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The bigger issue with this statement is effectiveness.

It seems that we can't find evidence for the prayer healing. I've caught wind that prayer can sometimes help the individual alongside modern medicine (the same goes for positive thinking). I also assume these folks had a religious leaning before they got sick.

On the other hand, we've actually studied some of the effects of "recreational drugs" on pain and mental health. It has been difficult considering the laws of the land, so we've not done as much as we could have.
Should the Amazon S3 downtime yesterday be considered a glitch in this simulation? It is, too, one of these things that should never happen.
My experience using thunderbird on linux is that it's a decent mail client, but I've found it corrupts its search index every few months. Rebuilding the index with my mailbox takes several days.

Also, sometimes it'll just not find certain messages. That also means it's time to clear out and rebuild indexes.

This has been my experience every time I use thunderbird, over many years. I'm not sure what it is about my mailbox that makes me see these issues when others don't.

It's a good program but could use some maintenance loving.
Yes, because a society based on Marxism will be so much better. Because that is the big idea right? Marxism?

But these millenials who seem to think they are all smarter than everybody else forget one thing: of all the things we tried capitalism and democracy are the least destructive forms of governing society.

Or as Jordan Peterson, a tenured psychologist, has stated several times already: "Those who claim 'With us this time it (Marxism) will become so much better' have no idea what they are talking about"
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> the problem stated is often not the problem faced.

100% true! So many times I was assigned to the task in issue tracker, where requirements was written, estimation was made, but after I sat and tried to solve given problem, it turned out that 80% of issue description was false - real problem was totally different than it was written in task.

What seemed right on planning meeting, turned out to be quite false in the process.

But quite often managers/product owners etc. don't understand this. They often believe 100% in planning ahead and issue tracker/backlog descriptions... And when something is going off the track (like it sometimes does - when problem needs extra time for thinking through) they aren't so glad because thinking and design process was not budgeted in issue tracker (even if it could lead to the better design on the long run).
Yeah, from my experience the tests were as "random" as picking the black guy out of 20 white people.

BUT they didn't target the people who did use weed or drank a lot, they tested the ones who were clean. So the company looks clean.

What do gamers say, GG EZ lol
Yes, but Unity, Unreal and the other engines need a 3d API to run on. They can use Vulkan, D3D or Metal on native desktop/mobile platforms but that's already 3 separate backends and there's no good API for the browser (WebGL being suboptimal in many ways and about 15 years behind the native platforms).
I wouldn't WANT the email, but wouldn't be surprised by it. Its actually less offensive to email sooner. If you email me 6 months after I signed up just to check something out, I probably won't remember what the service was and will be annoyed. If you email a week after I signed up, I'll either read or delete and move on.

I for one will tolerate about one marketing or feature update email per month from a service I actively use. More than that and it gets irritating. Less than once every 3 months for a service I DON'T actively use, and I'll forget who you are.

And for me at least, feature update emails are the most likely to get at least skimmed. I'm generally not interested in your latest generic blog post about how to be better at X (hint: use our product!) Maybe some people are. But if your product now does something I was previously hoping it would (or that I hadn't even thought about but now realize would be super useful), I'll be GLAD to have received the email.

And yes, always offer and honor an unsubscribe. In many markets it's the law; and it others it's common courtesy.
There is a "regulatory" issue: some competitive games set or used to set a hardwired limit on the vertical FOV, and scale (or scaled) the maximum horizontal FOV to match the aspect ratio of the monitor (or multi-monitor setup).
Thanks for the reply. I will have look and try to test it.

But if you think this is something ready to use in commercial projects, ask for money. I usually feel personally better to if I can pay for things, also paying for things opens a window for to have quality requirements.
The OSI has their definition but that doesn't make it the one true definition.
Something about people not getting addicted and ruining their lives.

But then you see alcoholics, smokers with cancer, morbidly obese from food, stabbings... basically, follow the money to see why anything is banned, ever.
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It's not just machine learning, 3D rendering is moving over to GPU as well and there is next to no support for anything other than CUDA in that space today.

