rudolf0

They definitely had an agenda in the last election, but that's a huge stretch.

Doctors can be notoriously ignorant and contradictory when it comes to mental illness-treating drugs. There's a lot of literature out there and a lot of them don't keep up. I don't know why it is.

Not that you shouldn't trust doctors, but I always do some Googling to get a second opinion about all psychoactive drugs I'm prescribed.

Oh yeah, I've used SSRIs and suffered the withdrawal. I know they're not making things up or whatever.

But I also think that taking such a universal anti-psychiatric drug stance is probably too hardline of a position. I think they are the lesser of two (or more) evils for a lot of patients.

The article seems sound, but the source does look a bit biased.

Really shallow of me, but the name kind of turns me off. "Uber" or "Lyft" are just whatever, but Waymo sounds like... something an infant would sputter out. Or "Lame-o".

>That's nice, but it shouldn't be forbidden to violate users' privacy, it should be impossible.

Work for just about any company, tech or otherwise, in a sysadmin role. There is always going to be some way for a smart, malicious admin to get into things.

Snowden is maybe the best example. If an organization with an insider threat risk profile as high as the NSA's can't get it right, then you can be pretty certain almost no one else is either.

I check the news roughly once a day just to get a feel for the headlines. I check the left-leaning sources and right-leaning sources and don't read any of the articles.

I don't get sucked in, and also just get an idea of what people think is important that day/week. Usually it is just noise but it can be at least helpful to know when things have happened. The headlines are enough for me.

The latter. Even a very simple hash algorithm will almost always make it impossible to get the original contents back. You'd have to write an intentionally pathological algorithm to achieve that.

Orexin is also discussed in that thread. Ceretropic announced the release of P21 and Orexin at the same time.

"Gross stuff which can maybe cause weird diseases."

Location, the kind of position, perceived company reputation and pay...

I've been on your side of the table for a similar role and had the same experience. Literally 20-30 candidates who can't answer basic questions for every 1 who can (and usually the 1 is "just ok").

I think it's just due to the particular pool your company is dealing with. Maybe there is a surplus, maybe there isn't, but you're not able to judge that objectively from your vantage point.

You can buy some from Ceretropic: https://www.ceretropic.com/orexin-a

(Not affiliated with them in any way. Have used their products before and find them to be reputable.)

Exact same thing. Odd unsolved memory leak, using lxml for HTML parsing.

I think I'll stay away from it in the future. Unfortunate, since it's the fastest HTML parser in Python that I know of.

Please respect the politics moratorium.

But LuaJIT is (usually) much faster than the standard Lua interpreter.

It would have been easier if JavaScript weren't so terrible to begin with.

Just to provide a contrasting point of view: CoffeeScript is the only reason I ever wrote, and ever write, JavaScript. Period. Transpilers do add a layer of complexity, but all of the syntax sugar advantages make it more than worth it to me.

I would not ever write JavaScript if CoffeeScript or similar languages did not exist. Before it existed, I never touched the language. I now use CoffeeScript daily and have never been happier. A watchdog script automatically transpiles the code upon updates, and everything is completely seamless for me.

Wouldn't it make more sense to use something faster and simpler for most routing, and then an optional argument for regular expressions? Lots of web frameworks use that approach.

I suspect someone somewhere would eventually find out.

I'd rather there be some kind of isolation of political discussion rather than an outright ban for a week.

Maybe just have a permanent/rotating "politics/culture/society" thread for people to share whatever?

Once intelligence agencies start backdooring microcode (especially in a way that chip manufacturers can't detect), I'm throwing out my computer and living in the woods.

I don't know enough about neuroscience to determine if this is a possible genius revelation or quackery or somewhere in between. Any scientists willing to comment?

Part of it is that constantly being busy can create a lot of physical and mental fatigue and stress, making it difficult to do things you might otherwise even if there is some free time. "I never have time" can technically be a lie, "I can't do all this and stay sane" usually isn't.

I've found even the thought of worrying about work I need to do in the near future can prevent me from participating in hobbies, despite having ample time for those hobbies.

>Hello Games said that, as each user’s experience would be very different, it would be difficult to recreate the exact scenes from the ad. However, they believed it was fairly straightforward to locate content of the type shown in the ad and to demonstrate that such content was commonly experienced by all users who played NMS for an average period of time.

Er, wasn't one of the primary complaints that the dev team completely lied about online multiplayer play? It was promised multiple times (on camera, by the lead dev) pre-launch, but it was that revealed there was no netcode in the game whatsoever. That appears to still be the case.

Unless I'm missing something, this seems like a bit of a red herring to me. Who were all the people complaining that their procedurally generated creatures weren't as big and cool as the procedurally generated creatures in the advertisements?

Also, this is seems like a pretty poor excuse from the devs regarding faction wars:

>In relation to the claim “factions vie for territory”, Hello Games said that this was part of the story or narrative of the game and manifested itself through the player’s journey and interactions with three factions during gameplay. They referred to a third-party video describing the characteristics of the three factions. Hello Games explained that solar systems were occupied by a single faction; when players interacted with a factioned non-player character, they would sometimes mention their dislike of the other factions.

Even if they didn't technically break any regulations, they definitely presented a misleading concept of the game and directly lied about multiplayer.

I really don't want to know stage 5...

What % of the devices you tested were security appliances? It's good Checkpoint did that, but you would expect most security companies to care a lot more about patching their devices relative to all of the other various network device manufacturers out there.

If you completely ignore deaths for a moment, many report severe negative symptoms, lasting weeks or more, resulting from dehydration or overheating from MDMA. Overheating is also speculated by many researchers to be responsible for some of MDMA's neurodegenerative and neurotoxic effects.

You probably won't die due to MDMA, but if you're not careful you can certainly cause brain issues. And that makes it more physically dangerous than cannabis.

Checkpoint has been notorious for this kind of exaggerated marketing, especially within the past few years. My theory is that their security appliance line has been suffering due to superior competitors (source: personal experience; could be wrong without global sales numbers), so I think they're trying to get their name back in people's minds.

This research is definitely good and beneficial, but yes, it's threat intelligence research, not vulnerability research or any sort of revelation. Definitely not deserving of a logo.

Not to mention that even if it were an issue, TLS would be a much easier and cheaper solution.

That seems highly misleading. I think MDMA is far more physically dangerous than cannabis. Many people have directly died from irresponsible use of MDMA, but no one has (directly) died from any use of cannabis. MDMA can certainly be safe and beneficial if taken responsibility, but:

- Doses should generally be spaced at least 2 (many recommend 3) months apart.

- The minimum effective dose should be taken. Even a light overdose can create an uncomfortable, traumatizing, or even physically dangerous situation.

- Hydration and access to cool environments is important. Overhydration can also be a risk, so it's good to have access to electrolyte-laden drinks (Gatorade etc.). Overhydration, dehydration, and brain overheating are the leading causes of MDMA-related death.

- Supplements should be taken to reduce the inherent neurotoxicity even if you do all of the above things right. Some good examples on http://www.rollsafe.org.

It's true that dependence-wise, cannabis is probably worse, though. It's pretty hard to build a dependence on MDMA, as you'll likely only feel the uncomfortable stimulant effects (and other negative symptoms; this can lead to long-term or permanent neuroreceptor damage and dysfunction) if you take it on a weekly or daily basis.