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This isn't exactly true. Games from as early as the Amiga era were known to have been ported by interpreting the gameplay code from the lead release platform(typically, an 8-bit computer or the Atari ST which in its early years put up good competition for the computer gaming crown) and rewriting the I/O-sensitive stuff. These were not considered great conversions at the time since the result was often sluggish and couldn't make proper use of the available hardware, often just looking like the original but with a different palette and worse sound, but they got the job done very quickly and accurately.
I'd invite everyone to actually read the story instead of the linked interpretation. It does not need it, what happens is pretty straight-forward and the text gives its interpretation freely away by itself. But knowing those interpretations destroys the stunt the story is pulling on the reader, it will destroy your experience of reading it.

Not that I particularly liked it. It is one not particularly exciting history wrapped around an unrealistic pseudo-physics idea. But I never like those type of stories – you might.
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A lot of Russians are racist, xenophobic and homophobic. (Note how OP complains about "migration crisis" as a reason he doesn't want to move to Europe... yeah.) Moreover, the majority of them support a corrupt dictator who attacks neighboring countries all the time. I understand the hate and I never mention that I'm Russian when I travel abroad.
I did see that, but that RSS feed (atom?) I don't think I've ever used that in my life. I'll Google and see what/how to use it. I see it everywhere though.

edit: I did see that they have a podcast, nice, something to listen to while I walk 2 hours in the middle of the night.
i'm in the same boat - i keep an interested eye on developments in the ML-cross-C space, but so far none of them seems compelling to use over ocaml. however, if one of them had a cross-compiler as good as go's, that would be a killer feature. i would really like an ml-like language i could use to develop desktop apps and trivially deliver binaries for multiple platforms.
Rover has had its own failures though. Poor electrical build quality in a lot of older stuff (much like many British cars of the past, sadly. Never look behind the dash of a mini). The Rover 214Si for example had a _very_ common failure resulting in a warped head if you were only slightly unlucky because they decided to get cheap with the head gasket.

Shortcuts and money worries may lead to creative solutions, but they just as readily lead to heartbreak and failure.
Which is funny, because in the worst case they can continue the development of
the software by themselves, which is virtually impossible with commercial
software.
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Don't see anything else around that fits that bill. They also have amazing IRC bridging - I have been using Matrix bridged into Freenode as my primary 'IRC Client' for almost a year now.
XPS's trackpad is pretty good, not MacBook good, but almost there.
The secrets critical to the security of the system live on the end user devices:

Ok so my desktop is device #1, and mobile is #2. I encrypt a note on desktop, then "query information, but the database operators cannot know what records have been requested" with device #2, it seems this concept fits to end-to-end definition you gave?

I really think both terms are so vague that can be bended in a way that they look interchangeable. And nothing wrong about it.
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> In terms of exploitation, I think there's definitely an argument for users paying to, for example, not be advertised to or have their data withheld from marketing exchanges, however there's no demand for it.

Where do you get the idea that there is no demand for this ? It's a recurrent demand and it is consistently declined for business model reason by the facebook-like (see investor storytime[1]).

Then there is a compelling argument that paying not to be advertised is only going to make you a more valuable target to be advertised to.[2]

Likely paying for having your data withheld from marketing exchanges will increase the price of your data on the market while not providing you any way to be sure it has effectively been withheld.

The only way is for this data not to be collected in the first place.

[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/adver...
[2]: http://zen.lk/2015/07/19/Why-you-will-never-escape-ads-by-pa...
It has been exactly two days since the last time I had to dig down and figure out what broke in PulseAudio this time. Things are certainly bad for non-technical users, but those of us who write Linux software for a living don't have it much better, either.
> The most annoying thing I'm dealing with at the moment is HipChat stealing focus of the play button. When that happens and I hit that play button, HipChat just plays the new message sound. Its so dumb.

Yup, had this with WhatsApp web too. My suspicion is there's a hidden <audio> tag for the sound and safari's just exposing controls for that.
I once sent a table (that was html formatted) and gmail unceremoniously truncated it (without any warning). Googling around, it turns out that there's a known html size limit of 102k for gmail. That was something of an unpleasant surprise, given that I'd sort of come to expect that either the mail would be sent unmodified, or I'd be informed if there was an error. I now end up bcc-ing another account of mine if the mail is important.
Not sure if you're talking about data or actual dev workflow but I will share my setup with you:

In terms of Data, everything I own is backed up in Google Drive. (Photos and Documents mostly, I don't take tons of pictures and ALL the music I listen to is on soundcloud)

In terms of dev workflow, it's pretty interesting. My macbook air died on me last week, and because I can't afford to get another one (or even a decent pc for that matter) I've fallen back to my raspberryPi. The browser is a little bit slow sometimes, but I have to say that I'm quite impressed by how well it performs.

