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Although LOTR does have similarities to GoT (lots of characters, vast, complicated world, lots of languages, etc), how is this even taken seriously, given the Peter Jackson movies pretty much did justice to the books? (I'm assuming they did from the fan following. I never read the books)

What value would they even really add?

At least with the Game of Thrones, it was the first time it was adapted to television.

In the case of LoTR, there's already been a big budget production that won a ton of Oscars.

This seems very strange to me. Usually these studios want to try new ideas and less conservative. This smacks of a typical Hollywood studio problem, just regurgitating existing franchises into new mediums.
Maybe those animations could be sped up with continued use. Then new users get the visual connection between their actions and the response, while experienced users don't have to wait as long for the animation to play.
I have a Master's in Economics. In graduate classes, much of the work done in intro-level courses is tossed aside for more capable models that require a fair bit of calculus to understand. The easiest being the Solow growth model.

The intro courses delve into macro static models with at most 2 variables (think Keynsian Cross). In the graduate level, macro theory is taught as micro theory. While the deleterious effects of price controls still hold true at higher levels of economic reasoning, it's a multi-variate problem. With any price control, think of it as damage the rest of the people acting in the economy think of ways to route around. If a minimum wage increase takes place, perks can be cut without affecting overall employment levels as an example of how overall employment may stay the same.
But then I have to context-switch screens to my cell phone.
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Most of them. It kind of comes with having a good healthcare system. And education.
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When the web was young and most people were on dialup, having access to a T1 meant that everything happened nearly instantaneously. All the sites were optimized for dialup levels of complexity. Now that everyone has broadband there is no equivalent. The slowness is either because the page is so heavyweight in terms of memory or processing power (note that more money does not buy much single-threaded performance), or because it's making so many network requests that everyone faces at a similar latency.

Even the fastest computer and the highest-end Internet access can't get you such a huge advantage in performance that it can make the web feel snappy again.
Sorry, I got very annoyed hearing price arguments. We need to stop caring about price and see what's underneath.
What do you do when you have an old school application where JavaScript is written in non-modern style? For example, you have a.js and b.js. You define a function "hello" in a.js and use it in b.js. In the project, the developer assumes that the two files will be included in correct order within HTML. Linters fail here because they think b.js uses an undefined function, when it's actually defined. Unfortunately, since most JS linters only validate one file at a time, they are pretty much useless here.
Isn’t malloc based on mmap (or some similar equivalent like mach_vm_allocate) in all systems?
Hit counters, guestbooks, web rings, autoplay midi files, under construction gif animations, cursor animations, HTML frames, etc. We've been adding unnecessary garbage to webpages since almost the very beginning of WWW.
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It takes a long time, so might as well be profitable along the way. Think of how many businesses enter a "it takes a long time" industry and run out of runway before they can turn a profit. Good for Threadless for being able to generate profits for the better part of 20 years, even if they didn't achieve world domination. They got rich and had almost no risk
No? Getting on a BBS in 1983 at 300 baud means text files "downloaded" at the same speed you can read. Word processors were crazy painful to use, and incredibly slow. A text editor was just a line-by-line replacement. My TRS-80 would slow to a crawl even making the most basic (ha!) of programs.

Over the years, I've often thought about why computers never seem to get faster - mostly it is because people have a tolerance for response speeds, and that is unchanging. So software sits somewhere inside that tolerance range, because why be ultra fast when most people don't really care that much?
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its all about the command line! right!? that thing rules!!
You could do an anthology series of stories around but not inside the narrative of the films, taking sort of the same approach as _Rogue One_ (the only good post-first-trilogy movie) did with Star Wars.

As you say, though, an end-to-end retelling of LoTR doesn't make much sense.
> i posit that nobody wants autocomplete-style live DB lookups

Amen. I abhor this. I always get tripped up on these "smart" autocomplete entries.
Well, this is a cute bit of nostalgia, but it used to take 6.5 seconds to redraw the terminal screen at my local library, which was connected to some distant system at 2400bps.
make it explicit enough "if you buy i get some $$$ to pay for servers"and you should be fine
Why is it so surprising? From both the designer and shopper perspectives, the Old Way does seem better.

With the Old Way:

Designer: does N work to create a design and has X% chance of winning $2500. They focus on what they love (i.e. design) and can get a nice quick payout if they're good. This is even better than a lottery, because it has the same excitement, but talent is also a factor which is very motivating. The marketing is done for them. Competing head to head is also kind of fun.

Shopper: look at the top / winning shirts and buy one if they like it. Paradox of Choice is not a problem.

