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Well, if you look at any form of interactive 3D multiplayer game, it really is here, it's just that there's so much to pull apart, in terms of the nuance of online interaction with humans, that we're reluctant to move beyond the cartoonish worlds of video gaming.

We have tons of really popular game titles, and millions of people playing or watching or chatting, as tournaments unfold. We fill convention centers with people playing games, and stream a webcam feed of people at conventions playing the games. But it's all still games, world of warcraft, fortnite, minecraft, eve online.

So, what if it wasn't a game? What if it was more than video conferencing? What if there was more going on, and an immersive system of interaction closer to first person gaming engine was as relevant, in social terms as facebook, twitter, bitcoin, uber, amazon, google, github, along with email, chat, and file sharing, all as a single service?

What if all your home automation and mobile devices were integrated? What if it gave your GPS location to the world, and authenticated you selectively as context sensitive pseudonyms, or conversely your authentic legal identity, securely and as preferred?

How much of that is possible? And how much of it do we actually want? But most of all, if corporations collaborating with governments, or an open community of enthusiasts, put this in your hands, would you trust it? Would you put all your eggs in one basket like that?

How many IP addresses would a system like this require, to keep each context secure from another, to preserve pseudonyms, and not leak GPS location information? What about background audio, and geolocation by timing attacks? Plus the basics of platform security, knowing what we see every day in terms of zero days getting dropped, and leaving people out in the open?

It's cool to think about, but our technology as it exists, is a drafty outhouse, compared to the brick shithouse we really need.
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npm’s design incentivizes projects to assume “patch versions are safer to update than minor versions are safer to update than major versions” to avoid dependency duplication.

Such incentives do not exist with MVS because all that is required is a total ordering and there is no duplication within a major version of a module.
Yes, Oberon was one of them, used by the complete IT department at ETHZ, including normal employees. Were they more than 100, I don't know, never counted them.

Or IoT deployments from Oberon Systems and Astrobe, with Astrobe still focused on selling Oberon compilers for embedded development.

As mentioned, it is always a matter of money and business willingness.

Joe Duffy mentions on his Rustconf talk how his team had to deal with lots of Luddites, even though they had Midori running in front of them.

If the likes of Apple, Google and Microsoft were willing to spend the same money as they did/are making JavaScript JIT compiliers fast, we would already get something in mainstream.

Instead they focus on the easy path, closing down the kernel access, and making the userspace available to GC only languages.
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The scanlines on the CRT monitor reminded me how good the refresh rates were on that hardware back then. How did we move backwards so spectacularly with LCD panels? It’s only now that reasonably priced 144hz monitors are hitting the market.
It's probably not just one thing but a whole suite of attributes. California's decent social and policy infrastructure and non-compete unenforceability are two additional elements.

Compare to the strangled startup situation in Florida where there's also a mild weather regime and natural disaster risk, but a polar opposite in its zero social service infrastructure/zero personal ncome tax and a full throated enforcement of arguably unreasonable non-competes.
Paul Graham is actually a minor character in Katie Hafner and John Markoff's book (_Cyberpunk_) about the incident.
Multiseat is a dirty hack. It is about using software to build a terminal out of a random collection of screens and input devices. All it has really done is give us yet another "session" to mentally track, in the form of consolekit/logind, on top of the kernel and X provides ones.

And it is not about thin clients, thin clients btw is yet another Windows-ism, it is about the concepts embedded in the unix concept that current day devs seems to either sidestep or downplay while building house of cards in userspace that poorly replicate said concepts.
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That's a false dichotomy. You are advocating for either letting people get away with anything or punishing people for life for a mistake.

And let's not pretend saying words is the equivalent of murder or that what happened to either Barr or Gunn is the equivalent of the punishment faced by murderers. Murder is a far more serious crime than saying something insensitive.

Even in the legal system, there is the concept of the statute of limitations. And it is different for different crimes.

Forgiveness and compassion are virtues, but that does not lead to the conclusion that both Barr and Gunn should have been immediately forgiven for what they said.

If Gunn had said what he had said the day before, then it would be a fair cop. But he didn't. The recency does matter. Gunn can legitimately say, "Yeah, I'm not proud of that. I know saying that is wrong now" and be convincing. It's been years. He's grown, he's learned. How much growing and learning can you do overnight?
People who like trackpads seem to enjoy it bigger. Personally I'm not in the camp, and bring a USB mouse with me anywhere I'm using my work Mac to avoid it.

We definitely seem to be in the minority though, I've heard more complaints that the XPS 15 trackpad is too small than complaints that the Mac trackpad is too large.
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It's very hard to separate the effects of airborne lead from other air pollution, since they tend to exist in the same places.

I wouldn't be surprised if the lead is the cause of both.
> rally and see it as a huge opportunity to rebuild SF the way they want it rather than move away.

