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No, stranger-friend, you are not right in your assertion.

Exploding nuclear bombs destroys civilian infrastructure and harms ecosystems.

Destroying civilian infrastructure harms civilians.

Both are despicable acts of destruction.

One is not deserving of the other.
Isn't that the problem that the backend framework + orm combination aim to solve?
Like django, or flask+sqlalchemy
You could get 2TB onto BackBlaze or iDrive fairly cheaply. Maybe use both (one backup service backing up the other!).

(If paranoid, encrypt it yourself before backing up. But if you lose the key you lose all the data)

Wipe all devices before going. Take a dumb phone for phone calls.
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There is a red giant phase that may evaporate Earth https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-sun-will-even...
Bitrot? You talk as if it’s an unsolveable problem..
I couldn't find it anywhere on the docs or in a few google searches. What is a porter? and how does it differ from a developer?

I understand the general concept of porting (ie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porting) but never heard of it as a specialization. Also what might people be porting from? If this intended as a migration guide.
I don’t think woodworkers would appreciate you calling them retro hobbyists.
I remember this used to be a joke, in part because it also recommended vi if you googled emacs. But is it seen differently now that Google is a bit less of the geek brand it used to be? Are any user-facing Google jokes really landing the same way?

IOW, is Google Search seen as more of a utility now, and is therefore giving the wrong answer, and even a competitor's answer (so to speak) seen as an unwelcome annoyance, a risk, danger, or even heavy-handed or menacing?
I shoot recreationally, two guns in the same caliber, maybe once every two months, and have 4-5k rounds stacked in the closet.

If you shoot often, and have multiple guns in multiple calibers, 50k rounds is not difficult at all, especially if you have anything "weird" where you will likely buy as much of the ammo as you can find.
> Who say things like “American missiles fired by Ukraine?”

Russia-aligned internet commenters seem to say things like that a lot. I think it's part of their cope; Russia couldn't be struggling against Ukrainians... no... they're struggling against Ukrainians with American weapons! I guess this is gentler on their egos.
ColorSync Utility on macOS (sorry, not sure of the right name in English) allows to add filters.

I've used it to great success for down-/resizing/-sampling all kind of PDFs which sometimes are basically full pictures on each page.

Create own filter, add "picture compression", mode "JPEG", move the slider just a little right from the middle...

Start ColorSync app, open PDF, select filter from lower left, click "Apply" and then either "Save" or "Save as..."
In my opinion, you shouldn't ask technical writers to manage projects anymore than you would ask engineers to. Both jobs are complex enough without adding an entirely different full-time job on top of the work.
They aren’t all like that. You should’ve fired her and hired another.

That video is full of clips of a lawyer speaking candidly and clearly, too, and offering to shred a document that was just signed. :)
It’s normalizing slavery pleb conditions for engineers.
you do it on a law that says jobs that are involved with public safety are surveiled and otherwise not. I guess I don't see the complexity of this in comparison to other laws and regulations.
Intel's software-defined silicon service will let organizations pay money to enable features that are hardwired into future Xeon server processors such as Intel Software Guard Extensions, signaling a major shift in how users pay for computer chips.

That's an... interesting way of framing it. It would be more accurate to say that intel plans to intentionally break their own hardware and then ransom that functionality back to users. I wonder how much cheaper these chips might have been to manufacture if not for all the superfluous DRM bloat and engineering time squandered on its development.

In some ways this is a continuation of their behavior a few years ago when they were abusing their market dominance in earnest. I hope AMD stays away from this cancer and continues to make superior processors.

I would like to think the market can kill this practice, but given how it's spreading in the automotive industry im not holding my breath.
I threw proxmox on a desktop pc I pulled from the trash about a year ago. Since then I've been steadily adding new containers to host more servers.

Anyway long story short, I've got a used PowerEdge server and some rack hardware being delivered on Friday. I somehow even managed to get my fiance on board because it could host his among us server.

I just know I'm going to regret this. Proxmox is a gateway drug to homelabbing. Please use caution
The use of tracking is acceptable under the GDPR if it is necessary for providing the product/service. The Apple ID, being necessary for determining the applications you have bought/are installing would be considered necessary. Permission to have it is not required.

If the Apple ID is shared to another 3rd party by Apple, then it is not just being used for providing the product/service. So it would be required to get permission under GDPR.

Apple sells a service which is iPhone+iOS+App Store. While it is technically possible to separate, Apple doesn't. It's all required. So the Apple ID is required for doing that.

