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If Amazon is actually taking advantage of the food stamp programme rules, how can changing the rules have any other effect than making people starve ?

I actually stopped learning new languages with these features because I started to get so frustrated they weren't available. Or I implemented then am everyone got weirded out by their 'strangeness'

From a narrative point of view, the spatial problem as stated is a quite decent post hoc argument for why time travel is usually fraught with danger, even after the science is known, as predicting the exact parameters needed would be nigh impossible.

One could easily argue that big whiteboards laden to the brim with integrals and capital sigma (summation) rich equations indicate a data rich problem rather than a theory heavy one, and that the inevitable squashed, disappeared, or exploded melon fits very well into this framework.

Shooting a water melon at several million miles per hour so it hits a small time travel device correctly in all N>3 dimensions is obviously going to make a royal mess quite a few times, as evidenced in many movies!

Maybe not the case if they looked crooked, but having irregular placement of construction elements is a valid way to decrease tendency for self resonance through different vibration modes being dampened by the mismatched distances.

An irregular structure can be useful for improving earthquake resistance, or sway/vibrations in high wind situations.

I would very much like to have something like Google authenticator, but for billing. With the ability so set it as alarms on my phone (and coworkers), preferably with some smarts to detect short usage spikes.

In essence, settings and updating amount, rate and velocity ( speed of rate change ) caps on the fly.

Then I can set whatever tight limit I want to, and not worry about burning through too much cash because of some simple coding, or config error.

A bug almost cost us several tens of thousands of BigQuery costs when a dev accidentally repeated a big query every 5 seconds in an automated script, and while we still had budget warnings, it still cost us a fair bit of money. Even after this, I found it tricky to set/catch budgets for single services. I think I had to use stackdriver to be able to get any kind of warning.

It was in the ’blinking lights and sirens’- territory fast!

Being frustrated with burned top, and undercooked bottom I figured out that using the broiler together with a couple 2-3 mm thick pre-heated aluminium sheet that I placed the pizza on produced pretty good results. Not that I was aiming for a particular style of pizza though, ymmv.

The sheet itself was placed on an ordinary oven rack somewhere below the middle of the oven.

It seems to align somewhat with their findings. Since the aluminium sheet is only heated by the air, the bottom doesn't get burned, but the slight extra boost of initial heat cooks the bottom about right compared to the top. At least for a bit thicker pizzas as the one I made.

You probably would want maybe an even thicker plate to get a really short cooking times, like the 2min in the article. In any case, you will have to wait for a little bit between each pizza for the plate to reach the appropriate temperature.

I don't know anything about how the licencing works, and what parts are covered, but the patents reported to ITU for H.265/HEVC as a whole is substantial, see: https://www.itu.int/itu-t/recommendations/related_ps.aspx?id...

It's satisfying for me, it's an honest answer, and as good as any other.

With enough free time there wouldn't be much need for a direction. And after a while I would probably figure out something I liked doing more than other things.

Only issue is that in my eyes, enough is probably pretty close to immortality. Largely because I would like to understand the breathd of the human condition, and how language makes us think differently. That probably requires getting to native speaking ability in maybe 100’s of languages, and also the patience to wait for the likely needed cognitive augmentation to be able to do that.

I would also very much like to visit a few stars and nebulae, which could take a while.

If I only had a couple of decades or so, I might take a stab at building tools to make programming the job it should be, but isn't now.

Actually, it's chloramine alone that is the culprit for both the smell and the red eyes according to the actual report. Which isn't reporting any new finding, as far as I know this has been well known since many years.

The short version is; A pool that smells strongly of 'clorine' ( chloramine(s) ) is a pool with a high load of contaminants, and whether or not the chlorine concentration is kept at levels enough to cope with the load can't afaik easily be determined, but it's reasonable to a assume a higher load implies a higher risk for insufficient levels.

Or as the report states: >What you smell are actually chemicals that form when chlorine mixes with pee, poop, sweat, and dirt from swimmers’ bodies. Yuck! >These chemicals—not chlorine—can cause your eyes to get red and sting, make your nose run, and make you cough. >Healthy pools, waterparks, hot tubs, splash pads, and spray parks don’t have a strong chemical smell.

It seems the argument could be that since he didn't object to the new ToS when they were changed, and kept using parts of their service, the clause forbidding arbitration towards RSI is/was still binding.

One oddity, except the usual insanity that click-through agreements should be valid for anything above, lets say $100, is that it appears the newer ToS explicitly states it doesn't apply retroactively. However, since the arbitration would always occur in the future from the later ToS, it might be a moot point.

