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Your experience at BlackBerry sounds like a fascinating one to experience. Care to share more details? Was there just a few things/initiatives that the company tried to execute on and just failed repeatedly? When did people at large realize that there was just no way they would beat out competition?

I guess even to casual observers it was pretty clear at a certain point that Apple and Google had already won the smartphone market (BB, Nokia, Microsoft all tried hard but they have always been the niche), but BB hung around for quite a bit and now I had to look it up to figure out what they're currently doing.

Sounds pretty fascinating that a company that looked absolutely dominating in the smartphone segment was totally decimated so quickly.
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Why hasn't any public institution or foundation come up with the proposal of a low-cost TLD domain?

Domain registration is getting expensive every year. Why not build a TLD that would guarantee a fixed yearly renewal price (e.g., a 10$/year).

That would seem like a reasonable project for the Web Foundation, EFF, or some other philanthropic foundation.

Domain squatting would have to be managed somehow.
Elektron’s Digitone hardware is probably the most approachable FM synth I’ve come across. They’ve made some clever design decisions such as a fixed selection of ratios to make it easier to find musical sounds, and adding two conventional subtractive filters (one resonant, one more of a utility one to high/lowpass the resulting output) which makes it easier to tame the sound in an intuitive way. If you’re into FM I really recommend it, combined with their excellent sequencer which lets you lock any set of synth parameters to any step really quickly and great on board effects, you can get some excellent results.

I guess the closest software equivalent I’ve seen is Ableton’s Operator but I find the Digitone much more fun, not least because it’s hands-on hardware which encourages exploration!
While obviously people use facebook, I just don't get it. Had a profile and deleted it years ago. What does it add? I see no value in it.
For one night, I feel like a probability distribution function is a better idea. Something that parametrises all the revealed information and collapses into the perfect game game state if enough parameters are provided.

Without enough parameters, the PDF returns Probability(Player, Role).
Judging by posts here on HN, we'll eventually get there ;)
"Please keep obvious political propaganda out of this side"

Seeing your other comments, my opinion is this comment is fun and you are fun about the comments you write yourself
The detail that people forget is that printers are mechanical and therefore suffer from mechanical wear.

With laser printers that go on forever the toner cartridge includes a fair heft of the parts that would wear out. With ink jet printers this is not the same. Also, are you changing just the ink or the nozzles too?

Regulation could have rigged this market to have avoided the race to the bottom that went on. The razor blade sales model is okay for razor blades, you are spending tops $10 on the razor and it is clear in the box that you are not getting the full complement of replacement blades that cost $20 and are next to it in the store.

With inkjet printers it was a deceptive practice. Only after you were back buying ink did you clock the start pack inks.

Some of the printers did not include a black ink.

In the EU the regulation of USB power charging worked out well for everyone, we no longer have drawers full of 'wall warts'.

Had printers been regulated so that there was a minimum amount of pages that a new printer would print without running out of ink with the ink not running dry during the 2 year warranty period then the market would have been more sensible. Oh, and no proprietary replacement inks.

The price of a new printer would have been higher however there would have also been a secondary market in second hand printers. With the razor model there is no secondary market, at best you are giving a printer away rather than charging for it because it costs more to put ink in it than it costs for someone to just buy a new one.

The original inkjet printers were a wonder of fine engineering. I particularly liked the way the original ones held the freshly printed page to dry before dropping it into the tray. In 1990 you needed an expensive dye sublimation printer with mega expensive consumables to print colour. The inkjets came along and made colour something to take for granted. This was wonderful.

But the razor model made it impossible for the inkjet to keep the awe it truly deserved. In time the printers got nastier and nastier, e.g. the Lexmark efforts that are landfilled rather than cherished. Had there been just the smallest bit of regulation in the EU then that would have affected how these things were sold globally and there wouldn't have been such a wasteful race to the bottom.
TeXmacs is an awesome graphical editor with full math support, that uses the TeX engine for rendering. It does not use TeX or LaTeX as its primary document structure though. It has many shortcuts for entering math that are really easy to learn and I have sucessfully used it to takes notes during lectures. I also use it as my primary work pad when thinking about complicated proofs.
A very good essay, also a deeply depressing one if you do not get to the end and consider his solution viable.
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/win-win
Back when I was studying, I bought a $50 black-and-white laser printer for printing out my school work. It was fantastic to use, but when the toner cartridge ran out, the cheapest replacement I could find was $150.

It turned out to be more economical to buy a new printer rather than replace the cartridge.
You really think that you can spend most of your time designing and coding as a contractor or start-up founder?