With the New Way:

Designer: needs to setup a shop, do N work to create a design, then M work to market the shirt, and needs to sell nearly 400 t-shirts to get to that payout. For the winners to achieve the same outcome, it's a lot more work. For most designers, I think it's safe to assume that the marketing part is nowhere near as fun as the design part. The excitement factor is totally gone.

Shopper: has to wade through tons of shirts to figure out which one they like. Paradox of Choice is signifcant.
Waymo is finally taking the driver out of some of its driverless cars
The replacement was the Mental Health Services Act, which gives more resources to local governments. Mental Health Boards play a part in figuring out what to do, even if it's only an advisory board.
I guess we are trapped by lack of UI innovation so the form will be the driver still. for me I like many "sci fi" representations where the phone is everything, it just happens to work for calls. need a bigger display, point at something appropriate. need it to be private, well with tracking and directional displays we can get there.

With regards to the X, +, and other phones, its not the form factor that was important, it was how you gained access. I think Apple emphasized the edge to edge screen too much when it was evident the notch was in violation, and should have wholly focused on what face id would give us. I do not understand why they cannot move some gestures only on X to other devices though.
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Only 250M. ONLY 250M.

Gives up and dies

I don't mean to be dramatic but this is a huge part of the problem. How is it that the exact same application (email) ran perfectly well on systems with 1M of RAM (and no virtual memory!) and now it takes two-hundred-and-fifty-fucking-megs?
Even with --webpack I still have coffee-rails; it just also adds the 'webpacker' gem.

Psyched to see Rails adding native webpack support though.
"use fast graphics cards, which have the potential to shave the average cost of factorizing a vulnerable 2048-bit key to $2,000."

Anyone has estimated the impact of this on crypto currency or crypto wallet system?

It would be interesting to see how many if any of the public keys use n crypto currency systems are potentially impacted by this type of hack.
To be clear, neither the regular Parity wallet nor MyEtherWallet are affected here. Also, they don't store your coins, all they can ever do is sign and publish transactions when given access to your private key.

Parity multi-sig wallets are an entirely different beast.

Bit of a confusing naming issue:

Parity wallet: light client software that accesses the blockchain.

Parity multi-sig wallet: a smart contract deployed on the blockchain, with the coins stored within this contract.

The latter is what was affected.
Ray Kurzweil thinks we could start living forever by 2029
But relative to what?
How do you compare two candidates with "5/5 in PHP"?
I want to know your absolute proficiency.
Boost Python looks somewhat similar to that type of interface too. http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_62_0/libs/python/doc/html/tu...
Depending on who you read, the expectations for Ethereum go all the way up to replacing banking systems, if not beyond, so there does not need to be any problem specific to Ethereum for there to be concerns about the practicality of its verification, though the fact that it is not a well-defined problem domain is itself an issue. Do you have a more restricted expectation of Ethereum's usefulness that implies no more difficulty than the largest formally-verified project that you are aware of? Update: the lower reasonable bound on Ethereum's complexity / usefulness is that it should enable something useful beyond what can be done with Bitcoin, or any other blockchain-based system lacking Turing-complete contracts.
i strongly agree. a physical thing is just more expressive, and when designed right, that can be leveraged. cars are the example ne plus ultra of how touchscreens arent always a great idea
These are the talking points they keep saying, but where is it? How many years does it take to double a constant in the source code? Bitcoin Cash already did it AND has real blocks well over 1MB. Ethereum has hard forked multiple times and has more throughput. This whole story of 'working on it' is pretty hollow when at the same time 'core' talks about how many developers they have. Nothing about it ever made sense. Gavin Andreesen was very clear that the block size needed to be changed 4 years ago. Everyone agreed until core took over and ousted Gavin, Mike Hearn and Jeff Garzik. Now suddenly turning a 1 into a 2 is a huge problem (even though so many other currencies have done it). At what point do you just admit that these guys are straight up lying to everyone and what they are saying has no grounding in reality?
It does say “Lord of the Rings”, but if they tackled some of the stories from “The Silmarilion” that could be pretty cool!
Not for left handed people. My primary hand is better/closer to the top row. My non-primary handle struggles with the keypad, especially if I don't use it very often - which I don't.

Worse, if you're on a laptop a lot then this habit is kicked out the door. Enabling a numpad on the keyboard is less efficient than just using the top row.
That's interesting, if US-only, thank you!
It sounds like there might be a (very tiny) market for an entirely audited GPL stack. Intel made a sound, responsible decision for everyone involved except the privacy crowd.
Turns out building a standards compliant DOM rendering and JavaScript is actually pretty complex.

