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Yes, please don't wear gloves when working around (most) power tools.

My mom was wearing gloves when using the table saw one day. She nicked a finger in the blade and it caught on the fabric and pulled her hand in, mangling her fingers pretty badly. Plastic surgeon did a pretty good job reassembling her, but one finger (the one that ended up with a severed tendon) still can't bend properly.
One problem is poorly done reviews. Especially since many reviewers are not being paid anything for their time and have the incentive to ward off competing researchers while being protected by anonymity. It seems hopeless since who else would the publisher go to to assess the quality of supposedly new pursuits of expertise knowledge? I've had experienced many strawman rejections back in the day that I just stopped trusting the publishing system.

I'd rather just upload a PDF and let the readers judge its credibility and let (positive) citations be the benchmark instead on trusting a handful of elite critics with unclear incentives.
> I used to use tools like Codemagic which ran macOS in the cloud for deploying mobile apps, so buying a MacBook wasn't necessarily a blocker for me.

Codemagic, from my understanding just does code-signing and deployment. I don't know how you did it, but a Mac would still be necessary for access to Xcode libraries, Objective-C, and iOS simulators.
Windows Subsystem for Linux now packaged as a Microsoft Store app
It could happen pretty often. Just need to start enough calendars.
Solingen Kitchen Knifes are highly valued. Go into any department store, and you will find the finest selection of german knives. Of course - it is the other way around in Germany.
Uhhh, who knew that the DoD (or at least the authors) believe we will be moving into subterranean megacities?

>"Future battlefields in 2050 are projected to be dense, urban environments or
subterranean megacities that will challenge identification and tracking of targets." p.g. 16
You really shouldn't hunt fish by rifle.
I can't believe you left out the interview with Tim Weiner, author of Legacy of Ashes:

https://youtu.be/wGeqoQeJj8Y
The UK conservative party employs several ex Revolutionary Communist Party (extreme trotskyist) advisors. Sometimes, if you want a job done, these are the people who know how to get things done.

Bannon used to be a performative maoist?
Very true.

But always trying to maintain a "pleasant manner" under all circumstances can be exhausting. There has to be sincerity involved else the other person can easily pickup on the fakery. On the other hand i have observed that even when it is obvious that the person is faking it (eg. social etiquette), people seem to be accepting of it in general.

Perhaps the quote, The secret to Success is Sincerity; Once you learn to fake that, You have got it made is true after all. Humans are complex social creatures.
To extend on that: there needs to be a small set of cooks with their actual fingers in the broth (for various reasons including coordination and quick pivots) but that small group should probably consult a much larger group of kitchen staff and customers (read: potential users, collaborators, partners, etc) to figure out if they're going the right direction.
> I'm making ultra small games (...)

Hey, many of us like small/ultra small games!

I used to play a lot when I was younger (back in ZX Spectrum times), but now don't have the patient (or time) for big games that require any kind of commitment. For instance, I played occasionally sudoku on my tablet/phone and when I started to play a little bit more I bought this sudoku [1] for both Android and iPhone. I also play occasionally some games from these guys [2], namely "Smash Hit" and "Pin Out".

What are your games? Share a link, maybe one or two of us may get curious and play with it a little bit!

[1] http://www.enjoysudoku.com/

[2] https://www.mediocre.se/
https://archive.ph/njQhg
Cloudflare doesn't make good money on the vast majority of their self serve services, so user hostile behavior is not a net negative when it doesn't impact their individual custom basis contracted customers.
So they're worried about discrimination against augmentated people ala Deus Ex? Life really does imitate art.
Coppicing is not a Japanese invention
Stop reposting that article, coppicing is used all over the world.
"questions I've never needed to ask"*
> If a method is not generalizable to the entire dataset, it's not that useful.

No, in many situations, something doesn’t have to be perfect to be useful.

Again, I think you are missing the original point being made:

> Depending upon your use-case, you can get pretty good results by…

You seem to be responding as if I said:

> For all use-cases, you can get flawless results by…

Pointing out that this is not perfect is irrelevant to the point I was making. “Good enough” is usually good enough.
> None of that will replace the lack of oxygen, though-so open a window.

I would think that it would be really hard to make any kind of dent in how much oxygen is in the room... wouldn't, by the time you get there, you have long long since died of carbon dioxide poisoning?
whenever someone new arrives on the team and starts complaining about how terrible the codebase is, and how we should just rewrite everything: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
There's one particular mine/set of generators in china that basically just burns low-grade uranium ore (the ash is more concentrated than Namibian and Nigerian mines). If you exclude that one 100x is about right.

For the rest, yeah.

Also La Hague emits about 1/20th of a chernobyl per year.

