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Annual blood tests are standard for all patients with my current GP in the US. He is a younger doctor, so that might be a factor. I'm a bad patient in that I don't go every year.

> What they do not do is guarantee you a platform.

I think this is a really important point. How I have framed this to others is: "the 6 o'clock news isn't required to give you airtime."

In the past, you could write articles to the newspaper, or contact the news and hope they picked up your story. There was not a right to be heard.

That said, I'm still not sure how I feel about what has transpired in the last week. Freedom of speech (as a principle, not in the US legal sense) has always felt like a core principle of the Internet.

I think one could randomly choose a Betheseda or Ubisoft release, and have a similar level of bugs.

I also played it through Stadia, because Google was having really good deals on Stadia. The first month was free (through a Google Music promotion), and buying Cyberpunk for $50 got you a Chromecast Ultra. I have actually been pleasantly surprised by how good the Stadia experience is.

Is it considered a no-no to use it with a password manager for other accounts that I consider less critical? I was thinking that for most accounts, I would use the password manager, but use 2FA for the password manager. My primary email account that everything links to, would just be 2FA.

Meaning, I would only really have to remember two strong passwords. The rest would be strong passwords, but without 2FA, and easily changeable without forcing myself to remember yet-another password and which account it belongs to.

I've been meaning to buy a Yubikey. What is the best practice for using a security key? Is there a mechanism for backing my keys up somewhere safe so that a loss of key doesn't mean a loss of my accounts?

Are you primarily engaged in illegal actions for your source of income? Your other comments in this thread seem to imply that is the case. No judgement, but if so, I think this is a pertinent piece of information.

It is not difficult for most citizens in first world nations to keep and maintain a bank account.

Your statements do not seem to be consistent with those in the article.

> Ray Mentzer, a chemical engineer at Purdue University, spent his career working on LNG projects for Exxon Mobil. He says the specially designed containers that transport hydrocarbons have a good safety record. But he says transporting the gas through densely populated areas increases the risk if there's a leak.

> "It's not flammable until it's vaporized, but it's going to be vaporized pretty darn quickly and then it's going to seek an ignition source," he says. "Believe me, it will find an ignition source pretty darn readily."

I will also note that those train tracks in the town in the photos had a derailment only a few years back. I am familiar with the area and know people who live there.

https://response.restoration.noaa.gov/about/media/train-dera...

I knew someone who was retired FBI, who offered his services to me. He had said he could get phone records or bank account information on anyone, anywhere in the world. I don't know if he was blowing smoke, but this was apparently how he made money after retirement.

It had sounded like former agents of all different countries have access and relationships with even adversarial countries' agents.

Do you know something I don't? A few years back, Debian changed their LTS policy to 5 years in response to Ubuntu.

> Debian Long Term Support (LTS) is a project to extend the lifetime of all Debian stable releases to (at least) 5 years. Debian LTS is not handled by the Debian security team, but by a separate group of volunteers and companies interested in making it a success.

> Thus the Debian LTS team takes over security maintenance of the various releases once the Debian Security team stops its work.

https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

Your Nexus 5x failure was likely what the sibling comment indicated, the infamous 5x boot loop. If you had rooted your phone previously, it was possible to work around it by modifying the device-tree and limiting it to only using some cores of the CPU.

LG would fix it for free if you were lucky, they did for me. I think you had a 50/50 chance of them refusing to fix it for free by claiming the failure was due to water damage, even if that was definitely not true. The prevalence of the failure makes me think that every single 5x failed eventually. The timing of the boot-loop failure was such that your alternate Google options were probably Pixel 1 or 2 at the time.

After the 5x failure, I purchased a Pixel 2. It is very fast to this day, but the lack of a microphone jack has been a real thorn to me. My car does not support the bluetooth a2dp profile, I use the USB-C adapter to stream music, and it has put a lot of extra wear on the USB-C connector. It has lasted a long time, and everything else works fine, but it's only a matter of time before I can no longer charge it.

It sounds like you go through a lot of phones. Any particular reason for that? Do you just like to upgrade to the latest, or is it due to the dissatisfaction you're referring to?

If you have a GPU that supports Vulkan these days, and you play games on Steam, it is very likely that you will be able to play games even without native Linux support. I check before I purchase any games, but it has become very unusual when I encounter a Steam game that I cannot play.

https://www.protondb.com/

Gold or better generally just work. The current ratings for the top 1000 games:

Top Thousand Unrated:61 Borked:6% Bronze+:64% Silver+:59% Gold+:49% Platinum:19% Native:25%

I think you misinterpreted my comment. The poster I was responding to was talking about how it would not be the same consciousness, but a clone of that consciousness.

I am not making any unprovable claims about a spirit/soul, though I do not completely shut out the possibility there is something we haven't measured yet. I believe that externally, there is no difference in your scenario.

I think where there might be a difference, is to the consciousness itself. The continuity of that experience being the difference. In which case, gradually replacing the brain should be a solution to the continuity problem (like the Ship of Theseus). Where I think this is conceptually weakest, is when considering how much continuity of consciousness exists while sleeping or being sedated.

I did see this benchmark. For a consumer CPU, it looks pretty good. Looks like 46.3 minutes.

https://youtu.be/72AHENDeTEI?t=892

I guess it's actually pretty good for any CPU class.

