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For me, I regard my life kind of like a business. As such I have a strategic, tactical and operational plan. These plans operate on different schedules. My strategic, long term plan is where I picture myself in perhaps the next 10-15 years. My tactical plan is where I picture myself in about a year. And my operational plan dictates my day-to-day actions. Occasionally (perhaps a few times a week) I reflect on my long term plans.

In the end life never really works out as planned, but as some wiseguy once said "Plans are worthless, but planning is everything." You kind of have to be ready to adapt or change your plan.

To give a more concrete example: for the last 10 or 15 years I've been thinking about emigration. Initially my eyes were kind of set to South America. Chile seemed kind of interesting. So I was kind of orienting myself to moving there are some point. Still it seemed hard, but at least there was some goal to work towards.

Then about 5 years ago I got a chance to freelance. Freelancing in my country when working in IT means earning much more money and having more control over your spending. During this time I also started to have this dream of working for myself one day, working on my own projects.

After 2 or 3 years of freelancing I met a Thai woman in The Netherlands. Through her I got some interest in Thailand and Thai culture. This caused me to go on holiday in Thailand. In Thailand I met my current girlfriend and I decided I would take a sabbatical there, so I could experience how I would enjoy life when living for a longer time in Thailand. The freelancing allowed me to build up quite some savings so this wasn't an issue for me. And I could work on my own projects as well.

This was a very enjoyable time and I decided I would emigrate to Thailand. With my girlfriend I've got a daughter now and we've also built a house recently. As it stands now it seems I will emigrate to Thailand in June. I've also worked on getting a remote job. I am hoping I will only have to do part time remote work and can focus more and more on my own projects. And hopefully in the future dedicate myself on working full-time on my own projects, provided they give me income or I can build up enough savings to have a decent living on the profits. I believe this should be achievable in maybe the next 5 years.

Most important decisions I made in the last years were all guided by my plans (and most importantly my long term plan). I believe people need to have these kind of plans to make good decisions for their life. From what I've seen, people that don't have a long term plan for their life, they just seem to live day to day without a clear purpose.
I'm happy to say that wouldn't stay up for long anymore. At least not something that obvious.

When the bot doesn't catch those, there's almost always a couple of people looking at every change as they stream by, but that's an uphill battle that mostly catches the obvious bad edits.

The rate of change to recent change reviewers is too high to catch the more sophisticated vandalism as it happens, that's when things start staying up for weeks or months until some random person browsing the page notices, and hopefully fixes it.
We have been addressing that for the last 3 years. Which CPython modules it does not work with for you?

That comment was about something slightly different though - even though richards is 40x faster, pypy still is not faster on some workloads (like instagram in their measurments), which makes me think that there are other forces at play.
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I agree, it is nice to have a very clear high level approach to causal reasoning. I find his other books to be ‘slow going’ so I hope that after reading the Why book, I will have an easier time absorbing his earlier work.
> Deutsche Bahn AG is a private company, yes, but its 100% owned by the federal government.

Which does not change the fact that it's been made into a private company, and that their mission is profit. Ever since that happened we've been hearing it in the news whenever they announced their results, apparently the whole country, or at least media and the government care very much about it. So they are not like a government agency at all, they really are a business.

So OPs statement is not true, competition (on the local routes) and profitability very much drive DB. That was my point, in the context of the comment I replied to.
Maybe Philip Cross is Russian.
I'm guessing that's what makes it viable.

If it's going into future vehicles, well, a number of those are going to have plenty of current.

That suspension would make a pretty sweet market differentiator for electric cars. Would go a long way toward making up for range anxiety.
> We are sharing this with anyone who wants to use it! Why?

[Their answer amounts to "because".]

Because they've gotten all the internal value out of it, and now with the deadline here, they can get maximum value out of it by "open-sourcing". Sorry to be so cynical, I'm so sick of this style of embedded advertisement.

That said, I do rather like the simple format of their template. Although their handling of "security" is too thin to be useful in any way, I will otherwise integrate their templates into our current documentary processes, which are awful by comparison.
Generally I have found that people who compare the US with dictatorships such as China and Russia and conflate the actions of the two have been

A. brainwashed by decades of anti-US propaganda (the source of which is generally Russia or the Soviet Union)

B. Paid Russian/Chinese shills
Yep, they are very pro-war when as long as it waged by Assad and his allies.
> ‘Philip Cross’ has edited @georgegalloway ‘s wikipedia page over 1800 times.

