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The article also points out that only 1/4 of the classrooms are A/V-equipped. It might be a cost thing.

But it's only dangerous to be a carrier when you are amongst the unvaccinated, and those people have now made a conscious choice to expose themselves to the virus. At what point do we stop being responsible for other peoples' choices?

The exception is obviously the immunocompromised, but hopefully the booster shots will help to provide that group with some lasting immunity.

Have you considered drip irrigation? It was designed with desert agriculture in mind. Shade can also make a big difference.

Requiring a human being to be on the public record as personally and financially responsible for an AI's decisions would be a good start.

Interesting that the "7 GUIs" test hasn't been mentioned in the article or comments. IMO it's not a bad starting point for thinking about the bare minimum that a GUI framework might need to support, and for evaluating how easy one is to use.

https://eugenkiss.github.io/7guis/tasks/

We might be seeing less of that subgenre these days because the general public is starting to realize that genetic engineering is sort of like AI/ML.

It takes a lot of effort and expense to achieve mildly promising results, and any given project is much more likely to break out in tumors or be outcompeted by existing strains than it is to evolve into something unexpectedly fit. Yes, poorly-engineered plants can grow tumors...or at least odd growths that sap their energy and nutrients.

Is this by the same people who made LÖVE? The naming and use of LuaJIT suggest it.

I love LÖVE. It's a great way to throw together rapid prototypes, and Lua is a joy to work with. Exciting to see a 3D framework along the same lines, hope it can work well for non-VR apps.

The park services have a similar problem, but the solution is simple:

* No permanent structures.

* You need to move every X days.

* You cannot stay in the park/forest/etc for more than Y days/month.

Cities could forbid tents and count hours rather than days. Criminalizing the act of napping in a park seems like a huge overreaction to peoples' fear of tent cities. If you've never taken an afternoon siesta along a local greenway, you should try it sometime. Bring a blanket and a book, but don't forget to check for sharps before you lie down.

Couldn't you make a case that grades should reflect how people will actually be evaluated in their adult lives?

I.e. capriciously, arbitrarily, and often based on a random person's mood at some random time?

You can't use Facebook to destroy Facebook.

Their terms of service are not immutable laws. If the status quo stops working for them, they can restore old data and alter the bargain further.

I wonder when the change happened. It seems like there's a fairly broad consensus now, but different people seem to cite different time periods for when things took a bad turn.

I had consistently great experiences ~3-8 years ago, but I remember needing to be careful about 3rd party sellers towards the end of that time period.

Thing is, I stopped ordering online about a year before the pandemic started. When I returned to Amazon 18 months ago, it felt like the balance had shifted towards the majority of listings being fraud/low quality/unexpectedly comingled/etc.

Personally, I blame a shift in perspective. It feels like their retail teams' views on who "The Customer" was shifted from the person placing the order, to the 3rd-party sellers.

When do y'all think that happened? 2015? 2017? 2019?

This does not jive with my experience at all.

Maybe it's because my age bracket still remembers flip phones. Maybe it's because I'm upfront about my own tech habits. Maybe it's because I swipe left on profiles that have linked IG accounts.

Whatever the reason(s), you don't need to be as interesting as an app, because you are not an app. Plenty of people just want to connect and relate with someone else, and there's nothing more relatable than not being able to live up to the standards of a glossy influencer ad campaign.

Chin up, mate. In the US, I'm starting to hear a lot more "I wish I did that", and a lot less "that's weird what are you hiding?"

People are starting to come around as they and their family members start to have more acutely negative experiences with social media.

There are no conclusive numbers on how long they last, because there has not been a significant drop-off in efficacy yet.

There is some evidence that booster shots after 6 months can provide better even better protection than the second shot after 3-4 weeks, but it's not clear whether they will be necessary yet, especially when so much of the world is still desperate to get the first two shots in peoples' arms.

But that's only true after they read you the Miranda rights. Officers need to say those words so that the accused understands that their statements will be taken seriously in the immediate future.

It's not supposed to refer to anything that you have ever or will ever say in perpetuity...

Not necessarily. It's not easy to find a boss who you genuinely trust to consider your best interests, for example.

Out of curiosity, what sort of "non-monetary" benefits were you thinking about? There's usually not a reliable way to turn (small amounts of) money into the sorts of things that really build loyalty.

Yeah, it's probably been 3-4 years since I've heard anyone use the word "Xoogler" in a positive or unironic way.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over?

Your telecom actually is responsible for moderating your usage - try consistently pirating media without a good blocklist in the US and see how long you keep your service. Most providers will cut you off after a half-dozen or so nastygrams, and that's just for the light offense of copyright infringement.

Your telecom also uses tax money to fund its infrastructure deployments, and it is regulated as more than an ordinary private company.

It is a problem of their own making.

If they cannot manage unmoderated posting without hurting a lot of people, why should they be allowed to run a business based on unmoderated posting?

Would you say it is a catch-22 for a factory if a government ordered them to stop production or stop polluting nearby waterways with their toxic runoff? Perhaps for the factory, but the nearby communities would say it's a clear-cut case.

Way to describe the engineer/business disconnect.

You are proud of the complex problems which you have solved over the years. The business is proud of the little widget that made everyone's jobs a bit easier.

I've seen people take this lesson to heart and go full Wally.

I think I remember being taught in a college biology class that cannabinoids may have evolved as an anti-microbial / anti-insecticide defence. Sort of like capsaicin, or aromatics like lavender.

So this doesn't surprise me, but...it was college. My memory might be flawed.

Many places have a separate "test" or "beta" environment, with less resources and maybe a small database with spoofed entries.

Maybe we should get into the habit of going all Shiva/Brahma on that environment every week or month. Burn it to the ground, and recreate it with an automated process. Sort of like a meta CI test.

We badly need legislation to force the IRS to send every taxpayer a bill which they can pay.

They certainly have enough information from employers, banks, estimated payments from contractors, etc. Otherwise, how would they decide who to audit? How would they know to mail you an adjusted return for a past year?

It feels completely ridiculous that we need to calculate these things ourselves, only to be bugged by the agency for entering the wrong numbers. Just tell us what you think the bill is, and let us make a counter-claim if we think you're wrong!

But this has been true for years, decades. I'm not holding my breath.

Yes, sugar is basically poison, especially the large quantities of processed sugars that we regularly comsume. Cutting out candy, soda, sugar-in-coffee, etc. can bring a lot of very noticeable benefits if you were consuming them every day.

Part of the harm caused by alcohol comes from the way that your body metabolizes it...into sugars. The whole "a glass of red wine with dinner is heart-healthy" thing has also been pretty thoroughly debunked.

Have you tried telling them about the great BBQ and blues?

I dunno what to tell you. After touring almost all of our great states, the only constant seems to be that you get what your neighbors vote for.

One issue is that the newspapers believe that they are providing a service by allowing search engines to link to their page.

From the perspective of the search engine (and us readers), it feels like a bait-and-switch to present the full article to a crawler robot in exchange for a better search ranking, only to hide it and demand payment from a human.

But over in Australia, old media organizations have successfully lobbied for a "link tax" which allows them to demand payment from search providers who link to them. We've still got a long way to go before we reach a consensus on the independence of search platforms and the idea that human viewers should be served the same content as web spiders.