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Many more will go out of healthcare once the medical insurance industry is allowed to demand that their customers use their AI software for the initial visit instead of going to their general practitioner, and once hospitals start using a few doctors as rubber-stamps for decisions made by their AI software. I suspect that the eventual net benefit to society will be positive. But the transition will be bumpy, with most people supporting deregulation until another Elixir Sulfanilamide event shifts the pendulum in the other extreme direction. I might be wrong, but I think that people aren't great aiming for the pragmatic balance.

That doesn't solve the problem. I mean, a manufacturer that doesn't want to grant you access to repair your car can use analog computers, analog transmission/reception protocols and most importantly, deny selling you proprietary parts, tools and documentation. That is, unless you were expecting them to make new cars reusing designs from the '70s.

No, what I need is a manufacturer that is willing to sell at reasonable price the parts, diagnostic/repair tools and documentation to any car owner or repair shop without any delays or restrictions.

Even better, I would like a car that doesn't save and/or transmit to the manufacturer any information about my car usage and location. Or a manufacturer that supports my right to modify the car any way that I wish. But those two are completely different topics. Related, but not the same as right-to-repair.

There's a startup that is making a pledge to support your right to repair, but they are not manufacturing their cars yet. And honestly, their cars aren't for everybody: https://aptera.us/right-to-repair-commitment-feat-rich-rebui...

OMG, I had forgotten that Royal Crown ever existed. It was a minor, but still important cola beverage, here in Puerto Rico back in the '70s.

Puerto Rico (USA Territory) - Digital payments in the form of debit or credit cards are pretty much universal here, but most fast foods, small business and even semi-formal business (mom+pop) accept an app-based payment called ATH movil. This system is sponsored by the largest bank here (although it's not owned by them). This is so strong here that many businesses apologize when they can't accept it, and the smallest business only accept either cash or ATH móvil. Not all the local banks and credit unions support the system. So when you don't have cash and cannot use ATH móvil to pay, you might feel excluded from the local economy. In my opinion this bank is using the app to consolidate the oligopoly in the local market. Which is almost a monopoly because the other banks are insignificant to them (in size). Of course, they share the system with other tiny banks and credit unions, so you cannot claim monopoly. In addition, the system belongs to a company that they spun off a few years ago.

No thanks. I'll not be using alcohol-based mouthwash. https://drugfree.org/drug-and-alcohol-news/australian-study-...

This is not possible. No other country have implemented a program against homeless that works, and those who tried in the past have given up because it's an impossible problem to solve. Ohh wait. Finland Housing First program have been running since 2008?

How do they can? Maybe there are other factors, like a better economy and support systems that generate less homeless people, maybe? Or maybe most homeless people die in the cold and are lost in the snow forever?

https://www.themandarin.com.au/205500-finland-ends-homelessn...

You mean, to all possible sensors and spectrum signals in the arsenal?

I wouldn't say 'never'. But the right thing to do is to keep the training wheels (radar, lidar) until it's proven that the system has learned to drive without them when there's good visibility and to reduce speed (or stop, if necessary) when the visibility is reduced. This also includes learning to recognize almost every possible situation, including zero shot events.

I can't believe you all fell for the whataboutism.

I'll summarize it for you:

'I'm the bomb! Just awesome. Here's the evidence. If you are a CEO looking to improve your time management and delegation skills, you can throw lots of money at me and I can coach you into being almost as good as me.

This article took 1/24th days of my time. B-)'

Heating under usual winter conditions would consume more energy than cooling under practical conditions. Yes.

But that's very different than claiming than cooling is more efficient than heating. In A/Cs the ratio of energy (in the form of heat) removed to energy consumed is very low, around 10-15%.

In furnaces the ratio of energy added to energy consumed is around 90%, which was pretty good until the emergence of heat pumps. There almost all the energy consumed is added to the output in addition to all the energy removed from the other side. That's why the efficiency in heat pumps is beyond 200%.

In summary, no. Cooling is not more efficient than heating. But given the temperature differential when cooling the energy consumption is usually higher.

With credits, Aisera base model may get close to that number. But you will have to wait for it to be released and there're lots of people in line ahead of you. With that price and their right to repair policy, it is the less risky of the EV startups at this moment.

The link goes to the Launch Edition. But you can edit the options to reduce the sticker price to $25,600.

However, the All-Wheel option is tempting. Nobody needs a 0-60MPH in 3.5 seconds car, but it's very cool, anyway.

https://aptera.us/shop/

Depending on your commuting needs and sun availability in your area you might not need to recharge, ever.

What legacy systems is the oil and gas using? MQTT? OPC-DA? OPC-UA?

