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> The irony is that Musk was a folk hero in many corners of the internet because he was viewed as a visionary. And rightly so, because Tesla revolutionized electric vehicles and especially the charging infrastructure, and SpaceX is revolutionizing rocketry.

> But then he started to make it all about himself, with his atrocious stewardship of Twitter (and increasingly, Tesla), his loud foray into authoritarian politics, and generally being an erratic asshole. He's proven himself to be exactly the type of person that abuses their wealth and power to further enrich themselves without regard to who or how it affects others. He was the richest man in the world, and it wasn't enough.

No, he was always "being erratic asshole". For instance: I disliked him before it was cool because of his constant lies about self-driving technology, how he treated his workers, etc.

He stopped getting a pass, and Musk-hate really got going when he entered the polarized political environment and started to annoy Democrats by not conforming to their ideological requirements. Only then did many people start paying attention.
> I really need to look into a privacy friendly fork of FF..

I'd love to make the jump too, just that I rely upon FF sync too much. It's handy getting your bookmarks and other details on mobile devices. The other forks look to be desktop only.
The people pushing these solutions have decided it's too hard to make public transit compelling so they will have to make car driving worse. Which is a net negative for everyone.
Personally I think dragons are closer related to dinosaurs and birds.
A delicious combo though
Financial data, is sensitive data, especially when linked with anything that could be identifying, even an email address. This is why being some sort of CPA or licensed financial advisor would be very important to build trust.

This clause in your terms, while it's boiler plate, also doesn't build any more trust than say a Charles Schwab or other big financial planning firm.

"We reserve the right to modify or replace these Terms at any time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the updated Terms on our website. Your continued use of lit.money after any modifications constitutes your acceptance of the updated Terms."

Because your terms don't specify any thing about data retention, deletion or selling. It's just a blurb on your site. Even if the terms did, you can changed them unilaterally and simply by me logging in to decline and delete my data I've now agreed to whatever new ones are there.

I think if you want to stand out in this space you'll need to have some sort of licensed financial entity backing you and come out with a meaningfully different terms of service and contract with the people you're serving.
A scattered piece, and it would not have suffered from the attentions of a decent editor.
But, the meaning of life is living. It's all we have and it's the grandeur mentioned. There's no universal meaning beyond that, none at all. I and thee are meaningless in any general sense. I think that Camus had it right.
Tests are not 100% accurate, so running a test without a good reason can lead to a lot of unnecessary medical intervention. A false positive can lead to thousands of dollars of expense and not getting better.
No, the estimate is around 750 or 200 photons/bit received, depending on the transmission frequency. The answer to the question is B, not C. Your numbers are the estimated minimum needed, not the actual amount received, which is what the question was asking.
The part that makes me feel most uncomfortable about usb VID/PIDs is that they are only 16bits each. While I don't think 4billion unique commercial USB devices is limit we will reach anytime soon, efficiently managing the available address space is a different question. And unlike IPv4 addresses a range of USB VID/PIDs can't be as easily reused without making the VID/PID meaningless.
This still seems very handwavey to me with respect to the actual vulnerabilities. And the only 'split parsing' going on is external commands parsing arguments passed to them. `test` doesn't parse bash or any other shell. `[` is not special, either; it doesn't have to communicate anything back to the shell invoking it about how to parse the rest of the program, either!

Are you categorically against shell scripting (the invocation of external binaries as commands), then?
Give programmers enough rope and they'll always hang themselves.
The response to COVID should be thoroughly investigated, but this page just seems like a partisan hackjob. The framing is clearly intended to get maximum partisan impact, not to find the truth.
Does Zen5 do FP math in a single cycle?
Thank you for the well considered response, but my symptoms include a tremendous amount of flatulence and diarrhea, a specific smell that other people can detect, etc. that cannot be explained by hypochondria.
My favorite Faststone features: drag-to-reorder (without layout shift!), batch rename files, shortcut to open image in other program, adjustable thumbnail sizes
Literally the only thing I tend to worry about up front is deployment automation. I've worked in so many environments that don't have it, or have some byzantine manual deployment strategy that just gets irksome and difficult. I'm a big fan of containers, even for single-system deployments. If only because it always bites you when you are under the greatest time pressure otherwise.

Beyond that, my focus is on a solution to the problem/need at hand, and less about optimizations. You can avoid silly stuff, and keep things very simple from the start. Make stuff that's easy to replace, and you often won't ever need to do so.

Most software isn't about science, and isn't engineering... it's about solving real world problems, or creating digital/virtual solutions to what would otherwise be manual and labor-costly processes. You can shape a classic rdbms into many uses, it's less than ideal, but easy enough to understand. Very few jobs are concentrated on maximizing performance, or minimizing memory or compute overhead. Most development is line of business dev that gets deployed to massively overpowered machines or VMs.
Given that there were absolutely no widespread studies at that point, they had to go on priors. And the 6 ft guidelines was based on the belief that if COVID spread mainly through droplets (which was the most likely theory at that point). The children aspect was again based on limited information available at that point.

