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If anyone wants to use Skype I just use the web client. It works with voice on Chromium now and thats good enough for me while I keep ranting about open protocols and how everyone should be using Vector now.
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I pay a premium to have ethanol free gas. Not much choice when you're lucky to even have it available.
Same reason it needs 3,800 employees to run what is essentially an internet forum/messaging client.

We will never find out what that reason is though....
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Looking at the map, exit 25 is actually probably the one I want, too.

You are correct, though! Like I said, it was a failed attempt. If I hadn't started driving around the time GPS technology became commercially available, I probably would have become an accidental vagabond before I graduated high school.
Yeah I have a catch all in, hence why I didn't change the address.
Well, that of course depends on whether you're talking about monetary efficiency (for which time shifting of large loads to lower night time rates makes monetary sense currently) or actual electrical efficiency (clearly needing a ton of work to properly improve upon).

Ultimately the latter is better, but there is so much nuance involved that I don't expect it any time soon. I personally believe that anyone interested in pushing the true efficiency envelope should be looking at getting the most out of off-grid systems right now, at least until more promising innovations show up within the grid itself.
"solar level" power density, even ten times solar level power density, is still maybe a factor of a million too low to vaporize buildings.

Note that a 2x solar energy flux beam would still be an interesting tactical or strategic weapon. It wouldn't melt or burn anything directly but you could make winter streets very comfortable for protestors, or make summer streets intolerably hot for protestors. Or you could boil off water quicker than letting the sun do it itself, which is nice after a snow storm and not so nice during a drought.

There are a variety of interesting optical resolution limits such that its physically impossible to accidentally turn a "warms up a couple square miles" mirror into a death ray of doom.

Note that like 50 years ago people were pimping 90+% effective microwave antennas... the ground station work was done decades ago and its cheap. Now how you get a multi-megawatt continuous microwave magnetron in orbit and powered is the hard part.
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They typically sit on top of internal Google frameworks. Closure's runtime library is the tip of the iceberg.
Not only that, but empirical truths are always subject to measurement error -- we will never be completely certain that there is not a more accurate model of reality, and in all likelihood we will always continue to refine our models. Also consider the ever-increasing costs of this minute examination -- probing higher energy physics is only going to become more expensive. There will always be limits to what we know and what can be known about the Universe -- it's an inherent quality of empiricism.
It was amazing. I didn't have to scroll all over the place to find what it was about - no massive hero banner that conveys zero useful information either[1]. It just presents the info as readable text.

This shouldn't be a thing that needs to be praised, but sadly it's increasingly rare on new sites.

1. The main site has as banner, but it doesn't necessitate scrolling a full page to get to anything meaningful.
I don't think the NSA snooping on Google Analytics should really be in your threat model when looking at a UK government site. They could just ask GCHQ.
the smalltalk image as a rappresentation of human mind.
the objects as a rappresentation of idea in the human mind.
and classes as classification and abstraction of this idea.

Giordano Bruno say that memory is the reflex of the universe.

like if symbols are a index of the real world, with sub index and sub-sub-index....

and more the symbols is abstracted then more is represented in mathematical and geometry forms.
But different parts of a project usually have different performance goals. Typically just the important/frequently used parts need to be optimized. Infrequently used things (maybe setup, admin interface, options dialog) can usually just be "good enough."

So one could say that within a project, 80% of the code isn't performance critical.
GNU actually refers to 'grand national unity' in this context, one of the three fundamentals for Korean unification outlined in the 1972 North-South Joint Declaration (the other two being peace and independence).

Based on the screenshots, gnu.rep.kp appears to be a website for the Pyongyang Broadcasting Station.
If your goal is to make a good product then introducing points of failure around its power supply probably isn't a great idea.
Yes, Indians are a really small bunch, go ahead and make more boneheaded generalizations about them.

"Even after 20 years as a hiring manager I still get tons of false negatives and false positives."

Just means that in addition to being racist, you are an incompetent hiring manager.
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I remember there being a joystick released a few years back that had a full Commodore 64 in it. You could mod it with a keyboard and drive supposedly...... Found it [1]

I'm wondering if the case is enough to bring people back. There is something about a these retro machines that you have full control over that is appealing. Maybe I'm just gettin nostalgic.

