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Did they voluntarily sign any nice contracts for you when they fired you? Sure, your manager was cool and you liked your coworkers, but the company itself fired you. Call it "laid off", "rightsized", "RIFfed", or whatever you choose, but the end result is the same: you were out on the street.

What are they willing to do for you, now that they're asking a favor? I'm not trying to be a hardass, or suggest you try to retire off this one thing. But obviously it's valuable to them or they wouldn't be asking. Why should you - who they fired - do them a large financial favor for nothing?
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Me too.

I realized one factor that might play a role. I came primarily from a C++ background, and back then, stackoverflow and google were paramount and used daily.

Now that I'm primarily using Go, I almost always get my answers from godoc.org (i.e., the documentation of packages), from source code, from the specification, and from trying things on playground. I don't remember using stackoverflow for Go programming questions in years, if ever.

I wonder if that's a property of Go language (great docusmentation, easily readable source, referenceable spec and viability of answering questions via playground experiments) that cause this, and if it applies to other people too.
You want to be a bit careful with your terminology: messing with a slot machine is cheating and will get you arrested, counting cards is NOT cheating nor illegal, but will get you backed off or trespassed if you're good at it.
> Users aren't going to suddenly get Vulkan support in a driver update from Windows/Microsoft Update.

They aren't likely to get updates for DX either, let's say if they are using Windows 7. They won't get DX12, right? So again, there isn't anything browser makers can do about cases of outdated drivers, besides warning the user (if they rely on such drivers). If users can fix that (by updating drivers / system), good. If not, users can skip those applications.

> Try to read this carefully, I've mentioned it several times: The point of this WG is to provide an API layer on top of a range of low-level GPU libraries.

Yes. This assumes 1. those libraries are installed, and 2. they have certain minimal required capabilities. And browser makers have no control over it. Only user has (or in worse cases - vendor, if the system is all locked up). So it's only a natural thing to expect, for browsers to warn the user, if minimal requirements aren't met (in whatever way).
On Android, it asks you when you set your passcode for the first time.

Super fragmented, but Nexus 5X had it.
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The silly thing is they could combine the fly-by-wire system with the boeing-style control system if they wanted to. There's no reason why not, other than the space in the cockpit I suppose. It's basically just a much bigger joystick, no?
Gmail does this, right?
It's the first time I've posted it, and I think it's more appropriate for this story than others in recent memory. I'm also pretty sure I haven't seen it on the many VSCode stories (and I have "showdead" enabled).
Not all casinos, and not even all tables within the same casino. Many of the Vegas casinos will have infinite shuffle machines on the lower-value tables ($5/10 per hand minimum) but have standard 6- or 8-shoe decks on the higher-value tables. The other trend lately is to make the rules less favorable on cheap tables (H17, no resplit, no DAS, etc.) and force you to go to a $25, $50, or even $100/hand table to get the player-favorable rules.
hah. you, sir, are either an optimist or a satirist.

FOIA responses are routinely denied or heavily redacted even for much more mundane requests than asking for details of unacknowledged drone kills.
However, you need a certain amount of electrons/charge to flow to flip a gate, because semiconductors work by filling and emptying voids in crystals. So gate speed is proportional to current, which is proportional to voltage, which is proportional to the square root of power.
I remember reading this news (and perhaps even this exact article - it certainly feels familiar) back when it was released and being so excited as a 15 year old gaming nerd. It really was a time when stuff was changing so rapidly - and those changes were resulting in massive, really obvious performance gains - that you couldn't help but just look forward to where it might go if the pace continued. Everything was about the big frequency numbers and it was easy to buy into the hype.

It'd be interesting to know the sort of IPC delta between a Netburst architecture and Kaby Lake. Also, it'd be interesting to know how theoretically fast you'd have to push Netburst to see the same performance as Kaby Lake.
It really doesn't matter - at least, not for the statistical error the parent is talking about. The effect isn't related to whether we are sampling from a larger population of programmers.

Suppose there were no difference between the usage of each language, and people just program on the weekends vs weekdays with some probability independent of language. Then, if a language has lots of users, it will likely have close to the average weekend/weekday proportion. The fewer users the language has, the more likely that it has an uneven weekend/weekday proportion just by chance. And if you plot the weekend/weekday proportions vs. the number of users, you expect a funnel shape just like the one in the article.

Therefore, the plot in the article - by itself - provides no evidence that there is any difference between the usage of different programming languages.
Gaming has nothing to do with the cause of the mess. The mess stems from the likes of MS and Apple not supporting common cross platform APIs. There is no one but them to blame for that.

Apple want to stand up for the user and fix it? Let them support Vulkan. Oh, wait... They don't really want to.
I don't think anyone is arguing they don't have that right. And moving on to a new product is precisely what the author has done, so that's a bit of an obvious statement.

