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🇺🇸 I met Morgan Freeman at a screening of Bucket List in DC.

I asked him if we could play Rock Paper Scissors.

He said he didn’t know how. So I taught him.

He then told me what he was going to throw. I told him he shouldn’t do that.

Then I beat him.

So I both taught and beat Morgan Freeman at Rock Paper Sissors.
Perhaps for the purposes of energy. There are mydriad petrochem products that have no viable alternative.
I think their point was shutting down oil and gas is de facto shutting down all of those other fields.
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Criei esses repo para fins de estudo, um vai conter implementações de alguns algoritimos conhecidos e o outro contem soluções para alguns problemas de competição, caso alguem se interesse :)

https://github.com/pedrohcdo/Algorithms
https://github.com/pedrohcdo/ProgrammingContests
The new version of the Standard Environment removed most limitations (and you can still use the Flex Environment when required):

https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/the-appengine-enviro...

And using the proprietary App Engine API is not recommended anymore: “We strongly recommend using the Google Cloud client library or third party libraries instead of the App Engine-specific APIs.” (source: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/go111/go-di...)

You can use App Engine with a standard MySQL or PostgreSQL database and S3-compatible object storage.

Like you, I used to avoid App Engine because of lock-in, but they radically improved things with gVisor.

Yet, I agree about the price, especially with the Flex Environment compared to standard Compute Engine :-(
I was replying to the blind blaming of the evil foreigner in 'that we now know how Russia (and ostensibly others) are using social media platforms for manipulation'.

That's just spewing hate against others.
> If any other president from any other civilized country would have sent the military to guard against its citizens' street protests [1] then that president would have been (rightly) called out the worst names

Burning cars and breaking windows isn’t peaceful protest. If that happened in New York and the mayor and governor didn’t deploy armed guards, up to and including the National Guard, many people would be rightfully furious.

The difference is America, being a federation, has many layers of armed police, from the NYPD to NYPD special ops to the National Guard to the FBI and Marshalls to the Army. France, being more unitary (departments don’t have National Guard analogues), escalates more quickly to deploying its military.
"Massive parts of the population"?

You mean a handful activists? The people at large do not care one bit.

You can claim that you're acting in their best interest, so they should be counted as "on your side", but that's obviously false.
Voynich Manuscript has been deciphered?
Yup, it keeps treating all search terms as optional. My searches all "look" "like" "this" now, and it still omits stuff. Infuriating. Respect my search query.
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Hey, just wanna point out your commenting style is tremendously good. Somehow each one has all the ingredients of a great comment for a discussion. Thanks for the effort!
Arizona doesn't observe DST, but it contains the Navajo Nation which does[0], and in turn contains the Hopi Reservation which doesn't.

So you can go back and forth by an hour within a single US state.

[0]The Navajo Nation extends into Utah and New Mexico, which observe DST, so this lets the Navajo Nation maintain a single time throughout.
>Without a free Internet, who knows what happens.

You don't even need to speculate. Just look at China
PaulStretch is amazing!

I recommend it to everyone trying to meddle with music, specially ambient/drone.

http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/
Aren't EEG caps full of wires and other metal components? If so, then this study reads like an onion article.
As default, that makes a lot of sense. I guarantee there will be a lot of pushback from enterprises if they can't change the DNS servers to their own.
Nice people on all sides.
Seems to go more to the direction what Autechre is doing nowadays. I'd recommend to have a listen to the NTS Sessions if you feel adventurous...
This was in an email to the Society of American Archivists today (I can't find a publicly linkable version):

Some of you may be interested to know that Manuscript MS408 (Voynich) has been deciphered. A peer-reviewed article will be formally published in 2019. In the meantime, three pre-print papers are available to freely download from the linguistics website LingBuzz:

The first paper explains the writing system and language: http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003737

The second paper translates a pictorial map from the manuscript: ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003808

The thirds paper focuses on volcanic details from the map: ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/004381

Please disseminate this information to other scholars who may find it interesting and useful. Regards, Dr. Gerard Cheshire. University of Bristol.
I saw this site to day ...
How does it give you level of spam ?
How can it give score based on what ?
When customs asks you to check off off that you aren't a murderer or drug smuggler or terrorist, they aren't expecting you to confess on that scrap of paper, they want to be able to go back if they later suspect you and say "here is the form where you lied to the U.S. government."
The way list comprehensions are a logical consequence of the new features rather than an intended feature themselves is very satisfying, and speaks to the general and composable nature of the new features. This was an exciting read!
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Even Windows has a hard time keeping their OS APIs stable. Drivers written for Vista didn't necessarily work on Windows 7 and so on. This is one of the reasons why Linux highly encourages open sourcing the things so that the driver code can be updated when an API needs to change.
> It is the most intransparent and indirect way of determining a political position. As voter you have zero control over who is part of the Commission.

