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> [Dolphins] also routinely murder the infants of rivals.

Infanticide was very common in ancient times pre-Christianity:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanticide

and is still somewhat accepted in modern many cultures if the child is a girl:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-ratio_imbalance_in_China

It also should be noted that Singer himself is not against it in many circumstances (though he doesn't view the entities involved as people, so it's not infanticide under his own definition):

> Similar to his argument for abortion rights, Singer argues that newborns lack the essential characteristics of personhood—"rationality, autonomy, and self-consciousness"[61]—and therefore "killing a newborn baby is never equivalent to killing a person, that is, a being who wants to go on living".[62]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer#Euthanasia_and_in...

What many in the West think of as 'obvious' universal rights are in fact culturally contingent on Christianity.
It’s called adverse selection and informed order flow, and it’s one of the major challenges of market making. I believe they use trade secrets to try to prevent it as much as possible but they also instantly hedge if it does happen.
People want a free website where they can do whatever they want, but they can’t be required to pay, it has to be financed through ads but they have to be able to block these ads. Oh, and content advertisers don’t want to be associated with has to be freely accessible.

Unsurprisingly this is not sustainable, investors are paying for the site and ultimately they want to see a return. Money talks, bs walks.
Tell me you've never worked on a CDN without telling me you've never worked on CDN.

Compared to transit, last mile bandwidth is effectively limitless and free. Cache fill at the edge is important, last mile caching not so much.
At the lower end all you need is a tarp, shovel, a hose, and probably a pump to filter the water. You can also build one out of wood (we did this when I was with the scouts, and the biggest cost concern was the price of the water).

It doesn't need to be expensive; not every swimming pool has to be a large and fancy.
They claim they have land registry records as well. Those are not part of the election database that was leaked eons ago.

Your comment is not accurate.
Please read the article linked, they claim they have land registry records as well :/.
> The schema of racial obsession in history

With respect, I don't think I've ever seen as much 'racialising' of history as you just wrote in your comment. Perhaps it may be worth reflecting on who has the 'racial obsession' here?
Although the idea sounds intriguing, it doesn't really make a lot of sense in modern world.

To "buy well", one has to understand every merchandise he is to make a purchase, but who has the capacity to do the research? And how do you do the research?

For example, how do you know that two fridges, one $800 and one $2000, which one will last longer? Modern capitalism distorts price-quality equation so you cannot simply pick the more expensive ones.

It really makes sense to just pick a brand you heard of, take a middle priced model, or what ever fits your need and go with it. And never places too much hope on it. Expect that home appliance will break in 5-7 years.

Our fathers and grandfathers had the luxury of living in a different world. We don't. I guess the only saying that makes sense is: don't buy screwdrivers from dollar shops.
Oh please. Yes its a potential. But if you're just running stuff provided by Ubuntu & not random crap from wherever this so called threat vector will never happen.

Let not the perfect be the enemy of the good.
It would seem that surviving a plane crash and surviving 40 days in a jungle without adults, are two distinct classes of "miracle".

There is little you can really do to ensure that you survive a plane crash. Perhaps not much more than assuming a safe bodily posture. It's really going to be up to fate, and depend on the type of crash, and possibly also on the crew's ability to mitigate the worst of it.

Surviving in the jungle means that you were able to secure food, water, shelter, and avoid deadly situations. Indigeneous jungle-dwellers are arguably way more equipped to do that, but still, lacking adults or adequate supplies, quite a feat, I'd say.

To make it through both ordeals alive is definitely a cumulative miracle, and bravo to the kids for their bravery and persistence.
This article is shit.

> Last year, the N.H.S. announced that it would be shutting down the country’s only youth gender clinic after an external review showed that the Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service had been unable to provide appropriate care for the rapidly increasing number of adolescents seeking gender treatments.

The announcement was that Tavistock could not safely provide enough care and that Tavi staff were routinely transphobic, so they're having their contract taken away from them and the NHS is going to open more clinics across the country to meet the need.
It's sad that someone like the author would spend so much time avoiding understanding basic economics like subjective value, marginal value, voluntary exchanges etc. There are plenty of economics who never use any maths and help in understanding finance without resorting to this kind of silly critic
Why? This makes no sense.

You had the subscription, so I assume you experienced value from it.

But you are willing to make a stand and deny yourself that value so other people could share their Netflix. People you don't know.

Thats extremely principled and selfless. I have a hard time believing this. There are way more meaningful ways to help others by denying yourself value.

You didn't cancel Netflix to feed a homeless person but to help someone with too much time and too little money, but no so little they couldnt a roof, a couch, a TV and a internet connection, from wasting their life watching TV.