Not everything starts and ends with gaming in the high end computer space.
Yep, replace "compiling" with "S3 recovery" in the following XKCD - https://xkcd.com/303/
Ah didn't know it was using LLVM...thanks.
A nice essay. This paragraph stood out for me:

"By the end of that summer of 1983, Richard had completed his analysis of the behavior of the router, and much to our surprise and amusement, he presented his answer in the form of a set of partial differential equations. To a physicist this may seem natural, but to a computer designer, treating a set of boolean circuits as a continuous, differentiable system is a bit strange. Feynman’s router equations were in terms of variables representing continuous quantities such as “the average number of 1 bits in a message address.” I was much more accustomed to seeing analysis in terms of inductive proof and case analysis than taking the derivative of “the number of 1’s” with respect to time. Our discrete analysis said we needed seven buffers per chip; Feynman’s equations suggested that we only needed five. We decided to play it safe and ignore Feynman."
People do sometimes say "open source" to mean "source available", but I think most programmers usually mean something more than that although they don't assume Open Source. It's neither "open source" nor Open Source nor Free Software.
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How about giving a timeline of when Australia will be launching? I see you're hiring staff, and have a "sometime 2017" goal on the site, but how about a date estimate? :)
I wonder what so new technology they use that is bundled in the chrome that they need it that bad?!
Which is why I only do web dev when I get paid to do it, for me programming for fun means native applications.
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> I cannot describe to you how much more effective it was than the opioids. The pain wasn't gone, but it was just an interesting sensation now

I had that experience too when I dropped something heavy on my toe, which sounds a lot funnier than it felt when the pressure under my toe went up (which I should have relieved by puncturing the nail, which I was not capable of doing to myself at that point)! But weed didn't make the pain go away, it just made it tolerable somehow. And I managed to puncture the nail after all.
I also saw someone with chronic pain get prescribed oxycontin, which isn't only very addictive, it also didn't work for her the way weed did. And with the latter being not-so-addictive, it would only make sense to me to use it more often for pain relief. It can be such a relief for so many people.
> Given that Vulkan specification already has 74 extensions and is only at version 1.0.42, already bringing up the fun of "write once, port multiple times" from OpenGL

This is a dishonest and decieving way of putting things.

The difference between Vulkan and OpenGL here is that most of the functionality extensions are software only additions and are available everywhere with up-to-date drivers.

Mobile is a bit of a pain point because they don't get driver updates as nicely.

If you look at Vulkan extensions qualitatively (not just the numbers) you'll see that it's nothing at all like the OpenGL extension mess. The vast majority is window system integration (WSI) and extenral memory and multi device stuff. Platform specific stuff which would exist in WGL/GLX/EGL for OpenGL and can't reasonably be put in "core" (because everyone must support all of core).

It was perhaps a mistake to attempt to release Vulkan 1.0 as early as they did, it might have been a better idea to put out 0.9 beta version and accept that there will be API changes.

However, very few changes have been made to the core apis.
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Yes, i made the claim, however i don't stand by it. I was challenged, realized my knowledge may not be up to snuff and asked that someone more knowledgable than me be nice enough to share, and i meant that earnestly. I'm not interested in winning contests, i just want to have good knowledge.

clock_tower did so here, very excellently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13749603
There is a commercial, proprietary Vulkan implementation (called MoltenVk) that runs on top of Apple's Metal.

This is not a technical issue, but a political one. Apple has decided not to allow Vulkan in their walled garden.
> consciousness

> whether mind can possibly be physical

I re-iterate my comparison to religion, theistic philosopher reason similarly about the soul/god/etc.

philosophical junk. There's a reason "neuroscientists despise philosophers talking about conciseness".

> silly ideas about mind that philosophers wouldn't begin to consider

What authority do philosophers have to label anything silly?

> they study different things

Reminds me of the claims made about religion vs science, that science can only study the 'physical', where religion is needed to explore the 'spiritual'.
There are a lot of creative ways around strict typing in c#, I spend my days dealing with them. I just finished working on a section that managed to combine the speed of c# with the expressiveness of assembly...
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What's horrible UX is having a gear shifter that pretends to be in Park when it isn't

(And ffs pull the parking brake when you are parked. PERIOD)
Are you claiming that Unreal still needs a lot of work to achieve parity with Unity?? No.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC6Xx_jLXmg

Edit: BTW there's a very insightful feature comparison from UE developer here: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/5wouuw/2017_featur...
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I sometimes wonder what technology would look like if it were developed by an alien culture with no sense of vision.
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Bundling results in me having to pay Fox "news." That's a lose.
Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Harris#Neuroscience

of course, if you encounter philosophers/scholars/believers who argue about whether the mind can be physical, it's a lost cause..
Classic mistake. Never apologize to SJWs. This guy needs to learn from Trump. Nothing, absolutely nothing will appease these concerned trolls, nothing. Just ignore SJWs in general and in HN is a good idea.
You've basically implemented ReST: The Good Parts

Can someone write this pamphlet?
UE4 is 'source available' but not Free or Open Source. You certainly can't use a snippet of their code in another project. It is basically the same as the Mathworks giving almost free licences to universities to build mind share, knowing that anything serious requires big cash outlays for licencing.
> ...is central to protestant theology...

tl;dr: Using the "good fruit" passage to condemn people as "bad people" is bad reading comprehension.