It's the same way the British PM is elected. Direct (or rather electoral college) elections for the U.S. president is one way, but many countries have the head of government as leader of the largest party. In this case Juncker was the nominated candidate of the largest group (the EPP)
I assume this uses GPS data to help with stitching the photos together.

Do drones capture orientation data beyond GPS position (for example, pitch, yaw, gimbal direction)?

I have tried adding motion graphics to some of my drone videos in After Effects but as far as I can tell it discards all of the metadata and infers the camera position based solely on the video frames. This is really slow and imprecise; I’ve been wondering if there’s a plug-in that will use the recorded telemetry from the drone to set the camera orientation.
If people can sense it, does that mean magnetic field changes can effect people ?
Switzerland's high standard of living is almost entirely due to their smartness. They kept out of wars and as a result could incrementally (and exponentially) build wealth instead of rebuilding their country from ruins every few decades.
I recognize the irony of my statement, the majority of the world has been dealing with the US interfering with their nations' laws for nearly three quarters of a century. Nonetheless, it irks me that laws in other nations, like the EU, can have such an adverse impact on me.
This is cool! I like how it makes a natural link between how characters are composed of semantic parts ( radicals ), and how the non-semantic RRPL maps / abstracts that, maybe exposing the semantic structure with a language that doesn't have to be aware of semantics. Very cool.

If the author is reading / or if I just missed it in the docs, were these 5000+ descriptions generated automatically somehow or by hand? Either way it's impressive
Because the services offered after getting onto the public cloud are better than the internal ones, more transparently priced, and cheaper.
He's "voting with his feet" aka "Brain drain".

The most effective way to change one's political environment since man could walk, enlightenment and democracy notwithstanding.
"Please sign in to verify age" pops up all the time on youtube, it depends on the content.
There is already no single timezone, with the possible exception of a timezone in the deep pacific, that would allow you to go from south to north without adjusting your clock once.
I will not work on this, because I see it as enabling the violation of our constitution.

You cannot solve a demand-side problem by attempting to reduce the supply.

Market economies simply raise the price, attracting increasingly-devious suppliers.
I've been looking for a while for a good summary of how to vote that I could link to people, but not even on europa.eu do they have that, which really speaks for itself. If anyone knows of a good source, I'd love to know about it.
So what do the other 4 billion people do who dont eat lunch in SV? Sounds like a great example of how privlidge blinds you to the endemic problems the world faces.
> why the hell France (or the rest of the EU) even cares about where Germany gets their gas from in the first place?

For the same reasons New York might care how Alaska gets its energy. Climate change concerns. Concerns that a fellow voting union member is building critical economic and energy ties with an authoritarian regime. (More selfishly, perhaps, because New York wants to sell them its own energy.)
Quoting some more relevant stuff from the nomicon. The linked article is short and sweet.

A data race has Undefined Behavior, and is therefore impossible to perform in Safe Rust.

...

However Rust does not prevent general race conditions.

This is pretty fundamentally impossible, and probably honestly undesirable. Your hardware
is racy, your OS is racy, the other programs on your computer are racy, and the world this
all runs in is racy. Any system that could genuinely claim to prevent all race conditions
would be pretty awful to use, if not just incorrect.

Source: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/races.html
For the desktop/UI that end users use, for reasons I don't understand, seems to work better if it's maintained by a large commercial enterprise. That's why Windows works, Android works, Ubuntu worked a bit and obviously MacOS and iOS.

I see Fuchsia as a good compromise here, it's going to have more free and open layers than MacOS on top of Darwin has. It's going to avoid a lot of the security issues Windows had and even the Debian/Ubuntu OSes and can probably be closer to MacOS/iOS in that way. It's certainly going to be a lot more open than Windows.

However, in the end, it will also allow Google, hardware and graphics library makers to have more proprietary parts that they control the vision on around the end user experience. It can certainly be the Windows alternative we need and hopefully Microsoft will realise that open sourcing Windows and allowing forks will be the best way for the OS to survive.
How do you feel working on code that is (will be) used by governments and organizations of all kinds to censor the Internet?
Note that the article is incorrect. I just went thought the proposal and what member states can choose is between keeping summer ot winter time!

quote:

"Consequently, the Commission proposes to discontinue the seasonal time changes in the Union, while ensuring that Member States retain the competence to decide on their standard
time, in particular whether they will move to the standard time corresponding to their
summer-time on a permanent basis or whether they will apply their current standard time
permanently. "

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...

