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In terms of anti-Trump Resistance, I was skeptical in the beginning, but the Women's March did show that getting together in big numbers gets people's attention. If nothing else it manages to rattle a President who is addicted to watching TV!

But I do think one big problem is how to channel the energy the American Left has for marching, protest etc. into voting. Maybe there needs to be a 'March to the polls' on voting days! Everyone from a specific district or area get together, then groups go to their specific local voting locations.
Luckily(?) catastrophic climate-related events are already happening.
If the Volkswagen AG would be the only culprit. So far it looks like Audi persuaded Bosch to add the cheat detection code into it's ECU used in almost every Diesel car, and consequently almost every car was using it.
The scandal is much bigger than VW.
How would you aim the shadow? It's not a matter of technology; it's not physically possible to pinpoint a shadow from that distance.
As before, I have to thank you for clearly exposing the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of this position more clearly than I ever could have.

Science? Irrelevant.

Truth? A distraction.

Math? Don't understand, don't want to understand.

Logic? Don't bother us with that.

What people say/write? Who cares?

What people want? I know what they should want.

It's a pure power play with no redeeming qualities and nothing to back it whatsoever. The whole thing hinges on the rhetorical trick of redefining words in such a way that the definitions already contain the conclusion you wish to reach, for which there is no actual evidence, and therefore you demand that as a precondition for having a discussion with you one must already accept your conclusions.

Well, it's such a cheap trick that it doesn't even pass the "debating 101" silly tricks laugh test, and just because you've constrained yourself to being inside an echo chamber that reinforces these religious beliefs (because that is all they are) unquestioningly doesn't actually give you any authority to speak on the subject.

So: thanks again, you've done a marvelous job.
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The author puts this transitional, rhetorical statement in the middle of the piece:

> The question, then, is what protest is for.

and somehow doesn't even realize that they largely answered it in the quote that seems like it was included to fill out a "rule of threes" set of examples of protests from the 70s:

> and the pushy, calculating Earth First! movement, which sought to “make it more costly for those in power to resist than to give in.”

If we're talking about protests throughout history as a tactic for change, that quote encapsulates not only the purpose of protests but also the metric by which we retroactively measure their success. (I say retroactively because the most important protests happen under dictatorial regimes that typically aren't keen on accurately communicating to a resistance movement how much they've managed to deplete the dictator's coffers.)

There are certainly also such things as symbolic protests, but it's a truism that those are more amorphous and less likely to lead to change than more serious ones. And if the idea was to use the word "protest" as a shorthand for the set of symbolic protests in the U.S. that seem at the moment not to have had any measurable effect, that is unclear and prone to confusion.
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Maybe Palmer Luckey will buy it? https://www.reddit.com/r/Vive/comments/6w1x7o/what_do_you_gu...
c.f. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10505251 , where I explain the similar case of why some IRS web apps have office hours.
Vietnam-era Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara later claimed the catalyst for his change of heart on Vietnam policy was when Norman Morrison burned himself alive outside the Pentagon in protest.

I suppose that's one data point in favor of the effectiveness of self-immolation, at least
My experience was the complete opposite. I genuinely do not understand why this book is recommended. It's been years since I've read it but whenever i see it recommended it irritates me. Especially as people who do never list anything of actual significance that's to do with learning, other than clichés.
Figure a space elevator might originate from a structure like this?

I mean, it doesn't look completely retarded. Just kind of absurd.
What does interlock mean in this context?
> If we should expose Vulkan bindings to dynamic languages (and why not?) JS is the obvious first choice for a target, given its speed and popularity.

Exposing it to JS and exposing it to web pages in a browser are two completely different things.

> They're actually very cheap nowadays, because so many benchmarks stress the DOM and C++-implemented builtins. Driver calls, even with Vulkan, far exceed the cost of JS-to-native transitions. glDrawElements() is probably at least 100x slower than a JS-to-native call, the latter of which has latencies measured in nanoseconds.

glDrawElements in vulkan is a couple hundred lines of API calls. I don't think you're fully grokking the orders of magnitude of verbosity that Vulkan brings.

As for the transition cost there's varying levels of cheap, but at the end of the day it's not great. It's raw per-call overhead on an API designed around making an obscene amount of calls, and the overhead is significant. Jumping between these worlds is just not something you want to do very frequently if your goal is performance.

C++-builtins are a completely different class of problems as intrinsics get to play by their own compiler rules than regular JS -> native bindings.

> Please, let's not. This will neither be good for designers (modern GPU programming has an enormous learning curve compared to CSS) nor browser developers (shaders would break batching and would expose too many engine-specific internal details).

