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I am surprised no one has mentioned Paul Bloom's "Sweet Spot". He looks at the psychology behind chosen pain / suffering / struggle (e.g. running a marathon ) https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/56922622-the-sweet-sp...

I wonder if I could build and app / service for them -- TSOAS (aka Turn Shit Off As a Service) and charge them a small monthly fee to do it. BMW should be in the business of building cars, not pissing off people. They could outsource that to me as a service!

zrepl is awesome!! I have been using it for some time with excellent results to manage a lot (for my org anyways) of backups. Glad to hear rsync is making it available

this is all starting to feel either like "The Cassandra Crossing" or "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street"... Probably the later :(

I guess my question is what is probable rather than possible or is that a risk that's even addressable to any reasonable degree

I am totally fine with FTL. My point is, if you have FTL travel, but the tech at the time cant invent a flashlight to illuminate a cave for more than 10m, or even have tech that allow them to see every imaginable detail etc... Dont create lazy tension points that are built on fumbling around in the dark due to inadequate lighting.

I can usually forgive some tech contradiction details, but its really annoying when there is faster than light travel... But to create contrived suspense because no technology exists to make a flashlight strong enough to illuminate a cave for 10m ??!?!

I great term I came across in the retail gas industry is "hostile purchase"... as in no one "wants" to buy gas in the sense that you wake up one day and think "Oh boy, I can hardly wait to go out and get some 87 octane today" and after the purchase, "wow, that was awesome gas!"...

The above added costs as well as the challenge of getting it to refineries. Lack of pipeline capacity to the coast (particularly Texas) is a big factor too.

With every Click, I heard "Jack Barker's" voice from Silicon Valley

Its partially there. C and D are still not in the global tables according to routeviews ie. 185.89.219.12 is still not being advertised to anyone. My peers to them in Toronto have routes from them, but not sure how far they are supposed to go inside their network. (past hop 2 is them)

% traceroute -q1 -I a.ns.facebook.com

traceroute to a.ns.facebook.com (129.134.30.12), 64 hops max, 48 byte packets 1 torix-core1-10G (67.43.129.248) 0.133 ms

2 facebook-a.ip4.torontointernetxchange.net (206.108.35.2) 1.317 ms

3 157.240.43.214 (157.240.43.214) 1.209 ms

4 129.134.50.206 (129.134.50.206) 15.604 ms

5 129.134.98.134 (129.134.98.134) 21.716 ms

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% traceroute6 -q1 -I a.ns.facebook.com

traceroute6 to a.ns.facebook.com (2a03:2880:f0fc:c:face:b00c:0:35) from 2607:f3e0:0:80::290, 64 hops max, 20 byte packets

1 toronto-torix-6 0.146 ms

2 facebook-a.ip6.torontointernetxchange.net 17.860 ms

3 2620:0:1cff:dead:beef::2154 9.237 ms

4 2620:0:1cff:dead:beef::d7c 16.721 ms

5 2620:0:1cff:dead:beef::3b4 17.067 ms

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for what its worth, I had AZ as my first shot and it was pretty rough for 36 hours and then I was fine. My second shot of pfizer 8 weeks later barely left a sore spot on my arm. Not sure what if anything it means, but curious what will happen if I get a 3rd.

I am in the same boat with glasses. In the winter, I use some decent quality medical tape across the top of the mask to prevent fogging. The 3M medical paper tape works really well and is not too sticky and doesnt irritate my skin.

Sheesh, So yesterday! :)

There is an assumption too for the long term that you will pick the right market and time it right. Things looked amazing in Buffalo, Cleveland and Detroit for places to invest if you bought in the 50s. Same with New York City. If you had to unload your property in the late 70s, it didnt seem like a great investment. If you could buy and hold in the 70s, and unload 2006, looks good :)

my fingers still have muscle memory for "ftp ftp.uwasa.fi" which I think pre dated cdrom.com (for me anyways)

But where will I download TCPMan and Trumpet Winsock from now???

I am guessing smtp would be the most obvious choice here? checking certs issued by someone else against a CRL you dont necessarily control ?

I love the little trolling at the end with the stem in a glass of water! Cue, "Fight the Power"

its been a while since I heard the doc, but I dont think it was so much a "lets all learn another language" as opposed to looking what might be happening in the brain to cause such an odd disparity in how the disease manifests itself.

I cant find the episode now, but a few years ago an episode CBC's science show Quirks and Quarks interviewed a researcher that found being bilingual seemed to delay the onset of dementia by a couple of years. Although it doesnt sound like much, from a public policy pov, its pretty significant when you look at what that can mean for quality of life as well as costs for our public health system.

I think a lot about this quote as of late No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. James Baldwin We seem to be in a period of history with many pure hearts

... When I think "youth market monetization", no one knows "the kids" like Oracle does....Its fresh.

hahaha, the same. I thought it would be running through a corridor in a loop!

Any idea whats the target date for it in the tree ?

Canadian here and one who has records potentially leaked.... In terms of reaction, I dunno... It depends where on the spectrum of We kept our "passwords on sticky notes on Windows XP monitors" to "We did everything industry best practices and then some" did they fall into.... I havent seen anything with respect to technical details.

Funny, I was hoping for NumberWang, or at least the German version...

Not sure. It might be younger people are more likely to take stronger positions so that they go out and protest? If you use voter participation as a proxy for moral engagement, kids as a whole dont seem to care as much as older people. https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/newsroom/press-kit...

One of my fav Wired articles was about this... https://www.wired.com/2009/08/gone-forever-what-does-it-take...

There is a really fascinating (IMHO) podcast about the use of modern DNA analysis and the insights into ancient populations on the After-On podcast with David Reich https://after-on.com/episodes-31-60/034 Up until podcast, I didnt even know there was a branch called Denisovans. Although not generally a big interest of mine, I found it interesting enough to read Reich's book which was a fascinating detective story and a very new view onto ancient history.