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Effect on social life, & systems which create dependency. Being unbeholden to other forces.

The other recent-ish round of stories is Amish adopting ebikes. Part & parcel right? What good are solar panels without tech to use them; what are the panels for?

Also worth noting Amish tend to be fairly decentralized; what gets accepted or rejected is a fairly local decision.
It would be strange, if this were truly an emergency, for people who believed it to be an emergency of the highest degree...

To whine and screech "that's too dangerous, don't do that" when other people were proposing solutions. These are the same people who are touted as the experts, mind you. This means that when journalists and talking heads and other jackasses say "but the experts don't even think those things will work", they are talking about the same people who claim that there is an emergency in the first place.

They aren't interested in potential solutions. It's just an attempt to wrestle political power away from those who currently have it and implement economy-murdering policy because they're mad poor people eat meat.
> How did it compare with Slackware? Or Yggradsil [7] or SLS [8] if you happened to have used those?

I can't remember what it was like running Ubuntu 12 and that was only ten years ago, Lasermoon was 30...

Everything was command-line, not least because I didn't have enough space to install X. It worked okay. I feel like the compiler might not have been gcc? Not sure. I know that around the late 90s there was gcc and egcs, which was kind of a fork, that re-merged - I used that on Redhat 6, not RHEL6 but Redhat 6, with Gnome, and the K Desktop Environment as an option (the first versions of both!).

I guess I could trail about and see if I could find images of Lasermoon and try to install it, probably on a VM. If you're interested I could make a video, I guess?

Edit: this was the CD! https://archive.org/details/Shop0396
Isn’t getting “put” in the top 0.01 wealth essentially just winning the capitalism lottery by betting all your labor and assets on a single venture and having it skyrocket? There was an interesting blog post that said if the early janitors of Amazon took their wages in stock and held it they’d be hundred millionaires. In one sense the mega rich are way overvalued, but in another they “just” played a game we all typically agree too and they wagered harder than most think is sane and got lucky.
It was Dunkirk I was most referencing in my original comment. I found it a very disappointing film. Here's this important human story that the movie refuses to tell clearly, making the whole thing hit less than the sum of it's parts. 1917 was much more effective in its stylistic choices in my opinion.
IaC isn’t programming. It is more like config files that have some scripting elements like for loops
Being a hiring manager in Silicon Valley for a decade taught me how hiring really works. I will never again take it personally (or take it seriously) when I am not hired, because hiring is inherently irrational and can be subject to all sorts of weird biases.

It’s like dating. If a company is just not into me, I shrug and move on.
I mostly go to expat/tourist-focused high-end clinics in Asia (there are a bunch of options; mostly depends on which country you're going to be in -- Thailand, Singapore, Japan are particularly strong). You can get a really comprehensive physical (cardiac calcium, exercise stress test, imaging, comprehensive blood panels, multiple doctors/specialists, etc. for <$1k -- something comparable in the US would be $5-10k (e.g. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/florida/departments/executive...). I travel enough for work that I can just go a few days before/after a meeting or conference, so no incremental cost (maybe an extra day or two of hotel).

I do carry Blue Cross/Blue Shield PR coverage ("PPO Gold", $230/mo), although it doesn't cover anything outside of PR except for emergency care. I should probably get a secondary insurance plan (which might include full coverage outside the US, or might even include shorter visits to the US as well), but for now I'm comfortable self-insuring medical costs, particularly since I think I could get insurance negotiated rates in the US even if they're paid out of pocket.

Better quality, lower cost, than anything I've found in the US. I live in Puerto Rico, which has particularly bad medical care; if I lived in Boston or SFBA I'd possibly have a local doctor, but I haven't found anyone in PR, except for expat friends who are neurorads/etc., who is a competent doctor. "Have a pain? Get on a plane" is the plan, and I have medical evacuation insurance, an ALS bag in my house, etc. for that.