So simple pixel shaders are too complex, but vulkan is not?

If a pixel/fragment shader is too much, then so is the entirety of WebGL, and webvulkan would just be pure insanity from that perspective.

Also it doesn't break batching at all, I have no idea what you're talking about there. A pixel shader is just a function with a set of inputs and a color output. It's really quite simple, easily emulated for non-GPU fallbacks, and easily manipulated by the browser.
I don't think that right. The hotter side would radiate more than if the same amount of energy were distributed over the whole planet surface.
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I don't remember that in Ringworld, but that was the first real sci-fi book I read! Still one of my favorites.
Most of your assertions here are incorrect. You don't need a particularly complex model to show that if more energy is absorbed by the earth than is radiated, which is the case due to greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, the temperature will rise until it returns to a steady state at a higher temperature. This means that even if CO2 emissions stop immediately (which obviously they won't), the temperature will continue rising for a period of time (some decades).

A 2 degree rise is considered to be the absolute limit without likely catastrophic consequences. It is certainly not the worst case.

Sea levels could certainly rise by more than you claim, but sea level rise is far from the only problem. See here for instance: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-...

If you're being honest about your introduction, that you don't understand why people are concerned about climate change, then that's a start. If you're instead trying to convince people of your point of view, please provide evidence for your assertions.
Thank you, posted it. No luck so far, but someone linked me to another person asking the same question with a better description of the story.

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/168074/does-anyone...
My opinion? VR is on its last legs. I've tried it, and while it's cool... blocking my entire vision and attention just isn't realistic.

That said, from what I've seen, I do think AR is going to be the next big thing.
The engineering debate aside, I don't even like how programmers fancy themselves as "developers", which is very non descriptive, considering that around half of all human jobs are about "developing" something. People who write programs should just call themselves "programmers" for the sake of clarity.
Flash games are dead and even facebook games are largely a thing of the past as Facebook is now primarily used on mobile. The casual audience is on their phone in app stores & not on the web anymore.

I assure you those casual game companies are not going to want to go anywhere near vulkan or similar, though, and they are generally fine with the performance scripting languages already give them (hence why they were in flash instead of java applets)

They want strong 2D graphics capabilities primarily, which is largely an ignored category. <canvas> has a 2D context, but it's pretty crappy.
It sounds like you're both using it for different purposes. What the parent commenter meant is that this doesn't completely overlap with Make's feature set.

Make has intrinsic knowledge about how to build, compile, detect changes and recompile source code, and more. If you're using make solely as a task runner then yes, this could be a much more developer-friendly replacement.
I was a casual gamer and I agree with whats written here. I did actually try the Vive for a week but passed on buying. I am actually pretty excited about AR these days though. Apart from games, productivity apps will be big on AR
This unfortunately just isn't possible if you want your research to be able to be read in the future. "download?" from where? Links rot. "run?" which language, compiler, cpu architecture? Dependencies? Code bit rots. And data formats become unreadable - unless they're self-documenting like plain old csvs, they're fine.

That's why algorithms are written in pseudocode, and mathematics is written in, well, mathematical notation. It's expected that if you want to use it you'll re-implement it yourself in a software setup convenient to you.

So you can't publish runnable code unless it's severely limited - being in some standard language that is unchanging. I'd much prefer someone tell me in words what statistical method they used, so I can type it into Python myself than be forced to spin up some standardised but old and crufty fortran 77 or something that they didn't enjoy writing and I didn't enjoy running (I am aware that Python is often just calling the old fortran libs though!). Giving me the Python in the first place also isn't feasible - some scientific analysis code I wrote 6 months ago already doesn't run because of API changes in matplotlib.

A few years ago I saw Python 1.5 code implementing an algorithm I wanted to use. I couldn't run it - instead I read it, and I read the Python 1.5 docs about the bits I was unfamiliar with. If it were in pseudocode it would have been more self-contained.

Code and data formats, other than very crufty ones, are living. They're not suitable as the final form to publish in. If your project and field is ongoing, then by all means try to develop standards and use the same software and formats as each other to help sharing data. But the actual publications need to still be readable in a decade (or much more) time, so publishing runnable code seems like it conflicts too much with that.
I know that while on H1B, I can co-found a company as long as I can demonstrate a employer-employee relationship. But what can I do if I want to apply for green card under my company, if I only have enough qualifications for EB2? From what I understand, Labor Certification for EB2/EB3 will not go through if the applicant has significant shares of the sponsoring company.
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In my experience, they aren't faster... used to use WebStorm before switching to VS Code... VS Code works better, at least in my experience.