The fact that the Apple ID can be associated to an individual and their PII is something that theoretically could be isolated, but Apple are not required by law or regulation to do so as long as their use of the ID stays unshared and "necessary".
I have a friend whose mom lived in zaporozhya until 2 weeks ago, and the rolling blackouts were the reason she finally fled the city, despite months of explosions. The blackouts were getting more severe, and when you live on the 11th floor with no elevator, no water, no heating, no way to warm food, life is very difficult.
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I’d be curious if you had any good book recommendations for covering the basics?
I'm surprised there's no AI for note organization and retrieval. It'd be really cool if I could type natural-language sentences into an app and have AI do all the interpretation and tagging for me. Like I could say "Hey Google, take note, my lawnmower is a 190cc, takes 10W-30 oil, and they have the blades at Walmart". Then later I could just ask it to "pull up notes related to lawnmower" or "yard work".
Iraq's pre-war HDI was 0.560[1]. The US's in the same year was 0.865[2].

People will indeed always find a way to adapt! But I think these comparisons are fundamentally suspect: there really hasn't been think kind of mass-scale infrastructure collapse in a country nearly remotely developed as the US (or Canada, or the EU). The closest thing would probably be the war in Ukraine, and even there the infrastructure failures are relatively localized.

[1]: https://countryeconomy.com/hdi/iraq

[2]: https://countryeconomy.com/hdi/usa
As much as I hate the current situation with academic publishers, they have one very valid point - prioritization.

They impose an artificial bottleneck on how many articles can get published, so
"published in XXX" means "one of the top X papers in the area according to a reasonable metric".

We have all surely noticed how journalism turned to shit when we moved from printed physical copies (with bandwidth limit) to limitless clickbait-ridden "portals". Real decent journalism just cannot compete for readers' attention anymore.

There could be a reasonable middle ground - like mandated free access to individuals, or free access after a 3-year period or so, but completely killing the publishers would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
For someone wanting a bit more of this with great anecdotes, I direct you to the Mitrokhin Archive (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitrokhin_Archive) sourced pair of tomes (The Sword and the Shield (1999) and The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World (2005)).

An incredible source covering more than a century of operations, predating the revolution, and spanning all continents. The first book dives quite deeply into this exact topics, with double, triple and sometimes quadruple crossings. I loved the part about the prep for large-scale sabotage in eastern seaboard of USA in the events of hostilities, something I had no idea about but would have been quite an bold move. There was also a lot of unbelievably dumb stuff.

The book mentions the increased difficulty of doing anything undercover or assumed identity in the modern digitally connected world. All of those undercover things are pretty much the thing of the past now, with OSINT being able to find just about anything about anyone.
Subject matter experts, to the extent that the writer isn't one already.

In my opinion, companies should hire subject matter experts who can write rather than just someone with an English degree. I've fixed a lot of terrible documentation written by English majors with no engineering background.
Interesting that the only man in the entire conversation is the one fired while all the rest are women.
I think the opposite is true.

The bigger a ship is, the slower it is to turn.

IBM is a "tech" company that employs 282,000 employees, and when was the last time they invented something? I don't remember the last time I heard IBM in the news about something they made.

The bigger the company, you often times find less innovation and more administration & bureaucracy.

The reason startups can survive is because of its small size that makes it very flexible and adaptable to chaos and change, that gives it the edge over bigger companies.
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I was casually interested to know if one could play at this game, and I found out that you can go single player vs. bots here:

https://webdiplomacy.net/
Oh crap how did we miss that. Comments moved thither. Thanks!
With the exception perhaps of North Korea, every single one of these countries has a climate that you can mostly survive in outside, or with minimal protection. The comparison seems meaningless.
yeah, as my name suggests, i live in a place where "today", as in 23/11/2022 i have a 9 hour electricity cut "EVERYDAY" in near to 0C temperatures. It is winter and snowing most of the places. Heck, the places that are snowing get close to zero electricity for days and when it does come back, at best 3-6 hours.

People adapt to living in harsh conditions. as you said, "creature comforts" take a hit but you don't just die from having a collapse in the grid.

many days during bitter cold, our water pipes just freeze for weeks and we resort to using up saved up water (that we already save in big buckets as a habit) and ending up doing commando style wet tissue rub in place of a facewash, on and on....

It's not fun but when things improve, everyone laughs it off
I'm glad you've planned for it.
> I can depend on the compiler telling me if I haven't done so exhaustively, via the Result type

That's going to get tiresome after about half a day.

Exceptions or GTFO.
> What can we do to remove the incentive that led to people having this kind of a discussion on a slack channel while one dude is at a doctors appointment?

Delete the internet, then return to newspapers published once a day. Short of that, it's hopeless. With continuous 24/7 publishing, journalists race to beat each other.
So... I like spy novels and such and I've always wondered how the hell one would keep it a secret which 50% of an embassy are secret service. So many possible patterns! Turns out, one doesn't, unless extremely careful.

