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And you can construct cases where the JVM is infinitely faster than C/C++/Rust, because the JIT optimizes through a virtual call and detects dead code.

Should we say that "it depends, in some cases, Java is infinitely faster than C/C++/Rust"? Not unless we want to deliberately obscure the issue (or we want to warn someone about strange results). Benchmarks are about finding representative results across a variety of tasks.

If you think there are good benchmarks that show these languages are 10x slower in realistic cases, then you should share them, rather than just asserting that they're out there.
Every iOS app you ever grant camera access can record you any time it runs
What's up with The Guardian and all these hit pieces against Google? Did they get screwed on a bill or something?

Am I the only one who feels like there's a shady, coordinated media attack on silicon valley right now? Somebody wants these companies dead.
The Xbox One is hardly dead, though.
> There is nothing inherently problematic about paying money for software -- better to be the customer than the product.

You appear to be confusing what "proprietary software" means[1]. DRM is an example of something that is only possible with proprietary software.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary.en.html
what would’ve happened if challenger was carrying nuclear material? (i’m actually asking)
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My GF who usually use her phone as mirror won't buy iPhone X because it'll unlock automatically every time she holds it to check makeup.
I think your 1.3 kW number assumes being near Earth.
Why do republicans hate the american consumer so much?
The normal system is that these civil disputes are done in a court of law. Justify the change.
Is version 8 still planned to enter active LTS on 10/31? Or does this release mark the beginning of LTS?
It looks like the whole crux of the authors arugement rests on this paragraph:

"But cities are not machines that can be optimized, nor are they labs for running experiments. Cities are not platforms with users, nor are they businesses with shareholders. Cities are real places with real people who have a right not to live with whatever “smart solutions” an engineer or executive decides to unleash."

The reaction seems more visceral than thoughtful. Cities in many ways ARE machines that need to be optimized; and, regardless of our feelings, are always in a constant state of experimentation. Cities may not be platforms, but they are certainly businesses with shareholders called voters. Businesses are real places with real people; and while I agree that they should have the right to live without any "smart solution" that a business would like to unleash... my neighborhood covenant (enforced by city ordnance) already disagrees with my opinion.

I don't disagree with the intent of the author, but she failed to make any reasonable argument in support of her point.
The original version worked well on Linux. They then had the skeleton detector and such in a proprietary library. I think there are ways to use the newer versions, but they messed with it all enough to make it rather cumbersome.
> terminal velocity of the thing?

What?
People probably don’t post a lot of 3D infrared scans of their face online, which is what FaceId uses.

(They also don’t leave them all over on the things they touch, like they do with finger prints.)

Also, I don’t know of your “lying with statistics” claim is fair. Of course, statistics are a great way to lie since you can have a mathematical certainly that what you are claiming is numerically accurate while at the same time give a false impression through selecting the numbers to present.

However, in this case, the implication is that FaceID is more precise and secure than Touch ID, which is probably true if it works the way they claim. (Well, we don’t really know that yet, but we don’t know the opposite yet, either.)
There was a, um, Molyneux effect to consider there too.
Is the iPhone 8 on iOS 11 merely faster than other phones running iOS 11, or faster than, for example, an iPhone 5s running iOS 7?

I think (but this might be my rose-tinted glasses) that every iPhone since the 3GS ran everything at 60 FPS, and that app launches were mostly limited by the launch animation, until each phone got its first major update. The one obvious outlier is the iPad Pro 10.5 with its 120 Hz display, where everything is smoother than it could possibly be on older devices.

I'd love to see data on this that's more accurate than sketchy YouTube comparisons.
This was pretty cool - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qhXQ_1CQjg
Per the article: "During the two-year period studied, only 78 arbitration claims resulted in judgments in favor of consumers, who got $400,000 in total relief."

It's not clear what the denominator on that sum is, though it is also stated that the rate of customers taking up arbitration was very low
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I’m trying to figure out why Werner Hertzog would be interviewing a Linux admin? And apparently alone?
"...1.3 kW per square meter sun power constantly..." at Earth's distance from the sun. At Mars it is .715 kW. Inverse square law and all that.
Some of the same exact questions that I had. It seems like an odd combination of features for one company to tackle. Building a secure password manager, for example, is non trivial and requires some serious security/crypto knowledge. Do I trust the same company to build a password manager as one who builds something to manage my bookmarks? Of course, the same engineers could be capable of both, but it seems like an unexpected combination.
I can't possibly see how. Limit every American to $500 of political donations a year. Everyone has the right to speech, but no one has the right to more speech than another.
There's nothing dead about the Xbox One. Yes, the PS4 outsells it. But most games releases are on both systems, and Microsoft comes through with some solid exclusives ever year. I have an Xbox One and a PS4, and with games that come out on both systems, I play those on the Xbox One because Sony's UI is frustrating to me and it just seems like the software is less polished.
The Voyagers do around twice that at the moment.

