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Your expectations of Frankenstein are largely due to Hollywood's interpretation. Frankentstein is referred to as the work which gave birth to Science Fiction. Not bad for a story that was more-or-less fleshed out over a weekend.

I think you're pretty spot on and fair to the book though. If you're reading Frankenstein and you're expecting a thrilling horror novel then you may be disappointed. If you're interested in the ethical questions raised by the creature being created, abandoned, and left to deal with it's strife over having no companion... then I think it's a pretty great read.
> . . . and maybe go as far removing the ability to kill IME unless you use some kind of rotating encryption dongle.

Dear Intel, please PLEASE only use a solid state dongle with no moving parts!
:-)
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So what do we do about the "fencification" of Democracy? The point of public debate is to win elections and affect public policy. Just like talented modern fencers don't make good sword fighters, talented political candidates don't make very good stateswomen and statesmen.

Is there a way to change the rules of public debate to align the game with the interest of the people?

To the author's point, it seems like the problem is fixed for a short time after new rules are introduced. Then, after the Machiavellian players figure out the weak points, the competition becomes a grotesque of what it was intended to be.

This makes me think Thomas Jefferson was on to something when he said we should rewrite parts of the constitution[0] once a generation.

It's much more difficult to game the system when the game's rules keep changing.

[0]https://newrepublic.com/article/63773/what-jefferson-said
A few of my favorites like Accelerando and Neuromancer have been mentioned but I’ll add Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge. It’s set in the near future but features general AI, lots of intrigue and conspiring governments and corporations. Really a great story.
History.

The comma-separated-value file almost certainly comes from list-directed I/O in Fortran, which used doubling of quote characters to "escape" them. This was probably an IBM-thing since other IBM-popularised languages also do this (including SQL and COBOL). As someone else pointed out, RFC4180's own interpretation of "csv" also does this.

My guess is that they did this because parsing and encoding was simple (only a few instructions) on these systems and required no extra memory.
Two features that come to mind:

Exporting to flat-file would allow mock environments to be versioned using a VCS.

Importing OpenAPI spec (swagger) files could simplify initial setup.
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The screenshot is telling: "Framerate: 4"

Pretty mighty achievement though: no engine, no frameworks, no graphics SDK, a quirky language...
There are a few things I think you've overlooked:

- For one, you're talking about human drivers covering first and last mile, which is a tiny, tiny fraction of the route that a truck covers which is why the Starsky model works well, in theory anyway. That means one given driver can do the work of probably a few hundred trucks in their last mile phase, even if they end up with some downtime in the middle, it's not even close to balancing. You're still talking about a possibly slightly larger market being overseen by a much smaller workforce.

- Secondly, this completely ignores what could be the silver medal effect of truck driving becoming automated; the death of millions of small and large businesses that operate basing heavily on the incomes of truckers, everything from truck stops and diners, all the way to motels, specialty truck accessory companies, on and on and on. These are the ripple effects that many people aren't looking at when they're thinking about this, it isn't just trucking, it's one of the last jobs available to you with naught but high school under your belt that earns around $40k. And that's not even going into how many businesses do a ton of business with truckers that earn that wage, which is usually much higher than their neighbors are earning.

- Thirdly, if all trucking is done from various Starsky-like operations, then truckers in general will be moving into more consolidated living conditions. Again trucking is one of the VERY rare jobs that requires minimal training, pays a comfortable wage, and is available pretty much anywhere in the States where there are roads and people who buy products. If you want to work as a software developer, chances are you'll have to move to Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Austin, etc. but if you're looking to be a trucker, you can go pretty much anywhere and have fairly solid employment opportunities. For now.
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At least in the United States, this is incorrect. Long haul trucking is expensive compared to shipping things via the rails. The reason things end up being shipped via truck is that its faster, plain and simple. Shipping via rail car is slow and has no guaranteed arrival date. Or should I say, dependable arrival date. And from a logistics stand point you have to engage a last mile trucker at the rail head nearest your true destination to haul your item to the destination. Since you're unlikely to be shipping an entire container/rail car, you'll need to pay extra since the delivery driver will have to drive to your destination then 'dead head' (i.e. return without a load) to the rail yard.
Automated mining trucks are already being used: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603170/mining-24-hours-a-...
Can someone point me to an explanation of exactly what this is, and whether I need to worry about it? Particularly on a home server I built myself from parts?
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Aren't there also dll dependencies that allow modern Windows apps to be so small?
I am not arguing for another format. I am arguing for using a program to edit these files, to avoid syntax errors and other crap that arises when people do manual stuff that doesn't need to be done manually. And sure the format can stand to be slightly more complex, who cares if you're not editing it by hand.

