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Speaking as a veteran and someone who was in an OPFOR unit, we trained in "simulations" as close as possible to the way we fight.

> So a soldier trained to kill cannot be judged by what he does in a simulation (or what they believe to be one).

Interestingly, EXROE (exercise rules of engagement) violations are subject to article 15 non-judicial punishment, so they are judged by what they do in a simulation in the US military.

Our simulations are more realistic than the ones depicted in Ender's game, which were pretty strange looking back at it. In ours, you're in full kit, you're carrying your service weapon with a MILES laser attached and a blank fire adapter, there are helicopters flying overhead, and we have villages with imams and such, etc. And there are consequences... if the OPFOR wins the town will go "red" and demonstrations will break out, if BLUFOR wins the town goes "blue" and OPFOR is forced to leave.

The big misconception people have is there are all these instant decisions you have to make or ironclad orders that have to be executed in an instant. The reality is you're responsible for what you shoot at, and that's why you're trained in target identification to know what you're shooting at. You generally don't want to be in a tactical situation where you have to make instant decisions; that's why the cordon and search tactics (similar to SWAT tactics) were so controversial precisely because going room to room meant making large numbers of snap decisions. The results were pretty predictable.

Well developed rules of engagement and tactics help soldiers distinguish clearly between enemy combatants, friendlies and civilians. For example, if you are defending a gate, you're going to set up barriers to slow vehicles down so you have plenty of time to identify a potential VBIED. And you mark out different zones... this is where you flash lights, this is where you fire a warning shot, and if they get past this point you open up.
It's the 2-year warranty, translation of manuals and a need to have office in all major EU markets due to different legal stuff that makes it all pricier.
I wouldn't personally trust whatever service provides this lookup to be 100% accurate, especially because there's so many weird edge cases with addresses. If the user gets it wrong, at least it's their fault and not mine.
Wait, can you do this as a one-time event without a paid subscription to your service?
Intel has $10k xeons but that's no consumer grade hardware.
very interesting. i just wonder about merge, do you find yourself merging knowledge about a single item scattered along different pages and then creating a new page for the merged item? if so how much percentage of the logging does this take, if short how come? tips?
Not to long ago, back when cannabis was illegal... you couldn't even say negative things about it. Now this whole thread is negative.
Nothing against zeromq, its good s/w, but like all tools it must be used appropriately.

...also, nanomsg is the 'improved' successor.

Also, MPI isn't a 'niche' thing, its the way that a large proportion of high-performance applications have been implemented for a few decades (think Crays & weather prediction).
Zeromq has a few simple web-apps using it (I exagerate slightly).
I'm on the fence about the benchmarks but I think this is a generic broad brush to sweep away the parent's comment given the real concerns they've presented and you've chose to not address.

Do you really thing any agreement that involves silence is censorship NDAs included?

Sure, it's easy to simply say: sucks to be you! Especially to "community bullies" like Oracle. Even just between semi-competing open source projects benchmarks can be so bad they border on libelous.
Here's an article announcing the petro.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/02/venezuela-petro-crypt...

Which leads to more questions:
(0) The purpose of Bitcoin, and by extension blockchain-based currencies, is "an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust, allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need for a trusted third party" (Nakamoto, 1998). Third parties such as payment processors and governments. How does the Venezuela petro relate to this purpose?

(1) Bitcoin, Etherium mining is continuous to process transactions. Each time a transaction clears, there is some mining required, as the blockchain is changed. In contrast, this indicated that the "petro" was "pre-mined" by the Venezuelan government. How is petro BOTH a cryptocurrency based on blockchain AND "pre-mined"?

(2) What is the process for redeeming petro in barrels of oil? How is the currency "backed" by oil?
I paid $699 for my 1080TI FE card in early 2017.
I was an early adopter of .net core. It definitely had its quirks in the beginning. Recently I gave it another go, it's really improved a lot. Like it's production ready now. I'd say pick it up again.
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> Thus making such advice not very useful.

Even with a squash, I think there is value in committing frequently and with good commit messages.
Elon Musk’s NYT Interview Reveals Double Standards for Male and Female CEOs
Unless you are already on a batch size 1 and TensorFlow greets you with a nice OOM message... Try some Wide-ResNet for state-of-art classification and play with its widening parameter.
Oh man, great point. The pseudoephedrine thing is a nightmare. I have several kids so I have to make a note to purchase some every month, because once a sickness ravages the house I won't be able to buy enough. It's insane.
>I wasn't as ambitious. I was less social. In other words, it made me feel fine just hanging out in my apartment doing nothing.