This, and many other political arguments I have seen on it before, really makes me think that Wikipedia would benefit from a policy where a sufficient number of individual complaints against a user who has passed some threshold of number of edits to a single article (say 100) would be automatic grounds to block the user from further edits to the article, regardless of fault. I understand that this sort of obsessiveness is also an important asset to Wikipedia (and so they are understandably reluctant to set up obstructions to what it considers its "10x editors"), but in my eyes this pattern of personal crusading and article ownership causes damage to its utility as a source on any contentious topic far in excess of the damage it would suffer even in the worst case of every single editor that has put more than 1000 edits into any single article quitting.
Here's a home made synth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCsiJ8o3BEo
That's a pretty good analogy. Substitute "Big Data" for some other popular trend ("Blockchain", "AI", "ML", "Deep learning", "IoT", "Agile") and it still holds true.
Wow, that admin is a git. He should read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies
I think you're misunderstanding his usage of "on their behalf." I think the poster means a distrust of claims that a decision is for the third-party's good.

The rich setting the rules is transparently favor of the rich. And you're expected to also optimize for yourself. This might be accepted by some more easily than rules set "for the greater good" if one is particularly cynical about such claims.
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What even is this article? There is nothing substantive here. Like many other mainstream tech articles these days, this reeks of mass-media narrative control. I just wonder if it's the clicks that drive these or if there are other actors behind the scenes encouraging the deluge of anti-FB, anti-Goog, anti-Twitter, etc articles. Maybe I'm viewing this too broadly, but I get an icky feeling of intentional furor construction.
Because unless you're listening in an anechoic room - which is Not Fun - reflected ambience creates a hemispherical sound field around an acoustic source, and stereo recording only captures a small sample of that. (Enough to create a 2D spatial illusion, but no more than that.)

And also because loudspeaker technology is still pretty terrible compared to the rest of the audio chain. Converters are nearly perfect, amps can be made close to perfect at non-trivial cost, microphones are okay but usually add some colouration, but even the best studio-grade speakers have limitations and add significant distortion.

And consumer-grade speakers - even expensive ones - are nowhere close to perfection. And even if they were, you'd still have to deal with room resonances in the performance room, which would add extra colour to the sound that wasn't present in the original recorded ambience.

Basically hifi is good enough to be musically enjoyable in a near-enough not-too-distracting way, but you need research-grade technology - like complex wavefield speaker arrays and acoustic tuning of the performance space - before you can record and reproduce sound almost transparently.
The 5 Whys is just meant as a simple tool easy to use, of course it won't solve your big picture problems and nobody is questionning that. You're raising a strawman. Any methodology applied heedlessly will lead to bad result.
> Sure, but is such a school giving their child any actual advantage? They'll be in a foreign country taught by likely a lower quality teacher (esp. in US private schools, there is a reason our private teachers make $10k less a year).

If they're rich, aren't they intentionally selecting schools to try to avoid the perceived "lower quality teachers"? I don't think money would be the limiting factor there (effectiveness in turning money into results is a different matter, but after all, school is as much about networking as anything else, and you're probably buying into a very powerful network).
On one hand, some shady Wikipedia vigilante. On the other, a bunch of Russia-backed war crime deniers. Quite a moral dilemma!
or just asking the cell towers providers for list of genuine hardware, and then cross-checking that against triangulated antennas.
I suppose it could be useful for keeping your "breach notification team" busy, after somebody (for whatever reason) adds a "users.hiv_positive" (boolean) column or some such and that column ends up being included somewhere you didn't intend it to be.

"Root cause analysis: The {database administrators|programmers} were too lazy to explicitly define the column names they wanted, resulting in the unintended disclosure of HIV positive status of $bignum individuals."
Why don't we start a big "don't contribute to Wikipedia campaign". Can we start one of those "fund me" campaigns and use the proceeds to battle this?
> For all practical purposes, you can write causality like

> p(x|y) = 1 and time(y) < time(x)

This isn't true at all. For a counterexample, x and y may both have a common cause.

Pearl's work is on this and extends the language to talk about p(y | do(x)), meaning that you talk about what happens to y when you take some hypothetical intervention to change x. Causation framed in terms of intervention talks about "what if it had been this instead of that?" and is probably the most common model of causation.

For more info look up the rubin causal model, the potential outcomes framework, and pearls's "do" notation.
We could have had the Encyclopedia Britannica still. But the people voted with their wallets and now we have... this.
Generally speaking, we're not trying to reduce random factors. We're trying to reduce hereditary factors. There are already plenty of intrinsic hereditary factors (intelligence, appearance, health). We want to limit the ability of extrinsic hereditary factors (wealth, connections) to influence egalitarian processes, and in some cases even correct for them.
Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but the article seems to surmise who the person is, explaining the strong and self-destructive attacks on George Galloway in particular. That person has a lifestyle and apparent behaviors that would explain the singular focus.
Why have autonomous agents talk to each other? It is vastly simpler to fill out an online form.
Everything has to do with math.
That's fair. Are you saying that because the author studied but never practiced, he/she may not have a great insight into what practicing math would be like?

