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Interesting this is popping up. I had an Atari 800 and loved it. Not sure, though, why it's currently front page. Loved my C64 as well.

Anyone else that was hooked on the "Miner Twenty Four Niner"[1] game that was popular on Atari 400/800? My non-techie wife even loved it.

Also loved "Full Metal Planet" on the Amiga platform.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miner_2049er
> Wars always have casualties. Technology helps to reduce them. In WW2 it was normal to wipe whole cities using bombs.

Large scale aerial bombardment of cities in WWII was enabled by advances in technology in the period shortly before that period, so it's really not a good thing to bring up to support a blanket “technology helps reduce them” claim about casualties.
I’m shocked that people consider 1 CD per month to be expensive for access to millions of albums.
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Dude, this hapoens and is not as negligible as you imply.

Sure, there's an agenda to appeal for a certain rhetoric, but you must accept some facts.
Your dream is not too far away from reality. Devices like Mozilla's Things Gateway (https://iot.mozilla.org/gateway/) represent some of the most ideal fog nodes as they are inexpensive and fairly powerful. Not too long ago there was even a research project called Paradrop (https://paradrop.org/) which made a fog node out of a consumer-grade router. My company is working on modeling software right now for Fog deployments and hope to use the knowledge we gain to build our own fog computing solution. Our first application will likely be either a fog-based filesystem (already done by researchers within Princeton's Edge Lab) or a Fog-based backup / NAS solution. It'll be a while before we get to this stage, but it's emerging from the mist so to speak.

Also for anyone interested in how the Cloud, Edge, and Fog computing models differ, I wrote a blog post about this topic (http://pratumlabs.com/blog/2018/01/what-is-fog-computing/) a few weeks ago.
I found KiCAD extremely painful to use. Parts library is a mess and the developers are extremely uninterested in listening to people. I love open source projects and want to support them - KiCAD isn't one of them.

My life has changed since I discovered DipTrace. It is free for non-commercial use and extremely cheap for commercial use - About $100 would get you enough to build small-medium sized projects. And it is just so well engineered. Kudos!

Also, no subscription business. Just good ol' perpetual licenses. DipTrace developers are just amazing people - if you ask nicely, they'll give you a discount if you're a startup.

https://diptrace.com/
There are a couple of Reply All episodes that talk about almost this exact same scam. Fake taxi service lost and found sites, fake DMV sites etc.

https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/76-lost-in-a-cab

https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/78-very-quickly-to-the...
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Japanese internment camps? I’m sure at that scale people died that would not have.

Next given the scale of wwii I’m sure there were us citizens fighting for the axis powers. The main difference is we lacked the ability to track, research, and target individuals like we do today.
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The accusation and court costs (which you would not be refunded for) would likely be career destroying by the time it was resolved.
And generally to some relatively small radius around the consumer's home location.
Oh yeah, Rich Hickey's famous: "hammock time"
That's the No True Scotsman fallacy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

> The majority of the real, actual suffering going on right now has little to do with tech.

> It’s the people turned into refugees thanks to geopolitics, it’s the DACA kids afraid ICE is just around the corner to break up their family, it’s the women being systemically assaulted, it’s the malnourished and maleducated kids among America’s poor

Tech has non-trivially contributed or stood idly by while all these happened.
This is a terrible article. He makes a total straw man out of neural networks by pulling code from an "Intro to Neural Networks in Python" tutorial and saying "What's so hard about this?" He also doesn't explain it correctly, not even close. Maybe he should actually do the tutorial.

What's the point of this? That he's as smart as people who build AI? This person, Brandon Wirtz, needs to work on his self-confidence, not just intelligence.
Fun fact: oil change places sell your odometer reading to your car insurer, who may increase your rates if you drove more miles than you said you would: https://splinternews.com/how-car-insurance-companies-spy-on-...
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It’s a true shame Jay Miner died in 1994. I really think someone would have gone one past Amiga on the journey from the Atari 8-bit.

Learned to program on a Atari 400, and very glad their was an easy to get, affordable, non-technical parent friendly option for those at the lower end of the income scale.
> The lion's share of the mainstream media is biased to the left

When your positions are so extreme the lion share of the population votes against them, its not hard to find boogeymen.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/26/eric...

> “Governor Scott Walker’s refusal to hold special elections is an affront to representative democracy,” Holder said in a statement. “Forcing citizens to go more than a year without representation in the general Assembly is a plain violation of their rights, and we’re hopeful the court will act quickly to order the governor to hold elections.”
Many researchers out there state that it just doesn't matter very much: https://fredrikdeboer.com/2017/07/31/the-academic-success-se...
If you need only small number of simplest type 1-2 sided PCB's you can just use CNC milling machine to carve the layout and drill the holes.
Neat that they did it without a graphics API
Still have the cartridge, Miner 2049er was something of an obsession for me after Star Raiders and the Atari 8-bit Donkey Kong cartridge. 4 player M.U.L.E. and Seven Cities of Gold were amazing.

