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Wow. Three errors in three lines.

1) Yes, a 20% improvement is impressive, especially in such a major component of such an important and long-lived piece of software.

2) What do you mean "certain inputs"? There is a fixed set of keywords. The set of inputs is known. It's a great application for perfect hashing. Or do you mean that some keys are going to be slower to search for than others? The best case of binary search is that you search for the key in the exact middle of the table, which requires to compare each character of the search key. (Searching for any other key will require cache misses, possibly, and additional scans of the key's characters.) By contrast, for perfect hashing, you scan the key once to compute the hash value and go directly to the correct slot. So the hash lookup for any key is pretty close to identical to the best case of the binary search.

3) When they add new keywords, they generate a different hash function. That's easy. The implementation does not have to be reconsidered.
There are frameworks like bootstrap for CSS, and templating engines like Jinja for HTML.
I sort of did the reverse for a song once, I used FFT to analyze a recording of a drawbar organ I wanted to mimic, then turned that into a ZynAddSubFX additive synthesis preset.
It's easy to find decent living on $60k in DAL, HOU, CHI, and MIA if you're willing to go out to the suburbs where, guess what, tons of people live.
Amazon is reportedly building a Netflix-like service for video games
I don’t want to live in a world where I can’t have my morning poached eggs:

I only buy from ethical egg producers though
> On the other hand, the people who forked Bitcoin into "Bitcoin Cash" would love for you to confuse them with Bitcoin.

He called "Ethereum Classic" but it's chosen name and not just ETC or something.
Getting out into nature from SF without a car is a little tricky. I still miss being able to take a train out into the countryside, walk in the hills finishing at a pub before taking a train home...
You can copy your PGN from ChessCom over to the Lichess analysis board
Has anyone done a deep dive regarding security on the Nest cameras? I’ve been holding off getting one for this exact fear that has come true for Ring users.
It also might have flared up and burned out. In fact, the statistics would put a much higher probability that it might have completely failed.
Related, an actual ode to a specific Boeing 727 nicknamed "Big Flo" that was used in a crash test in the Mexican desert:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loKIQEvmkHo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Boeing_727_crash_experime...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJZ1eHU_JZg
At the device level, variability remains a significant issue for all memristor types. Scaling feature sizes down is likely to make variability worse.
https://semiengineering.com/integrating-memristors-for-neuro...
Halo CE saved the Xbox and Halo 2 online pretty much solidified modern online FPS gaming. COD BLOPs and others are all built around the innovative party system, voice chat (I miss proximity voice...), etc.

The open world tease bungie did prior to acquisition (so, around the time Steve Jobs presented Halo at Macworld) was not all that impressive, from a multiplayer perspective.
> Then what are people taking about here?

It is instructive to read Marx to answer this question. How much time do working people need to work every day to earn enough to reproduce themselves? College education is now expected for many jobs (working people reproducing themselves means the next generation having access to similar jobs). How big of a fraction of median income does a median college degree cost? What about healthcare, rent/home prices? Food and clothing prices have declined a lot, but the other prices have risen to a much greater proportion of median income. How many people are now working two or more "part-time" jobs for a total of more than 40 hours a week?
> I'm sure there's a grain of truth in there, about lobbying - but was it really the decisive factor? Could Amazon lobby and get Ebay shut down? Did landline phones fade away because of lobbying from the cellular industry?

Streetcar companies were bought up by GM proxy companies and dismantled. Lobbying had nothing to do with it.
A network effect _is_ a kind of monopoly, and this monopoly power can be abused like any other. It’s harder to compete with Facebook than it would be in an idealized free market because there are only so many different platforms a user will be willing to use to keep in touch with their friends. This fact alone doesn’t automatically make Facebook evil, but does mean it deserves an appropriate level of scrutiny and regulatory oversight like companies with other kinds of monopoly power, even if the details differ.
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IoT Merging into Data-Driven Design
I'm not following your logic. Game companies copy other successful games all the time. Why would using their engine make it more vulnerable? They don't own your game nor gain access to your code.
> The one thing I like about using a VM is it runs full Ubuntu with an init system

You can get that functionality without full VM overhead by using:

- https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/systemd-nspawn

- https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-nsp...
This is a very common belief amongst successful people. In fact, you might recall a few years ago in US politics there was this big "I Did It" thing where successful business owners defiantly claimed they earned their successes without the help of anyone (or any publicly funded infrastructure).

I'm sure sociologists have a name for this, but to me it represents people who have a big hole to fill regarding self-worth. By believing they accomplished something because they are extra-uniquely special is a way to try to fill that hole.

If you take a formerly successful person and have them start over, their stature (titles, money, contacts) can often give them starting benefits that can indeed make their following ventures successful - or at least more likely successful than if they had started with little more than their skills.