I think I understand what you're saying, and thanks for clarifying.
I think this is especially true as more apps depend on machine learning (or 'AI') to provide a useful experience. Opening a weather app and seeing an old home (and triggering the memory) is one thing but there is absolutely nothing malicious about an app that saves a preference so you don't have to search for it every time.

More insidious is with those more clever services because they seem to become weighted to your earlier choices and your present self has little influence over what the machine has decided to learn. So you have Spotify where the first few hundred songs and artists you listen to have pretty much defined your taste in music and due to the amount of data collected to identify who you are across the internet, you're unlikely to get a fresh start by creating a new account.

The fundamental problem with this kind of memory in tech is that it doesn't appreciate that people change. It won't forget, it won't let go and move on, it won't adapt the same way a person will, it'll probably discount much of that change for being anomalous after some time. Or at least, that's what my fear is.
I'm a two decade Windows developer so this isn't a "M$ Sucks" comment, but Windows itself is a series of hack on top of hack because Microsoft refuses to break backwards compatibility.

As much as MS had the reputation of "Windows isn't done until Lotus won't run" back in the day. If you follow some of the MSDN blogs, you'll find the extraordinary hacks that MS has done over the years to keep the most obscure programs running.

People complain about how Apple will drop support for backwards compatibility but this a consequence of the MS culture of doing just the opposite.
>It doesn't matter if you can correlate user id and account holder, what matters is that somebody can

This is absurd and 100% bullshit.
It means anything and everything is now personal data, even randomly generated data.
The static analysis tools have a harder time parsing the upper bounds on recursive functions, and so do the engineers doing the code reviews for similar reasons.

This isn't just a NASA thing. Pretty much any embedded coding standard says the same thing. The JSF C++ standard, and MISRA-C I know both do as well, just off the top of my head.
Digital (video) artefacts are definitely a thing. Unlike with the CD, where we got to a point where over an hour of essentially perfect quality stereo music fits on this cheap mass-produced object, digital cinema is in a place where they can do something that's very good - much better certainly than what you'd see in a second rate cinema after a picture has been out for a few months and the print has seen better days, but it's absolutely not perfect and I can well believe it's not going to impress anybody who can see a nice new 70mm print.

Basically every frame of a digital movie is a huge JPEG. That's not quite exactly what's happening, but it's close enough. So you don't have inter-frame compression artefacts, as you'd see on a DVD or Youtube video, but artefacts in the individual still images absolutely are present, albeit rarer because they're using a lot of bytes for each frame. And so yes, text would be especially likely to make this noticeable as it is in JPEG on web pages.
I'm confused about your point, but am I correct in you're trying to prove there is no cabal by pointing out the replies from individual admins? It's possible that it's a coincidence that these events are occurring, but to outsiders, it looks like circling the wagons.

Regarding JzG's reply, it sounds a little disingenuous when they claim Cross is "editing with an opinion" and those bringing COI up are "people with a vested interest." I probably believe those against him have a vested interest, but that Cross who openly admitted to having a feud with the pages of people he edits (TFA's point) is the one operating with acceptable behavior is okay is strange.

It seems like me the best way to address the warring is just to openly discuss it.
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"the superhero movie is a rather American genre" . - Lol

Sure, where did Zeus, Promethues, Thor, and countless of other 'gods/titans/demi-gods' heroes come from?

Almost all, either European and non European countries have their Mythological beings, (either gods, super human heros, etc...).

The US is just good at creating commercial versions of them and putting them in film, the but concept of 'an hero' is as old as humanity itself.
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As a former mathematican, I was at first a little offended and dismissive of his claim. But, perhaps what one can say is that mathematicians don't seem to distinguish "causation" with "implication". After all, if the barometer goes down, that does imply a storm is coming (perhaps with some increased probability), but it still doesn't cause the storm to come (even with increased probability).

In a simplified closed system, where all you have are barometers and storms, maybe there is no difference between implication and causation; all you know is these variables are correlated. Perhaps once you take every atom in the universe into account, the two start to look the same.
There was a similar thing in Ottawa Canada http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cse-supreme-court-cra-cellph...
> The desktop is pretty high-end and should just obliterate that Macbook

I was also a little surprised at how well the MacBook performed, but it's quite reproducible for me. To be fair, this desktop is actually about 5 years old, and it wasn't really "top of the line" when I built it.
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They claim that it responds faster. Following the article's link to the source AutoCar article, there's this quote:

> “Our technology is the fastest proactive ride system that exists today,” Clearmotion CEO Shak Avadhany told Autocar in an exclusive interview.