The idea here is a visibility: "Check your Disqus implementations because they've changed." It's like when I tell people about the creepy shit Facebook does. I always tell them, "if this is a fair deal for you, great! Just know what you're getting into."
This is a definitional thing, right? Laymen think of "airstrike" in terms of anything coming from the air, but the military use of the term has always reflected the very different nature of long-range bombing mission and (say) helicopter support of infantry units.

> "Apaches for example, conduct close combat attacks as a maneuver element supporting a ground force in contact with the enemy. I would not consider this in the category of 'airstrike.'"

This is reflected in the fact that the helicopters are parts of the Army, not Navy or Air Force.

So you can certainly criticize the use of this term since it may prey on predictable/reasonable civilian misunderstanding of military language, but it's hard to agree with the author that

> The media and others have depended on these figures for years with the understanding they are a comprehensive rollup of all American and coalition activity...no one from the military ever has come forward to clarify that it is wholly incomplete.

unless the Army was also failing to include it in something like "groundstrikes".

My grandmother might think that the terms "wireless carrier" and "wireless data" should clearly cover WiFi, based on the plain meaning of the words, but it just turns out that this isn't included in the technical definitions. Yes, if someone technical was profiting off this predictable confusion it would be bad and possibly malicious, but it's not accurate to describe someone using these technical names as "inaccurate" or "quietly excluded".
I think it's just that they are plotting sum vs ratio of two random variables. Try this (in R):

a <- runif(1000); b <- runif(1000); plot(a + b, log(a/b))

Also, they likely have a low-end cutoff (notice their x axis starts at 10^4. If you do the same to the above plot, you get even closer to that exact shape. Try:

plot(a + b, log(a/b), xlim=quantile(a + b, probs=c(0.2, 1)))
My biggest issue with swarm is when you have clusters that also needs scheduling of non-Docker workloads.
you guys are amazing, I love all all so much!
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Then why should he say sorry?
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Interesting, thanks for the translation as well as your perspective!
President Trump wasn't wrong when he said terror attacks are under reported but sadly the underreported ones are committed by the United States and her allies.

What exactly is the "big picture" I'm missing here that is achieved by levelling Yemen one mud brick building at a time?
They are not used because with transistors that keep getting smaller but that don't get much faster, it's better to just have more add units in parallel than it is to run the ones you have faster. A modern Intel CPU effectively has 4 add units to the 2 of the P4.
Siri's voice recognition definitely isn't state of the art, although it got a lot better for me with iOS 10. However even the Google app on iOS has leaps & bounds better recognition in my experience.
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And yet Apple is proposing creating a fast, open, standards complaint Javascript API.
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So is the drilling end of an oil well, but there are sensors and motors for that.[1] "The heavy duty motor range is designed to withstand temperatures over 240°C at pressures up to 1,733 atmospheres. They can withstand vibrations to 25 Grms, impacts to 100 G." A 2005 study indicates how to get motors to run at up to 500°C, which is above what's needed for Venus.[2]

Power systems for a Venus lander have been studied by NASA.[2] Sodium-sulfur batteries, which need to be hot to work at all, were considered.

[1] http://www.maxonmotorusa.com/maxon/view/application/Brushles...
[2] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/201400...
[2] http://www.firstmarkaerospace.com/pdf/vhtmotors.pdf
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Probably just nobody thought to tell the Army to send these numbers in, or possibly even to track them.
The blog post explicitly says they're choosing to "defer the issue". That seems very clear to me as saying "we're not seriously proposing the Metal Shading Language, this is just a placeholder for the purposes of writing up this proposal, we'll let the standardization process decide on the actual language".
I wonder if a sprinkling of ML could be used here.
> Lots of things in my life have power - government, partner, family, wall sockets. I'm not sure any of them could be considered 'highest', especially in the sense that Christians may use that word -- whereby it's an entity (power) that created all other powers, and therefore has ultimate, unassailable power.

Um, I think that was exactly my point. You don't recognize the existence of consciousness or intelligence that is either greater than or antecedent to yours. Obviously I'm speaking of "power" in the religious sense, not in a legal or political sense. You are subject, ultimately, only to your own judgment. For what reason would any other representative of the human species be fit to judge you on a moral basis, or to contemplate your use or purpose for existing, other than that you have chosen to submit to such judgment? That choice and burden is yours alone. You are your own god. Denying that much celebrated aspect of atheism is what's disingenuous.

