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Brexit Tulip Bulb Stockpile
'Biggest' UK tulip grower stockpiles bulbs over Brexit
The UK's biggest outdoor commercial tulip grower has said it has been stockpiling bulbs as uncertainty over Brexit continues.
Belmont Nurseries, near King's Lynn, said the future of the UK's relationship with the European Union (EU) was a cause of major concern.
"We're very much UK based, but we do also sell to Europe," nursery director Mark Eves said.
Tulip futures.
Huawei P30 Pro Teardown
P30 Pro Teardown Proves Huawei's Flash Catch-up
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Periscope camera
Of all the units inside the P30 Pro, however, the biggest news is the periscope. Huawei placed a CMOS image sensor vertically and put a mirror angled at 45 degrees at the back to increase the optical path. This is the first time a 10x zoom – without any loss in quality -- has gone inside an actual smartphone, according to Elisabeth. He noted that at Mobile World Congress in 2018, Oppo showed a prototype 5X zoom, but never launched an actual product.Asked who put together a module for the periscope camera, Elisabeth said that System Plus believes Sunny Optical Technology in China did it by using IP from Corephotonics in Israel.
Changes in RF partners?
One additional System Plus discovery was that Skyworks no longer seems to be Huawei’s main RF supplier. P30 Pro uses Qorvo’s mid/high-band front-end module (QM77031). Skyworks now supplies only a low-band front-end module (SKY78191). Previously Skyworks provided three separate front-end modules to meet the needs of three different bands.In the following pages, we will share the teardown done by System Plus, revealing who got design wins for which slots.
Dell's New Precision 7000 Workstations
Dell’s New Precision 7000 Workstations: Dual Xeon, Triple RTX, 3 TB DDR4, 16 TB NVMe
Launching in May, the new Precision 7820 and Precision 7920 machines will be based on one or two Intel Xeon Scalable ‘Cascade Lake-SP’ CPUs thus offering up to 56 physical cores supporting AVX512_VNNI instructions advantageous for workloads that use neural networks, which is why Dell emphasizes AI (and VR) in its announcement. On the graphics and GPGPU side of things, the new Precision 7900-series machines will feature up to three NVIDIA Quadro RTX graphics cards (no word on GV100-based GPUs, but it is highly likely that they will be offered as an option too).
The most hardcore Precision 7920 configurations will be able to carry up to 3 TB of DDR4 DRAM, up to 16 TB of PCI/NVMe solid-state storage (i.e., several M.2 and/or U.2. drives, depending on the configuration), and up to 120/96 TB of storage space enabled by ten 3.5-inch hard drives (i.e., Dell has certified 12 TB HDDs with the new system). Obviously, the workstations will support all kinds of connectivity along with 5.25-inch FlexBays (enabling ODD(s) and/or additional I/O modules for special purposes).
libya.hmm
A US citizen wants to overthrow a US-backed government in Libya. Here's why
At the heart of this is Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, now leading the current move by forces from the east of the country towards the capital Tripoli. Haftar is, to be polite, the ultimate pragmatist. He supported Moammar Gadhafi in his 1969 coup, then found himself in Langley, Virginia in the 90s where he gained US citizenship, before returning to overthrow Gadhafi in the 2011 conflict. Since then, he has been one of many strongmen claiming pre-eminence in the nation's descent into disarray, based in the city of Benghazi and exerting most of his control in eastern Libya.
US pulls troops from Libya amid a surge in violence
The United States military pulled a contingent of its troops from Libya on Sunday amid a surge in violence in the capital city of Tripoli, America's top commander for Africa said.
"The security realities on the ground in Libya are growing increasingly complex and unpredictable," Marine Corps Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, head of US Africa Command, said Sunday in a statement. "Even with an adjustment of the force, we will continue to remain agile in support of existing US strategy."
The American forces, who provide military support for diplomatic missions, counterterrorism activities and improving regional security, have been relocated temporarily in response to "increased unrest."
The root of all evil. No, really, I'm serious.
This is close. Very close. But it's only one specific case of a more generalized problem. I've referred to this before in a few posts as a sort of "moral priority-inversion bug," a very deep and insidious one that corrupts what you may think of as a person's moral elevator algorithms.
And what is it? Very simply, it's this: treating objects as agents and agents as objects. Or, elevating objects to or even over the status of other people, and objectifying other human beings.
