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You'll need to soften up the hammers as well.

If you break down the sound of a piano (mentally) the start of the note is sharp and sudden, followed by a hum.

The extra strings are never actually perfectly in tune, which is partly why a piano sounds "bright" If it were a person it'd sound a bit nasally. (the more out of tune the strings the more honky tonk and wobbly it sounds)

rough guide: a concert piano sounds like a nasal person making an "EEEEGGHHHHHHHH" noise, but with a smile. (well a Steinway does)

A softened piano, or a Una Corda sounds more like a hhMMMMMmmmmmm. Because it only has one string, and has a less violent hammer action, the sounds is more sinusoidal, so sounds smoother.

edit the soundboard also significantly affects the tone, but I can't remember how.
I think you were composing your edit as I was composing my reply. I'm with you completely on companies that merge being a form of collusion in many cases. I believe that the US government needs to act on anti-trust way more than it does. Not a fan of wage controls because to me that's an indirect approach. But yea, collusion is really damaging - at whatever level.
Yeah right but the obesity increase is mostly correlated all around the world and here with the increased consumption of "junk food", i.e. highly processed and very high in sugar, not with olive oil consumption, so...
Isn't the difficulty of the task the point? If it was easy it wouldn't be interesting.
"Letting go of myths seems like an inherent good, but can we survive it?"

We never let go of myths, we just create new ones. And yes, I would say the breakdown of social cohesion is an inevitable consequence when you have competing, incompatible myths causing different groups to see and understand the world differently.
The right to repair has nothing at all to do with the how to build "their amazing products".
Primarily for soft (or hard) real time operations. Even kernel modules running in a RT-Linux have a difficult time responding consistently to an IRQ at sub-10 uS latency. Of course, the larger SoC capable of running Linux can have hardware latencies due to shared data buses, etc. but still having a RTOS layer “underneath” Linux would be a good way to ensure more consistent responses.
>> you can always...... just not buy

>Even better: you can buy something that is fixable. That way you get the enjoyment of having it, and can still fix it when it breaks.

GP is right there. It's the first tenant of the 3-R's: Reduce. Or I guess one could consider repair as Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling, depending how you look at it.
I don't understand what you are saying.

Say you sell lamps. If you spend $5000 next month on digital ads and you are able to attribute new sales of $6000 to that ad campaign, then why do you care what the impression numbers were? All that matters is that sales went up by a big enough amount.

The company selling ads can't tell you how effective the ads were. Only you know that.
Considering we can't seem to pay for our existing road infrastructure, I don't think this will happen in the next 20 years.
Without taking anything away from the author, calling MOV a "single instruction" stretches things quite a bit. It's more of a big family of instructions that happen to share an assembly mnemonic.
Thanks for clarifying that, never really got that that deep into Go.
it would indicate the better paid ones who can afford to g to industry conferences
Properly paid overtime would probably be sufficient.

If 100 hour weeks make your labour cost quadruple then companies actually have an incentive to avoid it.
Don’t buy the industry bullshit. They’re making record profits through gambling and micro transactions.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattperez/2018/05/08/electronic...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pHSso2vufPM
I found Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay a really fun book to read about natural colorants and their history.
When they do these election polls, do they stand in the street randomly choosing people coming out of the conference centre where one of the major parties is having their AGM?
Sonicare is excellent. I have a base model from ten years ago that I still use and my teeth always get a good review from the dentist.
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Saw this article and was familiar with the headaches of esignatures. HelloSign is very pretty but I've been using Adobe Sign for years now. When we had to switch from Business to Enterprise (I don't remember what limitation required the upgrade but it was business critical - edit: ah yes, I remember being able have a clickable link that generated a new one for each person). There was some friction because the support and people working on it seem to be handled by a different group of Adobe. There were two different logins, kinda weird. Couldn't sign up through the site and had to do a manual contract. After dealing with the technical team the migration worked and all is well, very nerve wracking time thinking you lost all your contracts. We had backups but still.

Anyways, one of the biggest issues with other services was the max amount of templates imposed by HelloSign and the rest. It feels very arbitrary yet Adobe can handle this at scale very cost effectively.

The UI needs work and some quality of life changes need to happen. I feel like it's been somewhat abandoned after the acquisition. If I need to edit a template with one tweak I have to completely redo the entire contract/document which is time consuming especially on multi-page contracts with tons of fields of different types.

We're married to it now and it does work but I would love to see enhancements or have Adobe at least get a few new designers and UI/UX people onboard.
It's going to be really funny if Microsoft ends up using Open Source software to compete against its proprietary service-based competitors. Sort of like how GCP runs k8s... you can use the free tool, or you can use the managed service, and the community helps build the thing. In theory, you retain competitive advantage because you have the most expertise in the product.

