Ha, I trimmed my eyelashes down once as a kid because I have naturally long/thick lashes and I thought it looked too "girly". Then my eyes were constantly dry and cold from airflow that my shortened lashes were no longer blocking. It would take a really bad complex to get me to do it again as an adult.
Do you have more advice for finding land to buy other than using ebay?
I've been looking for a while for a few acres of unimproved/secluded/wooded land within an hour or two drive away from me here in Kansas, mostly just for bushcrafting or tooling around. The only place I really know to check is Zillow, and while there are a few listings in my distance range, they're typically upwards of $10k/acre. I just checked ebay and saw parcels priced much closer to what I'd expect for unimproved land out in the middle of nowhere, but I couldn't find any in my middle of nowhere, just several states away.
I'm pretty sure there's tons of completely unused land all over the place here that people would be willing to get rid of for cheap, but I have no idea how to find those people. I've considered just going to every small town within an hour of me and posting a "will buy" ad on whatever bulletin boards I'm allowed to post stuff on, but for now I'm still holding out hope that there's a better way. Tips?
Well, the trick to finding it cheap is to not look for anything/anywhere specific, so I doubt I can help with that. It’s not that I am good at it, it’s that when I’m momentarily bored, I’m not in a picky mood. If it’s cheap and I can imagine a life there, no matter how humble, and it makes me smile, then my wife is probably going to be asking me questions I don’t have good answers for and I’m going to have to work on a reasonable explanation that doesn’t sound like I’ve finally gone off the deep end.
It’s pretty much all eBay for me or local equivalents in other countries. So many rabbit holes.
An absurd amount of land is held by people that don't even know it. They aren't looking to sell generally. Lots of inherited and placed in trusts over generations.
Use q public, or whatever is in your area and search for land recently acquired by an estate. Pretty much that means the owner died, there was no clear line of inheritance do typically a distant relative or random person is selling the estate. Try to buy it.
The other is legal notices and government bid sites. You can buy tax owed land, laws vary by state.
It isn't. Some of their data has been suspect for a very long time, unfortunately (and ironically) there is also a partisan reason why the Economist doesn't mention the series that is most suspect: population estimates. These numbers are known bad for over two decades now...they have done nothing.
The US has had a far more serious approach to economic statistics, the ONS is a complete joke. It has never been easier or cheaper to collect stats but the ONS, for some series, is using collection methods that haven't changed since WW2. This is typical of government in the UK, completely isolated from the rest of society.
Complex systems are difficult to predict or reason about, especially in turbulent times, and when only partial information about the world is available, and only part of it is accurate. Nothing new under the sun. If you’d always know what’s going on, you could categorically beat the market or make central planning to work flawlessly.
This is a common misconception. A good understanding of economics might enable you to decide what kind of interventions to use (or to avoid) in an economy as a whole, but will not necessarily give you any insight into how well a particular company will do in the market. They are entirely different skills. As a very simple example, companies often fail for non–economic reasons such as fraud, negligence, incompetence, accidents, etc, etc.
Since we have allowed economic unions to become so huge that question is trivial to answer: huge unions concentrate wealth to an extreme extent. This is playing out both in the US and EU (slowly, or at least, slowly compared to the same playing out in China)
So which companies will do well? The already biggest ones, including the government itself. That's the only metric that matters, and this is indeed what we've seen since WW2.
S&P500 -> S&P100 -> FAANG -> MAG7 -> what do you think comes next? One, and only one, of the big 7 will win.
The problem is: everyone wants everything. The obvious "natural" fix is simple: go back to more power to smaller political entities. That will destroy large companies, as the smaller entities will change laws to make that happen, to protect themselves. Which means, no apple, no internet, no (significant amounts of) oil, no ... This is also ignoring that large entities will fight to defend themselves.
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It sounds like a pitch that you might hear from an airplane propeller, which leads to the question why airsickness exists if the antidote is ambiently present?
It would be completely bonkers for an antiemetic to commonly induce an emetic urge in any but rare exceptional cases.
