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640x400 - since 640*400/8=32000. The ST always had 32,000 bytes of display memory. (edit: I dawdled over my reply while doing multiple nostalgic google searches, and my correction is now redundant)

I don't know what they did to make the mono monitor look so nice. It was only 70Hz, and it only did black OR white, but it was completely flicker-free, like an LCD. But unlike an LCD - at least an LCD in the 1990s - there was no blur; unlike the then-popular passive-matrix LCDs, there were no crosstalk streaks; and unlike your average 1990 colour CRT, assuming you could find one that ran at 70Hz, there was no visible flicker even to my teenager's eyes.

Focus round the edges was pretty bad though, at least on the model I had. The options appeared to be "pin-sharp stamp-sized display with a massive border" or "nice big screen with blurred edges".

It doesn't really compare very well to anything modern, but you're right that it was streets ahead of 640x512 interlaced on the Amiga, and I don't care how many colours that would have been.
I'm absolutely, totally not calling for a witch hunt against Google; as the parent said, they made a mistake, they corrected it, we can move on.

BUT I strongly disagree with the post that seems to argue (without saying it plainly) that the prank was indeed funny and it's the fault of "the Internet" if it didn't work, because, it seems, masses can't take a joke.
A race to the bottom only happens with fungible goods, where any price differential is sufficient to completely dominate purchasing logic. There is a very broad spread in the quality of bread, and people's purchasing decisions are heavily weighted by product marketing.
Good article! We're all racists to some extent; that is, if your society's racist, you'll have to internalize its bizarre logic in order to function. (It's like sexism; I'd better know how not to transgress gender dress codes, or even I'll be in big trouble. God forbid you naively transgress the dominant political economic system... you'd face state violence embodied by bureaucrats with guns...)

Those people who say, "I don't see race; my best friend is X!" at the very least don't understand a big part of their best friend's life...
Frankly, I don't even understand what's the purpose of capital punishment?

It is not to punish someone -- they are already dead, so they can't feel the punishment
It is not to set an example -- its been proven over and over again - when people are ready or commit crime, the last thing they think of is that they will get caught or get punished.
That's why death penalty does not stop people from committing heinous crimes.
It is not to give relief to the family of a victim. Countless examples of (mostly Christians) that publicly said they forgive the murderer and are against death penalty for him/her are always being ignored by justice.

Its very scary to think a civilized country have something as horrible as death penalty, which imho means we gave up on someone. Sure I've seen animals in human skin but what stops us from putting them in jail for the rest of their lives (not money I can tell you that).
Mostly good advice. I disagree with number 3 though. Increasing volume is much safer than increasing the intensity of the "normal" workout.

For me at least, I probably did the highest mileage and was the strongest runner when I had no goal at all but was just running up the mountain because I loved it. Though I didn't race any marathons, I did so many runs of greater than that distance on my own on weekends that I've lost count. It was 1-2 per month for at least a year or two.
I think the implication is rebases or squashes of already published work.
>Salaries for unskilled labor are driven down by lack of demand for unskilled labor, and nothing can be done about that.

The workers can unionize and strike until their demands are met.

Unless, of course, you have something forced, like Pinkertons to beat up striking workers.
I've been running about 8-10 miles/week for 15 years now, but have never been able to expand beyond that very much without excessive knee pain, foot pain, and muscle loss (I weightlift a lot too).

There was a period of about a decade in which I had to wear custom-molded graphite orthotics (~$300) during most of my waking hours because my feet were supposedly "flat". Two podiatrists said that I'd need to wear them the rest of my life or get surgery, which would leave me in crutches for 6 months per foot (they won't do both at the same time).

I lost my orthotics in a flood, and unwilling to fork over another $300, I focused on fixing my feet. I started stretching my soul, walking around the house barefoot, and going for short (~100m) barefoot jogs on a grassy field. After a few months, I started wearing shoes without arch supports to force my feet to adapt. Managed to get rid of my foot pain within 2 months :).

Still struggling with the knee issue though. I've been treating running as an isolation workout on the knee joint -- my body can handle it just fine, but like in weightlifting, I can't isolate the same muscles/joints day after day. Sprinting any amount hurts, and I have to avoid all hills (going up is fine, the descent is killer).

While I figure out a way around the knee pain, I've recently been doing more metabolic conditioning (think Insanity or P90-X, but with fewer knee-destroying jumps). I experience a lot more fat loss this way, plus the workouts seem more holistic than running in the sense that my upper body is not neglected.
Convictions get vacated when an alternate perpetrator is identified or confesses.
This sounds a bit dangerous. Code coverage works on code, not on data, so if you're testing something like:

// globals
rules_t rules[] = {{1, OK}, {2, FAIL}, {3, THERMONUCLEAR_WAR}};

It sounds like you could change rules 1 and 2 to THERMONUCLEAR_WAR as well and none of the tests would rerun. Is that right?
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The `thr` statement is not very useful at the moment.

