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Reminded me about another bit of info on Ultima 6 / Warren Spector:

Spector cites an amusing anecdote from Ultima 6’s in-house testing:
"…on Ultima VI, which is kind of where I realized that all this improvisational stuff could really be magical. It was unplanned, kind of a bug. There was one puzzle where the Avatar and his party came up on one side of a portcullis and there was a lever on the other side of the portcullis that you had to flip to raise the portcullis and keep on making progress. I watched one of our testers, a guy named Mark Schaefgen, playing in that area. And he didn’t have the telekinesis spell, which was the way to get past that portcullis. I was sitting there rubbing my hands together going ‘oh ho ho, he’s screwed, he can’t do it.’

He had a character in his party named Sherry the Mouse. You can probably see where this is going. The portcullis was ‘simulated,’ and here the air quotes are around simulated, simulated enough that there was a gap at the bottom that was too small for a human to get through, but not too small for Sherry. He sent Sherry the Mouse under the portcullis, over to the lever, she flipped the lever, and then the rest of the party went through. And I fell on the floor. At that moment I just said to myself, ‘this is what games should do. We should start planning this, not having it happen as a bug.’ That was where I realized this was really powerful."

It was things like this that make the Ultima series stick in my head to this day. :)
I suggest you get a reseller account from one of the web hosting provider and setup your clients on it.

Managing cPanel, WHM, CloudLinux, CXS, CSF, Munin, backup, security, etc is not easy.

ps: I'm running a web hosting business myself ;)
Or from a more paranoid standpoint, they got exactly the public response they wanted.

Dissenters, or at least supposed dissenting federal employees now know they're considered suspect. This attempt died, but in light of this do you, anonymous federal employee considering speaking out against the direction of your department, want to risk being next?
>I use a Surface Pro 4 daily and it's great. I'm a student so the writing with the pen made it pretty appealing

Artists maybe, but in what universe students routinely write with a pen nowadays?
Not every child - every Year-7 (11-12 year old) child, whose school had a teacher interested enough to apply for them.

My child's DT teacher did, but they used it for one lesson, then were given it to bring home. It's now in a drawer somewhere.

That was last year. I haven't heard of any plans to repeat the exercise.
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I have similar stories with UO... it was the best sandbox game every created. In many ways UO felt like an open world crossed between Minecraft and an Elder Scrolls game. Often even the bugs and quirks aided the whole experience too- often quickly exploited to pull off some crazy plan (like trapping a mod). In comparison, WoW and most MMORPGs feel like linear adventure games.
Finance people regularly get paid $400k+ as new grads. Well done dharma1/showmethemoney – next time ask for 500k!
Let's do some quick napkin math. Foursquare has 286 employees[1], let's say the average salary is $120k, representing ~$180k fully-loaded cost. And there you already have a ~$51MM cost.

[1]: https://equidateinc.com/company/foursquare
If you plan on learning, you can pick up Golang, otherwise go with Node or .NET that you're comfortable with.
Rule by law, not rule of law. Once you understand the difference between these two concepts, you'll understand China a bit better.
As a minor update, I was thinking about something similar to the 2002 prototype mentioned in this article: http://newatlas.com/go/8267/ with a couple of things licensed out 10 years ago (to a company that currently appears to only have a font that they license).

Seems to me that you might even be able to build something that would identify as a VGA monitor, either monochrome or in one of the legacy 4-color modes at a low resolution.
There are some design decisions in Brotli I just don't quite understand [1][2][3], like what's going on with its dictionary [2]. One of the Brotli authors is active in this thread, so perhaps they can talk about this.

Zstandard is pretty solid, but lacks deployment on general-purpose web browsers. Firefox and Edge have followed Google's lead and added or about to add support for Brotli. Both Brotli and Zstandard see usage in behind-the-scenes situations, on-the-wire in custom protocols, and the like.

As for widespread use on files-sitting-on-disk, on perhaps average people's computers, I think we're quite a few years and quite some time away from replacing containers and compressors that have been around for a long time, and are still being used because of compatibility and lack of pressure to switch to a non-backwards-compatible alternative [4].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12010313 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12003131 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12400379 [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13171374
> I know that sounds harsh, but we seriously need to stop the hero worship in SV culture and begin building a society that benefits everyone, not a society that works itself to the bone just to eat the cake of a larger corporation and enrich the early investors.

This sort of oligarchy is probably emergent from the way we structure our economy on a base level. What factors incentivize corporations to form into pyramids, with most of the wealth accruing on top? Can we instead incentivize smaller, cooperative-style companies with more democratic managerial styles and more equitable distribution of wealth? It wouldn't work for every business, but it's barely been tried at all, and I'd love to see the kind of SV culture that would emerge from these parameters. (I guess Valve is a notable example, but I can't think of many others. I suppose the OSS community?)

