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Then maybe stop commenting about contentious topics in US politics?

you really need to have a specific reason to choose something outside of bash/zsh/fish

The reason in question is that not that long ago, people said "you really need to have a specific reason to choose something outside of bash", and people choosing to go off the beaten path lead to zsh and fish becoming powerful and way more popular/well-supported than they were before.

The first four words on that page include the name of the author "Dave Liepmann" which != Tufte

Your definition is definitely the historically more common one.

But see the final definition under the verb here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/interdict#English

(transitive, US, military) To impede (an enemy); to interrupt or destroy (enemy communications, supply lines etc). [from 20th c.]

You see this version with the noun "interdictor" now as well.

A lot of my friends are professors or lecturers at universities with "motivationally-diverse" undergraduate populations; LLM-based cheating has become so common that they often reward higher marks to poorly-written papers, just by virtue of them not having been written by *GPT et al.

That Wiki page even has a section about the RH:

The Riemann hypothesis is noteworthy for its appearance on the list of Hilbert problems, Smale's list, the list of Millennium Prize Problems, and even the Weil conjectures, in its geometric guise. Although it has been attacked by major mathematicians of our day, many experts believe that it will still be part of unsolved problems lists for many centuries. Hilbert himself declared: "If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proved?"

I am generally open to this idea, but this particular way of defining what bundles are allowed or not seems incredibly weak. Take Adobe's Creative Cloud. There is almost no one in the world who uses all of the tools in it. There are dozens of alternatives made by other companies that only cover a single component software. Adobe is the market leader with virtually all of the component pieces of software. Why is the US not targeting Adobe with antitrust for bundling together tools for typesetters, marketers, video editors, animators, etc, etc?

The Republic of Gilead is named for the biblical name "Gilead" for a region in Jordan[0]; the shot is presumably named for the Balm of Gilead[1], also named for biblical Gilead.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilead

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balm_of_Gilead

At some point the test stopped being fizz buzz and started being "reproduce Brent's cycle detection algorithm from memory or from first principles if you have forgotten what it is", which isn't testing your ability to program in any meaningful way.

Marijuana remains Schedule I in the US:

7360 Marijuana, including cannabis resin 7350 Marijuana extracts; cannabinoids

The alleged rescheduling to Schedule III has yet to pass muster with the White House Office of Management and Budget, so it remains vaporware until then and the scheduling will likely not be changed for months after that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Schedule_I_drugs_(US)

The thing that makes them "caustic or acidic" is that they are acidic (~3pH), by virtue of having dissolved carbon dioxide (ie carbonic acid) + acidic preservatives in them. You are putting them into your stomach (with your gastric acid, ~2pH). If you spilled your stomach contents on the concrete shipping dock repeatedly, it would weaken the concrete much faster. Now, I don't drink soda and they are objectively bad for your teeth, but the fact that they eat away at concrete does not seem like the right reason to avoid them.

OP's "cannot be used for bezos yacht" problem is about discriminatory licenses. If you don't care that eg Amazon can use your software, there is nothing at odds with what OP sees as a problem (discrimiatory licenses that violate points 5 or 6 of the OSD[0]).

[0] https://opensource.org/osd

For anyone wondering why this is here, I just found this: https://redis.com/blog/redis-adopts-dual-source-available-li...

Redis will no longer be distributed under the three-clause Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).

As of 6 days ago.

Yeah, not sure where the other figure came from. There is literally a project to build unmanned craft to visit Proxima Centauri sometime in the next 50 years or so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot

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

I don't know if this has appeared in ticks but it has appeared in mosquitos.

Not OP, but Mautam in bamboo is another: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mautam

Some other interesting links:

- On bamboo in particular (semelparous and allochronic like cicadas): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_blossom

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allochronic_speciation

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semelparity_and_iteroparity

- On cicadas and their reproductive periods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodical_cicadas

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_eel : same pattern, but using 2 and 3 as their primes.

The 3 things mentioned so far are governed by very different regulatory regimes:

- Using a camera drone to spot game will fall under the purview of both Federal and state level Fish and Game/Wildlife departments, eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Department_of_Fish_... AFAIK this is not federally illegal, so there should be plenty of places where you can do this in the US.

