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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/arto; my proof: https://keybase.io/arto/sigs/Ca4QI8CFFN8AqIF7aW6_0tEY-y0fxEp-wLa82xUmP_g ]
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arto··on Ask HN: Why is there a chip shortage?
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/11/why-the-chip-shortag...
arto··on E.O. Wilson has died
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O._Wilson
arto··on Estimation of total mortality due to COVID-19
"It's only grandma."
arto··on Infection fatality rate of Covid-19 inferred from seroprevalence data [pdf]
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.14.20212555v...
arto··on Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of thousands of permalinks
"About 4,910,000 results (0.26 seconds)"
arto··on Brazil's President Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus
Reuters source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil...
arto··on The Silence Is Deafening
"The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots." -- H.L. Mencken
arto··on Numerical Linear Algebra for Programmers
You may be looking for this book: https://www.manning.com/books/math-for-programmers
arto··on Zoom Acquires Keybase
Seems a rather poor cultural fit, to say the least.
arto··on Effect of High-Dose Vitamin D on Volumetric Bone Density and Bone Strength
This.
arto··on OpenHMD 0.3.0 ‘Djungelvral’ Released
> OpenHMD aims to provide a Free and Open Source API and drivers for immersive technology, such as head mounted displays with built in head tracking. Our aim is to implement support for as many devices as possible in a portable, cross-platform package.

> OpenHMD supports a wide range of devices such as Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Sony PSVR, Deepoon E2 and others. We also support a Generic Android driver and a External Sensor data driver to allow the use of our Sensor Fusion and features, while providing your own data.

arto··on Why Are There No Mosquitoes at Disney World? (2018)
> You see rather than blindly spraying insecticides over the entirety of the property, which is twice the size of Manhattan, Disney instead uses various methods to carefully track where and when to spray. The program maintains over 60 traps across the area of Walt Disney World.

> They’ll then bring those traps, filled with mosquitoes, back to a lab where the mosquitoes are frozen to death and analyzed. The team looks at everything from what kind of species they are, to their concentration, to how old they are and how many of them were ready to lay eggs. By looking at all this data for all of these traps, Disney is able to paint themselves a picture of what parts of the property need the most attention when it comes to eliminating the bugs.

arto··on Downgrade Attack on TLS 1.3 and Vulnerabilities in Major TLS Libraries
Seconded, and sourced:

> Microsoft cited public stats from SSL Labs showing that 94 percent of the Internet's sites have already moved to using TLS 1.2, leaving very few sites on the older standard versions.

> "Less than one percent of daily connections in Microsoft Edge are using TLS 1.0 or 1.1," Pflug said, also citing internal stats.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/chrome-edge-ie-firefox-and-saf...

arto··on Icy super-Earth exoplanet spotted around nearby Barnard's Star
> The nearest single star to the sun apparently hosts a big, icy planet.

> Astronomers have found strong evidence of a frigid alien world about 3.2 times more massive than Earth circling Barnard's Star, a dim red dwarf that lies just 6 light-years from the sun. Barnard's Star is our sun's nearest neighbor, apart from the three-star Alpha Centauri system, which is about 4.3 light-years away.

arto··on Sipeed MAIX: inexpensive, crowd-funded RISC-V module
Two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18448003
arto··on A Heretic's Guide to Deplatforming
Indeed, sometimes things have to get worse before they can get better.
arto··on Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?
Seconded.
arto··on IRS: Review of the System Failure That Led to the Tax Day Outage [pdf]
Best of us?
arto··on The Humanities Are in Crisis
"While history, English, and the rest have faded, only one set of humanities fields without a foot in the sciences has clearly held its own: the much newer (and smaller) disciplines the statistical agency joins together as ethnic, gender, and cultural studies."
arto··on The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be
> Now who can we pay to invest a month hacking away at figuring out how to get all the bits of hardware working in Linux?

There is donation information at:

https://github.com/jakeday/linux-surface

arto··on The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be
Once bitten, twice shy.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_security#Eavesdropping_b...

arto··on Model predicts we're the only advanced civilization in the observable universe
Stephen Baxter's "Manifold" trilogy deals head-on with the Fermi paradox:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(Baxter_novel)

arto··on Darpa Literally Reinvented the Wheel for Army Combat Vehicles
Indeed. http://ar.to/2010/08/red-blood-white-snow
arto··on Buzz Aldrin returns to Twitter, sues his son and former manager
> In 2000, Yeager met actress Victoria Scott D'Angelo on a hiking trail in Nevada County. The pair started dating shortly thereafter, and married in August 2003. Subsequent to the commencement of their relationship, a bitter dispute arose between Yeager, his children and D'Angelo. The children contended that D'Angelo, 41 years Yeager's junior, had married him for his fortune. Yeager and D'Angelo both denied the charge. Litigation ensued, in which his children accused D'Angelo of "undue influence" on Yeager, and Yeager accused his children of diverting hundreds of thousands of dollars from his pension fund. In August 2008, the California Court of Appeal ruled for Yeager, finding that his daughter Susan had breached her duty as trustee.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Yeager#Personal_life

arto··on A former Theranos employee's account of life inside the company
Also, from a few days ago:

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180612-the-reasons-why-wo...

arto··on Logic is Metaphysics (2011) [pdf]
Thanks!
arto··on Logic is Metaphysics (2011) [pdf]
Thanks!
arto··on Logic is Metaphysics (2011) [pdf]
Source, pretty please?
arto··on Errol Morris Refutes It Thus
Same, and I'm not even in the EU so poor targeting to begin with.
arto··on Self-driving technology is going to change more than cars
See also Ben Evans's:

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/3/20/cars-and-s...

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