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There is a lot of good advice in this thread and I strongly recommend trying that advice before trying what works for me.

BUT, I had trouble getting to sleep my whole life and for about the last 7 years I've been able to get to sleep in much more normal timeframe. After trying most of the other things in this thread (cutting caffeine definitely helped). Two things that have seemed to really work for me:

I have a 7" tablet on my bed and I put on the SAME EPISODE of the SAME tv show each night (currently Psych S4 E1 - though it does change occasionally). I keep the volume low enough to not really hear unless I'm trying to listen to it and the brightness at almost the lowest setting. This is contrary to most advice on the subject and I write it here not to recommend it as a first choice. It is however what seems to work for me when other things didn't. The goal with the content is something that the plot doesn't matter and that you know like the back of your hand so it won't keep you awake to find out what happens BUT it's enough stimulus to pull your attention from your anxieties.

I added a ton of pillows to my bed (11 total). I put 3 on top of my body like a weighted blanket and have pillows to hug on either side of me. I can change to several different sleeping positions without significant pillow re-arrangement.
> Python + SQLite should replace a huge amount of Excel uses.

It won't even replace the edge-case uses, n/mind the majority of uses.
Why do you think that "ABM is likely to be more effective against a second strike"? Do you think the ABM systems are usually deactivated in times of peace? What about in times of tension? Even if I agree ad argumentum, ABMs would encourage first strikes from out of the blue and discourage strikes in times of tensions.
> suffering from the same insanity

It isn't exactly clear what this means, but when I read it I thought, "we all seem to be suddenly hysterical about nuclear war."

I listened to the most recent episode of the Arms Control Wonk podcast[1] last night. In this episode, Dr. Jeffrey Lewis observed that yes, paid media and social media is hysterical about nuclear war right now, but also, that the underlying emotional anxiety that fuels this sort of coverage/discussion is the natural result of nuclear deterrence.

It's supposed to feel tremendously frightening. He noted that the word itself, "deter," comes from a latin word that also gave us "terror." The tremendous anxiety that we all feel is totally appropriate given the threat. It feels like insanity, yes, but it actually shows that the system of deterrence, as terrible as it is, is still working.

1. https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/
Realistically you have to ask how many people is that now?

I have never seen an ARM windows machine in the wild.

In fact I barely even see any windows 11 machines.
Bought some glass straws for home use. They work well and look better than any other kind of straw I used.
I don't know why you would buy one, even if it were available, unless power-efficiency was a crucial component for a server. Can you imagine what you could get, on eBay, in a small form factor, for $600?

I made off with a i3-8100T (about 3/4s as powerful, 35W TDP), with 16GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD in an ultra-small-form-factor case for less than $150. For $600, it makes absolutely no sense against anything used. Let's say it drew 50W vs 20W total use at 10 cents per KWh. It would take 5 years to save $130, if you ran it 24/7/365. A $450 used Intel small-form-factor system would run circles around it in performance (especially after any emulation / code conversion) and you'd break even.
Yes, in Parallels.
What do you mean he never said it? Here he is saying it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8gZUQMqDAI
Yeah, I certainly don't doubt that there are global changes going on, but that particular drive along I-5 is confounded by many other local variables.

I too notice changes in the amount of bugs having driven that route periodically for about 30 years. Due to economic and weather conditions over decades, there are very obvious changes in whether you are driving by grassland, irrigated crops and orchards, defunct and desiccated crops and orchards, or graded and developed human environments. The road has also widened and gotten much more traffic.

The general trend is more human presence year over year, but the agricultural activity is more cyclic. As I understand it, these areas are only viable to irrigate in wet years, because the senior water rights are held and used much further north and east along the CA-99 corridor. In droughts, these more recently developed farms dry up first.

It's also of course very seasonal, with bug populations booming and then disappearing much like wild flowers and migrating bird flocks along the same route. In the heaviest bug carnage periods, driving this section of I-5 can be like driving through the US midwest during a grasshopper or cicada boom.
How do you mean? Im curious as to your thoughts
Lack of HDMI is disappointing.
After 14 years and over a hundred videos, this is the end of this channel
Sorry Microsoft, you lost me with Windows 11. I'll wait until you release a worthy successor to Windows 10, just like when I skipped Vista.
That's it exactly. I asked my company recently if they are trying to get ahead of the going rates in order to acquire and keep talent. The answer was no but it's hard for me to call this collusion when they're using data even consumers may get access to (although certainly debatable as to the accuracy compared to big business.)
> How do they generate data at that rate to transmit?