I wonder if the trend of using the 'Latinx' term falls under the hypercorrection definition or there's something else to describe it. I'm not passing judgement on the inclusiveness intention, but the English word for Latino and Latina is just Latin, which doesn't have gender. There's no need to mix linguistics with algebra and add a gender variable to the latin word.

That's an intelligent hypothesis, but this could go one way or another.

I'd prefer to see empirical results.

The article makes you believe that the 11% benefit from using masks in the Bangladesh study was for the whole population (100%) using the mask (experimental group) vs the control group (0%) not using masks. However, the 11% benefit for an experimental group of only 42% of the them using masks vs 13% using masks in the control group. There was only a 29% point difference between groups (not 100%). And compliance was not 100% perfect (as usual).

Assuming that the study was correctly performed, maybe 100% usage difference between groups (all using masks in experimental groups vs nobody using them in control group) could have shown a much higher benefit. But that remains to be tested.

This article is, as an expert in the topic of agnotololy explains, an effort to "…spread doubt in the guise of balanced debate".

This other linked article is from early 2016 and is as relevant today as then: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160105-the-man-who-stud...

What are you saying? Lol

I could attribute the little use of internet pre-1994 to lack of ISP services, or the fact that people preferred html and modern search engines to the old protocols (ftp, archie, gopher), etc. But 2008, seriously?

I spent lots of hours in internet in college (pre-www) and later paid for CompuServe. By then www was already becoming known. Again, 2008. In what country do you live?

And you should try consuming internet in a desktop or laptop. Even a Chromebook works ok (but a gaming PC is better). Most apps offer a limited experience in mobile, or tablet (it sucks) and seriously, sites render much faster on a fast PC. I can right-click 10 links on the browser, send them to open in the background, consume each tab a close what doesn't work. It is so much nice and faster experience.

Yeah. We still need to see how Facebook/Meta wants to materialize this. Maybe they want to break the boundaries between your real self (as you consume apps like WhatsApp and Instagram), your social profile (true self in virtual world like the closed garden in Facebook) and the avatar in a world like Second Life. This would be a gold mine, because they already can target ads to you in the real world, so they could do it there too. Doing it were the people use fake avatars is not so easy.

So think that every user is an inhabitant, a citizen, a potential buyer in the virtual and the real world, but also a potential business owner in the virtual world. Business owners will be tax payers that must pay fees to operate on this city-state that will have internal laws that except for few cases (at most) will not be subject to government laws and constitutional protection, and if you are difficult or problematic the authority will be able to expatriate you without prior notice, regardless of time or money invested in the platform. Maybe, at most, they could offer arbitration with a company that knows that if they don't favor Meta the contract will not be renewed. So yeah. It is a good idea, if they can pull it.

I have been using on device transcription on my old Pixel. Here is a demo of the 2 years old technology: https://youtu.be/zfOPF069Xn0

But what I'm looking forward is the new technology in the Pixel 6. Besides much better transcription, caption and translation (see the video completely) it could even solve the real problem by letting people send text messages by speaking into theirs phones with better quality than before.

https://youtu.be/tSAYtwTqppA

I would assume that you would have to very mentally stable to resist all that humiliation without going nuts.

I have a friend that wasn't homeless, but all unemployment money was used on rent required to keep his shared custody (without an apartment to house the kids, you cannot have custody). He always was clean and used good clothes, but he made the line with homeless people to get free food daily. Otherwise he wouldn't have money to eat.

He said that the worst part of all was the look from voluntary women that were working on the food delivery organization. Each woman reacts differently to men. But he says that this is completely different. The look is like if he wasn't even a man - it's like they are feeding a lesser species. He says that he have never experienced the same reaction from women in other contexts, and that it hurts. It steals away all feeling of manliness. Luckily he got out of that situation many years ago.

‘The Secret Apartment’ is the story of a Vietnam vet who claims to have lived in Veterans Stadium for years

https://www.inquirer.com/news/the-secret-apartment-vet-stadi...

Did you receive the keyboard? It is built like a tank.

I received mine last month and had used their GUI customization app to switch the location of a few keys, but this weekend I cloned their QMK repo, did a branch and created my own layout. I also started to program my macros.

I do my own macros for switching Unicode mode (Windows/Linux - I don't use, OSX, but it is possible too), and entering international characters without switching the keyboard layout in the OS or using Mapping or Alternate/Compose key. Actually, my requirement is that my keyboard must work exactly the same in every computer, terminal or VM that I connect to without having to pre-customize the host machine. Typing is responsibility of the keyboard - not the OS. It must be plug and play.

I write mostly in English, but also in Spanish. There are characters missing in the regular keyboard that I enter using macros.

