Yeah. The other day I registered into something using my institutional login (with 2FA). And then i have to activate 2FA in the relying party as well. So everytime i login there i need 2 2FAs.
If you read the report instead of a blog post with an agenda you will find out that the plain packaging accelerated decline in smoking by about 25% (p<0.01)
Was about to comment the same thing, even if they smoked more, the program was meant to reduce the trend of new smokers, period. And it was successful about that
But the paper cited by the blog post also covers the smoking prevalence data and finds it to not be statistically significant. Now you can look at their model and decide if you find that conclusion convincing, but I don't think just pulling a number from a different report (especially one from the Australian government, which has its own agenda in motivating its own policy) is really such a gotcha here.
To be clear, I don't want to play the game of paper vs. paper. I simply think there is more depth of detail here than can be nicely summarised in a comment.
This seems like a super important corrective, but I don't see the agenda you're seeing. The article concludes by arguing we need to do lots more stuff, and suggests that people whose takeaway from the article is "stop doing social science interventions" should take the place of the goats in the sacrifices.
If true, it would somewhat undermine another point of the article, which is that since almost all of our interventions are ineffective we need to invest more in understanding which ones actually work.
I'm sure that many other examples could be found to replace this one, but if a lot of the "ineffective interventions" turned out to be effective under closer scrutiny then it would be a blow to the thesis for sure.
This really is not the message though. From the post:
“That’s why the worst possible reaction to a failed intervention is resignation. We may not know enough to improve our lot right now, but perhaps we could figure it out, if we tried.”
From reading the whole post, I gather that he’s truly not advocating some libertarian angle, he really is writing on the observation that policy is hard, and it’s nearly impossible to actually predict all the effects of societal intervention.
From my reading, I’m not sure even sure that he’s advocating caution or reluctance to social policy. Just goat sacrifices!
I think neither you nor the comment you are replying to are understanding what the article is trying to say.
It is saying, acts must be done to reaffirm the commitment to the goal, the goat is a litmus test as to whether the goal is worth it. Not to abandon the goal, some things are worth the sacrifice, but to be aware of it.
If you read more of the author's stuff it'll be obvious to you why this is wrong.
His whole thing is "we don't understand the world remotely as well as we think we do, and we need to be trying more diverse things (and reliably measuring the outcomes) so that we can understand it better"
Wow. So we must not ask if any govt interventions work for fear that the wrong answer will empower political groups disfavoured by the govt and govt staff?
We should not cherry pick interventions that don't work and misleadingly show that interventions meant for one purpose did not work for another purpose in order to advance a narrative that no interventions work.
The entire post seems to be along the lines of ‘no laws ever work!’ and then you scratch the surface and they do work.
There was a post here about Mississippi miracle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_miracle recently which was due to one of the programs mentioned in the original post claiming it produced no improvements.
As in the original post is flat put lying to push an agenda. You can google for like 2mins on many of the points and see counter evidence.
It's a pity laptop manufacturers haven't figured out how to dissipate heat by using the lid as radiator. I read about some experiments years ago where they managed to get rid of like 25W
Edit: yes, normal laptop with all the bits under the keyboard and heat pipe going to the lid. I can't find a better source than this patent
Interesting, were those experiments with traditional layout when motherboard is in the bottom part of the laptop? Maybe we just need to make screen heavy laptops with thin keyboards but with thicker cooling, that could also utilize convection better. Something that you put vertically and open keyboard down, I think some gaming tablets are like this now
You can use a thermal strap to transfer heat through the laptop hinges and in to the top screen area. This kind of technique is used in aerospace and other industrial applications to transfer heat from unusual places.
But trying to do this on a laptop introduce thermal issues for the screen. LCD/OLEDs are rather heat sensitive. OLEDs especially do require good heat sinking for the performance and display life.
Edit: I realized many people might not have heard of thermal straps. Here's a quick read: https://www.techapps.com/thermal-straps with quite a few pics/examples.
That is so extremely cool (ha) but boy, that sounds difficult to make reliable through ~100,000 lid open/close cycles. Still, I would love this if it could be made so. I have seen so many horror stories of "I'm using my laptop in my lap on a blanket and blocking all the cooling, why is it so hot?"
I don't know... I mean I'm just a CEO of a one man company and even I get suspicious when a woman is too nice to me. Surely, with more responsibility you should get even more paranoid
Indeed, sometimes qwen is superior (even at q3), yesterday i asked both what a line from the logs meant and opus said "oh its just your dns server falling back from eodns to udp no worries" and qwen correctly recognized the ip address as docker subnet and said dont send dns there its probably off
I'm no expert but so much of Windows is implemented as services. svchost.exe is probably involved somehow. Like it wouldn't surprise me if Copilot is implemented as a service and it talks to Paint via IPC messages or something
It would make sense that it could listen for messages like "your generated image is ready!" and pass bitmap data to Paint. And media like images are a common source of vulnerabilities since you're basically passing binary data into the software.
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