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Would it though? I've noticed a trend of libs being created under orgs of the same name, e.g.

- https://github.com/angular/angular

- https://github.com/rollup/rollup

- https://github.com/cherow/cherow

- https://github.com/hyperapp/hyperapp

Wouldn't we end up with a similar situation?
It's still useful in rental cars. Travellers may not have a working phone number to use mobile phone maps.
I don't know where you live, but for me Google Maps is absolutely dire, to a point where it's actually dangerous(telling me to turn wrong way into one way street, ignoring no-turn signs etc) plus the streets are wrong and/or missing(two streets which are in reality separated by a lawn appear connected in google maps so obviously the app shows me that I can drive through there fine). TomTom/Garmin/Navteq/AutoMapa are so much better than smartphone maps it's not even funny.
Anecdotal data: my parents (aged ~60) refuse to use their smartphones for GPS and have a dedicated device for this. They only use for long distance travels and never optimize their shorter travels (one could argue the long-distance travels aren't optimized as well, as TomTom cannot compete with Waze regarding time optimization, in my experience)
It's easy. You gather information about what the risks and hazards are for each vulnerability and then pragmatically decide whether there are any unacceptable risks after you mitigate with other layers of security.

It's a really common engineering task to do this and I'm not at all surprised that someone trying to maintain uptime would do so. Honestly it's more mature than updating every time because each change also introduces more potential for regression. If your goal is to run a stable system you want to avoid this unless the risk is outweighed.
laser cutting also has the advantage that each attempt takes 30 seconds rather than 3 hours. so you have orders of magnitude more capacity for trial and error.
I disagree with the initial premise, i.e., that:

> "We think in a voice in our head. Anyone trying to type has to first put it in a voice in their head before typing. You’re transcribing your inner voice onto the keyboard. When you speak it’s quicker."

Anyone who has heard me speak probably realizes I don't think in voice. I can type as fast as I can talk because words->bits (or words->sounds) isn't the bottleneck. Thoughts->words is.

Feynman [pdf: http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/607/2/Feynman.pdf] noted this, too. Some thinking can't easily be done in words. Some people don't naturally think in words.

There's a TV show about an autistic young doctor which, for all its flaws, tries to show how a person can have great insight even when they can't articulate well. I hope it might help inform the public understanding of other mechanisms of thought.

Spoken language is wonderful as an art form or as a tool but I find it troubling when people with one mode of thinking can present theirs as the only kind, and then use it to push their agenda on others. I suspect this is behind the "open floor plan" office fad, too.
Windows RT; Store apps only with Microsoft Office tablet version preloaded. Not sure what happened to it.
I understand all the grumpy, snarly attitudes to this, but it seems imperative to me for MS to extricate themselves from the mire of 24 years of legacy OS. There's no sensible alternative for them, unless they decide to just be maintainers of a legacy OS.
I've done both.
But really, i'd love to understand what the outcome you seek is.
These are very different roles, and i'd love to understand what you are hoping to get out of law.

Otherwise, feel free to ping me, happy to chat about it.
UWP apps are signed, and do not allow code injection, you effectively cannot modify their apperance, or anything else about them.
> As an aside, I think something many people don't realize is that slaves were not free Africans who were kidnapped and enslaved by westerners.

I often see such comments on any post about the US practice of slavery. I have yet to understand a good reason for them.

Academic curiosity? No, because I doubt anyone thinks the US invented slavery. Even when we think (as i do) the US took an existing immoral practice and (as a nation) made it worse, these comments don't try to address any such distinctions.

This means the comments come across as 'US slavery wasn't that bad because it just maintained an existing evil'. In addition to lacking support for the conclusion, no reason is given for why that would be relevant at all to the discussion at hand. Here we're discussing the fate of a ship that was used in violation of even the immoral laws of the time purely prove it could be done. In what way does whether the victims were already slaves or not matter at all to the topic? Adding "as an aside" to admit the comments aren't directly relevant is the same as using 'on average' to claim that racist/sexist statements aren't so because it allows the comments to not apply to any given individual - it seems like an excuse to be able to spread the idea without having to justify it.