Ascii text format is simple.

Anything where you have arbitrarily complex structure, why not use a program to edit it? What is the downside of using the right tool for the job? Your text editor is a program. Why tunnel through text and manually edit stuff?
We have focused on the core and less on the uncore, which is why there have been no talks on I/O. The goal is for a smart peripheral to be indistinguishable from just another regular core; the Mill design is big on regularity. That implies that it has its own PLB and TLB, responds to HEYU, and supports the same IPC mechanisms, both those in the talk and those NYF.

Of course, modern peripherals don't look like that, so there will be adaptors. IBM 360 channels and CDC6600 PPs also haven't been architecturally revisited in a while.
>I'd like to think that conversion of credit applications isn't something a marketer is trying to gamify though

If it's in the overall sales conversion funnel it will be optimized. Credit application flow was scrutinized just as much as adding to cart and checking out.
Everything stated here is false.
> That's still a possibility if the ludicrous EU actions on Android don't stop. Google makes about 1/10th the revenue and 1/100th the profit off Android as Apple makes off the iOS product lines.

Google doesn't need to make money off hardware or software, it's an ad company. Yeah sure they'll just go and remove themselves from mobile ads market because laughable penalties EU apply on them.
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A couple years ago, I was writing a script to run a codesigning system (watch an input directory, sign the file, move to output directory). I had been working on it for a couple days. I got confused with my filenames, and I deleted the script, thinking it was a temp file I'd just created.

Luckily, it was Python, which compiles to a bytecode representation when you run the script, and I had done a test-run of the script recently. After a little research into the available tools, I was able to extract the original source (and comments!) from the pyc file. It was a simpler solution than any of the un-delete utilities that I found.
A century again. People didn't have cell phones, cell phone plans, TV, internet, computers, high-end cars, student loans, and other luxuries. All that is at least an additional 12,000 USD a year.
Especially in boardgames you often see what looks like a tiny hardly relevant rule tweak produce drastically different player behavior. That's why you playtest early and iterate often.
All new APIs introduced since Windows 8 are mostly UWP ones, so basically you are asking for implementing Windows 10 on top Windows 7 kernel.
Well, "possibilities for achievement" - after a few years of electing not to work, few people will be able to revoke that decision and take up a career. Parenting is the most accessible leadership role, all takes is the approval of one other person.
Pretty cool. I've experienced a similar type of synaesthesia but it was based on rhythmic patterns for me. For instance, I was listening to a song that was in 3/4 or 6/8 or something, and I saw a really distinct triangle pattern. And then the album changed to 4/4 and became more of a square.
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Experian sends me email "Is your email vulnerable to identity theft". IS that a form of terrorism? Haha.
Oh, of course your name has "kek" in it.

If you treat people negatively because of their race, yes, that's racist.
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Well, if you say so...
> given little to no guidance

That's a shame. Most tournaments I've been involved with organizing had an optional 15 min training session and/or handed out a one page information sheet. You should suggest something similar if you ever judge again. In particular, such a sheet should begin with something addressing (c) -- "you are in charge, make any decision you want".

> However it has never quite gotten to the level where anything really felt resolved and it indeed always feels like a bizarre "game".

This is mostly to be expected, and is true pretty uniformly throughout the various styles of debate (including those outside the USA). Turns out the majority of high school students aren't very good at designing and presenting arguments. It doesn't help that in the first speeches they are often presenting arguments that they didn't actually write themselves.
It would be sort of cool if highways could then promote a "goods carrier trucks can only run nightly" rule with this. Of course allowing essential goods trucks to run in daylight
Yeah well it's also stated that

> The only important exception to the rule is represented by the stupid people who normally show a strong proclivity toward perfect consistency in all fields of human endeavours
I bought a 33' sailboat and lived on it for two years in Wilmington, NC while we were starting NextGlass (now Untappd).

It was by far one of the best experiences of my life. The soothing rocking motion, loose halyard clanking, and salty ocean air at night certainly helped get me through the 60-70 hour weeks.

P.S. A little hack for anyone who might try this, put your wifi router and modem in your dock box. That way you can shove off any time without having to unscrew the coax cable.
I've always thought both will happen. Some number of people are going to be hurt by this (they'll stop being productive) while others will use UBI in a positive way and benefit from it. What's up in the air is which way it's going to lean, imo. There still ought to be something in place to try and minimize the downsides either way. Personally I'd be a fan of making a work or education requirement to receive all or part of the benefits, so you essentially can't just sit on your ass and collect the money just for breathing.
The thing is running Minix OS, so it's not inconceivable to configure non-intrusive drivers for third-party NICs sitting on the pci bus.
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Hi guys,

It is no secret that I'm pretty tired of the political infighting around Bitcoin. The environment got so toxic that I stopped most of my Bitcoin-centric development to focus on other projects. I'm pretty sure there are many developers who have felt the same way, and the result has been an explosion in alternative coins and technologies as developer resources have gone elsewhere.

