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Is there any plausible physical model in which the difference in velocity of the bullet, on account of the recoil, could be greater than the change in velocity of the barrel over the time that the bullet is traveling in it? With the bullet taking 2ms to leave the barrel, and maximum recoil acceleration of 100 ft/sec/sec, that effect would seem to be at least two orders of magnitude smaller than the 20 ft/sec claimed in the article that prompted this project.

The one extra thing I can think of so far is that the recoil reduces the effective length of the barrel by the distance it has moved by the time the bullet exits the muzzle, but again that seems too small an effect (~0.2 millifeet, four orders of magnitude less than the barrel length?)
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Robert is an industry veteran. And his business hired most of Crytek staff in Europe, did you play Crysis series? Do you really believe its developers lack "experience"?
It is quite hard to put this in context without the general Apple usage and crime rate in these countries.
It's not a "quantum computer". It's an analog computer instead of a binary computer. It can be simulated with a normal (binary) computer using floating point numbers (remember that the amoeba has a finite precision).

(Form time to time there are articles that try to explain why analog computers are better than binary computers. Usually they assume infinite precision, that is impossible in a real system.)

The article claims that the time is linear, but it use quadratic space. So if you campare thy to simulate the algorithm with a big system in a sequential computer you will get probably cubic run time.

A better way to understand this is that the amoeba uses a good heuristic to solve the TSP in a small case. There are many heuristics out there, so it would be nice to implement this heuristic and compare with all the other one is some kind of standardized example set. It's more easy to find a good solution in a small system.

(Under the hood, the amoeba is a quantum system. But if you consider this a quantum computer then your phone is also a quantum computer.)
Faithful without any of the races, history or story?

I mean the mechanics were not really groundbreaking even back then. The game won it's place in history due to it's great characters and wonderful story. You can't be faithful to the game without building on it's story.

If nothing of the story is used they could have just made the same game with a different brand and it would be exactly the same. The use of the Star control name is simply a marketing tactic to get people who heard and liked SC to buy a game they would otherwise not - I.E. they wanted to milk the brand.
Thank you! Funny story: I built the accelerometer with the original intent to see if I could correlate "bad" shots during 600 yard matches to flinching. That's still a work in progress, but because I had it working I was able to use it for this experiment as well!

I live in Oregon and am fortunate enough to be within 40 miles of an amazing club where I can shoot out to 600 yards every week with an awesome group of people! For what it's worth, you can (and should) drive out to Ohio for the National Matches at Camp Perry in the summer. It's on your way to Cedar Point ;)
>I'd be surprised if this will be deemed legal

I'm surprised how anyone could think this was a good idea, or even legal. What wouldn't surprise me is an incoming class action.
> using most of oil reserves asap is a good strategy

... only if one assigns no cost to all the CO2 produced.

Burning a barrel of oil creates about 340 kg CO2, about half of which ends up in the atmosphere (oceans absorb some, etc.) World oil reserves are over a trillion barrels.

Burning 46 billion barrels of oil adds 1 ppm to atmospheric CO2. So those trillion barrels will boost CO2 by over 20 ppm.

Of course, coal is much worse. World coal reserves are around a trillion tons. Burning 5 billion tons of coal raises CO2 by a part per million. Burning all that coal would raise atmospheric CO2 by nearly 180 ppm.

Burning fossil fuels is not the only source of carbon dioxide; there's also deforestation. But leaving as much fossil fuels in the ground as possible, would make achieving desirable CO2 goals that much easier.
They are not taking cryptocurrency "donations" they are taking user contributions. If the creator doesn't want them then I, as a user, have agreed that they go into the "User Growth Pool". In my opinion I don't really care if the creator has signed up or not, as a consumer I have decided I would rather pay for content using Brave's system rather then being forced to use the incrediably intrusive and malicious tracking based ad system of the traditional web ecosystem. If a creator doesn't like it they can block me from watching their content. I will not subject myself to their abuse of my data.

The real issue here is that consumers are using the same tactics creators have used since the first ads appeared on the internet, and now the content creators are upset. If they don't like the new rules then block me, some sites have already done that with Ad Blockers and paywalls.
Thanks, I'm glad you found it helpful!
It's interesting reading this thread as one of the founders of Star Sonata, a space MMO that launched in 2004. Star Citizen has a lot of hype and a lot of money, but people seem to hate the game/results. Our players for the most part love our game and keep playing and subscribing even after more than a decade, but I can't for the life of me get the marketing right, so have been unable to bring in new players in any kind of numbers. I just wish 1% of the players who paid for Star Citizen even knew about Star Sonata.