Most seasickness drugs are just first-generation antihistamines sometimes combined with a caffeine analogue to counteract the sleepiness.
Dramamine/Gravol (dimenhydrinate) is just benadryl (diphenhydramine) plus the caffeine analogue theophylline.
Bonine/DramamineII (meclizine) is also a first-generation antihistamine.
Promethazine is also a first-generation antihistamine.
Non-antihistamine antiemetics like ondansetron or scopolamine transdermal patches require a prescription from a doctor and therefore aren't commonly used for motion sickness except for occupational seafarers. And it would still be absolutely stupid if the drugs given to prevent nausea commonly caused nausea.
I think it’s not uncommon for a drug treating some condition with some symptom to have a potential side effect that worsens that symptom. When you start playing with some set of receptors, it’s possible something goes too far or, for whatever reason, not far enough and now we’re worse off
See: antidepressants can increase suicidal ideation, cannabis (used for nausea) can cause nausea at higher doses, etc.
> I think it’s not uncommon for a drug treating some condition with some symptom to have a potential side effect that worsens that symptom.
I think you're making the error of conflating probabilities here. It's not uncommon for drugs to have uncommon side effects, but those side effects are still uncommon. Every once in a while benadryl makes a person paradoxically excited, but most people who take benadryl get sleepy.
As an occasional user, can confirm that motion sickness pills (e.g. Cinnarizine, one of the most used in the British Navy) make dizzy, some more than other, and that it’s still much better overall than not taking them.
Why would it be stupid? You are concentrating on the vomiting part but aren't other sensations related to motion sickness like shaky balance that drugs could help out with?
Not to mention the possibility of triggering a response that the trigger would help combat if you already exhibited the response. Or it simply being an uncommon side effect that it's made worse. Headaches and nausea are listed in possible side effects for just about everything, because if anyone reports it they have to list it since the possibility of causality hasn't been ruled out.
It's a sine (or sine-like) sound at a low pitch (around G2). Our ears aren't great at those frequencies, and the speaker you use might be bad at that range too. It's a bass frequency, but most bass sounds have a lot of overtones, which makes them sound clearer than the fundamental.
Double blind randomized controlled trial or it didn't happen. The subjects have to fill a form. It's common that people want to be nice and lie a little. Also, the exitement of the experiment may make them less focused in the problem, or there may be many other additional effects that are dificult to control. A DBRCT minimize them.
Anyway, if the researchers are not blinded there are many possible sources of errors.
Perhaps they do the first test in the morning, the sound just before lunch and the second test in the afternoon is made by another person that is more/less friendly to the rats, or the rats has the stomach more full/empty.
After changing a program and running benchmark, I sometimes run it again if the new program is not faster as I expected. I even gave a second chance to deterministic test, that is as useful as it sounds. It's possible that if the rat does not collaborate the researchers hit's the equivalent of Ctr-F5 just to be sure.
It's hard to be 100% neutral, so a method is to not know to ensure all rats have exactly the same test conditions.
Under capitalism, what do you want? If you went and put in a bunch of your own time, money, and effort into something, is asking for something back so you can put food on the table so reprehensible? I mean, I'd love it if I were independently wealthy and could go off and do a mission like that and just give it away for free, but some of us didn't get a trust fund and have bills to pay and so, is that really so ridiculous?
Using the heavy hand of the state to threaten violence against people who make a particular tone... yes that is really so ridiculous.
The tone is question is quite close to G2. So, if your guitar is slightly sharp, you'll be making this tone when playing one of the most common chords.
Nobody is threatening violence against you for playing your guitar sharp. I have no idea where violence even came into play here.
It’s a registered trademark. A registered trademark is a legal designation that provides exclusive rights to a brand name, logo, or other distinctive symbol used to identify a specific product or service; they registered Spice Sound or whatever as a trademark.
They did not patent 100Hz.
You would only be liable if you walked around playing your sharp guitar with a sign that said “Get your Spice Sound here” heh
I’m not defending it, and it reminds me of that woman in Baltimore who pissed everyone off by trademarking “Hon”, causing the whole city to
revolt against her.
