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There is often a large discrepancy between what people say that they believe, and what they actually believe. In a 'Christian middle-class family', it may be that everyone believe that everyone else is against homosexuality. The priest says it is a mortal sin, and no-one has said they disagreed. Secretly the kids might think homosexuality-as-sin is an disgusting idea, the wife might think 'of course gays rights should be respected', and the father might feel 'whatever, I don't care what people do in their bedrooms'.

In this example the personal opinion has shifted in favour of homosexuality, however the public opinion has not caught up yet. To break the stalemate of everyone holding their potentially-controversal-but-not-actually opinion to themselves, some external nudge might be needed. A protest might be what brings the topic up, so that peoples actual opinions can come forth.

Such outing can have ripple effects. Kid talk about their family fight-which-wasnt to other kids, and find out their families also are in support. Soon everyone in the church is collectively rolling their eyes when priest harps on gays. Eventually the priest picks up the vibe and stops mentioning homosexuality as a sin altogether.
touch in macOS Sierra is down to 23kB since the 32-bit version is no longer part of the binary.

If you open it up, it's about 2/3rds zeros, maybe 10% Apple signing certificate, a whole bunch of dynamic linking data and according to otool, the (__TEXT,__text) section – normal code – is a mere 3kb in size.
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Not always, in highway traffic the lane markings are frequently too obscured to be readable by the camera, but if it believes that the cars in front are driving in the lanes, it just uses them.

Otherwise autopilot wouldn't work at all on highways.
One possible explanation is that's what the accepted narrative is based on media coverage. Also you have to get a bit specific when you consider what kind of killings are rare. US Police shoot and kill quite a few people to be sure. But statistically, shooting of unarmed black males is less than 4% of fatal police shootings.

> "A new study confirms that black men and women are treated differently in the hands of law enforcement. They are more likely to be touched, handcuffed, pushed to the ground or pepper-sprayed by a police officer, even after accounting for how, where and when they encounter the police.

But when it comes to the most lethal form of force — police shootings — the study finds no racial bias."

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/upshot/surprising-new-evi...

http://www.nber.org/papers/w22399.pdf

> "The conventional thinking about police-involved shootings, and some scientific research, has been that black suspects are more likely to be shot than white suspects because of an implicit racial bias among police officers. But now a new study has found exactly the opposite: even with white officers who do have racial biases, officers are three times less likely to shoot unarmed black suspects than unarmed white suspects."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2016/04/27...
See:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytope_model
https://www.cs.indiana.edu/~achauhan/Teaching/B629/2010-Fall...
http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~pouchet/lectures/doc/888.11.5.pdf
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> There are sentences which are telling a huge incompetence about the person using these.

Having "worked" with Jonas Galvez, I can tell you that he is hugely incompetent in all sorts of other ways as well. From skipping conference calls to writing completely broken code, he single-handedly drove down the productivity of our entire team. We paid him, but we learned to never trust anybody that's willing to work for free.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7326682
I prefer to not speak English at all, but to just grunt and make gestures like a chimpanzee.
OK. I'll focus on games with reasonable length or replayability - there's some amazing short games and experiences that are still good value for money but I'll leave them to one side. I'll also avoid non-games - even ones that are primarily for entertainment.

1. Rec Room

2. Sairento

3. Arizona Sunshine

4. Doom BFG (with the VR mod)

5. SuperHot

6. Elite Dangerous

7. Climbey

8. Pavlov (some prefer Onward but I haven't tried it)

9. Vivecraft

10. Subnautica

11. Vanishing Realms

12. Robo Recall

I can keep going if you like. The bottom of the barrel is a fair way off.
The wiki does not support 'huge amounts', and makes some tenous connections to some localized events and worldwide extinction event ones, as do most of the people who bring this up. It makes it hard to have the same conversation if they are conflated.

However, note the end of the wiki, where they state that the oxygenated state of the ocean currently is likely not the 'default' state of things if extrapolated beyond human history. It is certanly a concern. However there are ways to stimulate blooms, which may help serve to sequester carbon, and add oxygen in one fell swoop. Perhaps it is time to investigate the feasibility of such an action.
Still trying to find the Turbo Pascal source of the Turbo Bridge after all these years.
"No animals have all the attributes of human minds; but almost all the attributes of human minds are found in some animal or other"

This was a fun read in general, but I think it's particularly interesting to consider some of its implications in the context of trends in AI (to be clear, the article has nothing to do with AI).

I think the excerpt above is rapidly becoming true for current generation ML/AI systems (I'm leaving aside the question of qualia [0], since we are still unclear how to evaluate that question even for animals).

To the extent the above becomes true, I think it's an interesting contrast to the implied point behind Dijkstra's famous "swimming submarine" analogy:

"The question of whether machines can think... is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim."

