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I accept that Wardell's description of events may have been misleading, though by "good faith" I meant Brad's initial attempts to work with Fred and Paul, including trying to hire them, offering to sell them the rights, and generally keeping them up to date. That's not something he had to do, but he did it nonetheless. None of that means anything legally of course, and Fred and Paul don't owe Brad anything for that. They made clear they still had their own plans for the franchise, though maybe not on what timescale they might work on it. Their announcement seems to have been a surprise to Stardock and it seems to me that's what set bad blood between them and Brad, and made Stardock feel forced to defend their own sizable investment.

I've read up a bit more on the topic by now, and especially an Ars Technica article linked to in another comment seems to give a good impression of where things have gone wrong. Stardock seems to either honestly believe or fraudulently claim to have bought more from Atari than Paul and Fred claim Atari still owned at that point.

I do think Brad Wardell is an honest fan, but he's also the CEO of a company that may have paid too much for too little, and invested too much into their game without owning all the rights they would have liked to. He did try to unite all the rights to the game in one place, whether it was his own hands or those of Fred and Paul, but was rebuffed in both cases. And while that may have been disappointing for him, Fred and Paul don't owe him anything in that regard.

I was also not aware yet that Stardock eventually did include SC2 characters in their game after having originally promised not to, but I believe that only seriously happened in a DLC that I assume was only created after relations broke down and Stardock decided to go all in on this.

At the end of the day, though, it seems Stardock assumed or pretended they owned more than they actually did, bet too much on it, hoping for Fred and Paul's endorsement which they never got. And now they've got a garbage fire that they need to turn into a success.
I wish I could upvote you more. Sadly, scale is the one thing most of us tend to completely forget when it comes to public transportation. We think of a peice of hardware, wire it up with an app and a saas platform and call it transport. It might be just that - transport, but it's nowhere near public transportation
Not ridiculously naive but probably a simplification. The devil's in the detail really. Very large debts can be stable especially if they are in the local currency and the government will help out if banks are a bit over leveraged such as in China so far. Things can go very wrong in other circumstances such as borrowing in a foreign currency followed the local currency crashing, eg Argentina, the Asian financial crisis.
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> Covering a skylight with solar is a net energy win, as would taking down the tree(s).

Solar isn't the only thing people are optimizing for -- skylights and trees are pleasant. The trees also aren't on our property, and even if you removed all the parts over our property our east-facing roof area would still be completely shaded.

> Trees are also going to block the front of your building even more than the southern facing roof.

It depends on the situation. Our roof is East-West with a big Gable dormer halfway along the West side. The East side is fully shaded by a tree, as is the back of the West side, but the front of the West side and the South facing side of the dormer get good sun (and now have solar). Our house faces the street, and there aren't trees in front of our house, so front-facing solar would work well if that was a thing people did.

> Getting shade from other buildings on your roof is also unusual for 2 story buildings.

I agree it's unusual in general, but houses here are close enough together that some roof shading is the most common situation.
I think mentally imagining while driving is probably dangerous for everyone, normal and aphantasiac. It's a question I otherwise can't answer, since I just see mostly blackness. Though I liked nnnn's answer about a second monitor, separate from his visual input stream.
I can relate to a lot you are saying.

I am aphantasic at least since I'm 14. I definitly wasn't (as) aphantasic around the age of 10-12. I used to daydream a lot back then, and when reading fiction I had an image in my mind how those characters looked. In a way I still daydream when I don't constantly distract myself with my phone, I just shifted to "daydreaming" in more abstract concepts instead of visual imagery. And while most of my reading has shifted to technical and other nonfiction work, I very much still enjoy fiction.

Though as I am typing this out I am questioning my motives for liking fiction. I like fiction mostly for exploration of moral and ethics, as well as philosophical questions. Basically I read fiction to further my understanding of the world, which is the same reason I read a lot of non-fiction.
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I could almost have written that myself.

What have stopped me from trying Fusion 360 for stuff I'm willing to lose is that, while the vast majority I do for fun I could stand to loose, the idea is that some things that I create I would rather not lose.

And then what? I go learn something entirely different just for that? If so I've invested tons of time in CAD software and own a 3d-printer but I'm unable to create something "real"? That's why I try to learn the alternative now, and get the time I would otherwise have invested in fusion 360 for free.

I'm betting on a sibling to this comment - that after the initial hurdle, when you get proficient enough the clunkyness of the alternatives are easily overcome. I'm convinced that is the case, but the real question is whether it is worth the time to get to that level. And that is a very hard question, especially for something as a hobby that is dependent on it being fun and/or rewarding.

