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The Four Enablers: Making Hardware Less Hard
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"it is _the_ number that is hardest to approximate by any rational number"

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Any irrational number can be approximated to an infinite number of different levels of precision by an infinite number of different rational numbers. And rational approximations to phi can be trivially generated by any Lucas sequence, starting from an infinite number of different possible seeds (not just the '1, 1' seeds of Fibonacci).

Approximating e, pi and the square root of 2 by a rational number is equally 'difficult'. Phi is exactly (1 + 5^1/2)/2 - or, to put it another way, a half, plus half the square root of five. Are you saying that the square root of five is 'uniquely' hard to approximate with a rational number?

If 'anything that evolves to reproduce periodicity' tries to approximate this ('hardest to approximate') number, then you surely have many specific examples of places in nature where close approximations to phi can be reliably found.

And that doesn't mean 'spirals that sort of look a bit fibonacci-ish even though the center in no way divides its diameters in the golden ratio'. That means, like, you can point to a plant and say 'the ratio of successive buds on the stem of Fooii Bariensis are always in a ratio of precisely 1.62'.

But then to further privilege Fibonacci, not just the golden ratio, you'd have to further show that that 1.62 ratio wasn't just a real approximation of the golden ratio but is actually 1.6181818..., a rational derived from the specific 89/55 approximation to phi produced by the Fibonacci sequence. And then show a mechanism whereby the plant actually uses the fibonacci recursion in its growth patterns somewhere to generate this precise ratio rather than some other ratio.

And then you'd need to find several such examples to back up your claim that this kind of pattern is a common attractor in evolutionary space.

It's just not there, sorry. There's just no reason for growth patterns to favor phi, or Fibonacci numbers.
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It's definitely cool if we get to a point where Microsoft, Mozilla, and Google aren't each pushing their own video codec in their respective browsers. If this ends that, I'm all for it.

Though as long as it isn't proprietary and DRM'd to crud, you won't see any support from Hollywood.
I'm a big human-driven car skeptic. Expecting humans to "drive less idiotic" is basically saying that accident rates won't go down until human drivers are banned. Driving is something of an art and it's full of edge cases. Can we expect all humans to be driving artists?
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Just search the title on google.
This is something which is sorely missing from the docker ecosystem for hosting a docker registry within company firewalls.

Thanks SUSE for writing this! Once I get a chance to set it up, expect some updates to your LDAP access control wiki pages.
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How about something like this? You can opt to pay (e.g. hit a payment button inside your car) to enable manual, hands-on driving on a per-roadway basis. Otherwise you let the car drive in what it sees as the most efficient way, and pay nothing. When traffic problems are at their worst, you pay the most. Conversely, on an open road, no charges apply.

In addition, some multiplier involving driving conditions (rain, wind, proximity to other vehicles) and driver stats (driving record) comes into play.
Perhaps in theory, but not in practice. One thing about material is that you can't even see the edges of widgets. Sometimes you have to touch exactly on top of some letter because the sensitive area doesn't have any padding. Often when you think you're touching one thing, you end up touching another. Sometimes you have really tiny sensitive areas surrounded by vast wastelands of insensitive negative space with no visual separation of the two. Material also doesn't work well with pointing devices, IMHO. ModernUI seems to have evolved a little better in that aspect. I sense my Chromebook experience devolving with each update.
I think you're onto something that a lot of people don't understand or don't buy into
> I'll just keep reading articles that say they are 5 years away, just as I did 5 years ago, and the armchair futurists will keep dreaming...

I'm quite surprised that you can be a skeptic on the concept as a whole. Being skeptical about the given timeframes is perfectly reasonable (and probably correct), but humans do so, so many things terribly. We have automated away so many tasks in our world, both for efficiency and safety, that i can't even see an argument to counter that.

To extend that further then, why shouldn't we want human drivers off the roads asap? It's a dangerous act that, frankly, many people aren't qualified for.

Self-driving cars have so much potential behind them, that being a "skeptic" seems quite confusing to me. Just because it's a difficult problem, does not warrant giving up. The safety benefits alone, are well, well worth it.
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I was really hoping to see software upgrades available to existing nest customers.

I don't need a thinner version with a larger screen (it's nice, but it's not a smartphone and I don't think most people will care).

Tesla gives you a better car with ota firmware updates. How come a thermostat startup with Google's resources can't do the same thing or better?
Adult Moles.
It reminds me of a coloured arrow rotating backwards in time. Sort of like OSX's beachball but going the wrong way.
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What I still like about google is it (mostly) still works without javascript and even without cookies.

Only groups is unreadable without javascript.

But they recently killed the old style google maps, the new one is horrid.
> I firmly believe the next "search engine" will be a curated directory of content and not automated. Then I can just leave out the spam sites and junk.

A curated directory cannot work at scale if one has to curate it for billion of users manually. Most people aren't interested in curated search, Google kinda tried that already. What people want is the most accurate result given a query, which can only be done by an trained AI.
A reference client for the Bitcoin Protocol written in a functional language or a LISP.
> They have a work around, but it requires re-wiring and you lose some functionality (do not recommend).

Are you talking about re-purposing the G wire to become the C wire? I had to do that just recently, and I lost the ability to cycle the fan on by itself (without calling for heat or cooling). Not a big loss in my opinion, but my system is dead simple.