Incidentally, this echoes my experience with romantic relationships. Have you considered that you may have started dating the pot and not noticed?
Balance between area, yields and tooling - a mature process with established tooling and strong yields can offset some of the additional wafer costs required by larger area.
That would require power sockets to not be a monumentally scarce resource inside an airport. Nobody is going to look for the TV rolled between a row of seats (that cause a dozen more people to have to stand or sit on the floor), facing a completely useless direction, to get flight updates. The airport isn't going to drag extension cords across the entire lounge without risking breaking somebody's neck.

They'll stare at the blank screens and wonder what's happening. A whiteboard in front of those screens, and other hot-spots, is far more considerate of how people behave inside a departure lounge.

Low-tech solutions to high-tech problems can be quite beautiful when executed well. It's a sign of good contingency planning because they anticipated no network availability, rather than betting on network redundancy.

I hope the few people who missed their flights were compensated in some way (refunds, seats on the next available flight...).
my understanding could be wrong, but I believe doing raytracing well requires better branching architecture, which traditionally gpus are pretty bad at.
Snap has no concept of multiple repos meaning Canonical is solely responsible for choosing what software you are allowed to run even if you aren't running Ubuntu.

Especially if you are running a non ubuntu distro you are stuck with snap AND something else rather than replacing your current system with snap.

Further both apt and snap are strictly inferior to nix or guix so you are actually stuck with 2 worse packaging systems in place of one superior one.

For what its worth my experience with a ubuntu/ubuntu derivatives was different. I found the non LTS releases fraught with difficulties and the LTS was out of date sufficiently that I ended up adding over 80 ppas to get up to date version which isn't much different than having 80 some aur packages save that it is less convenient.
Right, but nobody is defending them.
All future Macs will have T chips; why wouldn't they?
Wait, I'm confused.

Do native english-speakers intuitively interpret the lyrics as "infant" or as "lover"?

"Babe" is common word for "lover" in many languages, including mine, and I never thought someone would think this upbeat song is about getting pregnant.
>got bought by a European bastion of stagnation

Which then got bought by Nokia, a Nordic bastion of...something.
Realtime ray tracing will take us there and this is the first hardware generation to offer dedicated hardware acceleration for that which makes it practical for games for the first time. Don't expect things to change over night though, it will be a while before this hardware is mainstream and a while before rendering engines are designed around it. We'll see hybrid rendering approaches first and there's no upper limit on the horizon for the amount of compute that can be burned to improve visuals.
I found the flatpak version too sandboxed to be useful: https://github.com/flathub/com.visualstudio.code/issues/25

Snap "solves" this issue by not sandboxing some apps. I'm not sure if there is a good solution to sandboxing developer tools.
Mm, everyone said the same kind of thing last year. It's worth being skeptical, but I'd rather be a true believer and be proven wrong. It seems like betting against technology to say that they can't beat the top dota team in a fair fight within a couple years.
Sure!

Why smoke, with the known health impact? Why not edibles? They last a lot longer, and it doesn't harm your lungs.
I know I am supposed to feel sorry for this person in the article, and this doesn't justify anything Amazon is doing, but,

> She was already struggling to pay her monthly $170

Her bill is 2x mine in the winter, and 5x it in the summer, and I pay 2x per kWh¹ more than she does. Am I unusual, or is this an absurdly high electric bill?

¹https://www.electricitylocal.com/states/georgia/gainesville/ ; Gainesville electric rates appear to be 11.6¢/kWh; I'm paying over 20¢/kWh
>Not sure who is the target market for this tech honestly.

These are gaming GPUs being announced at a games conference to an audience of gamers and games journalists. The focus of Huang's talk was how accelerated ray tracing will improve the graphical fidelity of games.

GPU compute is a spin-off from gaming. Gamers remain the primary market. They generate the volume that allows Nvidia to sell a supercomputer on a card for under $1000. If you want a professional product, Nvidia are more than happy to sell you a Tesla or a Quadro at a professional price point.
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A protocol - originally the diplomatic customs, procedures, conventions, and etiquette for relations between states - is by definition one of the ways of expressing intent.

If I broadcast a request for an IPv4 address and your DHCP server proffers an IPv4 address that I can use for the next 15min, the address of a nameserver, and the address of a router that will forward packets to the global internet, I can reasonably conclude that you intended to allow me to exchange packets on your LAN and at least attempt to use your gateway to interact with the internet. On the other hand, depending on the situation, a "403 Forbidden" could reasonably be interpreted as a request to not send that type of HTTP request anymore.