The submarine "swims", but almost none of that activity could be mapped onto how a human swims. As the structure of ML/AI systems starts to mimic what we believe we know about the neuroscience of the brain, the question of whether machines are "thinking", and what that might mean about thought in general, is very interesting.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia
It may feel like it, but when you consider all of OpenGL's versions and extensions where it quickly becomes an ugly mess, that feeling disappears.

Vulkan feels more like a breath of fresh air in comparison, and its still higher level than the APIs we get on consoles.

I find it much simpler to architect engines with Vulkan in mind than OpenGL.
AFAIK the only systems that can reliably do this including chords are guitar synths, which require special pickups that capture the vibration of each string independantly. Some guitars are made with these special pickups already integrated, so at first glance it might look like an ordinary guitar + pedal arrangement.

For example: https://www.roland.com/global/products/gc-1/
Videos rarely do VR justice.

Climbey has arm-swinging for walking and jumping and a climbing mechanic central to the gameplay. It's just wonderfully immersive (as long as you've got a head for heights).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but these days everyone usually sends MIDI over USB. It doesn't have any of the problems you described, every computer has USB ports in some form or another. Every operating system has default drivers for these devices, so they usually work out of the box. Yes, MIDI as a hardware standard is dying. But why should we care when we have something more universal that replaces it?
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I'm attempting to acquire one now because I'm starting a retro computing club at my college. I want to get my hands on it so me, and a group of about 12 other college students, can fix it up and keep it running for as long as the college is alive. Since the college is a state funded college that will likely be for quite some time.

If I were to ever find a PDP I'd ask the person to donate it to me and I'd donate it to my club with the stipulation that I'm allowed access to it even after I graduate. If that didn't work out then, hell, I'd still take the PDP if it was only for a few years.

My club's constitution has been approved, it's being voted into club-hood (or whatever) in a few weeks. It's called Ar.C.S. or the Archaeological Computation Society. This is a play on a A.R.C.S. which stands for Academic Research Computing Services. This is a department of my university that manages all of our super computing power. They run our cluster called Kong.

ARCS maintains the super computers, ArCS maintains the not-so-super computers.

So far we have an...

1. Compaq III clone (i486, 200MB drive, Debian 1.1, DOA & fixed by me)
2. Timex Sinclair 1000/ZX80 \w cassette player (untested)
3. Commodore 64, NIB (will be donated by my coworker during the semester)
4. IBM PCjr (will be donated by another coworker when he finds it in his attic)

If I got a PDP my goals would be....

1. Get it working
2. Get a VT100, CR11 (punchards), LA36 (dot-matrix), RX01 (8" floppy), and a RL02K (swapable HDD)
3. Get SVR1 installed on it
4. Get other CS majors to help me write our own operating system on it (optional)
5. Bell Labs Day. Suits, thick glasses, etc. Most of my profs are ex-bell so they'd get a kick out of this.
6. I'm a ham radio operator so allow Radio TeleTYpe (RTTY) for login.

A lot needs to happen before any of that.
Probably not, since the exact same photo can be classified as porn or not based on the collection of other photos it's grouped with.
Damn. Is this an unsolved problem in CS?
You are, at least, thinking about it. Way ahead of the game.

Most phone users have no reason to download apps, and most app publishers are clueless about providing a reason, or even awareness their apps exist, beyond uploading them and hoping.

The nature of apps skews these numbers. So few apps are either worthy of a user's time, or awareness, that these low averages are not informative about apps that are worthy. It's more obvious for Web sites. Your blog is outdated, unmaintained, and obscure. So it gets no hits. Nobody is surprised. But that says nothing about Web sites that do contend for user awareness. Same for apps.
”I'll know it when I see it, or when the breast coefficient multiplied by the tumescence index is greater than 9."
How stupid. I am an Australian for all intents and purposes.
So how many people should be engaged in protest to topple a government recently elected by democratic vote? Presumably you think that at a certain state a protest trumps a democratic election?
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True, but to put things in proportion: I'll be delighted the day I can have a soft synth with a latency as low as MIDI.
That's one scandal I can think can of in such a large community.

Node had the "pronoun" scandal and the power struggle between strongloop and joyent.

The left-pad one which broke a ridiculous number of packages.

Crockford removed as speaker from some conference.