Those words were said by Jesus, so it's impossible to ignore, but it's also commonly misinterpreted.

In the place you cited, it's clearly talking about "false prophets", or people who incorrectly claim to speak God's truth. They look like spiritual people (Christians, even), but you can tell they're rotten by the "fruit" of their lives. And (continuing on to verse 20) some "Christian leaders" do not follow Christ and will absolutely be rejected by Jesus on their judgement day. That passage Jude is also about determining if someone follows Christ earnestly more than deciding they're hell-bound or something.

Also, if we back up in that chapter in Matthew a bit (1), we'll see Jesus clearly say you'll be judged by the yardstick we apply to others. If we condemn assholes, we'll be condemned as assholes. Which of us isn't an asshole sometimes?

That's not giving assholery a pass, though. It's just if we're really concerned about improving the world and fixing the behavior of others, we should address ourselves first so that we won't be ineffective in the task.

Anyway, I agree that the "know them by their fruit" passage is misapplied to judge someone as a rotten person. A rotten spiritual leader? Sure. But not deciding that someone hopeless case. You'll have to find another source of authority if you want to claim that.

(1) https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+7%3A1-5...
Was AMC on the list? I must have lost it in the disinterest cloud that surrounded the four ESPNs.

In all seriousness, I believe that we may be approaching a tipping point where sports franchises are going to have to come to terms about offering other ways to watch their games. Lots of people I know who do watch sports grumble about having to pay for 400 other channels they don't watch. So I know the feeling is mutual in some ways.
It's only a win-win if in aggregate, people put a value on everything that is bundled. By that I mean that enough singular people put a value on a large subset of all channels.

If too many people put a value 0 on too many bundled items, it's most definitely a consumer loss. The author admits this, but claims that collectively it is a win. There's no basis provided for this assumption though, other than that it is the market. I have no problem believing the cable market is flawed though (local monopolies).

This is anecdata, but if true hits the core:

Traditionally people I know always bought (happy meal or) big mac/quarterpounder & co (this could be inaccurate dollars, because it's not the local currency) for $6, because the sandwich was $4 a la carte, and the fries an additional $2. So sure, even if my value on soda was as low as $0.1 I would still make out ahead.

But then the previously unavailable double cheeseburger arrived, which had as much meat and tasted about the same as a quarterpounder, for $2. And the Big Mac sandwich occassionally sold for $2.5.

And me who genuinelly always put a negative value on soda (really, I did however trade it for a smaller milkshake) and always drink water, would now instead save 67% since I generally could do without the fries as well.

I'm sure I'm an aberration in wanting just a double cheeseburger with water, but I'm not so sure I'm an aberration in getting a raw deal out of bundling.

The analogy with a buffét is interesting in both its similarities and its differences. People eat different amounts, sure, but there is a finite amount one could eat, and it's not everything at the buffét. Some will eat more expensive stuff (HBO, ESPN), and some will eat cheaper stuff, but the cost to the restaurant is a finite amount of food.

The analogy fails when in bundling TV it would be like sending every buffét customer 10 full dishes, of which they can only eat 1-2 full ones.

Another issue is viewer count and measurement. In traditional TV you've got the Nielsen box and all its flaws, as well as scheduled TV giving a LOT of power to broadcasters to dictate popularity by air time (and ads).

When I pay for a Netflix bundle, in aggregate with every other customer, our money is directly mapped to exactly what shows we watch, and while they can try to push some shows, they have a lot less power in dictating what people watch. This means that shows no one wants no one pays for, because they will simply not produce it. In traditional TV this was different for a myriad of reasons, including less consumer choice in the bundle (you choose a channel, not a program), no control over air times, etc.

TL;DR: I don't disagree with the economics/maths in that link, but I disagree with the premise of the input consumer value, and available choices.
Link to recent discussion : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13735714
> Nobody - absolutely nobody - has the right tell him differently.
> People are ignorant and frankly downright... disgusting/pathetic/opinionated

Those are some very strong claims. You can be sympathetic without being hyperbolic, or assuming that the reason that other don't share your views is that they're bad people who don't share your perfect reasoning.
Agreed from at least a beginners' perspective. I think there are 70 reserved keywords, but I can't imagine using 1/2 in practice. Most of those are just things like int8, int16, uint8...etc.
Yes and the race doesn't end until it's got at least N users and subsequently been shut down.
You misunderstood my point since the beginning. I never said clojurescript is currently the best option to software development, but it do fixes the architectural problems of JavaScript. As it is javascript, it improves the platform/ecossystem as a whole.

