fart simpson posted:

the west still has a huge blind spot for stuff originating outside western culture. im sure it’s better now but it kinda feels like even like, foreign news correspondents based in the “east” operate on a cliffsnotes level of knowledge and understanding of the local culture

BobHoward posted:

maybe? i got that impression by skimming some posts on their forums, but I rechecked just now and found a post referencing ‘the os port’ and mention of a desire to get a microkernel running as a way to bootstrap one of the hybrid linux/uC operating systems. so, idk

as it always is with the mill, half the posts are ivan godard (the gandalf-rear end mf’er in their youtubes who is the impetus behind the project) being vague and tantalizing, both about exactly what mill is and what they’re doing, so you can read almost anything you want into what he’s saying

also don’t go to their forums, they’re the saddest forums

fritz posted:

candiodari 3 hours ago [-]

The main limit on plant growth is exactly that: a shortage of CO2 in the atmosphere. Yes, shortage. Will this actually make a difference with the plants starved of CO2, as opposed to a CO2-enriched atmosphere in the lab ?
(obviously I mean from the perspective of a plant that wants to grow faster, what matters from a global perspective can and probably will be different)
e.g. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2012/10/25/contrary...
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(note: the link is to a blogpost titled "Contrary To What You Hear, Global Warming Has Been Good To Africa" by the president of the "spark of freedom foundation" and was formerly federalist society associated)

MononcQc posted:

the few farmers I know here are kind of looking forwards to the longer growing season we'd get here, though they're constantly surprised by the increase in pesticides and insecticides required as milder winters make pests and insects able to come up further north, and they more and more frequently get burned by longer droughts and more violent storms compared to what used to be milder frequent rains.

Storms have too much rainfall in a short period of time so that the water isn't properly absorbed by the soil and it tends to wash away part of the topsoil or its nutrients and droughts are always problematic when most farmers here never really needed any sort of irrigation and aren't ready for it.

Unpredictable weather around season starts and ends have also played badly with early freezes and the inability to properly dry grain and fertilize before the first snow covers, or getting an early start on germination in spring only for a few cold nights to kill major parts of the crop.

More frequent floods around spring is also forcing some farmers further south in the province to consider switching to more permanent crops that would help prevent soil erosion.

They really like (or liked?) that prospect of longer growing season, but afaict they're starting to realize it's not gonna be smooth sailing at all and that their choices of crops will grow more limited with new unpredictable and rougher events.

MononcQc posted:

as far as I can tell there are lots of efforts being made towards things such as regenerative agriculture, bio crops, etc. mostly it’s a transition period towards different agricultural methods and crops that might be more familiar with what people already do down south but weren’t necessarily a concern here.

I’m not necessarily worried about our ability to produce crops, it’s people down south (US and MX) who are already very dependent on irrigation from over stressed aquifers that may see the biggest hardships and shifts to crops that play better with lower water availability.

For me in somewhat mid northern Quebec, that probably mostly means a lower availability of veggies and fruits in winter over the next many decades, something my grandparents had to contend with, and a return to a diet more focused on grains/beans and livestock fed with grains and beans since they keep far longer during seasons where nothing grows.

i.e the bigger threat, as long as pollination remains possible, is likely the lack of adaptation in crop and culture methods that can accelerate dust bowl scenarios. But even dust bowl scenarios can be prevented if you grow the right crops that prevent soil erosion and other techniques (drip irrigation rather than more demanding forms, tree-based wind barriers, etc).

FMguru posted:

i can think of a thousand ways your job could treat you with more contempt

just from basic retail: dress codes, bag searches, clock in and out, hours changing from week to week, strict limits on bathroom breaks, and on and on

suffix posted:

i've started on a react/nodejs spa with communication through websockets, bootstrap with some custom css for branding, i'm thinking maybe two weeks for productionizing, running super lean

i've stubbed in some detection code for now, does anyone know what's a good dna sequencer you can call from javascript?

code:

function hasCovid19(patientId) {
  // todo: hire a bioengineer to check this
  // later: can machine learning help here?
  return shell.execute("grep -R $COVID19SEQUENCE /data/" + patientId + "/all_detected_dna/")
}

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The foundation trust invests undistributed assets, with the exclusive goal of maximizing the return on investment. As a result, its investments include companies that have been criticized for worsening poverty in the same developing countries where the foundation is attempting to relieve poverty.[80][165] These include companies that pollute heavily and pharmaceutical companies that do not sell into the developing world.[166] In response to press criticism, the foundation announced in 2007 a review of its investments to assess social responsibility.[167] It subsequently canceled the review and stood by its policy of investing for maximum return, while using voting rights to influence company practices.[168][169]

Critics have called on the Gates Foundation to divest from the GEO Group, the second-largest private prison corporation in the United States. A large part of the prison's work involves incarcerating and detaining migrants that have been detained by the Obama administration and now the Trump administration.[170][171][172] In spring 2014 the Gates Foundation acknowledged its $2.2 million investment in the prison corporation.[173] It has more recently rebuffed critics' request that it sever investment ties with the prison corporation. It has refused to comment on whether it is continuing its investments.[170][174]

fritz posted:

my understanding is at stanford any idiot professor who wants to can teach a class that fulfills the ethics requirement

uncurable mlady posted:

the world would be a better place without these people in it.