You are literally a one man marketing and finance department.
> For this we have no evidence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ
Looking at secstate's post reminds me of one of the neater things (at least to me) in FHIR models, that a patient can also represent an animal. I have only worked with HIEs and EHRs for humans so I don't know what veterinarians' EHRs may be using. Do they use race and ethnicity fields for animal type and breed?

Anyway, my only other IDC related story is that of going from ICD-9 to ICD-10, when decimals came into play. We had several projects where we had to go back and do global replaces on ICD-9 codes to play nicely with the ICD-10 codes.
At least reddit lets you get some pageviews without forcing you to pay. Facebook's pages and likes are a total scam. It's impossible to reach users without paying, while it takes a lot of effort to create the network of likes. That's double effort for zero benefit.
They outsource a lot of things like content filtering. It would be interesting to know the numbers including outsourcing.
Aaah, great justice porn!
The difference is that the vast majority of users are unaware that their content is making other users stay within Facebook as long as possible and feed it with more data to make money for Facebook alone.
I think you're overblowing things here. It's not "toxic BS", it's just a piece he put out on his blog with his opinion.

Your mention of tank printers is helpful but given his article is from 2016 the trend may not have been so obvious back then as it is now (to you; I don't bother following the printer market).
Hmm. Same housing cost ($21,468/yr) in New York county, New York for:

- 1 adult, 1 child

- 1 adult, 2 children

- 2 adults, 1 child

- 2 adults, 2 children
Why not just refill the toner yourself for a few bucks?
Why is it called subtracrive when the signals are added or multiplied?
He’s ridiculously skilled with the tool. It would take me an hour to draw most of those diagrams and I used the same basic method (no advanced tooling) for my thesis.

There’s no way I’d use it in a lecture.
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I agree that reddit is still the fairest social website even after the many changes they did to monetize their services, which isn't wrong btw since it's in the end a business, Quora is now nothing but a big spam and self promotion website but fortunately they don't have the power to force users to stay in their circle of influence like Facebook. ProductHunt doesn't need a comment, it's a shameless cheesy website designed as "pay for shilling" scheme.
I recently helped someone install vlc. I googled VLC download (relying on Google) and then clicked through the clearly labelled download links. I accidentally must have clicked a link twice because two copies started downloading. The more recent one was finished so I literally started opening the executable. The only thing that stopped me was that it was called vlc-streaming or something, and the one next to it was still downloading, slowly.
That's because it was a download triggered by vlc's ad partner. It wasn't VLC.

This wasn't some shady part of the Internet. I was livid.

If they had given it the same name, size, and approximate download speed as the file I was downloading, I would have had zero way to determine this. Everyone has accidentally started two downloads when they just wanted one copy.

Unreal that this could happen on an official site. (And that it basically tricked me.)
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> In 1990 you needed an expensive dye sublimation printer with mega expensive consumables to print colour.

Not so, four-color ribbons for impact printers were a thing.
Me too. Thanks for replying.
> How many people are poor like that?

My experience is that it is a significant percentage (i.e. more than 10%)... And about your point about home owners being poor - not everybody owns their own home (stats show it's about 2/3rds). I just don't see BTL as realistic for people struggling to make ends meet.
Okay. So it is "more stupid happens" :).
I have some followers^W folhaters here. :-)
I think the fish farm parable fails when one considers few number of farms and more realistic conditions https://greyenlightenment.com/fish-farm-economies/
If I see 26 tabs open, I immediately know something is wrong.
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Isn't this exactly the type of situation that USA antitrust law is supposed to penalize? Controlling .org is a monopoly. Rising prices is exploiting that monopoly and is detrimental to customers.

Seems like it should be easy to show in court. Am I missing something?
Subtractive makes a lot of classic synthesizer sounds, which is why it's a thing. It's also easy to understand.

It seems to be easy to implement digitally, but it really isn't, because a lot of the nuances and non-linearities that add weight and colour to synthesis with real electronics aren't present in simple digital emulations.

For pure DSP the choice is more or less between open additive, modal (which is a kind of constrained additive), AI-constrained additive, which is what Google have been playing with, and physical modelling, which is digital modelling of strings and bows.

If you want to "enforce a physically correct relationship" between etc you're going to want AI-constrained additive or physical modelling.

The aesthetics of all of this are a different topic altogether.
I’m convinced to use windows store or Choco to install stuff for this reason. Paint.net is practically impossible to download from their as infested site.
Maybe. The printer that comes with the printer usually only holds a fraction of what you get when buying a new toner (1/4 or so).
“The poors are outbreeding us” is not a statement that is going to age well.
Ambition is what makes things happen. Do you think Apple and the iPhone would have happened without the hyper-ambition of Jobs? It happened in the US, too, not in Sweden.
> The whole experience made me suspect that there's an alternative approach to building modular synths, based on physical facts about sound

Yamaha experimented with this in the 90s with their VL series physical modeling synths, but it never caught on, mostly I think because if you want to have convincing results, you really need alternative midi controllers like a breath controller[1] for woodwind and brass intruments.

