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As someone that recently switched from nVidia to AMD, I can also say that nVidia products are just plain better.

AMD is trying to fix it, but also now "too late", their drivers, that frankly, are crap, on all platforms, AMD drivers are very, VERY buggy.

Also, AMD GPUs need excessive amounts of power, at first I didn't considered this a problem, until I bought my AMD GPU and noticed it is constantly throttling and causing stutter even in professional software, due to power limits, it also bit AMD in the ass during the RX 480 launch (where the excessive power usage went beyond the motherboard limits, and their "Fix" was make the driver instead request power beyond the specification of PSU cables instead, or allow users on Windows, to enable a harder power limit, making it throttle even more).

I had hope AMD would "scare" nVidia into improving, into stopping their shady business practices and just improve their business, but after actaully buying AMD product, and interacting with their crappy support, crappy community, crappy distribution network (it was very hard to get the card!), I concluded that AMD has a loooong way before they make nVidia react, AMD is too far behind in all aspects, and the only reason they are still competitive, is because they sell very power-hungry beefy GPUs for cheap prices, achieving a reasonable performance per dollar, but if you compare their products ignoring that, they are just junk (both in the hardware and software sense).
> Without reading people can't do anything

People could do lots of things before written language was developed, so I'm pretty sure that's far from the truth.
Curious that this argument only ever applies to the intangible bit patterns that define creative works, but never to the equally intangible bit patterns that define money.

If I copy the numbers in a very rich person's bank account to my bank account, I haven't stolen anything from them. All I've done is made a copy of some information.

And yet one kind of copying generates rants about the cultural value of free distribution, while the other generates nothing but fear and horror.

It's all very strange. And not particularly thoughtful or consistent.

IMO either you have a free economy, in which case you make every damn thing free, or you accept that rules of ownership are necessary and that the output of labour has value independent of the ease with which it can be copied.

Claiming that rules of ownership are irrelevant for IP you personally want from others, but very important for IP you personally want to monopolise, is the very worst kind of special pleading.
it doesnt sound like it wasnt working, though.
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Congrats on the funding. The product looks really appealing.

I'm curious about the typical (expected) use case for something like this. I would think a lot of large-scale data consumers would already be using an end-to-end solution that includes at least halfway decent visualization tools - whether it's Tableau or ELK/Elastic.

Will customers be more likely to be smaller businesses who right now have limited data viz tools? Or developers who need to make something quick and dirty and don't want to wade through d3? Or existing customers of major data platforms who aren't happy with the visualization they provide? Or something else entirely?
Yeah, I was also very confused by that. The article made it sound as if the WYSIWYG explanation was a quote from Apple's guidelines, or maybe from XEROX, so I wondered whether I misunderstood WYSIWYG this whole time.

Searched, and nope, that whole box is by the article author, not a quote. The author doesn't know what WYSIWYG is and wrote some projected explanation. Very likely he didn't go through the WYSIWYG era; it was a big deal, and wouldn't be that easily misinterpreted.
Pete Egoscue's book "Pain Free" is IMO, the best book for understanding correct posture and how to achieve it. https://www.amazon.com/Pain-Free-Revolutionary-Stopping-Chro...
No to overtime being paid in time off. Many times, they'll gladly let you do that, only to not let you ever use it, assuming they actually remember that they promised it to you.
> Accidentally dropping your dishes would be theft.

And not dropping them would be, as well!
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The only reason you own anything is thousands of years of lobbying. Copyright and property rights are both artificial constructs.
Researchers nearly double the continuous output power of a terahertz laser
Apple's ability to put together a supply chain and get the right partners in place is not to be underestimated.

The logistics of building a car are surely harder by orders of magnitude, you can't just FedEx cars around like you can crates of watch parts, but I'm sure there's a team that can execute at this level within Apple.

