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> Roy Spencer and Richard Lindzen claims are provably scientifically wrong

I can't find any source for the data underlying the graph in your first link comparing Hansen to Lindzen regarding temperature predictions. The skeptical science article it is attributed to has a link to a 1988 Hansen paper that is broken ("not found"), and a link to a 1989 MIT Tech Talk article quoting Lindzen that has no graph at all and does not make any temperature prediction. So as far as I can tell, the supposed comparison in that graph has no factual basis.

Your second link shows multiple comparisons between statements Spencer has made and the "mainstream" IPCC position on climate science; the differences between them would be more accurately described as differences in opinion on how to interpret the data and how to make predictions, not as showing that Spencer is "provably scientifically wrong".

> As you've said: "You have to look at the actual substance."

Yes, I did. See above.

> maybe you should honestly check the figures, facts and formulas just once...

I have been, for quite some time now. As I said, we're just going to have to disagree.
I'm a Junior in highschool and I have the same problems. Some teachers require you to bring all your books to their class every day. Others usually use textbook information to create PowerPoints which they use in class but it is still useful to have the textbook open to learn all the information which they skip. Students usually avoid carrying around textbooks by leaving most of their books in their lockers at school for most of the year but this makes it hard to study outside of school. They also cram all their homework during studyhalls and copy homework from others instead of actually studying though.
Bitcoin has been around for 5 years now？ if it hasn't taken off now when?
Its not so much that people dislike freedom, but that freedom is hard to define.

Out of WW2, the western world operated under a "freedom from" definition. Freedom from oppression and coercion.

But come the 80s onwards, it was a subtle flip to "freedom to". And with it came a resurgence of robber barons and corporate "colonialism".

So when someone in a suit stands on a podium and talks about freedom, you have to ask yourself what exactly he means by that term.

More and more the American meaning has been for the corporations to con, cheat and exploit without repercussions.
Good, I think one of the main reasons there aren't more women in this field is because it's been unfashionable. So if it suddenly becomes "ok" or fashionable then the women who are actually interested in programming and solving complex problems will be more likely to actually pursue it.
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This was most likely translated by SNK USA. Although the Neo Geo never gained any US developers.
> - Runtime information. The runtime needs accurate maps of stack frames for both GC and stack copying, something that is not available from standard backends today.

DannyBee addressed most of these points, however I just wanted to note that even if LLVM didn't provide stack maps, it's easy to recover stack information using lazy pointer stacks [1]

[1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.158....
Memory was the big issue of the Neo Geo, if I remember correctly. The system itself was expensive enough, but what really broke the bank was the price of each individual game. And that was mainly because they used cartridges with many times the amount of ROM compared to what Nintendo or Sega used. That meant that a single game cost more than their competitor's console.

And by the time the Neo Geo CD came out where this was suddenly not an issue anymore, it was too late alredy...
This is the world we live in, always more aggressiveness. Let me put it straight: nothing can justify this kind of verbal assault. This is another human being you're speaking to.
I think if people want to donate money to the creators of content they should install the Autotip browser extension. It works the same way as Brave, except it sends the tip on-chain. If you read Brave's documentation, the architecture of their tipping system has the Brave organization as the midleman who takes a cut of all donations. Because autotip is completely on-chain, your tip arrives to the tipee without anyone taking a cut.
>because the software infrastructure for measuring that doesn't exist (though I suppose someone could write it);

What the hell are you talking about? The endermen in minecraft change behavior based on whether you are looking at them or not, and minecraft has hardly a bastion of bleeding edge game engine technology. The difference between making an enderman attack if you look at it for more then 2 seconds and firing a metric if you look at a coke bottle for more than two seconds is pretty minimal.

A metric tool that sends data on how long you keep certain objects within the center of your FOV can be backed with off the shelf free software[1]. The infrastructure is commonplace, well tested and used daily for a myriad of metric related tasks all over the world.