Unfortunately, I don't think telling people to stop hero worship is going to do the trick. Things are going to have to change on a more fundamental level.
Just as you'd expect. Whether the property in question are books you own, or a shed, or your entire house it's your property and it's not a crime to turn your property into a bonfire so long as doing so doesn't break other criminal laws.
Very cool! Thanks
You can get some information from this comment[1] by the author as well as his others on that thread. This is somewhat outside of my area.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/54kg6v/numeric...
> it's not like English doesn't have crazy non-phonetic spellings as well (how tf is "through" supposed to be pronounced for a English learner?)

English is probably the worst case among alphabetic languages, but you can still usually guess the exact pronunciation of an unfamiliar word.

> the Chinese language consists of MANY homophones.

But still Chinese speakers make themselves understood without difficulty, even over the telephone. Most Chinese words are polysyllabic. Taking that into account, homophones are rarer than you might think.

There's a language+, Dungan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungan_language), which is to some extent mutually intelligible with Mandarin. It's written entirely in the Cyrillic alphabet without diacritics to indicate tone. Sample text: http://www.omniglot.com/babel/dungan.htm

+ You could call it a dialect, but it has its own script.
I don't think that saving Miama is really possible, it's facing too much from too many sides. I think the biggest issue is that people love living there, and they'll believe it's over after it's over.

Of course, the first people to get the message will be those with some money and education, and their exist will tank that market. As for admitting anything, they'll just switch over to "It's not man-made!". There is no limit to the human capacity for self-delusion.
> Or, would you rather swap a regular user entry into and away from a maintenance role when you hire/fire someone? (Certainly doable, but seems extreme.)

How is it extreme; granting or dropping permissions to a particular Role for one user account is certainly not more extreme than dropping or addin a user account in that situation, which is the alternative.

> You also gain the ability to severely lock down destructive permissions to the database behind fairly rigid authentication rules.

Actually, no, you don't, because multiuser RDBMSs (well, most of the commercial ones, plus Postgres, and I'm pretty sure Firebird; MySQL/MariaDB may be weak here, they often seem to be in things that I'd like to say are generally true of RDBMSs) built in security and auth systems already give you this.
Note that even in Spanish there is room for confusion (source: I'm Spanish), as in some cases it's very simple to write homophones (like vaca / baca, both valid, not related at all.) My father, who always told me he had very bad orthography, always asked me if that word started with h, or if that other was written with b / v, or g / j.
You are wrong about them being limited to right at the border. There are many border patrol stops way north of the border, south of Tucson, all areas around Tucson. These are at the least dozens of miles from the border.
Oh man I loved this game. This game may have single handedly set me on my career in software development. I'd played many many games before, but this one really opened my eyes to the possibilities that computers offered.

I just finished a recent playthrough, no more than six months ago! The game holds up really well. There are obvious shortcomings compared to modern games, it could be a hard slog for younger generations who are used to a more polished product, but if you are looking for a good bit of nostalgia U6 is hard to beat.

For comparison I also tried re-playing Bard's Tale 3 recently. I wasted many hours of my childhood with that game. Frankly, I'm amazed at how poor and awful of a game it was and I just I couldn't stick to it.
can this help people who are trying to learn Hanzi of any kind, not just calligraphy?
Keras is a wrapper around TF to make some common model operations easier (construction of linear layers of nets like a CNN) and to make common training operations easier.

So you can still do whatever with Keras by combining it with lower level TF operations, it's not really keeping you from doing anything. But more complex layer types and training might have to be rolled by hand, at which point it can be easier to just do it all at the lower level TF ops. This comes up a lot when implementing newer papers where they are proposing new training methods or Operations where you really need the flexibility to get in there and manipulate the ops directly.
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It backfired tremendously. That Twitter account wasn't very well known, and the controversial government actions helped it become a trending topic in social networks.

That twitter account and others form what they call the "alt gov", and they invite followers to follow other alt gov accounts.

At the end of this exchange, the alt gov people won many followers. The government actually unintentionally helped them with free publicity.
Awesome concept!! I've signed up for the beta and having worked for SBSA, I'm proud that they're on the forefront of some this with this potential.

I'm keen to see what sort of use cases people come up with.
TTS is what I use. I picked up a used old kindle keyboard, one of the versions that still had the feature. I slip that into my jacket pocket when I go on walks. It's nice because you're not limited on selection. The robotic nature of the voice fades away after an hour or two of listening to it.
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Well, the history of Hangul shows that the difficulty of phoneticizing a language is on the first problem in the disseminating a phonetic alphabet.

