Inherit risk is defined as the risk of manifold deleterious effects on an online community after it is acquired by some crappy company whose goal is to "monetize" the "audience".
Then you should be informed that you have a knee-jerk reaction about anything carbon related, such that it obscures your sense of humor (indeed presuming you have one). Your hints included references to making coal over millions of years for a future land-dwelling octopus kind.
Unless, that is, you were trying to implement some Poe's Law satire of what a humorless, paranoid, knee-jerk climate change ultradisciple would say in this context. If that's the case, then you deserve a golf clap.
By its strictest definition, black does not reflect any light either, and so does not qualify as a color either. We can usually see so-called black objects either because they are perhaps just a very dark grey, and are thus still reflecting some amount of light that we can detect, or else in the case of something like Vantablack, because of objects nearby.
Nanotube/graphene based products like this Vantablack is going to be the new hotness for the next twenty years, then for the fifty years after that it's going to make generations of lawyers very wealthy due to the occupational/environmental exposure cancer claims.
Yes, you certainly have found a degenerate case. So degenerate, in fact, that I would have found different employment unless there was something magical about the other characteristics of this particular job.
I learned long ago that getting requirements in writing is key, not least for the reasons you cited.
Phone calls are horrible. You, too, have my sympathy.
Hell, years ago I decided to permanently unplug the phone at my desk.
As long as the computer is functional, the phone at the desk is a solution in search of a problem unless you work in helldesk (in which case you have my sympathy).
Anything that can't be answered in two sentences gets an email. Anything too laborious to email works better face to face in a meeting or conference call with all the stakeholders (i.e. not at my desk).
That the trees aren't rotting, even after 30 years, is as visual as it gets, but even that needs narration or you won't realize that this tree hasn't fallen yesterday, but in 1986 or whenever.
There you go: an engineered solution for carbon sequestration. Grow the plant biomass, irradiate it to prevent decomp, and *bam*: sequestered carbon.
For bonus points, bury it in massive swamps for coal payoff in the geologic long-term. The future land-based octopodes that inherit the earth will thank you while being curious about the isotopic imbalances. Neutron activation ftw.
Any coder can tell the difference in effect on an app if a security-related method call throws a security exception (or returns null), which is how CM7 did it, vs return a spoofed but cromulent return value (e.g. an empty list or a random 10 digits for a phone number, etc).
The CM7 privacy controls were basically unusable because most apps weren't coded to expect those privileged method calls to crap out.
However, PDroid was far better than the CM7 approach, and XPrivacy is the best yet. I love that I can sideload it on an otherwise stock vanilla Android distro. No wiping, no nandroids, just a simple reboot.
Obviously I am enamored. I use that and a whitelist firewall and therefore have my device locked up tight.
Interesting that they reversed themselves on that. Guess it became untenable for them to continue to choose the app developers' interest in data mining over the userbase's desire for privacy.
My point about custom roms being passe still stands. With a custom rom one is tied to accept the rom devs feature set and mods as an all or nothing deal. Conversely, with XPosed one can pick and choose which features to load and still keep access to OTA Android updates.
I've compiled my own custom ROMs from source and even submitted features patches accepted into CM in the past, but I don't anticipate going back to that approach, especially now that I found how easy it is to code runtime interception with XPosed.
You can do this with the cyanogenmod privacy manager. Of course, then you have to root your phone.
Unless they have changed their stance since CM7, the privacy manager sucks compared to XPrivacy because XPrivacy will allow spoofing of data. If a permission is flatly blocked instead of spoofed then many apps will force close due to exceptions being thrown. XPrivacy lets me keep my privacy without app force closes. Anyway, the CM devs used to be adamant that they would never allow spoofing because it would interfere with app devs data mining user data. It's one of the reasons I parted ways with CM. Maybe they have changed their position, though.
Besides, XPrivacy, while it requires root, does *not* require a whole custom rom. Custom ROMs are passe compared to what the XPosed framework can do, and XPrivacy is an excellent example of an XPosed module.
Great! You want to read even more detailed explanations for why this is the case. Most people tl;dr when presented with technical details, so the anecdotal links tend to work better.
Here's one post by Dr. Peter Attia, an MD with an engineering/applied math background. Thanks to that, he is very good at explaining biochemistry concepts to the stereotypical Slashdotter.