The other upside is my records remain under my control; they don't get put into some weird insurer/employer accessible system protected only by laws. I can request/receive raw files and keep them myself.

(So far, I don't really have any serious or chronic conditions besides being overweight and slightly high blood pressure, but if I had a screening discover cancer or something, I'd want to have full flexibility on how to proceed with that.)

(Relatedly, I've deferred getting a dental implant for a failed root canal since right before Covid, so currently looking for the best dental implant medical tourism option -- Mexico, Colombia, and Asia are all pretty solid. It's 3 visits (plus possibly orthodontics since it's been so long with a missing molar), but internationally is maybe $2-3k vs $5-15k.)
If today's scientific community were as functional as Rudy Marcus' we'd still be progressing. The key moment of his career was prediction of an inverted trend in an unexplored experimental regime. In today's academia, he would have hopped to a startup rather than struggle for tenure with foreign ideas that don't support anyone else's old stack of fluffy papers.
Ah, I saw the news of his legal trouble and had heard "Because I Got High" before, but didn't put them together to realize it was the same person. The version you linked is more obscene than what I remember, but still delightful.
It's my personal belief that things have been on a downhill decline since about 1982. That was the year our computers were the most secure, we had hardware enforced, write protectable floppy disks (which suck in every other way, size, speed, reliability, cost). The shift to bulk hard drives was the beginning of that downward slope.

The peak for programming was somewhere around Delphi, Visual Basic 6, Microsoft Office 2000 Professional. (Right before .NET). In Delphi or VB6, You could build a UI in a matter of an hour or so, and then "wire up" code to all the events, and you were done. My preference was for Delphi, but the amazing thing about VB6 was you could do anything with Office 2000, including databases, email, etc.

Access 2000 allowed you to have "relationships" between tables, that it just took care of, like magic. The tools were amazing. Delphi could tie into it through ODBC, as could VB6.

Since the web, and the push to make everything an "app" on a phone, the number of layers and adapters has gone through the roof, and it's all unsustainable.
They also fought for freedom and democracy. Without their heroic example the French Revolution would never have happened and the world would still be ruled by hereditary monarchies. Also, the military in the great nation they founded has consistently protected the democracies of today from falling into dictatorship (like Ukraine)
I would also like to continue in perpetuity, it's why maintain general fitness and I generally avoid some life-shortening things like smoking (though I do consume alcohol). The problem is that life in perpetuity doesn't actually happen even from treatments of even our wildest sci-fi fictions. By extending life, we merely kick the can of death down the road...

Actual immortality achieved would just push concerns to the heat death of the universe, and folks acting as Cyber-Punk Holden Karnofsky would be spilling ink about the need to invest in star-moving technology to create a big crunch. I don't mean to be trite here. The point is 10 years, 100, years, 1000 years, or 100 billion years, the dilemma is the same, because the linearity of time means any non-infinite amount of life is ultimately minuscule.

The psychological dilemma of existentialism is a challenging one, I'll fully admit that. It's one I've accepted. The benefits also exist though. It forces you to live in the moment to some extent, when others are solely focused on the future.
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After all those trampoline axe throwing videos, I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, to hear that Spetznaz were wiped out at an airport on day one.
Notebooks AND chromebooks.

Clearly you haven't paid attention. But even if you're fixated on the default install aspect, the Google pestering you aspect should give you a clue about the power of their reach. You know, Google, the default search engine for mostly everyone?
always disappointing when people switch topic to titles when they can't bring counter-argument.
Have you checked your lint trap?
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I think it could be ethical to let people try experimental treatments in the context of a phase 1 clinical trial, ensuring that something is learned from the attempt. However, I have also heard that an issue with that constraint is that connecting patients to clinical trials is a huge logistical problem that has not been well-solved.

It actually seems like the kind of problem that could be a good fit for tech: have a registry of clinical trials, make sure it’s widely known and consistently used. I don’t know much about the problem, though, so I don’t know if or whether that’s unrealistic.
Does anyone bother to write that the gauls were losers? Vercingetorix got owned!