The protocol isn't the only place to look for intent, but it absolutely does express intent in some situations.
Sorry, no citation handy, and this might be semi-tangential (more "wisdom of he crowds" per se), but I recall a study that reviewed those "guess how many jellybeans are in this jar" -type contests, in which the guesses' median value converged with the correct answer...
That's... impressive. I didn't realize the rewards were actually substantial.
Well, most times I'd like to know how a badly configured X compares with badly configured Y, on <random hardware> - because that's usually how things are run.
I could very well be wrong but I always thought that if you disable loading pictures by default, that tracking pixels would be blocked as well. Unless you click on "Show Pictures" that is.
I both posted a link the entire license and the terms that are relevant.
Either you're missing a smiley or you're serious. You can't be serious.
> Angular / VueJS / Ember: when you need a webapp done quick and reliable,
> in exchange allowing a big black-box instead of an architecture.

Here we have the typical "coder" mindset, It's very clear reading these line that the developer has never experienced with those frameworks as both Angular and Vue has very strong and well designed architecture which are obviously open source.

Unfortunately it's very rare these days to find developers that can argue passed beyond "Google Trends Charts" and "Github Stars" about what makes a good or bad framework and why X is better than Y or why X architecture is more efficient than Y.

> React: when you need total control over the architecture

Could the author be more specific here ? I don't remember "Ruby on Rails" to give much freedom in terms of architecture yet it empowers thousands of large traffic web apps without any problems.

It sounded as very common beginner beliefs which is "It's not possible to do this with [Angular/Vue]".

Hence the majority of the article isn't really specific to JS.
There is a new API. It’s currently pretty opaque. There’s a comment from a former ex-Nvidia employee I can’t find that explains that the new chips have hardware support for ray-triangle intersection tests and some sort of bounding-volume-hierarchy traversal built in.
VR is still very limited by available GPUs. Current headsets suck (low res, small screens, low refresh rate) and current GPUs aren't enough. If/when VR headsets get better, GPUs will fall behind even more.
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Uber needs self-driving tech to be cheap and available.

In the long run this seems likely, but in the short term Waymo seems to be gearing up to start their own app, and if they have a cost advantage over Uber, Uber will be burning even more cash subsidizing rides waiting for self-driving tech to become a commodity.

At that point, why invest in Uber?
Meaningful commit messages on the feature branch make it easy to compile a list of changes for the PR; in the case of GitHub, the squashed commit's message for the PR lists the individual commits that make it up in the larger text box, which can be nicely formatted into bullet points.
The government?

It was demand for mortgage-backed securities (viewed as traditionally safe assets for investment) from investment funds that led to more and more lenient mortgage qualifications to increase supply, weakening the previous strength of those securities overall that, through layers of financial indirection (see tranches), were not valued correctly until too late (with the subsequent credit default swap responsibilities crippling interbank loaning).

This was targeted predatory lending, often targeted at people who already had home equity in some form. This was not something significantly exacerbated by the FHA.
A personality type exists that can be addicted to literally anything. I have this type. It feels like an OCD and is triggered by high stress. My theory is that for some people, it will manifest as pharmaceutical addiction, others sex or videogame addiction. This doesn't imply that sex, drugs, or videogames are bad.
In Europe most high speed rails use dedicated tracks. For example, tracks for high speed trains are welded together, unlike tracks for slower trains. Instead of leaving a small gaps along the track, high speed tracks deal with thermal expansion by pre-stressing the tracks with hydraulic tensors [1] as they are welded (so high speed trains have no too-toom-too-toom :-))

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_stressing
This was in 2006. 2006. And people still have to dig back to then to make this point.

In 2006 the security landscape was very different. The common understanding of security being a tremendously subtle issue was much, much lower. A typical system from 2006 was much more trivially exploitable than one today. A lot of things can be said about security attitudes in 2006 vs now.
Spreadsheets are also great UIs for configuration files to be used for models. Perhaps not for the programmer (though you can write your excel serializer/deserializer) but for users yes. If you have to make large changes on many entries, try updating a json or xml file by hand, or spend two hours clicking through buttons and drop downs in a UI vs a few seconds on a spreadsheet for any decent excel user.
It only works when you're talking massive, government-backed support for basic scientific and technological research. The tech industry likes to lean on this narrative, but the reality is they just exploit the gains of basic research and are probably reaching the limit of what can be drawn from the last time this happened (i.e. when governments created the internet). This is why you see tech shifting into so much rent-seeking nonsense and bizarre financialization strategies that mirror Wall St/the banking industry. They're scraping the bottom of the government-financed research well and don't have much actual ability to create fundamental technological innovation themselves.