The most infuriating thing about it is that the previous HVAC installer cut the fifth wire off instead of sparing it out.
> and full catalog of most of human produced media, one click away.

There's a bunch of stuff that just isn't available on torrents. If it's American there's a much hetter chance of it being seeded, but anything foreign over a few yews old tends to drop off.
Articles like this are great. They demonstrate the thought process behind the design and really conveys how much goes into it.
I miss Michael O'Church.
I don't like it. It seems more juvenile in the same way comic sans gets criticized for. The loss of character on the lower case g is especially unfortunate.

Non est disputandum I guess.
> ...one of the many kinds of taxes you pay as a landlord.

A landlord can recover increases in the cost of servicing his building-operation-related debt from his tenants with an O&M rent increase. I expect that he can also recover increases in any kind of taxes that are related to running the building.

I would be pleased if you could find some SF Rent Board guidance or enough Rent Board decisions to form a pattern to demonstrate the incorrectness of my statement.
Being a cyclist in Amsterdam, the lack of driver eye contact and understanding of body language is what worries me about the application of self driving cars.

Amsterdam traffic is a chaos in which pedestrians and cyclists mix with cars, and the former two frequently (some would say always) ignore the rules. Not out of some anarchistic impulse, but for mutual convenience. Especially with cyclists, for whom coming to a full stop and accelerating again is both "expensive" and risky (accelerating cyclists tend to swerve), relying on eye contact and mutual understanding of intent rather than following the rules of the road by the book results in safer and more fluent traffic.

I imagine a current generation Google self-driving car in Amsterdam coming to a grinding halt and not being able to move backwards or forwards.

But most of all, as a cyclist I wouldn't feel safe sharing the road with "drivers" with whom communicating via eye contact and body language are impossible.

To me, self-driving cars and liveable, human-scale cities are mutually exclusive, and I very much prefer the latter.
They also only work in areas where Google already has "very detailed maps of the roads and terrain", kind of like invisible train tracks. ( http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intel... )
> How naïve to imagine that, because someone isn't allowed to do something, that it doesn't happen.

I never said it doesn't happen, I said doing such things makes ones subject to reprimand by law. People are allowed to believe whatever they want to believe, not do to others whatever they want to. How long are you going to ignore my repetition of that point? You might as well accuse me of saying that murder is OK simply because some people get away with it. Laughable.

> you have no idea who I am, and likely your own biases have kicked in.

How can I be biased against you if I don't know who you are?

Either way, there is a difference between avoiding a person because of bias and avoiding a person because the conversation bores you[1]. I've read the same arguments regurgitated without pause for thought 1000 times - the hallmark of which is the "old white man" meme. I'm tired of seeing that same old shit that has very little argumentative value to it.

Cheerio.

[1]: https://xkcd.com/1357/
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don't get it all too literally. it's about certain stereotypes.
> There, of course, I'd expect Apple to make it developers' problem to designate which thread(s) could operate in a limited environment.

Less so when using task queues, I guess.
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Well, it’s not available for people outside of the US, so it’s natural that competitors spring up. And, usually not having the same server infrastructure Google has, it usually ends up as a self-hosted solution.
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A biotech executive makes how much?
Yes, I'm a cs professor and we just introduced an online, 1 credit "Software development tools" course for this reason. Students had so much trouble with this that it was really interfering with their course work.
I can appreciate the claim that driving is an art, full of edge cases. But that claim on its own conceals the reality that humans are extremely bad at it. A ludicrous number of people die in automobile accidents. While it may be a long while before self-driving cars can match the prowess of an excellent driver, much less a professional one, I doubt we're far off from being able to exceed the ability of the average driver.
> Yes, anytime there is a logo change there is a bunch of marketing talk about why. It's all bullshit.

You refute that the old logo didn't scale down to smaller screens well? Getting the logo visible across mobile devices was a major part of the redesign. If your job is logos and branding, that seems like a real problem. And branding does affect a company's outcome, certainly more than "one iota". You are acting like a terrible cynic and troll.
> But if Google was worried about performance on small screens and in low-bandwidth contexts, we wouldn't have Material design, as it's animations have quite a bloated effect on performance. Particularly on devices with low power/low processing. Page loads on desktops for some Google sites are up to ten seconds now.

Poorly performing animations do not work that way.
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That looks like Bauhaus font, that used to be so common for all things Atari.

Here is an example:

http://www.atarimania.com/2600/boxes/hi_res/yars_revenge_col...

(look at the first line, with its slanted e -- like the last e in Google.)

More observations on Atari Abahaus here:

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/164954-deans-foods-using-at...
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I'm not convinced that leaving shorter gaps between cars increases volume. Instead it creates waves of drivers slamming on the brakes because they are unable to react gradually, creating congestion instead.

If we all left bigger gaps, we'd all be able to drive faster, increasing throughput (on highways, at least).

> Now I wonder if google-driven cars would actually be less efficient for LA. Sure there wouldn't be any traffic-slowing accidents, but there'd be 50% less volume traveling 20mph slower.

Self-driving cars in a line could detect and link up with each other, sharing sensor data on obstacles up ahead. In the end, this has the potential to safely reduce the gaps between cars at higher speeds and thus actually increase throughput, since the congestion issues with human drivers reacting separately would not apply.
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Soccer CLI is a simple command line utility which I created a while back. It's soccer for hackers.
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