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I really never understood why Nintendo so stringently protects their IP to the point of essentially not allowing youtube videos. I understand why they require always on for Mario run but I just feel like their choices aren't the best. If 10,000 people pirated Mario run, how many of those would have purchased it in the first place? I can't imagine more than 5-10% of them.

And the whole purchase on every single damn system made me stop buying their digital content.
Or would they? At the end of my tenure, I decided to change tracks. Luckily I was given free reign at my school. Instead of teaching English, per se, I taught my students how to learn English on their own. For a 50 minute class I kept my instruction time down to 5 minutes (which was hellishly difficult, I can tell you). The rest of the class was a series of explorations in things like, "If I don't know, how can I find out?", "How do I read a book to get information out of it?", "How do a read a book for pleasure?", "How do I watch TV and understand what's going on?", "How can I improve my pronunciation without paying someone to train me?", etc, etc.

This is really interesting to me. I haven't been an ESL teacher before, but I am trying my hand at being one unofficially one for someone close to me who is trying to reach fluency, but has plateaued at an upper intermediate level. These are all things I am trying to encourage myself, but I have no real idea how.

Is there anything out there on the internet about this, or do you have any pointers?
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If you have a hardware H.265 decoder, sure - I'd wager a GIF or APNG runs better in single-thread, CPU-only environments.
> PulseAudio is pretty good these days and typically works out of the box for most need.

Ehh...... I'll disagree with that. I have ~50% success rate of it working on my devices in the past 5 years.
Dating fits a common dyad in which a power imbalance exists. Women vs. men (in heterosexual dating), men vs. women (in many male-dominated careers), police vs. civilians, whites vs. non-whites, and so on. In such cases, these points of view are expressed:

More Power:

- Cooperate in order to reach a successful outcome

- Lay out your intents explicitly, attempt nothing verging on deception

- Be yourself, we just want to help you

- Work hard to better yourself, we haven't done anything wrong. In the vast majority of cases, you have.

(Overall assertion is that of equality, and denial of a power/privilege imbalance, and that you should take responsibility for yourself.)

Less Power:

- Compete with the other party to reach an outcome desirable to you

- Strategically reveal information in order to effect the above

- Be yourself, but realize that the other party may not have your best interests in mind. They prioritize their best interests.

- Work hard to better yourself, but understand that the other side makes mistakes, misjudgments and may just as well be as error prone as you.

In any relationship where an imbalance exists we should be aware that both sides will have sharply differing views. But dating in particular, the concept of female privilege is a huge minefield. OP article's ideas have been tacitly admitted to me in person by women, but the large audience online suppresses women from admitting anything that might not reflect well upon themselves. I think she's speaking for a large amount of women who deny their privilege via silence. The general idea might be that privileged deny their privilege, whether it's through physical attributes, wealth, legislated authority, etc.
GPL2 - I give you my time and my work, you can sell it or include it in your product but credit the software package/module in your read-me.txt file and where to find it. By any chance you make modifications please make it available or publish them so it can be included back into the product.

GPL3 - I give you my time and my work, you can sell it or include it in your product but you need to also release your product under GPL3 and make it available to the public (eg.. Copy left).

The caveat of GPL3 is if the legal department doesn't like it, they can negotiate with the developer to purchase a GPL2 license, or proprietary license that comes with support.

Mostly boils down if you want everyone to play nice.
Relevant https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13867590
Now, if only there was a service to leftpad my strings...
> From the article: "An estimated 300,000 people bought Bluetooth-enabled WeVibes..."

I find that hugely suspect. That would imply almost a $60-90 million business (those things are expensive for a vibrator).

That's a bit off from the financials of "Standard Innovation" the parent corp.
Why is this not a federal issue anyway? How many watersheds extend across state/national lines?
You forgot height. That's most important above all else. Princess shouldn't have to ever slum it with someone below 6ft.
Why is it hard to find a maintainer? I mean, is it just a reflection of Firefox's declining popularity or is there some additional difficulty?
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It's pretty simple to remove it from SuSE.
You can have variable scoping, just use `new`?

I think that fast reads/writes actually are a reasonably differentiating feature--if you want something like that in JS, Python, .... you're going to have to drop down to a C extension, and you'll have to put a lot of effort into that being portable. In a MUMPS interpreter, it's already there and it already works reliably.
Chrome supports Alsa and Pulseaudio.
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That's not a terminal running a browser, that's a browser running a terminal.
Meetup.com always has interesting events.
Lots of people called it Caché, but I don't think anyone would dare have called it C??