So, I started a simple experiment. What if we got rid of developers entirely, and just replicated and adapted the deflationary structure of Bitcoin on Ethereum. We could model the entire process as an autonomous smart contract, and build a deflationary kernel into Ethereum itself. This would give us a 'store-of-value' token that had access to Ethereum's smart contract language and ecosystem. Just like USD and other inflationary currencies are spent to "mine" Bitcoin, we could spend Ether in an algorithmic way to "mine" a Bitcoin clone. This clone would merge the benefits of both, and deliver a working product quickly.

The end result is my ERC20 Token Bitcoineum. More information available on www.bitcoineum.com, come join us in telegram at https://t.me/bitcoineum So far upwards of $250,000 USD has been committed to mining. This is made simple through on-chain smart contract pools that aggregate individual users and remove the need for client software.

This is the first completely mobile mined currency. It is decentralized in the sense that anyone with an Ethereum wallet can mine it. It borrows its security and capabilities from the Ethereum network itself, and it is working right now. If you are interested in the development of this type of ecosystem come join us :)
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QBasic was the first language I dabbled in as a kid. This is absolutely insane!
Aww, Gentoo's still a thing, how cute.
I just found this video of it. Incredibly impressive if that is QBasic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqlveWIhCFI#
After I changed to the LTS release channel, I have yet to suffer from that. I think it has been a couple of years without a hassle.

I do wish Jenkins to be a little less high-maintenance, like say having a postgres backend and a docker image for the master. I hate having a different backup routine for each thing.
This is really cool. It's like the counterpart to something like Postman or Insomnia.
Helm/unite/denite are not the same thing as what I am talking about.
So that's why they're so damn slow.
In debate styles (BP, Worlds) outside of America, "spreading" fails completely, even though dropped arguments are still considered conceded. The key is that inane arguments can be shot down with POIs (questions asked during the speech) or dismissed in batches. Also, if you speak too fast and the judge can't follow your arguments that's your fault.

When I was in high school, American teams usually did pretty poorly in international competitions because the Lincoln-Douglas style does not transfer well into World's style.
Perhaps if the box had been blue or green, it would not have been as worrying. A black box conjures up images of darkness etc.

But probably when this was brought up during the project at Google it was dismissed as "bikeshedding". Or in this case, perhaps, "boxshedding".
So I guess it comes down to what you think the point of the ME is. If its for what Intel claims, then having the ME have to access the NIC through the OS is useless - the whole point is to bypass the OS, so you can manipulate the computer regardless of its state (as long as its plugged in anyways).

If you were worried about NSA spyware that tunnels through your OS... well, then you may as well just be worried about NSA spyware in your NIC.

Because in the end, even if the ME was directly connected to the NIC, it still needs to know how to talk to the NIC (thus why NICs have drivers...). When you use an Intel NIC, the ME knows how to talk to it, and everything is hunky dorey. In practice, Intel could probably build a database of common non-Intel NICs and load all of their drivers into the ME. But really, if we assume that the ME exists for business reasons, then its obvious why Intel will just keep it all as Intel. They are nominally selling something that is advantageous to large organizations, and would like said large organizations to buy as much Intel gear as possible. Said large organizations believe that ME provides sufficient value to go with Intel NICs instead of other NICs.
Well, talk for yourself.

I need typically 32-64 GB RAM (virtual machines, etc.) and 16 GB is painfully little.

Different people have different needs.

Oh, and I don't think Macbook Pro's RAM bandwidth is just 2 GB/s. Even phones have 30 GB/s RAM bandwidth nowadays.

Besides, you don't want to ruin your SSD by constantly swapping.
I don't think a rail train could detach a car from the middle without stopping and park it on the side of the track.
I've heard ninja is just the new term for full stack developer, though.
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Oh, perhaps I misspoke. The "sundown town" phenomenon was strongest outside the South. It happened all over the US.
How do you handle sms and voice over data or do you forego it all together?
FWIW, the universal mark-up for wine in US restaurants is about 4x-6x.

That is, the PRICE of one glass of wine is roughly equal to the COST of one bottle of the same wine. Restaurants, of course, source their wine through commercial distributors. They get price breaks in volume that consumers can't typically get.
Doesn't it mean interpretation of religious texts? That is, someone can say hermeneutic and we know they are not just talking about interpretation, but interpretation of a specific genre of literature.
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It’s good.