An alternative take on why physical modeling synths never really caught on is GigaSampler[2]. It was the first sampler (as far as I can remember) that could playback samples from hard disk, by only keeping the first second or so of the samples in memory. This made it possible to have sampled instruments where for example each key of a piano was sampled at various velocity/loudness values. Resulting in a sampled piano that could span multiple gigabytes. At a time where 128MB of RAM was still quite a lot, this was quite revolutionary. While physical modeling can produce convincing sounds with a potential expressiveness that no sample based instrument will ever match, it's base sound still doesn't sound as 'real' as a properly sampled instrument, recorded in a nice room with good microphones.

[0] simple overview, including some soft synth alternatives: https://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/blast-from-the-past-yam...

[1] example breath controller: https://www.akaipro.com/ewi5000

[2] Review of Gigasampler's successor: https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/tascam-gigastudio-4
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A single adult with no children can rent a room in a house or apartment with other friends. A couple can do this too, but some of them prefer to have their own place so this skews the average a bit. Once you have a kid it's a lot harder to find people who want to live with you so you have to get your own place. This place is apparently big enough to support up to two adults and two children after which you need a bigger place.
Xerox.

Arpa / Darpa.

3M.

AT&T / Bell labs.
Did you have a large room with good ventilation? Because that's still a problem with laser printers, the air pollution they produce.
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Curiously, there is a button for getting position, yet clicking the button loses focus on the textbox, so no position is read; does that work on tablets or something?
I believe it's named this way because filters are used to subtract harmonic content.
> Any Java developer who doesn't know...

I take it you work for Google or contribute to projects under management of Google. Perhaps Google is more selective in their hiring. My claims about Java developer generalizations comes from a decade in the travel industry with 4 of its largest corporate brands, each (at one time) employing thousands of developers. This is the reality of big corporate software development.

Take a look at any major corporate brand presence with a website and notice how many megs are downloaded for small amounts of content and tiny interactions. Consider that content quantity served on webpages has not dramatically increased since the 90s and the interactive experience has gotten better since the 90s, but not by orders of magnitude. Yet, despite high speed connections it takes longer to load most corporate websites now than it did back then.

It seems, from the bloat, exchanging developer competence for tooling and ecosystem advancement has a had a negative correlation on performance and code quality. I completely understand this is an over simplification, but most problems solved by ecosystem advancement aren't problems related to any business requirement or user concern. Most of those problems are things only developers care about. The changes to the platform that actually do relate to business concerns are generally addressed as enhancements to the technology standards that comprise the platform.

If you do work at Google you have access to economists and can get their opinion on this matter.
It look like common fresh water shrimp Gammarus
It's easier to judge others actions than it is to take responsibility for your own. That's all I am saying.
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If you have to create a big texture for the GPU, this is the definition of slow.

One of the big advantages of drawing for every frame is that you only need to draw what is visible. And do it in real time, with no perceived lag.

For a text editor I use I only draw at any given time 1/10.000 of what is actually there. In fact, you don't need to draw textures at all with the GPU, Apple or Microsoft or Google does not do that for drawing text because it is extremely slow generating this texture and it is not flexible.

Those companies in the bleeding edge, they draw directly in the screen from curves like bezier approximations.
There're (relatively cheap) lasers with scanners. I have a Brother L3510CDW color laser, scanner and copier, for about $300. Then you have things like the L1610, laser B/W and scaner, for $100.

One thing the article does't mention is that the ink cartridges get clogged and dry if the printer was left idle for some time. I had lost a significant amount of money to this before changing to lasers and never looking back.

Also Epson, Canon and HP were so bad actors in the 90's and 00's that I would never buy a printer from them again. Fool me once...
This step by step checklist might help you "what should I do" to review your accounts.

https://blog.madhuakula.com/some-tips-to-review-docker-hub-h...
I haven't heard about this, could you elaborate?
Like cutting near the bite and trying to suck out blood?
And affordable family housing close to work is suddenly in abundant supply in SF and NYC?
This was a mostly entertaining read, if a bit all over the place. I do have one point to offer -- I noticed this article quotes liberally from Bostrom, Nick, but misses another thinker who has relevant ideas about avoiding what this author refers to as "multipolar traps" -- Ostrom, Elinor. I recommend those who are interested in resources for the fight against Moloch to look into her book Governing the Commons, as she devised a set of principles for managing common-pool resources to avoid these types of traps, at least in specific concrete scenarios.
I got fed up of ImGUI when I wanted to route events to my application instead of the GUI. Its good "out the box" ut when you need to get down and dirty to customise, it can be awkward.