It's impossible to pass parameters to a piece of code using threads :(

I have to duplicate my code in order to use the threads
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Here, downvoting is a means of censorship. It's not about the points but rather about being seen even when disagreed with.
> AND change the fact that our culture views

When has that ever worked? I can't think of a single example.

Things people may raise like racism and sexism, in so far as they are changed, weren't changed per se, but merged with pre-existing values (liberty, fairness, equality) and morphed into a (usually) more consistent new definition. "We can all vote but not women" is more caveats than the new reality. Sexist ideas and elements weren't so much changed, they were contrasted with other values, and the inconsistency removed. Women vote, we can't pay less based on religion/race/gender etc. Same values, inconsistency removed.

So rather than change the view, I think the question is what can we contrast "work ~= value" with so that the inconsistency is clear? Maybe a sense of "money isn't everything"? That's all I've got, but then all the "77c on the dollar" talk puts money front and centre in almost every debate, making the "money is not everything" hard to sell as a deep cultural concept.

I dunno, the protestant work ethic is deeply, deeply ingrained in the west - not sure we really can change it, or what it can be merged with that we believe as strongly.
Let them automate and buy their own stocks back, it's gonna bit them in the ass sooner or later.
If you ever interested in a partner...
Palo Alto is ridiculous. I saw firsthand how hard the residents went to the mattresses to protest a 17-unit senior housing development because they were worried about "increased urbanization." Jerks.
> There's a nasty new world order coming where a vast majority of jobs will be gone. There will be super wealthy 'robot owners' and peasant/slaves

This will maybe be the case in the beginning but if you have to deal with an unemployment rate of 20-40% inside a country under heavy arms as America you have to find solutions quickly as modern society tend to fix problems when they occur we will have a bumpy ride into our new economy model that has to come.

And with the automation that is coming like delivery / fully autonomous fabrics / A.I etc. we can provide the basic needs to everyone food / electricity / water / housing at no cost.

We have to figure out reward and leisure.
I'm glad to see more things like this on HN.
...and I still fail to see where in this Amnesty International recommends restricting encryption.

The use of 'any' does not imply recommendation. I guess you could interpret the 'only when necessary' part as maybe opening the door to restrictions on encryption, but I feel Amnesty International's wording here intentionally wants us to really consider the drawbacks.
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The 'Hello World' Fallacy
The proposed policy of shorter username requires more investment (time and activity) strikes me as being somewhat like the amateur radio handle scheme: the shorter (and more desirable, especially for morse code) handles require a higher license class.
Manhattan is actually cheaper than SF now, and they have easy public transit from all different areas (Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, New Jersey, Yonkers, Staten Island, Long Island) where the lower classes can actually afford to live and commute into the city easily for work. It's much better laid out and planned than SF Bay Area.
I have many unpopular opinions. It's probably most of them, really. So I typically just stick to the facts relevant to my own interests or move on to something else. Seems like that's getting harder to do here lately with all of the PC crap people keep upvoting.
Project Implicit has an online test to try to surface your individual level of latent bias. https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
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I do not believe this is a valid comparison. The clicks are not happening on my website, they are happening on Reddit. I am paying for the clicks.

If I were to use Adsense in my experiment, I would've most likely earned between $10-20 from 4,800 pageviews, around $2-3eCPM. By comparison, I earned about $175 with Amazon Associates from 4,800 clicks. As LyndsySimon commented, Adsense would earn only about 10% of my earning potential with Amazon.
Does everyone hold the conscious belief in the inferiority of groups based on racial characteristics? Clearly not.
Actually, dumping this (or rather, the high quality link Adaptive mentions) with VLC/mplayer/openrtsp has been a pain in the ass. I'll provide an Internet Archive link when I'm done downloading, transcoding, and QAing the resulting file.
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I hereby give you an honorary 1000 karma.