There are old, wealthy people who have made a life out of repeating "successes". Some find their way into positions of great global power, and they unfortunately believe they know more than anyone else (and will state such without any shyness).
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I absolutely loved all the games in the Halo Series and had been a fan of the series right from Halo 1. While I have purchased both Destiny 1 and 2, they are no match for the brilliant story that Halo had. Destiny just feels like grinding for long periods of time where your weapons become shinier and the colors change in the worlds around you. It lacks the awe factor that Halo had. Facing the flood in Halo 1 is one of the most memorable moments that I have ever had in a video game.
And then you should also factor in the value of the work women did at home, and weren't paid for. Because they're now having to pay someone else to do that work, which reduces the effective income gain of them working.
At least even if I'm wrong, it will never harm anyone to learn more about their business!
Education is pretty easy. In 2005 the government changed the law such that even private education loans could not be dismissed in bankruptcy. Prior to that the law was such that only government educational loans could not be dismissed in bankruptcy. Government loans were limited and so the effect of the law was not so huge until 2005.

But in 2005 things went crazy. Now that private student loans could no longer be dismissed it meant private lenders could throw out loans like beads at Mardi Gras. It was basically 0 risk from their perspective since you're not only getting a much higher than average earning demographic, but you get them where you have a claim on them for the rest of their life if they don't pay you off. And if they do pay you off, well you win there too!

Now because students could get practically unlimited funds universities could start to charge arbitrary amounts, and so they did. The one and only reason university costs have started to decelerate is because in 2011 we reached 'peak university'. US college enrollment started dropping even when people could "afford" it, because the perceived value became worth less than the perceived cost. Here's some data [1] from the BLS on costs. Unfortunately it starts at 2006, but it at least shows the deceleration that's started to happen once we reached 'peak university'.

The moral of this is, as usual, good intentions often go astray particularly when messing with economic systems. The reason private loans became guaranteed was ostensibly to ensure that students of all backgrounds and economic situations could afford a college education in large part to help them find a great job and give a better life to their children. It sounds great on paper. In reality, it's created a system where college costs have become completely unreasonable and simultaneously, ironically, devalued college degrees to the point that there's a pretty decent chance the guy serving your coffee not only has one, but is buried in debt over it.

[1] - https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2016/college-tuition-and-fees-i...
In other words, stuff that was expensive for average people not so long ago is affordable for them now.

For consumer goods, absolutely.

For other things, it's gotten much worse. Healthcare and education obviously being one of the biggest concerns.

When I graduated high school in 1997, the local community college's tuition was $17 a credit hour ($26 in today's dollars).

That small community college in the middle of nowhere is now $128 a credit hour for in-district students.

That's almost a 5x increase. For the same local community college amongst corn fields two hours from anything.

There's so many examples of this (rent, for instance) that I almost wonder what the point of pointing out the low cost of consumer goods would be.

The price of a life well lived has little to do with the price of smartphones.
If someone's occupation is important to them, they'll naturally volunteer the information. So many people are underemployed these days or just trying to make ends meet in the "gig economy" that they'd rather talk about anything else in the world. Many people aren't proud of their occupation and it's awkward (bordering on rude) to press them on it.
Statistically, there are far more earnest people who are hard on their luck than there are people who are pathological grifters.
NetHack can be very fun, if you invest some time. I recommend to start with a GUI version.
Yeah, mine either. I will say that NXP did a fair job of screwing up Freescale's web resources, though.
Unsolicited random suggestion I would do if in your position: Find the most popular household/kitchen item being sold on amazon - and whitelable that.

And source the most popular kids items from Alibaba and use language to market it to whomever your locale is.
Had to look up this abbreviation:

c!oGL = cursed potion of gain level

https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Abbreviations
Fortnight copied pubg whining.
Those of us living in the frozen wasteland that is winter in the rest of Canada can definitely not relate!
> How about employment stability? Used to be more common that you'd work at the same job your whole career, be rewarded for your dedication and seniority.

Employment stability like that did not exist in the 19th century (in the US because of lack of industrialization - most people were engaged in agriculture; in industrial Britain factory workers would literally starve to death because of regular layoffs). It did not seem to exist in the US in 1900-1920 (at least that's the impression I got from reading _The Jungle_) or in the 1930s (Great Depression), and kind of disappeared with Reaganomics and the start of offshoring in the 1980s. So job stability seems like a brief state of things that lasted from the end of WWII to the end of the 1970s.
"Archaeologists are nervous of using the word “ritual”"

Because it's archaeological code for "We don't know what it's for" LOL.