If I were GM, Ford or any other big vendor I'd keep a close eye on the supply chain for industry robots. When Apple makes a move they're probably going to buy up a year's supply of these.
>He engaged in nothing resembling money laundering

I happen to know what money laundering is, being a certified money laundering specialist (CAMS) and all, and what he allegedly engaged in was money laundering. However, the judge was being completely fair in her statement as the prosecution did a lot of flippity flop and kept switching back the defendant's position from what is a business and a payment instrument seller. This was a relatively easy case to win for the prosecution, but pretty astounding as to how a very ill prepared prosecution and well prepared defense can go a long way.
OK. It's a feature moritorium. It's an administrative choice that is very easy to prolong. Because it solves the immediate problem, it's also a choice that's very easy to keep making to avoid the significant cost of addressing the underlying problems.

This is the sort of administrative choice that led to the Bay's housing crises.
"Schemaless" on top of it and a shiny new "microservices" layer. Please, by all means, continue to take one aspect of the stack in an attempt to misrepresent me.
I think my main objection to GMO right now is that it's as much or more about control as it is about either increased production or safety. Private companies are patenting existing living things with minor modifications. They are actively preventing seeding plants from being able to reproduce. Call me skeptical, but I doubt that having the food supply under private control is going to solve the world's hunger problems.

I'm also entirely unconvinced by the argument that cross-breeding and genetic engineering are the same and thus pose the same level of safety risk. If that were true, we wouldn't need genetic engineering, we could stick to grafting.
looks good [0], thank you

can anyone comment on data disk usage ?

[0] docs - http://eventql.io/documentation/
One could use connection pooling. Quoting from the tuning guide [0]:

max_connections sets exactly that: the maximum number of client
connections allowed. This is very important to some of the
below parameters (particularly work_mem) because there are some
memory resources that are or can be allocated on a per-client
basis, so the maximum number of clients suggests the maximum
possible memory use. Generally, PostgreSQL on good hardware can
support a few hundred connections. If you want to have
thousands instead, you should consider using connection pooling
software to reduce the connection overhead.

Replication, Clustering, and Connection Pooling [1]

[0] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Tuning_Your_PostgreSQL_Serv...

[1] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Replication,_Clustering,_an...
Shut up snitch
The Amiga people kept getting new PPC's built for their systems. Almost nobody bought them. Gaisler open-sourced his Leon3 SPARC CPU and I.P. under GPL. Sun did same for OpenSPARC T1 & T2. Nobody built anything or pooled together money. MIPS and ARM stayed in embedded space mostly with big vendors (esp SGI) switching to Intel/AMD since they performed better per dollar. That along with licensing cost meant nobody was doing a desktop CPU there since it be a financial sinkhold. I still think Cavium's Octeon III and ThunderX could become great desktops with a PC board. Yet, they show no interest in that outside cloud servers maybe. PA-RISC and Alpha similarly died since no demand to pay for increasing expense on CPU's. SuperH, which powered Dreamcast, stayed in embedded with higher-end one doing multimedia products.

So, not only are there no desktops, everyone that tried either sold jack and/or went out of business. Your theory hasn't been true for a long time. Linux and FOSS types talk a lot but buy very little if it's not x86. A desktop could easily be made in Shenzen or whatever based on existing components, esp Leon3 or Leon4 SOC. eASIC's mask-programmed tech already supports Leon to crank them out quick and cheap. Peripherals could be handled with cheap microcontrollers if necessary that have onboard HW accelerators for them. The tech is there just no suppliers right now and usually no actual buyers.
from what I understand FB uses Mysql as permanent storage, not as relational database
Thanks. Nice, simple and useful !
Two decades ago was a very quiet time for Europe in terms of terrorist attacks. The groups you cite, which are anyhow a totally different problem than Islamist terror, had mostly died down. The number of Islamist terrorist groups in the world has been increasing since the 80s and attacks on the West have been rising again since around the turn of the century. The recent spike is severe. What's most alarming about the current wave is that they are lone wolf attacks that defy our traditional capabilities to uncover plots before they are executed. ISIS has decentralized terrorism.
I strongly disagree. it would have been useful f they'd stuck to problems without well-known solutions.

