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If I understand that correctly, the BASIC programs were stored in VDP RAM. If that's anything like the MSX (most of which also used this video chip), that means that BASIC tokens are read from a slow 8-bit bus by writing addresses byte by byte to a port and reading the content from another.

There's functionality to automatically increment the VDP address, but any non-contiguous read will have to write the VDP address to the port.

I really like this layered design despite its performance impact. It meant that they could fully utilize the VDP RAM where the CPU local RAM was lacking.
Similarly, Conkeror (which provides Emacs rather than vi bindings) is implemented as a XUL application, so it's very likely that it, too, will die.
Which never got any wide adoption.
That does not mean that unproved (non-existent) factors should be added to a model or that any inferences could be made from a simulated model.

Experiment, not a simulation is the criterion of validity in the scientific method. Simulation is not a valid experiment.

Hypotheses and predictions are guesses, not facts and cannot be substituted for facts or logical premises.
There aren't really.
How do you feel about it now?
Your download server could be mining bitcoin and all those data centres are not free either.
In some ways I find Amazon worse. I find "the book" I was looking for, but then Amazon shows me all the recommended "related" titles, both on the landing page for the book itself, and then again after I click "add to cart", etc. I guess I'm just a sucker, but I've gone on there before to buy one book, and wound up with seven or eight in my cart before I finished.
Maybe "Founder of Namco, the creators of Pac-Man" ?
Agreed. And Clinton was so unpopular on the right you would have had some Trump voters going for Sanders. I've said before that Clinton was the only politician unpopular enough to lose to Trump.
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US executive power is vested in a single individual to begin with.

The issue is whether they are following the law or not.

(Advice and consent of the Senate for cabinet positions isn't meaningless, but they instruct the executive by statute not by directives given to cabinet members)
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Watch out for the hidden costs.

As I found out today if you want the analytics data in CSV, or query it to any level that's useful beyond "We have 5 users in Stockholm on KitKat", you'll need the next service tier up, which is $25 per month per project.

But if you want basic analytics, then it's free & easy.
The same for me plus more of that from Charles Bloom's epic blog (http://www.cbloom.com/rants.html and http://www.cbloom.com/rambles.html)
Just FYI, .NET Core is at 1.0 and already has a LTS version. It is definitely production ready now.
They did a great job with Parse server, but unfortunately for people who just wants their data they basically have been abandoned.

Exporting data in JSON format is no longer supported. The featured has been left broken without any explanation, and they disabled the ability to contact them in regards to data export.
The US military has had technical MOSes (mil. occupational specialty) for 40+ years that require specialized skills to maintain and repair the many nav, sensor, and weapons platforms they use. These definitely aren't mechanics. They often require ~two years of specialized training prior to 'shipping out'.

Maybe the Navy's BEEP (Basic Electricity Electronics 'P') schools also should be looked to as how we might prepare specialists for future trades.
I'm confused. Is this a microservice as a cron replacement or is this just running a script with AWS lambda? If it's the latter, it's a bit of a stretch to call this a microservice, or a cron job for that matter.

It seems like it might be a nice post about using serverless, but the whole cron + microservice bit is muddying the water for me :/

Edit: spelling
Because the same panic was happening when Obama came into office. It was just the other side that was doing the panicking.
How important is the magazine to members?

Is it something you mostly hand out and don't care much otherwise? Is it important to the faith in practical terms? Do you get information/doctrine there you haven't already got from services?
During the Nuremberg Trials, former Nazi officers claimed that they were merely "following orders."

CBP officials, meanwhile, are ignoring the law and the independent judiciary itself.

How is this not treason?
Over in the mainstream stock market, an 8% total return per annum, repeated indefinitely, is more of an ideal than a reality; CalPERS (the California pension system) has been completely unable to attain it. I suspect that the same is true of Silicon Valley, once you factor in the timeframe question and the high risk of failure in any single investment.
Maybe, but I don't know. A lot of the COBOL-herders for billing systems for utilities are retiring and people are searching for a journeyman coder they can train. For now, the situation is held together by these older people retiring, and then coming back on as consultants until replacements are found and trained -- and they aren't cheap.
No, some of these security bugs were found by the Google Project Zero and Tavis Ormandy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10882563

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=69...

