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> For example, I was using the clipboard history feature extensively on Alfred when I was using Mac, and Ditto is barely a replacement for Windows.

Good news! That is being fixed in the next release of Windows 10: http://clipdiary.com/clipboard-articles/view-windows-clipboa...

> The built-in functionality for window management in Windows is not bad, but it doesn't compare to Spectacle for flexibility.

You can actually download extra utilities for this. I like switcher (lets me search open windows by name), but there are quite a few others. The entire Windows shell is replaceable if you want to go that far.

I've never had a problem recording screen casts, lots of software options have always existed there, and they only keep getting better.

To get the full feature set of ScreenFlow, multiple apps would be needed though, I haven't seen any single app that does it all, although one may exist.

Also what Window Management features does Windows not have? I generally use the hotkeys for everything, without issue. I wish it was easier to do things like splitting my display into 3, but again lots of 3rd party utilities exist to expand the functionality out.

> Then again, if you're the kind of person whose .vimrc has decades of tweaks, you'll probably be happier in Linux.

This is how I feel about Windows, my path environments, custom aliases, and utility scripts laying around. :)
The idea that the travelers need to be people as we know them today is a huge assumption that should be jettisoned.

As we improve medicine and merge with AI, we should expect other changes to be possible, not just brain interface changes, but also body changes. Essentially we are still a version 1.0 and the iterations to new versions haven't even started yet... but these should be well underway in the timeframe of starting voyages to other stars.

Even for Mars, much closer obviously, we should think about whether it's easier to change body types in the medium term than it would be to terraform Mars to a desirable level.
Elixir has optional parentheses but they are discouraged in most cases and the official formatter will add them back, so at least there is a community opinion.
Having a child that is bound to live their entire life on such a ship strikes me as tragic and depressing. I don't think I could personally be responsible for creating a life in that kind of environment. I'd hope we'd get the quality of life possible in space very high before we ever attempt any kind of thing like this.
I have a 2015 MBP and a Dell XPS 13 (I forget the year) and the thing that blew me away the most with Dell is the support. One day I went to turn my XPS on and it wouldn’t start. After some research it seemed like a dead motherboard. I was concerned I was going to have to send my laptop away for months to have it fixed but surprisingly because the XPS is an enterprise grade machine it qualifies for their pro support. This meant I was entitled to on premises repair. They sent a guy out to my place and he repaired it in front of me in about an hour. I very quickly went from a very poor impression of Dell (due to my laptop failing so soon) to a very good one. I still prefer my MBP but that was likely the best support experience I’ve ever had.
Very cool work, deep mind wows me once again.

One thing I wish they would make more explicit (and in all their papers that I've read for that matter) is how much computational power it takes to train these networks and achieve these results.

I'm not sure if this is something they usually leave out because it's not interesting, or because it's something that people that work with deep networks all the time (I.E. not me) already have a feel for.

As someone in a related field (sometimes using deep networks but not researching them for their own sake). I certainly would like to know which of deep minds results would be feasible to replicate using my research groups resources, and it can be hard to do that without spending a lot of time actually trying to replicate the results and benchmarking them on your hardware.
I imagine simple ignorance, short-sighted savings or someone(project manager/accountant/consultant) "knew better" than the professionals. It happens all the time, this was one of the more egregious "disruptions" of late.
I, literally just 15 minutes ago, had a chat with a friend of mine exactly about how what we are doing right now with computer vision is all based on a flawed premise (supervised 2D training set). The human brain works in 3D space (or 3D+time) and then projects all this knowledge in a 2D image.

Here I was, thinking I finally had thought of a nice PhD project and then Deepmind comes along and gets the scoop! Haha.
I missed the keynote. What happened?
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How about Tales from the Loop? The characters in the game are 10-15 years old, which is to 7-8 yo ones just as fantastical as playing Elves or Klingons to us adults.
Great question, We have support for Tags, similar to the way docker handles tags, however, we only apply them to packages that make sense. take a look at https://docs.appget.net/manifests/#tags-and-versions for more explanation.

Here are some examples:
https://github.com/appget/appget.packages/tree/master/manife...

https://github.com/appget/appget.packages/tree/master/manife...

but as I said, I'm pretty open to suggestions on how to make this better. feel free to ping me or open a github issue if you have any ideas, suggestions.
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I would love to see a picture of that if you have any. No worries if not. It sounds pretty awesome though.
Be wary, latest Dell XPS 9370 has noisy fans. Google for "dell xps 9370 fan noise" to find a lengthy thread on official dell forum about this issue.
Dell is experimenting with bios, issuing new updates, but on my dell xps 9370 the noise is there.

I had to return my laptop, hoping the shop will refund.
Now bought MS Surface Laptop it is silent (mostly) and I'm happy with it.