What's the point?
> Stalin had no issue working with Hitler

To be honest, the other european powers (France, but especially the UK) also had a big trust issue with Stalin, and provably had a big role in making the unthinkable (the communist-nazi alliance) happen.
Wasn't it Terry Pratchett with his L-space?
You can get both in 220V versions though.
Which strikes me as either rare honesty, or an example of how our values have slid over time because today the professor would claim the algorithm for himself, and the student would get a B- for some spelling mistake in his write up, none the wiser the professor it making fame from their work.
A new kind of Arduino library – a sensor category vs. a single device
I just released the first of hopefully many Arduino libraries that make it just a little easier for programmers to connect I2C devices to their microcontroller. This first library supports 3 different realtime clock (RTC) modules. It auto-detects the device address and type for you. With a consistent API, you can use any of the supported devices without changing your project code.
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I disagree. It’s another pathological behavior. In many of these cases you are taking your problem, something you have no use for, and turning it into someone else's problem. My wife and sister in law are terrible about this. Rather than just getting rid of things they go to a relative to sit around for years or decades, out of sight, before finally making their way to the trash. I absolutely hate it when the sister in law shows up with a new box of “priceless treasures” for us to deal with.
Immersion means the entire computer, motherboard, cpu, gpu, ram, etc. is in the liquid, not just piped to waterblocks attached to specific areas to wish to cool. You cannot do this with plain water as it is conductive enough to short circuit the computer. If there was a way to use distilled water, they would have figured it out long before using the PFAS chemicals.
I mean, war is a trivial counter-example. You're intentionally killing people.

There's two ways to go about it. Either you ignore the rules whenever they start getting in the way, or you build huge subjective holes into them.
Gnome/GTK accessibility has been deteriorating for years. Unrelated to Wayland.

Hamburger menus that cannot be navigated with Alt+_ shortcuts (and sometimes not even with cursor keys) are the prime example.
> He's a philosopher, he's going to ask thorny questions and sometimes end up with logically sound but inhuman answers. This doesn't really tell us much about him as a person. You can lower your pitch forks.

He seems to accept that what most folks would call infanticide is okay:

> Similar to his argument for abortion rights, Singer argues that newborns lack the essential characteristics of personhood—"rationality, autonomy, and self-consciousness"[61]—and therefore "killing a newborn baby is never equivalent to killing a person, that is, a being who wants to go on living".[62]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer#Euthanasia_and_in...

So he's not just "I'm just asking question, bro.". He seems to accept many positions and not just using them as though experiments. Or, if he started things as 'just' thought experiments, he has now accepted those "inhuman answers" as valid.
Overwhelmed by what should I learn?
My job is a LinuxAdmin where I require Linux and SQL. I am currently doing RHCSA course and SQL course. But I've purchased DCA and CKA(Docker and Kubernetes Certification courses) as well because I got them on discount (I'm not doing certification, just doing course to learn)

At the same moment, I want to learn programming because that's my ultimate aim, to be able to program. For that I have a C++ exercises book by walter savitch and Javascript projects course by Laurence Svekis(Which I'm planning to buy).

I want to learn about nginx, jenkins, aws, terraform, bash scripting, tomcat, apache, RHCE, github, ccna, selenium, promethus etc.

I also want to create my own blog website about a topic unrelated to these any.

How do I plan? How do I manage my plan?
Why do you use the abbreviation IANAL to open your post? I know what it means, I'm curious as to why you use it.
At least you noe have a option with keyboard shortcuts to open in a new tab if you choose to do so. If you don’t want that, you can open it in the same tab.

Better UX IMHO
We trade with bees mainly because at the current level of human technology, it is the most efficient reliable way to pollenate some of our crops. The fear with AI is that it will become able to wield tech that is much more advanced than the tech we can wield. If our tech were much more advanced, using our tech to pollenate our crops would more efficient and reliable than using bees (or we would ditch the crops in favor of more efficient ways of producing food) and the future existence of the bees would be in doubt if humans did not have a fondness for the natural environment and no one knows how to put a fondness for humans (or for nature) in an AI despite the fact that this has been an ongoing research area since 2004 when Eliezer published his CEV proposal.

We used to rely on horses for transportation and for plowing fields, but we replaced them with tech almost entirely. Horse are still useful to some (wealthy) people, but it would be foolish to put our hope in the possibility that AI will benefit from humans the way that humans continue to benefit from horses.