CO2/NOx/SOx/particulates from coal are still worse.
That's why the UV treatment is done in an enclosure through which air is vented.
> That does sound like the 99% are pretty dumb then for using a tool that's not suitable for them...

Computing history is full of examples where technologies that are objectively not the best technologies end up being dominant. It's more about economics. (Network externalities, switching costs, ...)

Although I will admit that, with version control, there isn't even an alternative out there that is anything like an "objective winner". Each one has its problems, and it's a matter of choosing the least of the evils. -- I haven't tried any of the commercial ones though.
Traffic analysis but applied to leave, advancement and record keeping. Second order effects indicative of first order function.

If you can obtain the telephone directory and track it over time and it has job titles you can probably reconstruct the history of IBM, which party is in power, whatever, for the institution which publishes it. And what the role and career progression is for the longterm players. What does it tell you about the short term players? Maybe as much if they come and go. I bet you could identify McKinsey hires coming and going from top 10 institutions by their name as they are attached to the CEOs office and move between roles, if you can get the phone book.
I don't see anything in the papers that say the bot isn't supposed to lie. Lying and being deceptive is a part of the game.
Yeah

While glass blocks some of UV light I'm not sure it would be a big problem. Especially if it's constrained to a tube, for example

Couple it with an activated carbon filter and it should be good (also a HEPA filter of course)
One of the major issues with the Ukraine power infrastructure is that it was set up back in the day by the, well, Soviets, which means most of the equipment dates from Soviet times, which also means most of the repairs/replacement work can only be done by factories located in the former USSR. Most of those factories are now located in present-day Russia, which is where the major problem comes from.

Speaking of this, I'm not sure how the three Baltic states handle this. Granted, they're way smaller compared to Ukraine and they had at least 20 years (since their NATO accession) to try and untangle themselves from all that, but until now I haven't seen any article written on this subject.
Is it just me or does it seem nonsensical that TH splices are compiled to WASM then executed with a WASM interpreter rather than just being interpreted natively by GHC like done with GHCi? Would also fix the weird situation with running git inside splices not working.
Scientific publishers are basically the outsourced HR department of universities. Modern academic fields are too sprawling for professors to understand everything that's going on in their field. The members of a hiring committee or even a tenure committee often just don't really understand the work of the people they are evaluating. So they have to rely on journals, and metrics like how many popular publications people have.

It's a valuable service to do this evaluation work for academics. It's just a shame that the way we pay for it is to lock up research behind a paywall. But "publishing a PDF" is just not a very hard problem to solve at all. That isn't the difficult problem that Elsevier is solving. They are solving the difficult problem of filtering out which academics to hire.
Is there a reason Hillary Clinton's logo has hidden notches? (2016)
Private insurance schemes could offer another layer of protection and financialization. Under that scenario, fractional reserves could be used and insurers could be on the hook for mishaps.

The article describes a technical solution for verifiable full reserves.

Generally bank deposits are insured by the government. The central bank pledges to bail out customers for that minimum amount. Can't speak to the specifics of your area, but that is the common practice.
You’re exaggerating. They are making much more than 1% of what software engineers make. Please be accurate if you want to make a point.
A major (perhaps even the primary) consumer of the current ratings is the institutions of various governments providing funding for the scientists and the institutions; who are not really able to assess the quality independently (especially due to various perverse incentives making many such institutions likely to intentionally misassess the quality even if they had the diverse competence required) and also definitely not willing to trust the beneficiary institutions/scientists to assess the quality themselves.

And apparently they're willing to pay quite some overhead just to have a separate third party gatekeeper perform that function for them.
GitLab employee here. This page of our handbook can be a good starting point to build your own: https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/handbook...
I'm the same, I take a lot of notes, often don't look back at them, but helps with making it "stick". Same for handwriting, auto (handwrite to text) would be nice in my specific apps/devices.
GL/Vulkan extensions for drawing overlays over the current frame. Compositor/Windows extensions for drawing overlays, the way Android has. You don't need to be running inside the current process to draw on the screen.
I dunno

Have you seen the TV tropes site? Chock full of awesome stuff :)
Hadn’t seen it myself yet, thanks for the recommendation!
Funny.

Among other things, XML is self describing. Yeah sure. We all know how that turned out. That was the day when everybody was crazy about the Semantic Web, and for some reason XML / some convoluted format built on XML was viewed by many as "semantic", apparently because of the many intractable URLs the format called for. Y'know, URLs, or was it URIs or URNs, those little pieces of text that, even when they point to nothing in particular, somehow have the power to bring "semantics" to the data.
https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/how-i-became-the-honest-brok... - Someone put into words my business strategy

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr... - Essential advice for anyone starting their career
A couple hundred panels is less than half an acre or so.