The whole thread of comments is quite scary...
Agreed that actions are what matter, and when those happen we can really judge. I'll remain skeptical in the mean time, however.
Distances are "illusory" to some extent anyway. On a large scale, relativity makes both time and space dependent somewhat on other factors. On a small scale, quantum mechanics similarly de-absolutizes position (space) and momentum.

Space and time as absolutes appear to be a construct, a consequence of us being highly complex neural networks trained at a specific scale of the Universe - the "human scale" - as beings about 1 ... 2 meters in size. Absolute time and absolute space appear to be very real on this scale. But as soon as you leave this order of magnitude, and climb either up or down on the scale of things, this turns out to be mere provinciality.
This was a fun read. It's almost a good foundation for a best seller.

I liked Gorbachev's theory, too: http://time.com/4645442/gorbachev-putin-trump/
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Having only read the abstract (so I might have it totally wrong) we have the 2D holographic picture from the cosmic microwave background already and we're trying to fit that data to various theories. The cool kid theory used to revolve around dark matter in some way I'm a little unclear on. If you run a bunch of simulations on imaginary 4D universes playing games with the usual cosmological parameters, sometimes with some parameter settings processing the results as a holographic projection gives better match to the pix we already have, than stuff done that relies on dark matter and things. Quantum field theory mixes into this which is interesting because that usually applies to little things not the shape of the universe size stuff.

I'm working on an automobile analogy but its not easy.
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The last Messenger update is literally Facebook's 4th attempt to clone snapchat (poke, slingshot, IG updates, now this). They're desperate.
>It's all too easy to excuse adverse discriminatory practices when you can point to some statistics that appear to justify them.

Ironically, this is exactly what college administrations do when discriminating against white and Asian applicants.
Well, "mystic" and "concrete political understanding" don't coexist very comfortably. "Starved herself to death" may still be irrelevant, though...
The xenophobic view also comes from how you're treated if you are a visible minority there, comments from elected officials, the hoops you have to jump through to become a permanent resident...
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I smell a startup. Leased CG sets.

(Just realized 'leased' may not be the correct term here, don't hold that against me I am not an entrepreneur by any means.)
> Not all terrorists are muslims, just a majority of them in our current time

In terms of terrorism in the US, that's not actually true by most counts. The US has seen more far-right terrorists than radical Islamic terrorists. Casualty counts for the Islamic terrorists are typically higher, but there are both more events and more individuals involved in far-right terrorism.

It's still worth noting that in terms of actual risk-per-individual both are astonishingly rare, and if your goal is to save lives that might otherwise be lost to violence there are far, far better ways of doing it.
I'm critical of the faith now (and all religion), so I feel good
> Tell that to the original author of libevent, who is currently homeless.

Can you cite your sources for this claim? I checked the Wikipedia article for Libevent[0]. The original author, Niels Provos, appears to work for Google[1].

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libevent

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Provos
My view on its toxicity comes in part from too many conversations with lawyers over the years: lawyers (like engineers, honestly) are conservative, worst-case thinkers by nature -- and with the AGPL, one needn't much imagination to get to a worst-case that threatens one's entire business. As further evidence: there are a few projects that have started as AGPL, but moved away from it as they have needed broader adoption[1] -- but there is one notable example of a project that moved to the AGPL. That project was BerkeleyDB -- which was relicensed to be AGPL by Oracle.[2] Oracle knew exactly what they were doing here: cynically using the AGPL's toxicity to drive enterprise adopters of BerkeleyDB towards a commercial license.

[1] http://blog.opalang.org/2012/05/opa-license-change-not-just-...

[2] http://www.infoworld.com/article/2611450/open-source-softwar...
2016 parenthetical would be nice on this title
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The original author of libevent --- if we're talking about the C library that provides a common event interface between select, poll, epoll, &c --- is Niels Provos. Niels is definitely not homeless; he works at Google and spends his weekends making Wootz steel and forging swords from it.

The person you're talking about is the author of libevhtp, a small HTTP library built on top of libevent. Apparently, Chromium uses or at some point used libevhtp.
Most people who "work" in the SF office commute to MTV 3x/week. It's more of a coworking space than an office.
And in such a case, an Open Source mandate would directly conflict with the financial interests of the investors (the time required for the effort takes away from the liquidation amount of the remaining assets.
Hitler took power (in part) by using radio and television to broadcast his message.