I also seem to remember that "who is secret service at the embassy" was never an important line of defense against counterespionage, something the article doesn't mention.
Using logseq is pretty much this by default. Ok you have to put brackets around the word lawnmower but it's pretty close.

https://logseq.com/
Even the intelligence community's own PR materials wouldn't put forward such a claim.

Saying something like "can’t imagine a US intelligence official would be wrong on this" in the first place shows a misunderstanding of what the point of such "intelligence" is: collecting (often-dubious) information as quickly as possible to enable probabilistic (but sometimes wrong) assessments for decision-making.

Nobody with the sort of fundamental lack of judgement shown by Gera belongs anywhere near an editorial chain of command.
But you can tell what the plan is at a given turn in a model like this, because you can extract its representation of the plan directly.

By analogy think of how Stockfish can evaluate multiple positions; in this case it’s coming up with a plan then serializing that plan to the language model. There is no room for deception between the AI and a researcher that is probing the model activations directly.

(This sort of AI->researcher deception is the scary scenario for AI risk researchers though, it comes into play when the models are so smart/complex that you can’t extract their internal representation directly. See the Eliciting Latent Knowledge paper for a deep dive https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/eliciting-latent-knowledge-elk)

I think “intention” is meaningful here, understood in the lay sense of “has formed a plan of action”. It’s a simple and bounded plan, but a plan nonetheless.
More shocking is that when I’m on my phone I will search for a video using Google on Safari. I expect to get to YouTube.

I am just realizing this! I have the YouTube app installed and I still prefer the experience through the browser over of the app.

The UX I the YouTube app when you’re watching a video (non full screen) and want to search is very unergonomic. Seriously, try it.

1. Play a video in portrait

2. Look for search. Nowhere to be found.

3. Tap on video. Notice small upside down caret. Tap it.

4. Notice search icon at top. Tap it.

5. Start typing. Enter search and see results.

They must lose engagement or money to their search. Or more likely, they gain engagement and make more money via recommendations.
Why did you abandon this? I'm assuming the modeling assumptions were too simplistic.
This is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_capital at play and people chirping at each other "are we still friends ? I am you friend. Am I your friend ? yes ? Good, I am also you friend then".

I am a on a cynic ride at that moment so take that with a grain of salt.

But I have seen what you describe in other situations. I have noticed this on US news snippets "Thaaaaank you so much for being here, I want to say I am really glad you came, now about <subject at hand>". I think these people just mimic what they see as "professional" and since it's a chat room... yeah, lots of chirping going around.
Has Firefox stopped allocating so much RAM that it fills up all my 40GB? Overcommit isn't always enabled, because I'm not making a 64GB page file just to keep Firefox running for more than a week. (That is how large Windows tried to make it before I disabled the page file.)

On my computer, Firefox running out of memory is its own damn fault. Retrying memory allocation won't fix anything! And running out of commit space crashes everything else too, so Firefox letting itself crash isn't going to help, because it still brings down half the system. (And it still, already crashes when it runs out of memory.)
Whats the recent relationship between Musk and Bezos? I know Bezos invests in Rivian and used their vehicles for Blue Origin/Amazon delivery. I don't know if they have the appetite for bailing out Musk even for a dollar. Bezos might rather enjoy seeing Musk crumble and take the blame for Twitter.
Exactly. And the planes that dropped those bombs could only perform their sorties because they were refueled midair by US pilots.
Absolutely, and IMHO the Mutex/MutexGuard API is one of the best showcases of what Rust is capable of. (Fun fact: RwLock<T> is Sync only if T is Sync, but Mutex<T> is Sync even if T is not Sync!)
Sydney buses have had GPS and open data for several years, at least as far back as 2012 iirc.

My employer at the time was contracted for part of that project but I wasn't really involved and barely remember anything that long ago.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/real-time-tracking-of-sydney-b...
I worked at an i-bank a few years ago and there was regular boomerang activity from people who had left for more techie companies. One result was that this bank developed their own Borg implementation using existing infrastructure primitives. That had some pretty positive results on developer velocity.

The only challenge is that these non-FAANG companies are going to have to come close to FAANG salaries and commit to IT improvements during an economic downturn. That’s not a task for faint-of-heart CIOs.
Yes. There is no downside. Air purifiers nowadays are cheap to run and very quiet.
Electric cars are the consensus hotness because they sell to an existing paradigm.

The existing automakers can swap a few parts bins and still continue to operate. The real-estate industrial complex can continue to carve off suburbs to the horizon.