The good news is all we have to do is shift back to massive government investments in basic research to course correct and compete with entities like China(who seem to have a clearer picture of how Capitalism actually works in practice).
Don't forget taxes. US prices are typically listed without tax included, whereas I'm guessing the European ones include VAT.
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People keep posting tDCS articles without any warning about potential negative effects. There are a lot of young, impressionable people here who might experiment with what is put in front of them. I'd rather have people see the information and get myself downvoted in the process than keep watching articles like this get promoted without any warnings attached to them.
Loaded fine for me, though it did take a bit to get going.
This is the kind of argument you'd expect to see from a writer at Slate, not from technologists who actually understand applications. Practically by definition, almost all application-layer vulnerabilities, from remote code execution through SQL injection through remote file access, involve requests that HTTP "allows" and processes. In fact, one of the most lethal bug classes --- SSRF --- simply involves getting an HTTP server to accept and pass on a request somewhere else! The premise that a request is authorized so long as it doesn't generate a 403 implies that virtually all modern application vulnerabilities can be exploited lawfully. And that's a ridiculous proposition.
Where are they going to find the space to build single-family homes?

Realistically, there's no way the rate of construction of single family homes in a finite amount of area is going to stay fixed or keep increasing over time.

The alternative is create an overload of urban sprawl, which expands the "metro area", and also increases commute times.
Kinda scary to have a chrome extension that can read all of your email. Is the cure more dangerous than the disease?
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Free public Wi-Fi for South Africa's capital city
Former astronomer here. Yes, parallax measurements are absolutely the foundation of almost all distance measurements in astronomy.
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That would be my guess as well.
Dude. What? The worst case I've had to assist was a couple that ate a huge space cake (oblivious to its cannabis content) and, even if they got high by mistake (which is the worst case of bad trip) it was nowhere near close to your experience. Lots of fainting involved, but not much John Malkovich. And it didn't last 12h.

How much did you eat/smoke? Maybe you're especially sensitive to cannabis? (Genuinely curious here, not trying to discredit your story).

Your case sounds closer to a panic attack than cannabis overdose. Maybe the bad trip triggered a panic attack, which in turn fed the bad trip back.

> But on the scale of how horrific the experience is as the person overdosing, I don't think there's anything worse than marijuana.

Psylocibin bad trips beg to disagree. Or any psychedelic, for that matter.
Fair point. It is psychoactive but not exactly a hallucinogen.
Last time I checked (when I was thinking of buying it), 1080Ti isn't even close to being able to push 4K/60fps on high settings in newest games.
Why would one pay a higher price on a driverless ride?
The chance of a single fiber line getting cut is not "very low", it's something that a big entity should expect to happen. Much like a power outage; I'm sure they have very good plans for that case. An extra modem is cheap as dirt.
I'm kind of intrigued by what a pro-focused Mac Mini could be.

I agree on the top level that a desktop computer in 2018 is actually probably more niche and pro focused than laptops, which have become the default computers for people.

But Apple has the iMac Pro and the upcoming Mac Pro update. So, what would a pro-focused Mac Mini be? It would need the reliability of a desktop machine, something the laptops have struggled with.

I guess I could see this being useful for someone who wants external displays, but doesn't need that much power.
First: Apple, take my money.

Second: Honestly until you show me real things, I am not seriously counting on such news reports. Apple failed to show interest in laptop and desktop machines and is fully focused on phones. I am looking for Intel's Canyon Hades Nuc as a replacement for my old iMac.
Once you have are aware of it there are ways around that. The problem is that this will surprise I think pretty much anyone who hasn't been bitten yet. When you double click on a csv file, it just opens it. Then you have some weird behavior of things not matching when they should.
In fact, man pages were made to be extensible in this way. It was assumed that every site installation should have their local manual pages, and every individual user too. It pains me to see so many useless projects like “um” created just because people are assuming that the usual tool for something is restricted to exactly what they are using it for.
Depends on the airline. United's app is terrible about updating on gate changes.

Jetblue is incredibly sensitive about any change and will do a push notification for it. (Your flight landed 2 minutes late, etc)
> Because it has the side benefit of being an easier/cheaper way to track people than license plate cameras. They could just do pay by plate and give people a paperless discount if they only wanted to save money. I bet EZpass gets a cut too so that adds yet another dimension to it.

A lot of the E-ZPass system is about the simplification of the back-office processing. When you get a transponder, you have an account set up to do the debiting and also identify your current mailing address. License plate recognition, by contrast, requires getting details from different databases, and the mapping to the vehicle owner is less robust. It really is easier for the toll providers if they use a transponder system than it is to do license plate recognition.

Also, E-ZPass is an interagency consortium, not a company. It's actually largely run by the Port Authority of NY and NJ. The only fee that appears to be collected is a one-time $10 to use the trademark.
Has anyone else taken notes while they were high?

I started taking notes when smoking around 10 years ago and it's probably the single thing that's most dramatically increased my intellectual development. The simple act of writing down my ideas helped solidify them and turned them into a foundation for future evolution of the idea. I now have 5500 notes on my computer and 2000 on my phone and you could effectively trace my intellectual history with them.

Just curious if other people have similar success with smoking weed and taking notes?
I think this will integrate with Microsoft new Ray tracing api?