[1] http://grafana.org/
While I don't particularly care about web support, I agree. Cryengine being chained to DirectX is a problem for me as well. Windows is not my development platform of choice and the possibility of releasing for non-Windows platforms is important - I'm willing to take a cut in graphical capabilities for it.
Windows [kernel] is a very advanced operating system with an incredible wide support for third party drivers. I think the prediction would be more oriented to running them side by side.
Finally something about Linux not MS or Google, Go or Node? Dunno.
Even on hacker news, there are often for profit news sites that are very interesting. If you look outside the tech bubble (or scientific bubble), there will be very few who report on what is going on in the world. And those who do either have extreme views (many of them support the tea party or occupy wallstreat) or have very low writing and research skills

Politics are completely different from tech news because in order to write about them, you need to do lots of research. If you want to write why languge A outperforms language B after your extensive benchmarking that took you hours, you only need to summarize it. Your paid job most likely required you to do this kind of research anyways and summarizing it is the smallest part (and not important for your employee).
If you write about economics or politics, research is the crucial part and the sole reason for your article (at least most of the time). There are very few people who can afford to do that kind of research for free and donations won't work in the long term.
Sure there is a bias and agenda in more traditional news articles, but you can choose which one to read and different news companies have different biases and agendas.
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Flashlights are also commonly attached to firearms.

In fact, it would be hard to distinguish between someone holding a phone with a light on or someone holding a gun with a light attached.

I'm not defending police brutality, but these are often difficult situations.
Move along, nothing to see here, just an asshole.
Just to share one example - visual studio has an amazing developer experience for exploring and debugging node apps. I wonder if there's anything else out there which comes close..?
I think this is an amazing move for Microsoft. If they get the kinks worked out and get it working well on Windows Server, they'll have one platform that can run pretty much all the major enterprise software without virtualization. That's great; it's a way for Linux shops to convert to Windows Server without having to fully commit right away, because they'll still be able to quite easily run their existing stack and leverage their developers who are used to Linux tooling.
I don't give two licks about the Middle East or the Arab world, but this leapt out at me: "...our hubris to not simply record things and focus on problems. We keep reinventing based on impression, not on result, with new people and a rapid turnover rate."

When I moved to Japan, I saw right away that people here tend to measure problems first, then formulate a response, and keep assessing that response as they go. The net effect is a society that has conquered a lot of the annoying problems that get underfoot, and is liberated to focus on higher-order issues.

When I go to the 7-11 down the street from me, I noticed that the cash register has two columns of buttons for age demographics. Sure enough, after every transaction, the clerk hits the 'male' button for my age group—and they're always correct about my age. I saw on television the other week that 7-11 store managers in Japan use a sophisticated software tool to plan inventory shipments based on a huge number of factors, including weather forecasts, holidays, recent sales trends, supply chain, etc. These store managers are often twenty-something year old 'kids', and they have more responsibility and accountability for the bottom line than a lot of middle managers at Fortune 50 companies. They perform this function on a little proprietary PC running some very purposeful proprietary software in the tidy back room of every 7-11 store. There's something so damn satisfying about seeing a well-oiled machine in action, and once you've seen it—you're both encouraged that it can be done, and dismayed at how utterly behind the curve others have fallen behind.

Emotional factors have a tremendously important role in our lives, but we can't allow emotional responses (or manipulation of emotions) to unwind the great human trait of complex long-term, problem solving and progress.
Can you recommend any good resources for an honest and unbiased approach to learning about Arabic culture/history?

I can't go back to college or move to the Middle East, but I've been wanting to study the culture pretty deeply, but now I am kind of worried it might be difficult to find resources that are fair and accurate.
I submitted it, because I wondered why suddenly there were 67 updated packages available for my server. Other's might wonder as well.
> I ranked as student #1 not only in my fairly large school, but in the whole country where a few thousands graduated from CS at the same time.

Congratulations! I've never heard of a cross-university ranking of individual students before. Out of curiosity which country is that and how does the ranking work?
News flash: the educational system is utterly broken and still has old throwbacks to America's agrarian past.

Remembering when I was a teenager not too long ago, I could have told you the same. To this day, however, I am a night owl, which has also been shown to be more common in more intelligent persons,[0] so it really is a potentially more hard hitting situation to those brighter than average as well.

[0] https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...
It must be culture, at least in areas where walking to school is pretty convenient. Anecdote: When I was growing up, I walked to elementary school, all of five or six neighborhood blocks. The one kid who got driven to school, got teased for it.