The reason that low-carb/high fat works is because people don't feel like eating too much of that. There's only so much steak you can eat, but there's always room for dessert.
Did you read the links?
The guy didn't gain weight even on a massive surplus of caloric input while in ketosis (an excess of thousands of kcal/day), whereas he gained the expected amount of fat for his caloric surplus while on a carb diet. The fat deposition pathways are effectively disabled while in ketosis; this isn't really news.
In other words, the well-known anorectic effect of nutritional ketosis is notwithstanding. It just doesn't matter how much a person eats while in nutritional ketosis, they simply won't gain fat.
"The low-fat diet and food pyramid is probably the worst thing ever foisted on the American people. With 30 years of run-away obesity and diabetes, maybe it's time to admit failure with those recommendations."
As a foreigner I can easily see where USA's obesity epidemy comes from and it is not from any given food pyramid: have you paid attention lately to the ridiculously big rations you ingest? The ridiculously high levels of processed food? The ridiculously high comsumption of snacks and soda drinks?
No, it really doesn't matter how much you consume on a low carb, high fat diet as long as you remain in nutritional ketosis.
These results make sense because the biochemical pathway signals are overloaded: the same hormones/substrates are used to signal more than one condition. That is to say, while your body is burning fat in nutritional ketosis it disables the pathways for laying down new fat stores. Essentially, a high fat/low carb diet tricks the body into thinking it is starving when it is not (the overloaded signals can't distinguish between the diet and true starvation), and it obviously makes no sense to store more fat if you're starving/burning fat. So, the body doesn't do it.
But, yeah, all the soft drinks and shit are killing people. No argument from me there. Drop the carbs.
What portion of the population would sell their vote for an iphone?
I certainly would sell my vote for an iPhone during a typical election in my district. None of the races are close, and my vote for the token libertarian is typically grouped with "other/write in" in the results.
For $10, however, I would prefer to keep my vote and the personal satisfaction of my pointless gesture.
How would Apple know which SSDs support trim properly?
Way to let "perfect" to be the enemy of good. By your logic Apple is doing the correct thing by cacking support for the overwhelming preponderance of SSDs in order to prevent data loss on a minority of them.
Also, why does Apple care anyway? It's not like they support the third party drives from a tech support perspective. Furthermore, who do you think would get the blame if an unsupported third party drive kills your data because they fucked up their TRIM support: Apple, or the shitty hardware manufacturer?
Apple's position is indefensible. It's either incompetence or malice. Presuming incompetence is a horrible insult, so I prefer to believe it's malice.
When I was younger and I first came across this quote by Mahatma Gandhi:
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
I dare you to find a credible citation for that quote. It's one of those sentimental things that gets attributed to someone from whom it would seem plausible, but it's unlikely they ever said it.
I was going to use that "Gandhi" quote once, but couldn't find a good cite beyond those echo chamber quote sites. So, I didn't.
Except that it is a state FOIA request; which may have the limits. The problem is most people are not sympathetic to strippers; and unlike gun owners who managed to get carry permit applications exempt, the lack a powerful lobby.
I will point out that I am sympathetic to *everyone* who doesn't want their records FOIA'd or data dumped, whether it be strippers, gun owners, people who got same-sex marriage licenses, or your DMV records.
It's an intimidation tactic, but underscores how once data is collected it can be abused in the future.
If your vehicle has GPS and a cell modem (i.e. a nav system with apps, services, etc) then you have to assume the manufacturer is already doing this type of tracking. Ford's CEO just pulled a Biden here and admitted publicly what they're all doing. I know my non-Ford vehicle has a telematics unit and is probably reporting all my speed and location data to the manufacturer (including when I exceed the speed limit, because it knows). I haven't figured out how to pull it yet. Most of the vehicle cabin controls route through the head unit, and I don't have a wiring diagram so far.
This isn't a heat engine; therefore, it isn't subject to the Carnot efficiency limit that is a key reason that internal combustion engines have such a low maximum theoretical efficiency in terms of extracting energy from the fuel.