Looks like most of the core i7 8* models are noisy.
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I've heard that the Lightroom and Photoshop experience is better overall on Windows now than Mac. I'm sticking with my 2015 MBP for now, but was wondering if anyone could comment on this? I've seen comments elsewhere about Adobe focusing on Windows more, but I've not been able to find details or a good comparison.
The video is okay but not really outstanding, what caught my attention and made me submit the video was the OEIS entry for the sequence [1]. The entry claims results for the sequence up to 10²³⁰ terms including a graph of it [2]. The status report [3] claims 103 missing numbers below 10⁷ and it seems that in order to compute the sequence you have to keep track of all the missing numbers so far.

This all seems quite impossible to me, unless the density of missing numbers drops dramatically, there is no way you could track them for 10²³⁰ iterations. How would you sample 10²³⁰ numbers to produce a meaningful graph of them? And how would you ever get to 10²³⁰ terms in the first place? For comparison, the volume of the universe times its age, both in Planck units, just gets you to 10²⁵⁰, so a universe filled with Planck sized processors each computing a new term every Planck time since the beginning of time would just barely [4] get you there.

I tried to search for ideas how to speed up the calculation, i.e. avoid computing 10²³⁰ terms which is obviously impossible, but could not find anything and I can not think of anything myself. So how is this done or are this just false claims?

[1] https://oeis.org/A005132

[2] https://oeis.org/A005132/a005132.png

[3] https://oeis.org/A005132/a005132_1.txt

[4] Calling a factor of 10²⁰ »barely« might be a bit of a stretch.
This gets you a bunch of feral children who die after unintentionally breaking something essential for life support.
Possible issues with your ideas:

- false numbers, similar with Tesla PR where they use bad statistics to prove their system is safer

- too general statistics for your situation, say car X is safer then human globally but locally in your region humans are much safer, will you send your children with car X where is probably not safer then average human(including drunks, teens and tired people)

- say car X is super safe, so you allow them to kill some people deliberately because they saved lives, so CEO of X hates people from a specific group(say gun owners, or teachers, or developers) so he decides that on 13 every month 666 people will be sacrificed
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Maybe they licensed the tech or used a plexiglass? Not a lawyer, but was curious myself why it wasn’t used more so had just googled about it.
Hah! I even looked it up, then typed it wrong.

I keep trying to type something that is actually pronounceable! ;)
TLDR: "Moore concluded that a 200 year-long mission should have an initial crew of 150 – 180 people. (...) Among other results, it was found that an initial crew of 14000 – 44000 members is well-optimized to ensure healthy offspring, even in the case of a sudden disaster occurring once during the mission. According to his study, a crew of 150 people would always be on
the verge of extinction in the case of a large-scale catastrophe."

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1708/1708.08649.pdf

I had to go to the linked study to get the answer. If an article posits a question in the title...it should answer it in the body. Hopefully in the first paragraph.
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It would be an economic suicide for the first country that decides to disconnect itself from the internet. Or do you think that for the first time in history of mankind, every single government will come together against bitcoin? Besides, there are satellites beaming down bitcoin transactions, so...
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I largely agree with you, but disagree with the last part. The comparison shouldn't be just humans, but humans aided by the exact technology working as an assist.

So, I don't expect the huge improvement when going from lane keeping assist to autosteer.
We need to separate the idea of taxing CO2 from the idea of making nuclear viable.

There are many, many good reasons to tax CO2. It's just that even if you do, it's likely that nuclear will still not fare very well in the overall generation picture. If you consider China, which kneecaps CO2 generating technologies in fairly draconian fashion, those technologies still dominate China's generation sources. Nuclear comes in way behind sources like hydroelectric and wind. (And that's even with the Chinese government propping it up.)

Nuclear is simply a very costly technology to implement compared to throwing up some windmills in Texas and Oklahoma or something. It's just much cheaper. And the infrastructure is already in place for a lot of the CO2 generating sources, so investments don't have to be as large. I suspect you would need a fairly huge tax to make nuclear beat natural gas for instance. And even if it did, what about all the other sources? Wind/pumped storage hydro? Solar where appropriate? Geothermal or hydroelectric? It's just not as easy a thing as it seems.

But taxing CO2 has numerous other benefits, even if saving nuclear is not one of them.
Bindgen also wants nightly so if you're doing any FFI stuff you may be tethered to nightly.
If you are in Europe you can get one with 16GB and HD display.

http://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/laptops-notebooks-and-2-in-1-...

£1,498.99 GBP one in above list.
I use my own. Lacking a better name, Financial App [1] is a single page application installable on smartphone homescreens and tablets, and of course usable on the computer. It allows setting budgets, tagging expenses to keep seperate track of them, monthly digest of expenses, reporting etc. We use it at home with multiple accounts (to also keep track of our private expenses).