With all the data now, we see that COVID affected older and less healthier population. They had no idea at that point, conclusively so always erred on the side of caution. All this house investigation is a Republican witch-hunt.
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If your point is that it's more of an arithmetic sequence than a line segment, thanks to discretisation, then I agree but I don't have a good word for it other than "discrete piecewise linear".

I mean it's not continuous, but it's still on an interval scale.
Agreed but it will need to wait for now.
Greek yogurt is full of lactobacillus bacteria, not fungi.
VMware & on-prem is dying anyways, there’s not much opportunity to turn that one around.
> but this page just seems like a partisan hackjob.

Please explain. This page is a link to the actual testimony.
There are plenty of studies that provide evidence that distance reduces the spread of COVID-like diseases.

There is not '6 feet is safe, 5 feet is not' because it is about probabilistic particle movement in air.
So what? Code doesn't rust.
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In my particular case, I had numerous other more expensive and invasive tests before my gastro finally decided to even offer the breath test.
The treatment is a course of antibiotics for a week.
I've had teachers who didn't understand the subject they were teaching. It's not a good experience and replicating that seems like a terrible idea.
Even if that were true, which I'm absolutely not willing to accept without evidence, trade is not the only way that wealthy nations impoverish poor nations. There are others: war, political instability, environmental degradation, etc.
The messaging is quite confusing. The title makes it seem like it took you ten years to release a first version, but the website says it’s version 3.0 and claims it’s “the leading SQL Editor […]”¹. There is a GitHub repo² but the history is quite unhelpful, with a bunch of commits named the same and some older commits after newer ones.

¹ Unless it were the only one, it would be impossible to be leading right after launch.

² https://github.com/timeseries/qstudio
For anyone who is interested in the ultimate limits to communications the seminal paper by Jim Gordon is quite easy to understand even without a physics degree (unlike the Holevo paper IMO). He was incredibly good at writing in an accessible manner (apart from probably being the person who most deserved a Nobel prize but didn't get it).

https://doi.org/10.1109%2FJRPROC.1962.288169
> With all the data now, we see that COVID affected older and less healthier population.

That was always going to be the case. Less old and healthy people were carriers.
> "you might want it to do"

This is my problem with Wayland zealots. First and foremost I want it to display windows on my laptop and my desktop and not freeze my computer on start. Then, I would like to have more than 10 frames per second when it'll finally start. Is that too much to ask? Wayland doesn't deliver these two points on my setup. Should I change my hardware to match your hardware?

Wayland development is already in progress for 15 years. And it sill fails to provide basic screen displaying capabilities. I have nothing against the technology, just against the people running the show. I think Canonical has made a mistake to cancel Mir.
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It may also be that they were one of the most prominent faces of Rock’s commercial and creative decline. One of the best YT interviews I’ve recently seen is Rick Beato sitting down with a music industry veteran to discuss why rock music declined so rapidly.

tldr - prior to the 90s radio stations were largely independent and had local DJs constantly searching out and playing new and original local music as that DJ was incentivized the find the “next big thing”, I.e. a DJ could say “I was the one” who broke Some Big Band on the national scene. However, in the 90s legislation was passed that allowed for the monopolization of radio stations. Many were bought out by large central corps. This resulted in the demise of the local DJ searching for new music, instead replaced by the DJ who is told by those “up top” what to play. Thus we witnessed the death of new and creative acts, replaced by bands that were “formulated” by corp minds.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=reesdiAbvk4
The 6-foot distance was revealed as a fiction several years ago. [1] The rules for child masking in other countries demonstrates fairly well that there was not a strong scientific basis.

1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/graisondangor/2021/09/19/cdcs-s...
This is not a political topic. We have a right to have questions answered about a significant event.
When it finally dawned on me that taking no risk is the biggest risk of all. I was "afraid" to get into the stock market when I started my career in 2009....I didn't change my tune until about 6 months ago. I missed out on life changing gains.
Bit disappointing I've not read any conspiracy theories on this yet.

China. Dark side of the moon. Seems ripe, shall we get one going?
Great link! Might have found a bug in Chrome with it though :)

I was curious to see more about the internals so I opened up Chrome Devtools and as soon as I clicked on the "Application" tab, it crashes Chrome and did it every time.
In this use the negative means answering in the negation. E.g Q: "Would you like some tea?" A: "I wouldn't mind!". You are answering 'yes', negatively, i.e. in the negation, by responding that you would _not_ mind to have some tea.

