augustuspolius

Not sure if comparison to Texas is appropriate. Gun laws and property protection laws are very different there and act is a big deterrent for such crimes.

Most of these mass daytime raids are done by people from the East Bay. Fixing inequality just in SF won’t address that.

Self cleaning? That would be $10M. This is just your basic restroom with a broken Dyson Airblade hand dryer for $900.

Apparently CA governor Newsom threatened to pull money from SF because of how much unwanted attention the $1.7M restroom attracted. It sounds absurd, but an expensive public restroom in SF could compromise his White House aspirations.

I don't get any spam texts but saw an uptick about a month ago in fake emails from a range of retailers. Always an order confirmation for some expensive gadget with a message prompting me to call a fake number if I have any questions. I am using Startmail and they seem to have caught up on this scam.

Another way to become friends is to experience something extraordinary together. In fact, for me this is way more effective than spending several hours a day with a colleague in the same room.

Traveling brings people closer (that could be arranged through meetups), doing intense social work (also possible through meetups)...

> systems built upon illusions are less stable than systems built upon truths

I strongly disagree with that. The most stable societies historically have been built around a religious center, which is by definition not an objective rational truth. We are yet to see a very large group of people co-exist in an environment based on truths. So far we are witnessing quite the opposite: truth itself has acquired a new definition ("alternative facts", "my truth", etc).

Edit: for people who downvote this comment. Do you have an example of a stable society based on truths? Other than a speculation that this time humanity will succeed, and people will finally value truth over comfort.

I think the world is now learning that the biggest problem with natural gas is its non-universal availability. This introduces very dangerous dependencies and exacerbates geopolitical corruption.

The way this is presented in the article could be dangerous. ECT with its potentially life-altering horrendous side effects is not an alternative to Ketamine with almost non existent negative long term side effects. Both treatments are recommended as the last resort (at least on paper Ketamine is recommended if anti-depressants do not work), with ECT being far more dangerous.

I am also confused by this comparison. Yes, Ketamine might cause dissociation… but that’s not a side effect, that’s a catalyst for the actual expected psychological effect.

It’s like saying that a side effect of drinking alcohol is feeling drunk.

v2 doesn't have native Apple Silicon compatibility yet. Rumors are we will need to wait for the v3 release.

In terms of the dev resources:

1. Here is a basic official tutorial: https://vcvrack.com/manual/PluginDevelopmentTutorial

2. A pretty good video tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d670AFZKGnw

This is cool, but I think we are talking about different things. From reading the description of this project it looks like you can't actually _edit_ the individual modules. They still require compilation since it's C++. You can change the patch by adding modules and tweaking them a-la hardware Eurorack.

M4L and PD allow you to open the patch ("patch" as in MaxMSP patch, not a Eurorack patch) and edit its source code. Which is a completely different level of sound manipulation and synthesis.

The advantage of this PureData plugin and Max4Live over VCVRack is that you can edit the patch on the fly right in the DAW (in addition to the fact that visual programming is way more accessible than a compiled language).

This plugin could potentially be a big deal. PureData has been around for decades but fell behind Max and/or MaxMSP mostly (IMO) due to usability limitations. If more people will be able to incorporate PureData organically into their workflow, it could create a real alternative to Max4Live in DAWs other than Live.

I could fantasize even further. A PureData plug-in could kickstart a VCVRack type effort - an open source library of interconnected audio processing modules.

That was my instant impression as well. Barnum effect all the way.

Thank you - your explanation and that photo of the Sun with the Calcium K filter are very helpful.

With so many colorized photos of space objects and so many artist impressions, I wasn’t sure whether space is just a black void to the human eye or we are capable of seeing the gorgeous colors of different nebulae and such.

Thank you. If I was in a spaceship at a much closer distance to the object than I am right now, would I be able to see the dust and the shape similar to what we see on the photos? Or is this all invisible to the human eye?

Looks incredible, thanks for sharing! Hope they can remove stars from Webb’s Pillars of Creation at some point.

I would like to see Webb’s photo without so much lens flare on individual stars (not sure if that’s the right term). Just kind of toned down stars but the same level of detail.

Is it possible to visualize how a human eye would see Pillars of Creation in real time? This always confused me with Hubble’s colorized photos.

I just disabled both, also disabled keyboard sound and enabled haptics. A much better typing experience!

Oh haha, that's great! Nice to meet you! I am curious... are you a first generation atheist or were brought up in a non-religious environment?

This feels odd - lately I was getting very confused by the quality of my typing on iOS. It's reaffirming to see so many people with a similar experience.

I am on iPhone 13 Pro.

I have a very different experience. In all tech companies I worked at (Bay Area) there were very many Indian immigrants, most of whom were religious. In fact, I have never met an atheist from India.

We would frequently discuss religion, philosophy, religious traditions - especially after work or on business trips.

I must add that I am an atheist, which was never an obstacle to our discussions.

Interesting. I was testing this with a 4K USB-C monitor connected to MacBook Pro M1. Charging was not working due to "insufficient power".

I am trying to keep up with these spec details for a cable that is often marketed as just USB-C... it feels like an unnecessary cognitive load.

Exactly - it's too expensive and at this point I am not sure how future proof this investment would be. Are we going to have a new USB-C cable in a year's time that my next monitor will require?..

Edit: different devices add even more to this confusion. My MacBook Pro M1 is refusing to work with a 4K USB-C monitor even when using a Thunderbolt 4 cable. LG is convinced that it should be working just fine.

Sorry, I meant data transfer+charging at the same time.

I like the USB-C connector but wondering if there is a better way to handle the ever expanding number of different cable types that are used with this connector (SuperSpeed, Thunderbolt, etc).

Switching to USB-C reduced the number of different cables I have at home but almost equally increased the number of different types of USB-C I have. Some work with my monitor, some don’t, some charge, some don’t charge, it’s a mess.

Encountering this aspect of the culture war always makes me wonder why are tech companies so focused on these gender minorities and not, say, on the disabled groups. There are more blind, deaf, mute (etc, etc) people in the US than transgender people who will bear a child. It would be equally incoherent to attempt to replace all usages of “see”, “hear” with “perceive”.

Do you mean the risk is that Russia will invade Finland and NATO will have to get involved?

This is short term thinking.

What if Finland does not join NATO and Russia invades? What if Russia succeeds? In the next decade it will invade Sweden that’s also not in NATO. At the end of this process, Russia will still border NATO in the North. Only this time Russia will be a much bigger and a more powerful state. What’s the upside for NATO in that?