More precisely, if someone does know how to put a fondness for humans in an AI they are not sharing their knowledge with us (and they have an incentive to and no incentive that I can see not to share). Dozens have proposed schemes that do not continue to work once the AI becomes smart enough to deceive humans reliably and to plan much better than humans can. Confidence in these schemes that do not work and overconfidence in the AI community's ability to come up with a working scheme is the main source of the danger we are in. It is not that our scientists are incapable of coming up with a scheme that works, but that will probably takes decades (because of the sequential nature of science wherein no one can find insight Z till someone finds and shares with the community insight Y, which in turn must wait on the publication of insight X) so we are faced with the difficult task of preventing the overconfident AI researchers from killing us all till we figure out how to put a fondness for humans in an AI.
I’ll add one

- “all the things at once”: the new guy gets to be overwhelmed with all the information

I think it’s nice to break things up with some non work related activities because it’s really hard to catch all the names, places, tools, etc on day one. Replacing it with structure that builds over a week is a much nicer experience.
>is it a post-factum rationalization or it's the original logic behind async/await?

Well, I'm not that deeply versed into any language's history, but I imagine any 15+ year old language had a point where they needed asyncrhonous functionality but had to write around legacy code. I don't think Javascript would have been written the way it was in the 90's if asynchronous operations were a mandatory priority.

So it's probably a lot more "this is how we hack this in without creating Python 3.0". Relatively elegant to make it an optional part of the language that you explicitly choose to delve into, instead of a core feature that would have broken thousands of sites behind the scenes if you made it "right".

>why language is deciding for me what is considered heavy or not?

because we decided decades ago that we didn't like using fork(), nor creating/destroying processes ourselves. problems that would inevitably need multiple solutions when supporting multiple platforms because these aren't language features so much as OS calls made in a language that you may or may not be writing in.

Remember at the end of the day that languages are abstractions on top of an OS. Any interesting ideas for problems involving more than a single process space that your OS makes for you is bound by what the OS's API lets you do. It's arbituary but also based on historical problems to wrangle.

So we haven't had enough problems where we need to bound a function by how much it is called. We have for how to interact with all the above OS/language problems.
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You got that right!
I think Livy explicitly mentions that even in Republican times young men went to Greek especially Law was highly regarded.
There's a UK company called "Buy Me Once" https://uk.buymeonce.com/ specialises in this. I've bought some stuff from them and it was always good.
I've enjoyed what I've read of Singer, I agree with a lot of what I read, but Utilitarianism misses something essential - we experience the world as an individual, all our eggs in this one irreplaceable basket. To feel safe, to be able to trust and cooperate, we need to feel that we have a unique spot in this great sea of people, that we uniquely matter to someone, that there are people who value and care about us specifically, that to someone we are irreplaceable.
Any argument that weighs the cost of a life support machine for loved one, against a thousand vaccines for strangers is completely missing the point that it is billions of individual ties of love for specific individual people that knot this whole thing together. The commitments that we make to our loved ones, that we stick to beyond logic or hope, these are the hyphae of the great mycelium of our civilisation.
This blog is fascinating. Thanks for sharing.
Job searching is tedious at best and miserable at worst.

However, casually browsing through job openings while you already have a satisfactory job is a lot less stressful, and easy to recommend.
You have analysis paralysis. Stop thinking about what decisions you should make. Instead build something ambitious. That thing you build will dictate what you need to learn.
Could the pool owners simply stick a hot and cold tap at one end and claim it is a large bath and not a swimming pool to avoid paying the tax? :)
Thing is... There is pretty much nothing malicious one can do with localstorage.
Using mathematics in design allow a brand identity to be consistent and mesmerizing
>This describes humans in a nutshell. This is why people vary wildly in ability...

Can you expand on that a little?
If you poke around the field of "creative computing" you'll see a lot of the same examples being used. In this particular case you want to look at parametric equations / parametric curves.

Here's Wikipedia on the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parametric_equation

Here's my contribution: http://www.creativescala.org/creative-scala/flowers/flowers....
It goes against GDPR, that's for sure
> I believe that if you are moving to a new country, you are deciding to an extent leave your old country behind and start a new journey helping build your adoptive country.

The decisions of refugees is far less voluntary than yours. Your personal experience isn't a meaningful comparison.

> there is hatred towards some of the original values (communist/revolutionary Cuba)

I don't think you sufficiently understand the Cuban migration experience. The first wave in the late 1950s and 1960s were there because they rejected the new values of communist/revolutionary Cuba.

> and a strong embrace of the new world.

Many expected the revolution to end soon, and they would be able to return home to Cuba, and even get their land and houses back.

You can see strong counter-evidence to your position in the Wikipedia entry for the 1970s TV series ¿Qué Pasa, USA? at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%BFQu%C3%A9_Pasa,_USA%3F :

] The series focused on the identity crisis of the members of the family as they were pulled in one direction by their elders—who wanted to maintain Cuban values and traditions—and pulled in other directions by the pressures of living in a predominantly Anglo-American society. This caused many misadventures for the entire Peña family as they get pulled in all directions in their attempt to preserve their heritage.

