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There is a saying in game circles, either one writes a game engine or a game, as most studios tend to die spending the publisher's money build the next great engine.
> UX is optimized for speed, dense display of information, and filtering

I often wish more software would make the same UX trade-offs.

I suspect this is why a lot of advanced users stick with the command line - a better "pro" UX is surely possible (REPLs / notebook style interfaces are a limited example) but outside of programming tools there doesn't seem to be much serious effort in this space.
I understand in OPs case, someone else (being a professional) has already recorded and mastered the sound of a real live pipe organ. That person of course benefits from working at 24bit, but once he's done mastering, OP is "just" playing back the mastered audio and should be fine with 16bits, I think.
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Quicksync is a marketing bullet point. Nobody sane uses this crap because quality is abysmal. Its bad for streamers (they usually run second PC just for stream compression), and bad for archiving video(quality again).
Thank you for your feedback! I have read up on the feature bagging part of the algorithm and I believe that you are correct. This is fixed in the latest commit.
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If you're using SHA-anything for hashing passwords you're doing it wrong.
Can you expand? Are identities checked and referenced, or enforced socially like on LinkedIn? When you say things are effectively contracts, I've heard about the very solid principles that some finance people work to - "if we said it then we will stand by it" sort of things - or does Bloomberg step in to arbitrate, or are chats accessible by the employing companies, how are contracts enforced?
I was in a leadership position for several years before the company went under, and I took a position at a big .com. I understand the demotivation of going from a position of major decision making power, into a position with nearly none.

My coworkers won't "dumb" though, in fact at a minimum 3/4 of them were probably smarter than me. I spent a year learning what I could from them, but I didn't enjoy the job, and life felt too short to spend every evening dreading going into work the next morning. I decided to leave, and start my own company.

I'd lose the "I need big money, purpose and satisfaction", and just concentrate on 1 of the 3 (i'll give you a hint though... concentrating on big money will not solve your issue).
Given that CA worked for the Trump campaign, hardly different at all.
Are you honestly suggesting there is anything other than education preventing them from it ?
That asides, research mathematics is only a small subset of mental tasks available to humans. There are a lot of areas that could benefit from "computation" Laws, philosophy, literature, sociology, psychology. We seem to have forgotten how much of our society is based on how our thought is applied to knowledge. Thought rather than Praxis has been relatively neglected in our age.
If anybody is looking to disrupt the industry, I would be interested to partner in.
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Been kinda playing with a similar notion in recent days.

The other day i learned of the existence of feh, the image viewer.

https://feh.finalrewind.org/

It seems to straddle between being a CLI and a GUI program.

And it got me thinking that while for Apple and Microsoft it kinda made sense to sideline the CLI and focus on the GUI as their CLI offerings were anemic to be polite, this hard split feels misplaced on unix derived platforms.

Instead the GUI on _nix can be used to enhance the CLI.
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I know, when the company I worked for in the 90's IPO'd in the dotcom boom, we would talk to our broker over just regular AIM. Nowadays that just seems crazy...
Is it just me, or do these new players who operate in the background have more technical knowledge, quant mindset and solid data analytics connections.

Mercer is CEO of Renaissance Technologies and seems to own piece of Cambridge Analytica. Peter Thiel and Palantir. Even Mark Zuckerberg seems to have political ambitions.
Are you objecting to the use of the word vagina? It seems base, uncivil and shocking doesn't it? It's also a statement of cold fact. That is exactly the policy being advocated by Pike and too many people in this discussion thread: promote and hire people simply because of their anatomy. Your shock at my language is not the result of me being uncivil, but at an uncivil policy stated clearly and without linguistic obfuscation.
Do they tax scam ? New stuff on ebay is usually cheaper because they cheat taxes, especially in Europe.
I read the article, and I still feel like I need a tl;dr. Seems very disjointed with no thesis.

What is the point here?
Those prices match Intel promotions and bonus gifts Intel ordinarily offers to big distributors for pushing hi-end product (CPU and Chipsets). There is nothing suggesting Microcenter is running a loss on this, they might have a very thin margin, or even sell at 0 and only count Intel gifts as a potential profits (Intel will give distributors gifts like "free" SSDs for selling X number of expensive parts). Its all in the spirit of tactics that were killing AMD in ~2002 and lead to Intels monopoly trial, just made a little more subtle this time.
Do you have a source for your claims in the last paragraph? It would be an interesting read.
I meant 'ourselves' as in the collective, not the individuals.
They are "checked" in the sense that ultimately there's a name associated with that expensive login. All chats are logged and available to compliance, regulators, etc. Bloomberg won't arbitrate but they don't have to - everyone knows that if you welshed on a deal, no-one would ever deal with you again. This is the same way that voice calls in banks work too.
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Longtime user of Bloomberg here, both finance and coding experience.

