Infernal

Just here to say that my first car was a '91 SHO, champagne/gold with the fiberglass "Power Bulge" hood. Loved that car.

GP specifies a ZFS share.

There are so many meanings of the word reason. I suspect you mean the sense that is like “justification”. Consider, the only reason I have for looking at hacker news right now, is because I know lots of my peers are as well, though I don’t consider this consciously/rationally. But if my peers (along some dimension) weren’t here, I surely wouldn’t be.

Prior to the 20th century, communicating ideas had a much higher cost. If we're talking about natural selection with respect to ideas, then we have to consider the last 100+ years as a massive environmental shift that we have not yet adapted to.

Many synthetics have a PFOA or PFOS treatment to provide the water resistance, which are pretty terrible chemicals when you end up exposed to them all day on your clothing. They also wear off rapidly with normal use, so previously water-resistant clothing loses that property after a few months to a year depending on how often it is worn and washed.

I am reading this thread as a parent and terrified - when people say their parents were emotionally unavailable and very immature - how can I make sure my kids are not thinking this about me in a few years?

Well, can you help us identify these situations by sharing some of your notes?

Composting knowledge, I like this. I find that with papers, books, audio CDs, video game cartridges, etc., it is easier to filter, to know what you have, and to get rid of what you don't use as you go.

In some ways, the default of a physical medium is loss, and you have to put in some non-zero, repeat effort to retain it. In contrast, the default of digital media is retention, sometimes even in spite of efforts against (think trying to remove data from social media). Every Apple Note, iCloud Photo, browsing history, bookmark, etc. will continue to persist unless you make an effort to get rid of it. So, the challenge for me, is not so much how do I retain all this digital data, but how do I ONLY retain the bits that are relevant, and how do I cull those bits occasionally?

This explains a strange interaction I had on FamilySearch. I knew they were owned by the Mormons, but I was doing some cleanup (think deduplication/obvious typo correction stuff) on older records in my line, when someone on the site messaged me and essentially gave me first dibs on... I don't remember the exact phrase, "registering ordinances" or something like this for the person in question, because I was a direct patrilineal descendant. In retrospect I think it was related to this baptism-by-proxy thing, maybe?

So I’ve worked retail during a power outage, granted it was roughly 15 years ago, at a Blockbuster. We used a pen and paper list of transactions (literally a cash register) along with necessary info (membership number, movie purchased or rented) and entered them by hand when power came back.

For those on mobile: https://web.archive.org/web/20170803105201/https://wiki.c2.c...

Thanks, I hate it

This is an interesting observation - I decided to look it up, and indeed the first presidential cabinet (including the president) had five members: the others were the Secretaries of State, War, and Treasury, and the Attorney General.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_the_United_States#H...

> basic tenants

Just in case it’s helpful - “tenets”

So if I understand correctly, M1 Pro has half the efficiency cores as the M1 (4 vs 2), and despite those cores running over double clock speed on the M1 Pro, the M1 Pro still takes longer to complete multi-threaded tasks at the lowest QoS (the QoS that limits threads to only ever execute on efficiency cores).

This is a nice test and good data, but it seems intuitively correct to me that things would work this way. I guess the unintuitive bit is "if you scale the QoS all the way back to minimum, regular M1 outperforms M1 Pro".

It would be interesting to see which one has the lower power usage during these tasks as well, given that regular M1 is a desktop machine (Mini in this case) and M1 Pro is a laptop.

It's really expensive but they throw the rest of a new machine in with it as consolation.

EDIT: Sibling beat me by a couple minutes. DO great minds really think alike?

On that first link is a date, it displays for me

"February 3 19122"

Took a look to see what's up with that (I'm not familiar with javascript) but it looks like he was using a function that returned the number of years since 1900, with the "19" hardcoded. So for 1995-1999 it would've worked fine, but since 2000 it has been 19100, 19101, etc.

Only a handful of vignettes from 3-5 but the excitement of riding in the front seat was enough to cement that one.

Interesting that you would name a newspaper of record as a valid outlet for government news/updates. I feel like Facebook could make an argument for being essentially that today - after all, it is where the eyeballs are, which is why people use it for marriage announcements, birth announcements, classifieds, obituaries.... and on and on.

I read the grandparent the same way you did at first. GP is talking about spider silk in all three of those points.

Gone for me as well

Maybe state dependent? I’m not yet 40 and recall being excited that I could finally ride up front when I turned 3.

>Stopping people like this takes a lot of work and often some personal risk.

I don't recall where I first heard it, but the principle that it takes 10x the amount of energy to refute bullshit as it does to generate it certainly seems to apply in this case.

> I'd rather have everyone fed, clothed, housed and medically taken care of than having a low chance of "winning"

Where do you believe the food, clothing, housing, and medical care/technology will come from in this hypothetical?

Mind sharing year/make/model of car? That's crazy.

Where can one apply?

> I've never, not once, got an applicant that said, "I don't know Lisp but I'd love a job with an interesting language."

I don’t know Lisp and I’d love a job with an interesting language - but it would never occur to me to apply to a job requiring experience with a language that I don’t have experience in.

Yup. And then charge you a dollar a page to make copies.

First reaction - Oh no no no. How can I unread this comment?

Second reaction - so uh where in Oklahoma exactly?

> Practically speaking my colleagues are all very smart (academics, PhDs all over the place) and should be able to detect bullshit bingo.

Who says they didn’t detect it? Welcoming, diversity, strategic, collaboration - these are religious tenets that are not allowed to be questioned in any professional context. Much more likely to have been an “emperor has no clothes” situation.