Not quite sure how to calculate it, but a n2-highmem-128 instance running at near peak for 24 hours surely uses more electricity than the energy required to heat a dozen or two gallons of water per day.
I might be too Gen X for this but I'm a firm believer in just cultivating a messaging etiquette with the people I know and not outsourcing it to a status message. My boomer family knows they can always contact me via text and chat and my millenial/zoomer family knows I'm often away from my phone hours at a time. It seems pretty manageable, honestly.
And some companies give you exactly 8 hours of work. I once had a job working in a 90 degree warehouse taking boxes out of boxes and putting them in other boxes. 8 hours on the dot. Clocked by the minute. Everyday. To this day I don't take for granted being stressed out working "overtime" software projects.
Grew up in a small, dying midwestern town. Most of my teachers were either burned out, severe alcoholics, or both. Most seemed absolutely defeated and did little besides the bare minimum. I had a guidance counselor that drank on the job and literally let students drop required courses for graduation. I had many teachers who were so petty and vindictive they would flat out lie about you to your parents just to see you punished even more.
Very fond memories of being a 3rd grader and playing a version of this on our classroom TRS-80. I'd get really excited when the weather turned "hot and dry' so I could jack the price and gouge my customers.
A simple content management system that lets me take a photo of an object using my phone, add some quick metadata or category about it, then have it sync to the cloud where I can later add more detail from my laptop. Ideally I'd have fine-grained control of collections and share images between collections. Bonus points if it can use some sort of ML to learn about my objects and make metadata suggestions. Extra bonus points if it's not a subscription based cost.
I'm trying to understand why it's important to adjust for comorbidities. Isn't this a major factor with any variant? Honest question. What good does it do to adjust for this when it's always a major reason for hospitalization and death?
> Jupyter, numpy, pandas, scikit-learn and such are the center of the ecosystem for many people.
Exactly this. At this point I'm not sure where I'd even go for the tasks I use this suite of tools for. I'd check out Julia but I haven't run into many problems that would inspire me to switch.
Ook and Gluk is a Captain Underpants book. Captain Underpants is a series and this is part of it and has the main characters from Captain Underpants. The series (not an individual title) is #2 on the list because there are challenges to the books because of words and images that offend some people. Sometimes those people are liberals - and no I'm not saying it's 50/50. However, when Dav Pilkey gets his book challenged for offending people he has to issue public apologies and donate all revenue to a charity. Not so for any other title on that list.
I honestly don't understand. When I bought a home I was literally making the US median income and bought an average priced house. My rent at the time was about a thousand a month. I had normal student loans and regular bills too. It wasn't easy but it didn't feel like a miracle either. Not saying someone making minimum can do this by any means, but there's a huge demand for labor in decent paying areas right now. I genuinely feel like I'm missing a big piece of this puzzle.
I think this project is great and I fully support it. However, it's only a list of books challenged by mostly christian conservatives dealing with race and gender. Left-leaning progressives challenge books ALL the time. This is bristling to hear, but it's true. Books that are deemed to contain racist or sexist words or images are challenged every year. Huckleberry Finn, Dr. Seuss books, books about Christopher Columbus. Go find the video of zealous high school students throwing out books they don't like in an attempt to "decolonize" the shelves. Go read about how librarians intentionally weed books they find offensive. [1] Sorry, but that is a book challenge whether you like it or not. Different people are offended by different things and they don't want you to see the books that piss them off.
I don't like any book banning or book challenges, we also need to keep the problem in perspective. There are 100,000+ libraries and ~170 million library card holders in this country. The vast majority of these challenged are from coordinated groups like Moms For Liberty who just hand over huge lists all at once. Each of those get counted as a "challenge". I sharply disagree with Moms For Liberty but this threat seems largely exaggerated.
I assure you you don't need invites for everything. Not sure if you read the whole article, but there are plenty of links that provide groups to join. At least you tried it though. Sorry to hear it's not your thing.
I've been using Urbit for a few years now and honestly find a lot of value in it. Loads of interesting people and conversations to be had in various groups. It's really confusing at first but isn't hard to get up to speed by just diving in and using the software. Regarding Curtis Yarvin being the founder - I just don't care. I use products by people I politically agree with and disagree with ALL the time. I personally don't see any monarchism or NRx stuff "baked into the system". I understand Urbit is not for everyone though and that is perfectly fine too. As with everything, I think people should make an effort to try it before coming down hard with reasons why it should be avoided.
This theory has been around for decades and keeps getting "rediscovered" every few years. I think this newly published finding is additional evidence but it's not a major new discovery.
When I was in art school "hobby tunneling" was kind of a fad. Both the sculpture and performance art students got into it. Digging a huge hole or tunnel on campus was frowned upon, so it was that much cooler to pull it off. I remember one guy digging a giant well and another guy digging a huge tunnel by hand and literally living in it for days. The art school was 50/50 male and female and there were plenty of trends that both participated in, but only the men got into this particular art fad for some reason.
I see this as basically the same thing as a grammar or spelling checker. It's essentially a suggestion that "some people might find this wrong". As long as I'm free to ignore this and use whatever words I please in my own Google doc, I don't really care. However, it's getting harder and harder not to see these moves as incremental steps towards corporate-backed censorship and violations of free speech. I could see Google removing my documents down the road if their algorithms backed by internal policy finds them "objectionable" -- with this feature as the first step only in hindsight. It's pernicious because if I freak out about it now and it doesn't happen then I'm a conspiracy theorist or alarmist. If I don't complain and it does happen, then it's probably too late and has become embedded in culture as acceptable forms of social regulation. It might be time to just do the hard work and run my own hardware and tools.
For sure, that's definitely part of it. Another big part of it is getting ideas from the comments for new videos to make. This is the "community engagement" part.
My guess is because most of YouTube is not content from agencies and professional news sources as you cite. It's small creators for whom the comments section is their primary source of community engagement and feedback. That's why so many creators tell you to "like, subscribe, and leave a comment". I know it depends on the channel, but I've found the YouTube comments to be often just as quality as the content itself.
I don't follow web standards closely, but I'm curious if this comment is still true (or was ever true): "For people who don't follow modern web standards, a modern web browser getting 100/100 is actually failing tests. You should get 97/100, failing tests 23, 25, and 35."
I believe this is the physicist who was a surfer with no academic position and so the media latched onto his surfer status as an interesting human interest piece. If I recall he has a Ph.D, though his theory was heavily criticized.