You no longer need special hardware to use the terminal. In fact the special keys are just mappings to your F keys, and you'll know which one is which without the keyboard. They have a sticker strip if you really need it. BTW the keyboard is crap, the buttons aren't balanced meaning the keys kinda stick, making you type slower.

Data is the only reason you need this thing. It's truly comprehensive how many data sources are all accessible through a single syntax. I've traded single stocks, corporate bonds, CDS, ETFs, index options, equity options, commodity futures, government bonds, interest rate swaps, IR swaptions, FX, FX options, and so on. You can get a price chart for all of them just by typing in a code followed by "GP". Or you can get relevant news.

On the API side, it's pretty easy to pull the data you need from the terminal. There's .NET, python, java, etc libraries for you, with lots of examples. And just about every imaginable field is there.

Bloomberg Chat is useful in certain parts of the industry. You can have all your brokers set up with individual 1-on-1 chats, yet still blast out a quote request as in "USD 5Y, 100K dv01, please" and they will all see it without knowing how many people you're talking to. A lot of people are still trading in the stone age, and Bloomberg is certified for keeping records for this sort of thing. You might have heard about BBG Chat in the recent LIBOR trials.

There's also a whole pseudo-exchange functionality. Basically you can get approved to get prices from each broker, and then you can trade with them by sending them tickets via Bloomberg. I always thought that was crap, but some people like it, depends on their niche.

It's kinda ripe for disruption though. 24K is a lot for the basic package, and if you want to actually get the data, rather than just the interface into it, you have to pay the underlying provider. That gets pricy quite quickly. Also live data costs money, too, and it's not going to be fast. Unless you get the leased line (if you're in the City of London, it's not a problem), which is more money again. And not especially fast, since there's an extra hop. I'm not sure I buy the argument that finance professionals know how to use it, so bbg is entrenched. If you understand what you're looking for, you're not going to have a problem finding it on some other system. For a lot of things such as common stocks, Yahoo and Google are not going to have any less information.

I've never thought highly of bloomberg's customer service. At most they're useful for discovering functions that you don't know the shortcut for. When there's anything remotely complicated, they seem to do a huge internal goose chase and then eventually get back to you with "can't do it". Basically anything API related, the Help Help guys will not know what to do and end up waiting for a dev. Also the official account manager keeps changing and every time you get a new one they pester you to show you some obscure functionality.
There have been serious incidents involving Uber in a South Africa, including a rape and robbery, by an Uber driver.

http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/two-held-for-brutal-a...
Oxitendwe didn't start with a different set of premises, he took Pike's conclusion and showed how it would lead to some bad consequences.

You haven't stated anything to rebut any of the points made by Oxitendwe.

Instead, you demonstrated your ignorance of basic argumentation skills and your proclivity for self-righteousness.

You would do well to drop the sanctimonious tone ("don't huff about", "don't pretend") during discussions.

If anybody here is huffing, it is you.
Does it surprise you? People smart enough to interpret these social datasets would be the ones who recognize its potential to manipulate the population.
It think it's more pragmatic than that. If Kansas doesn't want to equip their police with transmitters, then transmitters simply won't happen. It's a political problem which is much thornier than technical problems. I'm sure you could already apply that rubric today : If only government agency X would implement simple technology Y, everyone's life would be easier. In the real world, that fails to happen all the time.

Self driving cars are probably just going to have to recognize hand signals. That's simply the reality.
He's mad because he realizes that his life has no worth.

Edit: You can tell he wants attention due to his caption containing: 'A popular industry personality on Twitter'. The way his entire screed on Medium reads is quite like a rant a woman would have.
Just out of interest, how many nameless or otherwise, billionaires backed Remain?
It sounds like you're an early 20-something? If so, its perfectly normal to aimless and miserable in your 20's.

Perhaps try not to focus on yourself so much. I don't mean that in a bad way, I mean, if you spent some serious time helping others in meaningful and non-transactional ways, you'll feel better about your own situation.

Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI
The existence of so many half-baked and abandoned early-access games on Steam would seem to belie this claim. It's not uncommon to see a few hundred reviews for games where the developers have ghosted without finishing.
Yeah, I don't get it either. It reads like someone who smoked a bunch of pot and is spouting off various, insanely vaguely related points but with no clear thesis whatsoever.
Oh, wow! I did a preliminary check but found zero results. Huh! Thanks for this. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xflVUa4M_8

Robert Reich says that Brexit and the Trump victory happened because the economic recovery after the 2008 crash wasn't quite a big hit (contrary to what we all might have hoped for).