NOTE: if you're running on a hard drive based machine, then the Jetbrains IDEs may run better.
Hey Egbert, found your post useful. I have worked with the good folks at Stripe Connect as an early user (Pay with OpenTable). The Uber-for-X in a day package makes a ton of sense. Needs location, messaging, payments, perhaps an order management framework. What could the next steps be to put this together?
I studied computer science and taught myself FPGA design on my own.

The thing is, implementing non-trivial FPGA designs is much closer to software development than to analog hardware design, both in the problem-solving approaches and in the tools you use (text-based languages instead of schematics); a "low-level mindset" is necessary, though. The association of FPGAs with electrical engineering is mostly due to historical reasons.

As for learning FPGA design: Download the free Xilinx Vivado Webpack (or the Intel/Altera equivalent), it is so feature-complete that it's even sufficient for many commercial designs. Most online tutorials (and university courses) are pretty crap though, because the teach you extremely low-level approaches, like building your own adders, which you should never do in FPGAs. This is great for understanding bit-level arithmetic, but useless for approaching and partitioning larger problems. It's the equivalent of teaching someone assembly (great for understanding the inner operations of a CPU), and then asking them to implement a webserver.

Besides, most online tutorials and university courses teach outdated coding styles, like separating sequential and combinational processes. It's good to read, e.g., the Xilinx forums to stay up-to-date.
Check out Nerdarchy on YT if you want to level up your DM skills, just let them chat in the background while you flesh out the campaign. Try not to squirrel too hard; if they give you an awesome idea, just make a note for next week and then carry on with what you meant to work on, if you can.

https://www.youtube.com/user/Nerdarchy, goes well with beer and colored mechanical pencils.
+1 - hooray for porn and Haskell
You would define rgrep as taking a stream of files. Generating the stream of files is outside the capability of any program (since we don't have `open` or even `listdir`). Instead you'd use a primitive of the storage system itself to define a stream of files that you pass to rgrep. Something like `rgrep(/my/path/, text)`. So it becomes impossible for any program to access a file without the user's explicit indication.
ansolutely. an expert knows the most efficient motions from refining inefficient ones or from a coach who can spot issues. inefficient motions create repetitive use injuries.
A computer, being approximately a Universal Turing Machine, can virtualize anything, including a "better" computer.

So, a better question to ask is: "If unit and integration testing are so great, why not create a virtual system and corresponding programming language that will do nearly all of the unit and integration testing automatically."
Just like Word's doc format?

It's only a 'standard' for those closed-minded industrial drones who won't ever contemplate using something different. This is the attitude that causes awesome, innovative software to disappear beneath a morass of "But it's not industry standard!".

I create graphics. I don't use any Adobe software. Adobe isn't the only graphics software company out there.
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Are you qualified to make these criticisms?
To be fair another law is in play

> Sci-fi authors often get it super wrong. Look back at how many sci-fi works correctly predicted the ubiquitousness of cell phones and Internet-capable phones.
VR won't be a huge knockout until wearable contacts get developed. I would imagine that would be followed by implants. Until then VR is a cool novelty and it will be spread by actual interesting apps/games being developed for it that aren't just ports.
15 inch pro. And if you are not into gaming or 3D graphics, I would not get a dedicated GPU. Might increase the lifetime of the machine a bit (less heat inside).

By the way, the iGPU is good enough for games like Hearthstone, League of Legends, etc...
They do? In the US? Where do you get those numbers from?
A couple weeks ago, a friend sent me a screenshot, via Whatsapp, of a dating app profile for a girl named "Bilar." The following day, Facebook showed me a friend suggestion for a girl named Bilar. I've never met anyone by that name. I could be wrong but my immediate conclusion is that Facebook recognizes text in Whatsapp-sent images and feeds it into the social network's friend suggestion engine.
It also conflates V:tM with Mind's Eye Theater. The author is basically a classic AD&D grognard, and looks down on things like White Wolf and storytelling games.
I'm waiting for your sources.