Today, same school, same neighborhood, is a traffic jam every morning, as the kids are all driven to school. I could very well imagine parents saying that it's no longer safe to walk, due to the traffic. :-(
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Exactly this.
I'm generally for advertising in content I enjoy, but for people who can't tell the difference (and would end up getting viruses, etc) I install ad blocking. I personally block all ads with a very minimal whitelist.
Yeah the reason people can't afford rent in London is due to expensive booze.
By how big of a factor do you believe consumer pollution effects outweigh industrial pollution? Also, do you really believe hypocrisy has any kind of standing as a rational argument?
Here's a great overview of the how and a complete absence of the why which is more central to "success in the middle east". But I also understand why there would be no political will for US deciders to start asking themselves "why" 15 years into an ongoing conflict. It's kind of how a crackhead never asks himself "why am I doing this" mid-hit.
I recently stumbled across tmux while trying to provide a more customized UX in a bash script. Tmux and screen seemed a little more powerful than I needed, with lots of ways to accidentally corrupt the terminal. More and less were pretty close to what I wanted, but I could not figure out how to accept arbitrary input from the less prompt, exit, and pass it to bash.

Maybe that's not what less is for. Any tips on how I can create a less UX with custom input handling would be appreciated.
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While 12MHz sounds weak, the heavy lifting was done by dedicated graphics hardware. Once you relieve the CPU from the burden of blitting, you're left with more than enough cycles for almost any sort of game. Even the GBA only had a 16MHz ARM! From Wikipedia:

"The SNK custom video chipset allows the system to draw sprites in vertical strips which are 16 pixels wide, and can be 16 to 512 pixels tall; it can draw up to 96 sprites per scanline for a total of 380 sprites on the screen at a time."
Gotta make sure all the sysadmins know to update and it's more likely they are on HN than checking the update server every 2 minutes.
Writing your own engine is getting to be a harder to justify decision given the affordable availability of these high quality engine options but there are still situations it can make sense.

All these engines make some efficiency sacrifices for generality and feature set. You can get better performance if you have a specific problem to solve and you design your rendering around it. For many games that's not going to make sense but for certain VR applications it still might.

For my VR projects I've gone down both paths and there are pros and cons to each. For many projects though the biggest advantage of these engines are the editors - writing your own rendering engine for a specific use case is a lot less work than building an editor that can compare to these tools.
And no public bus either I assume? I always took public transport to school, but I know that's highly dependant on where you live.
Sysadmins hopefully use the mailinglist to stay up to date with announcements!
You're worried about a slippery slope that doesn't exist.

If I said "let π = 3.1415" would you be objecting that I might as well set π = 3, just because I'm not using its exact value? Are you really arguing that we can't afford to overlook any pollution? You don't solve problems by rejecting any solution that isn't absolutely perfect.
Technically it's not holography, but using the term is the simplest way to convey the idea to the average person. What would you suggest calling it instead?
> it is hard to imagine ... smaller binaries

> I like Go a lot, and I don't fret about binary size. But let's not be too charitable :). The CLI apps I write usually start trending towards 10MB with a few package imports. Their equivalents in C are usually less than 100k. One can imagine getting to better than a 100x difference.

Who want smaller binaries can use this compressor tool: http://upx.sourceforge.net/ It may be a bit slow but you just need to use it in the distributed version.
I don't think there is a widespread "nagging negative thoughts" about Microsoft working with Linux. That isn't where the skepticism comes from.

Azure, like all other cloud providers, fully supports and functions with all mainstream Linux distros (indeed, the Linux kernel includes a large number of kernel contributions from Microsoft, particularly around hypervisor support). When you conjecture about some synergy between your dev machine and Azure cloud machines, it makes me wonder if you are just extrapolating based on some assumptions of the platform, or if you have a real working knowledge of it.

All of this conjecture just seems bizarre. It's good that Microsoft is getting more knowledgeable about other platforms, but there is nothing at all exciting about some conceptual Microsoft Linux.
> it's not like they could have gone without.

Then explain to me why this driver needs to phone home.

Your comment completely ignores the context as well: the predilection of companies, Facebook included, has trended towards surveilling their customers at an alarming rate.

