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I think AR glasses, or an app for existing/future AR glasses is an easy solution, but maybe not stylish enough yet. I'm not an optical engineer though, just a dev who happens to knows a little bit about physics (like, hobbyist level).

Congrats on your kickstarter by the way - you guys know your market.
When I was young, it was the TV. My TV watching was severely limited until I left home, and while at the time I thought it was an atrocity committed against me, I'm glad of it now. It's too easy to lose a whole day to TV.

As a result I spent time outside, hanging with friends, reading, and building things.
It is not acceptable for our head of state.
oh boy, can't believe i am going to do this. but. if there is one topic i am qualified to write about, it is asteroids.

in my early twenties, i was good enough that i could play for hours. i could have like 50 or 60 extra ships piled up, going all the way across the screen. my longest game on a single quarter was nine hours. i finally had to stop because i was hallucinating.

based on that, i can say for certain that, no, there is only one right way to play, assuming you want to get good enough that the game can't get rid of you.

first, you have to get really good at flying your ship around. you must use the flight mechanic to your best advantage, so you can position that ship as easily as you can drive a car.

second, you have to get good at hunting the small saucers. i knew several good players who used different strategies, but the most reliable was to get rid of most of the rocks, fly slowly left to right across the screen, and learn how to "strafe." you were allowed a maximum of four bullets onscreen at once. you have to learn to press the fire button so quickly that all four of them line up together, which you gracefully place in the path of an oncoming saucer, so that it has no choice but to fly into your sheet of bullets.

i can't play the game at all anymore. my reaction times have gotten way too slow. also, after about 30 minutes, the tendons in my wrists start to hurt. the game makes you hold your hands in a very unnatural way.

i exchanged emails with ed logg once. he offered to sell me his original prototype asteroids machine, the one he developed the game on. i was not interested. i love the game and all, but not enough to haul around a 600-pound boat anchor for the rest of my life.
Pity - turbulence is one of my favorite parts of flying!
Little airplane, PSSSSH--you try to put 4 people in Mooney.
The counting is still not trustworthy if performed by a machine.
"one of the keys is basic maintenance know-how. Anyone can learn to do the basics (oil changes, air filter, spark plugs, brake pads, etc.) with a few hours of learning on YouTube."

I don't think it makes sense to say that is a key, because the basics have to be done equally on newer and older cars and it's easy to find someone to do them for a reasonable price. The issue with an older car is that it is more likely to have non-routine repairs, which tend to both be expensive if done by a professional and hard to assess how much they should cost.
How odd that it happens to two nations that have decided to throw their lot with an English majority.

How so very odd.
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Yeah it was a pretty big deal.

At MIT there was a bit of controversy because many professors argued that the university president should have gone to bat for her publicly, instead of releasing a statement saying that she showed poor judgment.

Wearing weird electronics and hacker-esque things is totally normal for MIT undergrads, especially the ones living on the east side of Mass Ave. I wouldn't think twice if I saw a kid walk into the campus convenience store wearing a hoodie with LEDs on a breadboard and playdoh in her hands, but I guess Logan Airport isn't exactly a hackathon.
...it seems like it is though. Curious why you'd say it isn't.
I was obsessed with pinball (the predecessor to video games) for a while. It cost a dime for a game, a quarter for three. I had no money, so it was a big deal to get to play a game. The pinball machine is very set up to give "rewards" for points scored, such as giving out free games.

One time in the dorm, the coin op broke, and the machine allowed unlimited games for free. I played, and played, and played, and then something broke in me. I totally lost interest in pinball, it bored me silly, and in 40 years that interest never came back.

One of my first jobs was testing video games. That ground to dust any interest I had in that. It revived briefly when Doom came out, but that didn't last long.

I suppose I've dodged a bullet with that.
ROBOTS: Your Guide to the World of Robotics
Integrating Isolation with Analytics
But at the same time, f-strings are soooo much better than the old way, or even .format().
There's also a whole section about their experience installing systems on yachts!
I think they published it because it was news. Many details in the news outrage me, but as long as they are based in fact, I consider that reporting of the news of the day, not an attempt to incite outrage.

Also, "Callous Googlers Don't care about sex harassment payouts" doesn't seem like a particularly good potential news piece, if that's what you are suggesting they could have done.

I mean, I was outraged by the Snowden revelations. Were those stories generating outrage, or just revealing an outrage that others had already perpetrated?
I can't get it out of my head that I read once that airbags were designed to last ten years. Driving a fifteen year old car seems like having an unexploded munition in my face. At what point is it likely to not work in an accident or to kill you when it does go off? I don't believe it's legal to replace an old steering wheel with a non-airbag one, so there really is no solution that I'm aware of.

