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>The project is fine, but just don't present it at Blizzcon?

Precisely this. It's not that feeble because you must remember what Blizzcon is. Know your audience. Blizzcon audience has paid $199 to get in. They are quite hard core PC gamers. If your main show for them is something they are not interested of course they are gonna be unhappy.

If Blizzard wants to change Blizzcon they should tell the audience that "Blizzcon 2018 is focused on mobile" before they buy the tickets.

Don't suddenly change the theme and expect a good reaction
I don’t see how you can “fix” it without breaking a ton of stuff. I guess they could do a compatibility shim.
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$ find "$HOME/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles" -name cookies.sqlite -exec sh -c "sqlite3 '{}' 'SELECT * FROM moz_cookies'" \;
Blizzard kept re-uploading the Diablo Immortal trailer multiple time to prevent massive dislikes on youtube. The video from the battle.net app is at its third version now.
They should know better, you can't get away with these kind of shady practices, especially with a fan group that pay attention at what you do.
Spend a day anywhere in China and you'll realize we've just exported the pollution problem
It’s easy to target poor security as the culprit, but it seems another root cause is such bad UX of official, secure communication channels that drove these agents to chat in this alternative, vulnerable system.

Just as a river follows the path of least resistance, so too will users follow the best UX software. Bad UX kills.
Surely pirates use OC-Ahrrrrrrr ?
Correct, it depends on the use case. Nobody is saying you should write everything in C++. But there is plenty of software that actually uses your CPU for data processing where speed is absolutely crucial. If you know that every second (or 100 ms) saved in every functionality your software offers will eventually matter, would you still choose the more pessimistic performance guarantee?

Did you know (at the point where the entire architecture was chosen) that you will get 100 ms with a safer language? What if you got 1000 ms and C++ got 100 ms?
That said, mobile games do suck.
This is probably a stupid question, but doesn't the PTY itself already have that out-of-order problem? I mean that it reads both file descriptors and does interleave them in the end. If it didn't they could still colorize things after the PTY.

So I guess my question is, why can't whatever it does to handle the ordering and merge the two be replicated in a small program that reads two names pipes and does the same but with extra colorizing?
When I was younger and dumber, I did two full day interviews at Amazon, 9am till 4-5pm. No lunch, no bathroom breaks, wall to wall interviews completely unrelated to the initial reasons for my contact. Actually rude to the recruiter after the first day, I was convinced to return for a 2nd round of interviews. I never bothered to return any contacts after that incredibly poor and redundant treatment. The exact same thing happened on the 2nd day: no lunch, no bathroom breaks, tons of waiting, and unrelated interviewers.
Chrome is very frightening to me. It's just this massive God program that has a huge attack surface and a lot of really valuable goodies like this that attackers would love to get at.

I think the right way to look at it is that it's a smaller OS. Different in nature, but browsers are now in the OS league for how much damage a compromise can do.
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Why, then? Curious.. I'm about to accept an offer next week...
Indeed. No significant student loans in Germany.
That would be a very positive consequence.
Having kids in your early twenties helps with a lot of physical aspects, but a lot of people aren't ready to be in a long term committed relationship at that point, so it would seem that it's sacrificing emotional well-being for physical well-being. Certainly both factors feed into the other.

I think a lot of what's pushing people to have kids later is the desire to have a stable home, and that feels harder to acheive when costs of living seem to demand, for many, dual incomes and living paycheck to paycheck.
It is. Read Sec 5.(d).

It's not like people will be thrown in prison because their DB wasn't patched quickly enough. They have to knowingly and intentionally lie to the federal government in an annual report.
The NYT has a much better write up: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/asia/china-cia-spie...

Basically, an internal mole leaked the network, which the Chinese then exploited to roll up the agents. It's not like China just stumbled upon it, they were tipped off. While the nature of the platform didn't help, the roll up was caused by a double agent.
There is a "real-politic" feminism/feministic view where the goal is to increase the value of women in the sexual market.

The value of goods sold will always be at a higher value when you have a monopoly. Legal prostitution would get men sex for certain at a known cost, whereas taking somebody out on a date is not certain to lead to sex. Keeping prostitution illegal means the monopoly is strengthened.

BTW, here in Denmark, having sex for money is legal, but only the prostitute can make money of of it (directly, anyway), which means that prostitutes can outsource their protection to the police. In Sweden it is legal sell sex, but not to buy it, which means they technically could call the police anyway, but it will destroy their business -- and that the customers they do get are less likely to obey they law and so are more likely to be violent.
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At least people should be educated about the possible effects of having children late in life as part of high school sex education.