When you throw in the heaps and heaps of different features that must follow volumes of specs, backwards compatibility with previous implementations, and cross platform compatibility I think it’s pretty safe to say that your average modern browser is one of the most, if not the most complex program installed on your machine.

It’s job isn’t small at all.
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I agree. This doesn't seem wise. LOTR is vastly different from GoT in basically everything except the things you mentioned (the thing is full of Christian allegories, not constant depictions of sexual violence).

Honestly this seems like a late-to-the-party attempted at catch up.
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Software engineers optimize for human scale time.
Given the whole article is about how some people do care your dismissive comment is as pointless as it is incorrect.
Personally, I love sports and exercise. I grew up playing basketball, football, baseball, soccer, etc. If I don't exercise (and maintain a good diet), it dramatically negatively affects my work. My mind is clearer, I'm able to focus longer, etc. Plus, a mid-day trip to the gym makes my afternoons much more productive.

In terms of sports, I like the competition, I like the strategy, overcoming the odds, and the idea of dedicating your life to mastering a skill. Though, I have strayed from football recently due to brain trauma concerns, and my kids aren't allowed to play it.

I also coach my kids basketball teams, which is a ton of fun, and has helped me with leadership and planning, plus is some extra exercise for me!

> Why is most of the geek population uninterested

This isn't my experience at all. I have worked in academia, and there is a nearly universal interest in sports, particularly the "local" college teams (Ohio State and Wisconsin, in my case). My PhD department could have fielded a competitive track and field team. At my current job as a software engineer at a prop trading firm, EVERYONE is interested in and plays sports. We have many corporate teams, our TVs often have sports on, and the devs behind me have an encyclopedic knowledge of baseball. Like literally, it is faster to ask one guy about baseball going back to the 50's than it is to google the question. The other guys on my team are very active, work out regularly, and play sports in their free time. The stereotypical "geek" in a Doritos-stained hoody and an extra 200 lbs ALMOST doesn't exist here.

For me, it is having a physical yin to the mental yang of problem solving all day. I meditate as well, but just DOING something physical is very cathartic, and meditative in its own way.

In terms of why some people get interested, it is probably environment. I like and play sports, so my kids do too. I don't push them to, but if Daddy is watching and excited about basketball, they will be too probably. One of mine isn't AS excited about sports, but is loving martial arts now, which I have never done.
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You should not back with your money something that rich people is not backing with his own money. Just saying.
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> the miracle of being able to send up to $x,xxx,xxx USD (or any other currency) around the world, confirmed in less than 10 minutes for a paltry fee of ~$5.

That's a miracle?

I've ordered physical products from all over the world - China, USA, Europe, India - and the payment confirmation always a) took just a few seconds and b) cost me just a few cents.

I also rarely bring cash with me, and pay most things with debit card. After punching in the PIN, the confirmation takes about 2 seconds to be printed. I'm happy, the seller is happy, we all carry on with our lives.

I don't know what it looks like on the receiving side, but I routinely buy games from GOG and Steam and they immediately let me know that "payment has been confirmed" after a purchase is made, so I am assuming that they see the confirmation of the transaction on their side immediately.

The only miracle I see here is how somehow $5 and 10 minutes per transfer is considered a great leap forward in efficiency.

Certainly bitcoin brings a lot to the table, but efficiency, so far, isn't it.
I have a suspicion that you need new lawyers. Having two different processes for two very common licenses seems a little off. The two cases aren't that different, legally.

The GPL does require some extra work, but it's on the technical side, to make sure you're shipping all the source that you need to ship.
> The idea that sacrificing actual functionality in exchange for smoother scrolling makes the web "better" is a claim that makes sense only in a terrifically isolated bubble.

It's a simple question of cost benefit analysis. Some users are harmed by slow scrolling, others will be harmed by the update. There's not some obvious reason to prefer one group to the other absent an assessment of how many users are impacted and how bad the impact is.

In this case, the impact of slow scrolling affects almost everyone, and it's pretty bad. For a long time, I basically wouldn't bother to use my web browser on the phone.

The impact of breaking some scrolling behavior affects the users of a small number of poorly maintained sites, and in most cases, not in a way that actually breaks anything.