Project was forked at least 2 times IO.js vs node.js vs Ayo.js

While not a single scandal I have noticed in personal interactions while interviewing candidates, conferences, and online in forums that node.js devs seem to be very excited and confident and that's good, but also they don't know what they are talking about. That combination doesn't come off too well. That's why my "immaturity" comment. Maybe I am wrong and just happened to find all the bad apples by accident.
Not piano, but could it be the EHX B9? It's an organ emulator for guitars. Not really doing the full pitch/chord detection you would need for generic MIDI output (I believe it's vocoder based, but I might be wrong).
Well there's MIDI the electronic standard, and MIDI the musical serialization format. The former is moribund, the latter definitely isn't.
We need to introduce a system called "macropayments" where you pay once for a complete product and they leave you alone afterward.
A classic example of specialization, a genre of authors has sprung up who write adventure paths and modules of various sizes and complexity. You could think of it like using a modern framework to write a web app vs rolling the entire thing yourself from machine language.

The largest "best prepared" path I'm aware of is the Dark Obelisk Berrincorte system, which is about one linear foot on the bookshelf, seriously many thousands of pages. Something more normal size would be the Pathfinder adventure paths where you get dozens of pages of prep for GM and players, and a couple pages per hour of path.

You have to realize that historically DnD came from lord of the rings fans sitting around debating how many dwarven archers it would take to kill a balrog or what are the odds if a wizard had to fight it out with forest elves? These are not people intimidated by mere thousands of pages of fantasy fiction. I admit I've occasionally bought paths to read because I like the creativity.

That's the super high level answer. The super low level answer is RPG fan sites and subreddits and usenet are full of epic battles between the GM and the players when the players insist on running a campaign off the rails. To be a good player there has to be at least some surrender to the GM to play along. An annoyed GM can, at the cost of ridiculousness, push the players along the correct path, so if they insist on goofing off in town instead of exploring the scary cave, "a sinkhole opens up in the floor of the pub, underneath your feet, and you fall into the cave the sheriff had assigned to you to explore ..."

Well written, well prepared paths have a lot of problem solving, and the players big job is discerning when the purpose of a problem is to be creative vs it was imposed by the GM to keep on the path. For example, if there's a cliff are we supposed to risk our necks freeclimbing, or are we supposed to look around for rope or hidden steps, or use our limited magic resources to fly up there, or does the cliff exist because the GM "knows" we can't get up there and its just part of the scenery to keep us on the prepared path?

As a compare and contrast generally most players are used to computer RPGs which have zero character development and consider "bring me 9 wolf pelts" to be superior character development and writing style, at least for the genre. Thanks to computer RPGs, the bar is extraordinarily low, so its not hard to impress your players. There's more than a little meta similarity between real life human GMs and role playing class of "bard", so much as a bard wouldn't back down in-game, a GM is unlikely to back down and will put in a best effort.
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Crazy stuff! :D

I'm wondering how our future-self would feel about such cleverness haha
Why do people believe this sort of stuff still?

We know humans pattern match. It gives us gods, rain dances, lucky charms.

But we are in the 21st century and this isn't Reddit.

It aint going to be trig.
Enough to convince the military to execute a coup de tat.
Your article doesn't support your claim:

> "Despite its ally’s fundamental weakness, the United States might possibly still have won, of course, had it been willing to fully mobilize its own national power. But that would have required raising taxes, calling up the Reserves and other sacrifices that President Lyndon Johnson shrank from asking the American people to make."

...

"But Johnson was the most astute politician to sit in the White House during the 20th century, and he knew that he faced a paradox. As long as the war in Vietnam didn’t demand too much of them and they believed that victory was just around the corner, most Americans would support it. But if Johnson admitted publicly that South Vietnam could not survive without a full commitment by the United States, he knew that support would crumble."

Yes the SV government was autocratic, corrupt, incompetent, and this made it harder for the SV to get on board. But saying that's the majority reason is frankly incorrect. The full power of the US military would have been enough to guarantee victory or stalemate.

Further counterpoint. See the Korean War. Deeply unpopular at home. Most people didn't even know where Korea even was or fully understand why we were fighting. It was one of the major reasons why Truman's approval numbers were so low. S. Korean government at the time under Rhee was corrupt as all hell and undemocratic. In fact most of S Korea's history is undemocratic. S Korean Army units a total disaster for the most part. Yet S Korea still stands independent largely because we never faltered in giving them the military support they needed.

Also Iraq in 2003-2008 was less about winning over the people of Iraq and a lot more to do with other issues such as the refusal to utilize former Ba'ath party members and generals in the formation of the new government. Arguably the worst screw up was the unilateral exit of the US from Iraq under Obama which lead to the chaos we have to deal with now.
So anyone observing totality in that region would have perhaps seen (and heard) the Concorde in front of the eclipse?
Thanks for taking your time to analyze the binary. I know we are not constrained by expensive hard drives these days, but this sure is some wasted space.
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Do you list this accomplishment in your resume?
> There's your problem. I just roll the cable at the end of the play session so it's not tangled with other things, and put it safely oriented in a particular spot, without disconnecting anything. I only have to calibrate the lighthouses when I move them accidentally or when I move the whole setup to demo it elsewhere, either of which happen every several months. Also add a "playing VR" sign on the door and close it. Problem solved.