The Googles of the world lose out on professional services, but Microsoft could still make a bundle of money by just consulting on the tools without even managing them. You might even make higher margins by not managing the service.
I’m fully into that, thanks for the tip!
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Someone made a NISC compiler: https://github.com/jbangert/trapcc
Others have mentioned RDR2 and the upgrade systems in Just Cause. They're both right and symptomatic of the larger problems.

I think Ubisoft games are the worst at this. Tons of experimental or different game elements that don't contribute to the core game. You can play chess or other board games in the middle of Assassin's Creed III. It does nothing. They had this whole city-building subgame that added nothing. They had an inchoate pirate game in there that was actually engaging enough that they made an entire sequel centered on it, but it added nothing to the actual ACIII game itself.

I can see evidence of all sort of "wouldn't it be cool if. . ." features that really don't need to be there and I can't help but think that if PMs actually had to think through what they're trying to do with their game they wouldn't do this as much. Bioware actually admitted to this after Mass Effect 3, claiming that they had never managed with so many resources at hand before and they couldn't really resist the impulse to bite off more than they can chew. This led to them adding in a bunch of extraneous side-quests and stuff that they didn't really get a chance to put enough time in to do it justice or make it worth anyone's while.
Thanks, I’m going to read myself into a coma tonight.
I'm with you on the crunch limit, few weeks a year at most and even then anything beyond 50 hours is pointless from a productivity point of view.

Addressing overwork at the legislative level would get my support if there were a way to trade pain now for benefit later (e.g. your extra time off suggestion).
Because although initially conceived to serve its members’ interests, a union will later fail to deliver an that promise.

Any sufficiently complex system will over time inevitably develop goals of its own, unrelated to the system’s announced goals.
Also, what about microsoft, netflix, amazon, twitter and most importantly google

Only have to break up one and the rest will fall into line.

what aboutism
Software engineers don't get hired to Google with 60-100k salaries, not even close.
Ironically, despite the famously abysmal working conditions in the game industry, they might have a hard time organizing, because there is such an enormous supply of qualified people who want those jobs.
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"If we encountered aliens that are as alien as possible, they would agree on the ratio of the radius to the circumference of a circle on a flat plane."

Not if the aliens had the mental capacity of, say, a house cat.
I'm a fan of functional programming over OOP as such, I don't need all of the OOP constructs just give me some immutable primitives, first-class functions and let's get to work.

There's not much I can do with a class that can't be accomplished with a simple function.

I think I've evolved in my thinking over this in the last several years of experience.
"lowest level of birth since 1961"

This is a good thing that shows(if not proves)that they are getting out of poverty.

And is something they pursued for decades, so this is pointless info for the point you make: "China gov in Panick mode"

Now, The current President, was already born with the lack of confidence, it means, the first day he assumed China's Gov, He was already in Panick mode.

He needed to break a lot of the internal stability and a lot of power lines Inside the Party, to arise to power, So , His government was born with this crucial weakness already,

And thats the reason the first week of assuming presidency he ordered to place absurdly ridiculous warmongering Ads in all the subway screens....

..Absurd and ridiculous even for the Chinese, the chinese average Joe is much smarter then what you think.

When a ruler start talking too much about war, you know he is afraid and Scared of loosing his power.

Master Margareth Tatcher explained that if you need to Show Power, It is because you don't have the power.

But taking google or yahoo down for days was already normal 15 years ago (when google was not totally blocked) ...

Is not anything significant, just a collateral datapoint, at least for me, who have much more Older and Broader data about this issue.

Luxury brands crash is not because of economic reasons, Luxury Buyers don't care about economical crisis, they are already freaking Rich, They are Rich in any situation, they are not affected, specially in China, where are Billionaires every corner. So why the sales dropped??

Because this wealth people got their moneys from corruption, and chinese people is fed up with this,( fight corruption, same as WarMongering, is the bulshitt the new president use to try to look better , because of his lack of confidence)...

And this people are afraid of the Security Police hunting down "grey" or "black money" , So they don't go near a Louis Vitton Shop even with a 10 feet pole.

Economy is bad because of incompetence of current government, Economical Incopentence, political incompetence, all Incompetence you can think.

That't the reason, but despise His Incompetence, our economy is still doing not so bad. So the wishful thinking of China Moon land deniers ( people who believe that the chinese space craft landing in the dark side of the moon is a fake video)...

And this wishful thinkers Deniers, will wait until the end of their lifetimes, if they think China economical Apocalypse is coming.

The Bible's Apocalypse will come before that, believe me.

I have been listening to "China will brake anytime now" for at least 25 years, before I even dream to be approved of the Economy University in China.

