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It doesn't kill you directly, but the vulnerable are easy prey (elderly, immobile, etc.). A story that was shared with me about the lethality of heat was basically an overweight individual fell off his mobility scooter and was knocked unconscious, and just cooked to death.

Something that tripped me when setting up a new monitor was dealing with also the software set rgb range (0-255 or 16-235). By default I didn't get true(er) blacks because it clamped from below to 16.

I don't believe that is accurate. Homogeneous societies afford their citizens that opportunity, e.g. Japanese.

I think this speaks to the fact that essential items supply/demand is skewed by purchase of cigarettes then? You can't really survive off of cigarettes, I'd imagine.

What a rotund dismissal of very serious problem. Some things do generalize well, you know? The relationship of poverty and alcohol consumption is universal, no matter the level of patriotic grandstanding you perform, it simply debilitates family units.

And a very long lever.

> Don't be excessive and greedy.

Easier said than done if you have a monopoly. Blah, Blah, competition, Something, Something.

I mean, if you self select yourself out of the gene pool, it doesn't matter what label you put on it, you are pretty much self euthanizing?

> There's basically no advantage to Ubuntu now except community.

Ding Ding Ding. This is why I still recommend Ubuntu, there's a community and a wealth of knowledge out there for working with Ubuntu.

Though if you are more experienced and deal with nuanced issues you will find often the community is outdated and this is a double edged sword -- a lot of material out there is for older Ubuntu distros and is no longer relevant.

It is illegal when the product makes serious health claims not backed by scientific research. The more insidious cases of this relate to cancer or covid 'cures'.

In your examples you can see the discrimination clearly, but this made me ponder. How about scenarios where the discrimination isn't overtly stated by the discriminators? Let's assume they aren't really upfront and ask you about your sexual preference (Which is very odd since asking personal questions is a big NO-NO in Canada, where I live). Having this law will help in your case, but how can a general person even try to pinpoint why they were fired, especially so if they have an 'at will' status of employement?

A great suggestion, I do this also. It helps to cleanup packaging in one fell swoop as well.

Surely surviving the first wave will be a plus against a second wave as you already have some immunization?

Another great way to learn about C pointers is to reverse engineer games, live memory editing and scanning in particular requires a lot of global/heap pointer detective work.

Ah, thanks for the clarification. I was shocked at how large a number it seemed, but I only factored in how much water the plant itself displaces in its structure, not the maintenance water to maintain humidity, temperature, etc.

Raw coffee or did you have sugar/cream/whipped cream in your coffee?

> 4. for the time being, it's a regulatory issue, just like water use (a single plant use 2-2.5 l/day)

Is the 'plant' there a, say, tree or is it referring to the whole building?

May I query which exact operating system did you use? Debian aarch64?

I agree to the spurious claim. To shower in the cold is willingly doing something unpleasant. That in itself feels like it is going to affect their attitude towards coming into work -- when doing so is unpleasant.

So run your own VPN, at least you can minimize the trust to yourself?

If I could suggest on your last point, that if you are fearful of Audible ever going the way of the dodo, that you look into OpenAudible. I've used it to keep an offline Archive of my content.

My philosophy is a bit different. I have found that although there are a lot of things to consume, a fraction (maybe even %1-%10) is even top shelf and worth your time (I wish I had the ability to delete books from my memory, not to re-read the book, but to never experience it ever) -- as time for those hobbies is limited and, well, why not optimize life for great works and skip the bad ones. I'm still having Foundations on my reading list but my opinion of the author is less no doubt.

You can study things and not be called an academic. For instance if you enter a genre by force, you usually read some sort of chronology of best hits by the decades -- because there are many more books published to discover beyond this year.

Charlie Rose always seemed to be trying to play some sort of mind game to goad information out of his guests. I went down a rabbit hole of watching old historical interviews and discovered interviews were very tame. Like, Dick Cavett's famous interview with Marlon Brando - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU-4wmwc2Rw where the host was friendly and letting the guest speak above all else. Anything resembling this level of genuine conversation is a nice treat.

Doesn't the prononciation differ -- ver vs. vaire?

Well the context provided by this article is about revealing identities of individuals, which I trust is a shielded against when using DDG?

I'm utterly confused. Why is your reply so combative? I just read the Wikipedia entry on Eloi and Morlocks and I don't even see how you could pick apart OP's on this item. Consider this odd line:

> The Eloi are herded, bred and maintained by the Morlocks as a food source, much like cows or pigs are today.

Right. I've got no dog in the ol' Eloi vs. Morlocks debate, but let me apologize, I do not want to appear as an Eloi sympathizer in you presence -- or even risk taking any creative analogy (for one even I am glad to have made aware of, as my reading list ever grows), lest you accuse my tone against a fictional race as you are surely itching to -- as demonstrated prior.

Nonsense aside.

> I'm certain that practically no one who uses Facebook is actually unaware that the rest of the web exists.

Well if we're exchange common things bandied about on HN... Let's take a glaring example here. The above is an opinion presented with uttermost confidence about groups of users and their knowledge -- all in the presence of zero evidence. Hah, take that! Wait, how many does it take to tango?

It is a personal anecdote and long held opinion of mine that although the ease of access towards the internet, and therefore availability of, has increased, the technical chops of the general population may not be spread equally -- perhaps the unfairest of this is on the age variable with retired seniors not being able to get around much without help. I have helped old people with this matter, so I experience this sometimes. Perhaps I agree with OP on this, that they don't know the web really exists, and it's all a Cumulus cloud to them and I'm the wizard handles those unknowns for them. And I can take a step back and say, its alright that not a lot of people know https vs. http, or yada yada and perhaps on that point I differ from some opinions on HN, but I don't think you understand how oblivious people can be to the internet. I fear you will accuse my tone of condescension towards "retired seniors" and must now stop lest I dig myself any further. It was all fun and games with the fictional humans...

I'm in the opposite opinion, CS is filled with clever things we taken for granted. A lot of stuff in this field are innovations or clever stuff already figured out. The remainder is a puzzle like approach to fit it all together alongside moments of novel innovation and puzzle solving.

Given it's written in python 2.7, it's due for a rewrite if I understand.

When slowed is orders of magnitude slower -- then they are effectively being slowly choked to death anyway.