The Spartans get way too much hype but they also had a fairly respectable run for a while. They beat Persia and then Athens. Were the athenians even bigger losers?
So we should make it illegal to work now?
If you are a Reddit user who left it got kicked out, consider r/redditseppuku
> I would intuitively think that it is because they don't want to continue buying ever more costly kerosene.

Most likely, but that doesn't generate clicks and get you into all the right private events.
If you look at this another way, each new CPU made your computer 10x slower, relatively speaking.
Isn’t wild Solanaceae a deadly poison in most cases?
The latency is distracting for me tbh. That's something I think could be fixed by running local models, but the quality of output is just not there.

Maybe if you're slinging HTML and JS all day it helps more
At least in my department, this will not work as long as the applicant's supervisor or dissertation committee members are still in the department. The crux of the issue, in my mind, is that it is hard to have candid and unbiased discussion about a candidate when the supervisor / dissertation committee is part of that discussion.
Yes, but if the headline was "Google plans to firewall build servers outside of the internet" we wouldn't have read the article or done any discussion about it... except maybe for some random "wait, they don't to that?!?"
Personally I'm more under the impression that there's a lot of research that needs to be done, but parts of the system other than just funding make it hard to do it. "More funding" would be a necessary part of a solution, but would only work when coupled to other necessary measures to encourage genuinely productive science.
As sibling alludes to, there is no guarantee that panic unwinds the stack. It can just abort immediately.
I mean it’s not that interesting to write about the 100 year olds who have no purpose and just putter around. Might be skewing your conclusions a bit.
I've been shipping Musk and reddit... mostly imagining the havoc if reddit goes IPO and Musk can manipulate r/wallstreetbets
Its not a value judgement on my peer group for wanting out of the workplace.

Its more of a value judgement on the meaningless of so much of modern work.

All the people I mentioned above are involved in work that’s probably more gratifying than making giant corporations richer. One is a playwright, one is a professor, one is a top pulmonologist in the country.

I don’t know what their day to day entails, but I can’t imagine it being as mind numbing as what I do.
you missed the attack. a keylogger doesn’t capture the TOTP (and fully synchronous 0-reuse TOTP isn’t possible on global scale, instead you catch it in audit) a keylogger captures the master password to the pwm that stores the TOTP secret.
I'm not sure what you mean by bounded. There's `dyn Error` that lets you unify all error types. You can also make functions generic over the error type.

Places where people use precise concrete error types are not forced by the language, it's just the best practice for libraries.
Current standard of care includes experimental therapy. What you are describing is once again how novel cancer treatments are being implemented today.

Furthermore, Step 1 of the NCCN treatment guidelines for these kinds of cancers (i.e. advanced and/or poor responders to conventional chemo) is always that the patient is enrolled in a clinical trial.

In this authors case he does not meet inclusion criteria for the therapies he is listing, both trials require systemic therapy with novel PD-1 inhibitors (aka immune checkpoint inhibitors, immunotherapy) which when they work do so fantastically with little side effects.

Per his description he has not tried any systemic therapy yet.

I’m unclear whether he’s lumping chemo with immunotherapy (often the case by non-domain expert patients) but not even Moderna is interested in going from surgery directly to mRNA.

This isn’t the FDA getting in the way. He hasn’t exhausted good treatment options yet to be eligible for unapproved experimental ones. It would absolutely be detrimental to ignore ICIs in an eligible patient in favor of [insert non-approved experimental therapy with no evidence].

I’ve seen far more advanced metastatic H&N SCC survive for years on ICIs in my clinical practice. We don’t know all the specifics of this case but this isn’t nothing/days/weeks vs mRNA as the author is pitching.
I've started doing this every time I complete a problem and close the browser windows or if I'm stuck.