There may be other differences. I'm not very knowledgeable about all the active suspension systems available, but it seems that the most common system today may be MagneRide:

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

This is basically a shock absorber but with some magnetic fluid inside it whose viscosity can be adjusted. So it does not move the wheels up and down, it just adjusts the opposing force. Though it can do it quickly.

There is one system on the new Audi R8 that does more:

https://www.audi-mediacenter.com/en/press-releases/looking-a...

This seems very similar to what the Clearmotion system does, as the above AutoCar article says the Clearmotion system "works by turning a car’s dampers into actuators".

So it seems the Audi R8 system and the Clearmotion system are doing similar things, but the Audi system does it "18 times a second" whereas Clearmotion technology page ( http://www.clearmotion.com/technology ) says "it only takes five milliseconds for the Activalve’s motor to counteract", so apparently 10 times as fast.
You have a choice. You can engage in conversation with peers as if you might want to understand the reasons for their actions. Or you can preach at them and blame them as individuals for system problems.
There was a similar pattern of behaviour with articles concerning Gamergate, Wikipedia's rules regarding first hand sources meant that only the slanted reporting of journalists who had a lot to lose in the exchange could be referenced as a source.

The information up there now is a less than complete picture.
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We don't say they are equals.

We say that america has done and is doing terrible things as well.

But i can play your game too. Look :

IN my experience, people that have your opinion are generally :

- brain washed by decades of pro us propaganda.

- paid by the nsa / gun industry shills
Lazy exposition is a plague in the industry, and is pretty prevalent in basically every broadcast show. CW and Lifetime shows tend to be the most offensive here.

There are a ton of shows that let you discover the show along with the characters though; Breaking Bad, The Wire, Carnivale, etc. Those shows tend to be well regarded, and most people don't realize that it's just the lack of exposition making the people pay attention that they like.
it's wonderful in situations where the breadth of search is impractically enormous, but the depth limited. like complex games :)
There are several good reasons. D3D12 was finalized some time before Vulkan and was available in early / preview versions for quite a while before that. Stable drivers were available much sooner than for Vulkan. It was an easier transition for code bases that already had D3D11 support and Microsoft offered additional code to help with the transition (the D3D11 on 12 stuff). You could bring your existing HLSL shaders over easily. There were better debugging and profiling tools available sooner. The Xbox One got some additional extensions to better utilize its hardware.
I was looking for a desktop app that could show and handle git lfs file locks in a graphical gui for me and my coworkers, but found nothing.

So I made one. Maybe someone else finds this useful.
It was fine, it just didn't have the effect KalHolmann wanted.
When I was walking out of Ready Player One recently the trailer for Infinity War was showing - and it looked like exactly the same movie, with an indistinguishable CGI aesthetic, and similar action.

One thing you can say for 2001 is that it wasn't a copy of anything else. In fact it invented a lot of the visual tropes that are still used in science fiction movies.

That's not a thing that happens much now. There were some genius-level directors around in Kubrick's time, but now virtually all movies look like they live in the same CGI world, with standard stock characters, and similar directing tropes.

It would be huge fun it CGI stopped working for a few years, and directors had to go back to telling stories without it.
There's no new "hate speech law". There's only new law that punishes sites for failing to remove content that was already illegal. For this they have up to 24 hours, or a week if it is a more complex matter.

That article generally misrepresents German laws, making them seem more draconian than they actually are.

For instance displaying a Swastika is perfectly legal if you don't "objectively" use it to "promote (the) national socialism".

The German definition of Volksverhetzung, often translated as "hate speech", is also quite a bit a narrower than what your average native english speaker would understand as hate speech: basically, under that law, ONLY hate speech against a group or individual targeting them for belonging to a certain ethnic group, nationality, or religion is illegal IF it is disseminated in a way that has the potential to disrupt public peace.
Oh wow, so they don't follow the bureaucracy, so their concerns are shut down, until what? Until they follow the bureaucracy?

If I can take a stab at guessing what is happening, the Wikipedia admins probably feel like a super-active member is one of their own, and he/she is being attacked by "outsiders", so what they're doing is defending him with made-up reasons to fool themselves that what they're doing is just. A bit like US police, they're meant to be a part of the community and serve them, but after demonstrations against them because a few members did terrible things, they think they're under attack and their response is to protect their own and treat the public as the aggressive enemy.
Because that's super expensive. Just bless netflix for always providinh original version and subtitles.
This is why I never donate to Wikipedia when they beg for money. That organisation has long been rotten from the top down.
What if you replace it with

p(x|y) = 1, p(x|!y) = 0, and time(y) < time(x)

That rules out the rooster counter-example. If y is a boolean, I guess the only thing you can "do" to it is negate it.
Another solution is anonymity.
lets do it :P