Oh goodness I would love to be a fly on the wall during the debates trying to come to a consensus on this
> Silicon Valley tech is most a specific type of consumer tech, mostly focusing on fremium internet centric businesses.

Not even close to being true. There are a handful of big companies in that area, but there are tons of others that aren’t. Enterprise startups flourish in SV - SFDC, Workday, Palo Alto Networks, ServiceNow, Splunk... Just a handful very successful startups that are all uber-unicorns.
This pain isn’t really about Renovate Bot. You can pretend that it doesn’t exist or that your project isn’t using it. I should still be able to update a single dependency without updating unrelated things.
TypeScript 3.0 fixed this: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2018/07/30/annou...
This is probably a scam
Tech is moving out of silicon valley. Tech hubs in other cities are sprouting up like weeds. And quite frankly there are people that simply don't want to live there. I know a number of people that moved away. I personally wouldn't even consider moving there unless the pay was 1 million+ a year. The shine of SV is dimishing rapidly.
After spending a decade optimizing your workflow to work with Apple's operating system, and after investing tons of money into software and peripherals designed for this ecosystem, it isn't so easy to just give up on it all, even if it is pissing you off and making your life miserable: you essentially just sit around having regrets and building up anger at the idiots who screwed it all up.
also known as a "land grab"
I didn't realize you could pull 87W from the Macbook Pro adapter using USB-C!
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A keyboard you can't touch type on? And they are showing the home-row notches on the J and F keys on the display like that makes a difference?

I think I'll pass.
But the Lenovo is coming from a company who has repeatedly shown that it doesn't give a shit about user privacy. Remember superfish? Or Lenovo Service Engine?
Now add in JWT and CSRF tokens and the payload size per request adds up even more. It's just turtles all the way.
Reinforcement learning is a solid fit for a number of traditional operations research problems. (In fact, that's pretty much what motivated research into RL in the first place, as I understand it.)

One concrete example I heard about was using reinforcement learning to price airline tickets. Behind the scenes, airlines break up the tickets on a single plane into a large number of distinctly priced types. The question of how much of each type of ticket to offer at what price and how to change this over time (as the actual flight is coming closer and closer) is a massive optimization problem that's too large to solve exactly. Reinforcement learning coupled with simulation can find good solutions if you set up the feature space correctly. (In this case, I remember that the only feature that ultimately mattered was either total profit or total revenue for the mix of tickets being offered.)

One thing to note here is that this is using "normal" reinforcement learning, not "deep" reinforcement learning. You can get away with having a simple functional approximation of the state instead of reaching for a neural network. This seems true for most operations research problems where you would reach for reinforcement learning—figuring out a way to model the state by hand works well enough and has the important benefit of being easier to understand and interpret. The "deep" part becomes useful when your state space is so large and complex that other techniques become infeasible.
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Not in PCs, but I wonder if the iPhone would count as a largely custom designed computer. They do custom silicon for a lot of the system, and get much higher performance than commodity phones as a result. Perhaps the spiritual successor to these high end workstations in an odd way.
I think that web apps will increasingly start using WebSockets for their APIs instead of HTTP.
HTTP was originally designed for serving static files and it's very good at that; it's also conveninent for file uploads.
For exchanging data, however, the WebSockets protocol is slightly better in my opinion; maybe just better enough that developers might very slowly switch to it over time.
There are several things which make WebSockets appealing:

- No CORS issues.

- Data can be pushed to clients in real-time (this goes well with reactive UIs).

- No need to send headers with every call/response.

- The server is aware of the client's presence (and can detect the exact moment when they go offline).

WebSockets add a few extra challenges related to recovering from lost connections and rate-limiting but a lot of libraries and frameworks have already solved these problems.

The main reason why HTTP might stick around for a very long time in the future is because HTTP REST APIs are extremely widespread and well understood.
buy a dasung paperlike pro 3[1] e-ink monitor and place it infront of your laptop screen. Retina display on __E-INK__. slim like a book, just carry it wherever you take your laptop. can double as dual monitor.

[1]https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/paperlike-3-a-smart-e-ink...
> ... I'll probably need to send something out to be CNC cut.

As a general thought, SketchUp probably won't be suitable for that. It doesn't seem to export to any format commonly used by CAM tools. eg STEP/IGES are the general ones. JT is common in some places too.

Saying that after looking at it a couple of months ago, when someone mentioned using it for an online CAD course. Seems like a terrible choice for any instructor to be telling students to use. :(
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> FAANG brain drain

SV has been dealing with brain drain since loooong before FAANG was even a thing. HP, Intel (remember why it’s called silicon valley?), and Oracle used to be heavyweights - and in the midst of that there was still a very very successful startup culture.