The application is built using ASP.NET Core, webpack, Typescript, knockout.

[1]: https://github.com/Sebazzz/financial-app
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It's a professional tool. When the GPU is too slow or I need more than than 18 cores or 128 GB of RAM, I'll just buy a new one. I'm pretty sure that won't happen in less than 5 years.

As for storage, I'd be crazy not to keep all important files on a backed-up RAID array. It's a professional tool, after all.

(and I keep my music on an off-site-backed-up RAID array)
Exactly. I've always bounced between OSes over my career. Switching between them is not that hard at all - just need to mentally page in the key modifiers, shell commands, and other little idioms and pretty quickly I'm running along working.

In my experience I've found inflexibility with respect to OS to be a warning sign that usually means someone isn't going to work well long term as a flexible, open-minded team member. Signs of that at interview time usually push me pretty quickly in a 'no' direction.
Can you describe what that harm is? If a picture is copied to 100 recipients, does the harm multiply by 100 times also? How is that information communicated to the victim?

I can imagine this being the case for defamation. 100 people being told "Johnny is a thief" might cause 100 times as much harm to Johnny's social interactions as 1 person being told that. But how does it work for child porn?
In those cases it should be documented that it is a have and also limited in scope so that other stuff doesn't really on it. If it's a small one off, no biggie.
+1 on that. Especially since the force touch. I've been using Macbooks for 10 years now and just don't understand why other trackpads just don't work flawlessly. For me other trackpads feel like the difference with smartphones and old phone touchscreens. I even enjoy gaming on a Macbook trackpad.
It seems to me like the only reasonably ethical way to do it would be to have a small city's worth of people (a small city's worth of living space) and thus "society" rather than "crew".

But that runs into the organizational problem that a society that's lived in space for two or three generations may not want to deal with this messy, disease-ridden, gravity-encumbering planet business again.
I want to know who is making you carry paper on an airplane.

Even classified documents can be shipped. There's really no reason I can imagine for anyone to be hand-carrying paper documents in the passenger compartment of an airplane in 2018, outside of a diplomatic pouch. And in that case, the laptop probably has to be disposable anyway.
Assuming you can cryogenically preserve sperm indefinitely, it seems like you could simply stock the ship with a large supply of frozen sperm gathered from distinct males and use this stockpile exclusively for reproductive purposes. As long as you have enough sperm samples there is no risk of inbreeding. Frozen sperm should, at any rate, consume far fewer resources than male colonists for an equivalent supply of genetic variety.
I've been a LaTEX/Markdown person for years before converting to Powerpoint/Keynote.

If you want your slides to be minimal and clean and you don't have a lot of time to do, then Markdown works. To me, over time I am convinced that having the ability to do animations to explain technical ideas is great. While it's not impossible to do fly in/out/moving animations in LaTEX, presentation software makes it ten times easier to maintain.

I think that not everything is best explained in code. Sometimes you need pictures/animations to convey the ideas.
Not if Anne Hathaway's there to raise them.
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My main work and home "PC"s are Mac Minis running Ubuntu.

They are fantastic, beautiful and small machines that have worked reliably for 6-7 years. (as has Ubuntu!)

At the time of purchase the Mac Mini was the best combination of small size and still fairly decent CPU/GPU firepower.

I also have upgraded them to full SSD and 8gig ram.

Of course, I will get a NUC whenever they need replacing, but I don't see that happening anytime soon...
Good point. We'll need to send some robot mothers too.
Where I'm at, well meaning authority figures, who tend to be greater than 10 years older than me, like to talk about the benefits of withdrawing from technology for a period of time. A technology "cleanse" if you will.

I'm not just interested in electronics and programming languages. I'm also interested in mathematics and the history of science and technology. Science and technology not just in this century but in the previous ones. The evolution of writing systems is fascinating. Check out the Hebrew or Phoenician alphabets. You can almost see them being scratched into clay by some sort of knife. Or look at the cursive writing of the founding fathers of the United States and then look at the writing instruments of the day.

They ask me to stop using technology. Just take a break. And I immediately wonder if they want me to stop reading. Stop writing.

Mathematics also has a fascinating development. And it also has quite the impact in how I think and analyze problems. Am I supposed to stop thinking all together when I go on my technology cleanse? Isn't the objection to technology that it stops you from thinking.

Similarly, people fear automation because it's a new form of technology, but they also ignore all of the exotic technology that they regard as baseline. The absolute primitive limit was once cutting edge. And no doubt was feared in its own day.

Yes, new technologies can be used to cause you personal pain. But that's also the case for old technologies. You shouldn't seek to stop progress, but rather stop those who are making progress from externalizing their failures such that they are paid for by those who will not share in the successes.
I tend to disagree. It's true there's a tradeoff but there's also an opportunity cost in staying on the road we're on now (which has no future, at least for CPUs).