Sadly, my little office space is shared with others in the house, which is not large. Leaving the cables next to me is not really an option, and I have enough of them already coming from my PC.

> You have the straps incorrectly adjusted, probably. Also there are solutions that don't rely on pressure, PSVR style.

No matter how I adjust, it always starts feeling heavy after a while. PSVR is indeed much better in terms of comfort, agreed.
Not sure about Haskell (what I know about the compilation model makes it seem more difficult), but in a typical Java environment (including an IDE remote debugging tomcat/jetty, for instance), the debugger will hot swap changes that are just to method bodies.

The sad part is that this encourages bad development practices because piling on nested loops doesn't require bouncing the server, while properly factored code does.

There are tools like JRebel that are supposed to fix this, but I haven't used them.
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> The Vive has a front-facing camera especially for this purpose. I wish the "welding mask" hinge seen on the new Lenovo was more widespread.

Does it? I must never have noticed it. How do you enable it in-game?

>> A screen works much better

For general, short-session gaming. At least for me.

> I have fairly large spectacles and I don't find wearing them in VR problematic at all. There's easily 5mm of clearance even when the Vive is set to it's closest setting.

The main issue for me is putting on the headset and taking it off without the helmet grabbing and smudging them.
Do you have a link to more info on your solution?
You are right in saying that Marxism is anti-economic, but you are wrong in saying that it is bad because of this. Marxism is a critique of political economy which postured that capitalism is the highest form of development, or the most desirable.

Marx himself didn't propound an economic system, he specified what life should look like under a Communist system. As such, many varities have sprung up, from market Socialism to full economic planning (which contrary to what Mises would have you believe, is possible and has been worked upon by Cockshott et al.)
But aren't all forms of engineering about translating semantically meaningful tasks into {problem-domain}? What makes software different?
Space pirate trainer ... I love it!! It is so simple but so perfect with touch controllers. I used to be a gamer back in my youth but little time these days. This game is instant action as soon as you start.

Darknet on gear vr. Same deal ... loved it and a very quick fix.

Landfall. I played like a demon the entire open beta. My wife was very annoyed at me :-p But I think I unlocked all the mechs. This is a controller game though.
Incentivizing anything can lead to unwanted consequences. Even virtuous things such as reducing code.

This for me is a bad idea. I always have it in the back of my mind about reducing a modules footprint but as someone else mentioned on here. There's an art to it. Sometimes it's a bodge, followed by another fix in another part of the code base a month later which then frees you to delete.

Quite often it's like that actually. Patience is key.

I'd also like to add +1 for duplicating code. I see lot of devs just unwilling to dupe code at the cost of readability and speed of development.

Perhaps that code could be refactored down the line or more often the act of making it "neat" gives up 1 or more niceties that made you write it like that in the first place.
>One -- Open Camera -- does have the ability to make such a donation by purchasing a separate "donation app".

Android has the concept of 'unlock keys', which were basically IAPs for full unlocks. I'm pretty sure you can still make them, as a couple apps I use still have legacy keys in addition to IAPs (added later).

The guarantee that you're only paying once is a nice thing, but these days I think users understand IAPs these days and prefer what they know.
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Re: holy shit has that idea ever been explored? Giant lens / mirror array in space?
But I am sure she got promoted and is now giving talks at B schools and on TED stages to young minds on how to make it.
> Liang is one of the lowest-ranking executives charged so far.

While I approve of strict punishments for such terrible actions, I worry that this is a case of a "scapegoat" being advertised as punished, so that the real decision makers higher up can go with lighter reprimands. Since the scapegoat is guilty of the crime, the deception is much easier.
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And that is why I only have 1 friend on Facebook - my wife
Windows is a pain to program on,

It's really not, if you know how to do it. But that goes for any OS out there. I mean, put a seasoned visual-studio-on-windows-only dev in front of a linux box and tell him to set up the build of a non-trivial application and watch what happens. Chances are pretty high the answer is 'linux is a pain to program on' :]

but I still want to use "normal" clang, so I have to generate a unix makefile

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2017/03/07/use-any-c... it's still relatively young but seems to work quite ok
I agree the logical standard is either the extreme mentally ill elements of a group are a groups responsibility or they are not. It simply can't be both.
Or it is just a chance event? As it is not a controlled experiment and the story concerns a single individual I find the conclusion to be rather shaky.
> seriously

weasel word or are the considerations mentioned really just a joke?
Divided across an industry the size of the US banking system it's not that much.
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Then why use it?
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Do you mean that there do not exist any energy sources which are renewable at the rate we require, or that using such sources at the current / future rate would still be irresponsible for some reason?
I'm getting a 404

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