I’ve asked founders why they start their companies here, and the reason is almost universally ‘this is where the biggest pool of engineers I need for X are’.
Nobody has an excuse not to use either HTTP/2 or QUIC on a modern website.

They should also use just one domain - DNS lookups are a pretty slow and flaky part of the process of loading a webpage, and downloading loads of HTTPS certificates for all the domains involved isn't great either.

Managing just one domain is also a lot easier - less to monitor, less to maintain, simpler architecture, etc.

The only remaining reason for extra domains is to act as a security boundary - for example when you're running untrusted user javascript.
I don't think that's a fair comparison; the one choosing to shadow ban another isn't simply choosing to ignore the target, they are choosing to disallow others from hearing what the target has to say, and in a way that does not allow the target an opportunity to change and improve themselves.
The point wasn't to typecast SV as much as broaden what counts as tech. Defense contractors make lasers mounted on jets. It's absolutely "tech" and not something we wonder about being exclusive to Northern CA.
>"T-shirts are more acceptable at the beach than bears."

I'm very hairy. Chest, back, shoulders, you name it, to the level where shaving/waxing to keep a hairless appearance would be a major undertaking several times per week. I'm also balding, and I can't always be bothered to maintain a perfectly shaved head, so there's some good old male pattern baldness to enjoy, as well.

If anyone has a problem with me not wearing a T-shirt at the beach, they'll just have to look somewhere else, because this whole trend of being smooth and hairless is completely ridiculous.
There was one announced last year but it appears to be vaporware. The Boox Typewriter.

Probably the closest you're going to find is an e-ink Android tablet paired with a keyboard folio case.

Pixel Qi is not really e-ink but sort of similar. You can still find the screens on eBay and transplant one into an old netbook.
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Heh, my not-so-obvious implication was search results are in essence ads themselves. I use NS & uBO, I wouldn't use the web w/o them.
Sorry but I disagree that affordable housing is the problem. Housing is a symptom of the problem, just like how inflation in the Bay Area is rampant over everything. Day care costs are exorbitant. Groceries, gas prices, inflation is across the board because well paid tech workers are driving up the costs. Even costs to get work done on your house or property has doubled in 6 years.

The real reason is that there are too many tech companies that refuse to build equivalent headquarters in other cities. It's concentrating the wealth of companies that gather money from around the world in a tiny area, and that by definition will create inflation.

If Google, Facebook, etc, created equivalent headquarters in Kansas City, in Cleveland, etc (as in, they have equal say as the main HQ and just as good projects), then I believe the wealth could be spread over the entire country or globe, and everyone would benefit.

People NEED to move away from Silicon Valley. Having so many rich, tech workers living in a small area is toxic, just like Wall Street and Manhattan is toxic.

Once the pressure of adding thousands of 6 figure engineers coming to the Bay Area recedes, then housing will fall to a more rational level.

I've been living the in Bay Area since the dot com boom. Housing prices were always high, but never this toxic, until frankly the FANG stocks started breaking out in around 2011/2012. You can see this in the stock market as well. When these global internet companies started consolidating their power and consequently their wealth, it created a mass migration to the Bay Area of tech workers who were paid well above the average, and caused massive inflation.

You want to start a company? Go somewhere else. Be a part of the solution, not part of the problem.
Kinda disappointed nobody could figure out how big this was originally. Yes, we've lost a couple of soil layers to erosion, and yes the bottom has filled a bit with newer rock formations.

Still, you'd have to think we could estimate how big an object would need to be to carve out that much bedrock, assuming a given amount of topsoil.
> As the writer of an application I like the power of short-cutting that path if needed for an important update of a transitive dependency by simply telling my package manager to update the lockfile, vs having to wait for the update to trickle through the chain of dependencies.

MVS has this shortcut without requiring a lockfile. Just update the minimum version for that dependency in your own project.
Your point is fair; I don't actually make my own bread. I was just going off of the large number of people I know who have bought a bread machine, made a single-digit number of loaves of bread, lost interest, and never used it again.

The point here being that if you aren't engaging with the hobby enough to really learn it, there's not really enough in it to hold your interest long term.

I think the difference between "normal people" and bread enthusiasts is how they approach the bread machine. Bread enthusiasts, I assume, come at it from the angle of having engaged with the hobby and are looking to reduce some of the drudgery. "Normal people" come at from the angle of "sweet, I can make bread!", realize that if all you want is a loaf of bread, you're better off just buying one, and lose interest.