I have quite a lot of coworker women that are in their mid to late 30s who are astonished to learn that there are potential complications associated with having children at that age. Without exception they have expressed the desire that these potential complications had been communicated to them earlier in life.
“Asking” means it probably won’t happen. You need to put it in a will.
Cool! Interestingly I always use a similar metaphor on my own projects. For instance, the event system may be seem as the roads linking different blocks (domains), each with their own building (module).
"I think Prolog ironically falls in the category as Forth (and Joy is not even as practical as Forth). It's incredibly expressive for some things, and it has generated many epiphanies. But if you try to use it in production, you eventually "fall off a cliff" for parts of the program that don't fit the model."

I believe that's correct. It's why AI research usually used LISP with Prolog handling specific things it's good at. Often as a DSL, too. A good example which still sells is Allegro CL:

https://franz.com/products/allegro-common-lisp/

On Prolog itself, there are commercial users outside AI/rules/NLP like this finance company:

https://dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/CHR/files/Elston_SecuritEase.pdf

Far as efficiencies, most Prologs appear to be based on abstract machines that weren't quite optimized for real hardware. Whereas, Aquarius Prolog that Peter Van Roy posted here once seemed to show there's a lot of efficiency to be gained with optimized-for-metal designs:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2813183_The_Making_...

So, that's just a few things I have. I never learned Prolog since I think it's too limited. There's quite a few systems that make tasks easy to express, with Prolog being one. I think ideal system would combine high-efficiency in base language, metaprogramming features (or term-rewriting logics), contracts (esp for automated analysis and testing), stuff like Prolog in DSL form, functional programming like Haskell/Mercury, and so on. All designed to interoperate well with C ecosystem and/or using assembly for optimized modules. General idea is you can always use the right tool for the job with base language integrating them smoothly in a way that maximizes productivity during development and performance during deployment.
The holographic universe is another popular one. We have some similar things in mathematics (e.g. anything to do with Godel).

I think, though, that if you want to understand physics, it probably makes sense to devote some of your time to understanding what physicists are excited about.

I have a feeling (and this is heavy speculation) that a lot of strong physicists were fed on pop physics and science fiction before they learned the hard science. This helps approach the subject with an inborn curiosity, which can focus your attention when learning technical subjects.

Pop physics books may not be the ideal way to do this, but it's probably better than nothing at all.
PDF Full Text : https://www.wyden.senate.gov/download/11012018-wyden-privacy...
That's not a bad thing.

The big tech companies are edging towards complete monopolies in their spaces and a significant part of this is that they know everything and they're allowed to leverage that data. Why would you go to anybody else to advertise? Unbundling this, making advertising harder again will spread out the budget, probably push more towards publishers rather than networks. Again, not a bad thing.

It also means that new players get to compete. It's been very tough to compete with similar services on price when the incumbents can operate at zero "cost".

Not having your data traded under the table is just gravy.
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Of course, but it shouldn't be up to them.
A bit late to the party, but a lot of things that this post mentions are very similar to my own Amazon experience.

- They asked me to write a four page essay before I was allowed to have an on-site interview. Exactly four pages.

- The interview process was more exhausting than any company I'd interviewed at. They make almost no accommodations to make you feel comfortable.

- I asked for a Macbook. They gave me an old Dell laptop.

- I remember that the VC in the room we were initially in just didn't work. The recruiter spent a good amount of time trying to make it work before giving up and getting another room. I believe they had just switched the office over to Chime, which was not reassuring.

- The editor they had me code in didn't actually run my code, nor did it have syntax highlighting. A big chunk of the top of the screen was covered by a banner ad, because apparently they weren't paying for it.

- The recruiter and first interviewer were both late. I sat in an empty lobby waiting for someone to show up to tell me what to do while the receptionists yelled song requests to the Echo across the room.

- The position was for "special projects," aka "top secret". All of my interviewers made sure to impress upon me how important the project was, but even after I got an offer, they wouldn't tell me what it entailed. I literally wouldn't find out what the project was until I signed the offer.

- The title they offered me was "better" than the other two offers I got. But the compensation (including equity) was the worst: double digit percentage less than the next best offer.
I’m sure the man was doing everything in his power to suppress his natural male urge to leap across the table and attack. Because that’s exactly how men are. You’re incredibly brave.
fantastical speculation inbound..

dragon ball super(o) recently made me think that in a world where teleportation is possible we could just teleport the baby out of the womb, avoiding the pain of labor

of course there is still the hardships of carrying the child, and who knows what kind of havoc such a sudden event would cause to the mother's hormones

how much of the bodily functions associated with labor are evolutionarily built in necessities of human reproduction? do cesarean births have any hormonal consequences differing from vaginal birth?

