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Cold War Diplomacy - Defense Treaties of the United States

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/mutdef.asp

(in 1949-1951)

- 1949 - NATO Treaty; April 4

- 1951 - Defense of Greenland: Agreement Between the United States and the Kingdom of Denmark, April 27

- 1951 - Defense of Iceland: Agreement Between the United States and the Republic of Iceland, May 5

- 1951 - Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of the Philippines; August 30

- 1951 - Security Treaty Between the United States, Australia, and New Zealand (ANZUS); September 1

- 1951 - Military Facilities in the Azores: Agreement Between Portugal and the United States, September 6

- 1951 - Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan; September 8

- 1951 - Military Assistance Agreement Between the United States and Yugoslavia, November 14
> Which describes some voters but certainly not all. You'll notice power changes quite often in the US, clearly some voters are changing their minds.

But not on individual issues like this, unless they are extremely important to many voters, and highly party-aligned (e.g. abortion). You vote for one party or the other, each of which having 1000s of positions like this.

> In any case, what's the endpoint of this argument? Democracy isn't worth it because voters can get polarized?

The endpoint is not thinking that democracy as it stands can reign a lot of things in, unless they become the issue for an election. Not every issue can become the battleground of an election, but there are alternatives to fighting.
This is the common rebuttal, but rarely mentions alternatives to timezones.

One might be a clock face with local solar time as light/dark patches portraying the "movement" of the sun. Perhaps digital UTC in the center. A button to switch cities, etc.

I've seen a few implementations of this with LCD clock faces. They don't typically show UTC as well, but could. Once implemened getting everyone to use it would be the hard part.
At any given point in time, there is always more work to do than time to do things. That’s why there are managers.
> The best solution is to drop support for these technologies from squid altogether, rather than someone waste precious time fixing them.

This is exactly how organizations and larger software distributions get stuck on outdated versions of software packages. They are using some feature in the software to glue things together or something, the package drops that support, and they get stuck because they can't make a massive software upgrade happen quickly, or some aspect of that interface is outside their control.

I have seen this so much that its not even something that surprises me. I am not even surprised about the other side of the argument that seems to assume that you can just burn a ton of code or even a ton of hardware just because its no longer the style in vogue these days. And then these people wonder why companies that make 50 year guarantees of software compatibility like IBM are so popular.
> No one is forcing you to contribute

This is exactly the problematic attitude. I'm an OpenJDK author but not linux kernel contributor for mainly this reason. There are many people like me.

> majority of contributors to Linux, an extremely successful free software project, prefer the email-based workflow

This reminds me the many absurd conversations I had from my time in Goldman Sachs, few years ago. People with 15+ year tenures claiming Slang is the best answer to any- and everything. They just didn't know any better and stubbornly stuck to tooling and mindset straight out of 1995.
Ask me about LOOM
But as a government, you can force the biggest users of an additive to do a controlled study by a deadline date or have authority to use the substance at all in food revoked.
"If the physical property that time meassuring devices meassure is continuous, it must also contain irrational numbers?" Is that what you are refering to?

Mabye... To me it seams like nothing is truly continuous i nature. But mabye there is such a thing somewere out there somewere.

But irrational numbers require definitions that contain or require recursion. Mabye physical time is built with such a recursive definition?
I think logrocket fits the bill for web applications.
Space 5G Changes Course
That pattern is wrong.

You call waitpid() directly, configured for timeout, and if it returns with error that the process is no longer available, then act upon it.
I don't really care if my scale is accurate, I care if it's consistent.

