Neonates are uniquely susceptible to HSV and it can cause permanent catastrophic brain damage and death. Sharing saliva in any baby under 6 months is a terrible idea. It tends not to make the news, but if you search for "herpes" and "bris" from religious individuals putting their mouth on the genitals of children, then you will find plenty of examples. But it's the same reason you shouldn't let people kiss your child: any cold sores (or asymptomatic shedding) can be fatal to your child.
Stay strong with your mom. She is lucky that she's unaware of the risk, but the risk is there.
> It's actually hilarious that whoever was in charge of Google's finder network decided to cripple the product's one and only function by prioritizing privacy.
That is a hilariously apt and depressing point. Wow.
> So what is this prediction he made, anyway, and why is it so impressive? Well, in 1914, six months prior to the outbreak of World War 1, Durnovo wrote a truly remarkable ~7,600-word memorandum for Tsar Nicholas II and his top 2 or 3 ministers, which we know was given to them, since it was found in Nicholas' papers and later published in 1922 by communist historians after the revolution. If they had only read it carefully and took its warnings more seriously, the world we live in today might look very different! So what did this memorandum say exactly? If you'd like to read it in its entirety in English, which is well worth doing, you can see it here.
> But I will describe its contents here, and why it was all so impressive. First of all, it carefully laid out a logical argument about the state of the world, and then proceeded to make a very large number of predictions— nearly every single one of which ended up coming true in the coming years.
> For one, it predicted an imminent war on the horizon, which he ultimately blamed on the collision course between England and Germany, which were the two greatest industrial powers at the time. This was certainly not some earth shattering or special prediction; a lot of people predicted some kind of big conflict, and it was often said that "war was in the air" at the time. In fact, Otto von Bismarck famously said back in 1888 that "One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans," which is often viewed as particularly prescient given the importance of the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in setting off World War I.
I decline to join your hyperstitious slur cascade [1].
Your point is well taken: the idea of a cargo cult as described by Feynman never happened quite that way, and likely came from a work of fiction.
But that doesn't take away from the idea of a mechanically correct reproduction of a system that lacks the essential elements.
And I don't see that idea as being colonial or hateful; it's just an idea that relates to two cultures that are not understood by one another.
So thank you for the important point of correction; I learned something from your essay. But I will still understand the term when I hear it, and I will not censor others from using it, or correct them if they choose to do so.
The richness of language is a cultural value, just like tolerance. In this case, I think we can have both.
That was an interesting read, thankyou, and has clarified some of my thoughts in that area.
It amazed me a few years ago now to observe The Guardian in the UK running an article ruminating on whether the term BAME (an acronym for "Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic"), a term which itself had only just about escaped the halls of academia and left-wing journalism, was no longer fit for purpose and should be denied and now considered racist. The dragon was eating its own tail in real-time on that one.
How do you learn vim-slime? I have used vim before, so I have basic skills there, but I get lost and run out of time when I try to figure out how the slime model works and how to create a lisp project.
Is there a tutorial you followed or a video you found useful? What was your starting fund of knowledge?
Great question - it's shocking easy to learn. Just three steps 1. Install (via vim-plug, lazy.nvim, or whatever vim plugin manager you're using), 2. configure it. Depending on your terminal the instructions are a little different, but it should only take a few moments due to the brilliant instructions found here: https://github.com/jpalardy/vim-slime/tree/main?tab=readme-o... I use kitty so I add two lines to kitty.conf and it's all ready to go. But it will depend on your terminal/terminal emulator. The instructions in the readme should have you covered.
Then 3. use it. This is shockingly easy, open two panes in your terminal with neovim on one side and REPL/interpreter on the other. For example I have neovim with my ruby file on the left pane and a rails console on the right (but on the right could be SBCL, python interpreter, or any other interpreter). In neovim, move the cursor to the line you want to run and press ctrl + c twice in quick succession. It will 'send' that line to the interpreter on the right pane and run that line!
Note: The first time you do this you may be asked which pane vim-slime should 'send' the code to, with the numbers displayed over the panes. For example in kitty I'm usually sending to pane 2, so I press: 2 enter enter. If it was pane 5, I'd press 5 enter enter etc.
If the line of code is immediately proceeded by another line(s) it will run that/those as well (for example, a multi-line Active Record query). It will do the same if there's one or more lines immediately above the current line. This takes a tiny bit of getting used to as you may unintentionally run lines immediately above/below the line for a short while.