Which, yeah, completely un-doable in manhattan (they already rules out NY anyways), but 10 acre lots are a thing in plenty of places.
After watching the video I must admint interface looks super good. It's purpose is to create sql pipelines (in demo on top of clickhouse) and visualize results.
> the Mutex implementation doesn't suck and iirc supports reentrant code without deadlocks

I don’t think that’s true, at least in the “rust mutexes are reentrant” sense: a mutex hands out &mut refs, a reentrant mutex would mean concurrent &mut, which is illegal.

However rust does allow handing out the one &mut to callees, without fear that it will be leaked and outlive the lock or anything, so this sort of “reentrancy” is fine if you split functions into lock acquisition and actual processing.

IME deadlocks (and self-deadlocks) remain the biggest issue in concurrent rust. Lock ordering concerns are especially frustrating when fine-locking.
Trick to earn HN/Reddit/something social credit: Take any technological concept, and call it a Japanese invention.
Injecting keyboard events does not require running inside the current process. Either emulate a keyboard device or inject events via the APIs for that.
Huh? Solingen knives are quite popular here in Germany as well :P
-4c is nothing. In fact, it'll make the procedure easier. I do at -20c and below
I do not use tagging yet.
I did not grasp the power of it yet.
Probably because the search in obsidian does not propose any tag oriented clutering of the results. Or any other feature where the tagging is inherently visible and accessible.

[i will read your article anyway]
Life in the slow lane: how the slow cooker changed the world
This sounds like the kind of announcement that begins with people thinking the AI is smart, and ends with everyone declaring that Diplomacy can actually be won just by following some simple rules and doesn’t require intelligence after all.
I wouldn't be surprised if it were possible, but nobody has successfully tried. It would require a combination of expert knowledge, the kind of long-term thinking/investment that the market currently is set up against, plus a lot of money over a long period of time to be able to afford experimenting like that in the first place.

It will probably take state-sponsored forestry research to figure this out.
> I also think there is a big gap between what most people advise and what they ultimately do that biases toward the right thing. That is, people indicate they will not be moral in order to dissuade others who might try to exploit it, but in the end they generally behave morally.

That is very interesting. Have you seen any research on it?

> while repeatedly leaving myself open to being taken advantage of. It almost never happens, and you learn to identify those who will.

My thinking: There is no perfectly safe solution. People who think I'm taking naive risks don't get such great results themselves. I think being 'open' is generally safer - humans generally follow the lead of those around them, and I get better responses.

> you learn to identify those who will.

Yes, it cannot be overstated: Being honest, you develop expertise in the skills of executing honestly, and as with any skill that expertise enables you to evaluate those skills in others. Do otherwise, you acquire other skills.
SVG will become sluggish past a few thousand features, which is typical for viewing an urban area on the map.
The coolest way to generate combinations (2009)
Firewall and VPN is the obvious part, and that's the industry standard.

Zero-trust means that Access Control is more finely-grained, down to the machine/user level. In this approach we don't trust any machine/user inside the organization as well.
Yeah, that was the first question on my mind too: "WTF is GHC?". A quick Google search reveals that it's the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Maybe it makes sense to expand that in the title?
> Do people in Japan get articles about how amazing coppicing is in the UK?

They might get confused since Copic is a popular brand of art marker there.

I had to check but apparently the name is because they're designed to work with copier machines, not from this. (https://copic.jp/en/about/history/)
The cedar shoots in this article are claimed to be stronger and to grow quicker though
Perhaps worthy to note that the timing of the invasion coincided with an EU-Ukraine test of syncing up their power networks. A wholesale switch of Ukraine away from synchronisation with Russia and permanent synchronisation with the EU was planned later in 2022. Interrupting this switch, and the Ukrainian resilience against Russian manipulation through power was likely a reason to start the war when it started.
Rather than opting into a slightly incompatible dialect for some but not all code, I would like an IDE that lets me specify what is @Nullable, and quietly inserts @NotNull everywhere else without displaying it. We can keep the boilerplate in the bytecode without rubbing our noses in it.
Status signalling
Ex-Microsoft, current GitLab employee here. The way you describe using Microsoft's tools in your company is pretty much how things worked at Microsoft while I was there 3 years ago.
If you'd like to build a handbook similar to GitLab's, this page of our handbook can be a great starting point: https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/handbook...
Codemagic and Bitrise allow connecting to a Mac in their cloud via VNC where you have full graphical access to XCode and iOS stimulators. I believe both have free plans that support this.
https://archive.ph/RiZGo
Yes, thanks to the hard work of unpaid editors and reviewers.

Excellent business model.
>> Please do not under any circumstances support the Better Business Bureau.

