amy_petrik

>It's pretty hypocritical to unironically use an Italian idiom for a Mediterranean pidgin that literally means `language of the Franks`, I don't know if that has an argument fallacy like ad hominem, would we call this "ad etymology"?

>i.e., French, in a comment supporting neo-reactionaries' attempts to shut minorities out of the government services they deserve per the democratic social contract not to mention pay Shut out? They came of their own volition to a nation known to primarily speak English, did not learn English or have a means to communicate in English, and that's on us if we don't bend a knee? I can tell you any american living in France, they're gonna find situations where businesses say straight up (in French), speak French or I won't help you. I guess those poor Americans were just getting shut out

Just to play devil's advocate on de-industrialization here -- The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in “advanced” countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in “advanced” countries.

Hal Finney died when Satoshi disappeared, it's an old theory though, not recent. The thinking is either Satoshi died, lost the billion dollar keys intentionally or unintentionally, or beats to a different drum and is in it for the love of the game, not the money

><!ENTITY x ...> and then you use them as &#x; maybe you are familiar with &lt; representing <

Okay. This is syntactically painful, APL or J tier. C++ just uses "&" to indicate a reference. That's a lot of people's issue with XML, you get the syntactic pain of APL with the verbosity pain of Java.

> I have to implement special logic for that (this is built-in to XML). If they implement dates, sometimes it's unix-time, sometimes it's 1000x off from that, sometimes it's a ISO8601-inspired string, and fuck sometimes I just get an HTTP date. And so on.

Special logic is built into every real-world programming scenario ever. It just means the programmer had to diverge from ideal to make something work. Unpleasant but vanilla and common. I don't see how XML magically solved the date issue forever. For example, I could just toss in <date>UNIXtime</date> or <date time=microseconds since 1997>324234234</date> or <datecontainer><measurement units="femtoseconds since 1776"><value>3234234234234</value></measurement></datecontainer>. The argument seems to be "ah yes, but if everyone uses this XML date feature it's solved!" but not so. It's a special case of "if everyone did the same thing, it would be solved". But nobody does the same thing.

That's a bit confusing to me, I don't understand. I think that type of tagging can be ambiguous. Just to suggest a better construct:

<tag type="tag" class="tag" purpose="tag" tag_subtype="empty" description="this is a emptytag, a subtype of tag" empty="true"></tag>

Now, that's not perfect, I would even describe it as minimalist, but I hope it sets you in the right direction!

XML is honestly the greatest and I'm not sure why it didn't take off. People sometimes ask me, "what impacted the humanity the most - electricity? antibiotics? combustion engines?" -- no, no, and no, it was XML. Everything can be expressed in XML, and basically everything can read and write XML. It's like the whole world could read and write the same files. Imagine what if those files included programs, that's what XSLT is, a program that's a file of the XML format that performs transformations between XML format and XML format. Wow - now everything can read and write your programming language! About 90% of it is usually around a capacity to use XML to document your XML to XML transforming XML code, and then the other 9% is boilerplate, 1% does the lifting. Brilliant. Imagine a more verbose java, for those of us who find java terse, it almost feels like assembly to me. XML is like the tower of babel that unites all of humanity and JSON is the devil that shattered that dream.

Not sure if insurance is mandatory in the US or not

It's mandatory and requiring proof when you register your car. Your insurer also has a line to the DMV (car registration government) to say, "FYI this guy is not insured" and the DMV gets mad.

It's a known problem, particularly with undocumented peoples, that they are often uninsured. California studied the issue: https://www.insurance.ca.gov/01-consumers/105-type/95-guides...

In the report California states up to 13% of the US residents of some areas do not happen to possess documentation documenting their legality of being in the US. Often they came from countries with no insurance requirement, so they are unaware of American culture and policies in this regard. The report also states 10% of drivers are uninsured. I'm not sure why the DMV isn't getting mad in this case, being informed the car is not insured. So it's "mandatory" but 10% of drivers are not insured. Similar to how in California retail theft is technically "illegal" but a lot of people will do that without consequences. Honestly if you ask me we need to be waiving the insurance requirement for cultural reasons and take a verbal Spanish-first policy to help accommodate people who have undocumented English skills or are without documentation of being literate.

B cell antibodies are a the B cell receptor. T cell antibodies are the T cell receptor, which is just an antibody attached to the T-cell (in simplistic terms of a complex system). There are other tradeoffs. B-cell antibodies have a much larger "state space" of combinatorics; but are not active in little babbies unlike T-cells which are. I think you're thinking of more of the innate immune system, more like macrophages and neutrophils and such, and yea it would be interesting to figure something that engages those.. such as exogenous antibodies.

The other aspect we need to research new pandemics is a model virus organism, antivirals alone are insufficient. For example, if we're worried some bug is surely on the verge of jumping from say, a horse with equine encephalitis virus, to human, it would be important to develop a model of the virus, under highly precautious and sterile conditions of course, whereby our modified model virus would become proficient at infecting human cells and thusly our antivirals may be researched easily. After all, to cure our hypothetical pandemic disease it's important to have a disease to cure in the first place.