Because it's a bit limited in terms of hardware capabilities, I've bought 2 VPSs from scaleway which I've provisioned using an Ansible playbook I wrote.

I was up and running and ready to work within minutes.

Now it's a bit inconvenient because I'm used to being mobile and taking my laptop with me everywhere, but it's a perfect backup solution for now. Obviously I don't watch netflix on it of play video games, but for 35 quid you can't really expect much.

Edit: the playbook I mentioned can be found here if you want to take a look: https://github.com/Zabanaa/night-city
My MBP display occasionally gets a greenish tint.
I would recommend to watch Arrival _before_ reading Story of Your Life and this post: I think that Story of Your Life contains spoilers for Arrival which aren't nearly as spoilery the other way around. I found Arrival more emotionally touching, and Story of Your Life more scientifically interesting, so both are worth while.
This is great!

I'm working on a space simulation project and I've been looking for imagery from space probes (e.g. New Horizons' Pluto and Charon imagery, Dawn's shots of Ceres and MESSENGER's new Mercury images). It is surprisingly difficult to find this data.

What I can find is some textures that have already been processed to a normal 2:1 rectangular image. But this projection is suboptimal for rendering planetary images, as there is distortion around the poles.

What I would like to find is some larger data set which could be processed into cube maps that would have better area distortion characteristics. But this is difficult, either the data is not publicly available at all or it's "too raw" to be used without a lot of processing.

I know that these data sets exist - we see nice renderings from the space craft's imagery all the time - it's just not available to the general public easily.

If anyone knows where I could find good quality images from planetary probes (I'm mostly interested in visible light images and topography - ie. height maps), let me know!
Rayman?

Edit: Hmmm... You probably should neither confirm nor deny.
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The space between SPA's and MPA's
I have been writing my latest webapps in a way that somewhat sits between Single page, and Multi page architecture.

Like a SPA, the page is rendered client side, using a client side MVC pattern:
- First a loader HTML is pulled from the server. This has a simple rotating Wait gif, and links to a 'Front Controller' loader.js.
- The loader decides which actual controller to use, inserts this as an external script into the head of the dom.
- This controller then loads the Data (Model) and Template (View) to render. If both are successful, the controller renders it and replaces what is in <BODY>. If unable to fetch the data, an error is instead rendered, inserted into body.

Like a MPA, every page has a URL, the user navigates the web application like any other MPA, back button works as default, page navigation always loads afresh which means any memory leaks that might exist in the code, do not become an issue (not to say they shouldn't be fixed, but they just are not a problem as memory reset on every page load)

I kind of named it Brempa - Browser Rendered Multi Page App. - I linked to a demo of an app I made....hosted on an orange pi, please be kind to it!...

http://home.totspics.com/BReMPA/loader.html

Comments / criticism? Thanks.
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I love Arq and I've described my setup in a blog recently https://hello.rakh.im/backup/
After coming from the iOS world, Jest is one of the most transformative tools for me when working in JavaScript. IT's super powerful, has really really useful features and is constantly being improved.

Some of the GIFs in this post show how awesome the watcher mode in the new Jest release is, I'd strongly recommend giving them a look!
> The interactive demo is made in javascript using the Canvas API and talks to a backend server that runs the images through Tensorflow.
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But if "the majority of browsers" means "Chrome" (following your reasoning) it would be more than a little silly to ever use that comparatively convoluted phrase. You would just say "Chrome".
you know how Randall Munroe highlights when he's reading?
https://xkcd.com/1271/
it's basically vinyl vs a ram stick. Guess which one seeks faster.
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yes I agree - its where you should aspire to be
Operating jets is all about opex, though. Airlines seem to be happy to plough billions into capex purchases as long as the long term total cost of ownership is good in terms of passenger miles.
It could be three airframes per day, but that doesn't necessarily mean three completed planes per day.
websites can be made immutable:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/01/using-immutable-caching-to...
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Why wouldn't Boeing make their own? They certainly have the money, the experience and the time to invest in such a technology if it is as critical to their success as you suggest.
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Have a Clevo, it can feel a bit plasticky at times, but the performance is great and Linux runs well, so overall am very happy with it.
Also worth noting that this allows you to allocate the first 21 minutes for your friend to finish the exam.
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1. I am pretty sure they can count the strands exactly. What happens is that material akin to a tar pitch is extruded through tiny die holes, each hole generating one strand... if there are 500 holes, then 500 strands at a time are produced.