That's all there is to it!
A few tips
- As explained above, ctrl + c ctrl + c will run the line under the cursor. But you can also select and run any code you want by selecting it with vim's visual mode and ctrl + c ctrl + c to run that selected code. For example, if you want to run part of a line, select it in visual mode and ctrl + c ctrl + c and it will run! Same for say a few hundred lines of code: select it all in visual mode (e.g. v ctrl + f ctrl + f then j or k to get to the exact line), then ctrl + c ctrl + c will run everything you selected.
- Rails specific: The rails console has a pager set to 'on' by default (this would necessitate back and forth between panes in order to press 'q' to quit out of the pager). So I turn it off by adding one line (IRB.conf[:USE_PAGER] = false) to ~/.vimrc or just .vimrc in the project directory.
Have a PhD in physics/astronomy, so—full disclosure—I'm not an expert here... I skimmed the paper and I have no idea what he's talking about.
Given that half of his eight references are to his own papers, and the other half are textbooks or the Heaviside's original work, I think we can assume that he's doing some very niche work or a crank.
I had to ask chatgpt to summarize a couple of papers on the topic.
The "theory of informatons" is a conceptual framework introduced by Antoine Acke to explain gravitational interactions through the emission of hypothetical entities called "informatons." According to this theory, material objects emit informatons—massless and energy-less particles—that propagate at the speed of light, carrying information about the position and velocity of their source. The accumulation of informatons in space forms a cloud that represents the gravitational field of the emitting object.
In the article "Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation Explained by the Theory of Informatons," Acke proposes that the gravitational force between two masses arises from the interaction of their informatons clouds. This perspective offers an alternative explanation to Newton's law, suggesting that gravitational attraction results from the exchange of information via informatons rather than a direct action-at-a-distance force.
The second article, "The Gravitational Interaction Between Moving Mass Particles Explained by the Theory of Informatons," extends this concept to dynamic systems. It posits that moving masses emit informatons that not only convey information about their position and velocity but also about their motion. The interaction of these informatons clouds between moving particles leads to gravitational effects that depend on both the masses and their relative velocities.
This approach aligns with the idea that gravitational interactions can be understood through information exchange, resonating with concepts in information theory and entropy in physics. While the theory of informatons is not widely adopted in mainstream physics, it represents an innovative attempt to conceptualize gravitational phenomena through the lens of information transfer.
For a more detailed exploration of these ideas, you can refer to Acke's publications:
"Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation Explained by the Theory of Informatons"
SCIRP
"Gravitation Explained by the Theory of Informatons"
Vixra
These works provide mathematical formulations and further discussions on how informatons are hypothesized to mediate gravitational interactions.
Just gave it a cursory look, but looks like crank nonsense to me. The paper makes no effort to give any context on what an informaton at a level that physicists would understand.
Sandstorm has been part of my selfhosted stack since it was a start-up, and it has worked for a decade with virtually zero attention, and no exploits I am aware of.
If there are other hosted apps that want a really easy on-ramp for new users: packaging for sandstorm is an easy way to create one.
It took months before I actually saw one and realized I wasn't just reacting to something else (I had just changed laundry detergents when it started, for example), but after that it was one single heat treatment - had to leave for around 7 hours while the pest company brought in heaters and raised my apartment to 140 degrees for 5+ hours. Took several more hours afterwards to get back down to a normal temperature. Prep involved moving anything heat-sensitive (like batteries) into the fridge and spreading out things like tightly-packed clothing drawers so the heat could penetrate more easily.
Also the heat treatment isn't guaranteed to kill all of them, but it does damage them so they can't bite anymore. There were a few survivors I saw running around for months afterwards slowly starving since they couldn't feed. GGP saying they only survive a month is definitely wrong - the rule of thumb is 6 months, and I remember seeing a reference that they can feed on each other so a few would last longer.
Neonates are uniquely susceptible to HSV and it can cause permanent catastrophic brain damage and death. Sharing saliva in any baby under 6 months is a terrible idea. It tends not to make the news, but if you search for "herpes" and "bris" from religious individuals putting their mouth on the genitals of children, then you will find plenty of examples. But it's the same reason you shouldn't let people kiss your child: any cold sores (or asymptomatic shedding) can be fatal to your child.
Stay strong with your mom. She is lucky that she's unaware of the risk, but the risk is there.