Mine seems to correctly report my body fat going up or down as I gain or lose weight.
Being not-lazy in your work is not the same as working lots of hours.
its a series of wins,losses,and revelations, and choose your own path.

rule breaking is a kind of error handling, to get the game on track, sometimes as a plotline, such as chaotic magic zones, it shouldnt be the rule to break the rules.

some groups have house rules, and long game history. if you were sat down in midst of a campaign thats confusing.

some people really struggle with being a dungeon master [DM], but each DM has to play to the group and keep it provocative for everyone.
HBM4 in Development, Organizers Eyeing Even Wider 2048-Bit Interface
> Lily Jamali: So you call this “Cerebral Valley,” is that right?
> ...
> Jamali: Got it. What does that mean, that term?
>
> Tan: Well, I think it’s a play on really the brain,...

The things people say.
>We had people bragging about spending a year or more trying to get an AI model to do simple tasks that were easily solved deterministically with simple math, for example.

TBF theres whole companies doing this. It's a good way to learn too, as you have existing solutions to compare yourself too.
The big reason we do this is that being a DM, it's REALLY hard to predict what your players are going to do. I used to spend days preparing for a game, only to have the party turn around and wander out of the dungeon 10 minutes into the session, negating all my prep. This way, I can just throw up a map and have them dungeon crawl.

I suppose it make a difference that we are playing Rappan Attuk and not a mainline D&D campaign. There's a lot less dungeon crawling in today's D&D, but Rappan Attuk makes up for all of it with about 600 pages of one dungeon.
1/3 of Americans are "obese". Not "overweight", _obese_.

Sure, there are and will be variations among populations (and individuals), but that variation is less meaningful when 99.999% of obese people are at unhealthy weights.

Instead, it appears to be a con to excuse unhealthy behaviors, particularly by playing the trump card of "that's racist!" as the Nature article does.
If tech debt is important it will show up in a ticket. If not at some point a rewrite will happen. Prioritizing tech debt is something the ticket creators decide.
Well, consumption is what drives it. Education-based messages that convince people to consume less/differently are the non-authoritarian way to effect change.
Ok, that's why I asked you to give an example. I've tried a similar thing as well, and that does indeed not work very well. The reason is that you are actually asking it to compute something! And it is not very good at computing, no matter how much you explain the computation to it. But again, that's not very different from many humans. And for my use cases, this is also not much of a problem, because if I know how to compute something (and I know how to parse grammars), then I don't need to ask the AI, I can just solve it directly.

So, instead of giving it that description, give it a few examples of correct use of the grammar, see where it makes mistakes, and then add more examples / a description that would rule out these mistakes. It is really good at generalising from a few examples to the general case.
> However, the DM is not technically supposed to just "change the rules as you go" to decide whether or not something is successful

That's...highly variable. Page 236 of the 5th Edition Dungeon Master’s Guide addresses three valid approaches with pros and cons (nominally to the dice, but because of the role the dice play implicitly to the rules as a whole) ranging from using the rules, stats, and dice rolls for everything, to using the DM’s narrative judgment for everything, to a hybrid blended approach. (Previous editions of the rules had similar license to the same range of approaches with different framing.)
The lettering was found by looking for 'crackle' texture on papyrus segments from the CT scans which obviously were in the shape of Greek letters, and annotating those as training data. Unfortunately such crackle texture isn't visible, at least by eye, on most of the papyrus. Probably it's only that visible where the ink was very thick. You can easily see the difference in texture in this electron microscope image [1] (far higher resolution than the CT scans) but especially on the very edge of the inked area (the narrow strip in the left image; I think the whole right image is inked) where the ink was pushed to. I'm surprised the crackle was discovered only after the Kaggle Ink Detection contest. Looking at the CT-scanned fragments with infrared ground truths, which were used in the Kaggle contest, Casey Handmer wrote [2]:

> The ongoing apparent failure of deep-learning based ink detection based on the fragments indicated to me that direct inspection of the actual data would be more fruitful, as it has been here.

> ...

> I found similar “cracked mud” and “flake” textures corresponding to known character ink, but only for perhaps 10% of the known characters. It’s been a long day, I can probably find more on closer inspection, but that does make one wonder about automated ink detection and what that is seeing.