Sadly, they also mixed in issues which are easily solved, or in a particularly egregious case, where they just complain about a bug. As though MySQL never had a bug. That was silly.

My read of it was: Postgres annoyed us a few times, and we got fed up with its, so now something different will annoy us. Please look forward to our blog post in 4 years about how we're using X instead of MySQL/Schemaless because those were also imperfect.
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The Kinesis Advantage has MX Cherry Brown switches. It would be great to understand what makes this keyboard effective. How does an Ergodox compare, for instance? I've also got a Github page dedicated to ergonomic keyboards:

https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes/blob/master/keyboa...
If they had reported you to the feds through the BSA e-filer system, you would never know. It is a federal violation to inform the party on which you have made a report. Just because you haven't received knock on the door does not mean you haven't been reported.
From GAS' README:

Inspects source code for security problems by scanning the Go AST.

[...]

Gas is still in alpha and accepting feedback from early adopters. We do not consider it production ready at this time.
Posting this from a throwaway account:

No, using a throwaway account is not evidence that someone is a troll. You are using this to belittle an argument, demonstrating a clear lack of respect on your part. This is a very controversial issue and some people are afraid of having their identity attached to comments because of intolerant reactions.

The fact is, people talk about being culturally progressive and accepting of cultures while simultaneously trying to destroy any culture that doesn't fit into their own narrow-minded world view. No one is above culture or beliefs -- the fact is comments like yours are just as hateful and prejudiced, even if you think you are defending something you call truth. It shows a complete inability to empathize with a perspective that you don't agree with.

I have the unpopular belief that you alone are responsible for your actions. There is a modern oppression narrative that has been used to justify systematic racism and sexism while masquerading as egalitarianism.

The successful make their own opportunities. They always have, and they always will. "Good work is the key to good fortune. Winners take that praise, but losers seldom take that blame."
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Would you mind sharing your SSN, credit card numbers, address, and date of birth?

We don't yet know if that information will be useful to the world, because we didn't really look at it, but we'd like to have it out in the public record - for completion's sake. I'm sure it'll be valuable to someone.

I realize that you may not be involved in any impropriety, but you may have at one point e-mailed someone who is, or someone who works for someone who is.

No more secrets, right?
> Does anyone have an idea why, according to the author, a mouse being wireless is so essential?

I'm not sure why according to the author, but the advantages I can think of are:

(1) It allows more free repositioning to address ergonomic issues, and

(2) While this doesn't necessarily happen all the time, lots of times wired mice end up with the wires running in paths where they ocassionally provide more resistance to certain movements, which seems likely to have negative ergonomic consequences over time.
Oh and to answer the direct question, I was given strict orders from the doctor to not go off of serious pain meds (something schedule 2, I don't remember what) for 2 weeks out of the heart attack danger. I took them for about a week before forgetting about it.

It was down to just like broken bone painful then so I decided to just deal with it so I could learn how to tolerate severe pain (I was 14 at the time), I figured it would be a useful skill. My parents were a little shocked that I decided to deal with it. I passed the time reading c++ books.

The pain did make me take a lot of breaks and sleep to bring my willpower back.

I still feel it now, but it's more like the feeling of a minor cut on your finger.

Honestly, I think I have the opposite problem. Pain hasn't been sufficient for me to avoid injury. I probably could have avoided many issues if I listened to it a little.
I had pretty bad RSI some years ago, to the point where I thought I wouldn't be able to program anymore. However, I got through it, and I don't have any pains today.

The key thing for me was starting to use a break program on my computer. Every 5 minutes I take a 10 seconds micro-break (let go of the mouse and keyboard). Every 45 minutes I take a 5 minute stretching break, and do 3 or 4 stretches.