The Coke example is possible on the current hardware because head orientation leaks largely the same data.
Crowdsourcing online learning paths
Arguments usually work best when you support them with ample evidence.
Fascinating. I used to do decades ago with my ears what their devices do now: Listen to machinery while walking around the plant I worked in to see if I could pick up on a trouble spot, because I learned over time that mechanical equipment that was heading for failure sounded a bit different then the equipment that was still running smoothly. Belts, bearings, rollers and plates would wear and I would know to pay more attention to them more often, rather than just react when something happened. People thought I was nuts when I told them I could hear that something didn't sound right through all the noise, which was considerable (you had to wear hearing protection all day).
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You can certainly go faster than LLVM if you're willing to sacrifice code quality (which B3 and SubZero do... or for the extreme example there is no way on Earth LLVM will catch up to TCC). But I think that DannyBee is totally right that "we can go faster than LLVM at the same level of code quality just by rewriting it" is magical thinking. As far as I'm aware, there are no design decisions in LLVM that are pervasive mistakes that sacrifice compilation speed for no reason [1]. If there's nothing you can point to and say "THIS is what I'm going to do better than LLVM", then you're probably going to end up at the same speed as LLVM. The parent comment's point is that none of the attempts to answer that question have been valid: so far the reasons cited have been based on misconceptions about what LLVM provides.

[1] Well, OK, I'm not a fan of SelectionDAGISel's interpreter. But switching that to AOT won't result in huge differences in compile times. (Note that it's been a couple of years since I really worked with LLVM closely.)
I think your numbers are off by about a factor of 2 (underestimating). You can see the salaries for the UoC system at https://ucannualwage.ucop.edu/wage/. Note that most of the professorial salaries are labeled AY which means they are probably making 30% more annually. Salaries at private schools are even higher. Silicon Valley is not going to lure a "big name" away from a tenured job for south of a half-million a year.
I wish all paywalls were like this: a modal I can remove with the developer tools.
Magic Leap apparently can draw things at more than one distance from you, unlike the hololens's fixed 2m away. That's a massive difference.
Is anyone aware of a spaced repetition app for iOS that allows you to enter content via a web interface? Most of the flash card apps I've seen require you to build out cards from within the app, which is tedious and clumsy.
I think most businesses won't ever consider Linux from a desktop perspective, we are talking servers and backoffice.
I think outsourcing of services and production jobs to low-cost countries is the major problem, cheaper labour make people obsolete,not technology.
I saw this while the update command was running over ssh, coincidence?
DC and Colma also suffer from some of the worst fog cover through out the year around the area.
No, do the math. The express trains and subways aren't that fast either. Some are much slower because of frequent stops but that's not the only problem.
No, Facebook is putting billboards up on an uninhabited island and betting on the idea that people will want to live there. Good way to ensure they don't.
Works fine for me, but I had to install the x64 version of MinGW
Doesn't mosh do that as well (or better)?
Your last paragraph betrays that you completely misunderstand the Linux platform, cloud platforms, or how Microsoft can succeed. What you described would literally be the death knell for all of Microsoft's recent initiatives, and goes in exactly the opposite direction of their movements.
Neo Geo is an interesting system. The graphics system in particular is very elegant for old-school hardware. Like Atari 2600 and Amiga, sprites can be extremely tall at essentially no extra cost; it's the width that really eats up the budget (which on Neo, IIRC, are timeslices on a state machine that renders the sprites into a linebuffer, rather than physical FIFOs). Unlike Atari 2600 and Amiga, the hardware has the concept of "chaining" sprites so that a huge meta-sprite's position can be controlled by a single attribute block. There's no background hardware; the way you build backgrounds is by creating huge sprites. The hardware also has a simple mechanism for automatic animation so that various kinds of environmental animation can be done without the CPU having to update all of the pattern numbers.

There is a textmode-like foreground layer (the "fix" layer, probably called that because it can't scroll) for UI elements like score, credits, life meters, etc..

Trivia: Neo Geo was not primarily designed by SNK, but rather by Alpha Denshi (ADK), presumably acting as a contractor. It bears some similarities to earlier boards for ADK and SNK games (see the MAME drivers "alpha68k" and "snk68").
What is typically implemented in C and C++ is runtime systems, not compilers.