"Hangul faced opposition by the literary elite, such as Choe Manri and other Korean Confucian scholars in the 1440s, who believed hanja to be the only legitimate writing system, and perhaps saw Hangul as a threat to their status.[9] However, it entered popular culture as Sejong had intended, being used especially by women and writers of popular fiction.[15] It was effective enough at disseminating information among the uneducated that Yeonsangun, the paranoid tenth king, forbade the study or use of Hangul and banned Hangul documents in 1504,[16] and King Jungjong abolished the Ministry of Eonmun (언문청 諺文廳, governmental institution related to Hangul research) in 1506."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul#History
>"It is legal for a licensed gun owner to open-carry in California." Falsehood.

...it looks like your bot didn't consult Wikipedia, which states otherwise:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_California#Open_ca...

...of course I'm not a lawyer and I wouldn't trust wikipedia for keeping me out of jail.
Obviously not totally orthogonal, just loosely correlated, but significantly so below some threshold.

E.g. it's not like someone with an IQ of 80 can be totally creative -- except if by "creative" we just mean "has lots of imagination".

But what we casually call creative is not just being imaginative in abstract, but coming up with innovative solutions and important works. Which requires intelligence -- especially if those works are of the engineering and scientific kind.
> I don't think that saving Miami is really possible, it's facing too much from too many sides.

I don't think it is either, but that doesn't mean we're not going to spend hundreds of billions of dollars trying.
Correct. They have gotten worse though. And even if you believe nothing changed, it's terrible and we need to stop it.
any specific benefit for Golang over the others in your experience?
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> Many DBs weren't built to be exposed on the open web.

Most RDBMSs were built to be exposed on untrusted networks, and their built-in security has explicit mechanisms to address this.
>I literally cannot think of a company that "won" by promoting its ethical competitiveness,

Just off the top of my head there's starbucks whose main marketing innovation when they opened up was that they use only "fair trade" beans. And there's American Apparel, which despite the recent controversy, started off with the marketing promise that they are sweatshop free.

I don't know how much ethics matters, but certainly it matters to some extent.
In my experience, those in universes with math(-heavy) lectures.

And in general, scribbling notes or highlighting in provided materials isn't that unusual either, especially among those that own devices with pen input.
Fact checking isn't subjective, though. You either do fact-checking or you don't. If you do fact-checking, you're either checking if the statement is factually correct or not. There is no real in-between and no real "this is true because I think it is."

At least from a human perspective. You're right in raising the concern that from a machine perspective this is hard to achieve, but again that's a red herring to the OP.
Another robotic warehouse picker to watch is IAM Robotics in Pittsburgh (down the road from me, as it happens.)

https://www.iamrobotics.com/

They seem to rely on a stereo vision that perhaps is a CMU spin-off?
We used Adyen for a German-based startup about five years ago. I don't remember it being that difficult back then, but I just handled code. Our biz guys handled the account stuff. For what it's worth, they were both a little profligate and good at telling a big tale, so it may not have been an affordable or easy option back then either.
They have a very fancy version of the PE one on there too. It may be necessary for me to own it.
I've had much better luck with podcasts. It's harder to tune out a conversation when multitasking, as opposed to a single narrator.
Use a credible source, not one that isn't above photoshopping tweets.
I don't feel defensive because I've possibly argued against a mentally ill person at all, since I don't think that's wrong (I'm also super circumspect that you are mentally ill).

Seriously, do you just have your side of the conversation written down somewhere and refuse to deviate from the script?
While I think Andreesen has some interesting things to say, Matt Wulfeck has a valid criticism. These are people who have been around when lightning struck but now they think they make the rain.

Don't forget, Andreesen has had his share of spectacular failures too. He just had more resources to bet with going forward from them.

Anyone other than me find it funny that Mark not only talks to a very small circle of people for "validity" of his ideas, he's proud to have figured out how to avoid even that in this article?
wake me up when connections to non-Chinese servers (the vast majority of them) don't time out half the time, or connections to neighbors like HK and Singapore don't do crazy routing through Beijing, to America, to HK/Singapore and back instead of directly to HK/Singapore, or numerous key websites aren't outright blocked

>lived in Shenzhen, the internets are broken and everybody knows it
Zooming panes alone is reason to upgrade imo.
Oh I see, yes I agree completely. We're going to exhaust resources in last-minute desperation, waste it in war and conflict, and then in the end maybe try to geoengineer out way out, which is one hell of a gamble if it's even plausible.
I think I get what you're saying, and that's the problem with the hard cutoffs we have for aid now. Wouldn't it be solved by just making it completely smooth up to 25k/year?

If you earn $0, you get $25k.

