Almost certainly a Hatch Act violation.
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When I read jungle music I totally thought about Diddy Kong Racing or the Donkey King games for SNES.
I totally thought about Tetrisphere on N64:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRMN7GzZ3ic&list=PLE0926B068...
> Dr. Greg Neyman, a resident a year ahead of me in residency, had done a study on the use of ventilators in a mass casualty situation. What he came up with was that if you have two people who are roughly the same size and tidal volume, you can just double the tidal volume and stick them on Y tubing on one ventilator.
This technique was later applied during the COVID-19 pandemic, when ventilators were in high demand and short supply.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-risky-hack-could-double...
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On the flip side, this trend is great for home invaders
> The National Guard members will conduct random bag checks on passengers
I'm not asking this out of disbelief, but just out of genuine curiosity: What is the legal foundation that allows them to randomly search people who are simply going about their day? What happens whenever people say "no, you can't search my bag." ?
Possibly this:
https://www.nyclu.org/en/cases/macwade-v-kelly-challenging-n...
> This case involves the NYPD's practice of stopping and searching subway goers without just cause. On July 21, 2005, the NYPD announced that it would begin a new program of searching the belongings of those seeking to enter the subway system. Since the program was implemented, the NYPD has searched tens of thousands of people without any suspicion of wrongdoing. On Aug. 4, 2005, the NYCLU filed a complaint in the District Court on behalf of five individuals. The complaint alleges that the NYPD program violates the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments...
> On Dec. 7, 2005, the District Court ruled in favor of the defendants and refused the plaintiffs’ request for a permanent injunction. The decision stated that the random subway search program was not “impermissibly intrusive” and was constitutional. The NYCLU appealed to the United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. On Aug. 11, 2006, the Second Circuit upheld the District Court decision, stating that the program constitutes the “special need” exception to the Fourth Amendment.
Bartkusa commented on Changes we're making to Google Assistant blog.google/products/assi... · Posted by u/kkkkkkk
Wow that's a big list of surprisingly useful features being ripped out.
I'd already noticed my new phone (pixel 8, I fucking hate it) had trouble setting a simple timer with a voice command ( last time I tried it gave me a shitty youtube video result of a 10 minute timer!?!), but this list of removed features goes further, removing other basic functionality from voice assistance.
If all a voice assistant can do is google my "command" and read me the results, that's a terrible experience. The whole selling point (to me) is the ability to do something magic with what I'm asking.
> Managing a stopwatch on Smart Displays and Speakers. You can still set timers and alarms.
How much does this cost to maintain? A stopwatch? They’re axing a STOPWATCH?!
This is embarrassing.
Bartkusa commented on Thinking hard makes the brain tired economist.com/science-and... · Posted by u/gyre007
I've a hypothesis that a lot of the actual work is done in the background.
Focused thinking about a problem just sort of spawns new threads (some of which get OOM-killed if you keep spawning more). The process seems to need not actively thinking about the problem for the jobs to actually resolve.
It's like thinking about the problem triggers the background calculations to start, it doesn't actually perform the work.
Then you get that famous "aha!" in the shower or when you're off on a walk or whatever.
This is similar to Rich Hickey’s talk on “Hammock Driven Development”:
Spend your conscious time loading your brain with data. Spend your unconscious time randomly making connections… until “Eureka!”
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There is little or no evidence that children frequently transmit the virus to adults. And even if there was, it wouldn't be ethical to collectively punish all children just to marginally reduce the risk to a minority of vulnerable people.
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-07-...
> Researchers in South Korea have found that children between the ages of 10 and 19 can transmit Covid-19 within a household just as much as adults, according to new research published in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention journal Emerging Infectious Diseases