Let me guess: you won't provide any.
I think it depends on how you define people skills :) But yes, he was said to be a great manipulator.
I did not submit it. Can I change the title?
Long story, and it very much depends on the brand. Re: cashing out, we do both transfers and resale, depending on the user risk profile.
AR headsets will never catch on, people don't want to looking silly wearing that thing on their face. Neural implants have way more mainstream potential.
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Jerome Lowenthal, the pianist and pedagogue has focal distonia, and speaks about it in his teaching. Opera singers get vocal nodes from incorrect use or overuse of the vocal chords... musicians often turn to Pilates, Feldenkreis, or other techniques- but mostly it is about finding the posture that is the most natural and the motion that is most efficient. Cellists have special orchestral chairs, and violinists use better and better chin and shoulder rests these days- all in service to this.
They probably meant using the Odroid XU4 which is a nice platform built around the Samsung Exynos-5422, not an actual phone
You'd have to create a lens instead of just a shade. The proposal already uses translucent pieces, so if you align them it might be focusable. Anyway I'm not convinced this will be used as a weapon, because there are cheaper ways of killing crops than launching stuff to L1.
Without money and piracy I may commit a crime to obtain money. I may get caught and have a crime record. This might force me into a life of crime.

To property study the effects you need to measure everything
No, but it was done by a person who works for me. And who is clearly better than me at posting — my previous posts have original titles because I haven't figured out how to change them ;)
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Honestly they only thing I'm interested in when it comes to VR is virtual desktops. I've not played any games on VR but I don't game much anymore. Really I just want to have unlimited virtual desktops for work.
Unless the floors are airtight from each other, pressurizing the top floors would make the bottom floors be more than ground level pressure.
Do not go gentle into that good night

Dylan Thomas, 1914 - 1953

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And that's something that's probably better addressed by AR anyway.
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> We track the the water from the filling source to the delivery using GPS, giving users confidence they received clean water

I wonder how easy it would be for water suppliers to cheat such a system. Perhaps the supplier will send the GPS device to the clean water source on a motorcycle, and send the water truck to the dirty source. I'd recommend you occasionally sample the consumers water tank and test the quality of the water.
Hi, have you ever tried assigning a total order to your syntax tree? Very much like problems occurring in Buchberger's algorithm and its generalized form Knuth-Bendix completion; they have a very sophisticated way of recursively assigning weights to each term (which there can be infinitely many).
Surprised to see google.com runs jquery - can't possibly be true.

https://www.whatruns.com/website/google.com
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Few months back, there was a post about this particular site/app. We could store notes about people we met, for future interactions; store birthdays & reminders, etc.

Does anyone remember what it was? Tried search with few keywords, but to no avail.
If I was given a few $trillion to solve atmospheric CO2/CH4, I would move mining to the moon, and move manufacturing and agriculture into orbit. Then smother the Earth-side economy with cheap/free stuff to discourage the remaining entrenched industry, and offer habitat space to anyone who prefers doing physical work for a living, over living in a highly regulated paradise on UBI + patreon.

For perspective, Gerard K. O'Neil gave a ballpark estimate of $31B (correction: $31B in 1972 dollars, $172B in 2013 dollars) for a v1 O'Neil cylinder made of steel. http://www.nss.org/settlement/physicstoday.htm
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Affinity Photo is excellent. It's a way yet from parity with Photoshop, but is certainly competitive. And it's subscription free!

If you're into vector illustration, Affinity Designer is a straight replacement for Adobe Illustrator.

Also consider awesome software such as Studio Artist (https://synthetik.com/), and Escape Motions offerings (https://www.escapemotions.com/).

Any conscientious artist should evaluate and consider these alternatives, if only to break up the industry's idiotic enslavement to Adobe.
Thank you David. I'm so glad you like it. I'm adding new features this weekend. Printable version is in the feature backlog and I'll work on later.
Well, Hillary did get at least 2.9M more votes than Trump. So voting wouldn't seem to be a problem. Instead we have a gerrymandering problem, we have a voter suppression problem and we have an election that was probably hacked by Trump and the Russians.
Same. Here in Shenzhen there are VR gaming houses where you can try the tech from various companies in a pay-to-play environment. Nothing I played really convinced me to buy... a lot of the issues are with FPS movement in a walking scenario. (Car steering wheel systems and joystick based spaceships are less destructive to the illusion.)

The most fun I had was on a moving horse saddle thing, where you basically hold a gun and play cowboy with your feet in the stirrups against zombies in a virtual desert! Awesome experience :)
Weren't a couple guys at a Python conference fired for telling a joke in a line that someone else overheard? I mean the backlash was just as bad.. but that seems pretty similar.
Likewise the Spanx lady "didn't stalk" Oprah but she did successfully send her free samples, which presumably required some research (ie. stalking).
Step 7 will be the toughest. If you appear on the list of founders with %49 ownership (= biggest shareholder without being involved in the company), then it'll be a No-Go for most of the VC's out there. The team is the main factor when investing in a startup. You should aim for %0 at first. Then when the company hires you, you'll get some shares back. They could even hire you as the CEO on H1B if the investors are OK with that.