That, together with a split keyboard (Goldtouch) and a pen-shaped mouse called Penclic. Both those are great for me. Almost all regular keyboards are terrible from an ergonomic standpoint (especially Apple's), not to mention laptop keyboards.

More details here: https://henrikwarne.com/2012/02/18/how-i-beat-rsi/
True, of course. I edited my post above.
Does anyone know if citusdb or enterprisedb improve on the postgresql issues mentioned in the post vs last postgresql version?
I've been a hardcore and exclusive Postgres user since 2004. Always rolled my eyes when folks say they use MySQL or moved to it from Postgres. Reading about that bug sent shiver's down my spine. I know no system is bug free, but Postgres is one of those systems that have held up very well for me, and now I'm super paranoid. :-( I guess I understand tho, I moved from BSD to Linux for more tooling.
How love how quickly this escalated, have you considered doing a comedy act?
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If you take the 2d Fourier transform of the sequence and the low frequency components go to zero the point process is hyper uniform [1] . Poison disk noise has this property but is generally slow to generate.

[1] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.4645v1.pdf
Mind explaining the significance? I didn't pick up on it.
This approach seems to ignore the fairly major role the eyebrows play in looking in a particular direction.
Google-owned Zagat app finally gets a makeover, becomes useful again
For example, see Robert Jackson's addon for using decorator syntax to describe computed properties: https://github.com/rwjblue/ember-computed-decorators
They're all famous mathematicians
«It's fine that there are flaws with using SMS, but the alternatives -- proprietary apps, proprietary dongles -- aren't any better. They also just create more parties you have to trust.»

TOTP and HOTP are both open OATH moderated standards. You can use any app or dongle of your choice with any provider that follows the standards. This is a way better alternative than SMS.
Thank you for this. I didn't even know vertical mice exist, but I've often remarked to myself how strange it feels to rotate my lower arm 45-90° to use the mouse. Purchased.
I get myself into interesting positions quite often by arguing this exact thing. Suffering is a bit of information about the state of your body/mind etc. I can imagine the best life possible, with the most contribution to society, being a huge source of pain and suffering.

Generally speaking, of course, that's not a safe bet. Suffering tends to be associated with damage and psychological stress, which are rarely good things. I'd take 8/10 pain every day for the next 40 years though over something like dimentia or advanced alzheimers.

That said, I'd also take pain over severe depression. That shit sucks.
How does pgbouncer work with Amazon RDS (where you can't install separate software)?
> While interesting, this article seems to ignore the possibility that most people simply have a very strong desire to live.

Alternatively: People can have goals related to the actual outside state of the world, rather than their own internal state. If you can only conceptualize goals in terms of your own internal state, then sure, you might kill yourself to avoid pain, or wirehead yourself at the first opportunity.

But if your actual goals are out there in the world, then it's essentially as you say above. Dying reduces your influence on the world. If you're not alive, it's much harder to steer the world to your desired state. Survival is a convergent instrumental goal, for people as much as for AIs.
Awesome. I may very well buy a Chromebook and use GalliumOS for my next laptop. This rMBP is on its way out, it's so buggy and crashy.
Thank you, that was very beautifully put!

Have you seen "Inside out"? In that movie, joy and sadness are depicted as two characters cooperating whereas depression sets in when these two are absent and the infrastructure starts to shut down and crumble...
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BuzzFeed’s newest political reporter is a bot
A few points about this case, although note I'm not a lawyer, just interested in digital currency law.

1) This is an elected state court judge, anecdotally one of the worst states for high quality judges. So, this is not a considered opinion from a federal judge. It is unlikely to have long term impact.

2) It looks like the purpose of this sting was to get someone on state Money Transmittal laws, levered up with some sort of racketeering type charges.

When it comes to opining on whether something is money for the purpose of Money Transmittal, it makes a lot of sense to be conservative about the definitions, and this is the angle I would expect a good defense attorney to take -- prove the state has the right to enforce this law in this circumstance..

