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> This guy helped invent the FPS genre

I find it curious, but perhaps inevitable, that someone like John Carmack requires this introduction. If you played videogames in the 90s / early 00s or were at all interested in 3D programming, it was impossible not to have heard of him. He was (is?) probably one of the cleverest programmers of his time.

This article of his gets reposted time and time again to HN, which makes sense because it's very interesting. This is the first time I've noticed people not knowing who the author was.

I wonder if a few decades from now, tech-minded people will wonder who Linus Torvalds, Brian Kernighan or Dennis Ritchie were. I suppose they will!
If im not mistaken Gabe worked for Microsoft before he found Valve.
My theory: Employee wears a large wool cover and sits on a synthetic materiel office chair(PVC?). As employee stands up, they pick up a fairly heavy static charge. As employee walks by, the motion of the static charge creates a moving magnetic field which then induces an electric charge in the monitor's electronics, causing the blackout.

Possible solution: replace wool wrap on employee 2 with aluminum foil.

Source on possible material combinations:
https://www.school-for-champions.com/science/static_material...
The idea of "bideniability" is defined early in the paper as meaning that there is no way for an adversary to distinguish between real and fake (key, randomness, message) sets, even when they receive one of those from both the sender and the receiver. So, by that definition, no plaintext can be proven to be fake in a bideniable system. It doesn't matter whether sender and receiver both lie, or whether only one of them does.

I haven't read far enough to be able to answer the first part of your question (does faking require access to the real ciphertext) but based on the symmetry of the definition of bideniability, that would be surprising.
I posted this to reddit but I'm more likely to get a reasonable discussion on here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-V_Z3bD_PA

Dave covers "static" turning off a monitor in this video. Could it be this?
You have no sense of humor.
Zotero has improved a lot, though sadly it still has a way to go on the user experience of Mendeley. My main gripes are

- The way that it still doesn't play nice with cloud services (syncing the directory and its just a matter of time until you get database corruption. It takes a lot of wonky setting up to get it to kind of work, which just shouldn't be the case

- The lack of developers and thus slow pace of improvement. I'm a researcher not a programmer - which I think describes most people using it. That means unfortunately we are reliant on one or two volunteers to improve the product. The pace of improvement is slow, and theres also no way to meaningfully advance it - be that through offering bounties for someone to implement certain features, just inputing lists of bugs/feature requests (the list is already v long, and doesn't move much), or anything else.

It's a really good bit of software (and I don't want to sound ungrateful), I just know it still has a lot of quirks. This means it can't always do what you want, and it isn't an easy obvious choice for new researchers - Mendeley is certainly more familiar and easier to use.
It's the only sensible choice for a numerical programming language
Floating around this week is this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Nh_vxpycEA wherein a person sits in a sealed off cube full of plants and carbon dioxide monitors, with an EMT on the other side for safety - the person claims that 300 ppm of outside air was fresh, and now 400 ppm is fresh - but that indoors, it can easily climb to over 1000ppm and that there might be a significant cognitive decline associated with it.

I was looking for a nice wall receptacle for a hallways that measures carbon dioxide inside my house because I will go for weeks at a time without getting a proper air-out. In northern new england, honestly, it could be months for all I know. Only a few random door openings and the leakiness of the house are my exchange.

I don't know how accurate their claim is, and it's certainly a universal solvent to consider stale air is the reason a person is behaving a way. Measuring the levels and being aware of it seems worth 60 bucks, if it's actually a factor in our rationality.
"That’s especially true in the Middle East, Europe, and Africa, where BitTorrent now accounts for 32% of all upstream network traffic."
Here's the thing — you can't legally watch HBO Now here. You simply can't access certain content through streaming. That's also one of the main drivers.
The money goes to google, not the author of the blog post
Improving your Cheat Template
The solution I've been experimenting with is streaming rotation; rather than subscribing to a dozen streaming services and watching a few hours of each each month, this couple of months will be Hulu, this couple of months will be Sling (sports, mostly, though lately they seem to be getting locked out of more and more stuff too), this month will be this other service, and so on.