I know many atheists are greatly offended by the use of the word "faith" to describe the conviction that humans are the very apex of intelligence/consciousness, and that we and the universe that contains us can't have been designed and coded by another intelligent force. What evidence can there possibly be for or against this conviction, even if only lightly held (which would make you more of an agnostic than an atheist)? And given that, what else is there beside faith to guide either one of us?
That's a good point, and I didn't mean to parrot FUD by implying that that multiple definitely exists; more that, even if die-hard C++ boosters are right about it existing, it's still not the ace in the hole it's made out to be given all of the other factors that likely overwhelm it.
I wonder if part of the reason why there is so little analysis of such a mainstream and expensive problem is that it could be career suicide to get the wrong answers in your study.
Something is not right on your machine. You can see what the homebrew recipe is doing here:

https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/...
So many positive steps forward - in terms of the code, ecosystem, and community

A single new target is a big deal, I don't think 3 have ever been introduced simultaneously.

The vscode extension work is slick. Haxe is the poster boy for Microsoft Language Server Protocol now.

The C++ target now feels like a natural extension of haxe. The debugging feature and @:structInit get rid of quite a few pain points.

The haxe-evolution protocol has one of its first graduates, which is a great step forward for opening up the language to suggestions and discussions.

etc., etc.
At least with Google Now, you can go into your Google Account and listen to recordings of everything you've ever asked via voice search:

https://myactivity.google.com/item?product=29

(If the Product 29 parameter doesn't work, click on "Item View" in the left and filter by "Voice & Audio".)
It also notably has overheat protections that don't allow for sustained acceleration, which makes it far less useful on a track day.
I had no idea, what (if any) details are reported and where? Do you suggest any sources I can follow to stay more informed of Australian involvement?
Other installers that minikube has:

- Arch linux AUR https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/minikube/

- Windows installer https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/releases/download/v0....

- Deb package https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/releases/download/v0....
Spacemacs adds a whole lot of packages and subsystems, and a lot of complexity (layers, etc.). Emacs itself is really not complex if you take it as a programming environment. If you take it as an editor, and ignore its Lisp parts, then it's again not complex at all.
Google defiantly is you can listen to your past queries online and I know the police request alexa voice recordings from time to time
Going by the article, gaining access to his Microsoft account was enough to provide access to his Windows machine. I'm not sure I'd trust Forbes to get this right, but a quick googling indicates that having access to the MS account the main Windows user is linked to will let you recover the admin password.
Except, as I quoted, the GPU experts and the other browser vendors are onboard with this. This isn't Apple going at it alone like MS did. You're reenforcing my point. Thank you for that.
The way I see it, TF is about to pull _way_ ahead thanks to XLA JIT/AOT. All of a sudden you get the ability to fuse things at a much more granular level, which could reduce memory bandwidth requirements by a lot. Frameworks like Torch can't do any fusing at all, since their computation is fully imperative. Tactical win for imperative frameworks, I suppose, but strategically functional graph is the way to go. DB people realized this in the 70s, ML people are realizing this now.
ASM (not necessarily x86), C and C++ are very well represented in side projects and hobbies because of the DIY device community, though.
Completely unusable product for us because of the lack of persistent storage.
Security transaction tax(STT)-A bad deal for traders
Discord or Slack channels are probably worth checking out
Nowadays, yes. This wallet may have been quite old. Hmm, was there a spike in days destroyed recently...?
"Real" bitcoining doesn't use services like coinbase; the coins are on your computer which you have to secure yourself. At least this is what you get told in cryptocurrency forums when one of the exchanges get hacked.
Sure, depending on what you actually mean by "has randomness".

"correct horse battery staple"

is 29 characters, but it's _much_ more likely to fall to hashcat than

"OckivpykophshifcuvTocJorj%opAd"

I've only got 4 truly random passwords stored solely in my head, and they're all down at 12 chars because I need to write them down much above that instead of being reliably able to remember them (and yeah, I've got stuff I no longer have access to because I've forgotten the password...). There's a serious tradeoff to be made with a password for "millions of dollars worth of bitcoin" - where do you balance the "it's super secure" against the "Shit! I forgot the password!" (And if your first answer is "that's what password safes are for", then you've just moved the problem to the password safe's password...)

(With a reasonable dictionary, "correct horse battery staple" will probably pop out from hashcat in under a second on a Raspberry Pi! ;-) )
> Just because it was designed to be high-performance doesn't mean it automatically wins on platform support and implementation quality.

I never asserted that. I didn't even qualify what I meant by "BEST". But, let's evaluate the qualities you mention:

> platform support

Vulkan objectively wins here, supporting Windows 7/8/10, Linux, macOS/iOS with a wrapper, Android, etc. Intel has unofficial drivers for their x86 iGPU. Qualcomm recently announced hardware support, along with ARM.

> implementation quality

Vulkan is developed as an open specification, and has a full conformance test for implementations (https://www.khronos.org/vulkan/adopters/). Many aspects of Vulkan are available on GitHub and you can submit PRs. In my experience, drivers on Linux are very good and there are frequent updates. We currently deploy Vulkan at scale in production and haven't had a single issue with reliability.