I feel like we could do better if we had a more top-down planned economy; we could build new city sectors around an economic engine, and ensure that housing and transit dovetail with it, rather than hoping the market haphazardly allocates stuff right.
I've read and written a huge amount of python and rust, also a fan of rust and don't find it particular difficult to read.

As long as there is proper linting, both should be readable.

That being said, python is about the simplest language there is to read.

Of course if you have many times nested and improperly indented list comprehensions- sure that gets confusing. But that should be fixed with proper linting (black on its own should do it)

Curious about the examples you've seen that were difficult to parse!
I have a friend who works for a major power company in the US. They told me there are severe supply chain issues that are making it difficult to order new replacement parts for electrical infrastructure. As critical infrastructure they do have stockpiles of replacement parts, but they are limited. I wonder how long Ukraine can sustain these repairs.
> Corporate credit cards for Twitter employees have also been shut off, three of the people said. One worker said she tried to buy farewell drinks for colleagues after the mass layoffs, only to have her corporate credit card declined at the bar.

Maybe this is a typical allowable expense at many SV companies but it sure isn't at any company I've worked at.
Wow, this is incredible. Thank you.
It seems like a lot of the big tech companies are playing some version of this tune. Everything keeps getting more aggressive and intrusive. There's ads literally everywhere and it will only get worse. It's all so hostile and anti-user, I really can't imagine how these companies think this will be sustainable.

My bet is the advertising bubble will burst this decade. It should be a spectacular show.
Does anyone have experience using this at Meta who can compare to https://github.com/uber/NullAway ?
reputation grows back if you never admit fault
not to sound all propagandist but russia attacking ukraine infra is "bad" but NATO attacking iraq is "collateral damage".
It's still a joke. Try googling for "recursion":

Did you mean: recursion
You can't exactly light a fire if you live in the middle of a large apartment complex.
Well, if it were true, it would be important to get the story out as quickly as they could while doing the necessary diligence, right? Timeliness is important in the news, if NATO were going to war with Russia I'd want to know as soon as possible. The problem is that they didn't do any further diligence.

I think this may be a case of attributing malice to incompetence.
> so many people in the US want to do away with EPA regulations

why do you say that?
If only, like a sociopath it hangs out with no one...
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Oh wow look at captain obvious over here.

My point wasn't to refute the article because there's an at-home test for a completely different disease, but to point out that there are at-home tests of other kinds. Since companies and the FDA have done it before, and because they were able to bring a rapid at-home test for streptococcus to market, an at-home flu test is probably closer than the article makes it seem.
> Obviously it’s not

To be honest I don't think that's obvious to people who don't know much about Alaska.
One thing that stood out to me in this video is that he claimed natural gas infrastructure can't run without electricity. It would seem obvious to me that you would have natural gas powered generators capable of sustaining the gas infrastructure.
Speaking as a "Rust person" do you have any code samples or projects I could take a look at to compare? I've always heard good things about Ada but haven't tried it personally.
I'm not saying there weren't other failures here, just that LaPorta was vague. On purpose or not, he was vague, and that began the cascading failure event.
It's frustratingly difficult to come up with an elevator pitch level counter-argument to longtermism and related arguments.

"These ideas lead to behaviors that are both cruel and ridiculous" is the objection that gets often made. But naturally, that's rejecting a position based on it's conclusion, a fallacy these types will panting to name as soon as this argument leaves someone's mouth (though I feel the objection is reasonable and needs something more).

So, the argument I'd go with saying that all these reasonings involve basically multiplying tiny-numbers-with-big-variations by large-numbers-with-big-variations resulting in ... complete garbage ... a distribution pseudo-estimate with no validity... [1].

The further point I'd add is that aside from dealing with crises whose extent are moderately calculable, such as climate change, the activity which would contribute to humanity's future is ... actually improving humanity's qualities - increasing the general sensibleness of people, our knowledge of science and scientific method, our tendency to protect each others, the cohesiveness of our communities, our caution in avoiding destroying things we don't understand - Chesterton's fence, etc.

Which is to say also that the longtermists, the Bostroms etc don't understand that truly hard problems require not equation calculating the odds but a general flexibility and caution in dealing in the world. Why humans can solve the car-driving problem and robots still can't, etc.

[1] JM Kaynes in the general articulated a similar view: "By uncertain knowledge, I do not mean merely to distinguish what is known for certain from what is only probable. The sense in which I am using the term is that in which the prospect of a European war is uncertain . . . There is no scientific basis to form any calculable probability whatever. We simply do not know. There is a world of difference between low-probability events drawn from the tail of a known statistical distribution and extreme events that happen but had not previously been imagined."