- Drone (I assume you mean some quadcopter UAV) with a gun falls under FAA guidelines. You can't intentionally destroy them in flight or attach weapons to them for the same reason that you can't do that with planes: they are aircraft and the FAA doesn't want to deal with you shooting down aircraft. Since the FAA is federal, you can't do this anywhere in the US.

- Robot with a gun falls under ATF guidelines, specifically ATF letters that indicate certain classes of electronic trigger are effectively a machine gun and fall under the purview of the NFA. Same as point 2, the ATF rules will apply federally. If you have the relevant licensing, which I think would fall under a Class 2 SOT FFL, you can hook a firearm up to a robot since you are legally allowed by the ATF to manufacture machine guns. Most (?) of the Youtubers who have given guns to those offbrand Spots are doing it legally under the supervision of a Class 2 SOT.

- The autonomous robot with a gun would fall under the third point, as I am unaware of any rulings about specifically autonomous stuff, though someone could potentially make the argument that past rulings on booby traps could apply.

None of this directly answers the OP question about whether the 2nd amendment applies, but broadly federal regulation has moved past "shall not be infringed", so what the relevant federal agencies actually de facto allow is more to the point.

As William Gibson famously said, "The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed."

I clicked thinking it was going to be about one-time programmable memory.

registration

If you purchase a firearm from an FFL anywhere in the United States, you are required to fill out an ATF form 4473 and do a NICS background check. There isn't a giant database of all firearms in the US indexed by owner and serial number, but those 4473s do exist and are handed over to the Federal government pretty regularly by FFLs.

licensing

In most places (eg those with "Constitutional Carry"), the only license you need is to not be a prohibited person (not mentally ill, a felon, no violent misdemeanors involving stalking or domestic violence) and old enough to purchase a gun in the relevant state. But if we just go by raw population, most people in the US would need to go through a more substantial process.

2 up quarks, so 2/3 * 2 -> 4/3. And then 4/3 - 1/3 = 3/3 = 1

[W]hen we find a (fast) way turn CO2 back into gasoline

The more salient point than fast is cheap, preferably something with a net profit, which seems... unlikely.

Right, but they will know what "chai tea" refers to, ie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masala_chai

The Flipper Zero is a small-form computing device that is immensely popular, not particularly niche.

Any(sic) incredibly small number of engineers and scientists would ever use this device.

I personally know over a dozen people who own them and have tinkered with them in various ways. I managed to "break" my air conditioner unit (permanently setting it to C, not that bad of a "break") with one. Definitely less popular than a Pi or Arduino, but growing in popularity very fast.

If state-level actors are looking into your data with any amount of individual scrutiny you are already fucked, this is a ridiculous reason to not use ad nauseum.

People post/repost the classics all the time, why are you tattling this aggressively, lol?

It just needs a [2020] tag.

Yes, but "cost effectiveness" means very different things sometimes. If, for example a hypothetical country were to have huge stores of old equipment to throw at a problem, losing material from the stockpile doesn't actually "cost" the value of producing the stuff new would. Or a hypothetical country with a massive industrial base, fighting a minor proxy war that is politically unpopular at home. Or a hypothetical country, with a tiny population and no native industry, fighting a massive power in a long-lasting guerrilla campaign using material donated from regional powers. Etc, etc.

Most modern wars are contests of attrition and logistics and bringing down political will to continue to fight

This second point is very well taken; I would extend it even further -- wars have always been contests of attrition, logistics, and political will, but this has been sharply highlighted in all the major conflicts since the turn of the 20th century.

The last one puts a funny spin on Operation Paperclip.

You're comparing a no-ads[0], slow-moving, text-based feed (that has a maximum number of content pieces on the main pages at any given time) designed around fostering a specific tech-related community to an infinite, doomscrolling, video-based brainwashing machine filled with ads, violence, fear-mongering, propaganda, and softcore pornography designed as a skinner box to maximize engagement and consumption. HN has plenty of problems, but it is not even remotely comparable to TikTok/IG/etc.

[0] except the YC jobs ads

Yeah, Benadryl is a weird drug. Look at its interactions with various receptor sites in humans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diphenhydramine#Pharmacology