In the lab, the most common scenario is to have a pseudo-random bit sequence (PRBS), and usually the sequence is 2^31-1 bits long. This makes both the generation (on the transmit side) and error-rate detection (on the receive side) reasonably straightforward, although it can be tricky to read out every one of the receive channels to check the bit-error rate (BER).

Here's typical PRBS BER equipment: https://www.anritsu.com/en-us/test-measurement/products/mp19...

Spoiler alert: The test equipment isn't cheap.

Edit: Probably should mention- PRBS from a linear-feedback shift register is used, because in a PRBS of 2^N-1 you are guaranteed every permutation of N bits long, except for N x zeroes in a row. This measures the wideband system, so if there are spurious resonances in the wide pass band, errors will result.
Same here, but it depends on the delivery service and the store. For example, Aldi puts out used cardboard boxes in which they received produce for delivery services like Instacart to reuse. With warehouse based delivery services like from StopandShop they're using the thick reusable plastic totes. Unfortunately they're so small that you end up getting a dozen of them in a single delivery, and you have no hope of using them all, so they end up getting tossed.
They were never a party to the lawsuit. Reading between the lines, they negotiated with Meta's lawyers and agreed to produce some documents/testimony in response to the subpoena.
Wow, just started watching video, this is really nice. The integrated environment, db and everything makes it super easy to get started.
I guess you made it so you just have no excuses to try this out.

Big thank you for developers.
Mac Mini has no option for 32GB of RAM, and with 512GB of SSD storage is $899. How is that similar in price to $599?
I wouldn't say the pricing is similar. This retails at $599 with 32GB of RAM. The Mac mini is $1,199 with 16GB of RAM.

edit: Was off on pricing of the Mac mini by $100.
And people said they wouldn't help. This is intended for us!
For myself, personally - that's an easy metric...

By the time I hear about something, it's too late.
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We need to be careful about this narrative as we risk throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Keeping pushing "recycling plastic" is useless and people are going to stop recycling all around. The real message here should be to focus on PET and HDPE and for local recyclers to be more transparent about what plastics they can recycle. Reuse is good and all, but it's not the whole solution. Single use plastics aren't going anywhere.

Since China banned imports of waste, Japan has been working on improving recycling capabilities at home. They collect something like 86% of their plastics properly sorted and are developing new more readily recyclable plastics. We should follow their lead.
Americans fundamentally do not believe that the government can be used to make your life convenient. Average people believe technologies like the Internet and GPS were invented by private industry rather than government.
I was an insomniac from the ages of 6 through 30. I would often find myself up until the crack of dawn, even if I was desperate for rest. The usual cycle of trying to fall asleep, being unable to, stressing about being unable to, with the stress now making it harder to fall asleep, seemed impossible to break out of.

One day, I realized that the issue, for me, was one of perspective.

What is the purpose of going to bed at night? In the end, if I just felt more rested than when I got into it, that at least would be an improvement over a sleepless night spent trying to go to bed.

I began doing breath awareness meditation at night. I figured that in the worst case, if I was truly unable to fall asleep the whole night, that 6-8 hours of meditation would certainly leave me feeling far better rested than when I got into bed.

In reality, what happened instead after a few nights is that I would drift off to sleep within 30 minutes, and have not been an insomniac since.
OT...

I used one of the Unicode bullets instead of a hyphen (◉). I understand what dang is getting at here — it's in the same spirit as stripping emojis (because otherwise we'd be drowning in them). I'm a past graphic designer so I'm accustomed to working with the medium to achieve maximum communicative impact, but I don't mind operating within constraints.

The convention of using hyphens to start a bulleted list isn't officially documented AFAIK. Having to separate bulleted list items with double newlines is a little weird, but it's fine.
That reminds of a jokester who replaced all empty cells in small spread sheet with a space. Good lick figuring out why your 5 row table all of a sudden was in the giga bytes of size (obvious exageration for dramatic reasons). Was a good practical joke so!
It seems to be priced relatively cheap already with 32GB Ram and a 512GB SSD. A Mac mini with only 16GB of memory already costs nearly twice as much and I really wish there were a 32 gb mini at all. I like my Mac mini, but I hit the memory limit from time to time.
Or only buy their products that are plastic-free (like aluminum cans). It doesn't feel as just, but the reality is companies respond better to underperforming products than to boycotts.
A <$10 cable solves this problem.
Russia literally has submarines built for this type of purpose (e.g. the Belgorod). And yes, their armed forces are a clown fest of incompetence, but they still have the occasional hit/stroke of luck. They do genuinely produce some good equipment (e.g. BMP-3) that is easy to maintain, where they fail mostly is around the human factor.
The whole point is that this is a study about "mild to moderate cases". They weren't expecting deaths or hospitalizations, and that wasn't really what they were looking for.