Edited: clarified "This is actually incorrect" to "Note that the article is incorrect."
Why leave data on the table
I'm not sure... I like the look of the bit manipulation stuff, but I'm not really a fan of the variable-length vector approach. I think these systems are built to make the world safe for matrix multiply - and simple math workloads - but the short-vector approach (e.g. the typical x86 SIMD style of doing things) is sometimes exactly what you want.

I keep meaning to write more about this. I have found 3 categories of SIMD use in my own work:

1) Doing one thing a gazillion times (e.g. conventional SIMD). This works well on vector machines, of course.

2) Using SIMD registers to do "more stuff". So in a couple string matchers and regex matchers I've designed, you are really use using a SIMD register because it's bigger than a GPR register (duh). But this might be because you want to simulate a 512-bit NFA rather than a 64-bit NFA.

3) Using SIMD operations to do weird, irregular stuff where what you're really getting is a substitute for branchy code. I blogged about an example of this called "SMH" https://branchfree.org/2018/05/30/smh-the-swiss-army-chainsa...
second the 'bright minds' contractors .. physics-trained coder at US top-5 university, contracted to do 3D modelling of sound-based exploratory data, with accurately modeled earth materials, in the software. So the strata of the earth materials for a real place, on the one side, and the behavior of the sensors on the other. This was in the 2007 era
France and Germany, the rulers of the EU. The rest of countries are nothing but pawns. Honestly sad.
EU votes to scrap daylight savings in 2021
Oh right, I was comparing to my own city, where is a fight for the best office spaces. It might not be the case in New York City, but would make a huge difference in, say, Sydney or Kuala Lumpur.
Well, Farage voted against this crap. Which should be a shame to the other MEPs but apparently not.
I'm pretty cartel has in English the same signification as in French
As I also mentioned in another comment, after the facts where on the table (as it became clearer and clearer that the UK will not get a deal), the referendum could have been repeated.

Manipulating people and having them vote without all the facts on the table and then denying them that vote after the facts were on the table is not democracy.
>...and not just that you're caring about the emotions of other's as a chore to get what you want.

Which is also a tool used by narcissists, if I remember correctly.
The news is not correct. Member states cannot chose to keep the daylight savings, but they will have to choose between keeping the summer time or winter time. This is to ensure uniform time keeping in the union to reduce trade costs.

quote:

"Consequently, the Commission proposes to discontinue the seasonal time changes in the Union, while ensuring that Member States retain the competence to decide on their standard
time, in particular whether they will move to the standard time corresponding to their
summer-time on a permanent basis or whether they will apply their current standard time
permanently. "

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...
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I like bees, but aren't they effectively an invasive species too?

When temperatures increased, fauna and
habitat changed drastically, causing the extinction of Apis in the New World until they were reintroduced by European settlers in 1622 (Engel et al. 2009).

https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/9700...
Same experience at RescueTime. I don't understand why Apple is able to have humans interact with developers, but Google is not.
When they first started, tweets were sent from your own phone as an SMS, weren't they?
Also totally bogus. Which jurisdiction even counts?

When I am of legal drinking age in Germany (16 years for beer) but visiting a micro brewery page from the US (21 years in some states, right?) - what does that mean then? :P
>I learnt about I-messages about 10 years ago in a seminar on conflict resolution and have tried to use them eversince. My personal impression is that they have really helped me - in solving conflicts, but also in growing as a person. Because, again purely subjective, my impression is that once you give others your I-messages, they are more likely to also respond with I-messages. Which again helps me to understand others and their needs better.

I've also found the pattern:

You have [Problem]. Lots of people feel [how you feel] about [Problem]. If I did [X] would it solve [Problem]?

To be helpful in every relationship:

"I get that you're mad that I didn't take out the garbage. The kitchen stinks now and everyone hates that. Do you think it'd help if I added a reminder to my phone?"
> It's the same feeling I get watching fresh graduates working 100 hour weeks for these startups because there's free food and everybody else is doing it.

There is a difference though: When contributing to open source, youre giving away your work to the public. When working excessive hours for a startup, your giving away your work to a for-profit company you dont own.

Though the difference isnt very big when your OSS product is mostly useful for companies anyway.
Even in the Nordics, eternal summer time would be preferrable for most people I think. It gives you more sunlight in the afternoon (if I'm not mistaken), when you actually have some free time to utilize that fact.