If the content is going to stay available, why have subscriptions to all of them all the time?
I personally don't like the fact that you have structs but no classes and no instance methods, but I know this is personal and don't want to start a religious war this morning
Nobody here is nearly as combative as you. Look up projection.

You'd like your choices to be respected, but you are incapable of offering civility. Is that also a choice we should respect, or is it beyond your control?
Not enough people have ad blockers yet to change the industry I guess?

The ability to track and monitor internet users is very powerful and lucrative. They won't give it up so easily.
Safari/iOS's content blocking has a 50k limit, not a 30k limit. I don't own anything that can run Safari. Is there a credible comparison of how well it works versus Ublock Origin on Chrome? I'm skeptical that a static list would match up to the ability to dynamically make decisions. If I were in the ad business, I'd immediately make use of ads from the same root domain as the content, or subdomains mixed in with lots of random/changing subdomains for content like images, etc. Voila, static ad blockers thwarted.

Edit: I assume "right click -> hide and don't ever load again" becomes "right click -> load but hide" ? Also, related: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/337094/safari-12-c...
Travis CI acquired by Idera
I've seen a lot of people suggest decaf. I go through periods where I drink a lot of coffee and when I drink none at all for months, and the only time I've ever felt withdrawal or headaches is weirdly when I've switched to decaf.

Either way, I think it'll be difficult for us to predict how you'll react to cutting out coffee. While there is a lot of solid advice here, I think the best thing you could possibly do is pre-plan the stuff you need to get done in the next few weeks to ensure that any drop in productivity is covered. Either get ahead of it while you're on the coffee, or give yourself an opportunity to rest while you're weening yourself off and catch up later.

The last thing you'll want to do is to do everything "right", and still feel like you're suffering.
I'm looking forward to getting 3d acceleration in ChromeOS this year so I can try stuff like this (albeit without audio for now).
Congrats! JuliaCon 2019 registration also just opened (22 July, Baltimore)

https://juliacon.org/2019/
Does anyone know of any way of handling AirPlay from Firefox? All I see is a ticket opened 4 years ago with little to no activity: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1171706
Why are people still using file sharing and torrents?

Get a Usenet subscription, pay a yearly fee to a decent indexer, setup NZBGet, setup TV automation with Sonarr, and Radarr for movie automation if needed. Lots of Usenet providers include VPN, AT&T doesn’t seem to care FYI.

Setup Plex for a media sever, get plex pass, buy a USB TV tuner or HD Homerun, and a digital antenna. Connect the HD homerun to plex for TV broadcast automation.

Now you need to buy more hardrives because you ran out of space.

Edit: Great my comment is almost as bad as the Dropbox vs Rsync one.
Are we upset that big tech is lobbying, or are we upset about lobbying in general?

I can’t think of any big US corporation that doesn’t spend money lobbying.
AlphaD3M: Order of Magnitude Improvement in Automatic Machine Learning [pdf]
Multiple return has two distinct use cases - to return multiple actual values, or to return an error status along with an actual value. Many languages can handle both cases by making it easy to create and return a list/tuple/whatever, and that satisfies both cases well enough for me. Others provide Optional or Error types which satisfy only the second case but do so in an even more concise way (no packing and unpacking of those lists/tuples/whatever). Zig is in that category, with some additional twists like errdefer and how null is handled. I'm not 100% sure I'd make the choices they did, but I think those sections of the Zig documentation are well worth reading to spur more thoughts about alternatives to C-style single return or exceptions.

https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Errors
https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Optionals
Video: Software Firm Built Book Lending Based on Face Recognition
The only difference is that Mendeley has a built-in PDF viewer with annotation. Of course since you can no longer share these annotations, nor export the pdf, that's all pointless.

Mendeley opens PDFs externally, but many PDF readers can create and save annotations.
>I have a Netflix and Amazon Prime sub I find myself downloading the shows I pay for because it’s eaiser to have them in Plex than searching for them on Netflix/Prime...

???