It does not mean anything about the nature of the answer itself.
> raw peak performance hasn't moved much in a decade.

In general, CPU clock speeds stagnated about 20 years ago because we hit a power wall.

In 1985, the state of the art was maybe 15-20MHz; in 1995, that was 300-500MHz; in 2005, we hit about 3GHz and we've made incremental progress from there.

It turns out that you can only switch voltages across transistors so many times a second before you melt down the physical chip; reducing voltage and current helps but at the expense of stability (quantum tunneling is only becoming a more significant source of leakage as we continue shrinking process sizes).

Most of the advancements over the past 20 years have come from pipelining, increased parallelism, and changes further up the memory hierarchy.

> today, the latest $1600 Macbook Pro comes with.... 8GB of RAM.

That's an unfair comparison. Apple has a history of shipping less RAM with its laptops than comparable PC builds (the Air shipped with 2GB in the early 2010s, eventually climbing up to 8GB by the time the M1 launched).

Further, the latest iteration of the Steam hardware survey shows that 80% of its userbase has at least 16GB of RAM, whereas in 2014 8GB was merely the plurality; not even 40% of users had >= 8GB. A closer comparison point would have been the 4GB mark, which 75% of users met or exceeded.
I really like build123d[1], which is based on CadQuery. There are a few nice IDEs for it and to make it simple: It's python based code-based CAD.

[1]https://github.com/gumyr/build123d
I ignore such fonts, I simply use reader mode on almost all sites.
I'm not sure I have the time and patience to get good at the hand tools. I'd love to be Rex Krueger and cut perfectly square ends all the time, but I'm simply not that into it. The power tools are a shortcut to getting a good-enough cut.

I have actually pulled out normal saws and done my best a few times in the last year, because I didn't want to make a ton of noise early in the morning... But they were just utilitarian cuts, no matter how I tried. Absolutely nothing to brag about.
I did, the growth students have from first to second year is enormous. Everyone know freshmen produce garbage answers, that is why they are freshmen and not out doing work, they are there to learn not to produce answers. If freshmen answers were good enough people wouldn't bother hiring college grads, just hire dropouts and high school grads.

> I hope you don't hold a teaching position at a university then.

You think teachers shouldn't have growth mindset for students? I think students can grow from producing garbage answers to good answers, that is what they are there for. An LLM however doesn't grow, so while such students are worth teaching even though they produce garbage answers the LLM isn't.
This page is a summary of the testimony which is clearly trying to pick quotes and/or frame things to make Fauci and Democrats look bad. FWIW I agree that eg. children shouldn't have been required to wear masks in school, but I don't trust whoever wrote this to write a neutral or fair summary from the full set of facts we know (which no one will read directly because it would be thousands of pages).
As long as you're asking those questions in good faith, sure.
And what the general population doesn't get about public health officials is they are only concerned with "how to save lives", "how to stop the spread" and "how to not overwhelm the health system".

Given the choice of widespread admittance of children to hospitals vs inconveniencing them with masks, they'd always choose the latter option. With the benefit of hindsight, there are always things to blame but this investigation is a hackjob.
Is there a reader mode that works on almost all sites?
> A small key-fob type hardware which we can send a tiny buzz, with emoticons -- something real simple.

That's just a pager.
Copper has natural antibacterial properties. I'm loathe to look at the insides of plastic pipe after 30 years :p
I think the point is the model though - if a system's behavior can be modeled/described classically, it's a bit silly to to call it a "quantum" system in the same way that it's reductive to say Biology is just applied particle physics. Sure, but that's not a very useful level of abstraction.
A 15 minute shift once every hundred years would wreak havoc on all of the software built when the shift was too far away to worry about.

Better to design in the requirement for all software to support these shifts, like a random 10 minute shift every day. That way nobody will write software that doesn’t support the shift.
What about making your URLs super short??

https://t.ly/
Anything deeper than surface level in medicine.

Try getting it to properly select crystalloids with proper additives for a patient with a given history and lab results and watch in horror as it confidently gives instructions that would kill the patient.

What is even more irritating is that I had gpt4 debate me on things that it was completely wrong about and it was only when I responded with a stern rebuke that it hit me with the usual "Apologies for the misunderstanding..."
Yes yes don't ask questions. It's not gain of function it's mess with function or whatever Fauci barfs up for the day.
Yes - agreed.
"Gathering more light" is generally proportional to its planar surface. In the case of a surface film the potential increase in projected planar area is minuscule.

If you imagine an incident ray, to have a material "gather more light", that ray needs to intersect the material whereas without that material it would miss the surface. By adding some amount of height the film may cause some rays to intersect the surface that wouldn't have (primarily around the edges) but that's going to be very very small.