Totally agree. Remember you can always give the BBB a 1-star review on the "Better, Better Business Bureau".
We actually have a pretty awesome energy mix in Romania. It's a hard thing to rank, but we could be in the top 3. A lot of hydro, a fair amount of nuclear and we're expanding the nuclear, and a bit of hydro as well. Plus quite a bit of wind, and an almost-working program to encourage private individuals to install solar and sell back to the network.

Yes, as part of that mix we had some horribly dirty old school plants. I'm not contesting that they should be replaced per se - but the current thread is about flexibility, and the way it was done left no wiggle room whatsoever. And now we have absurdly high energy prices, Moldova is in danger of going dark, and we probably could be doing more to export power to Ukraine. All because some politicians guessed wrong, at a moment when it was already pretty clear this whole direction is dangerous. The local legislation happened, I think, only last year.

It's not a new story, politicians making bad decisions. Doesn't mean they shouldn't be called out when they do, especially when it's costing all of us. And speaking of, what they should really do now is unlock the solar power program - which on paper forces the utilities companies to buy back power, but in practice allows them to drag their feet indefinitely.
I don't need my university's subscription for the 100 years of archived copies of journals, I need it so that I have immediate, low-friction access to the full versions of papers published last week (which otherwise would be behind the publishers' paywall) - and which probably never ever existed or will exist in paper form, as many respectable publication sources nowadays are digital-only.
This is awesome as it resolves a lot of my graphviz complaints.
However it seems to be missing graphviz concept of ports. I found ports to be very useful as an alternative to labelling edges for SQL foreign key relationships.
Ports make graphs more compact and easier to read esp for tables with large numbers of foreign keys
TL;DR: Instead of building Rust shared library for every OS/arch combination to use it from Go program, produce WASM chunk from Rust and load/execute it in Go using wazero.
Spammers Take over Google Maps to Pump Illegal Casinos
The latest easy target for gambling spammers is Google Maps – where casino spammers are actively using a combination of fake reviews and fake business listings to spam google maps – hijacking traffic from legitimate destinations to direct consumers towards illegal offshore internet casinos.

Researchers have discovered that casino marketers are effectively “gaming” search engine results on Google for profit – which can be seen when performing searches for land-based casino properties in the US in a number of states (Alaska, Nevada, Maine, Georgia, Utah) – including states where online gambling is actually illegal.

For a query like “Alaska Casinos”, one might reasonably expect to see only land-based, brick-and-mortar casinos at the top of Google’s Map search results – especially due to the company’s apparent focus on surfacing trustworthy sites for queries related to finance or health (“your money or your life” or YMYL).

Instead the top listings are FAKE.

Online gambling is not legal or regulated in the state of Alaska (in fact gambling on out-of-state or international casinos is illegal, even though some offshore US-facing gambling operators accept Alaska-based gamblers).

The expanded listings feature unmasked casino affiliate links, no business address & fake reviews. Also note the absence of a physical business location and the presence of a naked affiliate tracker link which leads to an online casino and sportsbook.

The spammers even took the time to gather hundreds of fake reviews in order to boost their credibility and chances of (spam) success.

Google has claimed in the past that < 1% of all the content that is viewed on Maps was fraudulent or abusive.
You can filter search results using tags in Obsidian: "something tag:#work"

I rely on tags for different things: search, automation (e.g., move notes to folder X if tag A is present), indexes (https://dsebastien.net/blog/2022-05-15-maps-of-content), random exploration of my notes (e.g., open a random note with tag X).
Agree with the freelancer suggestion. Freelancers generally have a more equal business relationship with clients and clients will respect you when you decide to block off time for other projects, and/or your health.

Freelancing comes with its own challenges, especially when it comes to finding work, but the tradeoffs, higher remuneration and increased flexibility are worth it.

One caveat is you do need to be quite good, or quite specialized at what you do.
Isn't at least a part of those billions going back to the USA as purchases of American weapons? They are subsidies to American workers.

Example from https://www.defensenews.com/congress/budget/2022/11/15/white...

> The $21.7 billion in Pentagon funding is “for equipment for Ukraine, replenishment of Department of Defense stocks and for continued military, intelligence and other defense support,” according to a summary table accompanying the supplemental request.

And anyway, if the USA wants to keep benefitting from their empire they have to pay the costs to maintain and expand it. No more money, the empire shrinks and other countries take what's American now.
With a mouse pressing and holding left/center/right mouse buttons and moving the mouse result in no sound until the left/center/right button is released. Not knowing about touchpads, do they not have buttons for left/center/right? If they do maybe those will work as they do on a mouse?
Yeah, but when will my grid collapse?
It of course depends. I typically open dozens to several hundred new tabs per session.
But why do you "squash" it! Why do people do this?