Assuming your reasons are not to downplay the US actions, what ARE your reasons? Does knowing how your comments come across change your likelihood of repeating this sort of interjection? I'm not interested in silencing any facts, but timing and context matter. If you are introducing these concepts, the onus of justification falls upon you.
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Most DOS games were broken long ago just from clock speed changes. Many of them relied on things like spin loops for timing. Any person playing DOS games now is using DOSBox.
Is that such a bad thing? Slightly redundant, but that seems more aesthetic than anything.
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I would hope that the cycle of crunch -> ship -> layoffs is in the past now. From memory it used to be that way because the studio needed to crunch to get the product out the door to sell. Then once that happened they had no need for all of the people since there wasn't another product to work on.

These days there are a lot of studios working on so called perpetual games (MMORPG, etc) which have constant maintenance and improvements so they don't need to let go of people. Also the other AAA game companies are bigger and can shift people between projects as needed.
> unless a dedicated, organized backdoor exists

I would be surprised if such a thing did not exist for those that run the system.
Wickr is great, they have Mac, Windows as well as a few Linus Distro versions.

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I had a program with a rarely reported bug that turned out to be lazy loading of .so files that was this bug. Switched to eager loading and it went away.
Don't trust this guy, now he just spends his time writing good books and speeches on open source law.
But what does 'corresponds more closely to the mathematics' mean? The relevant point is just that the mathematics, alone, doesn't settle the theoretical question.

In general, it's hard to use Occam's razor in a non-question-begging way.
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I guess seeding is like proof of stake. Although who knows what is the currency.
The other possibility (not just you and IOTA, but for others) is that a lot of coins have free offerings at their launch to get things off the ground. Stellar is an example.

So yeah, just because someone owns coins doesn't mean they are/were mindless speculators.
The idea is to get the user in your head as a real human being not as an abstract category.

If you design for "User who needs product X" then you come up with different design than if you think about "Jim wants to buy a gift for his nephew's birthday, he is late, the birthday is tomorrow." You can better come up with ways to support Jim. You feel the importance of a speedy delivery.

You can also think about new features like asking this user if he wants a suggestion mail sent to him for next year (minus two weeks), that has present suggestions for kids that are 1 year older.

Now I just made that up, and it might be a terrible idea, but the point is, that you could never come up with something like that without a persona.
-_- what a silly article.
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offline maps? google and here both offer that
Join as a subscriber (£5 a month) and it goes away ;)

But seriously - I am a very happy £5 subscriber - I don't get any benefits over you, but feel very happy that I'm supporting the paper in the coverage it provides. They don't get everything right, but they are my go to source for news an I'm happy to pay for that.
Well, the name made fine sense when it was introduced... Maybe it serves as a good warning to not include such things as dates and hardware versions in names at all.
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You should load up maps on your desktop and suggest edits. They’re pretty responsive with fixing things.
The job market in Law is far worse than most people think. Make sure you do some serious research before you consider switching.

It's easy to end up six figures in debt with no decent job prospects.
I know, but I meant how NAT with IPv4 was deployed by ISP (at least in europe), which is a single IP with all inbound connection blocked.

I guess it will depend on how ISP will deploy IPv6, but where I saw it deployed, the ISP did not provide NAT by default and all allocated IP were routable and inbound traffic was not blocked.
Sadly, the taxpayers don't seem to understand the value of having a publicly funded space program
Just be wary of performance gains claims. Per other comments this implementation is highly optimized for a specific use and uses a numerically unstable algorithm.
Can I still use AWS though? Does the setup scripts remain the same? I had already set up an AWS server (my company has provided us some cash for personal learning) from the old lessons, but haven't started the lessons yet.

It'd be great if I can switch to the new lessons but with AWS.
It is hard for me to believe that there is a big difference between programming languages used by remotes as opposed to people in the office.

Myself I have mostly stuck to mainstream programming languages such as Java and Python with occasional use of C++, Scala, Bash and Perl scripts.

I know a systems programmer for Apple who writes C, technical writers, someone who writes Erlang and Elixir, also many people who do graphic design w/ Photoshop, Illustrator and similar tools.

