So does this mean that the mRNA vaccines are probably going to be like flu vaccines, where they have to predict which variant will dominate each season and adjust the doses accordingly? Can other options like the…
Agencies like ICE and the TSA appear to be jobs programs for people who would otherwise have difficulty finding work. It's just a shame that the makework mostly involves harassing people. You'd think we could find more…
I disagree. Regulatory capture is a clear and present danger to the United States, and it is contributing to a breakdown in accountability across all sectors of the nation's economy and society. So I offered it as an…
Many American regulatory institutions have crumbled in the past few decades, the FAA being a particularly jarring example. In some cases it seems like peoples' trust in those regulators may be fueled by nostalgia, but…
We're also very good at not thinking about certain things, though. And I doubt anybody would make a system of immortality that didn't have an escape hatch. Alpha Centauri is prescient as ever on this subject: >I plan to…
We need a new mark of quality to account for environmental ruggedness. "Designed in Chennai and Winnipeg."
>Back at the Base I was furious to hear of discussions of the possibility that the atmosphere might be detonated. This possibility had been discussed at Los Alamos and had been quashed by intensive studies of all…
I agree in principle, and so did I, but there's no denying that it puts a major crimp on your social life. It's wrong that people are forced to decide between accepting predatory terms or losing touch with friendly…
People like you and I didn't decide that it was what we wanted. We just have no other options, because the companies which impose the terms aggressively snuff out or buy up their competition. I would argue that people…
Don't leave without a concrete goal and a timeline. What do you want to work on, with who, and why? Don't give up the pay and benefits until you can answer that, and make sure that you budget for N months/years out of…
Anecdotally, these findings mesh with my experience in a US city which had a vocational school; I wish these sorts of programs were more popular outside of Europe. Apparently it's not too common in the States, but our…
Give people more rights, and enforce violations. It won't happen, because the sort of rights that we need would obviate a huge swath of the economy. But put simply, I think that we need to make it highly illegal to use…
Very cool. It's interesting that they are planning to start with Vulkan support, followed by OpenGL/DX/etc. I guess it makes sense; the RISC-V crowd might possibly skew towards early adoption over…
You might be misunderstanding the US capitol outrage. It wasn't that people brandished weapons or killed each other - that's bad, and everyone wants it to stop, but it does sometimes happen. The problem was that the…
If you think about it, a lot of Google and Apple's power comes from their dominance of the smartphone market. I hope that mobile computing follows the path of desktop computing, and we end up with more viable…
The revolution always devours its children. One of my favorite aphorisms is: >Don't put your faith in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions. What happened to Georges Danton,…
I have one question for Tesla customers who trust the company to deliver full FSD. How do you reconcile that belief with the fact that Tesla's embedded developers did not understand the extremely simple concept of write…
Well it's up to the paper, but personally, I support papers re-evaluating their positions on this sort of thing. You'll still be able to find the old article on archive.org et al, but what a paper publishes today should…
Well in the US, postgrad education is a genuinely interesting proposition. * Very low pay. * Good benefits in a nation with poor safety nets. * Tuition waivers along the lines of $10-100K/year. * When the Dr. says jump,…
Not all the time; to be fair, universities don't pay their students to work 40+hrs/week. But graduate schooling is still a big opportunity cost, and not to go all Mark Twain, but sometimes that can get in the way of…
Sure, the low pay is commensurate with...uh...some sort of ephemeral opportunities in the future. But seriously, you're right. Grad students do grunt work, that's how it goes. And if an academic Python2 library is…
Yeah, really. Graduate students aren't cheap! Oh wait, we pay computing grad students literally 1/10 of their potential salary ($10Ks vs $100Ks). Why could there possibly be a shortage? -_- More importantly, it…
They might just dislike H2O2. But it is useful as a disinfectant, and it can help get rid of earwax if you dilute it. Do we really need to ban the stuff? Peoples' tastes vary, but personally, I'm not a huge fan of…
Interesting, thanks for the correction.