Reading this article disgusted me. I'm not a "republican" or "democrat", or anything else for that matter, but I have some intelligence and sense. Arguing that raising minimum wage will some how lead to more prosperity is the same thing as stating "people with minimum wage jobs currently have prosperity". The minimum is the minimum, no matter how high we raise it. The only thing raising the minimum wage does is punish people like my little brother who worked so hard to get to $14/hr. If minimum wage is raised to $15, he will earn minimum wage again. This means the buying power he has earned over the past 3 years will be lost to those who should be starting where he started 3 years ago. If you don't understand the difference between that and prosperity, then you're an idiot. That's not an ad hominem attack. That's meant in the literal sense.
People should want to be valued, and people should be motivated to provide value to others via the market. Basic income is a good thing because it preserves this, while at the same time recognizing and mitigating the harms arising from the fact that automation and fluid market conditions make it increasingly likely that success in providing marketable value will both require periodic adjustments and be intermittent for many individuals.
You just explained why. Drivers aren't going to hear or see you, so you have to pay more attention to avoid them.
It looks like React Storybook uses a similar set of principles to what you're describing but organizes them for a different use case than Redux DevTools. You definitely could build something like React Storybook using Redux DevTools, but from what I understand React Storybook provides a pre-made standalone app wrapper + server that consumes components and applies state specs ("stories") in a 'standardized' way for browsing - you would have to write your own app to leverage Redux DevTools (or even just plain React since you don't have to keep undo/redo info) for the same purpose.
Well, if any organisation is influential enough to make the year of Linux on the desktop actually happen, it's Microsoft. I find it extremely hard to believe their big corporate customers would accept that kind of walled garden.

Of course, based on what we've seen with Windows 10, it seems Microsoft aren't foolish enough to go up against their big customers and would rather produce a very different product under the same branding that doesn't have the unwanted restrictions or anti-features. That seems a far more likely outcome even if they try to move the low-end/consumer market into more of an app store model. And if they do try that, then if any organisation is influential enough to steal the gaming market from them, it's Valve.
Does anyone have any economic information on what happened to grocery stores when the scanner was introduced?

Did prices go down? What happened to those workers?

I bet consumers didn't notice any benefits. I bet wait times stayed the same because fewer lines were open. I bet prices didn't go down either.
It surprises me how well this worked every time I applied it.

It stops working very well when you get to months and years planning however :(
Thanks, that made it much more clear to me :)

I now also read about "femtocells" used among else by Verizon (which dievices have been hacked) that are used to extend the signal coverage by costumers. It is an interesting topic overall. I think i will dive more into it...
There Are Some Super Shady Things in Oculus Rift's Terms of Service
My response, as a minimum-wage hike supporter, to those CEOs who say "if you raise minimum wage, we'll automate":

"Good! get off your lazy ass and make some technological progress!"

That also means we should raise minimum-wage more often.
Use Steam's Linux for future games, forget about using Windows altogether. Microsoft has jumped the shark. /s
Nothing that I don't already share: imaginary internet points can be useful feedback about how other people feel, but aren't something I'm afraid of losing.
I oppose the death penalty. Not because I have sympathy for murderers, but because it is uncivilized to ritualistically kill people.
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There is a value for me that emergency services can enter my home with force if I'm in distress.

But what is the value for me that someone else than the indended recipient can read a message I wanted to keep private?
Here's a link to the prototype Julia implementation of the original (Unum's 1.0)... https://github.com/REX-Computing/unumjl
Why does racism need to be conscious?
Yes, if humans are only being used in place of machines because human labor is cheaper, then we should make human labor more expensive.
> Why would I want to sell a company that I enjoy running to a bunch of people who want to turn it into cash?

Liquidity. You might not be happy about other people "turning it into cash," but that doesn't necessarily mean you or your investors don't need cash.
Hererra v. Collins must be considered in the (unfortunately complicated) context of post-conviction review law. There are state and federal post-conviction review procedures for dealing with new evidence. In addition, while Herrera and later cases reserve the question of whether "actual innocence" is by itself a basis for habeas relief, in practice there is a "bootstrap" Constitutional violation (usually ineffective assistance of counsel) that in conjunction with the actual innocence claim will provide a basis for habeas review. And in McQuiggin v. Perkins, the Supreme Court cleared pretty much any procedural hurdle to such claims when "actual innocence" is shown.

Here is an article that discusses the context surrounding Herrera v. Collins: http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl....
Minimum wage increases, experience has shown, put upward pressure on wages generally. It is not the case that everyone making between the old minimum wage and the new minimum wage ends up at the new minimum after the change.
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I agree that Amnesty International is being extremely cautious in making recommendations, but if they felt that no compromises could / should be made, I don't see why they would bother with the quoted paragraph.

"any restrictions on encryption must be contained in laws that are precise and transparent"

^ This suggests that they think restrictions are possible, whereas many pro-encryption people think that restrictions are mathematically impossible and are stupid to even suggest.

"must be used only when necessary to achieve a legitimate aim"

^ Again, while there is no specific recommendation, they are implicitly suggesting that restrictions are acceptable under certain conditions.

"any measure interfering with encryption must be proportionate to achieving the legitimate aim for which it is imposed, and the benefits gained through the adoption of such measure must not be outweighed by the harm caused, including to individuals and network infrastructure and security."