So, (very much ballpark, and ignoring all additional weight for fuel, etc.), would that mean this could reach three times their speed in a month, and, after that, catch up with one of them in 15 years or so?

If so, is it feasible to build one with enough fuel to accelerate for a year or so?

If so, where’s the billionaire willing to spend a few quid on a machine that goes out to photograph one of the Voyagers from close up while it zooms by, or even bring one of them back to earth before the century is over?
I knew this was coming for the past few months as the supply was dwindling and resellers were selling them for $45 (half of MSRP). Pretty disappointing since I enjoyed working with these for a project. Have to find an alternative now going forward.
> Being a VC in Silicon Valley over the last 20 years is a game you can't lose, as long as you have enough money

You won’t find a source for this because it isn’t true. Lots of VCs have busted because despite diversification, the odds of a single company in a portfolio of 20 to 100 making it big are very small.
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Yep. Every sensor will receive the output from the other emitters. This problem is actually pretty similar to the problem of sharing the wireless signal spectrum - how do all the cell phones in one area work at the same time? There's a few standard approaches to solving these problems:

- Frequency Division: each detector uses a different frequency/wavelength. This approach is very simple to implement, but the usable range of wavelengths for LIDAR is fairly narrow. So we'd run out of choices pretty quickly.

- Time Division: each detector is allocated a different operating time slot, so that only one is active at a time. For cell phones, this is relatively easy to implement because they all connect to a central system that can coordinate the timing. But for cars, this would be more difficult since there's no central system that links the detectors on different cars together (although they could still communicate with each other through other means).

- Code Division: each detector's output is pulsed in a unique pattern so that the reflected signals will return that same pattern, then the processor can reject any patterns that it didn't send out. This approach is much more complex, but doesn't suffer from many of the drawbacks of the other solutions.

Code division is by far the most widely used approach here, but frequency and time division also play a small role as well since different manufacturers/detectors use different wavelengths and not all detectors are being operated at exactly the same time (the time needed to send and receive a single signal is extremely short).
You'll find that Kinects are powering far more exhibits and retail art projects than you'd know.
Not dead but a massive failure compared to what the Xbox360 did on the market.
I don't know that there has been a scandal, at least publicly. I'm speaking as a friend of someone who performs operations audits on Amazon Fresh and Prime Now facilities, who has ranted to me about how much they've had to deal with police reports and customer complaints about their terrible drivers. But needless to say I don't trust them. I won't even buzz them into my apartment building to drop off the package in the lobby if I'm not there to receive it directly.
>It's not that much different from past cases where Best Buy technicians found illegal material on computers brought in to them for servicing and reported it to police and resulted in successful prosecutions.

Those technicians were hired and trained by the FBI to seek out this information. There are ongoing lawsuits claiming this was illegal.
One problem with nuclear reactors on space craft is what happens if/when the craft re-enters the atomosphere? How do you stop the reactor from becoming a high-altitude dirty bomb?
I heard iPhones have a front facing camera ;)
Unfortunately I'm too much of an idealist to work for a random company so there's not much opportunity to work on meaningful stuff. Would love to though, currently unemployed! Working on crypto/payments stuff so I can break more into that world.
Twitter quit me, and I'm forever great full.

(But sorry, that doesn't answer the question.)
The dictators started out innocent and young too.
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Most unfortunate. I was hoping to see the technology applied to VR. One of my complaints/observations about VR is that you are a disembodied viewpoint in the VR environment. Something like a Kinect mocap system would add bodily presence in the VR environment.
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Almost contentless clickbait, which has absolutely nothing to do with Werner Herzog.
Interesting you mention the gloves / 'soiled'-fingers scenarios — as those do indeed make it pain to use TouchID! However, they usually also restrict your usage of the entire touch display as well (unless you have ultra-snazzy touch-gloves)... So it might be more of an edge-case, but a good one nonetheless.

I'm also very interested if they introduce TouchID into the next generation's screen. Would be an admission of guilt that the combo of both is the sweet-spot, and is sure to annoy X-gen1 users.