If you wanna a good example:
https://github.com/mozilla/mentat
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I don't really understand what's the point of this. YouTube is already my TV. With a little streamlining and a little bit more intelligence, I wouldn't have to even click the links and just switch on autoplay to stream all the interesting content I want to see for the day. That vision is not far away.

Is Google purposefully sabotaging their subscription integration in order to leave space for paid services?
something I never understood is why not compile-time C semantics and proprocessor and actually enforce some compiler optimizations ?

This is basically the direction of constexpr in fact with C++.

I would love a new, slightly fixed/incompatible C17 (not D or subpart of C++, just C11) with

- c++17-like constexpr (and its uses anywhere : switch cases, array sizes.. )
- deprecated oldstyle args, undeclared functions, trigraphs
- (templates can be mostly done with pure inlining+constexpr)
- better keywords (static -> private (by default/explicit public), persist )
- fixed operators precedence (1<<3 +1=16 yay)
- typed enums with explicit storage class
- reduce preprocessor ability(discourage and just generate from lua/python/C programs if you really need, maybe with a shebang-like line). replace conditional compilation with constexpr ifs,
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Good but old: 1989. Should be stated in the title.
I think there is some kind of standard or arrangement, if not we could end up with a disproportionate number of cars with the filler in the same side of the vehicle. Which could make gas stations inefficient.
I also always thought there was some kind of inofficial agreement between the various OEMs which one uses which side, so that it's about evenly spread in total. It would at least have made sense for maximizing gas station throughput.
Yes, it's SO greedy to make quality content available for free, and trying to get a bit of revenue from ads for you efforts.

And in the same vein it's not greedy at all to castigate such a site for having the audacity to sacrificing a little usability for increased revenue.
A simpler problem could be to identify someone based on voice. Is that problem already solved? And can we use this to solve the problem of generating someone's voice?
That is a very good point.
> Did the Oscars Just Prove That We Are Living in a Computer Simulation?

!!

Did you real the headline before reading it. It was exactly what it makes out to be :)
Or not as the pipe always reaches to the other side of a car.
Well, you should read the article then, because it explains that there isn't a such.

The "arrangement" there is, exists entirely by chance.
Sure they reject capitalism when they are asked, but will gladly buy an iPhone or other consumer electronics designed to fail within a few years of normal usage.

They will gladly post all their private information to Facebook for that warm fuzzy feeling of people liking their updates, while they are being datamined and their profiling sold to advertisers.

But when asked, then sure everyone is against capitalism.
I don't think I've ever come across a hose that doesn't stretch to the opposite side of the car here in the UK. It always makes me laugh to see people queuing for a particular side when the pumps on the other side are all vacant.
I probably should have specified but I was referring to GUI applications specifically. For things without a GUI, or that require deeper system integration than you get with these runtimes you're absolutely right – there's little point. But for a very large class of GUI applications it makes a lot of sense, working with technologies that not only have stood the test of time and are good enough for plenty of use cases, but also mean you can with very little effort package your application for multiple operating systems. Some of these applications will need stronger performance than can be provided by the JS engine, so hence the question re: wasm.

Does that make more sense?
Yep. That's not as much of an occurrence in my country as it is in the US, but in cases where it is, it's still clear that politicians are completely out of touch with the needs of immigrant communities.
However in Germany (where a lot of the higher priced brands come from) all normal gas stations are self serviced, which makes it less likely that they have thought about this during the design process. However thats only my current point of view, probably gas stations looked completely different mid of last century and they just kept the inlet position from back then.
The problem I see with these communities is that they never manage to achieve prosperity. The best of them sort of get by, but none of them are actually rich, or anywhere close to it. I think that points to some fundamental problem in what they are doing.
Looks like a load issue, a single server can only take care of so many conn, auth, etc... So having several solves the problem and can scale horizontally easily, but each edge maintains conn information, so a given user needs to be routed to that same server every time. On the other hand, all LBs share a single address and all should be replaceable by each other, they exist purely to route the user to the right edge server (existing conn or least busy).

Question to OP: do you run your edge servers in pairs or some kind of cluster?