^ Same thing. In three separate places, they suggest that restrictions are permissible, and they are making recommendations for when they may be permissible.
I wonder how large the largest group is? I was in one yesterday that had 30 people in it, but then had to abandon and go to work.
No, coding boot camps are just capitalizing on the idea that there is a shortcut to the high wages some people earn in the tech industry. It's not "preparing for" anything, it's trying to exploit a present market opportunity.
I'm just a simple man, but I don't understand how a fine-grained powder, even entering the vagina, could cause ovarian cancer. This very long article spends only two paragraphs asking that question, with no answer.

Sounds like pesudo-statistical lawyering. This woman has cancer and she used talc every day of her life, ergo the talc is to blame.
> It seems Reddit has been intentionally vague as to what this is all about.

Their standard MO.
I like "creative problem solver"; honestly I don't even enjoy coding that much, it's just the most powerful tool for solving problems (along with math) I've come across. Since HR drones don't grok "creative problem solver", I usually sell myself as a software architect and data scientist - that pretty much sums it up.
If you look at slide 12 of the linked presentation of this thread, you can see that John says that Pi is an exact number... The VR world article tries really hard, but falls flat when it comes to actually describing unums (I've been working with John and unums for a little over a year at this point).
> Even if you have a job that is 'automation-proof' or 'automation-resistent' but not an elite, your income will be paltry compared to the super rich class, and thus you will be relegated to the masses.

If my real income goes from $100,000 to $200,000 and the CEO's from $10 million to $100 million, am I worse off than before? Should I be averse to that future? I don't see why...
> REST over HTTP is cache-able using CDNs like CloudFront. GraphQL isn't?

Whenever GraphQL uses HTTP, it is just as cache-able as any other bit of data over HTTP. Whether HTTP is the right choice is a decision each developer needs to make, based on the requirements of their project.

> processing GraphQL might take a toll on the server

I can not figure out what you mean. I denormalize my data to MongoDB or Riak or ElasticSearch. Then I send a response for each request, and the response has already been "pre-digested" and tailored to the queries I'm ready to answer. How does it matter whether it is REST or GraphQL? They should have the same performance cost. I'm not allowing anyone to hit my canonical data sources, whether its with REST or GraphQL. Perhaps your question is about real time data and mutations?

> Not sure what you mean by node.js "lacking backpressure"?

You should read "Backpressure and Unbounded Concurrency in Node.js":

http://engineering.voxer.com/2013/09/16/backpressure-in-node...
There are only two productive behaviors: minimizing risk, maximizing reward. Three if you include the Buddhist solution, roughly "learn not to car about risk and reward." This post is by a risk minimizer expressing incomprehension at the reward maximizers.

Such is life.
If you are using opendns you should be hitting gcc usually.
statically linking to properly(!) made libraries will only maybe increase storage space
it will decrease memory usage (as most loaders load the whole library, even when just one function is used)

Most OS linkers already do efficient loading of only the relevant portions of a shared library since they typically mmap the library file.

In aggregate, static linking the same dependency for multiple programs will increase memory usage as well despite your assertions to the contrary since the pages will not generally be shared (yes, I'm aware some OS have page dedup or compression, etc., but I'm talking about the general case here).

more things to upgrade, yes
more bandwidth, yes (not much if one uses binary diffs)

A binary diff of 100 programs all linking to the same library will still be larger than the diffs for a single library.

In addition, updating 100 binaries, even with diffs still takes longer than uprating a single library, which means increased downtime during system updates.

potentially increased security risks, yes. although shared libraries are bigger security risks

Code is code; how is shared linking a greater risk? Have any data to back that up?

i made an acc just to reply to this. why do people never understand static linking ?

I understand static linking quite well, since my day job is part of a commercial OS team that coincidentally pioneered dynamic linking technology in UNIX.

So let's not base our arguments on assumptions about knowledge just because we disagree.
>Yes, overall people will become richer

That's not a given either. The working masses are many many times more than the business owners in count.

So, while a few business owners can get cheaper with being able to fire part of their employees, those employees will be a bigger number that the business owners who benefited.

As for customers, they'll hardly see any difference (except negative, if they're also part, or their spouse/parents are part, of those workers being fired).

Everybody becoming an entrepreneur is not gonna help either -- there's only so much entrepreneurs a market needs or can support. (It's like everybody becoming an artist with easy access to self-releases on the internet: the end result is not everybody getting into the top of the charts, but, if anything, even those getting there having much fewer listeners that stars did in the past).
I remember it being mentioned in Wired in the 90's. But then, Westinghouse build a Mech (yes, a battle suit) in the 50's, and they never caught on. Of course, they never put anyone inside the mech because it could have snapped an arm off by bending the wrong way...

Some tech comes out early but doesn't catch on for a reason.
The problem is that there is no encryption equivalent to your theorized 'lesser backdoor,' it works as intended or doesn't.

In the long run given how things are currently, I trust math to lie less than politicians, bad actors, etc. Math has no ill intent.