In addition, the Vulkan validation layers assist with development because they check almost all API invariants and log incorrect usage. This helps to develop programs that work correctly according to the specs.

So, from the driver stack to the client software, Vulkan, IMHO, has a quality and well thought out implementation.

In comparison to DX12, which is developed behind closed doors, we don't know the implementation quality.

I personally haven't heard about any major bugs in Vulkan drivers, but I have seen quite few DX12 demos plagued by bugs. That's my subjective opinion though.

> Direct3D 12 is at the same level as Vulkan

Vulkan is better than DX12 in terms of openness, conformance testing, development tools, platform support, etc. Performance is about the same.

Even Valve agrees: http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton-shilov...

> OpenGL drivers are inconsistent and buggy.

Agreed :)
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Please have someone manually call reported numbers once to confirm it's actually a scam so this can't be exploited.
Oh yes! The BJP, which is the ruling party is famous for this very same thing. A lot of trending topics in support of this party is done by paid twitter trends and they are famous for abusing journalists and the left with rape and death threats continuously!
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If you're getting along fine without awk then by all means, don't learn it. But just today I had to quickly get a raw list of all US area codes (and only area codes). After a short Google search, I realized the fastest way of downloading and formatting it without having to do a secondary step was this:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kedarmhaswade/cities/master/area-codes.csv | \
awk -F, '{print $1}' \
> ~/area_codes.txt

Now, could you use grep? Yeah, sure. But for really quick examples like this - things that lend themselves to it (e.g. a raw CSV with mostly crap you don't need but something you do), this is super fast. Anything more complicated and I'd break out a regex, though.
> My understanding is that, since I've already assigned all IP to the company that I worked at, I don't have any legal rights to assign my IP to this new entity...

This seems basically right. I would ask them, was something wrong or incomplete about the previous agreement?
i'm disappointed that hardly any members of the media or Democratic party establishment talk about Obama's expansion of the drone program.

we have a long list of names. the executive branch of our government curates the list unilaterally and in secret. then, we cross names off the list by killing them. sometimes, they're American citizens. often, they're in countries we're at peace or even allied with.

there are children in Yemen right now who are afraid of blue skies. drones fly high enough to be invisible to the naked eye; most strikes are carried out in clear weather.

i'm near certain that history will judge us harshly.

in any case, it's Trump's drone program now. i hope the technologists who created this infrastructure think about that when they try to sleep.
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People complain about US govt surveillance all the time. It doesn't always lead to change but there's a healthy degree of dissent.
The U.N. charta also decides when a war is legitimate - most if not all recent U.S. wars were not following those simple rules.

Unfortunately, the quoted declarations are simply ignored by some signing countries.
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Yes, ultimately the stock market is gambling, and thus the durability of his product is quite low, but this is an arbitrary distinction from the rest of the interviews on the site. I could point out unique distinctions for a dozen other interviews on the site, e.g. the popup t-shirt company whose product was temporary, the company making $0, the company doing entirely consulting revenue, the pure hardware company, the paperback book author, etc.

What I keep pointing out are the undeniably valuable lessons that can still be learned from what Sebastian did, as well as why a typical indie hacker might find them inspiring and educational, and why they wouldn't apply to your gambling analogy.

I'm not sure why you're ignoring these parts of my responses. Maybe it's because you've already launched many non-trivial side projects, so you aren't intimidated by that particular hurdle, thus you don't find it inspiring, and as a result you feel compelled to focus entirely on the efficacy of his product. Which is fine! But you are not everyone.
IBM acqui-kills firms and products. It is the great Sargasso sea of IT.
Note also their x axis is on a log scale, which makes the edges linear instead of curved. E.g.:

plot(a + b, log(a/b), xlim=c(1, 2), log="x")
Don't underestimate how much you don't see. Millionaires fly without even seeing border security, meanwhile every other person spends hours waiting in line. It may not be beatings in the street but there are many laws that simply don't apply when you're rich enough.
> its allowance for political opposition without fear of retribution as a modus operandi.

Are we talking of the country of COINTELPRO, that killed civil rights activists, or obliterated unions and the US socialist party by force and shady tactics? it's like, you can say what you want, as long as it has zero consequences -- otherwise, prepare to meet some serious shit.
Did you try running your script on the .cn and .com.cn TLDs? I'm sure you'd find more interesting results.
Do you even know how Vulkan works?

The driver API exposes a layered stack. It's trivial to add a validation layer between the driver and the client. It's SO much better than existing OpenGL or DirectX driver models for this one reason alone.
"I just like solving interesting problems, I don't care about politics. And besides, if I don't do it someone else will anyway"
This is a cool idea that can bring back the serendipity into remote working. Thanks for sharing.
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