These new images are much better than I hoped for, but still only in one small area, so I'm still pessimistic about more than an odd sentence being readable.

[1] https://scrollprize.org/img/tutorials/sem.png

[2] https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2023/08/05/reading-ancien...
Integrating AI tools into your workflow
Again, "this is a case where 12 factor is so successful / dominant today I don't think you even know what it's arguing against anymore"
Conflating ranked choice with IRV is like conflating Maoism with socialism because you're unable to disentangle concrete implementations from their abstract reasoning.

There are alternatives to IRV, almost every single one of which is better. IRV is a bolt-on plug-n-play implementation to existing winner-take-all voting for lazy bureaucrats.
R is fine, it's no more absurd than other non-typed languages like javascript. Most languages are very good at one or two things, then not so good or appropriate for other tasks. For R, that's statistics, modeling, and exploratory analysis, which it absolutely crushes at due to ecosystem effects.
Anyone that has done microarchitecture debugging with VTune knows those details matter.
How long would it take for someone to learn all that?
Many new families move to surrounding cities Palo Alto, Mountain View, San Mateo, Alameda, Mill Valley, etc. Way less crime and still within reach of SF.

Some, like me, bet on WFH and become expats abroad to enjoy a balanced life.
Gitlab's response to a high severity vulnerability impacting curl and libcurl
Nobody likes Atlassian products but everyone uses them.
Sure, these things come and go, but isn't that partially because of the types of industries and workers that settle there in a given period? I'm sure it was quite the scene during the gold rush or tenements eras too. In the 90s it seemed really nice though. Rose tinted glasses and all that.

I don't think Chicago is magically more affordable or anything, just significantly more so than West Coast tech hubs, while still being very livable (transportation, food, culture, art, diversity, etc.) It does lack nature compared to the West Coast, but there are some really well maintained parks and awesome museums.

Point is, cities are in part defined by who lives and works there. Tech workers as a class don't really seem to contribute as much "liveliness" to a city, IMO. We make our money, hoard it or spend it on luxury cars and housing, then mostly keep to ourselves. Not very community or civic minded. Not EVERY worker, obviously, but it's a stereotype I've seen true more often than not in my limited personal experiences.
Redwood Materials launches battery pricing tool
Actually, according to the IRS themselves in their yearly report to congress, they yet again have not been given the resources to go after big companies or rich individuals who are clearly skirting tax laws (and which will inevitably cause a serious court case because fuck you for trying to collect taxes from anyone with a lawyer) so they are basically relegated to sending mean letters to average and poor people for a few hundred dollars here and there, and they STILL collect more money than they are given in funding.

The IRS has been begging for the resources to go after big baddies for decades, but the Feds have been gun-shy at going after any large company since Enron.
Security seems like a pretty decent reason to switch. I stopped letting apple products on my home network out of Pegasus fears.
I agree, if I could uncheck a box that says “coloring” when buying food, I would uncheck that every time. The only issue I have is that we don’t live in a world where that is possible, and food dyes inhabit anything that is wrapped in plastic. It’s very much a “take it or leave it” deal and increasingly more often, I leave it.

I suspect that a major problem is the fact that everything is focus group driven and when given the choice between a frozen drink dyed red with beet juice and the same drink dyed neon red with food dyes, people will gravitate towards the neon red drink because that’s what we’ve been conditioned to believe is higher quality.
https://archive.today/96fxQ
> when I am supposed to fix tech debt?

Try to lie about how long will it take. Just today I finished* 1-month almost total rewrite of firmware for one of devices at my work. It started as a 1-week small rewrite of part of communication module for a small bug and was scheduled as that. But I've got chill PM and coworkers who will appreciate that now we can actually fix some 8yr old bugs in legacy parts of that code.

* well, now some testing of edge cases and another round of fixes but at least remote code updating works so we can ship those devices...

