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Funny that you'd call out the subjectivity of some measures, then bring immediately introduce another, breast cancer survival, that has also been called misleading, and only an indicator of higher screening. https://theconversation.com/when-talking-about-cancer-screen.... The US gov even explains why 5 year survival rates are "illusory" https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/screening/research/what-... Life expectancy, and perhaps maternal deaths, seems less subject to reporting variations.

As for other countries having less income after health care, is that actually a comparison of health costs, or simply average incomes? Because dollar value incomes don't translate at all between countries, as an indicator of wealth and living standards.

The big hole in all that is that costs without insurance can quickly exceed affordability, especially for the unemployed/poorer folk more likely to be without insurance. Which, as well as being unacceptable to much of the world, probably also removes a lot of terribly sick people from any measurement at all.

There was a solid stretch of not knowing if things might get much worse, if the vaccines might fail etc. Some borders have only opened very recently.

It's not like all those people who wanted to travel and go out were actually making plans and booking post pandemic flights back in 2020.

We're lucky that things are solidly back to normal this soon. Not just the restrictions that kept us inside, but the massive paranoia that made many fear the outside, and some new, worse virus

As far as making their point goes, sexuality is a pretty convenient placeholder for issues of identity.

As for reaching personal balance independently, it's a much shorter path to self acceptance moving from environments that stifle you to one's that encourage. Perhaps largely because it answers the question of whether there might actually be something wrong with you, and not everyone else. Before even getting into the possibility of actually thriving.

Ethernet over power is another good option. After messing about with bad wifi in a townhouse for a few years, EOP has been going strong for over a decade

You'll get some proper recommendations, but I'll mention that I have a very cheap no brand thing that cost under $50 at a grocery store. A skeptical, low investment purchase. It's amazing.

No fancy features, the design could clearly be improved, but chuck anything in this small chamber, crank up the timer and delicious food comes out 10mins later. I've gifted nice models to others, without feeling any need to upgrade my own. Maybe when it breaks.

I would suggest sticking with a small one though. Quicker to heat, better circulation etc

Yea everyone knows how they work, you aren't lifting the veil here. But as other comments point out, air fryers are actually very similar to ovens. You seem to be confused that the word "fryer" means that they need oil. Oil is optional, just like in an oven. Would you call oven cooked chicken "fried" because it was basted in olive oil? The same chicken can be air-fried, basted or not. Even then, basted chicken, and basted potato chips, use far less oil than an oil fryer. This has some health benefit, it's also way more convenient.

Apart from being clever marketing, I believe they use the word "fryer" to describe the immersion in a very evenly and highly heated fluid, in this case air. While not very different from a fan-forced oven, the design of a small chamber with a vented basket and high air circulation does create a more uniform thermal environment over the entire surface area of the food, than the usual convection oven with a flat tray.

I recently discovered that they have their own phone numbers, and you can ring them up

Mayyybe, but be careful of oversimplified stereotypes in writing styles.

Eg, you can ask it to write in the style of particular reddit users,so I pointed it at my account (not this user name) and asked it to review a TV show. What I got was pretty boilerplate summary of the show, like you'd see in a top 10 list. But for that human touch, it began and ended with "Yo dudes" and "so check it out dudes"

Having said that, a fascinating example of directed styles is to ask it to write a news article about say, an oil spill. And to either promote or criticise the response of the company.

Self driving encompasses a bunch of things. Obstacle detection is one. Vehicle control, including micro adjustments, is one. Path planning is another one.

GPS is one way of doing one part of self driving. But it's ALL self driving

That's exactly the kind of uncollaborative attitude we try not to indulge in.

Already upgraded the cable for max refresh rate while gaming.

I might not have noticed an issue with the way it looks, if I wasn't running it alongside a Windows machine that is very crisp. As I said, it takes a few mins of vscode before something starts to feel a bit off. Its subtle, but it's there

Macs have a bunch of weird quirks where simple things simply do not work. I got a new mbp for work recently, second to my main windows gaming machine with 34" ultra wide 1440p monitor.

And I've basically installed chrome, vscode, and a whole bunch of little packages to make basic hardware operate normally. There's an app to allow the track pad and mouse wheel scroll directions to be set differently. There's another to allow the mouse side buttons to work. It's a basic mouse. These are settings and compatibility issues that do not need to exist.

But the most annoying is that the monitor is a bit blurry on the M1. I use vscode for a few mins before I realise there's a fuzziness to it. And apparently this is a known issue, because macs only scale properly for 4k resolutions. So there's another app to make it think its 4k or something. Helps a bit but not that well, and it's a trial. It's maddening. How the hell is anyone supposed to know that Apple has just decided that they won't be compatible with an entire category of bloody monitors, of all things.

That's like firing the IT department because all the computers are working fine

"of the already acquired supply, it gave some 44 million doses to other countries free of charge. The remaining doses have been thrown out."

I used to work in a place that assembled machines based on old designs that rarely got reviewed, since if it ain't broke don't fix it.

When working on one particular unit, I found that they would order a bunch of plastic panels, cut to size, and some with precut holes. And others with secondary drawings, instructing us how to drill out a bunch of holes ourselves. Sometimes not even all the holes, just a few, in addition to the precut.

When I asked why we didn't just ask the supplier to cut out ALL the holes, I basically got a shrug.

So I merged the secondary drawings and sent them to the supplier, and the assembly team never wasted time on that nonsense again.

