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cjensen
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
Gray Jays exist in North America, so that names already taken.

(They have been renamed to "Canada Jay," but that's a hilarious story for another day)
cjensen
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
Human changes to ecosystems have altered the range of many bird species. Not just climate -- farming, ranching, housing, and recreational land uses tend to dramatically cause changes to bird ranges.
cjensen
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
California includes a number of counties which are actually in Baja California and Baja California del Sur.
cjensen
·vor 8 Monaten·discuss
It's the other way around. SLI falling out of fashion is why there are no consumer boards with multiple x16 slots. There's no longer any demand for it on the consumer side, so the CPU vendors only provide lots of PCIe lanes for expensive chips.

On the server side, seven x16 slot motherboards exist.
cjensen
·vor 8 Monaten·discuss
Shipping is a low-margin business. That business structure does not incentivize paying for careful analysis of failure modes.

Seems to me the only effective and enforceable redundancy that can be easily be imposed by regulation would be mandatory tug boats.
cjensen
·vor 8 Monaten·discuss
He has a good article on that at [1]

But here's the gist: sometimes you have an object you want to copy, but then abandon the original. Maybe it's to return an object from a function. Maybe it's to insert the object into a larger structure. In these cases, copying can be expensive and it would be nice if you could just "raid" the original object to steal bits of it and construct the "copy" out of the raided bits. C++11 enabled this with rvalue references, std::move, and rvalue reference constructors.

This added a lot of "what the hell is this" to C++ code and a lot of new mental-model stuff to track for programmers. I understand why it was all added, but I have deep misgivings about the added complexity.

[1] https://blog.knatten.org/2018/03/09/lvalues-rvalues-glvalues...
cjensen
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
Yep.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/17783-nephrog...
cjensen
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
As someone with CKD and scheduled for an MRI, this was anxiety-inducing.

The Cleveland Clinic has a good overview[1]. Since there have been no reports of NSF in 15 years, I don't think it's rational to avoid MRIs based on gadolinium retention concerns.

[1] https://www.ormanager.com/briefs/study-mri-contrast-agent-ca...
cjensen
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
I went hunting for a reference for your statement, and was successful.

Clevland Clinc says "There haven’t been any new reports of NSF in almost 15 years" [1]

[1] https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/17783-nephrog...
cjensen
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
This is asking too much. The management of trim, reallocation, wear leveling, and so much more is very complex. It's a full software stack hiding behind the abstraction of NVMe. Every manufacturer is running a different stack with different features and tradeoffs. The "stats" the author is asking for would be entirely different between manufacturers, and I doubt there is that much to be gained from peering behind the curtain.
cjensen
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
One of the consequences of being part of administration that lies constantly is that it is very difficult to trust they are telling the truth. Since this is based on the Interior Department saying something very different than the company, I'm disinclined to give the benefit of the doubt to the Interior.
cjensen
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
The in-person verification of hotspots was good, but in-person verification of non-hotspots was not done, and might be difficult.
cjensen
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
The Fairness Doctrine has become an urban legend among the left with a regrettable amount of built-up legends of its power.

Whatever you think it did, it almost certainly did not do that. In practice it meant that J. Random Crazypants would be allowed to give an editorial -- sometimes in the middle of the night, and sometimes as 60 second after the news. Additionally the Doctrine never applied to Cable TV for obvious First Amendment reasons.
cjensen
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
ACE Rail (from Stockton to San Jose) has an absolutely wonderful network of eight shuttle buses that meet the train when it arrives at the Great America station[1]. They fan out across most of the Silicon Valley so that there's no need to wait for a bus or make connections between buses.

Every commuter rail line really should do this. Obviously Caltrain could not do this for every train, but how about some trains?

[1] https://cdn.acerail.com/wp-content/uploads/ACE-Shuttle-Map-S...
cjensen
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
>When FileVault is enabled, the data volume is locked and unavailable during and after booting

This is incorrect. Macs do only a tiny partial boot before showing the login. The real work is done after the machine is unlocked.

When using OpenCore on a Hackintosh, the unlock login is almost instantly presented after OpenCore completes its part of startup. Only after the unlock does MacOS startup really do anything.

It's awesome that someone has managed to get ssh to do the unlock, but saying the data volume is "locked... after booting" is going too far.
cjensen
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
What I would like:

First, ICE should be competent. There's a long history of them being the dumbest and most thug-like people to hold a badge. Compare this to the US Postal Inspectors, who are the most competent. Reform has long been needed from top to bottom. Consider that they basically use skin color as probable cause, which is enraging and lazy.

Second, the silly quotas focus on the wrong issue. The government, being incompetent, is meeting quota by voiding valid permission-to-stay because they know where those people live. They are manufacturing people to deport because they are not competent to find people who can be legally deported.

Third, this is a case of supply and demand. The system is focused on the supply side composed of desperate workers rather than demand side of people who hired them for personal profit. This is silly: come down hard on one meatpacking plant and you "solve" the problem of hundreds of illegal immigrants with a single criminal charge. Trying to stamp out the immigrants one-by-one is inefficient and unjust.

Lastly, this is pretty much all the fault of the Republican Party. George W Bush wanted to make a grand compromise where sufficient barriers to entry were erected in exchange for amnesty. The nativist wing of the Republican Party went apoplectic at compromise and killed any practical solution for decades. There will never be a solution so long as one side wants to deport law-abiding hardworking taxpayers whose parents brought them here as children.
cjensen
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
Built by a company that has never built an aircraft too. That seems... unlikely.

Seems like if this idea really makes sense, it's exactly the kind of thing the EU would subsidize Airbus to do.
cjensen
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
The tollhouse recipe is amazingly fragile. Slight variations in temperature can make the cookies "go flat" or end up with a thick skin. No surprise there is a variation of outcomes using older ovens that were very imprecise.
cjensen
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
Yes! I like to vacation in the summer at Mammoth Lakes (~8000 ft ~2400m) and coffee is a bit of a problem. I like weak coffee and compensate for altitude by adding more grounds, but it's really not the same.
cjensen
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
Are you criticizing something other than what is in this article? This article fully rejects the immunity debt hypothesis.

The article suggests that covid infections cause immunity amnesia similar to other known viruses. This is based on shingles and EBV reactivation incidence being higher in people who had covid.