It just doesn't feel ready to me at all.
The Earth would be immeasurably more radioactive than today.
I once wrote a thing that would take text files uploaded to the alfresco ecm, containing run options or data input for some automation script sitting on a server that's part of the corporate subnet, and depending on how the text file was tagged or which folder it was in, it would create service and timer unit files for systemd. The files would sync to the server via alfresco's atom API, and any output generated would be uploaded back into alfresco. This was neat because you could make alfresco user accounts for these bots, thereby turning them on or off for any project by simply adding the user and further modify which directories should be crawled for tasks to run by assigning read permissions to the bot account all via the client side alfresco share interface. Server images containing the bot code could be provisioned in say AWS, and integrated into an alfresco cluster. It made it much simpler for allowing non-technical users to run scheduled web crawlers, pipe them into document formatters, for web publication, or attach to email out the results hot to a given email list all from the nice alfresco share interface.
> I feel like taxing proprietary software, or making it illegal would be awful.

Maybe taxing on the distribution of proprietary software would be more palatable? After all, software that is written can only become proprietary if you distribute it to other people under a non-free license. I personally think the warranty idea is much softer on companies (while still giving some more protection for end-users).

I don't think banks should be taxed for having propreitary systems. I do have a problem with SaaS[1] companies, and companies which make money of selling software which is proprietary -- because they are actively creating a monopoly on the expertise in and ability to support their particular software (known more politely as vendor lock-in). Not to mention that proprietary software developers incredibly often mistreat their users through a variety of schemes.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...
Looks like Microsoft is on a killing spree these days.
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> The universe is inside a black hole.

This is trivially true, btw. The Schwarzschild radius of the observable universe is less than the presumed plausible size of the universe as a whole. Or alternatively, a "black hole" is a region of space that nothing can escape, not even light, and ongoing and accelerating spatial inflation causes that to be true on an even smaller scale -- most of the universe is unreachable by light emitted today.

> Dark matter is matter which is outside the black hole, which explains why it has mass but no other observable properties

Except that it interacts as if it was superimposed over objects in this universe, not from outside of it.
I suppose I could reword "recoverable" to "usable in relatively rare situations where your normal password-manager-enabled workflow isn't conveniently available" - depending on how rare these situations are, resetting every single time could be quite an annoyance.
Is there any uranium to be had in space?
I'm sad to see this day arrive, even though the community knew the writing was on the wall. As the first truly affordable, mass market depth sensor, it was a shame it couldn't get a second life as a standalone product.

It also looks like I'm not going to sell any more books. ;)
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Warheads have 239, not 238.
That's a window manager. I was thinking more along the lines of a lightweight X replacement.
Yeah that’s really tough for me. PCRE really sets the bar for modern regular expression engines. Awk predates it by a decade.
I'm just talking about general prerequisite skills. There's a stock set of "stuff" that, generally speaking, one needs to know to do research in this area... specifically some areas of math & stats. That's not to say that making a "BIG" advance doesn't require a "special" level of insight, or creativity, or whatever.

But in terms of basic skills that are required to work in the field, the prerequisites aren't anything particularly demanding. When you look at most of what's published in the ML area, the bulk of what's required to understand it is contained in Calculus, Probability/Statistics and Linear Algebra. Maybe Topology for some things. But we're mostly not talking even anything as advanced as Abstract Algebra, Galois Theory, Group Theory, etc.
Why can't I fault them for using a decidedly evil clause? These companies are run by people, who are fully capable of knowing right from wrong.
Url changed from https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/25/16542870/microsoft-kinec..., which points to this.
Even if that's the case, it'd be a moot point unless they are arguing that making child porn is acceptable if you would be homeless instead.
Thanks for giving me another reason to buy only used cars!
Even worse than password rotations are site-specific password requirements. Every site has different requirements that require my algorithm to take different branches. To remedy this, I have a google doc that has a list of sites I use along with what their password rules are and how many times they've been compromised. The difference between this and a manager is that I don't care if that google doc file is compromised or not. It's all public information that is useless to an attacker. That public file is merely an input to the real manager in my brain and for common sites that I use a lot (google, amazon) I don't even need it.
These days you can actually go look at examples of various D&D (and other RP) games being played, to see if it really matches up with your expectations. Check a couple out on Twitch and YouTube. (I'm a fan of Critical Role, if you need a search term to start, but there are a LOT of different RPGs.)