(o) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6wMALl9tJQ
But imagine yourself up on stage in front of thousands of people, with 2 or 3 seconds to come up with an answer while you are not allowed to mention any unannounced games. What would you have said? This is hard and many of us would not have done much better than this on the spot.

The only "better" answer that I can think of would be a vague, general hint that Blozzard is working on more titles than those that are announced. But that would immediately be interpreted as "Diablo IV confirmed" and blown out of proportion.

The gaming community has in recent years developed a culture of latching on to smallest of hints, letting their imagination roam freely to create a kind of groupthink dream of what the project would be. And than they react not only with disappointment, but also with hate, anger and aggression against the developers when these dream bubbles are busted. This lack of moderation in the community is disconcerting and if we don't find efficient ways to dampen that, we will see this get out of hands.

Games are made by companies for profit. If they release something that you like, enjoy it. If you don't like it, move on. I don't understand any need to fuel hate to the levels we are seeing repeatedly these days.
Is it common for employers to leave you sitting alone in a conference room during an interview with no explanation or instructions? This happened to me straight out of college and I didn't handle it well admittedly during a poor interview on my part, I was already incredibly anxious and frustrated from my poor performance and I just walked out and never looked back.

I feel like this is an actual interview tactic in some book somewhere although I can't imagine why.
Are you sure we're thinking of the same book? The one i'm referring to [1] uses basic algebra (fractions, exponents, variables), only a couple of times in the entire exposition if i remember correctly. Its precisely what I would think of as good, non-fake popular physics. Edit: On second thought, I suppose this really isn't "popular physics in the usual sense" as you described it, so we probably are referring to the same text!

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.151311/page/n7
Who is "they"? Sure there are some companies, but clearly nothing like SV.
Acknowledging a market player as rational doesn't mean you have to sympathize with them. That road leads to Stockholm Syndrome, as displayed by many apologists for late stage capitalism. Being a rational actor isn't sufficient to shield you from criticism.

The complaint here is that Blizzard is abandoning the people who made them rich, and the off the cuff remark about phones is proof of the latent disrespect they have for their customers. The fact that it was an awkward unscripted remark is what makes it sincere, and shows what lies just under the surface when they don't have their marketing staff to edit their press releases.

"OH, they're doing it to make more money" isn't a good excuse. They already make enough money. Blizzard should reciprocate loyalty to the people who are loyal to them, and that breach of respect is why people are mad.
Crazy genius. This is an example of someone born to do something.
Go with a "natural death" arrangement, where your body will not be embalmed (formaldehyde is nasty stuff), and will be buried in a vessel that biodegrades quickly, in a forest or similar area.

I'm going with this method when I eventually die.
That’s fine for the first stage of the funnel. I send in a resume and hear nothing back no harm, no foul.

But by the time a candidate is past a phone screen that’s a validated lead. A company that was really desperate to hire wouldn’t treat validated leads so poorly. That they do means that they aren’t and we should disregard self-serving claims to the contrary.
They completly missed their target audience, I'd guess except for hearthstone 95% of ppl on blizzcon are PC gamers and Diablo fans especially so that was expected.
And what was that stupid question at the end about not having phones? Yes ppl do have phones but most of them don't have and don't need gaming capable ones and why would they buy one? Mobile gaming is terrible except for card games and couple of casual trash clicking games. Sure you can use something like gamevice but that'll cost you even more money. And obviously PC gamers expect microtransactions on mobile.

So that's why people are angry - they were waiting 5 years and got this.
That is an extreme case, and I hope that she gets another line of work more suited to her.

But lets not forget that most people aren't happy being cleaners, servers, etc and do it entirely for the money. Nothing wrong with that, but in this world only a very small group is happy enough to love their job (and most people love only a part of it).
Permanent individual graves is a modern anglosphere thing. In Europe, grave plots are normally rented, and if the family stops paying, the remains are moved to a mass grave or cremated and the plot is re-used.
So in other words, legalizing and requiring that sex work occur in licensed brothels within designated areas (and thus not on your doorstep) would solve that problem?
Fraud. The ratings agencies lied about the credit worthiness of the mortgages that they bundled.
> Last I checked it's still word-of-mouth and close IRL peer influence that works.