Now that may be due to changing economic realities, i think that people blamed transnational entities (EU, NAFTA, TTIP) and the elites that supported these developments for what happened. The only entity that could change the status quo were the populists (due to the neo-liberal consensus that erased any real differences between right and left) [1]. Now the backlash against the populists might come either from a reformed left or from a reformed right, go figure.

I don't think that financial support by a moneybag could have changed the global picture in any significant way. For every right wing sponsor there is one on the left.

[1] in Britain they had Boris Johnson, who played a major role throughout the referendum campaign.
You mention that choosing mocha and chai were conscious decisions over jest, any particular reason why?
Think long term.
Mercer provided Bannon and Conway to the Trump campaign as well. The Mercer family is invested in Breitbart news.
Well, the parents concept was that of a living consciousness becoming a p-zombie, which seems valid to me.
Well, if we're going to drill down a layer and talk about specific companies and the specific work that is done for them, rather than paint entire classes of people as worthless, then sure, we can find all sorts of "meaningless" work.

Health insurance is actually a very good example if you want to find meaningless drone work, because of the rent seeking you describe and because of other perverse things that come about due to government intervention in that market. That's work that nobody would do if there wasn't a government regulating that industry. You could make an argument that all of that work is meaningless and human beings should be freed from doing it.

Of course, you could also argue that work is no less necessary simply because the government exists and intervenes in healthcare, because the government exists and is going to intervene in healthcare whether we like it or not. Thus, having drones at the office to lobby governments is valuable to Aetna. And I'm sure someone from Aetna would claim that they have to spend that $20 million or else they'd be unable to provide health insurance at all. Which is also a ludicrous claim, but a lot of companies seem to be getting out of health insurance lately...
I have skimmed your website at the time and found it really interesting.

I find this “shillcalling” very annoying, but I understand where it’s coming from. If you look at Reddit, for example, it has been an entire two weeks of constant “Bill Gates is great” posts. Astroturfing is out of control.

At the same time it makes discussion impossible. I have myself been called a “shill” on several occasions now (not here), just by disagreeing with the narrative slightly. Any dissent is now seen with suspicion which just pushes everyone more and more to the extremes.

Since you made a post about machine learning assisted moderation, I am wondering if you thought about how ML could be used to bring back discussion to a neutral, or at least merit-based scoring?

It seems everyone wants to apply ML to the content itself (like Perspective), but wouldn’t it be more effective to instead use ML to assign weight to the ratings? For every topic there must exist a subset of people that can judge it by its merit, without immediately succumbing to their biases. It seems if you could identify that subset of users, and weight their scoring more (and that subset might be different per topic), then it should be possible to avoid the usual traps of popularity-based scoring systems, including astroturfing and vote manipulation.

What do you think?
> These sealed aquatic systems are really cool.

I find them more cruel, as you knowingly doom your pet world to die a few years later.
A high noise floor is not even close to being the same as dither, never mind noise shaping.

Have you actually heard the difference between simple dither, noise-shaped dither, and non-dithered 16-bit audio? A test tone is the worst possible way to hear what they do.

24-bit audio is used because you want as clean a source as possible.

This also applies to mastering for output at the other end. With the exception of CD and MP3, most audio is delivered as 24-bit WAV at either 44.1, 48, 88, or 96k.

Even vinyl is usually cut from a 24-bit master. Here's a nice overview of what mastering engineers deliver in practice:

https://theproaudiofiles.com/audio-mastering-format-and-deli...
The article was about someone from the UK, and I'm also from the UK. That's the circumstance I was speaking from.
Nikon and Canon didn't have film empires to protect.

Also of note in this context is that Kodak invented LCD projectors and viewfinders.
But OP is not just playing back a single mastered recording, it's thousands of simultaneous samples that get mixed together live, presumably. In that case the professional who recorded all these samples can do nothing to prevent the peaks from lining up during playback.
Looking to do a far east trip starting later this spring. Have heard Japan is indeed expensive, but don't want to skip it -- life is short.

As for cheap, have been in Mexico this winter staying at a boat-only accessible village near Puerto Vallarta, $275 per month. Of course, since I've been here the power has gone out (for hours at a time), and the 4G connection is more like 3G+, which is better than the village internet that can't stay connected for more than a couple of minutes at a time.

Price of paradise I guess (dry, has rained once, no mosquitos here in a mountain river fed jungle on the Pacific).
I had never heard of it either, and would have given it a try. Sounds like a decent idea.
So if I lock you in a room, I am not taking away any of your right to go where you choose ? It's just your "means of getting there" that are somewhat limited and those aren't protected by law.