I have a 30 year old car, but it doesn't have an airbag.
Barn doors!! Love em. But you got a few knots on me
Quite a few people work relative to market trading hours and customary times to hold earnings calls and roadshows. Sales people work around their store business hours. Schools have fixed schedules. Hours sadly dictate schedules for most people
These days, I sometimes catch myself worrying about fake "karma" points on HackerNews or Reddit, and then laugh and forget about it.
Symantec to Face Class Cybersecurity Claims After Google Report
People downvote because you're saying that culture is a lie when it's the incorrect word. You're not wrong per se, you're using the incorrect word. Others point that out to you, and you still insist on using the word lie. You double down on your error and say that you must be right because everybody else says you're wrong.

Language is culture, and you're blowing it.
It's viable, but certainly not designed for that sort of thing like Perl, Python, Powershell, Awk, & Bash. Many of those languages have built in niceties for scripting such as Perl's myriad of command line switches and well, everything about Powershell. They're optimized for shorter programs where Haskell is optimized for helping you write higher quality code.
I live in Austin and have been voting with these machines for the last 8 years, including earlier this week.

The UI for the ballot is a series of rectangular tiles separated into two columns on a series of pages. Each tile represents a given race or proposition, with a title header, a description field, and then the various options to vote for stacked vertically as a collection of { radio button, option title }.

In order to navigate between pages, there are two digital "arrow" buttons for "Next" and "Back". To navigate within a page, and then within a tile, there is a clicky scroll wheel (rotation quantized in something on the order of 30 degree increments). To make a selection there is a separate button digital button "Enter".

The way the straight party selection is presented is as the first tile on the first page of partisan ballot options. Selecting straight party isn't a separate option on the underlying ballot; rather it is UI layer feature that fills in all of the partisan election options with the party of choice as if you had individually selected all of them.

I've never experienced the phenomenon described in the article, but I can imagine how it might happen. There is visible latency in interactions (selecting an option, moving between options/pages) and I could imagine someone selecting the straight party choice, pressing "Enter", not seeing an immediate result and pressing Enter again while rotating the wheel, and then being confused when they see the first partisan election race not reflecting their vote because they inadvertently made another selection on that race.

This seems like an easy thing to address and something that could/should have come up in UX usability testing. If anything should go through rigorous accessibility and usability testing, it should be voting processes (and that hold for whether elections are mediated by machines, paper ballots, or some other method).
That quote proves nothing, except the judge was unwilling to take financial hardship or special circumstances into account for your challenge. Which is appropriate, because the law as written does not allow for that. (Infractions like traffic violations are generally fixed penalties.)

If you had wanted to challenge the validity of the ticket and the judge said he didn't care about the facts, that would have been a different thing altogether.
You certainly may be correct that Delta’s competitors may be using additional or different sources. However, there definitely is not any access to SiriusXM WX or ADS-B weather onboard FAR 121 aircraft. Many airlines are just now getting around to ADS-B out for compliance. When I worked for one of the regional airlines we had just been approved for EFBs (iPads) in 2017. Point is simply that GA is typically significantly further ahead in a lot of technologies these days because 121 air travel has become so incredibly safe that the FAA is very careful and methodical in approving new technology use. That costs money and it’s only been the last 3-4 years or so that airlines have had money to spend.
"gentrify the vibrant neighbourhood by trucking in techbros to displace the artists"

Or bring very high paying jobs that Germany desperately needs, and allow great students to actually do something with their education, which would in turn enable a poor neighbourhood to thrive with ancilliary businesses, restaurants, taxis etc. etc..
Dark consensus? More like a handful of amplified voices. I have kids, they're on screens lots, and somehow manage to do well in school and have rich IRL friendships. This is just the latest moral panic.
Not even a processor can multitask. Why would you think humans can. I love explaining that to people and destroying the computers can multitask myth.
Like immediately after the original story aired an email was leaked where the CEO of Google basically admitted that it was fucked up and said the policy changed a couple years ago so there isn't going to be a big group dissenting over anything here.
A friend told me once when he was flying that the jet hit some severe turbulence. Everyone was white-knuckling the armrests, until some texan towards the front started waving his hat and yelling yee-haw! Which went a long way towards relieving everyone's anxiety.
Berlin is big, and Germany is much bigger, and there are tons of places for artists. Even in Berlin.
Great to see RISC-V news make it public. Always glad to find more Plan 9 hobby projects to learn from :)
why is it news? Because they have google in front of their name?