Maybe, but try to get into the mind of someone who installs a minimalist OS. They might think that Linux is too heavy and an RTOS is too constrained, right? That kind of perspective probably wants to be fairly close to…
So does this mean that the mRNA vaccines are probably going to be like flu vaccines, where they have to predict which variant will dominate each season and adjust the doses accordingly? Can other options like the…
Agencies like ICE and the TSA appear to be jobs programs for people who would otherwise have difficulty finding work. It's just a shame that the makework mostly involves harassing people. You'd think we could find more…
I disagree. Regulatory capture is a clear and present danger to the United States, and it is contributing to a breakdown in accountability across all sectors of the nation's economy and society. So I offered it as an…
Many American regulatory institutions have crumbled in the past few decades, the FAA being a particularly jarring example. In some cases it seems like peoples' trust in those regulators may be fueled by nostalgia, but…
We're also very good at not thinking about certain things, though. And I doubt anybody would make a system of immortality that didn't have an escape hatch. Alpha Centauri is prescient as ever on this subject: >I plan to…
We need a new mark of quality to account for environmental ruggedness. "Designed in Chennai and Winnipeg."
>Back at the Base I was furious to hear of discussions of the possibility that the atmosphere might be detonated. This possibility had been discussed at Los Alamos and had been quashed by intensive studies of all…
I agree in principle, and so did I, but there's no denying that it puts a major crimp on your social life. It's wrong that people are forced to decide between accepting predatory terms or losing touch with friendly…
People like you and I didn't decide that it was what we wanted. We just have no other options, because the companies which impose the terms aggressively snuff out or buy up their competition. I would argue that people…
Don't leave without a concrete goal and a timeline. What do you want to work on, with who, and why? Don't give up the pay and benefits until you can answer that, and make sure that you budget for N months/years out of…
Anecdotally, these findings mesh with my experience in a US city which had a vocational school; I wish these sorts of programs were more popular outside of Europe. Apparently it's not too common in the States, but our…
Give people more rights, and enforce violations. It won't happen, because the sort of rights that we need would obviate a huge swath of the economy. But put simply, I think that we need to make it highly illegal to use…
Very cool. It's interesting that they are planning to start with Vulkan support, followed by OpenGL/DX/etc. I guess it makes sense; the RISC-V crowd might possibly skew towards early adoption over…
You might be misunderstanding the US capitol outrage. It wasn't that people brandished weapons or killed each other - that's bad, and everyone wants it to stop, but it does sometimes happen. The problem was that the…
If you think about it, a lot of Google and Apple's power comes from their dominance of the smartphone market. I hope that mobile computing follows the path of desktop computing, and we end up with more viable…
The revolution always devours its children. One of my favorite aphorisms is: >Don't put your faith in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions. What happened to Georges Danton,…
I have one question for Tesla customers who trust the company to deliver full FSD. How do you reconcile that belief with the fact that Tesla's embedded developers did not understand the extremely simple concept of write…
Well it's up to the paper, but personally, I support papers re-evaluating their positions on this sort of thing. You'll still be able to find the old article on archive.org et al, but what a paper publishes today should…
Well in the US, postgrad education is a genuinely interesting proposition. * Very low pay. * Good benefits in a nation with poor safety nets. * Tuition waivers along the lines of $10-100K/year. * When the Dr. says jump,…
Not all the time; to be fair, universities don't pay their students to work 40+hrs/week. But graduate schooling is still a big opportunity cost, and not to go all Mark Twain, but sometimes that can get in the way of…
Sure, the low pay is commensurate with...uh...some sort of ephemeral opportunities in the future. But seriously, you're right. Grad students do grunt work, that's how it goes. And if an academic Python2 library is…
Yeah, really. Graduate students aren't cheap! Oh wait, we pay computing grad students literally 1/10 of their potential salary ($10Ks vs $100Ks). Why could there possibly be a shortage? -_- More importantly, it…
They might just dislike H2O2. But it is useful as a disinfectant, and it can help get rid of earwax if you dilute it. Do we really need to ban the stuff? Peoples' tastes vary, but personally, I'm not a huge fan of…
Interesting, thanks for the correction.
Maybe, but try to get into the mind of someone who installs a minimalist OS. They might think that Linux is too heavy and an RTOS is too constrained, right? That kind of perspective probably wants to be fairly close to…