If any technology matters to remote work it is the communication tools you use. In the last six months I have seen a big surge in people using Zoom and much less complaining from people that the tools don't work for them.
Wickr is a great option. they have Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android apps. They also have a pro app that can do end to end encrypted voice and video calling with forward secrecy. the best part is message timers that cause remote destruction of messages. https://www.wickr.com/
>If you tell the programmers that people need to be able to use a desktop web app with one hand, they're going to want to know why. Are there really that many one-handed users out there? Sounds like a corner case.

If your programmers are tightly integrated with product development, they should have access to the insight that makes it a priority in the first place.

If your programmers are removed from it, then they probably won’t care/ask.

I think you kind of hint at that in your last paragraph in mentioning sharing the supporting research.

Like I said, personas aren’t a bad thing, but things like user research are just good ideas anyways. Having user research lets you come to similar conclusions without a persona. If personas are what it takes to convince people to do things like crticically think and do user research about products before building I’m fine with it, but those are things you really should be doing regardless
Essentially, it rewards players who lose early over those who lose late. In a double elimination tournament, two people, one in losers and one in winners at the same point, the loser will play 2x the games of the winner.

So if a player wants to optimize for ranking, its actually in their best interest to throw round one of a tournament, play more games, and have their skill update more times.

The number of games matter because with more games you have more chances to win and update your score.
This is one of the dumbest articles I've read in a long time.

> Content creators could create shows and make them available over a decentralized platform instantly – no need to go pitch a studio or try to get Netflix to put you on their system. No more gatekeepers that have to approve your content.

When you go to a network, or Amazon, or Netflix, part of what you get is distribution. But that's not what you go to them for. You go to them for MONEY, since producing high-end media content is expensive. And in exchange for their money, you agree to only distribute that content on their network.

But without the money to produce the content, the rest is meaningless.
i guess other peer to peer networks, you can always bring a person to court over sharing something. Whereas blockchain it can be more anonymous and content can be split on many machines?

Let me know if i am thinking of this right. i think we all could use a little more clarification on how this changes things over existing techs
If you are into this kind of thought experiments, I can highly recommend the old but far-sighted sci-fi novel "A Fire Upon the Deep" by Vernor Vinge:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep

This novel is full of ingenious ideas, one of which is demonstrating how huge differences in computing (=thinking) speed make up for fundamental differences, which manifest on many levels.
> For our purposes, Bloodgood serves as a great example of "closed pool" rating abuse. You get inflated ratings by being the best player in your playerpool, even if your playerpool is a relatively weak one.

In Melee there people that end up as local kings that don't do well in nationals. There are also people that are exceptionally good on a national level but simply don't travel (aka "Hidden Bosses").

Nintendo is very hands-off with Melee so tournament organization remains in the hands of the community. There is no single major overseer of Melee tournaments. Anyone can hold a tournament and throw the bracket onto Challonge or Smash.gg. I imagine if ELO was implemented as part of seeding, people would start gaming the system.

> The way seeding gets done is that players get placed into broad tiers, and then those tiers are then fed into pools, attempting to avoid region conflicts or repeat matches from recent tournaments.

This is where the human-in-the-loop part of seeding shines. Mid-tier players are entering national tournaments for the experience. They will not win, and their reg fee is essentially donating money to the winner's pot. But what they gain from the experience is tournament matches with players that they are not familiar with. Many of them will only get two games in-bracket, so it's a huge waste for them if they end up playing against buddies from their own region.

The community actively polices good seeding. There is often an outcry if say too many Nor Cal players get shoved on the same side of a bracket.
I recall Microsoft saying that Windows 10 would be the last Windows, which was their reasoning for shoving it down our throats.

Guess we're going to have Polaris upgrade nags now.
Where does this happen? I've never had Google Maps do this. For me it even accurately knows what time of day roads are closed or become unidirectional.
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Exactly!

I find that a lot of people like to sit down and play "let's pretend" instead of doing real work.

Personas come across as an easy way to get sidetracked by a game of "let's pretend." That's when personas are just stereotypes.
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Is the 'fastai' library on Pytorch something you'd recommend only for beginning/learning/this course, or is it intended to be used in production beyond the course? Is it being positioned more as a learning aid or as an open source library with a life beyond this course?

Also, any chance of https on the forum?
I believe they are providing a fair amount of data for Apple Maps.
Often times rent is more expensive than owning a home (through a 30-year mortgage, for instance). So, in the end, you end up with an (appreciating) asset vs just having somewhere to live for X years.