I truly understand the fear of getting sidetracked. I battle with that every time I open FreeCAD or attempt something in OpenSCAD.

I get why any individual would chose Fusion 360. But I'm completely heartbroken that the community as a whole gives up so much without apparent thought, and see people advertise it "because it is free" on a thread about an open source alternative is sad.

And I'm not talking about freedom as in open source (but I really do value that too). If I could buy fusion 360 for $1000 (only the modelling part of it - without the cloud). I would have much fewer issues with it (even though I qualify for the free version now) - that cost is easy to reason about. And there would have been a recourse for when autodesk decide utilize its monopoly. But that's of course also the reason that they won't offer that.
One of the first arcade games I "beat" when I was a kid. The local bowling lanes had a cockpit style cabinet I would play on when the parents did their league days.

Once you blow up the Deathstar, you repeat the game, but the missiles and ships are faster and more numerous. Also, timing the final shot gets harder as well. Those sparkle missiles got super fast after awhile. I only once got to level '4'.

They don't mention in the article, but this was probably the first game to use sampled dialog from a motion picture... as far as I can tell. It was extremely clear and crisp for the day as well. I was amazing to hear Obi-wan say 'Use the force Luke!' when firing the final shot.
But when the desired format is STEP, then it suddenly is a meaningful distinction.
Living in the burbs has a lot of the advantages of both the opportunities of a major city and the space and convenience of a small town. I live in the burbs and it’s very conservative - pro gun, religious, pro-life, pro-business, but not “build a wall”, “anti-immigration”, etc - ie they are more Bush conservatives than southern Confederate Flag waving conservatives.

It’s slso very safe and I wouldn’t be worried about getting robbed at night. I would be more worried about the police being called on me if I’m jogging at night for “looking suspicious” as a minority.
> Please do not ask me for solutions to the exercises. Even if you are [an] instructor, I will say no.

That's kind of a bummer. I like to be able to check my answers when teaching myself things.

Am I somehow alone in that?
i am struggeling to understand what you are trying to say. could you please elaborate?

what is it that you don't believe about IBM?

and what is your point about large teams and new firms?

here are my thoughts:

if you didn't think smalltalk was useful in 1988 then you probably won't feel any different today.

i feel today that smalltalk is interesting. in 1988 it would have blown my mind. here is why: today most languages in use fall into two major groups: lower level languages like C and C++ where you do your own memory management, etc. and higher level languages that use some form of runtime and do a lot of work for you. when i was studying in the early 90s, i felt that the latter group of languages were not taken seriously. they were called scripting languages and were more or less only useful for toy programs. (i know that is wrong, but that is what i was led to believe). today these so called toy languages are growing and growing and they are slowly pushing C/C++ and related languages to the side. we get more and new variants of these languages every year.

but, and that is the kicker: hardly any of these languages add something that smalltalk (and lisp) didn't already have. we keep reinventing the syntax, but we are not actually changing how we program computers. exceptions are few and far between.

additionally, smalltalk (and lisp) achieve the same with a minimalist and thus much easier to learn syntax, so that since learning those two languages, almost all others feel like a step backwards.

this is what makes smalltalk relevant today. smalltalk and lisp act like a high-water-mark, as a reminder that most of the languages we are using today don't float our boat any higher than it did 50 years ago.
as someone who is just starting to look into free/open sourc CAD tools, what about FreeCAD makes it unusable? I've just done a few of their tutorial/walk throughs recently and can't really tell what was unusable vs. me being new to the entire CAD modelling process.
There was a great list on BoingBoing recently of works entering the public domain this year:

https://boingboing.net/2018/12/31/thanks-justin.html

Also a rather sadder list following it of works that won't be (yet) because of the copyright extension.
This is where I diverge from most HN users, I do want companies to use my data to suggest products to me, better relevant product suggestions I love it, I would like it if some day I could turn on the computer and there was an ad for a product I did not know about and I definitely wanted. That would be great.

The thing I don't want is them using my data against me, which is about all they seem to want to do. For example figuring out that I will pay more than other people for that product is using it against me. Figuring out that I have a higher likelihood of a medical condition because of my searches and then reporting that information to insurers would be using it against me.

So yes, use the data to benefit me, and don't use the data to harm me.
Seattle is okay for US standards, but still a disaster and embarrassment compared to other first world cities. And everything that can be done to make biking or walking more awful is being done.

Many cross-walks have a very short walk timer, so even able-bodied people like myself struggle to cross in time. Police don't ticket drivers blocking intersections and crossings [0], so almost every crossing is blocked in the morning and afternoon. Divers regularly run red lights. I'm sure it will take a few people to die first, as right now the police's mandate seems to be to get the rich people in their fancy vehicles home quicker than any kind of safety. Not to mention the construction that means you're going to have to switch street sides a few times during every journey.