Hydrocarbons are actually a great energy store for a vehicle: they are thermally stable/don't discharge over time, it's fast & trivial to "recharge" the energy store, and hydrocarbons have orders of magnitude more energy per mass than any form of battery, which improves vehicle efficiency by reducing the mass that has to be lugged around. However, the internal combustion engine is a wastefully inefficient, complicated machine. Ideally, we could get the best of both worlds with a hydrocarbon fuel cell that efficiently produces electricity to drive electric motors for a vehicle. There are other technologies that could potentially accomplish this, such as the solid oxide fuel cell.
Don't conflate the energy store (hydrocarbons) with the stored energy (e.g. fossil fuels). There is no reason we cannot create hydrocarbons at will using various approaches. Biodiesel from algae is one example as well as "reverse combustion" via more industrial processes (e.g. the Fischer-Tropsch process). Some catalytic processes have been created that use solar power to create hydrocarbons.
Personally, I prefer the idea of large nuclear plants creating hydrocarbons from atmospheric CO2. As a bonus, we would get to keep our existing petroleum distribution infrastructure while our vehicle fleet becomes carbon neutral. Backwards-compatible carbon neutrality FTW?
In some cases, the feds require the tests, not the corporation. The corporation just follows the laws.
Yes, I alluded to that in my previous comment. Sometimes I work around the issue by having them contract with my LLC; otherwise, if they insist on the drug test then we're done.
I don't need the work that badly. I can always find something else.
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Seriously? Who TF is editing this?
Inherit risk is defined as the risk of manifold deleterious effects on an online community after it is acquired by some crappy company whose goal is to "monetize" the "audience".
Then you should be informed that you have a knee-jerk reaction about anything carbon related, such that it obscures your sense of humor (indeed presuming you have one). Your hints included references to making coal over millions of years for a future land-dwelling octopus kind.
Unless, that is, you were trying to implement some Poe's Law satire of what a humorless, paranoid, knee-jerk climate change ultradisciple would say in this context. If that's the case, then you deserve a golf clap.
You're wrong, and the future land-dwelling octopode overlords who will rule this planet in 59 million years will laugh at your delusions.
All we have to do is bury the neutron-activated irradiated/radioactive biomass in anoxic swamps.
What are you, some sort of science denier?
By its strictest definition, black does not reflect any light either, and so does not qualify as a color either. We can usually see so-called black objects either because they are perhaps just a very dark grey, and are thus still reflecting some amount of light that we can detect, or else in the case of something like Vantablack, because of objects nearby.
Nanotube/graphene based products like this Vantablack is going to be the new hotness for the next twenty years, then for the fifty years after that it's going to make generations of lawyers very wealthy due to the occupational/environmental exposure cancer claims.
Call it the 21st century asbestos.
Sometimes Not using the Phone is not an option.
Yes, you certainly have found a degenerate case. So degenerate, in fact, that I would have found different employment unless there was something magical about the other characteristics of this particular job.
I learned long ago that getting requirements in writing is key, not least for the reasons you cited.
Phone calls are horrible. You, too, have my sympathy.
Just don't answer your voice mail.
Hell, years ago I decided to permanently unplug the phone at my desk.
As long as the computer is functional, the phone at the desk is a solution in search of a problem unless you work in helldesk (in which case you have my sympathy).
Anything that can't be answered in two sentences gets an email. Anything too laborious to email works better face to face in a meeting or conference call with all the stakeholders (i.e. not at my desk).
Bravo.
If you take requests, consider satirizing systemd development next time.
That the trees aren't rotting, even after 30 years, is as visual as it gets, but even that needs narration or you won't realize that this tree hasn't fallen yesterday, but in 1986 or whenever.
There you go: an engineered solution for carbon sequestration. Grow the plant biomass, irradiate it to prevent decomp, and *bam*: sequestered carbon.
For bonus points, bury it in massive swamps for coal payoff in the geologic long-term. The future land-based octopodes that inherit the earth will thank you while being curious about the isotopic imbalances. Neutron activation ftw.
It may have been some sort of attempt like that.
Any coder can tell the difference in effect on an app if a security-related method call throws a security exception (or returns null), which is how CM7 did it, vs return a spoofed but cromulent return value (e.g. an empty list or a random 10 digits for a phone number, etc).
The CM7 privacy controls were basically unusable because most apps weren't coded to expect those privileged method calls to crap out.