If they want "concrete" action; perhaps google should just lay off half of its US staff, quit importing H1-B workers, and simply move their operations overseas.

more simply: if you wanted executive control; you'ld work at a co-op. Google, is not a co-op. If you were only too happy to work for sociopaths, to get the high salary/stock options - why are you suddenly so eager to bite the hand that feeds you?

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Comparing this to Snowden, is not a valid comparison.

Snowden was news (if nothing else because he provided detailed, proof of illegalities most intelligent people, knew was going on).
Fair enough, I might have underestimated how much a few uni literature classes may have helped me comprehend poetry.
This is sadly accurate. Though I do think it's harder to write good code then it is to maintain bad code.
One advantage of solar noon is use of sundials.
Wouldn't neuro plasticity dictate that something is gained from the loss? That is, as the brain re-wires itself memory is shifted to the more immediate need. That is processing power.
"what people here really don't like is the sort of tech entrepreneur who builds themselves a castle in the middle of the city, considers the local population to be "riff-raff" and doesn't respect the communal nature of a city."

What on earth are you talking about?

Who are these magical people who build castles?

And Berlin is not hugely more 'communal' than anywhere else.
How common was the later revision (small saucer fires immediately when it appears, and can aim at you across the wrap around) compared to the original?

MAME makes the newest revision the 'default' (in terms of their ROM naming) so I sometimes feel like that's the one I 'ought' to play but it's very much harder than the original, which I enjoy more (while currently I'm not good enough to deliberately 'hunt' the saucers anyway).
I don't think there were airliners in 1918.
"already too many jobs" this is really never the case.
The climate system has fewer moving parts than a typical climate control system, so if anything, it is removing failure cases. It is unique—there are videos on YouTube that describe how it works if you’re doubtful.

In practice, I rarely adjust the climate setting after setting it to the temperature / orientation I want, but I suppose everyone is different.

To me it feels a lot like when many used to claim they could never get an iPhone because they prefer a physical keyboard. But I suppose we’ll see how the industry responds over the next few years.
Lobsters[0] put their code up, might need some massaging, but maybe you could use it for inspiration.

[0] https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
You're right of course, but not exclusively - both are necessary. IMHO the era your sons were growing up, the concern was properly contextualizing online interpersonal interactions, which were completely invisible to parents by default.

Now we're dealing with websites/apps that have been explicitly designed to addict mature adults, playing people as pawns against one another. I'm familiar with the idea of "Rat Park" [0], but I think even if we can be absolutely sure kids' needs are being met it would be naive to rely on it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park
Most of Europe will move to winter time tomorrow and also abolish DST and I have the same feelings about it as you. I prefer darker mornings than evenings, as I've never been an early riser.
>but as long as they are based in fact, I consider that reporting of the news of the day

The issue is that they get to pick which facts are reported and which are not. They could publish 100 articles on all the good things Google is doing, or they could publish 100 articles on all the bad things google is doing, and they don't have to lie to do either of these things, but yet they would both give their readers very warped perspectives on reality.

We see this a lot in politics, where we can have far-right and far-left websites that both technically report nothing but 'facts', but due to the extreme sampling biases used, present completely opposing views of reality.

I'm not defending Google, I'm just pointing out who is running the show here, and the answer is the New York Times. They decide what happens next. Their next article could talk about all the positive discussion and improvements Google is making in this area, or it could talk about how many additional employees are upset and don't think things will get better.
It’s worse: the legal industry is efficiency-hostile because it relies heavily on reinventing the wheel on an hourly basis with the moat of a guild system to keep competition under control. And worse yet: most clients aren’t interested in anything less than the most expensive, white-glove service because they equate paying more to buying more peace of mind. In reality, most clients pay law firms gobs of money to read stuff that they can’t be bothered to read themselves. And law firms can’t even be held accountable for giving bad advice. It’s a pretty bleak landscape for problem-solvers.
It looks like the comments aren’t showing up properly when I’m on Safari on iOS in the blog post :P

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So by your definition, no stories about large companies should be published ever? I imagine if a company has a large amount of employees, you can always find a contrary opinion.
uAvionix?
Almost all of Europe will abolish DST this year.
I think since there are so many languages being rapidly developed these days (including c++), comparing language features is a good way to know how things are and aren't used in practice.

Rust just happens be extremely popular right now, along with python and go.
>If the destination has to change, a new crop of leaders will have to take this bunch on. And it won't happen without employees making their voice heard.