If all of this is true, and the law correctly applied. Doesn't it create a situation where any ToS for a service - at least those you actually depend upon - are essentially worthless?

Seems like if a change the ToS to include an arbitration clause is applied this way, your only option would be immediately stop using the service, or the provider would be able to do whatever they wanted hereonafter, even completely ignore the rest of the contract/ToS?

There appears to be some volume limits for the free tier, that might explain the difference in experience.

Right now I get the following for most of the graphics on the linked page:

"This embedded plot has reached the maximum allowable views given the owner's current subscription.

Please visit the subscriptions page to learn more about upgrading."

There might be a difference that's worth noting. There are game designs that are clearly engineered to create either outright addiction, or at the very least, cravings. Porn, at least superficially, doesn't seem to attempt to engineer addiction in a similar way, maybe because they don't need to?

While the end result might be the same, there seems to be a much clearer intent to create addiction in some parts of the game industry, especially where gaming and gambling meet.

The parent seems to agree with you, that Haskell is maybe too eager to keep to 'mathematical' names, but it almost sounds like you interpreted the parent the other way around?

Your comment reads almost equally well with two different interpretations. One a restatement of fact, and the other a rather rude response to a misunderstood message.

Game theoretical, I don't have a solution, but for the scoundrels they tend to have a different set of truths for everyone they talk to.

I think it should be possible to use this to at least limit the space the scoundrels can act within, maybe even limit it enough that the actions they inevitably does take become a net positive.

Would probably need a very tolerant user-base though, especially in the bug fixing phase!

Very few people are really able to spot people with even quite blatant sociopathic/anti-social behaviours, they just fit too well into the stereotype of the able, charismatic, and successful.

In general, you will be the one in ten, or even a hundred that tend to pick up on these things.

It appears to be better to not call them out in public immediately, but build a trusted base of people who compare notes of their interactions, so that you can clearly expose the lies and all that comes with it. At least that is what has worked out in the few cases of really destructive/power hungry of this particular kind of bent I've heard about.

The way to avoid them seems to point in the direction of having all decisions and all dialogue regarding decisions within an organisation completely open. Not because it necessarily would reveal them, but because it's less fertile ground.

It's a bit sad, I do long for the stars and planets.

However, rramatically improving rockets might be like trying to improve the carriage to get a much faster personal transport, while keeping the horse.

It seems to be the case, that the cost of launching commercial payloads are still "low" enough compared to the cost of the payloads since there are few big budget ventures that tries to make lifting much cheaper through alternative methods.

I'm not saying that space elevators or other alternative lift devices are feasible, but we tend to get huge investments even into tech that seems absolutely implausible if there is a big market. The lack of these makes investments makes it plausible that the current launch costs are actually acceptable for all current, and expected near future commercial actors.

I've certainly seen this behaviour, years wasted on things that could never work in the long run, then rinse and repeat.

I've only been on for one cycle, but the pattern is quite clear, even if it might not be completely intentional, the result is the same.

It begins with something like a sunk cost fallacy, and then it just rolls on.

There is a group of people where architecture is a synonym for "too much architecture". But if you know it or not, you are always doing architecture as soon as start doing anything non-trival. Only difference is that if you aren't doing in explicitly, then you are doing it implicitly and subconsciously, and if you are doing something trivial, usually someone else has already done the architecture work for you and embedded it in the tools you use.

Not that I need to tell you this, just venting a bit :)

The reproducibility problems of psychology general - of which this is only a small fragment - is showing a few things:

1) Psychology is harder than almost anyone thought.

2) We are only now starting to have enough data to know just how hard psychology really is.

3) There is too much of an onus to publish, "Publish or perish" in science in general.

4) Negative results are very valuable for the public and all other researchers, but generally negative for the researchers career. Even scientists need food.

5) People will use whatever that can pass for facts to further their own agenda, whatever that may be. Left, right, and center. Incidentally, psychology as a science has now taught us that both through its successes in that area, and through how people outside of psychology believed the authorities of psychology to be implicitly right whenever it fit their point of view.

Psychology is a science, no need for the quotes, it's just happens to be incredibly hard to turn the experimental results into reliable facts in that particular field, so shortcomings of both people and systems become magnified. The high difficulty is probably also why some authorities might have gotten an unusually large role in the social networks underlying any area of research, and the public eye. People want answers, even if there isn't really enough data, and even when researchers says: We really don't know.

Science is always only our best guess, in some areas it pretty darn good, but in others not so much, yet.

It could be the case that the click driving articles themselves is an effect of Facebook, but also Google and many others, serving as implicit or explicit filters favouring the style, because their click hungry ad selling algoritms feeds itself through ads on the article pages.