Although I do wish they'd just say "We don't know", instead of using code words........... It's not required that we know everything.
See status.net

It would he great if software just supported the protocol, and we might have a single page to set the status, then broadcast to all related services.
> I believe it's important for us to constantly improve our military capability otherwise we will be left behind.

Looking at the amount you spend on the military, it would be ridiculous if you weren't 100x further ahead of any other nation already.

As an Australian, I'm personally happy with the US being ahead over the alternatives - but if I was a US citizen I would be seriously questioning how far ahead you need to be if it's really about "defense".
That one of the most useful advices. Decisions are ultimately yours.
The numbers indicate that the population has been growing increasingly unequal. Do you think the US has moved more towards free market capitalism or away from it? Does the result support your original argument?
While I agree that Halo had great music and graphics, and was overall a good game, the controls on the PC were actually somewhat sluggish compared to other FPS titles. Bungie was originally developing it for Macintosh but they sold out to Microsoft and Halo became the main launch title for the Xbox, so the PC version was sadly dumbed down and released later.
Except that 70 million probably contains a lot of people not in the workforce. So it's not "apples to apples".
Nintendo is the publisher, yes. They also publish games from other developers (e.g. Bayonetta 2, Xenoblade Chronicles).

Their other tentpole franchises are mostly developed in-house (Zelda, Splatoon, Mario Kart), via subsidiaries (Retro Studios) 2nd-party developers (GameFreak - Pokemon, Intelligent Systems - Fire Emblem), or 3rd parties (Bandai Namco & Sora - Super Smash Bros).
This could indeed be.

I thought your remark that there had been so many national emergencies was interesting. This turns out to be true — color me surprised.

Almost all of them seem to not involve spending money — they are prohibitions on money transfers. I assume this is where the emergency-for-wall would run into trouble, because it’s the Congress that appropriates money.
This is one of the big reasons I am trying to make Irrlicht work out even though it's dated. I am hoping shaders and some other stuff will help upgrade the appearance of my program even in Irrlicht.

I mean if they were serious about open engines they might fund a DirectX 12 upgrade for Irrlicht or something.
It was only natural that so many scams came out of the crypto space. It's an unregulated field that's attracting millions of US dollars. Plus, you could steal a bunch and get away with it.
InterPlanetary File System hosting services overcharge for duplicated objects
Even without considering other cities, we're starting to stretch the definition of "a select few"
I've been using gotty with great success for a while.
It’s immensely easier with hindsight. Everything’s laid out right in front of people. This is like a sports fan sitting at home saying, “How could they miss that? I could see it right here. Even I could do that.” The difficulty is deceiving when it’s all seeing and no doing.
I’m about 40 hours into Xplane 11, plus another 10 or 20 into reading and watching YouTube tutorials about GA, in particular navigation.

I now know how runways are named. Boy does that clear up a lot. Thanks :)
Seems like all the major game companies have cloned PUBG. Activision with the new CoD, EA/Dice with Battlefield's upcoming battle royale mode, Epic with Fortnite (no gore and targeting a younger demographic and long since expanded into something a good bit different), and now finally Valve, who presumably took 30% of PUBG's revenue instead of the ~5% Epic were paid, without even providing much of the code, have also cloned it with CS:Go's new Battle Royale.

You can't copyright a game mode, and PUBG took lots of aspects from others too.
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Then assume 50-60% are working and include the addition multi-million person metropoles I left out like BOS PHI PHX etc
You can go back to your game history and analyze any game...

I just got hooked on lichess after not playing Chess since I was a kid, it's a lot of fun, I also spend a fair bit of time in analysis...
Again, I think you're misreading something.

> You seem to want to abandon the idea of national sovereignty for a global sovereign with geographically-bounded subordinate jurisdictions

No I don't, nor did I say or imply that.

> “National sovereignty” is exactly the idea that every state has only the constraints imposed either by it's physical power and behavioral constraints it voluntarily (and revocable) imposes on itself.

Correct and I'm well aware of that, and I used it with exactly that meaning. So your response to that comment simply doesn't make sense. Watch...

> What you claim is demanded by “national sovereignty”

Which is the point I was making, I'm in support of national sovereignty; if you think I've implied otherwise, you've misread something.

> is instead radically opposed to it

You seem to have not understood what I claimed, but I assure you it's not opposed to national soverenty, here I'll add context to my original statement which I think you misread or understood.

>> (OP)What is the mechanism by which step 4 is accomplished

> There isn't one;

I'm telling OP step 4 doesn't exist yet; the US courts don't just accept and execute the judgement of foreign courts. Certainly not in cases where said actions are perfectly legal in the US.

