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It’s good to have something like this. Last time I worked with libav the only available good documentation was the official examples and the ffmpeg (the tool) source code itself, along with the comments in the headers.

Yep. Animals are the most common way that diseases are introduced to humans, and industrial animal agriculture brings these animals into close proximity with themselves and us. Removing animal products from our diets not only mitigates this huge disease reservoir but also removes a huge source of greenhouse emissions, land use, pesticide use (for feed), and animal and labor exploitation (the meatpacking industry is extremely exploitative in the United States.)

An interesting side point is that the graph optimization approach used here is somewhat similar to modern graph-based visual SLAM

The graph in the article can be seen as a factor graph. VSLAM systems usually have a (kind of bipartite) factor graph with vertices/variables that are either keyframes or ‘good’ features, with edges/factors between features and the frames that see them and between adjacent frames; each of these edges are the factors in the graph. This structure results in very large but sparse graphs, and there are factor graph optimization libraries that take advantage of this sparsity (e.g. g2o or GTSAM.) These libraries also use specialized optimization techniques for some of the nonlinear manifolds (e.g. SO(3)) that arise in SLAM problems.

> impersonating Nat Friedman using a bug in GitHub's application.

This is not a bug, it's a part of how Git fundamentally works. If you want to mitigate it you have to sign your commits. GitHub could only attribute commits in the UI if they're signed, but I suspect that this is considered too much friction to enable.

I agree that they’re liable for some things in the court of public opinion (which happens to have a very short attention span and limited agency), but I don’t see how they’re legally liable unless you’re implying that the EULA would be found to be unenforceable in court.

+100 on this. A social environment that encourages this is a huge motivator. A good FIRST Robotics team is one way that you might get this (not all teams will have great student experiences, but they’re probably your best bet for this type of environment.)

The thing is that this is not a huge issue in practice. I stick to uniform initialization in 99% of cases and it works out pretty well. I have far fewer bugs from initialization screwups than from other things.

Most of your reply isn’t really correct.

> A vaccine is also an attenuated version of the virus so if becoming immune from the virus doesn't last long it won't last long from a vaccine.

A vaccine can be an attenuated virus, or a piece of mRNA or DNA, or a distinctive viral protein. Which type of vaccine you use+the adjuvants that go with it can result in very different immune responses and efficacy over time.

> This is false, immunity is strong and long-lasting.

Immunity to COVID-19 varies a lot person to person and is poorly understood. It does however appear that many people can be reinfected (especially people who had mild symptoms the first time.)

Google bullies you with Captchas if you have `privacy.resistFingerprinting` on.

Sounds like a good public service. I’d much rather have my data deleted until it’s secured than have it stolen by someone else.

Out of curiosity, is English your native language?

> Our word used to mean something. > But now? How can we hold a higher ground than China when our own police forces use the very same tactics against our own protesters? How can we accuse the other side of building concentration camps when we have our own?

But we’ve had things like this for a long time. The police have acted like they do for generations, we had concentration camps for Japanese people during World War II, and we’ve always done a variety of other reprehensible things (propping up brutal dictators, destroying native civilizations, institutional racism of every possible flavor.) Frankly, I’m shocked that our word ever meant something.