I find that if I continue to sit after this it's often when the procrastination kicks in because I'm not sure what to do next.

Whereas if I start walking it kicks my brain into deciding what to do next or solving the problem I'm stuck on.
Except once you have your Ford truck, you have to depend on outside parties to fuel it. At least with solar, once they have the equipment, it's not dependant on outside forces (except the sun)
Weirdly I don't seem to have the two main problems that coders report: back pain and hand/wrist pain.

I always keep a straight posture. Either I'm standing, or I'm sitting with my back straight. I make sure I don't slouch, because that's what causes pain. Used to feel natural to slouch, but now it feels natural to puff my chest out. Also, walking on a treadmill while reading makes it impossible to slouch.

With my wrists, I'm not sure I get it. Surely people are not actually typing all the time? I spend a lot of time looking at the code by using the touchpad. A lot of slidey-two-fingers to scroll the text. But also I hardly type much when coding. I type in something, let smart complete fill in the line, hit tab. But it's not even that much text to type in. Most of the work is looking at things and thinking. Perhaps it's the height of the table, I have a movey-up-down table that I adjust so I'm not uncomfortable. But basically I never have wrist pain, whether I'm standing or sitting.
>Despite Sparta’s reputation for superior fighting, Spartan armies were as likely to lose battles as to win them, especially against peer opponents such as other Greek city-states.

This shows a misunderstanding of how military power and war works, particularly in the ancient world. It's not a football game, where the best team will dominate everyone else. It's about fear and intimidation as much as fighting. If you have a force that is capable of creating 50/50 odds against any given opponent, that is a very formidable enemy.
To be fair patenting publicly funded stuff is not ok. All IP produced with government money should be public domain.
Do you pay for the news you rewrite?

If not, if this is the future, how is it sustainable? The original sources are required for this to be a thing.
K8S idling will burn much more CPU than any plain OS, still masses of engineers are following the cult of “burn planet, burn“ like in a zombie distopia. Is this a collective brain failure? Bandy Lee should look into destructive tech trends.
The Mount Pelée Disaster 1902 [video]
What's wrong with the desktop at Linux, why "classical desktop" at all? I love my tiled wm setup so much since >10 years, and absolutely hate my corp windows desktop so much for everything it does to me. Gf similar regrets her chosing a private Mac Airbook everytime she uses it and swears to never buy one again every time she uses it (but uses it to seldom to consider just installing an Ubuntu, otherwise would do that)... so we are maybe strange people but

> It seems so weird to me to want to use Linux on the desktop. This is not The Year.

It seems so weird to me everybody considering their Windows or Mac as desktop ;)
They used to use that song to teach us how bad weed was

Sucks for them, now I just love afroman
There’s a big difference between having a purpose in your life, something you love doing, that happens to be done at a work place; and being an employee.

IMHO it is absolutely a good thing to dream of a life which values things outside of employment.

We just happen to use the same word - “work” - for both kinds of situations.
That paper says that the toothpaste with only apatite is preferable for small children, who are careless and swallow a part of the toothpaste.

If the swallowed toothpaste has fluoride, ingesting too much fluoride can cause bone defects, especially while the bones are growing.

That is also why including fluoride in the drinking water is extremely stupid, because it has positive effects only externally, in contact with the teeth, and only negative effects after it is ingested.
On-line curated anthology of works/resources can more readily keep pace with current technological trends/changes than published volumes.
That sounds like a close cousin for sure. It’s hard to tell because it was in English but maybe the Chinese was in small script below. I don’t know if I still have that manual either, it may have been destroyed in one of these boxes that got left out in the rain. I’ll try to look for it next time I’m digging around the attic.
Could they? Realistically, how powerful of a mercenary army would $250B buy, going from 0 to deployable?

Supply lines are expensive. Feeding an army is hard.

Would an Apple army be competitive in a war lasting months, not to mention years, with a mid-level average country’s army?
How are these new periodic functions p19 and p41 different from those that came before. It seems like there many other previous cases of Omniperiodicity.

