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I've always felt that "have more babies but also fuck you for ever having sex" was a bit of wildly contradictory policy stance.

I bet those are insanely comfie.

Bet they wanted a Shapiro VP pick so bad. It would've been antisemitic space laser conspiracy theory bullshit 24/7 until the vote. Now all they've got is "how dare this man ensure school children have full bellies and necessary sanitary supplies every day."

They smell like plastic, metal, complex hydrocarbons, and death.

It's likely CentOS 7.9, which was released in Nov. 2020 and shipped with kernel version 3.10.0-1160. It's not completely ridiculous for a one year old POS systems to have a four year old OS. Design for those systems probably started a few years ago, when CentOS 7.9 was relatively recent. For an embedded system the bias would have been toward an established and mature OS, and CentOS 8.x was likely considered "too new" at the time they were speccing these systems. Remotely upgrading between major releases would not be advisable in an embedded system. The RHEL/CentOS in-place upgrade story is... not great. There was zero support for in-place upgrade until RHEL/CentOS 7, and it's still considered "at your own risk" (source).

All due respect to Michelle Obama otherwise, but I think she was flat out wrong when she said ‘When they go low, we go high’. It's the paradox of tolerance applied to the political realm. How do you ensure a tolerant society in the face of intolerant people? It's impossible if you're not allowed be intolerant of intolerant people. How do you ensure that political discourse sticks to concrete policies and objective facts when your opponent refuses to engage with either but instead stoops to conspiracy theories and personal attacks? Also impossible if you're stuck talking about difficult concepts and nuanced facts while your opponent is free to sling personal insults and cognitively sticky memes that may have absolutely nothing to do with reality.

The solution is to apply social contract theory. Tolerance doesn't have to be a rule that you're not allowed to break. It can be a social contract instead, so when someone breaks the social contract by being intolerant you are no longer bound by the contract, freeing you to not tolerate their behavior in return. Similarly, sticking to policy- and fact-based political debate doesn't have to be a rule you're not allowed to break, it can be a social contract between political opponents. If the other candidate won't debate policy or facts then you're free of the contract, which means you're free to say they're weird. Which they very much fucking are. Once you get most of the figurative children out of the room, you can go back to making actual progress amongst the contract-adhering adults who remain.

Trump said of Harris, “Don’t forget. Four weeks ago she was considered, like, the worst,” and that she had had a “personality makeover … All of a sudden she’s considered the new Margaret Thatcher”.

Literally no one is comparing Kamala Harris to Margaret Thatcher... except Trump I guess. 🤣 I bet there are a significant number of voting Millenials who don't even know who Margaret Thatcher is. The ol' weirdo's references are weak and long past their best-before date, just like him.

That's exactly it. If affluent countries can get on the same page, they can neutralize the "wealth flight" argument and we can start shifting the balance back toward something that remotely resembles equality.

MinuteCast from AccuWeather does exactly this. It looks at your location, looks at radar data for storm systems approaching your location, and estimates when precipitation will start at your location and how intense it will be. It's generally pretty accurate, with some limitations. It seems to be pretty good for consistent rainstorms but it can get tripped up by pop-up thunderstorms, where the radar track can go suddenly from no rain to downpour. It doesn't make predictions more then 2-3 hours out because past that timeframe it's not easy to predict if weather will continue on its current track or change direction. Even with the limitations, I use it all the time. Mostly to tell if I should take the dogs out right away, or if I should wait an hour or two.

Billionaires, as a class, are likely already spending that much or more on lobbying for lower taxes. Or really lobbying for the status quo, since existing loopholes allow them to achieve an ultra low or even 0% effective tax with alarming regularity. The threat they make is wealth flight. "If you raise our taxes we'll take all our wealth somewhere else!" As a result taxes on the ultrarich have essentially been a global race to the bottom for decades. At least now there finally seems to be some indications that wealth inequality cannot be ignored the way it has been for so long. My hope is that we'll eventually see some international framework that effectively raise the tax floor for the 1%. It won't cover every nation, but if it encompasses the EU, US, Commonwealth and other aligned countries then that would go a long way.

Why are you an introvert?

Tough to say. I've always been comfortable in my own company, and I've always been a bit socially anxious. I didn't consciously choose to be an introvert, I just turned out that way. Studies done with twins separated at birth have shown that at least a significant portion of our personality develops based on our genetics. Despite being raised by different families in different environments, many such twins develop exceptionally similar personality traits. I imagine much of my introversion was set the day I was conceived. It's just part of who I am.

When did you realize you were an introvert?