All that said, this isn't the first attempt Florida law enforcement has made at turning a bitcoin exchange into a crime. Hopefully a ruling like this will put them on to more useful activities.
I think "flat versus skeuomorphism" is the correct opposition, and it's the "Apple Goes Mushy" article which is muddling the terminology by conflating at least three different things.

* Skeumorphism is about rendering individual materials. E.g. compare the old and new Safari icons. Both show a blue compass, but the old one is drawn as a realistically rendered 3d-object with perspective and metallic reflections, and the new one is a flat 2d drawing. Similarly, the old design of the maximize/close buttons on windows were rendered skeumorphically, as a some kind of plastic 3d-object, the new ones are 2d.

* Then there is the use of visual metaphors versus abstract symbolism. E.g. the old icon for Photos was a picture of a camera and photo, the new one is an abstract symbol (apparently it's supposed to be a stylized sunflower?).

* And finally he talks about color choices: the old design used lots of saturated colors, the new one has more desaturated ones with a few saturated accents.

All of these can vary independently. A stylized line drawing of a battery is not an instance of skeumorphism, but it is a use of visual metaphor.
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Looks like it's fixed now, thanks.

*Edit: Okay, I read both of the articles, and they were fairly interesting, so thanks. I do have a pet peeve / complaint though: Both of the articles purported to link to research, but neither actually did. the first article linked to a list of slide decks and the second article linked to a summary of research. I've read enough bad summaries now that I am working on becoming a primary sources junky. Do you know of any research on this issue that's been done?
They're all famous scientists/mathematicians.
Isn't WAL-based replication more reliable?
The problem with trying to get rid of skeuomorphism is that skeuomorphism is built on the idea that human beings use single tools for single tasks. A pen to write, and only write. An old school phone to call, and only to call. A clock to tell time, and only to tell time. A camera to take pictures, and only to take pictures. For this reason, skeuomorphism works coz we associate the icon with the task. Hence message icons are envelopes, coz envelopes hold messages and nothing else, more or less. We've seen erase icons on software that look like pencil erasers. The camera icon? Of course it's a camera. And so on.

Enter the smartphone.

The smartphone does everything. It makes calls, takes pictures, receives messages, tells time, shows TV shows (we'll have to stop calling them TV shows, won't we?), etc. Since icons resemble the tools used to carry out given tasks, what are we to do when one tool does all tasks?

That's the problem for skeuomorphism. What are we to do for icons when one tool does everything? Create icons depicting people doing those different things, a bit like emoji? A selfie icon for the camera, a person talking on the phone for voice functions, a message bubbles icon that mimics message interfaces for messages?

I don't know. I guess a language to replace the skeuomorphism language will emerge.
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There are a lot of switches. Reddit has a great guide:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/wiki/switch_gui...

There's a table with activation forces:

MX Red	Linear	45cN
MX Black	Linear	60cN
MX Dark Grey	Linear	80cN
MX Brown
Sounds like the importance of pleasure and enjoyment is greater than the importance of pain and suffering.

I wonder if you could model the "suicide critical point" as the point at which the importance of pain is greater than the importance of pleasure.

Somebody suffering and in pain but hopeful is not likely to commit suicide.
Someone with a good, stable life and/or future but fixated on negative aspects or thinkings may be more inclined for suicide.
One additional note from my side: if you're able to think about anything else than the pain without the painkillers, then my post above does not relate to you at all.
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The basic reason why there just isn’t enough decent housing for the poor
Which one is it? "Hybrid apps can often compete", or "few good ones exist"?
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Please do not post such unsubstantive, inflammatory comments here. Not only do we ban the throwaway account in this case, but the main account as well.
They also partner with universities to design courses around Nvidia products, so they're better at funneling talent. Or at least it seems so. I don't know about AMD programs.