Ha yep I see that now, on a reread. My bad

Nah that's normal. It's why GPUs are the usual thing for AI. Any crap, old, weak gpu with 4gb memory would run circles around a cpu

It's often easier to actually get models to run on CPU, due to simpler install configs and more available memory. Just painful to get a result out of it. Which might help keep the install simple, because it's not even worth optimizing

And why is it called USB C anyway? It's not shaped like a C at all!

I was recently tossing up between a ThinkPad x1 nano and a M1 air. Got them both second hand for a steal and had some time to play with them.

If the nano had the battery life of the m1, and didn't sell for 50% more than the m1 was worth, I would have kept it. It just felt like an inviting machine, like a well worn paper notebook. More at home in my actual lap than any desk, no matter what position I was contorted in. And felt fine to toss around and treat rough, with the slightly cramped space only enhancing the experience of a light, portable machine. All making it something I carried around, just in case. Helped that it barely weighed anything at all.

The air isn't too bad, but there's something sterile about it, and it doesn't fade in the background, or even a backpack, quite as well.

>99% chance the people complaining about labor conditions are doing so on a made in China phone.

Is there any other option?

Don't stop people from complaining about lead in the water supply, just because they have nothing else to drink.

Probably to prove it's unencumbered, liquid collateral. Which makes sense if you disregard all the other ways to determine that

Echo + Spotify does the whole multiroom thing, and would be unbeatable on price.

Adding to an existing Sonos setup makes sense though

I'm not too familiar with Sonos, but was under the impression that they are just high-end wifi speakers with some proprietary system. And that Ikea's version is again the same idea, but at a lower cost (and less proprietary?)

So what is the actual benefit here? Is it upgrading the speakers of the Ikea model? Or is it adding an amp and wifi to unpowered speakers? Or more specifically, creating a ceiling wifi speaker for cheap?

Because step way down from the Ikea speakers, and you could grab a few Echo Dots for (alarmingly) close to free, and line-out into any powered (or amped) speaker, which would seem to be about the same result? And at least with Spotify, multi-room works quite well. This of course ignores privacy concerns, which keeps costs down.

Ooh neat. Definitely interested in this phone, with the short support life being one of the only apparent downsides.

Am I right in thinking that lineageos support doesn't really have an "end of life"?

By binary analysis, it sounds like you mean to claim that 99% effective isn't close enough to 100%. For most people that would be enough. Because I don't know how else you could conclude that gun regulations are bereft of any benefit whatsoever, even hypothetically, without manufacturing such an unfair hurdle to obfuscate the obvious: gun violence requires access to guns.

It seems like you want to say that broader mental health problems are more important than gun violence, but that's only more reason to restrict access to guns. Most other places in the world are able to recognise that mental illness and guns are a bad mix, and act accordingly. The US has had nearly one third of the mass shootings in the world since the 60s yet people like you continue to defend access to guns as though it's not a contributing factor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United_S...). That alone seems to point to one of those broad problems affecting the populace. It doesn't have to be the only cause, to merit a treatment.

The rest of the world doesn't view gun access as a given, or even a good. It's earned and revered, or prevented, but never normalised. It's why Abe's assassin had to make his own gun, because Japanese laws didn't make things easier for him. It's why here in Australia, even gangsters don't even have guns, for the most part https://youtu.be/BYsXCnxbnj0?t=461

But we don't judge the effectiveness of these restrictions by some bogus standard of absolute zero gun violence. We judge them by assessing our rare incidents of gun violence, and whether we think we think we could or should have done more to prevent them from obtaining and using a firearm.

And when we look at the numbers of mass shootings in the US, particularly in sensitive places like schools, we wonder how in the world you can think you're doing enough.

>Kids are like 80x or more likely to kill themselves than to be killed in a school shooting. It's not even close to the top of list of real issues affecting the country.

But what's the comparison with the rest of the world here? Are you trying to counter the claim that gun violence is a uniquely American issue? Or are you saying that even higher rates of youth suicide are an even more American issue? Because suicide happens everywhere, but unless the US is doing remarkably well on this, that 80x figure is still far far lower than any other developed country. Where, you know, a non-non-zero chance of shootings means infinite more chance of suicide, most other places in the world.

You're dismissing an acute problem with common sense solutions behind issues that are common enough to almost be normal, in order to justify doing nothing. It's like someone's pointed at your bleeding foot and you've said it's fine, because you've also got high cholesterol.

My last job was centered around trying to reproduce the results of deep learning academic papers, and maybe porting them to other frameworks or platforms.

Even WITH code supplied by the authors, this was always a struggle. It'd usually take about a week or so just to get their github project out of dependency hell and actually run at all.

And if it needed to be reproduced in another framework, I'd really really want some kind of demo code just to clarify what exactly the authors were trying to describe. Especially if their descriptions had holes or discrepancies that only became clear when trying to fit the pieces together.

I remember trying to reproduce a couple of object tracking papers from the same authors, one with an overly complex and poorly defined feature set, the other with a glaring mistake/omission that forced my team to redesign the model because they described using a certain layer type in a way that made no sense.

There were a few good exceptions that provided nice code, but difficult reproduction seemed to be the norm.

Am I the only person who likes teams? My company uses it heavily for text and video chats and I think it's pretty great, and don't get the bugs and slow performance issues of others. I wouldn't call it snappy, but still fine, and makes communications very easy.

I'm using a surface laptop 3. Maybe MS did the apple thing of making software that only works properly on their own hardware

I'm unable to log into Bitwarden Safari extension. That's an alarming detail... Mobile app still works, fortunately

Cloudflare Warp connects, then prevents anything else from loading. Thought it was my router