And yes, that's exactly how insane you sound. If you limit my "access to my rights" you have definitely taken away those rights. Stop spouting bullshit.
Some of it comes from paper documents and PDFs. Bloomberg has a team of people who organize and cross-reference such documents.

If you're wondering why the original documents are not more directly machine readable, consider that some of them are published by companies due to regulatory obligations, and those companies would much prefer not to publish the information at all. So making the documents easier to consume is where Bloomberg comes in--because the originators don't want to.
The intent was "code as law", then it changed to "authority together with amount of money invested by creators and other investors is the law".

All code has bugs, but you dont go asking Satoshi to give your bitcoins back you sent them to the wrong address. "Oops that was not the intent".
> I get 50,000 IU every week like it says on the bottle.

I'm not a doctor but that sounds high enough to have side effects. Unless that dosage has been specifically recommended by a doctor, I think you should talk to a doctor about it before continuing to take that much Vitamin D.
We have similar people in Sweden that think that they are better than other people simply because they are born in Sweden (I'm Swedish). I would say that a significant fraction have the mindset that the Syrians deserved what happened in Syria.. It is completely unbelievable to me that they think that burning down the shelters for the refugees is helping in any way. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39095173
Composing music while people are dying

Writing novels while people are dying

Making movies while people are dying

Growing plants while people are dying

Going on road trips to Mexico while people are dying

Making tea and donuts while people are dying

...

What?
I order the burger as is, because I don't want to annoy the waiter or the cook, or me. I also don't eat the lettuce or the pickle, if they happen to come with. I'm not going to go down the list of what I will or won't accept for a burger and a 30 minute relationship.

I don't know what you're getting at.
Italy's Berlusconi won elections multiple times in 1996-2010 despite acting like a fool.

He is probably Trump's closest equivalent in any Western country over the past decades: large personal fortune, mishmash populist agenda, media obsession, self-branding as an outsider who dares speak the truth... And Berlusconi's legacy is not much to celebrate. Italy is objectively worse off compared to its peers than it was 20 years ago. Winning elections doesn't mean anything on its own, but Trump is still in campaigning mode.
Carbs do have a purpose, of course. They are just a source of energy and by themselves completely neutral. There are only two problems with them: the way we eat them and the way our body uses them.

In nature, carbs are never found isolated. They always come with dietary fiber and in varying degrees of complexity. But in processed food, carbs are artificially designed to be as simple as possible.

From bread and pastry to candy and fruit, the food we eat has been scientifically engineered to contain the lowest common denominator. Food companies see nothing wrong with this: they want every Fig Newton to be the exact same, but this ultimately means depriving us of variety of tastes and nutrients that naturally should exist in food. This hurts us in the long run tremendously.

Even the fruit we eat and which is arguably the source of healthiest carbs we can find has no resemblance to what is found in nature. Bananas are a fine example of this.

The variety of bananas commercially available in the world has been reduced to a single variety: Cavendish. From Ecuador to Estonia, you can walk into any store and find the exact same bananas, right down to shape, size and color.

If you open those bananas up and take a bite, you will notice they have no seeds. How do they reproduce then? They don't: they are sterile, genetically engineered clones of one another. There are enormous banana plantations all around the world, and they are all growing the exact same clone of the exact same plant.

Have you ever heard of a term "banana republic" and chuckled a bit? The term has a grave history, as it denotes a country where the banana cartel (such a thing does exist) established a puppet government and shifted the entire economy towards a single commodity: bananas. But, as it turns out, this is completely unsustainable in the long run.

The problem with growing genetic clones of any plant on a global scale is that an ecosystem is only as healthy as it is diverse. Once you create uniformity for the sake of marketability, the entire structure is vulnerable to a single agent of catastrophic failure. In this case, the culprit has a perfectly fitting ominous name: Fusarium oxysporum aka Tropical Race 4.

The description of this fungus reads like the description of the Terminator: it is indestructible, has no mercy and never stops. When this fungus that's been honing its banana-slaying skills for millennia reaches the sterile, cloned Cavendish plantations, the effect is utterly devastating. Every single plant gets infected, wilts and then the fungus lies in wait in the soil for decades, rendering it toxic to bananas. For now, the majority of banana plantations are safe while customers remain blissfully unaware of the entire fracas.

Now to consider carbs as a source of energy. Carbs are like rocket fuel for the body. But, if they are taken into the body but aren't actually used, they start causing problems.

I do want to point out the abundance of fat in the modern diet. It is needed in minute quantities in our diet, and yet we're swimming in it. Ideal diet for a bodybuilder or an athlete would have 50% carbs, 45% protein and 5% or less fat.