It wasn't particularly sneaky.
The Amiga used the 68K so it was more powerful than the previous microcomputers that were mostly 6502 (some Z80).
I live in Mission Bay and it sucks dick. As a residential neighborhood, I'd rather have warehouses.
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Didn't know anything about this, really interesting!

One question: when you need to know exact angle of something, say a steering wheel, if you used a grey code you'd need a really fine grained code with a huge set of numbers if you used this approach. Is that how it's done? Or is there a different way?
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I loved Parse from the time I first started using it in college. It started out as a really handy way to spin up small apps quickly so I could start beta testing my app quickly with real users.

One of the main problems though was that it really felt like just a prototyping tool to me, and I never really used it for real apps in production.

Thus, for my latest project that I've been working on for several months now, I've decided to try in every way to address that problem. I started a company called Scaphold.io (https://scaphold.io) and it's a GraphQL backend as a service platform. It serves to address many of the same needs of Parse and more. It combines all the best data modeling tools from Parse and real-time capabilities from Firebase to provide a high-fidelity app development experience that you can actually build real production apps on, with as much transparency to your data as possible. That's the mission that we have at Scaphold, and I'm excited to be helping all the stranded app developers out there that were burned by Parse shutting down.

Excited to see what comes next for the app development world!
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If you do panic when the very ideals of your democracy face an existential threat, it may not be around much longer. "Protecting democracy" is a perfect cloak for a tyrant-in-the-making.
One of the primary goals of this UX is to address that specific problem. It may not be the best UI for that specific task, but that's not only use case it supposed to serve. I would also argue it's far better UI than ones present in the current browsers.

If you have any specific suggestions how to improve UI to make it even better for that use case we'd be happy to get feedback.
That transition was FAR different than the one we're faced with in the near future. People moved from agriculture to factory jobs, because there was still a massive need for labor. We don't have that today. Someone being displaced as a semi driver isn't going to suddenly hop into an AI startup.

So back to the question: What does that person do? How do they feed and house their family?
No. This emerged from studying what happens when stuff falls into black holes.

In physics, all matter can be described as having "information" or "state" that describes itself. That information can't be destroyed. However, a questions about how matter's information was preserved in a black hole led to math equations that describe how that information is "encoded" onto the black hole's event horizon. As a funny side effect, those equations also happened to describe everywhere else in the universe, leading physicists to look around and ask themselves, "Are we holograms too?"

In this way, the Hologram theory states that all matter is really information on a 2D surface, and that "we" are the 3D holographic projection of that information.
Doctrinal changes often come through the magazine, specifically the "study edition". At the time of the writing of this article, there were not two editions. Now, there is a public edition (used for placing with the public) and a private one.

Some people might wonder if the study edition stuff is secret, it isn't. Its just "optimized" for the different audiences. You can find them all here: https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/?contentLanguag...

At the weekly weekend meetings (typically Sunday mornings), the study articles are studied, so this information also comes through services, eventually.

Edited: for clarity around the link to the study editions.
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All models are wrong. If a model is not wrong; it is called reality. http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/57407/what-is-the-m...
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Every time prior to this it was hyperbole, which is why crying wolf is a bad thing.

While some of this article is a bit hyperbolic, the general idea here seems very plausible: that the Trump administration is "stress testing" the Federal government (and the public as well) to identify its fault lines and which sections of it would remain loyal in the event of extreme executive actions. That's alarming all by itself, but it's particularly so given the other ideological leanings and associations of Trump and his inner circle.
I have a degree in Mech Eng from an "elite" college in the UK, and welding, machining etc were required courses. How can you design something without understanding how it will be fabricated or maintained?
Another nice photo set from that site -- "Composite Then and Now 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Pictures"

http://humansfromthepast.blogspot.com/2016/11/composite-then...

Puts the destruction of that earthquake in perspective.
> Those guys were writers, not philosophers in the first place.