2. Re comparison to competition: I have visited a carbon fibre production plant in France. They use a different process, and do not extrude the fibres on site. Instead they buy polyacrylonitrile (PAN) fibers - these are used in their own right to make "acrylic" cloth, but there they are the raw material. They convert that into carbon fibre with I think tens of thousands of strands at a time. So, 500 strand production line seems to be sub-commercial.
The Touch Bar takes a gimped, defective keyboard and makes it worse.

Apple laptops have always been hobbled by their inexcusable lack of a real Delete key. They only have a Backspace key that's mislabeled "delete." WTF? And Apple petulantly insisted on keeping this defect even after the Eject key became obsolete and could easily have been re-used for Delete.

So I thought, well at least maybe you can configure the Touch Bar to have a Delete key (albeit a non-palpable one). NOPE.

Many times I wonder WTF Apple's problem is. Another great example is the iPhone's most ridiculous defect: the lack of audible notifications of a missed call. You can be in the shower, or down the hall doing laundry with your phone on its charger in your bedroom (since the battery is a piece of shit) and miss a call... and you'll never know it until the next time you use your phone. There is simply no excuse for this. 1990s cell phones had this glaringly obvious feature.

And NOBODY IS ASKING FOR THINNER PRODUCTS. The ridiculous PR gymnastics and gimmicks to make the computer eke out the rated time is STUPID. Put a bigger battery in the goddamned computers and phones. The "thinness" gimmick was played out a decade ago.
This is a pure clickbait title from someone who has just been in the industry for a few months.
Well, that's your loss.

When I started doing Mac development, I immediately mapped the F keys to match Visual Studio's.
Yes. F1 car body is made of carbon fibre for lighter weight and strength. Fuel efficiency is very important in F1
Are you maybe running f.lux?
..because they are really bad for your feet and most of them are ugly as hell?
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Yeah, ESA is on the right track here and the data (e.g. we do image segmentation on S2 data) is great. However handling the data is non-trivial, as e.g. Sentinel-2 (an earth observation satellite for land cover mapping) generates 1TB data per day (AFAIK).

It is hosted and mirrored by different sites and companies, in particular GCE and AWS.
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What is a good resource for getting started with this kind of development? I've done some write-an-OS tutorials but nothing with bare-metal or RTOS yet, and I'd like to.
I randomly had this cd across from my desk when I read this article, so I decided to pop it in and see if I could find anything. Did a dd | strings but so far can't find any of these tools, unless they are outside the data track.

Mine says "Rebel Assault PC-CDROM V1.7" so maybe there are different versions of the cd with and without the dev files.
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Those Zimbabwe notes are pretty cool. Somewhere I still have the 100 billion dollar note my friend from college gave me - at the time I think it was worth about half a penny.
if there was even a way to just have the f-keys on all the time by default, that would have helped. Last I looked, that was not an option - you needed to hold down the fn key (or control?)
what could possibly go wrong? im sure theyre totally 100% hack proof!
Nope, not in response to current administration. I was just suggesting that framework might lend itself to pushing back against current policy as well, not just the danger of a far-right-wing ascendancy.
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I have the Jura Impressa S9 Classic and love it. Use it for espresso and coffee every day. It is still going strong after 70.000+ cups of coffee and I would expect it to work for at least 50.000 cups more before it needs service.
That's because that was run on the cat's dataset. For the boot use the boot editor?
Privacy isn't signal's one priority.

Good enough privacy for the masses is.

They are always making these tradeoffs, and always make the same decisions. Perfect privacy in every situation isn't the goal. The goal is better privacy than the average person currently has, while still maintaining a level of convenience that the average user well accept.
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This doesn't match my experiences. Linux seems to handle this better because it has competent memory caching.

If this poses an issue anyway you could run steam using ionice.
Cool find over there, let's see if he will come for this topic here =)
I can't speak for Sierra as I don't know how they store their archive, but I've always found it interesting that some publishers (mostly music and movie really) use facilities such as this http://www.undergroundvaults.com/about-us/hutchinson/
my main stuff is backed up both on my google drive and my ibm server on a raid 5 array. cant imagine ill need anything more than that really
https://www.timeanddate.com/android/countdown/

try this app
Maybe empathy is not a particularly useful trait for getting ahead in the world. Being overly sensitive to other people can certainly lead to a sort of paralysis-by-analysis.
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I've already got `caps lock` mapped to `control`, mainly because of where Apple put the `fn` button.