Who cares if it's light or dark in the morning, nobody is outside enjoying the weather at that time anyway, we're just trying to get everyone to school/work.
> secretary of transportation has no legislative power as opposed to the EU Commission

In practice, Congress has over the years delegated a lot of legislative power to the agencies.
generative.fm is a progressive web app, so it _should_ work offline with the caveat that you'll need to play a piece once online before it works offline. I'm working on getting this communicated through the site but just haven't gotten around to it yet.
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Somebody has to own the computers. You can sue those people if they don't comply with the law.
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They have much much done more than soft-censor autocomplete.
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I imagine the machines are also quite loud, which would be sensory input. I haven't read the paper, but I wonder how they handle that.
True! Also, if you are not able to afford Max/MSP, you can do basically the same stuff (although with a clunkier UI) with Puredata, which is a live coding 'graphical language' setup just like Max . In fact it is (or was idk) developed by the same author, Miller Puckette.

On Windows, you can use a package like loopMidi to create a virtual midi port which you can use to output the live generated midi data to any daw.
> I met Goog people at my coffee shop...

> I couldn't believe it was that easy

You're kiding, right? :)

Yes, it looks like this is one of the few ways one can make the appeals work. Awful solution though.
Think about what time change does to hospitals and other critical services. Many systems, but not all are based on UTC and at some point the information needs to be interfaced to a human with the expectation of clocks being a certain way.
I think you misunderstood that bit, see this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19491551
It's an interesting paper although the contents of the Voynich Manuscript itself, partial excerpts of which are contained in the paper and include planting instructions and bathing preparation instructions, will probably underwhelm the legion of conspiracists that have emerged over the years.

Is a full translation of the manuscript available yet?
You already have that in EU -- Spain is observing CET (and its summer equivalent CEST) even though it is pretty much completely in the same time zone as Great Britain.
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> two regions would end up in different time zones for half the year

AIUI, every pair of countries will (like now) either always be in the same time zone or always be in different ones. Daylight Savings Time is being abolished; the choice is whether the permanent time zone will be the current summer one or the current winter one. Germany and Austria, being closely connected and at simular longitudes will probably choose the same one.

Currently Germany shares a timezone with all of it's neighbours. Most Germans seem to think they would prefer UTC+2; there would probably be no reason in that case for Germany's eastern neighbours (including Austria) to go to UTC+1. It's Germany's western neighbours that might end up on a different timezone. Certainly permanent UTC+2 seems crazy for Spain (which is geographically in the UTC zone); France and the Benelux countries are more of a toss-up.
You're right about his influence in the EU and on the directive.

However he's completely in his right to have the army against disorderly protests that cause damage (including fire to historical buildings the last time).
*if they've bothered to hire more than a cloud specialist. Most of the time the in-house talent won't have time to train in the specificities of cloud used and things with continue as earlier albeit now with cloud branding
Climate change denial is large problem only in Anglosphere.

Germany did more than any other country to realize the modern renewable-energy industry and it's failed its climate goals. The lesson should be that you have to try every tool in the toolbox, including nuclear energy.

Fukushima accident revealed the irrationality of the public. Fukushima-scale accident every decade somewhere in the world would be low cost to pay for replacing coal. It's only the drama behind the accident that makes people to lose their minds.
What survey are you referring to? I mean the one the EU did: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-18-5302_en.htm

Either you're mis-recalling that "2 million" number for France, or very coincidentally there was some poll specific to France whose result in France was exactly the same (84%) as the one the Commission conducted across the EU.

In any case, whether citizens in specific EU countries participate in polls held locally or held by member states isn't relevant if we're discussing how much citizens in various countries directly engage with EU institutions.
Ok that's a good start for the Android world... But it still won't convince me to buy another phone that is based on this OS.

My crappy old iPhone 5s is _still_ supported today - not just security patches but the OS as well. While providers like fairphone do a good job with their supply chain I'm afraid the longevity of this phone is still better for the environment.
I think it is less irony and just a matter of human nature. We're always more critical / resistant when "someone else" imposes something, less so if we get to do it.

I think the take away is to understand the values about what you don't like about whatever is going on... and apply them to yourself as best you can. Otherwise it is just finger wagging and finger wagging is so easy and fun that we often miss the fact that if push came to shove, we might do the same thing, or worse.
And a significant source for misinformation campaigns.
Although I like the result, I find the track less soothing without the birds in the background. There's probably a way to generate those as well though, I suppose.
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You're sincerely welcome and I wish you best of luck in the future.