Actually, playing Seven Cities of Gold on a reservation generated some amusement.
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This tanker is the first to sail across the melted Arctic in winter
for 72h straight your truck stay parked in some street

That's misrepresenting the facts. He may have been there for weeks; the article didn't say. What it does say is:

"When officers saw the truck, which was not operable, they called a city parking enforcement officer, who tagged it and told Long he had to move it within 72 hours (of the tagging)... Long tore off the impound sticker... and left the truck in place. The parking officer waited at least four days before having the vehicle towed, giving Long extra time to buy a part needed to get it running. When the enforcement officer returned Oct. 12, the truck was still there but Long was not, and the vehicle was towed."

The officers didn't know initially that it was outright inoperable. Simply pushing the vehicle (or having it pushed) to the next adjacent space complies with the letter of the law; he may have volunteered that it was inoperable hoping for an empathetic extension (which he received), yet he still didn't move or fix it. Since its release, it's right back on the street, inoperable.
I think there's a distinction to be made with stepping away from the keyboard and thinking idly about a problem while doing something else and what Hickey means by "hammock time", which is a more dedicated application of thought to the problem domain, analysis, and design. Both can be useful, but I think they're different.
One thing I really don't like about Crypto20 is this:

"The liquidation option offers a price floor
protection – this ensures the price never drops below that
of the underlying assets because of market manipulation.
Prices are, however, free to increase as speculative value is
created by the high demand for a low-cost, diversified and
automated cryptocurrency portfolio that can be held as a
single token"

A unit of Crypto20 can be trading at a premium to the actual underlying assets.
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There are index funds for pretty much anything you can build an index out of. Hell, there are index funds on an endless downward spiral[1]. Intentionally.

[1]:https://finance.yahoo.com/chart/VXX
I'd like to for example create a PCB with some sensors, LEDs, and a microcontroller, specify the sensor input over time and the software on the microcontroller, and let the computer figure out the behaviour of that system, so it can tell me state of the system (i.e. what LEDs are on, or what values are in the registers of the microcontroller?) at a given time. For performance reasons, that would require both low-level simulation (electrics) and high-level simulation (software on the microcontroller) simultaneously in a compatible way. Can SPICE do that?
Do I have to want to go somewhere? What if I’m already where I wanted to go?
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There is a history of large companies helping the US government, and they’re not all defense contractors.

Why are they surprised? Google is the Bell Labs of our time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_100_Contractors_of_the_U.S...
This was my thought.
मै भारतीय हूं
I am an indian

What is this privileged white people thing? Everywhere I see people get banned left right and center on Twitter for posting mere facts about crimes by people of color (not Indians and chibese mind you, we're the highest and second earning group in the us)

On the other hand, it's perfectly okay to claim all whites are racist and white race should be dead.

How does this thing work? This privilege? Do white people get stuff cheaper (because as an Indian I'd love to get a white guy to do my shopping).

Do they get more opportunities? How do? Isn't it illegal? Everywhere I see, the elite colleges seem to be going out of their way to incorporate people of color.

All I see are subversive attempts by sections of media to try and create a narrative

And I'm no fan of white myself, lots of forced conversion in Indian tribal areas by whites. But I hate subversion much more
+1 I have friends who buy things from the local retailer instead of Walmart, but it's the Walmart brand.
Violation of the 3rd amendment if trojan/rat installed. Chilling effect potentially violation of 1st amendment due to going public. Workaround violation of 4th amendment.

Get a fucking warrant. It's the law. The supreme law of the land in fact.

ps. informants are the real criminals, they just want to make it seem noble when they violate the rights of people en mass because they caught a bad guy via fruit of the poison tree
Mithril always seemed pretty lightweight to me.
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Brilliant, had always lumped those together. But it is easy to end a walk.
Its just not bad math, it's also bad history.

It actually says that the rate of inflation always increases with time, which is... not true! Even if it's trying to say, clumsily, that there has been inflation every year historically... that's also not true. There has been periods of deflation, historically

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflation#Historical_examples
Link dead, this seems to work:

http://seriouscomputerist.atariverse.com/media/pdf/book/Atar...