I did this before with my first QMK enabled keyboard (the Brand New Model F Keyboard, a replica of the IBM Modem F Keyboard). I was using this keyboard for work, but once I got spoiled by the QMK macros I wanted another programmable keyboard for my personal desktop. The Model F keyboard is too big to be carrying around with me. This is why ordered the Launch keyboard.

The possibilities are almost limitless once you go down the programming route. However, I noticed that the niceties of this keyboard like the many LED animations are taking almost all the available memory. My next task will be finding out how to free some of this memory (I don't care for LED animations) and address LEDs directly to use them to get CAPS, NUM and SCROLL lock feedback, as it should be.

My wife's XPS has that coil whine. She avoids using it because of it. It's pretty old, so we have to replace it. However, no more XPS in my house. I bought one for my son last year and the wifi card failed to initiate with the machine from the to time. The solution given by Dell was a BIOS reset. Luckily I bought from Costco and since Dell no offered a better solution before 90 days I returned the laptop.

So what is the public policy value of this study? We all should try to get Covid to get immunity to Covid? This is nonsense.

This other study add some value: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7032e1.htm

It says that if you already got covid, the possibility of reinfection is 2.4 times lower if you also get the vaccine than if you don't get it. Now I guess that you multiply that natural immunity from 13x to 31x. Isn't cool?

Google services between Germany and Malaysia might be essentially the same. But that might not be the case if Google decides to relocate you out of the United States. Even those US Citizens who live in a USA territory like Puerto Rico or US Virgin Islands constantly receive a variant of the message 'this service is not available in your country'. Be aware that as a US territory, Puerto Rico and USVI are subject to the same federal laws (and financial system) as any other state, so technically they aren't foreign/alien. But a private company like Google can choose to underserve what is not strategic for them. Google uses either your IP address or the postal address of your payment method to find out that you don't live in the 50 states (or DC). When launching some services, Google starts in US (or course), excluding their territories. Then they expand to other countries, again skipping the United States territories, which continue receiving the 'this service is not available in your country' message' practically forever. This happened with Google Music. Also YouTube videos apparently market for USA market only were not playable here. Google controls the YouTube platform and there's no excuse for not negotiating including all the US territories in the definition of USA for YouTube uploaders.

Recently they made YouTube Premium available in this market. And with the YouTube Music change, this also came included. However, I don't know if they fixed completely fixed the issue of viewing USA only videos from here.

I purchased this with my own money in the mid '90 to use in my work computer (Windows 3.11) because it saved me do much time inspecting the data dumps from our old data warehouse in preparation for a migration for the new data warehouse. No other application was able to load files of comparable size at the time.

Only if they had not changed the useful menu for that useless ribbon interface.

I'm not sure your definition of big file. But, the last thing that I tried to edit a full Wikipedia dump (in 2014) the file was 65GB, and it was slow even in UltraEdit. I tried all the editors suggested at the time, including Sublime but notice that VS Code wasn't available at the time. People love their programming editors, but UltraEdit is much more than that. It was an editor for data manipulation. It was the best for managing what used to be considered big files before (and too many other features, including moving around columns of data like what you can do in Excel - try that on other editor), but now the bar for file size is much higher, and UltraEdit had not improved there. The fastest editor for big files according to my tests was EmEditor, and editor that like UltraEdit, is made for loading data files. However, EmEditor can load what in 2021 can be claimed to be big files. It can open filed of up to 248GB in the 32-bit version and 16TB in the 64-bits version of the platform. That (the 64-bits version) is what I call big files.

https://www.emeditor.com/text-editor-features/large-file-sup...

This. I see reviews in YouTube from people that only care about how the keyboard sounds. Who cares how it sounds if I can't customize the layout? If can't program the keyboard to work exactly how I expect it to work? I can't believe that those reviewers talk about the hardware and the sound, but never cover the firmware customization capabilities in their reviews. I want to know if a keyboard is compatible with QMK. If the support comes from mainline QMK or a custom repository, what is the address of the web configurator and if it also supports customization VIA (only for resale value - will not use it personally).

I like the CTRL layout. Actually, I like almost everything about it.

But I don't want to abuse my luck. There are people still experiencing chattering issues with this keyboard as recently as this year, even when the issue was supposed to be fixed in 2019. I read that the Drop Alt also suffered this issue. People recommend changing switches but come on, you don't need to do this when having a good design. This problem is not that common with other keyboards - you don't have to throw away your switches because your keyboard doesn't like them.

There are also different denouncing algorithms in QMK (but you can implement custom, more advanced methods). The thing is that I expect my products to be fully tested working before I buy them.