You can tell a lot about how someone thinks by listening for denial of agency. The CEO had to do it; that drug addict had no choice; he had to defend his honor; she couldn’t lie.
Sometimes people have only one choice, but they almost always have agency.
> So I'm not sure why it would caramelise at significantly lower temperatures than its constituent parts would suggest.
Wikipedia states:
> The temperature at which caramelization begins varies, depending on the composition, but is typically between 70 and 110 °C (158 and 230 °F). Honey also contains acids, which act as catalysts for caramelization. The specific types of acids and their amounts play a primary role in determining the exact temperature.
The citation is "Zdzisław E. Sikorski Chemical and functional properties of food components CRC Press 2007 p. 121 ISBN 0-8493-9675-1". It's not publicly available, so I can't cite it, but if you're really interested you should try to find and read it.
If you seriously want to take action here, then do this;
1) Look up your city ordinances on sound, there should be copies of this is the reference section of your city's public library. Identify the ordinance and paragraph that the people nearby are violating. Record/video one or more violations on your phone.
2) Call the police, don't "complain about the noise", tell them you want to "swear out a complaint" for violating ordinance x, paragraph y. They are obligated to take your complaint and forward it to the District Attorney[1].
3) You will probably be called as a witness if the folks with the noisy cars choose a trial.
[1] When a police officer hears a complaint, they can "investigate", and then "cite" the offender. It is up to the officer's discretion. That citation is the sworn complaint from the officer of the offending behavior. When the police refuse to do their job, everyone has the right to "step in" to that role and swear out a complaint. The downside is that retaliating against an officer is 'scary' but retaliating against a neighbor isn't. This can result in a variety of negative externalities that may be criminal but hard to prove (car getting 'keyed', tires slashed, rocks thrown through windows, feces on your porch, Etc.)
Because taking on the job of enforcement when the cops let you down incurs significant personal risk, I usually suggest people make an appointment with their representative on the city's governing body, city manager, or district attorney and encourage them to actually do their job. Editorials in the local paper are good to, but projecting soft power as a voter in that way is less likely to blow back directly on you. I can also take longer and be less successful but sending emails to the DA with repeat infractions over and over can often convince them of the need for enforcement.
Another challenge is how we as a society view non-physical violence like emotional abuse, verbal abuse, gaslighting, and infidelity. Punch a person in the face and it leaves obvious physical markings. Yet cheat on your spouse with their best friend, and coordinate with your spouse's family and friends to gaslight your spouse into believing they're crazy and you're much less likely to be caught. I genuinely believe the psychopaths that live among us have a vested interest in ensuring that psychological abuse is very difficult, if not impossible to prosecute. And I would much rather be punched.
I think a big reason for the resistance of acknowledging trauma as injury is, arguably, because culturally so many of us are injured that we behave in a clearly traumatized manner towards actions of healing, ie. rejection/denial/lashing out. If we acknowledged all forms of trauma as trauma we would have a radically different society…
After all, beating children into bruising was normal just a generation ago. In many states it’s still legal to beat your children.
Taking a little bit wider context, and having the experience of going through almost four years of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, I would say that this might be one of the root causes, but the issue is more complex.
In my experience, for an analytical person, one of the challenges is that the analytic mind of the patient may be stronger than the analytic mind of the therapist. We humans appear to often be what may be called lopsided monstrosities. Our strength has become a weakness, in a way.
By this I mean that we tend to use our strengths to try to solve our problems even when another part of us would be more helpful in solving them. For instance, we may analyze, when would be more useful to connect to our feelings, or we may think -- i.e. procrastinate -- when it would be more useful to act.
The aim of the analytical psychotherapy does not appear to be to cultivate our weaker sides. So an analytical person might be able to access the trauma more quickly through these other paths than the analytical mind.
Therefore, it appears that while one of the issues is the aim to have a quick shortcut therapy, even when there are sufficient resources, one-size-fits-all approach might not be enough for a therapeutic process.