For a while back in 2007-ish Google ads were working really well and bringing in paying players at about $35 cost to acquire each and they were worth more than $200 over their lifetime, but something changed almost over night and Google ads got more competitive and almost no amount of money would bring people in. I'm sitting here with a game that people like and will pay for but can't figure out anymore how to acquire them.
I replayed Star Control II a few months ago and felt it held up surprisingly well. If you get bored, the whole game has already been mapped out, so you can easily speed-run it.
Same here, but I only use the personal version.
Coal is needed for steel production, so if the coal supplies from abroad stop, no steel can be produced and thus no tanks.
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I have a feeling when someone said "have you been to the dmv" they were talking about the length of time things take, not the monetary costs associated with producing a license.

In that case the GP would be talking about appropriating more money for more DMV employees so that people could be done with their business their more expeditiously.

In your case, you're talking about monetary efficiency which is a different thing and might be better served by less employees serving the people.

And I guess it's up to society to decide where that line should be drawn in terms of both monetary efficiency for the tax payer and temporal efficiency for the person waiting in line.
Indeed. People seriously exaggerate... when they have to live with a flatmate in a bedroom flat.
Thank you for reading it and sharing your thoughts!

I'm just here to learn and share. Hopefully this will help towards breaking down some negative stereotypes about a fun an interesting hobby!
yeah well facebook wants to know what you said and not what android told it you said.
There's a counter on Master Password, so if the password expires or you need to change it, you just +1 and it's new.

They also have settings depending on password requirements (no special characters, etc.).

I'm unsure what the URL really has to do with it, you could just generate a new password for the new URL and change it.
It looks like they've consistently been on the high end judging by their past few years: https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/de.html
Thank you so much, this really means a lot to me!
At the very least it should be a violation of trademark law.

(1) Any person who, on or in connection with any goods or services, or any container for goods, uses in commerce any word, term, name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof, or any false designation of origin, false or misleading description of fact, or false or misleading representation of fact, which—

(A) is likely to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive as to the affiliation, connection, or association of such person with another person, or as to the origin, sponsorship, or approval of his or her goods, services, or commercial activities by another person, or
(B) in commercial advertising or promotion, misrepresents the nature, characteristics, qualities, or geographic origin of his or her or another person’s goods, services, or commercial activities,

shall be liable in a civil action by any person who believes that he or she is or is likely to be damaged by such act.
> It's a welcome relief from the likes of Python where you only see (and consequently think about) the happy path. This is definitely a big driver of our 500s in our production Python services. While there are many who are genuinely aggrieved by the number of keystrokes, I think a lot of people are annoyed at error handling in Go simply because you have to think about error handling.

Okay, so let's say you're using Python. You get some 500s in production, but if you're written things in a clean fashion, they provide clear error messages and you can fix them quickly. 500 is error handling--not ideal, but it's also probably better than the "Pretend this error didn't happen" type error handling that programmers write when they are forced to handler the 80% of possible errors that will never occur.

And if you need a high-reliability system where 500 errors aren't acceptable, then Go is the wrong language, period. Its static type system is a joke and it doesn't provide any real formal verification beyond that.
Sorry I was talking about the french solution https://movim.eu/ when I say decentralized.

Thanks for the recommendation and explanations though!
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still creppy
https://twitter.com/ummjackson/status/1076221401353207808

Your UI really looks like Tom Scott has signed up to receive donations through you, not like you've scraped his photo and name off twitter and written a fundraising plea with zero mention that he's never heard of you and that you won't even try to contact him until $100 accumulates and then only half-assedly.

For most of us this is our first exposure to your model and UI, so that has set a very negative expectation. This looks like a scam and I'm now trying to figure out how to know if you've scammed any of my users without doing anything like installing Brave or signing up because your metrics probably count that as success rather than suspicion.
Facebook has its own Alexa/Echo like offering. Not sure if Messenger also has voice functionality.
Maybe, a few years back I had the idea to create a service identical to what Brave offers today (except based on the traditional banking system, not cryptocurrency) however I stopped after reviewing the money transmitter laws in the United States and determining that they were not compatible with this business model.

It's possible that Brave has found some sort of loophole that allows them to do this, but I haven't verified that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_transmitter
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Maybe it is able to solve the problem much faster than it looks but still with exponential complexity and yet its body takes a while to react in order for us to read the solution. Like being I/O bound.
Usually at the big banks the "real person" won't have the discretion to actually fix your problem.
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Mid this year, I started trading forex with 5k.Just exited my last trade for the year (b/c bank holidays), turns out I made 1.5k.