Xik posted:

toomuchtodo 7 hours ago | parent | favorite | on: Show HN: Free foreign exchange rates API

Wouldn’t it be more reliable to ask the ECB to support JSON alongside xml? Or require them to provide JSON by law? Shims are fine, but technical debt. Fix the problem at the source.

sambe 7 hours ago | parent | favorite | on: Show HN: Free foreign exchange rates API

You'd enshrine in law a particular technical format? What is the cost of making such a law vs the cost of a different - but still very much usable - format?

toomuchtodo 7 hours ago [-]

I would, with lifecycle and sunsetting requirements. Laws are requirements docs with more ceremony and stakeholder participation, but also with much more authority.

alexandriao posted:

idk man, you can learn other skills while camming / posting lewds. It's not like you can't touch computers and touch yourself on cameras on the same day.

Schadenboner posted:

Taibbi went into such a steep and deep decline and he's gotten weirdly Pro-Putin of late (I've heard it rumored they have kompromat on him from his younger days in and around Moscow)?

Zamujasa posted:

this sounds like a loving wikipedia page title

alexandriao posted:

we should not work around bad thing with public policy

* lists a bunch of public policy proposals *

i am very smart

alexandriao posted:

I think I misread the post within the context, because when I wrote that it very much read like that poster was advocating against putting public health solutions in place (You know, better education, easier access to testing and cures), and instead putting propaganda-like (wrong word, but I'm having difficulty thinking of the right one at the moment) restrictions in place.

I don't think you can significantly reduce the incidence of casual sex by alone changing the representation of casual sex in popular media because it's only addressing a fraction of the cause, and ignoring all of the material circumstances that lead people to those sorts of decisions. Public image and education is only part of the problem, I think (although I'm pulling the rest of this sentence outta my rear end) that a lot of the reasons people choose casual sex is out of a tendency towards risk-taking, that comes from not seeing a future for yourself.

Anyway, I think you'll get *some reduction*, but this is the exact same choice you see with abstinence based sex education, which has been shown repeatedly not to work.

Because in regards to a health crisis, investing money in public policy to change the media people see, is always going to lose out versus investing that same money in actually solving the problem directly and providing better and more accessible healthcare to adults.

Jabor posted:

you think the locals forced out of their homes by rising rents are profiting from an increase in their landlord's property values?

tracecomplete posted:

Modern streaming is a lot smarter than “here’s an MP4”. HLS and DASH are segmented. You cache the segments and dynamically generate the manifest either with EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY or by dynamically assembling segment lists (which you can cache by cohort or whatever to optimize) and you go get lunch.

As epitaph says it does make personalization somewhat more complex—you have to generate cohorts and targeting logic up front—but it’s not a difficult thing to do.

tracecomplete posted:

Oh, and in the near future we've got ways to make it so you can click on ads in videos, more or less. You've always been able to sort-of do it (YouTube has done callout cards forever) but stuff like program date/time makes syncing up events outside the player (translation: ads) much easier and players are adding more options for "rich content" (translation: ads) to provide you a more connected and immersive experience (translation: ads).

technology is amazing!

tracecomplete posted:

It's not quite that easy. In a sorta naive case yeah, you can do that, but now you need people to give you that data (that is, tell Mr. Adblock what porn they're watching) and then you need infrastructure to collate that information (because I assume you have sticky cohorts--I do not regret this phrase--so you show person X the same segments every time) and somebody has to pay for it. That will be expensive. Beyond that there are technical concerns, for example when dealing with streams with adaptive bitrates--who's to say that the video for rendition X wasn't re-encoded at a higher quality after ingest, that sort of thing. It's even pretty vulnerable to just renaming segment files' URLs. If you've already downloaded them and hashed them, that's a pretty big bandwidth hog and you run the risk of downloading the ad segments, throwing them away, and having to buffer the video instead of showing the ad.

(this is the industry I work in but I don't know anything in particular about my company or about serving ads in general)

fritz posted:

YeGoblynQueenne 1 hour ago [–]

The article makes a very strenuous effort to make a point about something something racism in rock that sounds a bit boring and trite to my ears. After all, Bon Scott said it best years ago:
In the beginning
Back in nineteen fifty five
Man didn't know 'bout a rock 'n' roll show
And all that jive
The white man had the schmaltz
The black man had the blues
No one knew what they was gonna do
But Tchaikovsky had the news
(Although, Tchaikovsky? What the...?)
What I want to know is why young black Americans, do not, in their majority, do rock anymore. I get that the music industry always tries to control what gets airtime, but who needs the music industry today, and who needed the music industry in the past? If it was for the music industry, nobody would have heard of Jimi Hendrix- a black man with a guitar? That'll never sell!
Look at metal and how it took hold. Growing up in Athens, Greece, it seemed like every neighbourhood had a metal band and you would never know by looking at billboards, or even coverage in the metal press (a lackey of the music industry, if there ever was one). Euro kids took Rock from the Americans and ran with it and made something new, all ours, and all working class (see the early years of Sabbath and Priest in Manchester; remember the apocryphal story of Ozzy and Tony having one pair of good shoes between them and wearing them on alternate days to go out). Metal quickly became the authentic popular music of entire generations, without ever any need of mainstream acceptance. Metal grew from below, with no help from above and despite the disdainful snorts of mainstream music critics.
So why didn't the black grasroots ever sprout an analogous new rock scene, instead of turning towards the mainstream, big stage, light show, for-profit music that comes from black artists for the last few decades?
Why Rihana and Beyonce, rather than a new Jimi Hendrix? Female, even. Why is Rock 'n' Roll pretty much dead to black kids, nowadays?
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Truman Peyote posted:

you mean like rap

suffix posted:

Jose Valasquez posted:

rryizgr8 4 hours ago [–]

Even the phrase "labor camp" itself does not signify anything evil. In fact I'm wondering if such a place might be better than the usual government administered cities and towns.