Edit: "Lie" is call to action here, there were some misunderstanding in comments. Previous start of my comment was "Lie. ..."
The land is protected from development, IIRC.
Crime in first-tier coastal cities isn't the problem. Serious crime in them is at much lower rates than in peer cities in the South and the Midwest.

The mixture of hyperwealth and soul-crushing shit-on-the-street-people-huddled-around-burning-garbage-cans poverty right out there on display for everyone, and the lower-working and middle class getting uncomfortably squeezed in the middle is what makes SF look like a sad parody of Blade Runner.
I've been using GeoGebra for years. I have tried Desmos twice but couldn't immediately spot the differences. What are the benefits of Desmos over GeoGebra?
Sounds nice until the fire claims your house.
They can stop a sitting president from broadcasting tweets, but not a terrorist organization.
Higher Quality AV1 Video Encoding Now Available for Radeon Graphics on Linux
My viewpoint on tech debt as someone who does try to do it right is tracking is what is important.

It doesn't take more than a couple minutes to throw up a task about an issue you see. That issue then becomes the tech debt.

Leadership is responsible for prioritizing tech debt and ensuring a certain burn down of that debt.

Note that sometimes you burn down tech debt by deciding you won't do a thing, that is perfectly fine as well.

The point of the tech debt song and dance of log, verify, handle is to give a second pass at "not right now issues". Sometimes your instinct was wrong, there wasn't a need for X, othertimes it was right for reasons that weren't in your headspace.

Most importantly some amount of "I can't do this now" work is actually important. But if you don't take the time to look at it you won't find it.
>If tech debt is important it will show up in a ticket.

That's like saying "everything is well-understood and well-planned".
Of course it has a use-case. The target audience may be small but for them it is important.

For the other 9X%, the world has moved on
not sure what he's on about, 100% of the tech debt I have experienced is from people doing too much rather than too little

my advice to future coders is to try to put your entire project into a single file...you'll have to drop every bright idea, abstraction, layer, etc just to make it palatable...and the world will thank you
I hate absolutes and broad categorizations (including this sentence). I don’t have a traditional CS degree, so I focus on becoming better in very narrow skillsets, one at a time, and aim to be “above average” in each. I learned a hard lesson at a young age, which is that comparison is the thief of joy

As for becoming a “better developer” than others - who cares. Life is too short to waste it thinking about shit like that.

I try to focus on going places (both metaphorically and sometimes physically), and learning whatever it is I need to get there
If only someone had filed a patent that blocked Word from inserting curly quotes the wrong way, like ‘449.
Ditto 1.20, and when interpreted as floating point the trailing zero loses significance. So as a version this is indistinguishable from 1.2
Just try it out? It's bound to be fairly individual.
Sources of Power (2015)
Yes, the clay tablets were used over and over. The ones that are preserved have what was written on them when they were fired, accidentally, by being in a building that was destroyed by fire.
> awareness of the general public, it had already been around and subjected to refinement for years.

And how is that different than "AI" ? It's not like these techniques sprang out of the ether in the 2000s.
Considering the number of problems that could be plugged into a random forest with good results, data proficiency seems more important than strong ML experience.
Worth pointing out that a "tech boom" came about in the previous decade in the area, both then and now.
This whole war is a tragedy. It started horribly with the Hamas atrocities and it is just going to get worse as Israel is responding in a rage that is killing hundreds of civilians.

A better way to think about the horrors in Israel-Palestine starts with this premise: all human life is sacred

https://www.vox.com/world-politics/23911550/israel-hamas-war...
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/real-estate/our-insights...

> For example, the vast majority of employed people in computer and mathematical occupations report having remote-work options, and 77 percent report being willing to work fully remotely.

> Another of the survey’s revelations: when people have the chance to work flexibly, 87 percent of them take it. This dynamic is widespread across demographics, occupations, and geographies. The flexible working world was born of a frenzied reaction to a sudden crisis but has remained as a desirable job feature for millions. This represents a tectonic shift in where, when, and how Americans want to work and are working.