It's quite likely that they believe they have to write that way today, or shutter the doors.

They could still care more about good journalism, while mostly having to write in a style that looks like if they don't.

Only way to know for sure is to look at their economy, and how much is driven by per click ads, and how much is subscriptions/other sales.

Everyone that does online transaction of money, and many more. Like all those who use AWS services on AWS.

Skeptics in the committee could have stopped this if I counted correctly, but they rather use it as bait to create more skeptics than to implement their own policies.

While it could get ratified into law, at this point it seems out of character of the EU in general. It might have been intended as a shot across the bow towards search engines, and to get a bargaining chips for some other legislation or initive that also somehow includes the search engines.

But whether it's ratified or not, a lot of damage has already been done, as this is just too easily made into very plausible EU-skeptic newbites even though some of the skeptic representatives had a hand in it.

I'm not a particular fan of several aspects of EU, but when the alternatives looks mostly the same old tired nationalistic yearnings if they are thought out at all, I'll take the EU any day.

I didn't laugh our loud, I'm on the subway after all, and that's serious matters here in Sweden.

But it sure made me grin, a most fitting and clever response!

I'm a bit ambivalent on the issue, because if the quote is any good, it should stand on its own without appeal to any authority or writer.

But then we have the quotes that are quite banale in nature, but where the use of said quotes have been taken as validation by extremists, bolstering them in their rather dangerous belief, that secretly everyone agrees with then, and thus the ends justifies the means.

For now I brandish unattributed quotes with reckless abandon in settings where I know everyone, but try to do some basic research in public settings, not because attribution is important, but because others might.

Though for me the quick quips of quotes is a lens which can be used to shine some light on some aspect of our lives and world, it's as much a folly to rely on them as anything else. They capture is a single snapshot of an almost infinitely complex world and are as such almost always exactly as wrong as they are right, although in unusually interesting ways.

Yep. It's quite clear that there are forces trying to affect EU in the hope of breaking it up, mostly to further a right-wing agenda of some sort, but also to simply destabilise it to decrease it's influence.

For democracy as an ideology to work well, there might be a modicum of honesty necessary from it's actors, in that they try to enact only policy they actually believe in, and not aim to simply cause destruction and dissent. This is clearly nothing that is entirely unique to one ideology, as the past few years has clearly shown.

It's unfortunate that the very stability that many seek seems to be the very thing that cause them, or others to cause instability. Maybe we as a species thrive on danger, and whenever it seems to disappear we invent some new imaginary spectre to take the place of those we erased. Like how vaccinations that have prevented untold amounts of suffering, now far to many people seem to consider it the cause of any ailments short of broken legs.

Each op must be around 1000 iterations, because that's how much they seem the ns/op seem to be off.

To add my anectdata, you don't happen to be diagnosed with something like ADHD-PI/ADD?

Almost everyone I've met or talked with that can notice the difference between those kind of framerates seems to either be diagnosed with it, or at the very least clearly show the associated traits.

What you say is correct for some, but not all people. In FPS games many don't see a huge visual difference between 60Hz and say 140Hz, except for latency.

That's not true for everyone. For me and a few others, there's even a clear difference between 120 and 144 Hz, and to 60Hz it a gulf. A Refresh rate of 60Hz in a high paced, close up, fight becomes a bit of a where's Waldo situation. It's as if my brain stop doing motion estimation because the frames doesn't really fit together, so I kind of stitch together the individual frames and try to guess what next 'slide' is going to show up.

I know there are a few other with the same issue, and anecdotally it might be a trait that occurs with some forms of ADHD/ADHD-PI. But I don't have a good reference on that, only experience and people I've met.

If your design have multiple threads waiting for accept on the same socket, then leaving it to the OS to schedule said threads on accept should at least be the first to try. If nothing else because it's the least surprising thing to do.

There shouldn't really be any outside of the kernel, and preferably none inside.

Unsure what I'm more astonished about, that the correct case is that it would spin 29ms, or that a CPU instruction has changed it expected latency and prder of magnitude upwards.

I would expect any spinning lock to spin at most some slight fraction of the scheduling granularity, but almost always far less than the context switch time except maybe in some specific case of latency sensitive code.

Maybe thr long spin tine is for some reason trying to account for the very long scheduling quantas of windows server?

Superficially it seems misdirected in anything but real-time code since most schedulers would allow the thread to keep its quanta until the next scheduling if the thread wait time was low. The only case I can see this as not being the case is in a system that is overloaded and all CPU's have multiple threads that are all starved.