If RPGs turn out to not be your cup of tea, search for Wil Wheaton Tabletop on YouTube, where he plays various tabletop games with guests. There are a lot of pick-up tabletop games at comic book stores and the like if you find a game or games to your fancy.
It can be worse. Apparently, Adobe’s FireWorks writes bitmap layers and vector data to .png custom data chunks.
Maybe working on a followup to his 2016 film about the internet? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5275828/
It is still very useful for an affordable mocap solution. I recommend buying one now if you ever want to do it.
What are these "long-term effects"?
Great points +1
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> It only got darker with each and every section of the interview.

Is author's name Klaus by chance :-)

Herzog on Kinski "People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder."

Kinski on Herzog: "Herzog is a miserable, hateful, malevolent, avaricious, money-hungry, nasty, sadistic, treacherous, cowardly creep. His so-called "talent" consists of nothing but tormenting helpless creatures and, if necessary, torturing them to death or simply murdering them." and also "Herzog’s rage was of the passive-aggressive, festering sort, and therefore more dangerous"

Also, I can't be the only one who talks in their head with Herzog-like voice after watching one of his movies.
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>He won't have too much trouble pulling in 50-70,000 in some white collar job and, considering the cost of living, he'll be quite comfortable. Probably more comfortable than a 100k job in SF or LA.

This was an Uber driver... you think Uber drivers are making 100k? You really think an Uber driver is gonna find a 50-70k white collar job in Kansas?
I am almost certainly just talking nonsense, but it seems to me if the light-emitting universe is on one side of a flat plane and dark matter is on the other, the physical distance between the light-emitting universe and dark matter could be 0.
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I'm surprised they haven't worked on a version 2 of SL. With all the advances we've seen since it's been released in gaming engines.
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No. Yes. No. But it's not viable. Same-county Giant Bank will still cost anywhere from $55 to $300 to file a small claims action if in my state (FL). Add $40 to pay the sheriff to serve the statement of claim. Who's going to foot the initial $1.8M to file the 150K claims and how's the new type of law firm going to get paid?

If you want to have a small government without an effective consumer protection agency then you'll need to ditch mandatory arbitration and permit the class actions to flow.
What's the mass consumption/ejection rate for this thing? What's the power consumption rate? Wondering if a non-solar power source (batteries, nuclear, etc) could cannibalize its waste fuel as ejection material.
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At Earth orbit, yes. Recall that the inverse square law applies for light emitted by the sun.

On Mars, solar power per square meter is a bit over 550W.
Until recently, it was a sensible approach for Linux gamers. Today - not anymore. AMD is just better overall.
"Writers at Work". Unfortunately there's a few books with that name, this is the one by Linda Flowers. Full review here: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/06/15/writing-book/
> They only support them in the most minimalist ways legally required and actually spend money to change laws to support the disadvantaged even less.

Are you describing corporations or city governments here, because I don't see much of a difference. The bulk of that work gets forced on NGOs and charitable organizations.
But why? I’m thinking for data recovery. I’m hoping people wouldn’t try to set up a ZFS fileserver within windows.
It sucks even more when they provide an API, and with little forward notice, discontinue the service entirely. Google is notorious for that as well.
Xbox line has always lost MS money (even back in the glory days of the 360) and Xbox One has lagged way behind PS4 since it launched. "Dead" was an exaggeration, I admit. But it has mediocre if not poor sales.
Thanks to you... and OP! I have been using posix systems for years but never really touched awk because what I have seen have seemed like archaic chants of dark magic, very good resources for learning about this nifty tool.
Usually immeasurably means infinite, I'm guessing that's not what you meant?
Is there a "Microsoft product graveyard" website we can check out, too?
Movement noise is annoying.

...And true corporate culture is organic.
Assume you have a thing: rocket, satellite, probe, etc, and you’re pushing it to mars or whatever, and you have an engine that, based on the comment states in consumer noble gasses as fuel, one would assume you have to provide the noble gas, correct?

So after you falcon9 the thing into orbit, and push it along, and it then uses this engine to go the distance, will it constantly increase or hit a max terminal velocity. In either case, would that not tell you how much fuel to give it; which comes down to “if it is powered by helium and we are supposedly running out of helium, how much helium would it use vs how much helium is available?”

Is that not a sound question?

The second part of the question is “if we give it one ton of fuel, how far can it get?”

Pretty simple MPG question in my mind...
Also food delivery, so they could put food in your fridge. It's not hard to imagine Amazon stocking everyone's pantries during the day while people are at work.
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