Friend is -3k with 12k account size stock investing (thanks to fb & nvidia)

How did you guys do this year? stocks, ipo, forex, real estate...etc? Curious as to what you guys invest & how?
From what I've read, the German green energy policy has caused:
* Really expensive per-KW/h power
* Shutting down nuclear and natural gas (some)
* Reliance on coal due to peaking/load/etc. issues with renewable
* Importing coal (high cost to transport, including energy cost)
* Dependence on Russia

It's good that they pushed solar and wind tech forward, but Germany just doesn't seem like a good place to deploy solar. Natural gas power is the cleanest fossil fuel and probably the best short term option (although without LNG it's still exposed to Russia), with renewables and Europe-wide grid ties in the longer term. Natural gas also has a 20-40 year lifespan for plants, so replacing coal with gas now and then replacing gas with even better renewables down the line seems like a good strategy.
I think you earn BAT for browing while ads are turned on.
Pretty sure that they are all wrong. The levels, description, years and titles do not match.

Don't expect to go from new graduate to senior engineer in a glimpse.
Also worth noting that companies that use Stripe are sending business to WF.
Probably depends on company size, and who you get your briefcase problem to.
This is already a thing [1]. They use it Germany and it's nice because it allows third parties to actually get seats.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-member_proportional_re...
Plus any companies that use Stripe are sending business to WF.
Let's say i want to learn graphic design.

I start watching YouTube videos about design. Reading random blog post about design just to get familiar with the terminology.

I take part in Reddit discussions on the same topic.

That way i develop familiarity with the subject.

Then i start reading a book and after that i execute the practise.
speech system ?? why
This is from 2012! What the crap Batman
Eh, it's more of a central Pennsylvania and West Virginia thing than a conservative thing. Those regions are peppered with towns that were propped up by coal mining, then had the rug pulled out from under them when the industry changed. It's similar to Detroit and the auto industry, or Pittsburgh and the steel industry. If you could bring everything back and revitalize your town, wouldn't you want to make that choice?
SC started with CryEngine and is currently on Amazon’s Lumberyard (which is a fork of CE).
No to both. Note that these two problems are related because TSP is NP-hard to approximate.

> In this study, we show that the time taken by plasmodium to find a reasonably high-quality TSP solution grows linearly as the problem size increases from four to eight.

There is hardly any theoretical evidence to suggest a polynomial solution from this experiment.
Great feedback! It's definitely true that I need to do some more research on this particular aspect. My trigger is set to 1 pound before it breaks (some folks set theirs to 2 oz!) Pulling it gently, like you're supposed to, shouldnt generate the same acceleration as if you were to "slap" it (which is a bad practice for accuracy and precision).

It may require faster data acquisition, so I hope that folks will contribute to the accelerometer project that I open-sourced to make that possible!
https://github.com/ammolytics/experiments/tree/master/recoil...

Thanks again!
>In Star Citizen, they actually move a ship around the map, and if you open the door, it opens the physical barrier between you and the outside world and you can see out of it.

This doesn't sound special or ground breaking at all. Heck there are decade old MMOs like shores of hazeron that combine survival game elements, sim city style planet construction with complex resource simulation and minecraft style construction of your own custom designed spacecraft. At all times you're playing single character seamlessly without any loading screens. There is one exception though. Traveling to another solar system via a wormhole opens a loading screen, however if you don't have a warp drive you can just accelerate to light speed and travel within 10 minutes to another solar system without a loading screen.

However it's developed by a single guy and pretty much dead nowadays with 5 active players but it wouldn't surprise me if star citizen can't reach the complexity of that game within the next few years despite having significantly more resources.

http://allthetropes.wikia.com/wiki/Shores_of_Hazeron
Yeah I guess in order to make this into a simulation, one would effectively add all the exponential time back, since it requires all that to "run" an amoeba on a classical computer. In that article they mention the organism communicating across its body, i.e. reacting to stimuli in all parts in a correlated fashion, that is the bit referring to a quantum system. Of course all physical systems are quantum systems (if I actually had a phone that one too yes, although the operating system does not make use of its nature). So there is no question whether we can simulate that algorithm, it cannot be possible without calculating all the parts, and that is no longer linear time.
Pay a Twitch.tv streamer who plays similar games to play your game?
this was never confirmed afaik, but it looks like they are doing just that
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Yikes.
They have literally one support person in Australia.
You can always find a solution to the TSP. All cities are connected with all cities, so you can travel the cities in the alphabetical order (or the order in list). It's (usually) a very bad solution that is much longer than the best solution.