So I don't worry about economy, but I am extremely worried about the current government Malice and Incompentece,

...exactly the opposite of the former Hu Jin Dao and Wen Jia Bao ruling period, a period of Competent and wise ruling, that is unfortunately not the case right now.
As they say... there are no good moves in Go/chess/zero-sum games etc. There are only bad moves.

That doesn't prevent professional players such as Gu Li 9p from describing it as a divine move though. And it does feel good for Team Humanity.
Convincing even a majority of the gaming developers alone to do so to a point where those companies will agree to accept a union is unlikely. Especially across international and even interstate boundaries. There are some states (I live in one), where you cannot be required to join a union as a term of employment.

The biggest issue is generally a side effect of compensation. If the level of compensation after 40 hours exceeds the benefit to the company (reduced time to completion) they will pay or not. When it's effectively free, they will push. When less than half are willing, you won't get movement to/from a union.

There are also already lots of laws regarding payment to non-management, blue collar mostly hourly emloyees. Programmers are an exception, more so if salaried. There could probably be enough support to reduce the exceptions so programmers and IT in general are covered.
You can always unionize later. Ununionizing might be a much bigger challenge.
If you actually look into construction projects, including extremely expensive American ones, tunnel boring is not a significant cost.

The actual cost comes in station digging; stations need to be high throughput and extremely reliable, which favors complexes with a large footprint and thus more required property taking, usually in dense urban areas that require complicated engineering. For highway tunnels the similar cost factor are onramps and offramps; if you want a ramp to be safe and efficient at high speed you need a lot of space.

Hyperloop “solves” this problem by proposing elevators. Very few metro stations are elevator only because they are low throughput and are prone to mechanical failure, as opposed to staircases that are not.

An interesting writeup on the case study of the Second Avenue Subway: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2018/01/27/construction-c...
It's software development with some of the shittiest software development practices around.
Here’s an alternative to unions, which many here seem to be skeptical of:

How about promoting software companies being run as co-ops, where all workers have more ownership and are self-managed?
TLO and MaNa are in the top 0.01%. They are the best of the best, and then more. The numbers I stated was for the average professional.

When you have geniuses like TLO and MaNa, average APM is more on the level of 300-400 consistent and 500+ in engagements. You're definitely correct that APM is not 100% effectively utilized. I would say maybe around ~40% of actions could generally be considered spam clicks. That still puts AlphaStar at a definite disadvantage in its ability to enact micro level strategy.
http://go.corp.google.com/percent

Give us the stats.
The isolationists of 1940 often travelled overseas, married immigrants, or sometimes even were immigrants themselves.
If op is reading this, eg, xor eax eax will zero the entire 64 bit register, so rax will be zero.

It's not that the processor is clever enough to know there's no dependency, there just isn't one.

Great article!
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beyond adding more story or visual add ins, what is a game that can't be completed without DLC? Never played Battlefront 2 (or 1 for that matter) and those tend to be tossed out there so I can't confirm or deny that one.

Diablo 3 base game - if you beat that, have you not beat the game? The DLC adds a new act to it, but for all intents and purposes it is an add on to a game.
Break it up into what?

Off the top of my head:

- Facebook content

- Facebook advertising

- Facebook messenger

- Instagram

- whatever other apps Facebook owns

- probably a whole bunch of others that will require thinking about it more than four seconds.
+1 for Olafur

Another artist who has used a specially-crafted MIDI-controlled piano is Dan Deacon. His stuff is not exactly New Classical, though, it's a bit more frenetic and goofy, but quite good.

He talks about it quite in a bit in a Pitchfork TV video that documented him working on one of his albums, Bromst: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPg4Vcr56F0
You can workaround this with advance planning though.

I wasn't affected by bombing any classes and got direct admit to CS [^1], but there were classes of interest offered only once a year which filled up quickly. I just took them e.g., a year early than expected to make up for that or disregarded the prereqs and learned just enough on the fly. Another technique that helps is emailing the professor in advance of registration or after it's full and letting them how interested you are. Even better if you can stop by their office in person.

Another trick is to get into your school's Honors program which typically allows early registration vs non-Honors.

There were also 1-2 courses I audited for knowledge instead of officially taking which let me invest in basic learning without adding the pressure of a grade to a heavy course load.

Ideally everyone would have an academic advisor that lets them know this kind of thing in advance.

If I were graduating high school today, I would give serious consideration to Lambda School instead of a CS degree; though I also believe that we haven't seen enough time pass for the long-term implications of a decision like this to play out yet (e.g., future career discrimination based on lack of degree).

[^1]: I feel for people that don't get direct admit into their engineering major. This part feels unfair IMO. I think that everyone should be able to start in their desired major by default and disqualify out vs default out and qualify in.
When I publish code using a permissive license I want people to contribute back under the same license. But I don't want to force them to.
Google, while known for software engineering, employs also people in other professions:

- salespeople,

- tech support,

- cooks,

- childcare providers,

- all kind of office support folk,

- data entry, hmmm, technicians?