However, PDroid was far better than the CM7 approach, and XPrivacy is the best yet. I love that I can sideload it on an otherwise stock vanilla Android distro. No wiping, no nandroids, just a simple reboot.
Obviously I am enamored. I use that and a whitelist firewall and therefore have my device locked up tight.
Interesting that they reversed themselves on that. Guess it became untenable for them to continue to choose the app developers' interest in data mining over the userbase's desire for privacy.
My point about custom roms being passe still stands. With a custom rom one is tied to accept the rom devs feature set and mods as an all or nothing deal. Conversely, with XPosed one can pick and choose which features to load and still keep access to OTA Android updates.
I've compiled my own custom ROMs from source and even submitted features patches accepted into CM in the past, but I don't anticipate going back to that approach, especially now that I found how easy it is to code runtime interception with XPosed.
You can do this with the cyanogenmod privacy manager. Of course, then you have to root your phone.
Unless they have changed their stance since CM7, the privacy manager sucks compared to XPrivacy because XPrivacy will allow spoofing of data. If a permission is flatly blocked instead of spoofed then many apps will force close due to exceptions being thrown. XPrivacy lets me keep my privacy without app force closes. Anyway, the CM devs used to be adamant that they would never allow spoofing because it would interfere with app devs data mining user data. It's one of the reasons I parted ways with CM. Maybe they have changed their position, though.
Besides, XPrivacy, while it requires root, does *not* require a whole custom rom. Custom ROMs are passe compared to what the XPosed framework can do, and XPrivacy is an excellent example of an XPosed module.
I saw some video about hand scanner that uses your vein mapping. This is good because you dont need to touch it, and it'd be hard to replicate.
But does it work through gloves?
Yes. You simply place your hand in the 3T MRI cavity, wait 45 minutes for the scan to complete, and voila, instant authentication!
Great! You want to read even more detailed explanations for why this is the case. Most people tl;dr when presented with technical details, so the anecdotal links tend to work better.
Here's one post by Dr. Peter Attia, an MD with an engineering/applied math background. Thanks to that, he is very good at explaining biochemistry concepts to the stereotypical Slashdotter.
http://eatingacademy.com/weigh...
(I suggest also reading the three part ketosis series he published as well if you're unfamiliar with the biochemistry of nutritional ketosis)
Once you have read that, if have specific objections I'll be happy to discuss further.
The reason that low-carb/high fat works is because people don't feel like eating too much of that. There's only so much steak you can eat, but there's always room for dessert.
Did you read the links?
The guy didn't gain weight even on a massive surplus of caloric input while in ketosis (an excess of thousands of kcal/day), whereas he gained the expected amount of fat for his caloric surplus while on a carb diet. The fat deposition pathways are effectively disabled while in ketosis; this isn't really news.
In other words, the well-known anorectic effect of nutritional ketosis is notwithstanding. It just doesn't matter how much a person eats while in nutritional ketosis, they simply won't gain fat.
Feel free to elaborate upon the error you perceive.
"The low-fat diet and food pyramid is probably the worst thing ever foisted on the American people. With 30 years of run-away obesity and diabetes, maybe it's time to admit failure with those recommendations."
As a foreigner I can easily see where USA's obesity epidemy comes from and it is not from any given food pyramid: have you paid attention lately to the ridiculously big rations you ingest? The ridiculously high levels of processed food? The ridiculously high comsumption of snacks and soda drinks?
No, it really doesn't matter how much you consume on a low carb, high fat diet as long as you remain in nutritional ketosis.
Here, one guy used himself as a guinea pig:
5,800 kcal/day low carb high fat diet, then he repeated the experiment with a 5,000 kcal/day diet with high carb intake.
These results make sense because the biochemical pathway signals are overloaded: the same hormones/substrates are used to signal more than one condition. That is to say, while your body is burning fat in nutritional ketosis it disables the pathways for laying down new fat stores. Essentially, a high fat/low carb diet tricks the body into thinking it is starving when it is not (the overloaded signals can't distinguish between the diet and true starvation), and it obviously makes no sense to store more fat if you're starving/burning fat. So, the body doesn't do it.
But, yeah, all the soft drinks and shit are killing people. No argument from me there. Drop the carbs.