As a heavy Vim user, I'm not looking forward to the `esc` trouble when I get my next Apple laptop.
Have you looked into using DexPot for Windows? It's the best virtual desktop tool I've used on any platform.

http://www.dexpot.de/?lang=en
That's so interesting re: the number of startups and shutdowns. Makes perfect sense given the mission of "generating power" vs. getting somewhere or "poking holes in the ocean".
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I'm not going to say it doesn't happen, discs always seemed to get lost under piles of paper and eventually wind up sitting in a drawer somewhere, only to be thrown out when that persons office is vacated.
Done correctly there are few issues unless you have other medical conditions. But, you can also really mess things up, so I guess it depends.
I work in this industry, can you elaborate on your software and it's capabilities a little more? I will be able to point you in the right direction.
> What if this reliance on rationalism and this idea of exceptionalism makes it easy to dismiss what you don’t experience first-hand?

Indeed. It's amazing how many self-described rational people fall back on "I've never seen it, therefore it doesn't exist and you are lying" when it comes to uncomfortable or challenging questions. It's very easy to end up performing a kind of rationalism identity politics, especially when men end up defending "rational" men from "irrational" women.

> "being unbiased is a vital part of being smart"

(From a quote within the article)

I disagree, having known a lot of smart people. There's definitely a skill of being able to step back from a situation and look at it from other angles. That doesn't mean people apply it by default to themselves. Nobody likes rationally evaluating their own flaws. Some of the smartest people I knew had chaotic personal lives because of this.
Sounds like playing Byzantine Generals on the file system :)
[Book & movie spoilers galore]

As this article points out, referring to Louise being able to see the
future in the book:

> "she is like an actor following a script, engaged in a
> self-fulfilling prophecy, taking precisely the actions
> necessary to bring about the future she sees. A
> fictional example of this would be Paul Atreides in
> Dune Messiah, whose prescience allows him to see
> visions of the present and act despite being blind -
> but only as long as he executes the actions which
> bring about the vision, thereby keeping the visions
> reflective of reality."

However, in the book her daughter dies in a climbing accident, not
from disease. The underlying point of the book as I read it is that
free will doesn't exist and we're all just helpless pawns doomed to
play out the inevitable.

Reportedly Hollywood didn't like that interpretation, so instead her
daughter dies from disease, so the movie doesn't have to explain why
Louise can't just tell her daughter "JUST DON'T EVER GO CLIMBING
YOU'LL DIE I CAN SEE THE GODDAMN FUTURE!".

I think as a result the movie really makes no sense. Seeing the future
can really only make sense if events are either determinate or you
can't or are unwilling to change them. Otherwise you wouldn't know
what future you're seeing or how your actions would impact the future.

In a universe where you can alter the future her vision of General
Shang at the end of the movie doesn't make any sense. How can she see
what General Shang told her in the future, if the only reason he told
her is because of information Shang sent to her from the future as a
result of her current actions, which are only possible due to
information Shang sent her from the future?

In the book it's not as if Louise sees a way to save all humanity and
has to make the hard choice to follow that path like Paul Atreides in
Dune. She just sees things pertaining to her family life, in
particular that her daughter eventually dies in an entirely
preventable climbing accident.

So there you go, a movie that really makes no sense, although they had
the good sense to plaster over the more obvious plot hole with her
daughter now that free will is a thing by making her die from an
incurable disease instead.
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I got this vision of horror based on a poorly drawn snail: https://i.imgur.com/N1UBn2G.png

The fact that the source didn't include any active pixels at the top (compared to the result) seems a bit weird though.
He told me it was more like 30 seconds.
I honestly don't know of anyone that has read the story and ended up interpreting it as a time-travel story.
...or not running them in the first place.
For ESA missions you generally have to contact the Principal Investigator or PR team of the organisation sponsoring the instrument.

There have been examples when ESA itself wasn't granted access to the results of instrumemts on its own probes.

Theoretically they only have exclusivity for 6 to 12 months but few proactively release data after that time.
I've never grokked Virtual Desktops (I used to use DexPot years ago on XP). You anyway carry the list of windows open in your head in that horrible background energy-sucking way that multi-tasking does to you (not to mention the fancy wallpaper background that you set to remind yourself the purpose of each desktop, all multiplied by number of virtual desktops!). Instead, I write down all the TODOs that I need to attend to after the most important thing (or use JIRA), and just focus on that one thing. The number of windows open = what I need right now to get work done.

One thing at a time + work after good rest + be good at it + love what you do = productivity. It's a narrow path. Skip any of these and you're fooling yourself, IMHO.
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Voxxed Athens 2017 http://voxxeddays.com/athens is the most anticipated voxxed event in 2017 featuring amazing speakers including Douglas Crockford :)

A great mixture of Devops, Web, Architecture and Methodology talks in sunny Athens :)