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I live in the US and can't change my thermostat, so I don't think that's it.

I'm sure I could feel the difference if i split myself between two rooms with one degree difference. I just don't think this is a useful granularity—I typically move the thermostat by 2-5 degrees at a time.

Russia, canada, sweden, norway, finland, us... probably missing a few. Edit: mongolia too, I think.

curiously, nothing in the southern hemisphere?

> Fahrenheit was designed with humans in mind

If there was a design, it's not clear what the intent was. It seems about twice as precise as it needs to be (i certainly can't perceive 1F°—for all intents and purposes, 70 feels about the same as 69 and 71) and doesn't seem to correlate to any scale that is immediately based off the needs of humans. At least compared to celcius.

I agree. Also, emotional regulation is a thing—feeling an initial flash of anger is one thing, but allowing yourself to be consumed by it is another. I think I have pretty good emotional control of my anger, I rarely lose my temper at people and I'm generally pretty good at channeling it productively.

But the reaction doesn't go away, and it is also linked to other things like taking care of your physical health, diet, sleep, etc. taking accountability for your reactions to things ultimately involves cleaning up a lot of the rest of your life, too. Plus people can find it hard to believe that healthier people are less angry, but I firmly believe this is true based on my own observations of myself—so in this sense, emotions kind of are a choice, with enough practice and desire to achieve this and luck.

It is indeed very difficult to separate emotion and behavior, both concepts are encapsulated by the same continual shifting attention. That maintaining control over this shifting of attention is the focus of so many philosophies (eastern and western) shouldn't be ignored.

Black-market food sales are not crazy. Once or twice a year you'll hear about a truck heist. A full truck of food is worth on the order of tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars, depending on the haul, and is worth the risk even sold in bulk at a steep discount. Restaurants will be more than happy to look the other way to improve margins for a week.

I can't imagine eggs are dense enough or resistant to spoilage enough to try and smuggle through a border crossing but maybe they know something we don't.

Assuming the client is an italian company, as would make sense in this thread, they would issue a court order compelling the corporation to comply with domestic law or get fined (or worse, idk, this is all speculative). Presumably the ask would be handing over control of the client's bank account for the needs of the court fulfilling its duties moving forward from the court order.

Edit: corrected mistake about whose account would be within the court's grasp.

Presumably italian courts could seize payments made by italian clients of cloudflare, yes? Even if the account is located well outside of italy, the owners can be compelled by legal means.

(To some degree of effectiveness, to be sure. But I have a hard time imagining there are no clients registered in italy at all.)

Depends on the crime. They aren't exactly fungible acts. Furthermore the state isn't exactly obligated to manage society, even if this has occurred in various forms throughout history. Many of our laws weren't exactly written with "society's" best interest at heart. Ultimately, the state will look after itself above all else.

I'm just saying I'd like the state to have to work hard to put people away. The law can just as easily be wielded to harm people. I don't see much sign the american public agrees with me, and politicians certainly don't agree. Even mr "it's a witch hunt" trump is only anti-LEO when it comes to his own crimes. But I'd rather have some low background level of crime than the sinking feeling that we're imprisoning a lot of innocent people, as unpopular a sentiment it might be to some in this country.

Besides, if the government doesn't take care of society, higher crime is inevitable.

I agree generally, but I was under the impression they had explicitly committed to ads over other revenue forms much earlier. Importantly, there was a point in Google's history where they weren't committed to this, and the internet would look a lot different had they not just determined ads would be sufficient for their business model.

Curiously, they had a solution of sorts in a program where you could basically bid for your own ad buys to remove ads from pages. For some reason they shuttered this program down. I didn't even know it existed until after it was gone, frustratingly. I thought it was a neat way to allow the industry bridge to other funding models.

(Or perhaps such a business model relies on tracking that's been deemed invasive. Who knows.)

> We already know relatively little about Neolithic Europe despite there being major cities there that rivaled or eclipsed those in Mesopotamia in population.

What are you referring to? I could certainly imagine such a thing but I can't say I've ever heard of someone finding evidence of a city that matches this description.

> But DNA is the the least impersonal data I could imagine.

I imagine there are far more devastating bits of PII to publish than genes, like your porn-watching habits. I don't think this is a strong rhetorical stance to defend genetic data.

Contract law is kind of diseased. I don't think it's a good idea to build a society around letting people sign basic protection from corporations away.

> You find out your 2.3% Italian?

I'll admit, I'm surprised how easily race science and blood quantum experienced a mass resurgence.

Given the fact that I think of myself roughly like a string lookup service, i think there are much stronger places to argue for the incapacity of LLMs than deferring to the ill-defined and generally-inapplicable "understand".

Funny enough, this trick also works on humans!

Whatever the difference is, it's super noticeable. I gave mine away last year and I regret it daily—it was the perfect travel laptop.

I consider the air line dead, tbh—they just lost the magic when they made them bigger and they're just "macbooks" to me now... yea yea it's fanless, but that was never part of the appeal per se. Fewer ports, smaller screen, lighter. Please.

Presumably workstations are not just wandering around outside. Unless you're breaking into peoples' homes and offices i wouldn't expect to see much.

I don't quite understand the point of litigating businesses in civil court if existential threats are excluded from judgement. What is the reasoning behind a fine being sufficient to incentivize following the law when you can make so much more money not following the law? I also don't understand what the point of shareholders and board members are if they can't be personally held liable for their investments violating civil laws.

What is the fucking rationale behind that? Why must we baby shareholders and be cruel to workers despite the latter providing 100% of society's value?

X86 also has little to do with modern computing architecture. That's just the ISA; it's not going to help you solve pipelining or cache issues inherent to the data flow.

Wishing x86 on students is sincerely such a sadistic act. Just pick an arbitrary isa that's easier to reason about (read: basically anything after 1990 not designed by intel) and stick to it.

> Zig doesn't have macros, it has functions which can be run at comptime

You raised my hopes and dashed them quite expertly, sir. Bravo!

GNU is free to adopt better tools than C/C++. I adore gnu but I refuse to support blatant and obstinant idiocy. Using the license to extort people into supporting C/C++ is just scummy behavior. What the fuck were you doing the last ten years that this wasn't a gnu project? Instead we got fucking systemd and a dozen more knockoffs of the shittiest os on earth

How on earth does zig resolve types before macros? Must be some ~~nuts~~ novel order of evaluation to get that behavior. How is this intended to function? Are there multiple layers of macros? Do you have to declare said level or is it derived? How do you use macros to define types or declare types of variables? Can you use said types in other macros?