CPU performance increases since 2000 have mainly come from longer pipelines, bigger branch prediction logic and larger/deeper caches. Those are all extremely important for single-threaded performance but are not much use for embarrassingly parallel (low branch) computation like in MATLAB/Octave, R, shaders, AI, physics and so on.

You're right about Xeon Phi and make an absolutely valid point about the trouble of filling ALUs with data. It was probably destined to fail because most mainstream languages just fall down terribly trying to do multiprocessing. Only a handful like Erlang and Go get it right, but at the time just weren't on the radar.

I think the world is treading water with the current CPU/GPU divide and heterogeneous processors like the Cell. Few developers fully utilized the Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs). These paradigms provide powerful hardware but leave the intricacies to the developer, or sometimes the compiler if they're lucky.

That's the part that I'm getting tired of. Companies tout the power of their various technologies without really addressing the hard problems in computer science. I want a paradigm that presents itself as a single unified CPU and memory. I want the compiler and operating system to optimize my code and handle moving my data with copy-on-write. If I had something like this and a decent Actor Model language, then it could trivially emulate things like shaders and we could get rid of all of these domain specific languages.

What I'm getting at is that with a few hundred short-pipeline cores from the 90s (say MIPS or PowerPC 600 series) and a content-addressable memory, compute-bound problems become tractable. Why bother with rasterization when you can write a ray tracer in a page of code and get better results? Or imagine being able to run not just one neural net but many in parallel, or let genetic algorithms run for 2 or 3 orders of magnitude more generations. I want raw computing power, not a subset of it filtered through someone else's notion of what I might need.
The onsite and accidental damage options on ThinkPads was (is?) absolutely amazing. I think I paid an extra $100, but when I knocked my machine off the desk, Lenovo dispatched an IBMer to my office with a replacement panel in under 24 hours.
Awesome read! I was actually an intern on Cees' team when we started writing db2kafka (https://github.com/PagerDuty/db2kafka), and got to contribute a fair amount. It was a really fun language to work with, especially if you enjoy the Actor pattern, and had some nice debugging tools. I'd definitely encourage anyone interested to give it a shot, especially anyone with similar requirements as Pagerduty!
I still really like the iMac. While it doesn’t quite get the attention it deserves, it’s still a legitimately great machine. Overall, it may be the best machine Apple makes right now.

I’m not all that fond of the Magic Keyboard (mine failed after a completely minor spill), but that’s an easy enough fix.
> I'm not sure if this is something they usually leave out because it's not interesting, or because it's something that people that work with deep networks all the time (I.E. not me) already have a feel for.

I think they leave it out because it's a trade secret. Like the way they waited a long time before announcing that they used specialized hardware (TPU) for AlphaGo.
also from the article, the study author had over a hundred studies retracted because of poor analysis
"As new sources of data"...

Like, StreetView?
It seems like Apple has given up on desktops entirely. OSX lags unbearably when performing normal workloads. Forget about running Xcode or a CPU intensive workload, your machine will freeze due to excessive memory leaks and swapping. It is an issue at the framework level, and I say that because all software written for OSX has to use a set of common frameworks to interface with the OS itself.
AI will have the biggest impact on who makes money and controls wealth. Before any nation-state tries to take over the world with some kind of ultra-dominant weapon, most large states will have to deal with their own populations, as the rich control more resources.

The imaginary graph of ML technology that can be developed for destruction or defense is fraught with inter-dependent paranoid scenarios. The use of ML for the increase of human happiness is apparent and obvious. An ML arms race that invokes conflict is going to be a huge waste of a nation's ML resources.

It would be much more productive to think about how ML/AI can be used to for egalitarian human prosperity (a la post-scarcity, etc).
There is already both Microsoft Office for the iPad and Apple's iWork suite.
Running NixOS on the latest XPS 13 model. I would never go back to a Mac for a work laptop. It’s the best configuration I’ve ever had, a joy to use.

I love everything about the XPS 13 and having my entire machine configured from a single configuration file is bliss.
Nice work! I am guessing that this moves us that much closer to a camera only based SLAM system.

I am also curious if they are going to use this architecture to defend against adversary GANs that are attempting to defeat image recognition.
> animations to explain highly technical ideas

Do you have an example slide? Just trying to understand what you mean.
unfortunate, studies are going for clickbait titles, even massaging the data if necessary...
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I would be shocked to an extreme degree if Apple hasn’t been maintaining a version of macOS for their A-series chips for several years now. There’s precedent — they kept the lid sealed on their x86 OS X build for half a decade before the Intel transition was announced.

So while I agree that updates to the Mini are being held back by a pending ARM transition, I don’t think it’ll run iOS. It’ll run macOS for ARM.