Edit: ok so it seems they had solved for certain periods above some numbers but not for all periods - this month saw the last two being found.

The link has more https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Oscillator
An Ancient 20-Sided Dice Inscribed with the Names of Egyptian Deities
‘Facekinis’ become popular in China as temperatures soar
I'm not overly concerned about death on its own (I feel it's going to be kind of like being asleep), neither am I that concerned about my role in the universe. Instead, I feel more for people who truly suffer in life maybe due to poverty, or due to disease, etc. who don't get to go on Disneyland rides. It makes me feel what was the point of it all? It has to be teaching us a lesson beyond the "simulation" and if not -- that's what makes me sad -- not my personal fear of death, or anything to do with status.

And even to a lesser extent -- why do we suffer -- is it a law of physics that can't be bent? I don't agree with people who believe more pleasure equals more pain. There will be people who live amazing lives, and those who don't. And so I feel that we as intelligent beings can reduce randomness, and take control of our environment and make sure we can all go on Disneyland rides at least to some extent, and hopefully eventually figure out what's outside of Disneyland.
Or that they oriented their society towards war rather than writing things down. Sparta was a state of total war before total war was even defined.
Some people are certainly more predisposed to things than others.
Apropos of Oppenheimer coming out, the guy who invented the H-bomb currently works as a covid researcher. (Or at least an amateur one, not sure what he’s actually doing.)
Its easier if you drop the redundancy.

Write $5, not $5 dollars. The dollar sign denotes the unit, there is no reason to add the word after. Alternatively you could just write "5 dollars", there is no need for the dollar sign when you write "dollars" right after.

That way you dont have to worry about keeping your redundant units in sync.
Agreed & uovoted. I do tend to think it's incredible what a massive impact small influences can have.

Thankfully the web still is a very multiparty system, with various w3c group reviews & various implementer signals all being registered well ahead of time. Comments on blink-dev were strong & fast. Unlike almost every other system on the planet I think the mediation here is real & strong!
I fully expect the attestors to be platform vendors - Google, Apple, MS.

It’ll be cryptographic chain-of-trust based, with it sending a fingerprint, probably encrypted/signed with a per device key stored in something like a TPM, to the attestor, who will say if the fingerprint is valid or not.

They’ll inevitably only attest to the state of apps running under this full chain - so full secure boot, no unsigned drivers, only signed/approved apps - probably with a requirement to be installed via the platform’s App Store.

No one will be attesting for Linux because there’s no chain of trust and no control over what runs.

It’s a recipe for eliminating user choice and freedoms.

The current spec has a holdback mechanism. It actually gets implemented, I don’t expect that holdback mechanism to actually be part of the final implementation - because it makes the whole idea useless.
In summary, it's important to remember that the grandparent comment may have been written by a Large Language Model. Also, I can't help you do that.
> It seems so weird to me to want to use Linux on the desktop. This is not The Year.

Why? I've used it for many years and still like it very much. I use Windows too, but I do most of my work in Linux. Why would this be weird?
> Peter Tail

Friendly amendment: You mean Peter Thiel, presumably?
Why - really? They work supposedly with the same purpose, the good of the Nation. (The term 'bipartisan' occurs in the text.)

Is it possible that you have been exposed to radical polarizing figures? That would be worrisome - it is a heavy mark of populism.
Someone mentioned a paper a while ago examining whether retirement was actually what caused death, rather than retirement being caused by ill health. Perhaps someone here can link it.
Look into Sparta inheritance laws. Most land was owned by rich widows. Those also dominated political life. Kings had to borrow money from them!

Sparta was basically matriarchal society with very low fertility. At time of Alexander the Great, they could only field 1000 soldiers. He did not even bothered to conquer them.

Compare it to US. How many soldiers could they put on field? UK can realistically deploy only 10k soldiers.