I found Epic MUMPS to be remarkably readable. Lots and lots of documentation, quite consistent coding standards, and although I would have preferred to write SQL queries rather than MUMPS routines, I didn't find it that abhorrent.
You should assume any (phone or windows store or mac store) app you install can and likely will be uploading all personal data that it can to their "mothership" in the name of wishing to keep track of Usage and "improve" future products. There are no laws preventing the selling of information to marketing agencies.
I think when most people offer "be yourself" they actually mean "don't pretend to be someone you're not".
> I'll never forget the day I removed my picture from my LinkedIn profile and the amount of random spam I received increase substantially.

Was it the picture or just bots picking up on activity changes?

I agree about anonymity though, it's the only solution that adds a degree of fairness.
I am not sure I see much advantage in visual programming on the small scale, ie little boxes for control flow.

But I badly want it for bigger, architectural concerns. Why do our IDEs just display lists of files in a pane? I've often day dreamed about an IDE where the system is visually modeled as a network of modules/objects, with edges representing dependencies, and you'd double click on a module/object to edit its source code.

Somewhat relevant: http://prog21.dadgum.com/69.html
Do you like Rust? Now you kinda 50% Rust.
Oh, you're racist.
I'm a Google employee and you made me LOL hahaha
What's interesting is that most (all?) do not. Everyone has the resources, for the most part, to produce high quality content, but most simply do not. We have all this potentially productive tech, and we waste it on mindless entertainment. Sadly, I think this is one of those moments which decide the winners and losers of tomorrow. If you, or your family, are sucked into entertainment, you (or they) are highly unlikely to discover or invent anything, or start a successful business.
Why does everything Lennart Poettering makes have to break existing things?
But wouldn't that mean the quality of men would be relatively higher then?
EDIT: Per Wikipedia, the idea for the game came from a Pokemon Company employee (owned 33% by Nintendo [0]), inspired by Ingress, and the game was developed at the Pokemon Company. Another link says "The Pokémon Company... and Nintendo jointly developed the app". Where does the story that it was all Niantic come from?

Per Wikipedia:

* Ingress: It was downloaded 8 million times "as of" 2015, about a year after its release, and claimed 7 million players in 2015.

* Pokemon Go: 130 million downloads in its first month, 650 million within 8 months. PG was "the most active mobile game in the United States ever with 21 million active users" within a week of its launch; note that is in only one country.

From a software development perspective Nintendo might not have done anything, but who had the vision to invest in bringing this to such a huge market? That also is an investment in creativity and innovation. (That's not meant to be a rhetorical question; I don't know the answer.)
It looks like you dislike the haskell like usage of Scala, I wonder how could you then produce types so complicated/weird that you crashed the compiler in 100 lines (In 4 years I have seen it crash only once in an unreleased version of pickling a long time ago).
Is there anything we can learn from the transition between numbers? Any pattern?
Fiction: The Baroque Circle + Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson

Non-Fiction: Presence - Amy Cuddy
Why the CIA uses board games to train its officers
I don't speak for Archive Team or Archive.org. Archive.org has DMCA exemptions but will comply with robots.txt access restrictions post-archival.

I operate independently as a digital archivist, providing support when possible. I will keep my own copy in cold storage as long as I'm alive, outside of the US jurisdiction but accessible globally.

The reason they're being removed is ADA subtitle compliance and the cost/effort associated with that (cheaper to purge/remove access rather than comply). Is UC Berkeley going to pursue people attempting to preserve knowledge without their consent? That's up to them. They would, of course, be unsuccessful.
It's much like PNG vs JPEG. Like JPEG, the most common video codecs all use compression based on the discrete cosine transform (DCT). This makes them well suited for most video content which has a lot of continuous tones. APNG is better suited for simple animations with lots of flat shading, where video codecs would generate ugly artifacts. A classic example where APNG would be preferred is the ubiquitous throbber animation used by various applications to indicate that they are busy with some task.
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I do know about that, and find it interesting. And that stuff still goes on, of course, and likely always will.

But there's a lot of other stuff also going on today. It feels more organic, rather than intentionally directed, but I think the effects on the collective mind are still huge.

The clickbait articles that don't have any underlying motivation other than getting people to click on them (along with those that do). The web of people out there providing each other confirmation of truly nuts conspiracy theories, whether it be "the Sandy Hook massacre of children was a government hoax" or "thousands of children have gotten autism from the measles vaccine". Youtube comment threads.

There's no cohesive agenda behind a lot of this stuff, and no ultimate benefit achieved by any party. It's more like these things are memetic prions, folding onto each other and interacting in their unthinking inanimate way, having significant effects on the host but without any intention driving them.
Not sure if you'r being scarcastic, but... https://api.left-pad.io/?str=be%20careful%20what%20you%20wis...
It's funny, this is the first I've heard of Chronicles being called an ORM. I wouldn't really hesitate to call it a full database itself, written in M. But now that I think about it, I think you're quite on point there.

