daveFNbuck

If the trial contract isn't enforceable, why bother canceling?

You could adopt a kid that's old enough to already know whether they like dinosaurs. I'm not sure how adoption agencies will feel about this line of questioning.

If the errors are happening further out than your civilization has ever been, what's correcting them?

That's great news. I have sync enabled already. The only remaining problem is that I can't seem to install the stable release. Whenever I download it and run the executable, it just starts up immediately in beta again.

That's what I've tried to do every time there's a new release - update to the caught-up stable version before the beta upgrade. I haven't figured out the details of how to make that happen after a year or so of attempts now. I've turned off the automatic updates now, so at least I won't accidentally get upgraded past the stable release this time.

I'm not running the next beta. I've checked the general settings menu. I don't see the beta switch.

I'd do that, but sync misses things like container settings. Also, I'm unable to run stable at all. Whenever I install and run stable, I somehow end up with the beta version.

I just want to switch one time. I got on the beta like a year ago when the current version was unstable, and I've been trying to get back to release since that version was released. Where can I find this documentation? How do I install the stable release to port the profile to? Every attempt I've made results in me still having the beta version.

Every time I see one of these, I try to switch from the beta version to the stable version. I download the latest stable version, quit my browser, copy it to my applications folder, double-click, accept the warning that I'm running new software downloaded from the internet, and find myself in the next beta version.

Is there a way to switch from beta to stable without losing my profile?

That one was tedious though. It's easy to see what the solution is, but it just takes a lot of time to write it up.

{2020 - x} is a single item set. nums & {2020 - x} does set intersection with nums, which restricts nums to either the item that sums with x to 2020 or nothing if there is no such item in nums.

I was talking about the food mentioned in the comment I was responding to.

I was talking about the specific restaurant mentioned in the comment I was responding to.

Wouldn't this be a problem for any takeout order? I know some restaurants don't offer takeout for this reason.

I used Luigi [1] to automate data processing at a previous job. It's a simple job queue with a UI. You request jobs from it, and then run them for minutes or hours, so it shouldn't normally be a bottleneck and it makes sense to use a language that's quick and easy to write.

It's written in Python and works fine to process thousands of jobs per day. Once you start having tens of thousands of jobs in the queue, it gets slow enough that it can back things up. This compounds the problem, eventually resulting in the whole thing crashing.

By switching the interpreter to PyPy, I was able to keep the data pipeline running at that scale without having to rewrite anything.

[1] https://github.com/spotify/luigi

If the problem is developers making a bunch of apartments and releasing them slowly, wouldn't such a tax just mean they'd switch to a strategy of making them slowly to get the same effect?

You should look at both successes and failures. When you only look at one or the other, the features you pick out might not be unique to that group.

Outside of searching for specific technical issues, DDG is pretty good. I use DDG for most of my searches and this is the first I've heard of search results being dominated by Pinterest, so it's at least better on that front.

That doesn't break the advantage, it just mitigates it. The advantage is just small enough that it doesn't matter much even before the mitigation. The caller could still look at the coin before it's flipped and have a slight edge in calling it.

It's not terribly hard to influence the outcome of a die roll. You can roll it end over end like a wheel so two of the faces remain on the sides and can't be the result.

Doctors disagree about medical treatment too. At least with the dentist you'll know how much each opinion costs.

I think that's why they put in the provision that you have to keep paying the tax for 10 years after you move.

You can safely use this type of test in your pipeline if you set a fixed random seed.

My wife just alerted me to new restrictions she heard about on Twitter. I went to https://www.smchealth.org/coronavirus to read more about it, and I don't see anything different from when you linked me to it 10 days ago.

> 2) academics profit from copyrights.

Academic work usually doesn't have a long shelf-life. Textbooks already get replaced every few years. So there's little incentive against advocating for shorter copyright terms that would allow most academics free access to older research materials without impacting their own income.

A bad actor can breed a lot of cobras at relatively low risk to themselves. They can only give themselves one COVID infection, and it comes with a pretty high personal risk.

> I think the ethics violation needs to be somewhat related to the research

I think this covers that:

> This article was probably written to defend MIT president Rafael Reif's decision to mark Epstein's post-conviction donations to MIT as anonymous.

I tried a lot. I spent a good amount of time searching for what the restrictions were in my city. I found news articles describing restrictions, but I wasn't able to locate primary sources or a way to keep updated.

Even with the link you sent me, that site gives no indication that it's a way to get updates on pandemic-related news and restrictions. It seems to just be an emergency subscription. What other messages does it send that aren't described in the FAQs?

I live in San Mateo county, and am interested in knowing what to do to stay safe. This is the first I've heard about limiting outdoor recreation to within 5 miles of my home.

I haven't been notified about any of the details of any of the lockdowns. In the Spring, I encountered a group of people who had just been released from jail during one of my monthly shopping trips. Despite having just been in government custody, they didn't even know the basics about things like social distancing, much less any more specific restrictions.

How are these things supposed to be effective when it's so hard to learn about them?

It's important to a lot of people. I get that I'm in the minority here, but I can make it on the leaderboard a lot of the time if I try. But trying to get on the leaderboard stresses me out and ruins the fun, so I instead do things like start a bit late to sabotage myself.

I still make it on the leaderboard sometimes if I get too excited about starting right away or if it's a particularly hard problem and I get lucky figuring it out. That stresses me out a bit. I'd be happier if the leaderboard weren't there.

Why do you think you kept putting off the puzzles? Do you enjoy the competition, but not the puzzles? Maybe it's better that you didn't finish them.