The reason I call this insidious is that very often one is not aware that one is doing it, and the fact that ideologies and beliefs are part of this class of "objects" is why, as well as where, the majority of instances of this bug occur.
On this site, the most common manifestation I see of this particular bug is when someone asserts that their summum bonum is something nebulous like "freedom" or "liberty" or some such. This is one of the most difficult glitches to debug, because a) being for these things is always seen as a good thing, b) implying that one is against them is a powerful argument from emotion, c) much evil may be rationalized if one tells oneself that it is being done in the name of freedom and/or liberty, and d) at least in my observation, the kind of people prone to this bug in the first place are the type that are selfishly-oriented to begin with and not much for actual (as opposed to fake, self-serving) self-reflection.
What does this bug look like in practice? When you see someone who's so driven by a single ideal, let's say "freedom" here, that s/he starts making assumptions that are actually self-destructive of that ideal with a perfectly straight face, you have a good indicator that the bug is triggering. For example, "all taxation is theft" or "show me my signature on the social contract" in a discussion about the social safety net is a pretty good tell that the person you're talking to is glitching. When challenged on this, doubling down on the position and retreating to pedantic interpretations of one's value system in the face of observable reality is usually the next step. An inability, or an unwillingness, to separate de facto from de jure, in other words.
Specifically, when you point out to this sort of person that a starving, homeless, sick, frightened human is not a free human and you get back a blanket, emotional denial without so much as a "screw you, MUH PURITY!" you've run smack into it. One of the prime pathologies of people prone to this bug is, again, elevating ideologies over people. This is where that famous saying about "the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to steal their bread" comes into play.
So how do you debug this? I have no idea. Short of pointing out that this is a dark antipattern that exists and making people aware of it, there doesn't seem to be much else that can be done. Like the proverbial lightbulb in the old joke, the bulb has to want to change, and as a consequence mostly of d) and partly of c), people may not be incentivized to do the debugging. You can't change someone's mind for them; true repentance, "metanoia" in the Koine, comes from the will within.
I hope that by pointing this out, I can get people to be on the lookout for this pernicious tendency, not only in others, but in themselves as well. Just pointing out that it's there to someone when they're displaying it may (or may not be, depends on the person) the first step toward preventing it from triggering.
Orange Corn
More nutritious, better tasting, non-GMO ‘orange corn’ launches in US markets
But where is my goddamn 50 lb sack of Golden Rice?
One Side of a Conversation
It's annoying when you must hear only one side of someone's cell phone call. If they were courteous, they would put it on speaker so everyone around them could hear.
Further, when you can only hear one side, you cannot really understand what is going on.
For example . . .
Ring ring
Hello?
No! I'm not driving.
Well, yes I am in the car. But I'm stuck in traffic. Thus not driving. The car is in park right now.
No, I left the car seats at home.
Calm down, I don't need them. I don't have the kids with me.
No! No. Of course, I did not leave the kids alone. I left them safely with the dog.
Yes, I know it's my weekend.
They'll be alright. They're very smart for their age -- after all, I am their father. And the oldest is almost 7.
I just needed a break. That's all.
No. Don't worry. I am not going to the strip club. Not while this traffic is stuck.
You don't seem to understand. How can I be drinking and driving when I'm stuck in traffic, car in park, not driving? I know better than to drink and drive at the same time.
No, I'm not with my drinking buddies.
What do you mean "then where are they"? I swear, they are not in the car!
Look, they jumped out of the car because we could see a liquor store on the next block. And traffic isn't moving. I'm not with them because they haven't returned yet with more drinks for us. And we're taking turns driving, so it's okay.
Chill out. Nobody is drinking when it is their turn to drive.
What are you so upset about? I can't understand what you are saying.
Tucker Carlson: President Trump Doesn't Want to be Reelected
Fox News host Tucker Carlson suggests Donald Trump plans to doom his own reelection chances
Even if he loses, he wins!
Bezos Post paywall is more aggressive than ever, so I switched to this article.
ESO Black Hole Announcement on April 10
Flying pigs!
You cannot have your Pork and eat/fly It too.
If the SLS flies, it will be so expensive that it will quickly implode the program.
In order to keep the program, the SLS must perpetually be in a state of delay, which will cancel the program.
Everyone knows pork does not fly.