That's very different than your characterization - no doubt partly because what you know about Cubans in Miami now is after 40-60 years of integration.

The recent refugees in Sweden have not had nearly so long.

> This is not the same for all other immigrant cultures

What's your issue with the Amish? That's an immigrant group which fits your description. It sounds like you want to force them to integrate with the Anglo-American society?

For the matter, Swedish immigrants to the US peaked around 1890, but it took generations before the Swedish descendants in Minnesota stopped using Swedish as their mother tongue.

We can even see this in the 1970s TV series The Mary Tyler Moore Show where her friend and landlady Phyllis Lindstrom occasional repeats Swedish phrases from her husband, or in "A Prairie Home Companion" where host Garrison Keillor would occasional say something in Swedish, and joke about "Norwegian bachelor farmers". That's nearly a century later.
Have you thought about mastering the meta-skill of learning a topic area somewhat deeply, before moving on to something else? Normally, I would say "go for it! interleave the things you want to learn" but I wonder if your excitement for learning lots of things is hindering your learning?

It could be a form of procrastination :)
A more apt comparison would be an easy written by monk about physics that doesn't talk about, well, anything that didn't fit into the scripture.
I partially disagree. If Apple wouldn't be so adamant about dropping all support for old iOS versions (especially including forbidding accessing historical AppStore content), this would be a non-issue, based on the first picture.
There seems to be real need for a public digital infrastructure that Reddit and Twitter satisfied. I believe they're largely the same thing, as both enable threaded discussions in a tree structure. Twitter of course is famous for its character limit, but this just leads people to create endless threads. And that limit has been softened at least twice.

We don't give important infrastructure into the hands of single corporations (at least not without massive regulation) for a reason, so it should be similar here.

But as we all know and have seen from Mastodon, federated solutions suffer from multiple issues:

* moderation

* spam

* infrastructure

* discoverability

* ease of onboarding

* deleting content

I believe that the governments have to ease at least some of this. They build streets, canalisation, and so on, because we deem it essential. So they should at least provide some of the hardware for our digital town square.

So maybe something like usenet, a network of nodes that synchronize where at least some important nodes are run by governments.

The other points appear to be hard problems though.
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>For a typical web application, a significant percentage of the total time a request takes will be spent in Python (rendering a template, for example) - the amount of time spent reading-from and writing-to the database driver socket, for example, is often negligible.

Huh? In what planet? Rendering a template takes negligible time compared to the IO latencies to read from the database (even for a fast simple query) or a cold file on the filesystem.

This (and not the extra v8 speed) is why a single process Node.js server gets great performance for a typical web app, better than anything single process but synchronous Python could ever dream of -- and that a blocking Node.js would fall back to Python-level performance for web serving scenario.

>Whether they're actually going fast or not is anyone's guess. The best you're likely to see is some dubious graph from a half-baked benchmark.

Dubious compared to what? The "take my word for it, it is bad" blogger opinion?
I’m still waiting to see even mildly convincing evidence of this supposed change. I’m no shill, and it’s certainly in the realm of things OpenAI might do - but if it’s truly occurring and the degradation is enough to anger people; at least one person should be able to present prompts and responses from both before and after, using a range of different temperatures and performing multiple runs for each prompt.

The idea that not even a single GPT user thought to run this sort of evaluation (and particularly businesses that depend on the quality remaining consistent) says to me that people just didn’t understand the flaws of the model until more prolonged use.

I’m happy to be corrected of course, but I’d rather not hear another one-off anecdote without any sort of rigor applied.
I enjoy the way it is written, especially the lack of trying to make it fun and humorous. But I am a humanities sort who spends a good amount of time in literature where prose is a much more varied thing and you often have to think about the language itself, it is second nature to me. Likely the only programming book that I really enjoy reading and a welcome break from the rigid institutional style broken up with humor you often see in programming books.

Looking up the translator, she seems well respected in both technical writing and translation between French and English, so it may also be weird in French.
HTTPS everywhere is not only about privacy but also about integrity. You don't want internet randos (including ISPs) to swap your content with ads, bitcoin miners and put other batshit crazy JavaScript in it.

Also, a lot of ISPs blackbox caching proxies were buggy and breaking websites.
The URL is https://spotifysearchengine.streamlit.app/ but for some reason streamlit URLs cant be shown as the main link in an article without it being copy-pasted in the search bar.
> including any hint of nudity

Not completely. See the Wikipedia article on "Christian naturism" for examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_naturism
Installing and maintaining linux (when it breaks with a silly update snafu) is too costly for many capable people. Particularly if you have a hybrid card.

Some others (the majority) are not capable of installing or maintaining it.
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