I can definitely understand your position with regards to wanting (rightfully demanding, even) to be treated respectably and with humanity and deceny where you live and work, but arguing SF is more accepting than all non top tier cities because of the political climate is a reach. There are plenty of non top tier cities tolerant of others.
Exactly. The operating system already offers security for environment variables: use it. And you get the benefit of increased security in other places by not sharing users between applications.
Yeah, that's a fair point! Chicago is mostly filled in flat swampland.

Maybe floating settlements in the Bay? If Japan can build a floating airport (Narita), can't we build a floating apartment or two?
What are the functional differences between ZFS and Btrfs?
I have a feeling the "console game ports" will die out just as soon as the Alien: Isolation and Tomb Raider ports did.
By "k8s-native" I meant solutions that were built from the ground up with k8s in mind. Rook is built on Ceph, and as such requires knowledge and maintenance of both, which seems like much more difficult than managing something like Longhorn.

I think you misunderstood me. I'm not inclined to give Ceph/Rook a try because of its complexity, regardless of the state of its documentation. I was refering to Proxmox in my previous comment, in the sense that I don't need a VM/container manager/orchestrator with a pretty UI. If I'm already running k3s, I can manage the infrastructure via the CLI and IaaC, and removing that one layer of abstraction that Proxmox provides is a positive to me. Which is why adding just a storage backend like Longhorn to a k3s cluster seems like the path of least resistance for my use case.

Ultimately, I don't _want_ to deal with the low-level storage details. If I did, I'd probably be managing RAID, ZFS, or even Ceph. For my current NAS I just use a single JBOD server with SnapRAID and MergerFS. This works great for my use case, but I want to have pseudo-HA and better fault tolerance, and experiment with k8s/k3s in the process.

So I'm looking for a k8s-native tool that I can throw a bunch of nodes and disks at, easily configure it to serve a few volumes, and that it gives me somewhat performant, reliable, and hopefully maintenance-free, block or object-level access. Persistent storage has always been a headache in k8s land, but I'm hoping that nowadays such user friendly and capable solutions exist that will allow me to level up my homelab.
No, this is absolutely not true.

Laziness is not working hard.

What you're talking about is something else.

Sloppy or Careless work maybe?

But not lazy. If you're working 40+ hours a week you're definitely not lazy.
Reworking Git branches with Git filter branch
Wow. Awesome. Thx!
Could you share what function you plotted? A very simple z = x^2 + y^2 worked fine so I'm curious where its limits are
Nooo, we should not lose the one place where duodecimal actually has a footing, even jokingly! We need to replace more things, including our counting, with duodecimal.
It does, though it's almost in passing:

"For instance, Asian people tend to be at a greater risk of conditions such as heart disease at lower BMIs than are white people, probably owing to differences in body-fat percentage and distribution. The WHO recommends that Asian populations use lower BMI cut-offs for overweight and obesity, which several Asia-Pacific countries now do."
>I think we need something that at least captures the general mechanism by which LLMs predict the next token.

This bit varies a lot since the capabilities involved in prediction depend on the data. If the text is a math book and the prompt is "... three plus five apples is a total of " the crucial capability is arithmetic (plus of course NL capabilities). On the other hand, if you're completing a post from /r/relationship_advice the capabilities involved will be (vaguely) maintaining literary tone, theory of mind, psychology, etc. Within a text the capabilities needed will also vary a lot, where you might need theory of mind at some crucial inflection points, but most of the time its already clear what is going to be said and the model just has to get the wording right.

So, my take would be to really think hard about the data to understand how predictions might be made.
Heroku didn’t invent ENV variables nor did it dream up the idea of using them for app config. This has been in use long before Heroku existed. I’ll give Heroku credit for making it common knowledge and spreading the use of these concepts, though.
Why childless males?
Scientists will thank you: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-renam...