As a physician probably my single most feared infection is a MRSA (or any Staph.) bloodstream infection. It’s a sticky bacterium that likes to destroy heart valves and joints. I’m personally a bit of a medical nihilist but antibiotics often work to treat it and I would not be eager to do the n=1 trial of the shortest effective duration.
I found the mention of Blue Noise Dithering in this project quite interesting! I've not put a lot of effort into picking the nicest possible dithering method (just a basic Floyd-Steinberg) for the embedded article photos, partly because the whole newspaper look didn't seem to warrant it, but it might be worth taking stock of what the latest on dithering is.
Seems like a semi-stuck bit, it'd definitely cause issues w/o ECC but seems to chug along with the circuits doing their job. Best would probably be to add an memory-range exclusion to the kernel at boot to avoid that single area since the sticks seems good otherwise.
Also have a MFC-L3770CDW, it's perfectly fine but you really have to pay attention to consumable cost when selecting laser MFC. A cartridge of TN227BK (high-yield black toner) for the MFC-L3770CDW is ~$80 for a ~3000 page yield, while a TN433BK cartridge that fits a MFC-L8900CDW is $85 for a ~4500 page yield. That's a (toner-only) cost per page of ~2.5c vs ~1.8c, or nearly a 30% reduction in toner cost; the difference between which is amplified for the color cartridges (TN227 color is $100/ea for ~2300 pages, TN433 color is $136/ea for ~4000 pages or ~4.3c/page vs ~3.4c/page).
Considering the price difference between these units, I opted for the MFC-L3770CDW because I do not print that often and I've spent far more over years on wasted ink from dried out cartridges and destroyed print heads; but it's still an important factor to keep in mind.
>On screen keyboard was completely broken with Wayland, with some apps like Firefox just not popping it open
Did you check if FF was actually running in wayland mode? Not trying to blame you, the current situation is pretty dire. The only reliable way of finding out if something is actually using wayland is running xeyes and seeing whether the eyes move above the target window.
Ever wondered why a civilization which mastered manned space travel would keep crashing into a planet for 50 years?
UAPs are very convenient for top secret military projects, I bet whoever thought of them couldn’t have imagined that the ruse would work so well for so long.
Your point is a very important one. Do we check the interactions of a tentative drug molecule against every single molecular target in the body, and do we track what happens as a result of all those interactions? It’s quite common that a group of ”usual suspects” on the researchers’ radar get checked for — but by necessity, a lot of ground goes uninvestigated.
> Consider valproic acid: For many decades, its only use was in laboratories as a "metabolically inert" solvent for organic compounds
Speaking of ”inert” solvents:
> Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) is the most common organic solvent used in biochemical and cellular assays during drug discovery programs.
> Despite its wide use, the effect of DMSO on several enzyme classes, which are crucial targets of the new therapeutic agents, are still unexplored.
> 1-4% (v/v) DMSO, the commonly used experimental concentrations, showed ∼37-80% inhibition of human acetylcholine-degrading enzyme, acetylcholinesterase (AChE)
Oops! How many investigations on specific drugs were in fact showing mostly the results of what happens when interfering with one of the most ubiquitous-yet-underappreciated signalling systems, the cholinergic system?
I’m hoping widespread & systematic application of modern methods like in-silico molecular docking studies will lead to much fewer such oversights.
Increasing cost of attacks is effective against good faith people, not spammers.
Even Cory Doctorow made this case in "Como is Infosec" [1].
The only problem with Cory's argument is, he points people to the SC Principles [2]. The SCP contain exceptions for not notifying about "spam, phishing or malware." But anything can be considered spam, and transparency-with-exceptions has always been platforms' position. They've always argued they can secretly remove content when it amounts to "spam." Nobody has challenged them on that point. The reality is, platforms that use secretive moderation lend themselves to spammers.
As someone on the other end of the spectrum, I have an awful memory, and don't remember most of my life aside from really wide, sweeping generalizations and maybe a couple hundred very specific memories. My way of existence is also very sad, and it makes me feel like I've not really lived.
Sometimes people have only one choice, but they almost always have agency.