But it’s far from “threatening violence,” and they’re not patenting the sound.
> Nobody is threatening violence against you for playing your guitar sharp. I have no idea where violence even came into play here.
It’s a registered trademark. A registered trademark is a legal designation that provides exclusive rights to a brand name, logo, or other distinctive symbol used to identify a specific product or service; they registered Spice Sound or whatever as a trademark.
And what happens to you if you don’t abide by the legal protections of the trademark? The government must ultimately use violence or the threat of violence to enforce its rules.
That’s not how audio trademarks work. A sound trademark can represent a product (think Intel jiggle, MGM lion roar) but it can’t be the product.
So in this case I suppose they might be able to Trademark ’Antivomotone’ as a word mark to describe the tone, but no-one is going to be able to trademark the tone itself.
If I discovered that oxygen cured diabetes I couldn't just patent oxygen. This is a discovery (if it ever holds up) that a sound makes you feel a certain way, the authors didn't invent anything
You cannot have a government with a high interest and stake in national security without bringing up all of those 16 identified "critical infrastructure sectors" with you.
CVEs are almost a starting point of truth. The threats can be verified, tested against/for, etc.
They're also tied up in insurance liabilities.
If there are no CVEs, there will be no cyber security insurance.
IP rights are a government legal construction. Legal constructions should be designed to best serve a societal purpose. In this case, a careful balance between the need to preserve incentive, and the need to prevent the many downsides associated with IP protection.
Digital scales are notorious for this. Rather than show natural weight fluctuations, plenty will just lie and say you weigh the same every day until it's a couple pounds different.
> I wish there was an easy way for this - plug and play kinda
I can click a button in Lidarr to auth with Spotify and automatically search usenet for every album of every artist I follow on spotify, download them all, and make them available in Jellyfin. It'll even monitor the spotify account and import new additions. Getting the whole stack set up is pretty much the exact opposite of plug and play, but once you have it all installed it's amazing how much becomes smooth sailing. 2K songs is nothing for this kind of stack.
I ran my own seedbox for close to 12 years on a VPS. My choice was either never upgrading the OS (which was always an Ubuntu server) or setting up everything all over again. There were few more things like a VPN, a note app at one point, 2fa setup and so on. Finally I stopped and this Nov the VPN will expire and I am planning to let it go really.
I see where you are coming from but all that experience really tired me out. People say once you do it, it’s forever but is it? I appreciate it that some people can do it — no I really do — but maybe it’s not for everybody.
Then there are managed solutions — oh, I am sure there would be, there were and are for seedboxes as well but the good managed seedboxes sometimes would cost as much or half of my annual VPS cost in a month, yes 1:12 or so. Now I believe there’s nothing wrong with pricing a managed solution high but not all can afford it or are willing to afford it.
I really appreciate it though. Would you mind sharing a tutorial if you’ve saved one somewhere and what disk, CPU, and memory I am looking at for this? That would be very kind.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but it sounds like your problems with your VPS and VPN come from having someone else hosting those services for you and restricting how you can use them instead of just doing them yourself. Things are indeed much more permanent (at least as much as you want them to be) when you actually do them yourself instead of rent them from someone.
> Would you mind sharing a tutorial if you’ve saved one somewhere
I would if I had one, but I mostly just googled the official installation instructions for any random component I wanted. No overall tutorials. Service-wise, I'm using Jellyseerr to discover content and take requests from friends/family, Radarr for sourcing movies, Sonarr for sourcing TV shows, Lidarr for sourcing music, Prowlarr for centralizing the configuration of the other *arrs, Sabnzbd as a usenet download client, rtorrent as a bittorrent client, and Jellyfin for consuming my library. You probably don't need all of those depending on what you're after, but you can just look up the instructions for only the components you want. And if you want to get content from usenet or private torrent trackers, you'll need the relevant accounts.
> what disk, CPU, and memory I am looking at for this?