> that's the point these GDPR supporters aren't comprehending, national sovereignty is a thing

I'm saying the people supporting the GDPR don't seem to understand it's a violation of national sovereignty for the EU to be able prosecute non-EU citizens for crimes that are only crimes in the EU when said citizens are not subjects of the EU. I'm subject to the laws of the US only, not the EU's laws. We have treaties that allow such prosecutions in cases where said behavior is a crime in both countries, but that doesn't apply in the case of the GDPR.

> the world cannot function if every country can impose its laws on every citizen in the world.

Saying nations are sovereign, that's how the world works. That's what a nation "is".
I've switched from Google to Duckduckgo for the majority of searches and found that using Duckduckgo's image search is too NSFW to be used at work.

One time I searched for a building called "Banana Alley" and was trying to find a photo of it to send to a friend. Google correctly returned a photo of the building, however Duckduckgo returned some "interesting things adults do with bananas".

I believe Google has a pre-processor to work out if you're searching for adult content first before deciding if to show adult content in the image results.

So if I search for random terms - Google will never show porn, unless I include sex-related terms in the search query. And only then will the NSFW filter be removed.
However the top 20% pay over 80% of the taxes.
Meanwhile, these guys are building a real 'skin printer'
https://www.renovacareinc.com/technology/
That’s for selected people, and $6k max. It won’t solve the problem, and it’s a bandaid that shouldn’t be necessary anyway. You don’t tell your employees to just hang on indefinitely and ask around for loans.
Validator Economics of Ethereum 2.0 – Part One
It is clear that there are specific variances (e.g. albedo) which have had survival benefit in specific environments, but given that humans can reshape their environments so extensively and that in specific a human is a combination of genes + social interaction + managed environment it's pretty hard to imagine gross performance differences among groups in any meaningful metric that might somehow be entirely genetic. I am saying that

It's not like this issue hasn't been extensively studied either. It has been extremely difficult to find meaningful behavioural deltas that can be ascribed to genetics -- the other factors typically swamp them, so even if there were a signal always seems to be well below the noise floor.

Of course, it's possible that such evidence exists and we just lack the science and process to find it. But from what we know today, and even more so the more we learn about genomics and personal genomics, it is even less likely than would have been believed 50 years ago. I've probably got another 50 years in my lifespan and I seriously doubt the situation will change in that period.
Maybe because it’s advertising, wrapped in an old article.
That is really cool. One of the featured sites is an NES RPG fan page complete with a hand-drawn interpretation of the world map. It feels funny to describe a web page as "quaint", but that's the only word I can think of.

https://distantskies.neocities.org/world/
Houston is a place where $60k is enough to buy a house.
That’s an application for a loan.
I worked for EA many years ago (on a game, not tech/tools) and while I wouldn't call it a shit show (I liked the people for the most part, for example), that experience is definitely the reason why I have never even considered working for another game company. Absolutely ridiculous hours, every year. Everyone else just seemed to act like it was normal, even people who had young kids. At the time it seemed crazy. With many years of hindsight, it still seems crazy.
“You might be so broke you need to work two jobs and still can’t afford healthcare, education, or rent. But look on the bright side: you pay less taxes than the guys who have all the money!”
Ah yeah, remember when Epic Games stole the concept of a popular multiplayer battle royale game? I'm talking, of course, about The Culling, a game about a year older than PUBG. And other than the 100 player sized games and parachute mechanic, it's frankly not that different from the rest of them.

Snark aside, PUBG built a little on the battle royale formula. Fortnite built a little on the battle royale formula. Both Bluehole and Epic Games were madly successful. Maybe PUBG would've done even better had Fortnite BR not done so well as a free to play experience. But it could've also done better if it wasn't a buggy mess for like an entire year after launch, one that costs $20 and never seems to be on sale.

There's a reason gameplay mechanics aren't copyrightable. This is how game design evolves. I'd hate to live in the world where ID software permanently owned the rights for making first person shooting games.

One could certainly argue there is some conflict of interest in that Epic Games has a conflict of interest because they licensed their engine to Bluehole. But Unreal Engine is a fairly popular game engine, and I think it's unreasonable for them to not be able to be inspired by games written on their game engine.
Yes that's true. But if you come at it looking at it as a sampled continuous signal and spectrum, you don't think of the FFT as fast polynomial multiplication. Neither viewpoint is wrong. Just different lenses for looking at different problems.
>I'm sure sociologists have a name for this, but to me it represents people who have a big hole to fill regarding self-worth.

Fundamental attribution bias? "Everything bad that happens to me is because of external factors beyond my control. Everything bad that happens to you is your fault." And the opposite: "I'm skilled, you're just lucky."

Nothing teaches this better than a game of Dota2.
And people literally call me crazy for not carrying a phone around 24/7.