[1]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C64_Direct-to-TV
Did nobody think to use archive.org on these sites while they were still up? :( Or was that not possible. Something like HTTrack would have been useful, rather than a few people screenshotting the sites.
My last company used a self-hosted http://twiki.org/ as intranet.
Even if there is an art museum near you, there may not be the art museum that hosts the particular piece of art that will change your life. Your comment sounds to me like it opposes making as much work as possible available to as many people as possible, which surely isn't what you meant.
I guess I'm more of an Android "fan" in that I prefer it over iOS in general after using both fairly extensively. As is the norm, I find iOS to be a bit more polished than Android but a bit less forgiving when I want to do something that isn't the default behavior.

Granted these are more generalizations but they're a bit of a cliche for a reason. Still, the combination of a bit more flexibility and the ability to buy a Nexus (or that one time, a Moto X) for $350-450 instead of $650 and up for an iPhone has kept me in the Android camp for the past several years.

I've also been holding off on replacing my Nexus 5 and will still wait to see just what the word is on these new Pixel phones but I will say that the higher, more iPhone-like price means I'm likely to be less forgiving of minor issues or complaints that I'd just deal with on a device that costs 2/3 as much.

Just as my Asus laptop has a worse screen than a similar Macbook sold at the time but cost $950 instead of $2200 for otherwise similar specs, I have no problem accepting some tradeoffs for the right price. But if that Asus had be marked at $1950 compared to the $2200 Macbook, I might have just gone with the better viewing angles and better support record.

Still, it's all just speculation. We all make our purchasing decisions after we get a chance to evaluate all of the options. Until the devices and reviews show up, it's all a bit premature.
I fundamentally disagree that process prevents creativity in any way. On the contrary, I think creativity requires process. The idea that creativity is just something that "comes" to you is an extremely harmful myth.
yeah, the fact that they have SID chips for sale was surprising to me. And they are 8580s!
To me it seems like it is professional programmers who are stodgy about their syntax. Non pros aren't as fussy when presented with something non standard because they haven't been married to the standard for 20 years.
And what irritates me the most is that we don't have any real alternative.
No, someone filed a bankruptcy claim against them, and an administrator was appointed. According to Hyperion this happened because of an administrative error (they're a tiny company, consisting of part time staff and contractors who may or may not be paid for all of the work, and their registered address is with a service company; supposedly the service company had failed to pass on a summons for the bankruptcy court). The bankruptcy was reversed once Hyperion was able to appeal and either present their documentation or pay whichever creditor it was that filed the claim - I'm not sure which. In any case it was resolved.

But it's not exactly a large, well funded company.
Exactly. Consumers have no insight into the design process, they have no ability to affect the operation of the autonomous mode, it's insane to assign them liability.

Once the car comes out of autonomous mode we can assign them some liability, depending on the situation.
It would be great to have more/better tools to fight patent trolls, so that the cost of litigation goes down. Has their been any research to break down where all the costs of defending oneself against a patent trolls go?
Absolutely.

It was a naming scheme I adopted on other domains first and, being used to ian spelled my way, didn't notice as quickly as I should have.

It's relatively low traffic and has a catch all however, so more just trivia at this point.
oh well thanks for telling me about pageflow
One thing the post doesn't cover is a defeatist attitude or a poor outlook on life.
Basically, depression (regardless of the reason).

Depression doesn't need to paralyze you. You can be productive when depressed but it is often followed by a pattern of self destructive behavior.

I used to never understand why addicts would self destroy. They would get a job, finally get their lives together and then fuck it up.

Long term goals can feel pointless when you believe that you are insignificant and your life is meaningless. What's the point of improving my life by X factor if I'm gonna be dead anyway? What's the point of building this if it will be replaced by technology Y in Z years? What's the point of discovering this if eventually someone else will? What's the point if the Universe....

That type of thinking about the far future often results in defeatism.

In reality, you wake up the next day, having made no progress, your life is the same as yesterday, it may have gotten worse if you overindulged in your addiction and now you feel like utter shit.

A positive outlook on life and a focus on improving now, on evaluating each activity as a return on investment and building a better version of yourself feels more serene than admitting defeat.

I think comfort leads to stagnation. The best work I've done is when I was in survival mode and completely dissatisfied with my life. Once I reach "normalcy", procrastination and self indulgence kick in unless I see a point behind a long term goal.
The headline says "shuts down engineering office" so it sounds like it is engineering rather than sales.
> That doesn't make closing it down a bad decision

Of course not - but if management doesn't know the challenges involved in managing remote teams the incompetence is theirs. Blaming the team is not right in that case especially when they don't have authority that their managers do.
Great tidbits! I'm reminded also of the 6809's movable "zero" page (the "direct page"), though it has a 16-bit stack register so the trick isn't really necessary.
I'm just reading "Commodore: a company on the edge" and the claims in this vs the received wisdom on Apple are very interesting.

https://www.amazon.com/Commodore-Company-Edge-Brian-Bagnall/...