Whatever you want honestly. You can run most of this on a toaster so long as you don't have unrealistic performance expectations for it. Obviously if you're planning to download 10TB worth of content, you're going to need at least that much disk space, and if you're planning to download it faster than HDDs can spin, you might need some SSDs. But most of these things are just downloaders and file managers and don't really need much more than network bandwidth to source the content and disk IO to put the content somewhere. Maybe 8GB of memory for some of the more bloated services (my whole server idles at ~5GB used, and it runs a lot of other junk) and to do really large indexer merges when searching for content, and however much hardware you need to meet your transcoding requirements if you're playing through Jellyfin or similar. You can stream source material without transcoding and consume basically no CPU from it, or you can enable transcoding with a decent enough CPU or pretty much any supported GPU. All up to you and your needs.
I'd recommend starting with pretty minimal hardware and adding more as you need it. My storage has quadrupled since I started doing this and at some point I tossed in an old GPU for transcoding.
No, I had and have full control of the VPS. But whenever I upgrade it becomes a mess. I am sure I am missing something and I can backup data and then set everything again, reconnect all the wires and pipes but after a few times I just gave up completely. Hell even security updates in LTS break things up. I did try exploring and learn how to maintain it well and what not but eventually I gave up and it was a big reason why I get fatigued even at the thought of self-hosting something.
Thanks for your input on this. Next time I get into it I will definitely look at it and you are right about needing resources as much is my usage need. I just meant to ask what are the bare minimums sort of.
The one thing that bothers me about Lidarr is that it is album based, not song based. Before streaming services, I managed my local music library with albums as well, but my habits have changed. I basically only listen to my "Liked Songs" playlist on Spotify, and really only have a select few albums that I listen to on the whole.
I tried syncing Lidarr with my Spotify account, but 95% of the downloads then where songs that I didn't care for.
I don’t think there are more than 4-5 albums in my Spotify library where I like more than one songs of it. Or even artists (though there might be more music from single artists). I also just listen by playlists and often just my “Liked” or “all songs”.
> Kinda like saying Winamp is alternative to Spotify
No, it's really not like saying that. I was responding to a post lamenting the difficulty of acquiring the files for the music they've already discovered on Spotify, and I brought up a music file acquisition system that pulls from what they've discovered on Spotify. That's different than comparing a local player to a discovery system.
If you feel bad, buy a single song of each artist afterwards and you have given them vastly more money than listening to them on Spotify will ever generate.
You can give them even more by skipping the silly part of buying a song you'll never listen to on the platform which takes majority of that money, and just transfer them $1 by paypal or whatever they like to use.
I know you are hyperbolic, but finding the band on Facebook and sending a quick message takes a minute max? Especially for your "favorite band". I always deter people from buying CDs of local bands, the band will see a tiny fraction of that price in their pockets. Just walk up to the bandleader after concert and give them $5.
It’s sad but true. What I like to do is use the credits I earn from choosing slower Amazon deliveries to purchase single songs on Amazon music. Sometimes I don’t even download the song.
I try to do that. Sadly this is sometimes very hard. I often fine myself in situation when I can't buy album I like. It is nowhere to be found. Sometimes I can't even pirate it because this so niche.
They said "finding from Linux ISO sites is a nightmare" and I took that to be a euphemism for piracy sites. They just find navigating and using those sites to be annoying, which is totally fair if you don't have software doing it for you.
I'm I missing something, or is this being handled incredibly poorly on Gnome's side? Patches available for months, but still waiting for even an initial review weeks after public disclosure?
Over time, these performance characteristics are very likely to change in Iterator’s favour. (To what extent, I will not speculate.)
JavaScript engines have put a lot of effort into optimising Array, so that these sorts of patterns can run significantly faster than they have any right to.
Iterators are comparatively new, and haven’t had so much effort put into them.
I'm am the author of this blog. As for speed, you are probably right, I was mainly talking about wasting memory for temporary arrays, not the speed, it's unlikely that iterators are faster. But I'm curious, how large arrays did you test with? For example, will there be a memory difference for 10M size arrays.