If you're a bread enthusiast, can you shed some light on this?
It means I have to run the AC in summer and heat in winter for much of the day. The age of my child is relevant because older kids are in school during the day.
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Wouldn't it make sense to put the assets that don't need need API access on other domains?
no, a base 911 is about $30,000 cheaper than the fastest model s and will easily wreck it on a track. the tesla can certainly beat it in a drag race, though.
For the specific case of acoustic signals, see https://www.tau.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic/. For "CPU voltage fuzzing", Google "glitch attack" (e.g. https://wiki.newae.com/Tutorial_A2_Introduction_to_Glitch_At... ) or, more generally, "fault attacks".

The relevant academic community can be found around https://ches.iacr.org/2018/program.shtml.

(I work for a company building high-assurance crypto appliances for the Dutch government, so I have a professional interest.)
You mean 'stateful' at the IP layer, right? So anything using TCP counts as "stateful"?

Like, an application which implemented "stateless" HTTP endpoints would still run into this issue?
...good show for the z80 board...
as mentioned elsewhere, the wire wrapping approach has its upper limits...
a higher clock speed will result in crosstalking between bus channels...
but im dying to see the solution for a 486 chip implementation
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South SF is the second largest hub for biotechnology and pharma in the US (if not the world) behind Boston metro, Oakland is the sixth largest (IIRC) port in the US, and the San Jose area is an important hub for high value add manufacturing (aerospace, defense, robotics, medical devices, etc). I've even heard it claimed that after the fall of Detroit, San Jose metro became the top manufacturing region in the western hemisphere by total revenue (although I don't know how to evaluate that). Just a little south and you've got a rapidly growing agtech hub thats been around for decades too.

Freemium and ad based businesses are actually just a tiny fraction of the tech companies operating out of the SF Bay Area. You just dont hear about the other ones because they're not as shiny, new, or have ridiculous risk/reward profiles.
Apple doesn't have a history of developing products and then not releasing them.
The earliest electric cars I noticed on the streets were glorified golf carts. They were ideal for very short distances, like getting to work & running errands.

Couldn't self driving cars in the very near future follow this same path? Find a very densely populated area. Get self driving cars to work very well in that area for short trips. Slowly expand to similar areas?

I haven't followed either of these very closely, so please correct me where I'm wrong.
https://www.awwwards.com/ is a good start.
Author of the post here, I wasn't aware of the name conflict. The name is a reference to a book. OLIN (the One Language Intelligent Network) was their global internet that was able to just run programs without having to have specialized hardware. The "one language" in this case would be WebAssembly.
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Spoken dialog systems.

Check out Steve Young's group at Cambridge, it's considered the state of the art (well, at least by some ;-)).
Hi there!

I am Dodoid, the creator of this video. Created an account here to ask you this. Where did I make that mistake? I'm fully aware that there was a world-wide-web in 1993, and if I made the mistake of saying that there was not, I have a post-release correction system and can add a correction to the video.

Anyway, I hope things have improved.

Thanks for the interest,
-Dodoid
I have the 9560, and I love it. I got it as an open box unit from Microcenter right when the 9570s were coming out, so it was a great deal. I use it for side projects and as a personal laptop, I would love to use it instead of my T470 work laptop.

It took a lot of fiddling to get Linux running on it, but it all works now. I have it set up with 18.04 with the root on ZFS.
I don't think Wikipedia defaults to Simplified Chinese. It seems to default to whatever was entered by the user editing the page. So if users using Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese both edit the same page, it will end up with a mixture of characters.

For example, the page on Cryptography https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AF%86%E7%A0%81%E5%AD%A6 contains both 密码学 and 密碼學, sometimes in adjacent sentences.

If you select the versions for Mainland China https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-cn/%E5%AF%86%E7%A0%81%E5%AD%A6

or Taiwan https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E5%AF%86%E7%A0%81%E5%AD%A6

those get cleaned up to the appropriate shape.
Seriously? OpenBSD developers didn't consider the C compiler adds padding to the structure?
We pay a bit more than this for electricity, on the margin (they give you low rates on the first chunk but then it goes up from there).

But most of the difference is that our vehicle is nowhere near as efficient as yours. The 9kW/h battery only goes about 18-20 miles on a charge, and it costs more than the $1 that you pay to get that many miles.
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massive acceleration in a straight line gets old really fast, and you can't legally enjoy such a car on public roads. any performance oriented car over $25k already has too much power to fully appreciate this way. once a car is "fast enough", weight is the single most important factor for real world driving enjoyment.
This is how market competition works. When choosing which product to buy, a few people do in-depth research, but most people just look at what is immediately obvious. If a difference in features or quality isn't readily apparent at this stage (and/or the buyer is not educated enough on the subject to understand/appreciate it), then it doesn't provide a competitive advantage.

Put another way, people will not buy a product just because it is better. It only matters if it is better in a way that is hard to miss in the short time (think 15 seconds or something) that someone might spend deciding which product to buy.

This is one reason competition isn't a silver bullet for ensuring the best products win.