What portion of the population would sell their vote for an iphone?
I certainly would sell my vote for an iPhone during a typical election in my district. None of the races are close, and my vote for the token libertarian is typically grouped with "other/write in" in the results.
For $10, however, I would prefer to keep my vote and the personal satisfaction of my pointless gesture.
How would Apple know which SSDs support trim properly?
Way to let "perfect" to be the enemy of good. By your logic Apple is doing the correct thing by cacking support for the overwhelming preponderance of SSDs in order to prevent data loss on a minority of them.
Also, why does Apple care anyway? It's not like they support the third party drives from a tech support perspective. Furthermore, who do you think would get the blame if an unsupported third party drive kills your data because they fucked up their TRIM support: Apple, or the shitty hardware manufacturer?
Apple's position is indefensible. It's either incompetence or malice. Presuming incompetence is a horrible insult, so I prefer to believe it's malice.
Let's just say I look for the best in people.
Which, in turn, is still better than "compute" (noun)
When I was younger and I first came across this quote by Mahatma Gandhi:
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
I dare you to find a credible citation for that quote. It's one of those sentimental things that gets attributed to someone from whom it would seem plausible, but it's unlikely they ever said it.
I was going to use that "Gandhi" quote once, but couldn't find a good cite beyond those echo chamber quote sites. So, I didn't.
Except that it is a state FOIA request; which may have the limits. The problem is most people are not sympathetic to strippers; and unlike gun owners who managed to get carry permit applications exempt, the lack a powerful lobby.
I will point out that I am sympathetic to *everyone* who doesn't want their records FOIA'd or data dumped, whether it be strippers, gun owners, people who got same-sex marriage licenses, or your DMV records.
It's an intimidation tactic, but underscores how once data is collected it can be abused in the future.
They will eventually, when the state and insurance companies mandate the trackers.
No need to mandate, telematics is already here. Ford: We can use GPS to track your car movements.
If your vehicle has GPS and a cell modem (i.e. a nav system with apps, services, etc) then you have to assume the manufacturer is already doing this type of tracking. Ford's CEO just pulled a Biden here and admitted publicly what they're all doing. I know my non-Ford vehicle has a telematics unit and is probably reporting all my speed and location data to the manufacturer (including when I exceed the speed limit, because it knows). I haven't figured out how to pull it yet. Most of the vehicle cabin controls route through the head unit, and I don't have a wiring diagram so far.
Actually, it doesn't matter how long you reside outside of the US they still want their bite.
Actually, it's even better than that: even if you live outside of the US and renounce your US citizenship they still want their bite.
This isn't a heat engine; therefore, it isn't subject to the Carnot efficiency limit that is a key reason that internal combustion engines have such a low maximum theoretical efficiency in terms of extracting energy from the fuel.
Hydrocarbons are actually a great energy store for a vehicle: they are thermally stable/don't discharge over time, it's fast & trivial to "recharge" the energy store, and hydrocarbons have orders of magnitude more energy per mass than any form of battery, which improves vehicle efficiency by reducing the mass that has to be lugged around. However, the internal combustion engine is a wastefully inefficient, complicated machine. Ideally, we could get the best of both worlds with a hydrocarbon fuel cell that efficiently produces electricity to drive electric motors for a vehicle. There are other technologies that could potentially accomplish this, such as the solid oxide fuel cell.
Don't conflate the energy store (hydrocarbons) with the stored energy (e.g. fossil fuels). There is no reason we cannot create hydrocarbons at will using various approaches. Biodiesel from algae is one example as well as "reverse combustion" via more industrial processes (e.g. the Fischer-Tropsch process). Some catalytic processes have been created that use solar power to create hydrocarbons.
Personally, I prefer the idea of large nuclear plants creating hydrocarbons from atmospheric CO2. As a bonus, we would get to keep our existing petroleum distribution infrastructure while our vehicle fleet becomes carbon neutral. Backwards-compatible carbon neutrality FTW?
In some cases, the feds require the tests, not the corporation. The corporation just follows the laws.
Yes, I alluded to that in my previous comment. Sometimes I work around the issue by having them contract with my LLC; otherwise, if they insist on the drug test then we're done.
I don't need the work that badly. I can always find something else.