ShepherdKing

Communication about health risks for marijuana use needs to be on-point, especially among young people. From what I've read, use during brain development (prior to ages 25-30) risks learning disabilities and other mental health disorders due to how it affects cortisol. Marijuana is also an immune system suppressor, which may explain some elevated cancer rates. The effects on the immune system may also explain some food allergies, but susceptibility for fungal and viral infections resulting from marijuana use is fairly well established.

Citing some relevant papers on the subject:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8229290/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7258471/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3930618/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4586361/

Compassion is supposed to be the key reason for mankind becoming the dominant species on our planet, and with intelligence being key to survival, it would follow that compassion would be a key marker for intelligence. A lot of scientists generally fit this characterization, a classical example being Einstein. As a counter-example, a lot of people regarded as poor leaders would probably also rank low for perceived compassion.

I haven't read that (paywalled) article, but I will note that she died on Feb 11th, while a Tesla recall was issued on Jan 26th for a software glitch that can prevent rearview cameras from displaying properly. It appears her death is under criminal investigation, so I presume they're investigating the possibility that the rearview camera glitch was intentionally exploited.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/tesla-recalls-200000-...

The innovation needed here is for everyone to be able to have a premium rate phone number, and be able to set fee rates for contacts or "classes" of callers. Spam & robocalls need to become too cost-prohibitive to pursue. Everyone's time has value, so it seems mad that we can't set fees for incoming calls or texts.

I'm a bit out of the loop on these, but,

1) Is there any Copilot alternative that is open source, and,

2) Is there any Copilot alternative that works with Vim?

Yep, and this is link to disease that people often miss - when we attribute conditions and diseases to "genetics", what is implied is that it is due to some environmental exposure or detrimental pattern of behavior that hasn't been identified, causing some gene expression/mutation that ends up being harmful.

Is there a standard process anywhere for vetting some software for information leakage? I would imagine that someone would deploy the software behind an MITM proxy and then look at the traffic, but it would be nice if there was some standard process or framework for this somewhere.

I would be curious to know if anyone has audited this for malicious code, or how one would go about doing that in the first place. Is that kind of software auditing a use case for Ghidra? A demo of using Ghidra to audit Ghidra would be interesting I suppose.

One might view it as a way of discouraging remote work in Colorado for various reasons. I suspect that Colorado cannot collect much income tax on remote workers given their low flat income tax, so if the tax collected in the remote employers state is higher than that of Colorado, then Colorado gets nothing.

Not sure if it's related, but asteroid 2020 ND is supposed to be passing by the Earth on July 24th. https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-nasa-a...

There is no mention of Python Bundlewrap (https://bundlewrap.org/), which I have really liked, though I don't know how speed and scalability compares. I believe Bundlewrap will welcome contributors for these enhancements.

As someone who obtained their Master's in Physics, I have to agree with the article. The breadth and depth of my scientific training has made me a much more capable data scientist (and engineer) than most of my peers who went the CS path. I only wished that I could have double majored in biology. I would say that my study in physics has taught me how to better see the "bigger picture" and to try to account for all possible outcomes in a given scenario.

The real value I see here, is being able to write anything, such as a publication-quality scientific document - in Vim. I have yet to see a comprehensive overview of what this would entail in Vim. I think Orgmode [1] in Vim makes progress towards this.

[1] https://github.com/jceb/vim-orgmode

See https://github.com/jceb/vim-orgmode for Orgmode in Vim.

I think the issue that I had was that my regular bindings in insert mode (CTRL-a) were disabled while in vi input mode, which caused problems for other shell programs. Plus, with Tmux and GNU Screen already re-configured with vi bindings, managing key binding collisions became complicated with vi input mode enabled. The bigger issue that I tend to have is managing copy-paste buffers between Screen, Tmux, and Vim.

I really love my vim bindings, I try to use them everywhere possible. So far that is:

Web browser: Vimium plugin (Chrome)

Music player: Cmus

Terminal multiplexer: Tmux & Screen

Terminal pager: GNU Less

I'm still trying to figure out how best to use vim bindings in my z-shell (zsh) and ipython interactive sessions.

Published paper: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2018/ee/c8ee0101...