They were looking to see if ivermectin shortened time to recovery. And it did, by a day. Which wasn't enough for it to be considered clinically relevant.
Two Arrests and Multiple Charges in Three Cases for PRC Malign Schemes
I think this refers to leverage introducing a risk of ruin with volatility where it wouldn’t otherwise exist.

If you’re unlevered and have a long time horizon, volatility essentially doesn’t matter. All that matters in the long term is the annual rate of return.

If you’re levered, however, a sufficiently volatile underlying will cause you to get liquidated which sets your return to zero.
I think he's referring to the ka-clack of gun cocking noises that is used when a weapon is drawn, even if it's a weapon that doesn't have to be cocked.
And the Romans are British-looking people who wear nothing but red, while Egypt's contemporary Ptolemaic period often gets mixed up with some much older era.

Btw, there are 11 Spiderman movies by now. Wtf.
This is one of those things where fiction becomes truth. While it may have initially started as such, unless you can also prove that every single white supremacist also knew it was a joke, it kind of became a white supremacist hand sign.

It's an issue with satire in general. Eventually there will be someone too stupid to see it as satire.

And then you get into Schrodinger's racist territory. Being an asshole ironically is still being an asshole.
So, will the life of an average dweller of the Earth become happier because of this?
A "classless CSS library" is just a stylesheet, isn't it?
"Initiated during a period of unrivaled scientific invention catalyzed by the Wolfram Physics Project, the Institute is founded to deliver new results, theories and functionality that identify global laws in real-world systems; expand the study of computational behavior; and build models that address fundamental questions with enhanced explanatory reach."
Even at 1.84 Pbps, you can only store about a gigabyte per km, so this doesn't seem very practical.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=1.84Pbps+*+1km+%2F+c
Gen-X gave us the internet that we know and ?love? today. it might have been invented by boomers, but it was gen-x kids who productized it.

the concept that gen-x didn't change the world is somewhat laughable to me.
> Um... wat? No CPU tries to decode 99 bytes of memory in a cycle

Actually, no x86 processor decodes 8 instructions in parallel. This is an example to illustrate how the number of possible offsets scales with 15 instruction lengths.

> So you decode 32 instructions starting at each byte you've fetched

No you don't do that, it's too power consuming.

> But the combinatorics you're citing seem ridiculous, I don't understand that at all.

What I'm trying to explain is that decoding 8 instructions in parallel in x86 is hardly possible, while decoding 8 instructions (or more) from a RISC archi per cycle is never a problem
Research includes live fire tests. Russia has the advantage of an actual warzone with actual air defenses to test in.

That or they're running out of missiles and down to pushing research prototypes into service (which given their use or Iranian drones and other supply woes would not surprise me).
Couldn't disagree more. I'm not going to argue about it here though. I do suggest that anyone interested in the subject read the paper and judge for themselves. (I have zero connection to the Ethereum project other than running a node and having bought some Ether.)
As I mentioned in another comment, docker containers are fine until you have even a slightly non-standard setup or use case, like the not-so-uncommon setup of having the machine connected to a VPN, in which case docker will proceed to not work at all.

What makes running these things easy isn't the container but that the software is packaged at all and would have the same effect if it were done through a conventional package manager. So of course docker seems like an upgrade when the only other thing they're offering is a loose distribution of files you have to manually copy in and configure.
Costs for both paths will go down steeply over time. But launch costs can only go down so far given the sheer amount of fuel necessary to launch anything into orbit from earth. Remember maintainance robots will come, not just more reliable and cheaper printers that are very lightweight (used at the end of a long flexible arm.)

3D printing aluminum isn't, you know, rocket science.
That doesn't really mean anything. No laptop released by Microsoft or most of its OEMs officially supports Linux. I'd wager this one will be running some ARM distro within 5 minutes of the first developer getting their hands on it.
Seems like to me that profit has only accelerated in the last 2 years. Not sure how we have any control over that...... because people are voting with their purchases and purchases are extremely high.
There are simply less missiles to intercept in a second strike as the primary target of a first strike is the nuclear arsenal of the opponent.
Policing the Necropolis
You asked this IMO extremely silly question:

> Can you give an example of where someone has prioritised their own profit over their own survival?