Chuck Peddle didn't have the same opinions about Apple II nor Wozniak. It's a very interesting book.

ps I also have a working commodore amiga 500!
> Instead, it’s more helpful to ask yourself questions whose answers don’t depend so entirely on how things have been going that day. For me, the most helpful one was this:

> Am I learning? Importantly, am I learning what I want to learn?

This was the key takeaway from the post for me. It's something I ask myself regularly as well.

If you are a curious enough person, there are so many thing you would be happy learning though. I've found it much harder to assess: "Is this the thing I want to be learning more than any other things right now?
A regulation that seems sensible to one cultural group might seem like ridiculous overreach to another cultural group. The US is one of the most polycultural countries in the world, so any regulation is bound to piss a lot of people off. It's better to be judicious with regulation in such situations.

Gun control is a great example that seems to confuse a lot of non-Americans. To your average San Franciscan, who has never used a gun and has no particular reason to use one, restrictions on e.g. magazine size probably seem quite reasonable. But go to an agrarian Texan rancher, and the situation is entirely different. Good luck thinning out a stampeding herd of wild hogs with a ten round fixed magazine. Similar situation with pot; the average SF resident is probably fairly familiar with it, whereas the rancher probably isn't. In either case, ignorance breeds irrational fear, which is a bad (but unfortunately likely) foundation for laws.

So yes, many regulations are not sensible, and it's harder to get away with in the US because the US isn't a monoculture. Even those regulations that are sensible (by whatever metric you like) are likely to anger some non-negligible group.
Investing in something which is legal to make a huge profit does not necessarily mean that you agree with it being legal. Both Soros and Buffet have repeatedly said that governments should tax them more.

Please note that advocating for governments to tax more is not even remotely similar to voluntarily paying more taxes.
Plese correct any/my minunderstanding here: doesn't that imply that flaws in the capability holder can obviate the "isolation boundary" guarantees? (For example, if app x has capability to address a certain memory block and then hands that off to another application.)
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One of the die-hard manufacturers of Commodore/Amiga stuff. Individual computers, they were part of the C-One project and a few others. One of the more notable current devices is the Chameleon 64 a turbo 64 clone in a cartridge case (you can use is stand alone or plug it into a C64 to get the speed boost while enjoying better C64 compatibility. Also retro Replay and the RRNet (one of the many ethernet carts for the C64).

They sometimes make it out to AmiWest in Sacramento, CA, (Oct 6th-9th http://www.amiwest.net/ ) from the site it doesn't look like they will be out this year.
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Yes. I came here to say essentially the same thing: if you don't see yourself working on it for 10 years you probably should be working on the task that you do see yourself working on for 10 years.

In other words, if you see yourself working on something for 10 years then it is probably the right thing for you to be doing at the moment. If you are still in the 10 year camp it means you probably are good with a 2-4 year commitment. That is important and helpful for a startup. Making that a metric doesn't mean you will actually be there doing the same thing in 10 years. If you do it with commitment you likely will not be in the same location, role or both within 5 years.
Here's the 2nd:
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Will it have a real, physical keyboard?

That's why I bought the first Google phone and I still use it.
I don't disagree with anything you said, but I think my main point might have been lost, so let me reiterate: The value saved is unlikely to outweigh the cost in morale.

I feel like this is especially true when you're talking about a small number of people with much lower wages. Twitter is getting a lot of negative press lately, laying people off is guaranteed to get press (as we see), and will start rumors flying. In exchange for that they've maybe saved a couple million dollars. You're welcome to disagree, but to me, it doesn't seem like a good exchange for them.
Because it's huge, heavier than the C64 (after all it contains a full 6502 computer and a big PSU and the drive mechanism), noisy, loses alignment easily, and is ridiculously slow.
I fundamentally disagree that creativity requires process. Creativity requires inspiration and the most common analogy that I think people use to drive this point home is children at play.
Oh, I guess I was wrong, I was basing it on this. [1]

[1] https://android.googlesource.com/device/lge/hammerhead/+/and...
Another vote for the Z3C. Small, fast enough for me, and I can easily get two days out of it.
Absolutely. They handled it like they took joy in catching someone out publicly, and really tried to rub their nose in it.