(You're telling me though you never came across "end-user" API-level code that was directly digging around in ^ER, ^ER1? Hahah)
Some rich guys probably do but get bored after a while! After all, golf will get boring pretty quick, but running a business of that scale has got to be interesting.
Keras is fantastic. Not the tightest analogy and probably unoriginal but I think of it as the Python to Tensorflow's C. It's easy to drop into tensorflow flow when needed but you can probably get away with Keras for a long time. Also, Francois helped us when we DM'd him on Twitter which was incredible.

Thank you so much Francois! I'm incredibly excited about this release!
I think labour markets are some of the least efficient markets that exist. Without immigration it takes at least 4+ years for extra supply to become available based on increasing prices. And when you hire someone you really don't know what you're getting, particularly in software.

Constraining supply increases salaries precisely because it takes supply so long to incorporate information.

On top of that, supply and demand is a pretty leaky abstraction, I don't expect it to be very accurate in such a nonideal market.
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PulseAudio is a over-complicated piece of bloated shit, like every single project developed by Lennart Poettering. If this man had never entered software development, I would probably not had gone completely insane.
It doesn't have some plugins or Google login (for bookmark/history sync).
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brilliantly stated
You could take a step back and argue that equal opportunity exists in the education space for both women and men to thrive in said field.

What would that argument look like?
I write little stories about my farm for kids but it seems to resonate with adults. I seem to get more reactions from adults than from children.One even held my hands and started sobbing. I didn't know what to make of it..making grown ups weep was certainly not my intent when I wrote them.

What I really like to write tho' is weird fiction. And I have..it feels too personal to share. I don't think I will ever share it. It seems like it comes from the darkest parts of me. I went through a lovecraft/m.r.james/algernon phase and even though I moved past it..to try other authors and genres..I never forgot how I felt when I first got started on weird fiction. It feels the same way again when I dig deep and write little snippet stories for myself.
> 1) There is no "average" American. Everyone is close to a median in some metrics, and everyone is at out-lier in others.

I've always read it as "average countryman in the relevant metrics" (here views on privacy/knowledge of implications of mass surveillance), rather than suggesting that there is an hypothetical average person who fits for all contexts. It's obviously flawed, but I don't think it's a useless concept.
I read it a little differently. He cites "THE cleverness which...", implying that there's a particular form of cleverness that manifests in "continual lying."

I wonder whether the Russian word translated "cleverness" means straight intelligence as you are reading, or whether it might connote a sense of guile.

I'm also a little perplexed that people are taking the "motherhood" part as sexist.

What's wrong with aspiring to be a great mother? What's wrong with motherhood as a part of what strong and awesome women do, and a quality that you obviously would look for in a mate? Is there some kind of anti-mother backlash? If you're a mother, you're obviously in cahoots with the patriarchy? Is being a mother too embarrassing and lowly in today's culture? Why should it be that way? Let's take back motherhood as a noble and respectable thing!

While I'm at it, I'll put in a word for "freshness, elegance, and humanity." I wouldn't mind seeing these qualities held more in honor - in contrast to today's vapid culture that seems to encourage obsession with body shape while normalizing extreme inelegance (athleisure + tackiness) and inhumanity (permanently glued to phones, unable to converse.)

Note that even without any reference to men, the body-obsessed, tacky phone-addict is enjoying life less and attaining less satisfaction than if she were shooting for "freshness, elegance, and humanity." Would the female programmer or professor get less respect by having these qualities? If so, that IS a problem.
Honestly, as a developer, these sorts of vitriolic comments only make me want to fix these kinds of bugs less.

There is real cost to supporting features, and very often, the decision basically amounts to having to choose which feature scarce resources is used for. So you have to be prepared to defend having to divert resources for pet features--keeping in mind that sometimes the other feature is "making sure it builds tomorrow."

From what I can tell, the ALSA backend has been poorly maintained for some time. When the present state of affairs is deficient, and probably retarding code quality in other areas. If it's in a poor state for a long time, it's hard to argue that it is necessary to maintain support--or even that desupporting it will make a huge impact.

If you want to convince me to support something, offering help would be a great start. It could be as little as offering to test and QA a feature, or as much as providing an implementation patch and offering to maintain it for the foreseeable future. Insulting my intelligence and issuing threats for noncompliance are just going to result in me ignoring you, perhaps after laughing at you for a bit.

And remember, if you're not familiar with the relevant code, you're not really qualified to say how hard it is to actually do something. Code architectures may not be implemented the way you expect them to be, so what seems like it should be an obvious minor feature may turn out to require thousands of lines of changes (that was exactly how my first open source contribution turned out--what I thought should have been a five-line patch or so was really 1000 or so lines of changes).
I am a man that has a lot of friends who are women that I don't have sexual interest with. Especially true with older female friends. One of my old professors... She's pretty old and that'd just be gross and weird.