I am using Plus from Australia, and while I am not getting a full glass, nor am I getting a half full glass. The glass I'm getting is half empty.

the bodybuilding scene has gotten more advanced than just steriods, for example: - SARMs (selective androgen receptor modulators) - eg ostarine - they hit your muscles androgen receptors selectively, nominally other receptors (ie reproductive) are skipped over - SERMS (selective estrogen receptor modulators) - typically used to reduce gynecomastia after steroid use, but interestingly one, clomiphene or enclomiphene, blocks estrogen reception in the pituitary, making it think hormone production is too low - so tells your body to manufacture more testosterone (yes, estrogen receptor blockage yields testosterone production).. this is the closest we have to a fertility drug and is prescribed as a fertility drug in women - cardarine - PPAR delta activator, activates metabolic pathways and used by athletes for doping - quite an interesting drug because it normalizes one's metabolism, increases athletic performance, lowers cholesterol, etc, wow! though to activate a particular minor cancer pathway.. never tested in humans since it gave animal models turbocancer. used by many athletes

But yea, most of these are going to blanket increase risks for various things - strokes, clot, heart attack... messing about with hormones can be quite damaging albeit I would take a SARM or a SERM before taking straight hormones. Cardarine is quite scary because of the cancer concern

the use of customer-central water usage data piques my interest. there's a huge market for selling water and waste data to advertisers and other companies interested in consumer data. This is one of my friend's startups, smartpipes, which is a type of smart sewage pipe - these smart washers remind me of smartpipe (which supports dishwasher waste!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ

> modern CPU emulating PowerPC emulating 68k is just fine.

I personally like to run my PowerPC 68050, 6502 NES emulator virtual python environment on the cloud, so that way you can virtual machine while you virtual machine while you virtual machine while you virtual machine while you virtual machine while you virtual machine while you virtual machine while you virtual machine.

Okay, Okay, I know what you're thinking Amazon AWS engineers, not enough virtual machines, not enough abstraction, we'll leave it to the pros for that!

The other interesting things about axolots is they have what is called "neoteny" basically meaning the organism COULD proceed to adult form but never does - the natural axolotl is sort of a half-metamorphized creature for life, similar to a frog halfway through the tadpole->frog changes. You can induce the transformation with thyroid-type hormone stimulation (thyroid / TSH), which results in a salamander - essentially resurrecting this ancient morphology not seen in this world for a long time. Then the regenerative capabilities (seen in other amphibians as well) you can think of that as, "child humans heal better, what if the human is a child for life" in simplistic terms. There are also tradeoffs the organism makes i.e. ability to reproduce at a younger age (reproduction evolutionary win), and notably, the histology and cellular structures are simplified and less complex than say mammals, thusly making body parts easier to regenerate. It's also notable that amphibians have massive genomes, the axolotl being 10x the size of humans! - but with about the same number of genes, why? Well if mutations occur at random positions and you have ~10x more non-coding junk DNA, you've just lowered the frequency of mutations hitting coding genes, they are more likely to hit "safe" non-coding parts. All of this is important because if a mutation slips into the regenerated limb -> cancer, so we're de-risking mutations by having a massive genome https://www.mdpi.com/2221-3759/9/1/2

This topic comes up periodically and I feel that there is an underlying incorrect assumption about the use case. The assumption is that these devices, mobile phones, etc, run speech-to-text and upload text to the company. Quite an undertaking! Consider the humble "Clapper", a 1980s vintage device that turned lights on or off with a simple clap of the hand. This device has a vocabulary of 1 word, a clap, yes or no. Now consider that our device or cellular telephone has a vocabulary of 32 words such as "car," "baby," "television," "insurance" and so on. Much much easier to ONLY look for those trigger words and slip 5 extra bits somewhere into a network packet. Suddenly you gets ads for a car dealership, an insurance company, children's formula, and so on.

Well it's a couple things - Expectation to be "successful" i.e. social media presents extreme conceptions of success, similar to a supermodel body expectation vs. real life. To say, "I'm looking for work" is to publicly admit failure against such a standard. The fear is that for every potential employer, 10 people you know will see the post and say, "tut tut, what a failure" and then call their 10 friends to share the news of your failure - some people think advertising for work is sleazy (as others mention) - annoying people only to be told no, a sense that you're being annoying

It parallels something like the idea of being say 45, never married, and looking to marry, or being recently divorced at the same age. There is a sense of having failed, or being judged by people as having failed. For men, the sense of being a pickup artist or overly aggressive.

That's why some people struggle with it. And it ought not be shameful, in either case. But it's probably more wise to point out those feelings and work through them, process them, than it is to just say "I do not recognize any valid shame here, does not compute"

Other part of it, yes, Benny F was quite an edgelord, but it took patience and drive in those days. You couldn't just drop a shitpost in 30 seconds, no, you had to lay out the shitpost in little tiny metal letters, and make copies of the shitpost, painstakingly, one at a time, to distribute. And people didn't come by much reading material in those days, so the shitpost was cherished when acquired. Generally speaking the supply/demand curve of the written word was very much different than it was now. Now, the writing itself and the distribution is automated by machines

my first thought was, "what does it look like fully specced out, 512 GB RAM cannot be cheap" fully specced out it's ~$15k now I bet that'd be a fine $15k AI machine but if I wanted a CPU AI rig a cobbling of multi-core motherboards could get higher performance at a lower cost, and/or some array of used nvidia cards. the good news is 3 or 4 years from now hardware specs such as this will be much cheaper, which is exciting