If it's easier just to have them in Plex, why would Plex need to search Netflix?

Serious question. I'm not a Plex user, but the first statement made me think about switching for a moment. Then you made the second statement about Plex needing an API to search Netflix.

So I'm genuinely confused why that would be?
I don't really agree with this take. The point is that TypeScript allows you to type standard JavaScript idioms. The whole "type equals string" thing is a standard JavaScript idiom. Are discriminated unions better? Yes. But we are where we are and JavaScript is complicated.
Switch being mobile is probably why I haven't bought it; we have WiiU, Wii, Gamecube, N64, but my kids if allowed would eschew being sociable in favour of playing Switch everywhere.

We could get it and not let them take it anywhere, but we moved to Steam on Linux pretty much.
In this case it's clear google doesn't give a damn about the bathwater, it just wants that baby dead. Anybody claiming that google is doing this to protect privacy is either uninformed or deluded.
Like I said: you get what you give.
People struggle to be logical about arguments that contradict their politics
This year I'm going to release a SaaS. I've already create many website and saas, but the last one was 5 years ago, and all of them have mitigate results.
Actually I'm working on it since August 2018, reading many many article and youtube videos on how to launch a SaaS product. So maybe this project will be ok.

I'm working on a service to identify underperforming releases of applications (by monitoring their speed and behaviors). It's an issue that is encountered in my current job when IT teams deliver many releases every day. I guess those reports will sound bad for some IT guys so I've call it PepperReport(.io)
What's the difference between Andela and any other outsourcing company?
I don't know how sensitive these things are but in theory, they can be used to feel the amount of current going through a wire, something, I guess, could be useful to electricians.
Untold Story of Operation Cobra
Sure thing: https://eventail.app

What in particular do you dislike in such a model? I get that a pestering to share is bad and dislike it myself, but this idea is far from it.
Is Bitcoin diving again? I can never keep track.
It would only be misleading if they didn't provide the bridge. They do, however, with links to multiple platforms right below the link to the extension.
This is awesome. Chromecast is the main reason i still have chrome installed. I have to open up chrome, just for casting.
At work, all of our conference rooms have Chromecasts in them, because it's the only cross platform (including linux), cable free solution. And is often even easier to use then hdmi because you don't have to mess with display settings.
I would often open chrome, share the entire desktop, then go back to Firefox. This will be nice for my workflow.
30 years ago I was working at a place that just had started with computers. One of the older employees always had computer problems and had been told to spray the floor with softener by th IT staff tired of repairing the fried motherboard.

A few years later another company kept a stack of keyboards next to a lady that kept killing hers. They start working again after a while thanks to keyboards having a nice fuse. Just rotate them until the keyboard port fried one day. She was also wearing a wool sweater, big old stone building in northern Sweden...
My two cents on the "enough time to work out" topic: I work eight hours a day on grunt level marketing stuff, in an open office.

I used to do power lifting, but between this job, online programming classes, and trying to maintain a relationship with my wife, this dropped off.

Something that helped me immensely was just bringing a couple 25-pound dumbbells to work, leaving them by a pile of junk behind the building, and ducking out for a "smoke break" every 2 hours or so, during which I spend 5 intense minutes systematically annihilating every muscle group I can. The "best" workout is the one you can consistently do.

Pros: Takes maybe 20 minutes a day and I'm doing it on company time, but I don't feel bad about it because I don't smoke and it clears my mind to focus on more PPC drudgery.

Cons: None. Bring dumbbells to work tomorrow and hide them behind your junk pile.
23 NYU starts HR program it says will produce 'behaviorally informed quants'
I too use Steven Black's hosts file. I can tell when I forget to implement it by the sound of my cpu fan. That said I'm fighting with one big limitation, and that's the fact that I do understand that some sites are ad supported and I'd like to support those sites. I wish there was a way with the hosts method to enable ads for just those sites without also enabling all the tracking that goes with it.
Thanks for the note about coverage of local democracy correlating with corruption.

Perhaps you listened to the same Hidden Brain episode?

