Last year, a pilot program was launched in a Canadian province allowing adults to carry up to 2.5 grams of hard drugs for personal use. Soaring drug use in public spaces has raised concerns over public safety....
I have been living in Vancouver’s downtown east side (de facto epicentre of drug use) for nearly a decade and this is the first I’ve heard of the programme. If it’s been on for a while there’s been no change. If it get reversed there will still be no change
The shepherd at night is probably a red herring. Shepherds stay out at night during lambing season which is February-April in Europe and North America but November-March in Israel
I have a subscription to Nature but most of the articles are totally beyond me. I’m thinking of switching to a comp-sci specific journal. I’m mainly interested in compiler design and implementation of JIT compilers and VMs like JVM and .NET.
Props on the nature subscription, I had a subscription with physical copies that were fun to thumb through to really get a scope on my lack of understanding of everything in the world.
Why acedemic journals? Each article are all bleeding edge experimentation and theory that only the authors a handful of people really understand.
O’Reilly has a great subscription option and their books are very comprehensive and easy to read.
Hi, everybody Recently, a guy noticed that I was using it and asked why? For me it because in Linux many things are done through the terminal because Linux has many different desktop environments...
Depends how you look at the numbers. While there’s definitely some positive increase in the in red states with a modest sub-1% growth rate, they saw a 2% growth rate previously. So on its face it looks like a positive increase but it’s still a negative trend with a -50% reduction of the base line
Conversely, blue states were seeing a -0.5% growth rate but have tightened that to -0.05% so that’s a 10x increase over baseline while still seeing a population decline
If you’re already using an esp32 why not just get a simple ultrasonic sensor and measure flow on an indoor inlet pipe? You may need to know the pressure (probably 1.7 kPa) and temperature but that should be possible to calibrate against your meter readings
Then your project just becomes a simple pipe clamp that can be indoors
#YouTube is making the watching experience worse on #Firefox and Microsoft Edge.
I didn't believe it the first time I heard abt it, since it sounded more like a conspiracy theory than a actual thing, but it's true. Google does add 5s timeout specifically to Firefox and Edge users when they try to watch a video on YT. If you want to know more about it, Mental Outlaw make a very good video abt it (Link: https://youtu.be/v4gXhmzQztE ). I think Google did this, to get people moving to Chrome since the majority will think this is a browser issue, nobody would expect YouTube to purposely doing this. In the attached Screenshot you can see that YouTube checks the user agent of browsers to see if it's Edge, Firefox or not. You can bypass this by changing your User agent to chrome.
Edit: Due a lot of people saying a lot of different things abt it, I want to say that I'm not 100% sure abt how exactly this works, there is a inbuild delay by Google, but who is actually affected, there are a lot of different opinions abt it. I wasn't able to verify this myself in LibreWolf, but this could be the case due my intensive hardening I did and this is just a result of what I found in the code and what Mental Outlaw and others shared across social media, if you got different or additional infos abt this feel free to comment and I suggest everyone ti also check the comment section.
This just seems to be detecting if the browser is Firefox. The function is even named isGecko which is Mozilla’s browser engine used by Firefox. Edge, IE (Trident) don’t return true from isGecko
Unless I’m missing something I don’t see where the delay is added
At least a million data points from 23andMe accounts appear to have been exposed on BreachForums. While the scale of the campaign is unknown, 23andMe says it's working to verify the data.
It’s not really like they are storing DNA sequences anyways. They use a genotyping array which just reads ~650k single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs).
An analogy would be 23andme has a 6.4mil page book of DNA for a single customer but they only know the position and letter of single character on every tenth page. Sure it’s enough to identify someone (You can confidently use 50 SNPs to identify these days) but it’s not like 23andme was ever storing a whole genome
I’ve heard of this concept multiple times throughout my time on the internet, but I never understood what causes a “server load”. Now that I’m in one of the biggest instances on Lemmy, this is one of the significant issues that we face. So what is a “server load”, why does it slow down websites instead of stopping...