- probably many more I can't think of.

Not all of them can have it as nice as we do.
I think most people (including me) didn't like the 1.4 to 2.0 "transition" (e.g. not a single ounce of backward compatibility, basically Angular 1.4 was abandoned)
Bluntly, you are the enemy the unions fight. Your opinion of them is that of someone who is (and should be) threatened by the existence of unions.

You're biased.
what other viable projects besides tf/torch you would recommend to take a look at?
> General software development gets moved overseas and comes back all the time.

General software development also isn't unionized. As soon is it is, moving overseas becomes vastly more attractive.

> Software development is hard. Pushing it to a cheaper third party usually increases costs a lot in the long term due to the increase is development complexity and generally a decrease in worker skill.

What's actually harder about outsourcing is management and quality control. The developers in cheaper countries aren't somehow inherently worse.

Many publishers have studios around the world, working on entire games by themselves. Why keep funding an expensive studio in the US that's getting unionized? That better be high caliber, which most studios aren't.

> A strong union can also prevent companies from moving some jobs overseas.

Maybe in a big monolithic company, but that's not how game publishers operate.
So... I’m curious how long this will be before we can apply this to real life?

At this point it seems like it’d be fairly complicated, but you could build a solid simulator for battles. Then direct humans and / or robots around the battle field as nessecary to win a battle.

Upload a virtual map utilizing some point clouds, estimate densities, start with estimating enemy combatants, add some scoring metrics negatively impacting civilian deaths and probably a lot of other stuff. Run real life scenarios in training environments, and bam.

The premise seems there.
Apple does pay out dividends, as well as pursuing stock buy backs which pushes share prices up, rewarding investors.
The double edged sword of having a smart phone/camera is that everyone can become a “journalist / reporter.”

Are you a journalist because you’re employed by a news organization? How are you any different than someone who writes a personal blog?

I wouldn’t want journalists to go through the hoops that doctors or lawyer needs to go through. In Journalism, like academia, you’ll encounter the problem where you accredite people who agree with you. Think of the rampant left ideology on college campuses, and the voting habits of college professors.

“A poll conducted by Ivy League professors and administrators at liberal arts and social science faculties showed that 84 percent voted for Al Gore in 2000, as opposed to 9 percent for George W. Bush. 57 percent identified themselves as Democrats while only 3 percent identified themselves as Republicans.”

Source: Robert Stacy McCain “Polls Confirm Ivy League Liberal Tilt,” Washington times. 1/15/2002

I suspect this gap has only widened and will continue to do so. (I’d love to see updated stats here.)

I wish journalists would gather some real world experience, defined as working anywhere that is not journalism, before they become “journalists”. I have more respect for these folk and I view them as more credible.

Tying this to buzzfeed, I’d be curious to see the average age and previous emoyment for these “journalists.”

I’d hope they’re not hired fresh out of university where left ideology is popular and pervasive.

Sidenote: Gaining real world experience also applies to these “lifetime academics”, particularly those in non-STEM fields on college campuses. Go experience the world before you criticize it then lay out utopian visions.
20 years since Melissa.

TWENTY YEARS.

And people still click on things they shouldn't be clicking on.

It is amazing the brainpower that goes into developing processes like this just to trick a person into doing what they've been told NOT to do.

I understand every new generation of user's needs to be reminded this. Of course, right? Kids grow up, and have to be taught basic online hygiene.

Maybe it is time to do away with the entire paradigm of "click to install" and have authenticated package managers for everything.

Would that solve the problem? If the only way to install software was through an "app/apt-store" where everything is fingerprinted? This reminds me of the article on HN a few days ago about enabling HTTPS and Tor for apt. I learned a lot about how apt verifies untouched packages are installed.

Why isn't that the ONLY method to add software to a computer?

Just seems like we are attacking the wrong problem. People still get STIs because they don't want to use a condom (or don't know how to use one). My analogy sucks, but if we got rid of sex we wouldn't have STIs, by definition. Ok, F for that metaphor, but am I going in the right direction?
https://seaborn.pydata.org/examples/kde_ridgeplot.html

I would try with a Seaborn facet grid? I think they’ve got something custom, but this should get close (be aware this specific example is a kde so it will normalize total area)

On a second glance this won’t get the 3D horizontal offset.
I sympathize with that, and I was in no way advocating the PE exam for software development (although I could see it being of use in certain areas - it could be useful for roles involving risk similar to the risks that usually lead to other engineering disciplines having that requirement). But with how many CRUD apps are in existence, it's wholly unreasonable to expect all developers to get a 4 year degree and pass the PE exam.