There are good heuristic, specially if the distances are not chosen at random but are the distance between points in the plane. So it's posible in some cases to find quite good solutions.

The problem is NP-complete only is you ask for the best solution.
What kind of inane rationale is that? Western Union asks the sender to provide detailed address and contact information, and has technology available to send a text to the recipient letting them know that they can pick up their money at a WU location.

Since Tom Scott didn't sign up, how would Brave know to contact him? Some default webmaster@example.com email that may or may not even be registered?
A long running argument: does leaving your silencer on cause a repeatable velocity delta?

I suppose I could just break out the screens and find out, but it's nice to argue over beers.
Energy matters a lot more, since it is essential to military operation AND to production, and production is very heavily biased toward things other than large quantities of steel these days. Even a 1-2 year crash program of building new weapons in advance of a conflict is probably not limited by steel production.
Especially with the upcoming birthday honors, Sir Arnold.
Remember, if you use Stripe, WF does their processing

"The Payment Method Acquirer for Visa and Mastercard Transactions is Wells Fargo Bank, N.A, and you may not submit Visa and Mastercard Charges without first agreeing to the Wells Fargo Financial Services Terms. "

https://stripe.com/us/ssa
https://stripe.com/wells-fargo/legal
lol yeah, chutzpah, thinking more brave than shameless going forward with a blatantly illegal business model. Fraud is more than just frowned upon
Why was this parent comment downvoted? It provided useful resources.
Many of these have had audits, not just this Bitwarden audit. There are some disquieting things in that audit, for what it's worth.

I don't understand how this information is actionable. It would be worth knowing whether something has _ever_ been audited (again: most of the major password managers have been), but just knowing an audit has been done isn't sufficient to know whether it's secure.
Python also has lots of libraries. You can use Qt with JavaScript.
Australia has quite an enormous number per population.
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I esp. deleted the Facebook App over its egregious power usage. I don't care that much about being spied on, or getting better ads when I mentioned a certain keyword, but draining the battery was unexcusable. Mobile uptime on my phone with app 3 hrs, without back to 9 hrs.
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It's about better than 4G but not real 5G, so why not 4½G or something like that...
Nit pick, it's based off of the source code for the 3DO port rather than the original PC game.

It's also curious that TFA claims it never had a console port, and then later on mentions that the open source version is based off of the 3DO source.
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that's hopelessly optimistic. so dogs can send texts. so what? we still clamor for power and ignore the consequences of our actions at every level and in every facet of life. we are hopelessly animalistic and primal in our social and environmental dealings, which is not offset by technological advances which often amplify our shortcomings.
Not really. I've heard of those numbers being thrown around for Netflix.
They've done this kind of ploy forever.

They also require that the strength bars display the highest reception of any type of service it can receive, regardless if that is what it is using right now.

So it may display 4 bars and LTE but it's really 4 bars for GSM service, despite using LTE atm.

They do this because it works when it comes to reviews and perception.

There was a phone that people complained about reception on that was displaying the current service signal strength using a realistic algorithm.

Review sites, etc, complained about it compared to other phones despite it being better in actuality.

A "fix" was issued. That fix was to use the same signal bar algorithm as everyone else. The same review sites/etc were awash with how much better everyone's reception was and gladness the bug had been fixed.
Netlify is purely hosting static content and proxying requests to the API on DO which is doing all the dynamic stuff.
I think the market has decided, America is going green independent of federal regulations.

Oil independence means the US will never again need to ally with despots to support domestic needs.

IMO this is a huge step forward.
> It was believed that economic development would result in a growing middle class and in turn a demand for more political freedom, that ... authoritarianism would ultimately be unsustainable

For the record, this is pretty much what happened historically e.g. in South Korea, and in Taiwan (which is culturally part of China). However, it did take a higher degree of development than we see in the mainland today, for there to be a real 'demand' for these sorts of changes.
So a 5+ staff engineer making more than a surgeon. Fun times.
I love this as well. It supports OTP and there is an awesome Android app for it called Password Store, and a browser extension called Browserpass.
I shoot with it all the time and haven't noticed any variation because of it (though I admit I have not tested this directly). FWIW, I was able to earn my F-Class Mid-Range High Master classification while using it.