I think you're limiting yourself to productive relationships with only half the world's population.
Isn't that a question for women? Why haven't their number increased as much as men during the same period? My best guess is that it's due to social pressures from other women about being geeky and nothing to do with men.
The problem with that is that the length of offset pointing to your data is going to be geometrically(or worse?) bigger than the size of your data.

Thus - storing and maintaining the offset in PI becomes more expensive than storing data elsewhere.
When did you work there?? I find it surprising you never saw anyone writing C# or TypeScript if it was any time recent. These days there's quite a bit of web-based UI replacing the VB6, though you might not notice if you don't look carefully enough.
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I do run MPD as a system daemon, can't recall having to do anything crazy with Pulseaudio...
I wonder how we are supposed to type ⊸ in ye olde ASCII?
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I'm not on FB, and haven't been for years. My problems are Netflix/Prime and news (Google News feed and Hacker News primarily). I'd literally LOVE a smartphone which limited me to maps/navigation, camera, minimal search (for looking up crucial info on the go), email, SMS, and Slack. Oh, and Kindle. I HATE that my damn smartphone makes it so easy to fritter my life away. And that the only alternative seems to be completely dumb phones and carrying around a separate camera and GPS device. Ugh. I don't want a dumb phone, or a feature phone, I just want a dumber smartphone. And hell, I'd pay what I paid for my Pixel (unlocked) for one. I want something which values my time, privacy, and life as much as I objectively do...But am, apparently, too weak to govern myself.

My issues suck because I can't simply have my wife reset my password. I can't remove the Google News feed. And as long as I have a browser I can see Hacker News. Sigh.
Umm, there are still plenty of "cross record" lookups--patients have standard types of encounters at the medical center, they take standard types of drugs, and have standardized billing/symptom codes. These are all references to other "tables".
It was like this for around 10 hours for us... PITA when you rely on ephemeral instances and Round Robin DNS.
> Open your age range to include women who are older than you are (try as much as a decade, not just 1-2 years).

I remember an OKCupid stats review where they were talking about the age ranges opened for the genders. Women tended to do 5 years over to 5 years under, and men tended to do 5 years over to 10-15 years under. The analyst admonished the men for being ageist and not opening up higher to match... despite the women having the same range for higher ages.

Age is a weird one when it comes to love.
I never claimed my criticism was fair or consistent :P I think I was more interested in Haskell-like type driven programming at the time though. I honestly can't remember what it was.

And it's not so much that I hate type driven programming or purity. I just view them as tools in my toolbox, not as methodologies or worse - religions. I still think objects are an amazing concept if you look at them through the smalltalk lens. Or if you take a moment to step back and realise that an anonymous function is very similar to an object with an "apply" method, or that a constructor for an immutable object is like a functor that partially applies many related functions at once.
Let's just get this out of the way because it comes up every time, herd immunity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity). If it was just a personal choice I'd be more than happy to see your kids drop dead because they aren't vaccinated, but it's not just your kids, if you don't vaccinate you're harming other kids, including future generations.
And this is why OP is going to get a cease-and-desist regarding the name.
Should mention as well that if you don't vaccinate your kids here in Australia you also lose all government child support entitlements.
I don't necessarily disagree, but it's still bad advice because:

(1) The point you just made isn't clear at all and

(2) It's not actionable whatsoever and gives the wrong impression that you don't actually need to do something, when the reality is the complete opposite and you do need to make major changes to your life and approach to dating

The proper advice is to improve yourself, work on your confidence, and understand female psychology. How to do that is not trivial, but once you read and learn more about it, it's not that complicated either.
I agree. The physical interaction between a teacher and a student is irreplaceable by MOOCs. There's all of these externalities -- instant feedback, relations with peer and faculty, pressure to keep up with the course. That being said, the cost of a college education is too high right now and attending college is not right for everyone.
It's not for everyone, but try a BSD. When PulseAudio first started showing up everywhere, I thought it was an anomaly, but it was really a harbinger. Since then Linux has been getting more like Windows every year (unpredictable behaviour, resource-hungry, lots of churn, tons of complexity for little benefit). The FreeBSD audio driver is in the kernel, it's tiny, and I never think about because it's never once caused me problems (and I'm quick to notice latency, etc. issues).

As someone mentioned elsewhere in the thread, by being an ALSA user you're already in a tiny minority of the Linux world. You might as well be using an OS where your values in are the majority - it's nice to not have to fight against the defaults.
Helium is comparatively expensive, but you don't expend it as part of normal flight and it doesn't migrate very quickly through modern materials. A bigger problem than loss is fouling - you have to pump out the helium and purify it every so often (I think Zeppelin does it every six months).