA PCI category because who knows whats been swapped out of memory onto it, it could be chock full of CC numbers how do you know for sure unless its empty or not there? Paying for more memory doesn't increase your backup storage / security risk / virus scan times and the latter costs more than the former. I don't think non-cloudy admins realize there are cloudy admins out there with forests of little systems with like 8 GB of ram and 16 GB of storage, so the "old" rules from the 1980s about provision twice your ram as swap would increase the disk required from 16 GB to 32 GB doubling my costs for, essentially, nothing. Another problem with swap is in the old days if you needed more memory than you have physically you had to buy more memory, then for awhile you could emulate memory very slowly with disk but much faster than calling an IBM CE and buying more memory, now if you need more memory you spin up more instances or rebuild the instance on a larger flavor about as fast as how you'd add swap in the olden days, probably faster and it can be done dynamically in some architectures.
Why is this a question?
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Does this take into account the fact that before hygiene, germ theory and the beginning of the C20th, most infants died early? Dying of these pathogens as an infant is a reliable way not to catch them later in life.
Where are you getting that from? Other data suggests that even worst case production of plant sources of protein come out far ahead of even the best case production of meat, dairy, etc.

> plant-based foods emit fewer greenhouse gases than meat and dairy, regardless of how they are produced.
> […]
> Plant-based protein sources – tofu, beans, peas and nuts – have the lowest carbon footprint. This is certainly true when you compare average emissions. But it’s still true when you compare the extremes: there’s not much overlap in emissions between the worst producers of plant proteins, and the best producers of meat and dairy.

https://ourworldindata.org/less-meat-or-sustainable-meat
> A boring codebase doesn't make a bored developer, on the contrary it frees developers up to think about important stuff and deliver value to the business. Just as I want my language to be boring so I can focus on interesting stuff, I also want my tech stack to be boring - the interesting bits should be in the value added, not the stuff under that.

This. I don't want to work with niche languages anymore, and artisanal, hand-crafted in-house libraries/frameworks.

I want to use boring shit like the JVM or the CLR (.NET) and the libraries with the most answers on Stackoverflow so that things "Just work", issues are debuggable, the authoring experience in my IDE is solid, and I can use what little braincells I have to focus on building features + solving problems.

Niche languages and wacky libraries are for my weekend projects + personal fun-time.
This article is always thrown around if the topic comes up, at least in my experience it's wrong or at least not useful for my usecases (general purpose web hosting stuff in all kinds of flavours)

- swap on spinning rust outright kills the system if memory is low. it's a full blown crash.

- swap on ssd act's much the same

- zram swap stalls and slows down the system for several minutes

I just raise vm.min_free_kbytes to make the oom killer faster and disable swap. At least the machines don't crash hard this way.
A required app? Do they think that everyone uses Android or iOS on their smartphones, or even has a smartphone at all?
Is 0 people a group by the unusual definition you use?
Savings don't cause inflation at all. Imagine adding $100K to every one's bank account in the US, and make sure that these accounts are frozen for 30 years; this doesn't increase aggregate demand at all.
Even if what you say were true, in any particular government there are only a few politicians that can move the needle. Some low ranking representative wouldn't be able to do squat in most cases. There is a reason AT&T specifically tried to court favor with the man who was Illinois Speaker of the House for nearly 2 decades.
As usual, I fear comments will focus on the "in mice" part, forgetting that for most base circuits (ex: brain, nerves ...) and physiology (scarring, aging, inflammation ...) they are extremely close.

Also, other "cognitive enhancers" have usually found effects in both rodents and primates.