The end result is, I now know there is an open source alternative, and if the need were to arise would use it.
In this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfxfRkNCnmk

The author of MobX explains how MobX works and implements a 50 line version of it (a fast and functional one too, except without the sugary decorator syntax)

You can see the presentation and decide for yourself.
What's the nature of your project? If you want people to use it and maybe create a community around it, the language might play a big role.

My impression is that Java is used by enterprise and more established sectors, whereas Go is popular with hobbyists and early adopters.
There is no clear sharp line between the two; form has always been part of the function of architecture. What your house looks like affects the rest of your community; therefore there is a democratic process that gives them input.
Or even if the politician isn't influenced by the campaign contributions they'll just run 1 sided ads against the other side that usually have margin at best factual basis.
> I think purity isn't too confusing here, and it's not really a Haskell concept being used, it's general purpose. It's just that the answer given by the post is correct; it's essentially impossible to write pure Javascript code.

I completely agree, especially when comparing languages. But if we're focusing on a particular language, like JS, then it's not particularly useful to make distinctions like "pure"/"impure" which essentially lump everything into one category. Once we've said "it's all impure", there's not really anything else to say, unless we make new distinctions like the ones I made above.
I guess what I should have realized, and is my mistake, is that the idea of physics being completed is actually a philosophical issue, and given different philosophical bases you can arrive at different conclusions.

Ultimately, however, it's up to physicists to determine when their work is done, and as you say, they don't think it likely ever will be.

For me things like turbulence and critical phenomena are the more interesting questions out there, because they're still very much human-scale, and our only excuse is that we can't compute at the scale required to verify results, the calculations are just too fantastically large.
Maybe it's a metasploitsploit?
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Did anything actually make any "sensible" use of that other than fast loaders? In any case the Turbo Chameleon cartridge I linked to above emulates the 1541 entirely including the 6502, so should allow for that in theory at least (though you won't be able to have the satisfaction of banging the drive head)
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We're saying the same thing. I don't even reference the first example because those aren't really in the ballpark I'm talking about. Lean principles still apply to moonshots IMO.
How can the fact it's TCP/IP interfere with the tones? TCP/IP only sees bytes.
Microsoft is also reportedly working on yet another Skype client, alongside their Skype Universal Windows app.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/09/micros...
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This is almost tautological. Application vulnerabilities will always be the low-hanging fruit, because that's where the attack surface is. 20 years ago, an OS had juicy attack surface, because the bugs hadn't been shaken out of TCP/IP stacks and OS's shipped with stupid services enabled that nobody used. But it hasn't been 1998 for quite some time now.
It wasn't mentioned in the bloomberg article, but the 15 areas covered are:

• Data Recording and Sharing
• Privacy
• System Safety
• Vehicle Cybersecurity
• Human Machine Interface
• Crashworthiness
• Consumer Education and Training
• Registration and Certi cation
• Post-Crash Behavior
• Federal, State and Local Laws
• Ethical Considerations
• Operational Design Domain (operating in rain, etc)
• Object and Event Detection and Response
• Fall Back (Minimal Risk Condition)
• Validation Methods

Not sure if they're specifically ordered, but it seems positive that Data recording and Privacy are up at the top.
Yes, I would say a car that can do anything from centrally provided instructions is inherently more hackable than a car that is disconnected from everything and can't do much more than keep its speed on the highway.
> Why would I want vendor crapware on my phone?

This is precisely why myself and my wife are full-on Nexus users.
It wasn't good behavior for each company though. Scrollytelling really rubbed their noses in it, and almost seemed to take some level of joy at repeating back their ethics statements like a college newspaper would.

All that tells me is, you can never trust doing business with scrollytelling.
Very rarely to things have upside with no downside. "Geeks" are clearly aware of both the upside of autonomous vehicles, and the downsides presented by advanced, always-connected tech and the monitoring that comes with it. Thus, the advocacy for privacy, strong encryption, no backdoors, and the fight against government surveillance is the responsible approach to advocating for a bright, advanced future where tech serves us, rather than consumes us.
Can you describe this with an example of a realistic use of L4-enabled sandboxing for a single-function IoT device?

(I've done some L4 work so you don't need to spend a lot of time explaining.)

General purpose OSs like iOS? No question: L4 is a major win. But that's not what the discussion here is really about.
I think the biggest benefit for self-driving cars is that there is really no big corporation or lobbying group that is against this technology. Car manufacturers probably would have put up the biggest battle but they are all pushing for the adoption of the technology. Had car manufacturers felt this technology was a thread to their business model, you'd definitely see a lot of push back and crazy stipulations.
how much energy and food do we waste by requiring ethanol in gas?
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