Net/http is still less mature, but this an absolutey massive golang ecosystem. You can certainly write http clients and servers today.

Unicode, string processing, regex—all of these have performant, stable implementations, either in std or in crates. Recently i’ve been doing audio processing in rust; the code there is at least as good as the equivalent in go. Overall I’d say I haven’t had issues finding a package for something in a couple years, though the quality varies from “has a full support community” to “DIY if you need something”.

However, rust really shines with datastructures. Heap? Btree? Doubly linked lists? It’s all high quality, performant, and type-safe code (though the internals are unsafe as hell), which was my major pain point in go. Doing anything with a typed datastructure feels a lot like copy/paste coding in go, though apparently templates formalize this.
IIRC one or more of the members of Tool has synaesthesia for reference.
Same here. I remember drawing sprites with the DATA statement in "SCREEN 13" mode and being able to move those around but never anything this crazy.
Ah ha! But not everything is "matter". There exist volume-less particles which do not fit a universal definition of matter.

So indeed, there is nothing for which everything is X.

This is a discussion on high school debate, so please take this comment in that light (with a grain of matter).
Where did you think they parked their cars when visiting the mall?
Genuinely can't tell if this is a joke or not. Well played.
> That's interesting. What did they do so wrong to drive everyone out of business?

The whole street looked like a large bomb crater for a year.

Yes, you could still access the buildings, but why on earth would you shop on Cambie, when you could go the next block over to Robson. Even a 10% reduction in customers could sink many retail businesses, over such a period of time.
I wanted to submit the link to a blog [1] but HN didn't let me do it for some reason (getting either 'Sorry, that story was previously submitted.' or 'Unknown or expired link.' randomly but I didn't find it in HN search).

[1] https://www.bishopfox.com/blog/2017/10/a-bug-has-no-name-mul...
Often yes. Sometimes not. I don't know about the specific ones I mentioned. You can definitely build a self-contained WinForms app in under a meg, though.
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I second this.

Also, exporting swagger as well as importing swagger may allow automating new version deployments on AWS API Gateway and the like.
Microsoft does the exact same thing with DirectX on desktop.

And neither Direct3D nor Metal have any real advantages over Vulkan. They exist for locking in developers.
It's probably a term favored by dilettantes, maybe VSI has that word covered too :)
> What if we stopped trying to guess what layers we need? What if we removed this boundary between painting and compositing and just went back to painting every pixel on every frame?

This feels a bit like cheating. Not all devices have a GPU. Would Firefox be slow on those devices?

Also, pages can become arbitrarily complicated. This means that an approach where compositing is used can still be faster in certain circumstances.
> "Jack McCordick... and his teammates from Regis High School won the high school debating national championship this year."

As far as I can tell, this claim is made up.

Here's the full results packet form the 2017 National Championship: http://results.speechanddebate.org/2017/posting/2017%20Resul....

Cmd-F McCordick: 0 results. (Did not even participate?)

Cmd-F Regis: 5th place in public forum (Eoin Matthews & Randall Zuccalmaglio).
So I can assume that you don't support affirmative action?
This has nothing to do with UBI.
Fewer and fewer people will be necessary to cover everybody's needs regardless of the existence of a UBI. The Future here presented could happen anyway without a basic income.

But what will we do with billions of people without any income?
I did a stint on the policy debate team at my university, and I agree, and it's why I quit soon thereafter, despite having a pretty good record.

It all depends on desired outcomes. If we consider dialogue/debate as a kind of dialectic where one argument serves to sharpen the other as both/all parties seek some kind of truth, however that may be construed, then the sport of debate creates a culture of essentially dishonest argumentation.

Debaters get so into winning that they very quickly fail to recognize the difference between battering their opponent into submission, and actually seeking answers in good faith. You can argue until you're blue in the face that the sport can be separated from the "reality," but it turns into a kind of cognitive capture for the debaters. If they can't take a step back, like the author of this article did, and see how fundamentally disingenuous the activity is, then they are going to be actively making society worse insofar as they use their abilities for anything at all (i.e., politics).

This might be a cheap shot, but Karl Rove seems like a pretty good case in point.
> What set of escapes and delimiters could be simpler? Would you rather reserve certain characters, and abandon the idea of holding "just text" values?

There's a lot of design room here.

https://www.lua.org/pil/2.4.html
http://prog21.dadgum.com/172.html

I can no longer remember where I saw it (thought it was lua), but I heard the idea to use =[[ ... ]]= and =[[[ ... ]]]= as wrappers (a bit like the qq operator from perl). They can be nested and don't interfere, so =[[[ abc =[[ ]]= ]]]= is a legitimate string.