I feel like I've always sort of known that I was introverted, but I didn't realize just how much until a few years ago. The company I was working for at the time had a retreat for my department, and one of the exercises we did was a personality inventory. Some of it was junk science (e.g. Myers-Briggs) but one of the tests was based on the Big Five personality traits, sometimes called the OCEAN model of personality:

• Openness to new experience
• Conscientiousness
• Extroversion
• Agreeableness
• Neuroticism

On the Extroversion scale I got the lowest possible score on the test. I am the most introverted a person can be! At least according to that particular test. When we were sharing and discussing the results, all of my teammates were surprised. One said, "But you don't seem shy!" Well yeah, because introversion isn't shyness (though the two do tend to be correlated).

Being a hardcore introvert means that when given a totally free choice between spending time by myself and spending time with others, I would invariably choose to spend time by myself. In actual practice there are lots of times where I don't have completely free choices, and decades of life experience have given me sufficient coping strategies for those times.

If you overcame it how did or why did you? Any advice for people trying to be less of an introvert?

I don't think I could stop being introverted, any more than I could stop being blue-eyed. I don't see my introversion as a problem to be fixed. When I go to a social event, I know that there's a limited amount of time I will be able to spend there because social situations are absolutely draining for me. I interact with people, I try to stay engaged, I usually manage to have fun and the end of the night I'm usually glad I went, but it's still fucking exhausting. My understanding is that this is typical for introverts, whereas extroverts tend to gain energy in social situations.

When I was younger I definitely had some social anxiety, and that I did address in my second year of university. My first year was very socially isolated, I felt very inhibited from talking to people so of course I made few friends. I had roommates that I got on with well enough, but we didn't have a lot of common interests and I tended to keep to myself too much. Because of course I did, I'm a hardcore introvert. In that first year I wanted to make more friends and not be so isolated and get included in more of the fun things going on around me, but I wasn't doing anything to get the outcome I wanted.

In second year I decided that I was being too much of a wuss so I forced myself to strike up conversations with anyone who was doing anything that was interesting to me. Some of those conversations were... painful. Eventually though, I saw some folks playing a collectible card game and I asked them about it. That led to me hanging with them, eventually they became friends and through them I met wife, who I've been with for 26 years now. Those outcomes only happened because I made the conscious choice to do some things that made me feel uncomfortable, in service of a larger goal.

Any advice for people trying to be less of an introvert?

I guess my advice for someone like me, an introvert with social anxiety, would be this:

• Separate your introversion from your social anxiety. The first is likely a fundamental part of who you are, the second is a reflex reaction to social circumstances. You likely can't change your core personality, but you can change reflex reactions to social situations.
• For social anxiety, try some Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on yourself. Think about your anxiety. Realize that's irrational, a reflex response somewhere in your hindbrain that's being incorrectly applied to your current situation. Put yourself in situations that trigger the reflex, allow yourself to feel it, and observe that feeling as it diminishes over time. Start with small interactions. Make a phone call you've been putting off, go to a restaurant and make a little chitchat with the server. Build up from there to more complex / involved / prolonged situations. Join a club, or volunteer. Think about who "your people" would be, and where you would find those people. Then put in the work.
• If you've got more severe social anxiety you may want to work with a professional. I studied Psychology in university, at least partly because I felt like an alien in social situations and Psychology gave me a useful framework for understanding the people around me. I only have a Bachelors degree, which qualifies me to diagnose and treat absolutely nobody for absolutely nothing. I'm sharing what worked for me, but that may not be what works for you. A professional who specializes in social anxiety would have a much more extensive range of techniques to try. If you go to a professional and they don't help, don't give up. Try a different professional, or a different approach. It may take a while to find what works for you.

Anything that pushes the CPUs significantly can cause instability in affected parts. I think there are at least two separate issues Intel is facing:

• Voltage irregularities causing instability. These could potentially be fixed by the microcode update Intel will be shipping in mid-August.
• Oxidation of CPU vias. This issue cannot be fixed by any update, any affected part has corrosion inside the CPU die and only replacement would resolve the issue.

Intel's messaging around this problem has been very slanted towards talking as little as possible about the oxidation issue. Their initial Intel community post was very carefully worded to make it sound like voltage irregularity was the root cause, but careful reading of their statement reveals that it could be interpreted as only saying that instability is a root cause. They buried the admission that there is an oxidation issue in a Reddit comment, of all things. All they've said about oxidation is that the issue was resolved at the chip fab some time in 2023, and they've claimed it only affected 13th gen parts. There's no word on which parts number, date ranges, processor code ranges etc. are affected. It seems pretty clear that they wanted the press talking about the microcode update and not the chips that will have the be RMA'd.