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Also, paraquat may actually be a safe chemical. However, there may be unsafe additives in the pesticide, as applied, that are causing serious problems.

The screen goes dark & unrecoverable during normal use, not while using ml tools, so I just assumed it was a problem with nvidia's drivers being generally disagreeable with Fedora.

You make a a good point, I've been having one card do double-duty as hdmi output and GPGPU. I'll try the motherboard's built-in hdmi and see how that goes.

I've been really busy with other stuff for a few weeks and haven't really thought about the best way to fix this. Thanks for the suggestion!

I think that older film cameras have a very satisfying-to-use quality to them. I find that an Olympus OM-2 with a good lens feels sooo nice to use.

I know, not exactly the same as repairing fine watches, but I think it might be similar.

I didn't know what phimosis was, so I looked it up. For others:

”phimosis: A condition in which tight foreskin can't be pulled back over the head of the penis. Tight foreskin is normal in an uncircumcised child. It often goes away over time with regular, gentle retraction."

Yes, the Debian setup is going to be just for cuda and ml. It's intended for cheap and easy experiments, focusing on ml for small systems.

On my home system I've been running 2x RTX 2070's on Fedora and have had serious enough problems. It's been fairly stable for a while, but the last week or so I keep having the screen go black and not come back. I'm going to try Debian as it's supposed to have better support for nvidia cards. I've been using Fedora or Redhat for a long time, and I'd rather not switch, but these driver issues make the system unusable.

I have to wonder how much this static electricity is in an actual coffee shop... I'd think that the machines would be legally required to be electrically earth-grounded. Wouldn't this remove the static charge as the coffee is physically ground? And, even if the coffee particles are charged after physical grinding, wouldn't water flowing through them in the espresso maker also electrically ground them, thus removing the charge?

I think it's a few bucks, relative to the cost of a house. If you're paying for an electrician, you probably own the house. Compared to the cost of a house, a one-time visit by an electrician is a small amount.

And running wire in a house as it's being constructed is going to be far less expensive than doing it after the fact. I'd much rather add, for e.g., the ability to charge a car in the garage while the house is getting built, than after.

This is the result of a single person on the internet, who was not chosen randomly. it's not a fair characterization to call this the product of some random person on the internet. You can't just choose anyone on the internet at random and get results this good.

Also, according to his home page, Mr. Bycroft earned a BSc in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Canterbury in 2012. It's true that this page isn't the direct result of a professor or a university course, and it's also true that it's not a completely separate thing. It seems clear that his university education had a big role to play in creating this.

Don't forget making it safely. It's fairly easy to make something safe it everything goes perfectly. Making it safe in the context of human failings is a whole different thing.

Yeah - I take "I'm sorry you feel that way" as a way of blaming the victim for their feelings, as a subtle way of blaming them for having inappropriate or out-of-control feelings. And sometimes that's true, but, the majority of the time, that's the wrong reason.

The original passive-agressive response sucks, because you can't just deal directly with the problem - you have to manage the emotions the other person projects on to the situation. You just have to know the person well enough to tell if those emotions are from, for e.g., job stress or a lack of sleep, or from some deep childhood trauma.

I think that the bigger problem is that passive-aggressive responses tend to bleed out into all sorts of other, unrelated situations. At least they do if they aren't talked about. It can be really difficult to discuss as a friend. It can be almost impossible in a work setting.

Yes, great example. I forgot about that one.

Its a good post, but I'd add that there isvalso a different kind of optimization where you optimize by minimizing th overall cognitive load of any given code.

For example, it's important to develop a feel for data structures. Often, if you choose the right data structure, the algorithm is fairly easy. In other words, when faced with a choice of complex algorithm vs complex data structures, it's generally easier to work with a complex data structure and use a simpler algorithm.

Data is fairly static, and therefore easier to reason about, vs a complex and "dynamic" algorithm. Optimization for ease of reading and maintenance is also really important.

I find it comforting, somehow, and it helps me to keep a healthy perspective, to think about how, Right now, I don't exist on the top of Mount Everest, or the bottom of the Marianas Trench, or on the Sun, Moon, Mars, or any other potentially infinite places. And it's not a problem.

I also don't worry about not existing almost every place and at every time that I could have existed. There is no direct pain or suffering associated with it.

I was thinking Malcolm the Tenth

It's like no one remembers those Windows RT tablets...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_RT

Reddit is now a cesspool. I tried to post something criticalof Uber to the Uberdriver forum and it was auto-blockef four times. Each attempt was milder and less critical than the previous, and the fourth attempt was almost pablum. Each was blocked within a second or so of posting, so they must have some sort of auto block or sentiment analysis going on.

I don't know -- I liked her James Bond theme a lot, and I'd bet that it will be around a long time.

This connection is even more tenuous than your original claim that "the murder rate... lowest in countries with low immigration rates per capita". Now you're talking about crime and poverty, not murder and immigration.

Also, the first paragraph of you link explicitly says: "reliability of underlying national murder rate data may vary". I think k your argument is largely bs, and I'm not interested in researching the citations.

The second paragraph reads "Research suggests that intentional homicide demographics are affected by changes in trauma care, leading to changed lethality of violent assaults, so the intentional homicide rate may not necessarily indicate the overall level of societal violence.[6] They may also be under-reported for political reasons."

I don't think this list even makes the point that you seem to think it does, or, at least, doesn't make the point very well.

your statement that "the murder rate... is lowest in countries with low immigration rates per capita" is largely bullshit. Even the laziest of googling "crime and immigration rates per capita" shows that.

At best, the relationship is weak, and not well understood.

The article said that they form as ionized balls that can move at ten percent of the speed of light. That's almost 30 million miles an hour! I don't know what to say, except that nature is f'ing amazing!

And I'd love to know what those downward branching structures are...

Good point about dolphins ans whales, but, if you've ever watched parrots, they have feet and a beak/tongue that can grasp and manipulate in a way that's analogous to human hands.

If you're willing to accept math as a language in the same sense as the article uses, then this effect applies to the sciences, where people regularly translate problems into the non-native language of math to gain clarity.

You're right! My mistake. It looked like there was a sort of deli-slicer blade and suction to remove pages, but, looking again, it's not what's happening. That's what I get for posting pre morning coffee...

Um,I'm not sure this is a great alternative, as this scanner chops out a page for every scan. After that, I don't think it really matters how gentle it is...

Unless you're concerned with binding the pages to form a new book. I think that would be possible with the leftovers.

It's a tough problem, because doctors are supposed to be strictly concerned with their patient's health. So someone would have to set up and administer some sort of medical police force.

I read today that John F. Kennedy was riddled with health problems. He was young, and was considered a good president. How would this new medical enforcement work in His case?

https://www.google.com/m?q=john+f+kennedy+health&client=ms-o...

For programming, and other technicl troubleshooying, I think I'd add a step at the end of "Probe, Analyze, Isolate, Resolve"... Verify - verify that the actual problem was solved, or confirm the Resolve step if someone else is involved.

Mistakes and misunderstanding can happen throughout the process. A quick email or conversation regarding the resolution can work wonders.

Also check out the book, The Artist-Blacksmith

https://www.amazon.com/Artist-Blacksmith-Design-Techniques/d...

Historically, blacksmiths of one sort or another were involved in making almost every tool prior to the industrial revolution.

My totally unreserved guess is that there are not very many on a per capita basis, but there are probably about 10-50 working smith's per state. They do architectural work, historical pieces, education, sculpture, and all sorts of other stuff, if you include farriers (who deal with shoeing horses, but it's really a more technical trade that deals with horses gaits and health).