Clearly they weren't saying, given the mugger's choice between "your money or your life!", capitalism would have you choose your money. This is about causing environmental destruction for the sake of profit, something that businesses have done and continue to do, endangering our long-term survival as a species. Saying that you don't know what the original poster meant is baffling.
Uh, dude.

The article is pointing out that:

1. Most ocean plastic enters the ocean from East Asia (80%)

2. Only about 5% of its enters the ocean from North America or Europe

3. But some plastic waste is exported form North America or Europe to Asia.

4. So is it plausible that the true waste share of NA and Europe is higher?

5. It concludes, yes, North America and Europe contribute as much as 5% of ocean plastic directly and then up to a further 5% via waste export.

It doesn't contradict itself, your parent poster didn't "just pick a random sentence from the article," and you should maybe read more carefully.
> Because the "energy crisis" is actually a political crisis, i.e. the failure of governments to build enough alternate generators, like solar and wind power during the last decade or two.

Aha, I see. A bit late for that now though, so now it's an energy crisis. I wish it were seen as a political crisis but pretty much everyone here just blames Russia and there aren't many (if any in some countries) consequences...

> I'm really sure, because the videos show people unpacking a small electrical heater after telling you that "a student" or "an engineer" developed this glorious device in their spare time, ...

Amazing that this shit is legal...
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Windows Store and Desktop Bridge work though. You are right about everything else.
His opinion is misinformed and ignorant of the reality of hosting open source applications.

If you want to host your own blog... sure, run a local copy of nginx or apache.

That's not what this conversation is about. We're not hosting our own websites - we're replacing crappy ad driven/subscription SaaS companies with open source applications, running on our own hardware/networks.

The use case there for containers is both obvious and compelling, and his comment shows that he has zero understanding of the space. So he's making an uninformed rant while talking about the "good ol' days" when everything was SO simple.

Will Docker, specifically, be around in 20 years? Who gives a shit.

Will the concept of an isolated & preconfigured runtime environment (containers)? Fuck yes it will.
I think you're correct about the origins. That said, a typically ironic idiom can still give rise to non-ironic derivative words.
> I strongly disagree, plastic wrapping is the same as clorinating chicken.

>You are introducing an extra industrial step to save the additional cost of maintain sanitary conditions throughout the supply chain.

Vacuum packing meat increases shelf life because the lack of air halts aerobic decomposition. That's not something that can be replicated by "sanitary conditions".
Emacs would be the real cheating answer.
I think this strikes a common theme throughout much of the gaming and production industry.
Awesome, that’s the kind of experience I’m looking for. Some tutorials make it seem really complex and intimidating.
I felt the same as you OP, and I just kept calibrating those recommendations until I found the magic formula of exercise, schedule, etc. It took like, 10 years though. It sucks but keep trying. My breakthrough came from upping the exercise (6x per week, vigorously, even on vacation), taking a very small dose of melatonin, and listening to podcasts when in bed which seems to quiet my racing thoughts. Things are mostly good now.

Paradoxically, it’s hard for me to sleep when I haven’t been sleeping well. So these days I am gentle with myself if I can’t fall asleep despite being tired.
I ran the browser bench speedometer2.0 test recently, and was pleasantly surprised to see how much faster safari is than chrome on my macbook air.

I'm not sure why I don't find myself using safari more yet, but maybe soon it'll get there.
Or until all your 16 digit IDs get truncated...
There are plenty of films produced in China and India about historical periods in China and India... watch them?

Likewise there are few films in those markets set in historical European eras.

A place tends to make films regarding their own cultural heritage, is this a problem or are you going to start complaining about the lack of Bollywood productions about King Arthur?
A large part of good vs bad performance is just iterating on bad until you solve the weaknesses. Sure there are sometimes fundamental problems that need a break through that could be years in coming, but often the only thing lacking is effort to fine tune algorithms. (figuring out which is which is left as an exercise for the reader)
I like it, nice work!
Take a look at what Apple is doing today to find out what the industry is doing in a year or two.
Let us imagine you are a nuclear power A. You do not have ABMs. Nuclear power B does, and you believe they are effective (key point). Logic dictates that you will end up the guaranteed loser on an exchange where A fires first with ABMs backstopping their second strike. Now, you might not lose when B fires first, so game theory says you fire first.

Whoosh missiles fly and everyone loses.
All things being equal, wouldn't it be better to deal with a technological arms race in ICBM defensive capabilities instead of offensive capabilities?