In general its a safe assumption that any material of the same projected planar area you put in front of another material will reduce the total transmisivity of the system.
https://archive.is/Oewnb
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Very interesting, thank you for posting it.
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I guess because training AI doesn’t use as much energy as the largest energy consumers on the planet, we just shouldn’t even worry about it.
Fact-checking is really hard. How do you know what sources are reliable? How to balance or compare contradict evidences? We don’t have a clear answer yet. Therefore, instead of making the decision simply based on AI, we assist users with annotated evidences.
For Mac I've settled with Phoenix Slides https://blyt.net/phxslides/ (don't be afraid of the oldschool website design)

It's open source with a long history, extremely fast, handles 4K/5K monitors and color management correctly and supports also trackpad gestures on Mac. It replaced Xee3 for me last year.
AMD used to give decently accurate TDP, but Intel started giving unrealistically optimistic TDP ratings, so AMD joined the game. Their TDP is more of an aspiration than a reality (ironically, Intel seems to have gotten more accurate with their new base and turbo power ratings).

9700x runs 100MHz higher on the same process as the 7700x. If they are actually running at full speed, I don't see how 9700x could possibly be using less power with more transistors at a higher frequency. They could get lower power for the same performance level though if they were being more aggressive about ramping down the frequency (but it's a desktop chip, so why would they?).
I'm licking my lips at the possible market opportunities this will create! We will truly be able to create products to help shield folks from AI Recall and profit like crazy! It's a good time to be alive whenever we can profit!
Wow, this include VS Code https://flathub.org/apps/com.visualstudio.code
But this needs to be explicit, and doesn't undermine other statically-known lifetimes (pointers to the inner cell can't escape it).

Just like statically typed languages have some dynamic dispatch features, but despite that still most of their types can be known with certainty.
"Laws for thee and not for me" is one of the root tenets of totalitarianism.
Have you even read it?

“Dr. Fauci repeatedly played semantics with the definition of “gain-of-function” research in an effort to avoid conceding that the NIH’s funded this dangerous research in China”

There is so much BS editorializing here. Also is there any research that shows that masking actually impaired learning? I didn’t see any listed, just claims that there were studies.
Please, post the progress if you end up rewriting it.
It definitely screamed "I'm low-value surface-level content" to me even though the article was genuinely insightful.
I know you're being sarcastic, but you can implement perfect crypto and still get analog holed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole

If you're running a criminal organization, a bigger threat than a wiretap can be someone wearing a wire, so to speak. Talking about anything over text creates a ton of evidence about the criminal conspiracy that you are currently engaged in. That evidence can be screencapped or recorded or whatever else by the person at the other end of the conversation. Since you don't have physical control over that person, it's possible they could be compromised.

If you keep everything in-person, even if someone becomes a snitch, you can still check them for hidden recording devices. At best, this means the evidence against you is that person's recollection of your conversation.

This is the same reason why it's much harder to pirate a movie in theatres than one released on streaming. Physical control over the environment that information is disseminated in is the gold standard, just look at the US military:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_compartmented_inform...
Yes - I want to maintain quality, even at the expense of flexibility. I would rather there were 1, 2 or 3 high quality paths through a RPG style game or quest than hundreds, thousands, or infinite ones that are 'meh'.

(edited to expand)
> GPT-4 being better at almost everything than any single human

Why do people insist on comparing GPT's output against the output of "any single human"?

Of course if you pick any human on the planet, GPT is better than them at generating something. It's better at generating poetry than I am for instance.

But it's generally not better at humans when doing the things that those humans are good at. It's generally not better than software devs at writing code, it's generally not better than artists at creating artwork, it's generally not better than doctors at making diagnosis, or better than lawyers at producing legal arguments

Comparing GPT to a single human is absurd. Compare it to the people who you're actually trying to replace with it and it comes up short constantly

At least for now
Maybe you are familiar. But the point of calculating per item was to show its easy to take thousands of dollars out of the back of a truck in an instant. Most are targeted, as in this case as it was the second time, and not a crime of opportunity like you experienced.
The case for network acceleration in multiplayer games
> children shouldn't have been required to wear masks in school

Historically children were required to get vaccinated before attending public schools. Having large groups in close proximity for long periods is a serious disease transmission risk. With COVID the children themselves had minimal risk but the community was at risk from them.

~1,220,000 people died with the precautions we took. That doesn’t mean 1,220,000 people would have died with fewer precautions or that more couldn’t dramatically lower that number.

Public heath is complicated, but we traded roughly a million American lives for freedom. Suggesting we should have done less is a difficult stance for me to support even as doing dramatically more would have been extremely painful.
The article doesn't conflict with what I stated. It's a probabilistic estimate based on the prior that COVID spread like flu. The further you go the less your chances of catching. Because you can't convey probability effectively to public (you confuse them), you convey an arbitrary number.