Document itself contains another mirror:

http://www.atari800xl.eu/faq/atari-8bit-faq-us-letter-format...
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> push and shove routing is a god send

Agreed. KiCAD has had for 3+ years as well, though.
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I wonder if in 200 years, they going to have people's browsing and location data from now. If yes that would be an unprecedented amount of records for historians.
While those camps were morally reprehensible and constitutionally indefensible, the goal was not to kill people. Can we at least agree that the whole , “A secret court has ordered your death from the sky,” thing is a lot more purposefully murderous? Not capture, not detain, just kill.
Fortunately that's not what I am arguing. I am pushing for VVPATs instead. :)
As a former EE and PCB designer, you never use a vendor PCB library, especially one that shipped with your software.

From a software engineering standpoint, I realize this feels crazy, but its pretty much par for the course. Every organization develops their own libraries for parts and processes their vendors may use, and while there are standard size parts, there is enough variance that it doesn't really make sense.

"Re-implementing" the standard library is sadly par for the course.
I don't think that's the right way to look at the problem. Financial concerns use these microwave networks for additional speed; if it's not available all the time, their competitive edge is limited, but their trades still go through, just not a few milliseconds in advance of their competitors.

At least, one hopes that their trading strategy is based on a combination of financial fundamentals and a technological speed boost; if the speed boost is the only thing they've got going for them then that doesn't speak very well of their business.
I'm no neutral party, and this is totally subjective, but KiCAD is way better than DipTrace.
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Amazon does this convenience thing for restaurants, there is no reason why they couldn't do it for the local toy store.

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There is a market of freelancers who do this, but the cost is probably not what you are expecting from the software market.
> narrow-minded fantasy by privileged white people who never had to face the world they were born into.

I cannot wait for the day that this type if language and rhetoric is rightfully considered racist and wrong in the mainstream.

Literally fuck you.
What legitimate purpose would a Best Buy employee have scanning unallocated storage specifically looking for images? It sounds like they were deliberately running FBI provided porn detection software. That is way beyond the scope of what Best Buy's employees should be permitted to do.
> I've thought about driving during the day and having laptop time for the same activities during rest periods. Probably seems weird, but I'd be in if I could make it work. I do my best thinking behind the wheel, and I've solved a number of engineering problems on road trips. It seems ideal.

I hear trucking causes quite a bit of fatigue.
"Quantum supremacy" is the goal (still unachieved) of demonstrating a clear speedup over classical computation by computing something faster than our best classical computers can.

I recall a number of quantum demonstrations (though usually with the quantum annealing devices) have had legitimate questions about whether any quantum behavior was exhibited at all, because given how little was calculated it certainly could have decohered and done the same calculation via classical means with the amount of time it took, or something. (I probably do not have the details right.)
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The word used is “outraged” and not “surprised” though. I think that’s more than just a semantic point. In fact there is no mention of surprise in the article. I think that’s a reasonable reaction, whereas surprise is a straw man, largely implying a naïveté which is notably absent in the article.
Oh, but the crap keyboard on the 400. I got a good deal on an 800, so wasn't subjected to it. Good for you for powering through it though.

Edit: Lol on the downvote. It was a membrane keyboard that actually fought touch type and encouraged hunt-and-peck. It truly sucked...a friend had one so I'm commenting from real world experience. Consider that "open source" at the time meant retyping code from long passages in a printed magazine. A time when the competition had at least decent keyboards.
(C64/Coco/99-4a/Apple ii/etc).
I don't think I have ever seen a level of projection as intense and specific as this into a comment. Get help. Please.
This could still be a grey area. Obviously pornography of young children could be identified by most people 99% of the time, the 1% being bizarre situations like mistaking a collection of cherub images for child pornography. But what about when the 'child' looks like a junior or senior teenager and so it's ambiguous as to weather they're of legal age or not? Is someone morally obligated to report potential child pornography in such a situation? A false report, even an accidental one, could cost an innocent person their freedom or a lot of money to preserve their freedom.
Thanks.

Curious. which country are you from and whats your opinion based on what you have read about issues in India till now?
These days it's easier to send a faithful copy. The Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie has been informed:

http://www.bsh.de/de/Das_BSH/Presse/Pressearchiv/Pressemitte...
We faced this at work recently (at our decidely sub-Google scale) when sales guy refused to bid for an opportunity at a weapons manufacturer so we had some interesting discussions around the issue.

Its a little hard to make blanket statements that weapons/warfare are bad. There are good times to use weapons.

An obvious one was at the time of WWII. If the clever people had refused to work on weapons, things would have finished up potentially a lot worse for mankind generally.

And perhaps in our medium term future, as climate change becomes more and more real, a critical mass of people will decry the continued burning of fossil fuels. And if retrograde nations continue to poison our common resource, then maybe some global police force will need weapons to stop them.
>At a whim, you and your family/friends can stop using Facebook

Said nobody who truly understands network effects or knows someone who depends on Facebook for day-to-day communication with 5-10 people.