Buses are okay for north-south trips, but non-trivial trips can be as slow as walking, because a lot of routes only intersect downtown. The only use for light rail I've found is getting to SeaTac, but even then you need to live on the right side of the city. The streetcar is pathetic, and has never helped me get to work to to a friends house due to the route.

I guess with a programmer's salary, it's okay since just getting an Uber and Lyft is no big deal, but for everybody else, it sucks. And sometimes, I feel like the only reason a token effort is being done about public transport is so people can feel smug and claim Seattle is progressive, left-leaning. Meanwhile, everybody still drives everywhere.

[0] https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/vid...
> Maybe it's up to upper-management and C-levels to iron this out.

Always.
A war criminal with a private army at his disposal and links to the highest levels of the US Government is attempting to raise $500 million? What could go wrong!
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The three viable solutions are:

- sell it as a "kit" or "component", something that doesn't stand on its own; these don't need approval

- stick the CE mark on there and rely on nobody checking it. This does leave you open to future legal action, but it's quite rare.

- stay out of the market entirely and abandon the field to Chinese postal vendors who will never be held accountable

(same goes for WEEE registration in the EU)
At this point he's probably a trademark. Everything by Disney uses Mickey Mouse badges or iconography to identify itself as Disney.
As a non-seasoned complete outsider, I thought this part of the article was somehow being dryly facetious or sarcastic or something.
Kinda good to have somebody to provide context, actually.
You're so cool and smart wow
> The point is that in this area people are terrible at making financial choices, and only ever think in the short term.

It is hard for me to fully internalize this point when I have a counterexample readily available, albeit one that will do nothing to convince you. I consider myself capable of making sound financial decisions for myself and would never raid my own pension account, unless faced with immediate existential danger (in which case "raiding" it would be a rational decision).

I disagree that the solution to that is to centralize funds in order to let a centralized body inefficiently misallocate (or sometimes outright steal) them and would appreciate the freedom to do this myself. I think the state has too much power and this is detrimental in the long run, as it is detrimental when any single entity has too much power.

> There absolutely is a choice - you can politically campaign for the right to opt out, or you can go and live in a country that doesn't have the protections you don't want.

> What you don't get to do is live in a society with such protections and social measures and then not play by its rules.

I can certainly campaign politically, but that also includes respectfully disagreeing with your conclusion above. This does not make your position right and mine automatically wrong (nor vice versa).

The rest of the quoted part of your post sounds like another non-choice (in that the it is highly impractical), followed by a moral judgement.
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So, haskell version may be little shorter

main = interact $ unlines. map (show.calc) .lines

calc :: String -> [Float]
calc = foldl f [] . words
where
f (x:y:zs) "+" = (y + x):zs
f (x:y:zs) "-" = (y - x):zs
f (x:y:zs) "*" = (y * x):zs
f (x:y:zs) "/" = (y / x):zs
f xs y = read y : xs
Longitudinal studies in this area (developmental effects on intelligence) are vanishingly rare. Those that do exist are either extremely limited, ethically suspect, or useless (confounded).

The difficulty in answering "why is person/are people the way they are?" in a rigorous, falsifiable way has brought about the existence of entire disciplines dedicated to qualitative analysis as a means of getting closer to answers without requiring often-impossible rigor.

I think "falsifiable" might be too high a bar for answering these kinds of questions. That doesn't mean we should give up, or presume the null hypothesis: getting to "probable/improbable" in a useful proportion of cases is likely the best we can do.
There was a follow-up post[1] where the author switched to fountain codes (a type of erasure coding that is perfect for this use-case) and apparently the speed is now closer to 25kbps. Pretty neat.

[1]: https://divan.github.io/posts/fountaincodes/
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Hmm. No working examples, "maintenance free" (in reality this translates to "maintenance impossible"), and uses liquid sodium as a coolant.
In the same way that windows is not bug-free, nuclear plants are not safe, at all. And they will never be.

Without considering accidents, for only 50 years of comfort, we have shamefully produced deadly waste, that future generations will have to keep confined at all costs for thousands and thousands and thousands of years.

Unlike CO2, uranium pollutes in the very long term, destroying all bacteria in the environment. It is high time to get up-to-date with renewable sources of energy.
As the other person said you are the one bringing up race, not me.

My comment brought up a data set that could be used to evaluate the claim of the article that iq tests are meaningless for what they claim to measure. This data contradicts this claim.