It works, and it probably has the largest effect, but that doesn't prevent other things from working. If you factor in that IRL influence is hard to manufacture, whereas you can just buy ads on various platforms and show them to lots of people, mass advertising can easily come out ahead in terms of cost.
What are they going to learn that they wouldn't learn from our literature?
Oh that's a pet peeve of mine. Fun fact: it's called an eta expansion/reduction/conversion.
i wonder how adoption/reception will be in china. a lot of companies with digital and entertainment products are now having the discussion of how to target the chinese and indian markets given the huge populations and growing middle class. classic blizz games have been mostly NA/European/korean players...wonder if the upcoming full games will try to blend cultural/lore references to target a non Western audience
What to Do When You Want to Say “I Don’t Trust You” (Hint: Don’t Say It)
A century on, why are we forgetting the deaths of 100M?
Inhabitants of Finland are know for doing this. Do they have smaller incidence of Parkinson's?
Not normally, no. The file descriptors sort of act like pointers. During normal execution in a pty, stdrr and stdout both point to the same device with the same buffer. Nothing is handling the order because there is only one buffer being written to.
This. Ignore corporate HR. Speak directly to your potential manager about the specific needs and tasks to be accomplished by you. Present as the solver of those specific needs. That is all they want or need. The rest is pointless bureaucratic growth, just like any fiefdom, and is to be avoided. This manager avoids corporate HR too, because he/she is a problem solver and needs more peers. Be that peer.
Startups aren't even covered by this bill until they've gained lots of traction (1 million users and 50MM+ gross receipts). At which point, again again IFF their business is data hoarding, they will need to hire approx. one additional employee.

I'm sure startups/consultants will step in to provide regulator compliance as a service as well, so maybe not even that.
My favourite is soy / almond milk etc.

If you don’t drink milk, why do you need a substitute? A substitute that comes in difficult to recycle aluminium-paper-plastic laminated cartons that still contain most of the food-miles and process / handling carbon emissions.

Ok, hipocricy is everywhere and we can’t all be angels over night.
> Conservation laws are actually consequences of symmetries.

For those unfamiliar, this is essentially the content of Noether's Theorem[0]. One of many beautiful contributions of Emmy Noether.

I've heard several physicists describe it as one of the most beautiful theorems in physics.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noether%27s_theorem
Very true in some cases, i.e. unrollme. But I also like free content and am mostly willing to trade a little privacy for access.
> She frequently gets irate phone calls from parents saying that she has crushed their daughter's (in a few cases, their son's) dreams.

More like they abandoned their "dreams" because they learned they value other things in life even more. It sounds like your wife is doing the right thing. A little pain now to save those students years of hurt down the road.
Come on, we're fine these days. It's monitored and you have epidural pain killers. I'm not diminishing the burden, but we shouldn't make everything free.
Suggestions:

- a default set of categories would be useful

- I don't always add expenses immediately, so being able to change the date would useful.

- the ... in the overview window prompts you to delete a budget! seems dangerous

- ditto on another comment, there's no way to edit an expense.

- It might be interesting to setup Income and then allocate budgets based on % of income to automatically calculate budget targets.

Nice work.
> by using an adaptive importance sampling method

Although not all MCMC schemes actually do this, e.g. naive Gibbs (re)sampling just sweeps through the domain spaces iteratively.

You're right though MCMC enables you to do this relatively easily. Still requires some work if to get this right, especially if your integrand has multiple 'spikes'.
For more advanced topics, this is an amazing book that covers many graduate topics in a unified and consistent notation: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0691159025

Draft of the book is available here for free:
http://www.pmaweb.caltech.edu/Courses/ph136/yr2012/

Warning: this is very advanced material... I'm still on Chapter 1.
Small nitpick, LD_PRELOAD will override the write() function from the libc, which is a wrapper around the system call, not the write system call itself.
That isn’t too hard with half-way decent models.
You can steal Firefox cookies and even passwords easier, they're stored unencrypted in the user profile directory.
Not sure what update-initramfs does exactly, but if you ever close(2) your going to be in a world of hurt, because the next file you open is going to have a bunch of junk written to it.

At repl.it we don't put it in our .bashrc or anything like that, we call the wrapper program manually when we launch the user's binary.
Expense tracking seems to be a trend recently! I myself use HelloExpense [1] (just a happy user) and I recently developed a small tool to analyse my expenses. It handles a simple csv format (from the hello expense export, but could be generalised). I thought I might share it in this thread. If people are interested, I put a demo at https://expenses-analysis.herokuapp.com/

About your website: I would have liked to get info without registering. The explanation is short, and the only links are to sign up or sign in.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.helloexpen...
The derivative of time in the spacetime* tensor is just 1. There's no speed up, locally, which is what counts. The rest is just an effect of observation.

*I do not remember nor care what it's called. I'm sure you know what I mean anyway.