Quitting Facebook by yourself is easy but it's pointless if your friends don't do the same. Forcing your social circle to switch at the same time (particularly if they aren't technologically inclined) is folly.
Great learning project. Having it <300 lines whiles till being clear and easy to navigate is fine work.
Equifax, for as much as they are maligned, will tell you what open credit accounts the deceased person had.

Last year's tax return will probably identify any significant investments, at least those that are producing income.
Index funds are usually market cap weighted, so day to day changes in value don't require rebalancing, since if a security suddenly doubles, its market cap does too, and it's therefore still held in the correct proportion to the other securities in the index.
Your lifestyle/spending in your 20s and 30s has little to do with your retirement lifestyle/spending. Especially if you're rasing children...
> Just because other people are already doing evil doesn't give you an excuse to do more!

The excuse is that you're at a disadvantages if you don't. In a world of 99% cheaters, the 1% who follow the rules and suffer are acting irrationally.
Yeah, the devices themselves don't hold a lot of memory but the network connections are fast. Everything has always been done server side.
I too love the idea (and the story behind it).

But... the fact the it uses (or even can use) Facebook Messenger is enough to put me off recommending it to anyone or even really sharing news of the product.

Facebook not a company that I'd trust with data about me or those at risk.

Regardless, congrats on the launch, the landing site looks great too!

I'll keep an eye out for updates on alternatives to Facebook Messenger.

Keep up the good work!
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Even though way more machines work great out of the box it's pretty clear your machine isn't one of them. Unfortunately since manufacturers often don't care about linux support on a particular box buying a machine and hoping its supported isn't an optimal strategy on linux or mac.

There is nothing about linux that would imply screen lag or keystrokes its pretty clear that something was clearly broken with your gpu driver. For example using software rendering rather than your gpu. Possibly something that could have been corrected by using drivers that aren't "horribly outdated" which are certainly available.

You didn't happen to think all the people using linux are just dealing with keysstrokes that take seconds to show up and pretending its normal did you?
And if you have children, they will be taken from you until the issue is resolved, which can take months or years.

And googling your name always brings up articles about the charges on the first page. Exonerations rarely get the same attention or media coverage as accusations, if they even get any.

TL;DR Your life is pretty much ruined forever.
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You don't buy a random laptop and hope it supports mac os right? How about buy something with linux instead of buy the cheapest junk you can get and hope it supports linux?
As is true of other people's trash.
Concrete Mathematics by Knuth was designed with your needs in mind, and has essentially become the canonical "math for cs" text. I haven't read more than the preface plus a few pages though, so I can't comment further on whether or not it delivers in my opinion, but the opinions of others seem very positive.
lead is not the endpoint of fusion, iron is.

if you expect to take a 100,000 year trip you should expect to live off the land and mine Kuiper belt objects and rouge planets. And figure that once people have lived 10,000 years under those conditions they probably won't find anything interesting about terrestrial planets.
Saw it looking for 'python lambda' then proceeded to bomb the test.

https://thehustle.co/the-secret-google-interview-that-landed...
The municipal services, in the US, are generally funded by property taxes

The parent comment specifically referred to "municipal services like sewage and trash pickup" which, to my knowledge, are not funded by property taxes in any US state but by individual or association subscription and hookup fees, and those generally go to private entities.
There's also an argument to be made that remaining on the cutting edge of military science is a form of national security. Being one of the first, or only, nations to develop and test a new kind of weapon means that you'll also be among the first nations to be able to fully assess its practical viability and evaluate its countermeasures.
My previous post might have been confusing - it was a problem with too many PAs relative to number of people, not with the office space size.
a bunch of unlawful zeros and ones

...and I feel that is the root of the problem.

I'm against real pedophiles and child abuse as much as anyone, but it feels to me like possession of otherwise illegal digital or virtual information should really be decriminalised, simply due to its immensely malleable and interpretable nature. It reminds me of things like "illegal primes" and such. Moreover, people can already perform, in the virtual world of games, acts that would be highly illegal in the real world --- and yet this still remains legal.

Maybe after we get over the War on Drugs...
Maybe the customer asked the Geek Squad to recover some deleted files.
I couldn’t imagine wearing a luxury watch on my daily walks through seas of tent cities, panhandlers, and car campers. I would feel embarrassed and vulnerable. Arguably I already should, but a Rolex would definitely push it over the top. Cities are increasingly looking like this, and we are increasingly living in cities and walking and taking transit. Wealth display won’t go away, but I predict it will shift towards venues that are less obvious when you’re a soft target waking around in public.