Starving The Watchdog: Who Foots The Bill When Newspapers Disappear?

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/09/675092808/starving-the-watchd...
Multi-methods are much more powerfull than instance methods, but yeah lets agree to disagree. :)
The beauty of AOE2 was the perfectly calibrated units and civilizations such that nothing is truly superior or inferior. It depends on the player's skill and strategy what they want to prioritize. I have spent many weekends in the 2010s playing that game with 7 other friends. Nothing comes close for me to the fun I had playing that.
Honestly? Laziness. The only time I will actually totrrent something is if I bought the DVD/Blu-Ray and I want to rip it for use with Plex. I find what I need by torrents, and I already have a VPN I use.
>Why are people still using file sharing and torrents?

>Get...pay...setup...setup...and...setup...get...buy...and...connect...buy...

That's why. Torrents are easier for people to figure out.
Encryption efforts in Colorado challenge crime reporters, transparency
I'm doing the same. I cancel the same day I subscribe so I can watch for the month without a perpetual bill.
The original article was a simple attack piece on the concept of nature and should be deleted if WP cant protect a reasonable treatment of the subject. The "full story" could take as long as you've got to dig through, but the articles speak for themselves.
Europe has HBO Go and it cost 2.99 ( in Romania at least ) euros per month. I cancelled my Netflix has I have HBO GO included in my internet package and use mostly Usenet or Torrents and my Raspberry Pi / PS4 for all my media consumption.
Just Google "women that did not get the nobel prize".

Marie Curie only got her first Novel Prize because Pierre Curie refused to accept it unless it was shared with his wife.
> William Blake said it well with, "if only the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise."

Thanks for the quote ;-)
Disclaimer: I am not a professional photographer nor formally studied photography, and have never used a DSLR, but I have been using mirrorless cameras (Sony NEX series) since 2011.

While there are generally less "native" camera lenses for mirrorless systems, one less well known/publicized advantage of using them is that you can use film camera lenses. While you do not get autofocus and there might be vignetting at the corners (which I personally like anyway), you can get a good quality lens for a good price by doing this. It also can be cool if you are trying to recreate a "vintage" look, or just going for something weird or unusual. All that is required is a cheap adapter that you costs around $5 on ebay. Two of my personal favorite lenses to use are the Jupiter 9 (the whole Jupiter series are Soviet copies of Carl Zeiss lenses) that I got for $175, and the SLR magic 3517E which I got for $37. This video has a general overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQLi4g-wyDA
>That’s especially true in the Middle East, Europe, and Africa, where BitTorrent now accounts for 32% of all upstream network traffic. One major reason for BitTorrent’s rising popularity? Annoying exclusivity streaming deals.

In my country you can't even watch Netflix exclusives on Netflix because they already sold the rights to local TVs. So you sign up for Netflix and it's a wasteland of 2nd tier movies and old series. Yeah Friends is cool but who cares about it in 2019.

Segmentation is the biggest problem. But that's true for every digital store not just Netflix. I wish these stores were one unfied thing not US Netlix, German Netflix, UK Netflix etc.

I know it comes down to copyright laws and such but the difference between the countries is soooo big. Feels like you are signing up for a 3rd tier service for the same amount of money
Can you explain more about that 5Gbps per instance to s3? Is that documented anywhere? How many prefixes were you using?
0-based indexing is closer to the memory representation, but 1-based indexing is closer to how we actually think about arrays. We say the first element, not the zeroth element. Nothing wrong with 1-based indexing except old habits die hard.
Interestingly, this is the opposite of my experience. I browse solely on Firefox and don't encounter sites which only work on Chrome at all (at least as far as I can remember right now). I wonder what's different between our browsing habits that's causing this.
> And how is the build env recorded for timestamps and env variables? Is all of this standardized?

We do record the build env now in esy's own format, you run:

esy build-plan PKG

to see the build plan (a-la Nix derivation) which is a JSON with build commands and environment.