Most modern websites are multiple servers with servers being a specialized computer with no screen that has all the software needed to run the website. Each of these individual computers can each show you the website but it’s somewhat random as to which you will connect to when you connect with your web browser (i.e, a request). Having multiple computers able to show you the website is one way software like lemmy is designed to help reduce its load – often termed load balancing.
To make your website be able to be split between multiple servers you must make it so that they can all access the same information (otherwise with 5 servers a user could only see the content posted to the server they are currently connected to or approximately 20% of the content.) To achieve the data sharing, all of the computers with the software for the website will connect to the same database on a different server. This makes it so all the content is shared across all servers. But now we’ve introduced a new bottleneck where the database must be updated or read from on every request. This is where this can get slow or even stop when the database is not able to handle all the requests. Typically, a write operation like posting or upvoting is considered more computationally “expensive” than a read operation (e.g. browsing posts or comments). We tend to measure a server’s load by its slowest component which is typically data access. Database software is built by some very smart people over time and have a lot of math involved to make them efficient but sometimes software like lemmy can write data in a way that the database algorithm isn’t well designed for, making it harder to read the database if you add too much information. Alternatively database software can have inefficiencies appear once enough data is entered in their database.
There is some work that can be done to make load less impactful like: having separate databases for writing and reading and/or cloning data into multiple copies of the database, or designing the way that the data is entered into the database that makes it easy to retrieve.
(Re)Caption this. (mander.xyz)
Canada's British Columbia makes U-turn over hard drugs (www.dw.com)
Last year, a pilot program was launched in a Canadian province allowing adults to carry up to 2.5 grams of hard drugs for personal use. Soaring drug use in public spaces has raised concerns over public safety....
I don't believe Auto Save feature in any software (lemm.ee)
Trump just promised an authoritarian ‘task force’ to impose Christian ideology (www.msnbc.com)
The former president is still feeding the Christian right’s persecution complex...
What scientific journals do you recommend?
I have a subscription to Nature but most of the articles are totally beyond me. I’m thinking of switching to a comp-sci specific journal. I’m mainly interested in compiler design and implementation of JIT compilers and VMs like JVM and .NET.
Tesla is banned from driving schools because of new turn signals (electrek.co)
Why do you use the terminal?
Hi, everybody Recently, a guy noticed that I was using it and asked why? For me it because in Linux many things are done through the terminal because Linux has many different desktop environments...
Finally found a fix how to stop firefox downloading each PDF to your local drive (connect.mozilla.org)
Hey guys...
MAGA women want a Hallmark "home for the holidays" fantasy — but their votes run their kids off (www.salon.com)
[Help] Looking for a 3D scan of a Utility Gas meter in Ontario. (lemmy.world)
I am hoping someone may have the ability to scan the front and top of a utility gas meter that looks like the one above....
US House Speaker Johnson's 'honeymoon' ends as hardline Republicans rebel (www.reuters.com)
Jeff Bezos urged Amazon to flood search results with junk ads, FTC alleges (www.cnbc.com)
Amazon's ads strategy helped pump its profits while steering shoppers to higher-priced goods, the agency alleges.
23andMe User Data Stolen in Targeted Attack on Ashkenazi Jews (www.wired.com)
At least a million data points from 23andMe accounts appear to have been exposed on BreachForums. While the scale of the campaign is unknown, 23andMe says it's working to verify the data.
Transphobia be like (i.imgur.com)
Image description: The black hole from interstellar . The text on the top reads “Transphobes be like:” and the bottom text reads “Star”.
How to measure things like a Canadian? (lemmy.zip)
Saw this recently on a WAN Show (19:12). How true is this? It sounds wild.
me🎸irl (lemmy.world)
shamelessly stolen from feddit.de/post/1863081
I love these two so much (lemmy.world)
ELI5: What is a "Server Load"?
I’ve heard of this concept multiple times throughout my time on the internet, but I never understood what causes a “server load”. Now that I’m in one of the biggest instances on Lemmy, this is one of the significant issues that we face. So what is a “server load”, why does it slow down websites instead of stopping...