Nowadays I do a hybrid approach, so I have use NanoGUI and create my own "live data" "retained mode" controls. Now I have either the best of both worlds or the worst of both worlds. I think the best:

Pros:
- I don't have to bother with data binding. As the control is passed a pointer to the actual memory for he value, it can "go get it" when rendering, rather than my application setting its state.
- I still have classes to represent elements and state, so its conceptually simple to build controls on controls. I found this difficult with Imgui.

Cons:
- renders 100% full speed, but I am working on way to speed up and slow down render loop depending on user activity, so that when sitting idle, the cpu is not burning.
I’d highly recommend getting comfortable programming a subtractive synth to anyone interested in making music, particularly electronic music.

I’ve been fooling around with music for about 20 years, but the path I took (trackers, which are sample based, then into VSTs with their huge preset libraries) plus a lack of self-discipline meant that I never really mastered making a sound from scratch on a synth. It’s only in the last few years since getting into hardware that I’ve started to learn this, and it has made such a difference to my music making - I can now often dial in the sound in my head without having to trawl through presets, or I can take a preset and either modify it to my taste, or work out what it’s doing and recreate a similar sound.

If I could go back in time and give myself some advice, it would be to pick up a basic hardware subtractive synth with knobs for each function on it and master making sounds on it from scratch. Something like the Korg Minilogue would be perfect. Alternatively, a good synth on an iPad or creating a good midi mapping for one VST synth and mastering it would do the trick, but I think there’s something about the hands on design of hardware, plus that you’ve invested money in it, that makes it the ideal learning platform (and a lot of fun!). The skills you learn doing this are transferable to any other synth and other areas of music making.
If you require an A3-capable multi-functional color printer that doesn't cost more than a decent car and fits on a desk, it seems you're stuck with quite cheap inkjet varieties.

At least here I can only find Epson and Brother varieties which have a predictable quality given their price point. And the ink is quite expensive.
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The single most important factor when it comes to UI is text rendering. Immediate mode UIs are based on text rasterization, ie polygon creation for each character of the text while retained mode text is usually featuring texture atlases containing all characters in upper and lower case. This of course introduces a limitation on the number of fonts available to the developer, font sizes, etc. My 3D engine is using an immediate mode UI for the editor and tools while it allows for creation of retained mode UI for in-game UI components by automatically generating texture atlases for the selected font types
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There are physically modelled instruments like the one from Pianoteq. No samples, pure rendered. Very nice.
I'm uncertain whether it is the conceptual step of visualising the image, or the execution that you find challenging. From the context I'm assuming it's the former. I find drawing these types of images effortless.

But I ( native English speaker) struggle ( had to google to write the first sentence ) with which is which in _former_ and _later_. I always imagine the past stretching behind and the first thing mentioned is now further away from me, so it should be the 'later' and the second thing mentioned is now closer to me and should be the 'former'. I've had this conversation enough to know that some people agree and others respond by sharply downgrading their estimation of my intelligence. As a _predominantly symbolic/linguistic_ person I suspect former/later is something you would perceive as effortless.

Though I have hard time taking the visual/auditory/kinaesthetic learning styles seriously, and with no thought as to the contribution to the variation between individuals being learned or innate - symbolic/linguistic/visual seem to be different competencies.

And Gilles Castel seems near the top of the curve on all of them.
Educating people does not make them smart.. thats not the point here.
Maybe is up to implementation? I've got an X and the intent to pay pops up the native pay modal, which still requires you to double press the power button AND to be authenticated. So what you say never really happens.
What does $1,789/mo lease you in that area?

I suspect the data presumes 2 bedrooms: 1 room for parents, 1 room for children. The pattern is effectively the same regardless of state/county.
Yeah, that part is wrong. It's a continuous function of x, so if its value at x=2 is 0.1400101..., it couldn't suddenly be 0 at every x < 2.

Note to other commenters: this has nothing to do with whether or not 1 is considered a prime, as the integral makes no reference to primes at all. OP was taking issue with the former claim in the quote, not the latter (and the latter, while true, appears to have nothing to say about the former; my guess is some kind of editing mistake).
I vastly prefer social deduction games that don't have a way for any player to obtain a 100% certain solution (ex: Avalon w/ Mordred). Watching your assumptions unfold over a game and having to rethink them gives a lot of room to make bold or subtle deceptive plays.
Thanks for pointing this out. There was a small typo in the demo code. I just fixed it. It should be working now.