The inclination of social justice believers to treat all people that look the same as a unit is too simplistic, because there is more variance within such groups than between them. It also fits the definition of racism unlike my comment, and saying someone is defined by their skin color is way beyond dog whistle territory.

If you have a rationale supporting your claim use that, because otherwise we can’t engage in productive discourse. I find it unethical when claims of racism like what you use here is used as a bludgeon tool to force others to accept actions or beliefs that are dogma in social justice while evidence shows it hurts those it claims this helps. Especially when those groups are unchosen, and applied by largely upper middle class and above white social justice activists for their political utility.
The logo on the right is the arabic letters of the word Algorithmi (al-Khwarizmi) the persian muslim scholar after him algorithms and logarithms were named
Bluetooth pairing isn't really as easy as this would be in theory (especially if we're talking about a situation where you want to send a message through a crowd of people -- so congestion will be pretty bad).
If that's a literally accurate description, then I am indeed aphantasic. Because I don't actually "see" anything. I can describe it as if I were seeing it. I know what d orbitals look like, and benzene rings, and rotating hypercubes and hyperspheres. But there's no experience of a "second monitor, separate from his visual input stream".

It does remind me of blindsight. That is, people who complain of blindess, but obviously do react to visual input.
...after whom...
I think the point is that west coast cities are willing to invest in their systems, not just live off of what past generations built. Here in NYC we've been living off the investments of past generations for a long time, not even maintaining it adequately. It's shameful. I don't know what happened to the can-do attitude that New Yorkers were once famous for.
Got an related idea from the IQ thread: is there a correlation between aphantasism and IQ? Most IQ tests require you to visually imagine the sequences that lead to the correct answer.
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The abstract of the paper contains the interesting insight "Aphantasic participants' self-rated visual object imagery was significantly below average, however their spatial imagery scores were above average".

From wikipedia "spatial imagery consists of mentally representing spatial relations between the parts or locations of the objects or movements.".

Analysing whether a written description of fight choreography would work in actual 3-dimensional space is very much spatial imagery, a strenght of aphantastic people.

I can also reason about the three-dimensional shape of a banana and create a technical drawing of one, rotate objects in my mind, fold objects in my mind etc. But all this sounds like spatial imagery, and does not involve me actually having a mental image.
HBO is not funded by ads. We are talking about removing ads with a micropayment of equivalent magnitude.

The energy spent feeling smart would be better directed at your reading comprehension.
There’s lots of things people didn’t care about in the past but care about now.
So much green.
If you're not overconsuming it, then it will cost you only a tiny amount overall?
> The eurozone is about to go through the most significant change in decades with some sort of departure of the UK from the EU (Brexit). It remains unclear exactly how this will happen, which in and of itself is creating a lot of uncertainty on the Continent. I don’t expect most businesses in Europe to do anything but play defense in 2019.

Of all the things said in the post this stands out to me as the only overly pessimistic point.
First of all: The UK always had a very special relationship to and within EU. Now this relationship is going to be different - but not earth-shakingly different.

Yes, there is a lot of uncertainty right now, and I agree with Fred Wilson here that we can expect a messy Brexit, but I don't expect this state of affairs to drag on through the whole of 2019. At some point we will have clarity and this will hopefully be beneficial for the economy.

The most important point though is that a messy Brexit is expected on both sides of the Channel preparations for it are already proceeding.
I have an old external HDD with a switch on the back labelled "NTFS / Fat32". Flipping the switch will format the drive.

...as one would expect.
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He seems to be a genuine fan and gamer with some serious personality issues.

I know him from way back on Usenet (probably comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic or something like that) when he was working on Galactic Civilizations, and he was rather insistent that games should be DRM-free, which I really appreciated. He has some other issues on which I strongly agreed with him.

But as a CEO, he seems to have trouble with the idea that a) not everybody likes him or what he does, and b) other people have rights too, and they may conflict with what he might prefer to be true.

And once he gets on the wrong side of an issue, he tends to double down and make it a bigger problem than it needs to be. I believe there was an issue with sexual harassment that he reacted really badly to, and now this. And probably quite a bit more in between.
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Hah, cool! This reminds me of an old 4chan thread where people were trying to get free file storage on YouTube by uploading video's of QR code sequences with files encoded into them. Much less useful than Txqr, but fun nonetheless.
could be a monetization idea/incentive to purchase, purchase the book get unique key, use key to check in to site to see results.
> "Most IQ tests require you to visually imagine the sequences that lead to the correct answer."

I think you assume it is required to do it visually only because you do it that way. Personally I've had no trouble with that kind of IQ test without using visualization.
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