As regarding timestamps we don't set SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH yet but we definitely plan to address that.
I see. I suppose this is also a problem in small companies in which the reviews could be easily identified as well.
The Karl Marx quote about the Iliad and the printing press is interesting. I’m re-reading the Iliad at the moment, and I’ve thought about how different it must be in the original Greek, or recited orally. It’s still an incredible work, printed or not.

I guess it’s a bit like Marx wondering if “The Godfather” can exist in a world of 15 second vertical videos.

But it’s also an old question.

Socrates: Writing will destroy society.

Plato: [scribbles]

Socrates: Plato, what are you doing?
Unknown to most, Kubernetes was originally written in Java
Very informative post, thanks. I’d love to hear your impression of Citationsy (closer to CiteThisForMe or RefMe in functionality than Zotero it EndNote).
Your starting point was that wealth is not a zero sum game. I replied that it is. If you do some arithmetic and look at growth rates you will see quickly that the economy never has grown beyond certain rates. That means if someone or a whole industry or population group accumulated wealth at a higher rate then the money had to come from someone else. It wasn't "created" out of thin air.

You really should work on your debating style. Phrases like "this is not up for debate" are just bullying to stop a debate you don't want to have. If you are the same at work I feel for the people who have to put up with this.
Bing pretty much returns the same as the above
that's a really cool idea. I just killed my netflix subscription last month because I felt there wasn't enough good content for my taste and that I've already seen it all ...
You have forgotten Algol, PL/I, Pascal, Oberon, Oberon-2, Active Oberon, Component Pascal, Mesa, Mesa/Cedar, Modula-2+, Modula-3, Eiffel, Basic,...

Although in Wirth inspired languages, actually the indexes are flexible, but by convention 1 gets used.
I setup a proxy and looked at Netflix through European eyes and then canceled my subscription in the US. What a bunch of frauds these people are.
CoinZest Trying to Recover $5.3M Worth of Cryptocurrency in Accidental Airdrop
Just read about it on /r/programming - Sounds interesting.
They want to watch videos Netflix and other services from Plex. Those services don't have useful APIs, so Plex can't integrate them into their search/UI. So parent instead downloads the videos from torrents etc., so they are normal video files they can feed into Plex.
Valid points, but the author recommends 500px over instagram. While I'm not interested in fear-mongering, 500px is now owned by a Chinese company. That may give pause to some people looking for a switch.
Daniel Glazman: WebExtensions v3 considered harmful
> I have absolutely no idea how to create an exercise plan for myself

Don't over complicate things. Do 5 sets of 5 reps of:
* Bench Press (barbell)
* Front Squat (barbell)
* Dead Lift (barbell)
* Pull Ups (weight hangs off a chain linked through a squat belt)

Have 1.5 to 2 minutes of recovery between each set. Do this 2 to 3 times a week with as much weight as you can lift.

How to progress: Write down exactly what you lift in a notebook and attempt to do exactly what you lifted for the previous workout with the only change being an increase of 1 to 5 lbs on one of the sets.

Cost: A monthly gym membership or about 50 cents a pound for second hand weights. About $25 for a second hand barbell. $25 for a second hand bench w/rack. So starting out pickup 300lbs of weight which is about $150 plus the cost of the barbell, bench w/rack, and squat belt should set you back about ~$200 (or the cost of a gym membership for 4 months.).
One selling point seems to be speed: https://mesonbuild.com/Performance-comparison.html
We had a chair that would crash the system - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87jnCABBaeY
Has it been mathematically proven that antivirus can't detect all viruses?
Plex is (mostly) for pirated content. If you could search on Plex with a Netflix API, you would be watching legal content.
I wish that Python feels a bit of Julia's heat, as that might be the only way for more PyPy love.
Only if you read your email in the browser.
A listing of all of these packages side by side, along with information on how it is built that includes the very scripts used to do so (including constructing that listing), is one of the value-added bonuses in the GOPHER version of the repository:

* gopher://jdebp.info:70/1/Repository/debian/dists/stable/

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14837740
Not all Europe, only in: Magyarország
Česko
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