My speculation is also that with iterators the array size might be somewhat less predictable, because you might not know when the iterator finishes. For example by doing .filter().map(). So there is no way to precisely know how much memory will be preallocated.
Interesting, I did some testing, just opened the task manager and run this js code in the browser without opening dev tools in order to see how the browser will behave when I don't prevent any optimizations.
Then I commented withArrayTransform and uncommented withIteratorTransform and did again in a fresh tab to prevent the browser reusing the old process.
function withArrayTransform(arr) {
return arr.slice(10, arr.length - 10).filter(el => el < 8).map(el => el + 5).map(el => el * 2).map(el => el - 7);
}
function withIteratorTransform(arr) {
return arr.values().drop(10).take(arr.length - 20).filter(el => el < 8).map(el => el + 5).map(el => el * 2).map(el => el - 7).toArray();
}
The peak memory usage with withArrayTransform was about ~1.6GB. The peak memory usage with withIteratorTransform was about ~0.8GB. Results sometimes vary, and it honestly feels complicated, but the iterator version is consistently more memory efficient. As of the speed, the iterator version was about ~1.5 times slower.
So probably the GC quickly cleaned up some temporary arrays when it saw an excessive memory usage in the process of running withArrayTransform(arr).
But imagine you use flatMap which unrolls the returned iterable and it can create even a bigger temporary array than the original and the final one. So using iterables still has an advantage of protecting from excessive memory usage and potentially crashing the browser tab or the whole Node server. I think it's still a nice thing to have.
I think it's less likely to be technical chicanery (special bluetooth beacons, wifi SSID scanning, etc) and more likely that your airline just partners with Lyft and directly hands them passenger information.
A commercial airlines passenger manifest is very private information. It is security sensitive. They're not going to give or sell or publish that information, except to an entity that would be law enforcement or National Security oriented. Or if y’all die in a crash, they’ll use the manifest with the NTSB and FAA...
Perhaps Lyft figured out this person's IP address? Perhaps somebody sitting next to them detected that their phone and Bluetooth signature? There are many many ways to find out where you are at, without location services. Your accelerometers just gave away your excessive velocity!
one of the most naive answers I’ve read in awhile… of fucking course airlines sell this information. of all of this shit that is no longer private your LOCATION is number 1 thing anyone can buy with a few bucks mate
No dude, the central question in this thread is “When?”
Realtime, accurate, up-to-the-minute manifest information is sensitive. Manifest information from last week, perhaps less so—especially considering other ways to infer movement of people.
But being able to know, “bdangubic just presented a boarding pass at El-Al Gate 8A in Kiev” or the details of USPS cargo stowed in the downbelow; or “AStonesThrow just 3 seconds ago landed with 74 other souls at KSFO and there are 11 Lyft Drivers nearby” that’s the crux of sensitivity. Like where to aim the MANPADS.
furthermore, passenger manifest data is not one blob of perfectly accurate information, like the digits of pi. it's ever-changing, and so the accuracy matters when considering the value, and the resale value, of such data. and the costs of litigation. imagine that a preliminary manifest is you know two weeks prior to the flights departure. and it gets leaked. it's preliminary, and it indicates who's booked the flight, but you have no idea who's actually going to board the flight or who did if this is looking in retrospective.
or I mean you can conceive of situations where a manifest would change while in flight. for instance somebody checks in and boards the flight, but they get sucked out of a door. or they die on route. and so the body shows up but the passengers soul is no longer present. Conversely, a hypothetical,pregnant mother boards a flight in shanghai, she gives birth to triplets, and these additional “formerly uterine passengers” land in San Francisco. how's that manifest look?
and so that's going to affect the accuracy, and therefore the value, of your manifest when considering sales to third parties, or litigation situations. or you know regilatory Federal Agency fines and stuff court fees.
Private jets and General Aviation have other rules. I don’t know what happens when Dad takes 8 children on a Piper Cub from Podunk Field Runway 18, but perhaps that’s going to be sold 30 days after they land safely?
At that point in time, it hardly matters who reads a list, compared to the realtime shit you assert without citing any reliable sources.