I think some form of labor organization, enforcing principles like the ACM Code of Ethics, is the only sane way forward. We in tech have to move beyond this reactive posture in how we approach what are really structural problems with how decision-making, power, and resources are distributed.
Aren't they dropping it tomorrow?
Or you end up like China with one timezone, much to the health detriment of those who live on the far edges.
In Full Sail
The example shot you gave is clearly better on the P20. Also the P20 has a slightly larger sensor.

Further, you're reading entirely too much into the exposure times. They are artificial and either camera software can choose to put whatever number they want in there. The aggregate time. The average time. The theoretical equivalent time. Etc. It is not the actual times.
Are you like a Russian troll trying to sow dissent or something? We're talking about poutine!
That's a flawed analogy. It's more like implementing compression of different data under different conditions every time, which would train you to get much better with compression and programming in general.

Every case has its own unique characteristics. It's not just doing the same thing over and over again.
I don't think there is much you can do in the new panel. I always pop back into the classic panel. But then there are other things that only the new panel can do :)
Incredibly another person basically says that you're wrong (adding their own misinformation into this), and you still claim rightness.

This thread is dominated by Pixel...fanboys and Googlers. You can be as wrong as you like, it doesn't really bother me. But your bull headedness about your absolute wrongness is simply spectacular.
In Canada we vote on paper (paper and pencil) and get instant results. There's no reason for any computers to be involved.
Working on cold fusion doesn't sound like a particularly intelligent use of one's resources.
In the middle ages, people saw the future as more castles, more knights, more kingdoms. Why? because noone could predict a paradigm shift.

Today you are doing the same as people in the middle ages. You are extending current paradigms into the far future, and that's how you are wrong.

You imagine the future as a future with more von Neumann machines, running some minor variant of deep learning, on electronics that are similar to the ones today.

I imagine the future as a future with more AI practitioners making progress faster, working with better tools, better hardware, standing on the shoulders of this generation, and the one after it.

Because of this, lawyers will have no future ahead of them in 50 years.
>original story to generate outrage

While a consequence of the story may have been "outrage," it was Rubin's actions and how Google dealt with them that are at issue here. We can play "shoot the messenger" or assume bad faith on the NYT's part, but neither of those things undoes what has happened.
As I presume you know, Solar noon represents the highest point of the Sun in the day. It seems fitting that the 'work hours' should be 4 hrs either side of that (8am-4pm).

Being a 'sunlover' I'm regularly up before dawn so that I can catch the first rays of Sun as it crosses the horizon. To me it's the most beautiful part of the day. Unfortunately, we have semi-arbitrarily defined 'zones' that fluctuate 1hr because of the propagandist notion that extra daylight at the end of the day means more people will be outside enjoying the Sun. This DST causes my work day to suddenly shift so that I'm forced to go to work earlier than normal, & I miss a lot of sunrises as a result.

I like this idea of solar noon for times... Especially for overseas communications too... because we'd just need to know the longitude of the person to know their exact time. (Currently, I'm forced to use timeanddate.com to work out relative overseas times).

Where I am, the state to the North of me doesn't follow DST (Qld), whereas mine does (nsw) and it creates havoc around the beginning/end of DST.

So, at least for me, there are three reasons to use solar noon based time rather than the current system. I'm sure I could come up with more.

That said, I go to bed early too, and acknowledge that isn't the way most people live.
If you look at the photos they actually track pilot efficiency on the MD-88 in a separate metric than the rest of the pilots. I thought that was pretty funny.
Gimp as a whole becomes ten times better once you enable single window mode.
Renewables aren't cheap (mostly because of the intermittency problem).
A People's Guide to Artificial Intelligence
You probably don't. Aerospace is horribly conservative and slow, both in the work itself and in office culture. Imagine spending an entire week checking every calculation in a 50 page technical report. It must be correct, and it has to be that way.
Please no. We have Steam, Gog, Origin, Ubisoft, Twitch and Discord game stores now. Doing a game store is not a simple thing and stores being built by those who make the games is generally anti-consumer because there is no negotiation of sales.
I don't disagree with your idea, but unfortunately there is always going to be that churn. Commercial device/app developers have lots of money to invest in robust development and advertisement, to beget the return of more money. Meanwhile, the economic benefits to preserving people's autonomy (/dignity) is spread out amongst those people. Which is why in another comment, I called it a "zero" million dollar idea.

The flip side is all of this device churn is all the actually devices left in the wake, available for cheap/free. If software is done right, even last-decade specs are perfectly capable devices good for another decade. Which is what we need, because convincing someone to pave over their current device or spend a lot on a new "weird" one isn't going to happen. Tablets got a foothold by being a new type of device, rather than an immediate replacement.
They definitely do. They usually end up leaving because of the culture and the pay.

Reading about X is very different from working in X professionally.