It's interesting that you begin with a comment like this to seemingly dismiss Satre and Camus as not being real philosophers, and then you proceed to put forward your own terribly unfounded philosophy with no supporting argument.
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I have a charge hr -- mostly for silent alarms to wake me up without disturbing my roommates, and timer function in case I need to track something. Oddly enough I don't care about the step counter or the heartrate sensor.
Understood. I considered myself an atheist for a time, and it is very common in the programmer community.
Parse was a backend as a service that allowed for a cloud hosted database to be connected with web and mobile apps with simple JavaScript. It was a lovely tool for hackathons. They could also run arbitrary JS in response to events at scale. It competed with Firebase until they were acquired by Facebook.
I trust Musk 1000 times more than Trump. It doesn't make sense to give up the chance to influence the policies of this outrageous man.
> is the holographic universe 'merely' a mathematical tool that helps us solve problems, or is it a description of an objective reality

Some would say there is no meaningful difference between those two. E.g. Max Tegmark in 'Our Mathematical Universe'.

I'm not saying he's necessarily right, I'm just pointing out that such a viewpoint exists.
> Trump won't back down because that means admitting a loss.

Like I'm supposed to fucking care we're going to hurt his feelings?

Pull it. Shred it. Burn it. Launch the ashes into the sun.

You're painting a false dichotomy. The only reasonable outcome here is impeachment. I don't throw this around lightly. He's already over the line. He's broken the Constitution, he's in a conflict of interest.

No negotiations. This is playing for keeps.
Fantastic response and insights. Thanks!
It is not. Trump is not Hitler, this is not 1933 Germany.

Let's ramp down a notch. Plenty to criticize without going overboard.
You're extracting more value by working less, freeing your time up to do other things. Those other things may well end up netting you more money over time (working on your own company, for instance.) As well, depending on where you live and work, you may also end up paying a different tax rate on holiday pay over regular pay. If so you may be able to accrue those holidays and eventually receive a lump sum payout that is in effect "cheaper" than regular pay. The difference can be significant, particularly if your income is in the upper brackets.
Yes, but those folks then can't complain about their sleep problems.

Trust me: For a big chunk of the population (and not just "older" people), spending four hours a day without screen time is not something special. Insisting you need a screen for not just one, but multiple activities listed makes you an inflexible person. And that is the type of person many employers do not want to hire.

For health reasons not related to sleep, I found I had to reduce my screen time. I'm the type of person who likes everything electronic. All my notes are in a text file, etc. But I did step back and looked at the bigger picture: The cost to my health was clear. The gains on insisting everything be electronic was much muddier. I was spending a lot of time on activities with a dubious ROI. Once you start getting older, the urgency with which you want to make your "free" time meaningful really kicks in. If I didn't change, I could easily see myself in my 50's still sticking to habits that do not benefit me too much.
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He's in a tough spot, but he's also got cards to play.
Deliberate action contrary to valid and binding law by the executive is, itself, a coup (specifically, an instance of the form known as a self-coup or autocoup); so it's not a trial balloon.

OTOH, while actions which arguably (or even fairly clearly) cross that line have occurred in many recent US presidencies, the author here is right to raise the issue that the acts the article highlights suggest that the present violations are likely to be the leading edge of a self-coup of unprecedented magnitude in the US.
> Why DHS and US gov?

Because for immigrant like me that is the interface. I do not care what is under the hood.

Imagine I go to court, win a case and go home safely only to find cops arresting me again because the judge has changed and new judge has changed previous judge's decision.

As much as I might blame the new judges it lowers the respect and reliability of the court as an institution itself. This damage is far more serious than short term effects.
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We give a data set and ask some open ended questions. Out of 800 applicants, maybe 50 complete the exercise, and then maybe less than 10 we'll want to talk to based on what they sent. I spent maybe 5 hours on the dataset when I was interviewing for the position myself.
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Absolutely, lets you study docs anywhere. Also looks low quality if a site breaks on mobile.
Show me a flaw in my logic before judging my style.

Speculations is not a substitute for philosophy. Philosophy, originally, was the quest for "reality as it is", which eventually destroyed religious dogmas and was a precursor for specialized sciences.

Arguably, with Hegel, at least in the West, the term philosophy lost any meaning and became mere abstract fancy speculations, similar to theology and mysticism.

Fortunately, there is Eastern philosophy too and the branch which is called philosophy of science. Camus and Sartre have nothing to contribute here.