If you earn $10k, you get $15k

If you earn $24999, you get a $1 credit.

Anything $25k and up, you get 0 credits, with a progressive tax scheme to support the above.

I guess it's not "universal" per se, but the only means testing would be to figure out how much income you made, which the government already does in the course of collecting income taxes anyway.
They get the talent and experience they are willing to pay for, and deal with the recidivism rate that paying under market gets you.
But are they an order of magnitude orthogonal?

:)
Similarly, in high school me and my friends discovered that the best combination of accounts for UO is to have a miner blacksmith and an adventurer of some sort. The miner spends time getting ore, making gear, and selling it to town merchants or other players.

You then use this money to fund your adventurer so he can buy good gear from other players who have better miner blackmiths than you do. Minerblacksmith characters were always the richest.

There was like a serious economy running on the servers I played. It was great.
Isn't more that that their RNA is constantly being rewritten than the cephalopods themselves doing writing? What force is responsible for choosing the new RNA?

I would not say it is the animals themselves doing the writing as a force of will, sentience, or consciousness, which is what the headline implies.

The article itself says:

> Their RNA is extensively rewritten, particularly the codes for proteins found in the animals' neurons.

Tune in next week for more headline pet peeves
Ocean levels will continue to rise for centuries. I don't think the timescales quite make sense from an investment perspective.
"1.8.1.3rc1 - we added this totally language-changing feature!" :P

What is this Angular?
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This is a great example, it appears Foursquare did this previously to predict iPhone Sales.

https://medium.com/foursquare-direct/right-on-target-foursqu...
Napa :-)

Another story:

Since we had all 6 accounts logged in, and right next to eachother, we would whack a guy in PVP but use our Snoop and Sneek hiding characters to grab the loot.

So if we got killed, your ghost would typically have to run back to your body - but typically the loot was gone obviously. - so we would move the Snoop and Sneek characters along the same path as our Dread Lords - and when we would whack a person with the dread lord, we would have Snoop and Sneek pickup the loot and hide.

Multiple times ppl killed our main character, attempted to loot us, knowing that we had just looted the ppl we killed but then found nothing of their friends loot on our body and were saying WTF... this is why admins followed us around. They didnt get how we were exploiting multiple accounts with such coordination.

Or if our dreadlord got whacked, we could quickly loot our own body, then hide, protecting our loot.

Snoop and Sneek, while skilled little rogues were master mages.

Recall when IN VAS FLAM was bugged and would insta-kill anyone? Yeah Snoop and Sneek have a vast kill roster with that bug.
For me it's mostly pep 20 https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/
conveyed through builtin and third party libraries
> Note that IT has good reason for the complex change rules: if they make ANY change to the data base, everyone needs to change.

Only if the DB is used by multiple apps and not designed correctly for that use (e.g., all apps use direct access to base tables rather than app-specific views.)

Unfortunately, this is more common than it should be, but the solution is to stop doing that.
There are many languages that fit certain general descriptions, but that doesn't mean that the experience of using them will lead me to think they are at all comparable in terms of how well they help me solve the kind of problems I face. Go and Scala - I somehow dont think they are close substitutes for each other. The kind of person that likes D's generics will not be the kind that is ultra happy with Go. The kind that likes the short learning curve and plethora of network libraries in Go might not be thrilled by D early experience. It all depends.
No it doesn't. If thing Y was remotely complicated and if the teams had a good working relationship why would they choose to duplicate their work. Even if it was in a completely different tech stack you would still try to leverage someone else's work and there are plenty of ways to do that in almost any situation across most technologies. Also even if a rigid structure existed I can still not use your thing Y most likely because I don't respect your work and I would implement thing Y differently ( and in my opinion better ). Then you get thing Y and thing Y+1. The problem isn't people chose different tech stacks its they don't want to work together. If they did they would choose tech stacks and work practices that foster collaboration.
Well, you could've gone higher. Oh well! Next time.
Kibitzr is kinda opening a new niche in tooling.
Great job for Chinese culture lovers.
It depends on your project requirements. Golang, NodeJS and .NET all of them be used to build web backends.

Thing is if you're going with something that you don't know, it will slow you down because you need to learn it, since you know .NET and NodeJS it would make sense to go with them.

At the end of the day, it just matter of how productive you are.

Personally I always go with Python, mostly because it's the tool I know how to work with and craft my software with it.

Both golang and nodejs are linux production friendly and have tons of resources and tutorials and libs out there.

Again, I highly recommend going with something you're familiar with to be productive and match your project requirements.
All the tweets are deleted now so obviously I can't post any of them. Twitter does have access to Milo's DM history, however, and you can be banned for inciting harassment through direct message.