To me, the "terrifically isolated bubble" approach is to focus only on the part of the user experience you care about rather than balancing the pros and cons to all users.
No, not all leagues have a realtime API that conforms to the same interface. If so it would really hurt business for companies likes STATS Inc and Sportradar.
I would live it if someone did a really good anthology series based on the Silmarillion. Those were some epic stories that, if told fully, could easily rival the Lord of the Rings.
I don't see how Crypto 'Market Cap' is in any way related to the term 'Market Cap' as related to traditional stock.
Not only "Lava lamps as a source of encryption entropy", but "Lava lamps used as a source of encryption entropy in production at Cloudflare.".
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Ehhh?

* I remember spending hours, sitting on my new 2GB hard drive, formatting it to FAT32. Or defragmenting every week... because that disk format was rather subpar compared to modern file systems.

* I remember the 10+ Floppy Disks that needed to be manually swapped in and out to install... something. I think Microsoft Word. Or maybe it was Windows. In any case, Floppies were slow as all heck, and when CDs came out everyone was amazed by their speed.

* I remember being able to "see" the flood fill algorithm in "Paint" applications line-by-line fill up regions. Computers didn't have the memory to fill up those regions in one pass back then and had to resort to slower algorithms.

* I remember waiting multiple minutes to download a 5MB file in the 90s. 56kbps downloads 5MB in 11 minutes, for example. Even small pictures were unreasonable to distribute on the internet, let alone audio or movies. Flash was popular because a lot of it was rendered vector art and could fit into the ~3MB or 4MB size needed to be practical.

* I remember the dial-up sound. It took multiple minutes to CONNECT to the internet, and you couldn't use your phone while you were on the internet. To check your email took at least 5 minutes before you saw your first email. ~2 minutes dialing in, a few more minutes downloading the emails, and then finally you could begin reading them

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Seriously, did the author here ever use 90s technology? I remember searching through 3 CDs worth of information to write reports in the 90s.

Yes, CD-rom based encyclopedias. You'd juggle CD-roms constantly to do things that are as simple as "Wikipedia" or "Google" today.

We are way, way wayyyyy faster than the 90s. I can imagine that one would be jaded by the past, but... speed? Nah man, we're way faster today than back then. Its not even a close contest.

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I mean seriously, when did people stop using Floppies? It was like, 2004 or 2005 if I remember correctly. And there was a good chunk of time in there where we spent many minutes burning CD-ROMs (when our data was too big for Floppies: MS Word documents easily over the 1.44 MB limit...) but Flash Drives were way too expensive to be practically used.

I think some people used those "Jazz" and "Zip" drives as a "floppy replacement", but really it was burning CDs / DVDs (which had a significant delay to spin up and write). Modern Flash drives are instant. Modern cloud-storage is instant.

I cringe at the thought of returning to the 90s. I have a 30MB Powerpoint sitting on my desktop that I've been working on between my home and work. Do you have any idea of how much time it would have taken to transfer that back and forth in the 90s?
Apparently GoT was pitched as "the Sopranos in Middle-earth".
I never played them or watched them growing up but have come to love them recently, in particular, college football. As a geek, I wrote them off as a dumb pastime for the masses, but as a recent convert, I've come to appreciate how incredibly cerebral and complex the games are. The play-calling, strategy, and on-the-fly decision-making required to consistently win football games is tremendous and really difficult to achieve in the major conferences.

There are just so many intriguing facets of these games and you won't appreciate them by flipping through the sports channels, but give it a chance: pick a local college team and go to a game. Try to find a radio station that does play-by-play coverage of the action and listen to that on your headphones. Football is great because the excitement of the big plays will hook you but the strategy will keep you. Like a good programming language, you can get some easy early excitement but find long-term enjoyment as you delve deeper and deeper into the details of what's going on out there.
They are not making more, but reasonably priced used sparc64 servers are still reasonably easy to find. OpenBSD runs well on most models.
Sure, that is very true during development or debugging a complex production issue as you mentioned. I meant troubleshooting and reworking along the lines of "this board used to work, now it doesn't". Most reworks I see of boards involve replacing parts, which in a modern Ethernet design would consist of the jack, some magnetics, PHY, and SoC.
Parity appears to have a bug bounty program, but the bounty is only $100. Given that they've now had two bugs that caused 9-figure losses in the past year, this is clearly too low. They need real auditing, and they need to pay the market price for real auditing.
> one of the things that makes me steaming mad is how the entire field of web apps ignores 100% of learned lessons from desktop apps

Burns me up too but I think this is by design. Meaning, web app developers generally don't want to listen, even when their bringing that to the desktop in the form of "native" apps.
Does anyone know if you can do the same with iPhone?
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