Of course, and this is a huge reason for some people, you're kinda stuck there, unless you want to do the buy/sell dance to move around.
> I like being able to run 20 year old games natively if I feel like it. (e.g. Diablo 1, released in 1996, can still run without virtualization on Windows 10. Sometimes.)

As I pointed out below, this isn't even 20 year old games. Name a release in the last year - if it's not a first-party Microsoft title, chances are it's Win32.

You mentioned Diablo 1, well with polaris Diablo III would need virtualization.

Fortnight? PUBG? Overwatch? All are Win32 games.

Excited for monster hunter in Q3? That'll be virtualized in polaris.

This is going nowhere.
Google maps (at least on iOS) changes their interface frequently and needlessly. I have not seen a meaningful update to the UI in maybe the last three years. The ability to mute the volume is the only real change that comes to mind and that's not really a UI enhancement. Rather, features useful to me jump around through the various UI layers seemingly at random. The map display changes without warning. Sometimes these changes help me navigate, sometimes just the opposite. Each time the app updates I'm never sure what I'm going to find or if I'm going to have to take five minutes out of my trip just to figure out what this shuffle of the deck brought. I swear Google employs a host of front-end engineers with no real purpose in life.

A dedicated device with a predictable and unchanging UI could be very useful. The problem is that the convenience of the phone still outweighs the drawbacks for me.
I love dangerous prototypes sick of beige. I think they discontinued it, but they used to have an amazing SMD protoboard. I haven't seen anything quite like it since. Especially for the price.
How clickbait could kill both discourse and logic.

It seems like people randomly generate an article title from buzzword soup, write it up and call it a day.

What a time to be alive.
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And the EU. Historically the European mainland has been the theater for these big wars and the EU has in general helped to reduce tension between the nations that had been more or less at a continuous state of war for centuries in some place or other.

With the new attacks on the EU and Russian funds flowing to EU skeptical parties (to give them a nice name) there is a good chance we will see a resurgence of war on the European mainland.
Getting fired from a bad gig is a blessing, especially if you've already been interviewing elsewhere.

If your company senses the vibe of disinterest, and especially if they think it's so serious that you're interviewing elsewhere, it's not entirely unusual for management to move toward a dismissal before the employee can quit. Like you, they want the imminent departure to occur on their own terms, even if that can mean paying out some severance, etc.

As another poster stated, now you are going to get some severance and other benefits that can help ease your transition to a better thing, so that's great. It is nearly always financially better to get laid off/fired than to quit voluntarily.

Don't worry about explaining it away. If other companies ask why you left without having something new first, just say that you and management didn't see eye to eye, and that you want to focus on finding a place that's a good match, because it's not worth wasting time at a place that isn't a good match. This is all totally true and valid, and it will serve to flatter the company if you end up accepting an offer. It also projects an image of financial security that may help in salary negotiations.

I'm not going to pretend that it doesn't hurt to be beaten to the punch, even when it's what you really wanted anyway. But hang in there and don't let it get you down. The emotional sting will pass and you'll be able to appreciate the brightness of the better future soon. :)
Article is clearly written by someone that hasn’t worked in content production.
I get what you are saying about Story Based games, but even for those types of games certain stream scenarios have huge value for the publisher.

For example, someone who is very young may not have the technical ability to beat a game they own and finish the story. Do publishers really want to prevent this 5yr. old super fan from seeing how the story ends on Youtube?

Or what if a major game like Fallout 3. I might be interested in picking up this game for the first time. But the story that this game continues would be from a console generation it is very unlikely for me to have, and even if I did, I am not interested in playing a game from more than 10 years ago. Should I be able to watch the story elements of that game, to help facilitate a new purchase that helps that publisher? Some may argue that it is their right to force me to purchase the first games in order to get those stories, and it is their right, but it definitely isn't in their economic interest.
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As mentioned in the article, Polaris is only for new devices
Not by Meltdown which enabled user processes to read kernel memory.
And as we've seen in the aftermath, they have not nearly as much trouble with their patches for Spectre as Intel has had.
Google don't in all regions.

> Note: Downloading offline maps isn't available in some regions because of contractual limitations, language support, address formats, or other reasons.