I think the Ship of Theseus is a related philosophical thought experiment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

Even without your previous experience, you are literally not the same cells that you were a few years ago. As such, to achieve the same kind of continuity of consciousness and become fully digital, I think one would have to gradually replace their brain.

And if you're working in userspace, use the SDK!

bitbake -c populate_sdk <image-name>

This will output a self-extracting archive in your deploy directory. You can install this mostly self-contained SDK to a directory of your choosing. Then source the environment file it installed to get the correct build variables setup (CC, CXX, CFLAGS, LD, LDFLAGS, PATH, etc). From there, the variables will be setup to use your embedded image's sysroot. I do almost all of my userspace development using the SDK. If you're using CMake to build your native code, it will pick up the variables for you.

There are some gotchas with it, in particular, there are some modifications that might be necessary for your configuration to get the SDK to include more things relevant to your build. Probably the most notable is that static libraries are not output into the SDK by default.

> Plus for me, Nvidia is simply DOA on Linux

Same. The best this announcement does for me is force AMD to reduce the price of their GPUs. Which is appreciated, because I am due to upgrade.

That's the point. He gave up royalties for a lump sum, when the game seems to currently be the 23rd best-selling game of all time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_gam...

I've had kind of a crazy idea of building an entire Linux-based embedded system using Bazel. Based on your previous comment, I briefly thought they might have had some detection of foreign build systems now.

Some part of me still finds the idea kind of interesting. The idea of doing a Linux-from-scratch, but porting each project to Bazel in the process. It's kind of silly and would be a lot of work, but I think about being able to modify a header of any library in the system, and have that change quickly percolate up to every dependent application automatically.

The way to do it now is through bitbake, but it (rightly) is just wrappers around every other build system. The goals are a bit different than Bazel's, but it's quite slow.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. It sounds like you're saying that I'm somehow framing my opinion in a dishonest way, but I'm not sure in what way you're claiming it is dishonest.

Is it because my comment isn't pro-authoritarian/totalitarian?

> you can get your third-party sources from HTTP, Git

Can you elaborate? I assume those projects have to be brought into the Bazel configuration format, or does it have some support for foreign build systems?

This is not at all what the article is about? I do not think the Chinese are as unified as they are made out to be.

I think it's a joke to pretend that China is some ideal to aspire to, but sadly, I think the West will have to use similar tactics to continue to compete.

I believe a big part of China's current strength is by actively exploiting the weaknesses of Capitalism. For a long time, they've exploited the race-to-the-bottom of pricing, and they've gotten rich from it, partially through the sacrifice of their people.

Now that China has that new-found wealth (the country and the people), they are using that wealth to exploit Capitalism in a different way. Since Capitalism is inherently less directed and "top-down", now they're able to manipulate industries by being a big buyer instead. This is inherently part of Capitalism, but since the Chinese government has a more direct control of their economy, they're able to leverage a huge amount of economic power in a more directed fashion.

You want to sell that product here? Well, you're going to have to do it our way. Western governments will have to do the same, putting restrictions on what compromises Western companies are allowed to make, and putting restrictions on Chinese products as well.

That's anecdotal evidence. My anecdotal evidence is that I lived in a suburb of a major city on the east coast, and no one I knew had a cellphone until probably the mid-90s.

When I hear someone say it, I often respond that "I could care less, but only a little bit" to make the point about that phrase.

Phone barometers can be used to get a pretty good idea which floor of a building you're on.

https://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2011-10/so-um-why-doe...

https://www.engadget.com/2012-09-06-stmicroelectronics-detai...

I greatly enjoyed this game because of its relationship to the thought experiment. Last time I tried playing it, it had a terrible memory leak on Firefox though. Eventually consuming over 15GB, when I decided I had to kill it.

I think this is about to change. The Chinese shipping will go up. A couple weeks ago, there was an article posted here about why shipping from China is so cheap, epacket[1]. Because of epacket, it was cheaper to ship from China than it was to ship to even within the same state for small packages.

A recent change allows the USPS to increase rates for epacket. It looks like the new rates will go up slowly, so shipping from China will still be cheaper for packages under 3 ounces for a few years.

[1] https://www.ecomcrew.com/why-china-post-and-usps-are-killing...

You know, as much as I think the whataboutism is trying to draw equivalencies that don't exist and make excuses for other nation states doing bad things, I'm more accepting of it now. As long as it's called out for being that.

Maybe I'm too optimistic, but we should always strive to be better. Just because the US could be doing as bad things as China or Russia, doesn't mean it shouldn't be better than it is now.

> Is this some kind of limitation with Linux itself?

Definitely not. I don't know the details of the grandparent's hardware, it's possible that there are some limitations with specific NVIDIA hardware, given the fact that NVIDIA does not have open source drivers.

I have had working hybrid NVIDIA graphics on my work laptop for eight years now I think. Basic functionality such as using one of the display outputs requires the dedicated GPU. The open source tool for controlling NVIDIA hybrid graphics is Bumblebee. NVIDIA's proprietary technology is called Optimus.

Lies of omission are still lies.

To use an extreme example, if a reporting organization writes a story about one nation launching missile strikes against another, and leaves out that they were retaliatory strikes from a previous attack, that dramatically changes the perception of those events. If this sort of thing is continually done to benefit one entity, it is reasonable to question the honesty of the reporter.

Even if the released documents are all accurate, the previous lies of omission would cause a reasonable person to question whether or not the released documents provide adequate context.