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So this! The lovely clicky sound of rifle bullets passing by above your head as you stroll on well signposted paths. I understand they do have concrete blocks preventing beginners from shooting too low. Still...
I don't think it would accurately recreate eye contact. Maybe some kind of uncanny valley like version of it, which seems worse than what we have.
Could it be that the way to become one of the 2% is to just follow Steve Martin's advice: "Be So Good They Can't Ignore You"? 98% of people only kinda want it and the 2% who get it are the ones who put in the work to be remarkable. Those who don't make it in any field attribute the success of the few who do succeed to "luck". Luck (right place, right time and right skills - or looks in the case of acting) is definitely a factor in being able to do the work you love, but its absolutely not the only factor. Craftsmanship is the key; working really hard to be great at what you do.

The advice at the end of this article is good advice for everyone; not just aspiring actors:

“It’s not fair, and don’t be late”. Be punctual.

But the author has excluded the most important advice that Nick Offerman offered in his book which is: show up early, work really hard and be known for both these things.
Do these monitor features have any advantage over f.lux, Windows/Apple Night Light, or similar software implementations that work on any monitor?
I suppose if you used a minicomputer in the 70s or 80s then you used this or something like this chip. This is another site giving some more history and data sheets of the 74181 [1].

The carry-lookahead adder used in the 74181 was patented by IBM in 1957 [2].

Carry-lookahead is O(log n) in time and 0(n log n) in space. Carry-skip and carry-save are O(sqrt n) in time and O(n) in space [3].

I couldn't figure out what Intel or ARM or even RISC-V use. But according to this [4], full-lookahead for 32b is 5 gate latency while only being 4 times larger than ripple.

[1] https://apollo181.wixsite.com/apollo181/about

[2] https://patents.google.com/patent/US2966305

[3] https://booksite.elsevier.com/9780123838728/references/appen...

[4] http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs3410/2010sp/lecture/topi...

Does anyone know what Intel's Tiger Lake or ARM's A77 or RISC-V BOOM (and I looked at the Chisel source) use?
I distinctly recall these (and much more restrictive) measures having been tried in the U.S. almost exactly 100 years ago, to a very modest success. Sugar seems to be an easier target, because there are sweeteners like aspartame. Alcohol almost by definition doesn't have a healthy replacement.
That's not an actual exception but a note clarifying what the GPLv2.0 covers.
Well, respect of human rights maybe a relatively recent "western" concept, but judging from the fact that so many family members of the top brass of the communist party of China have become citizens in these "Western" countries, it does seem that they themselves do embrace such values (when it doesn't confront their own interest).
Lots more information about this in Richard Feynman’s Color Vision lecture:

http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_35.html
Is there much difference between sugar and refined carbs like white bread?
If it's the same binary I would claim I have the right to crack it. The information is already in my possession, and I fundamentally believe that once a thing is within my private space, I can do anything I want with it within my private space.

It's also my freedom to decide how my CPU runs code, including whether or not it listens to certain instructions within the binary. I can build a custom CPU even.

Paid software should work like this:

- I pay you to tell me a "secret" long binary string that you have spent hours and hours of R&D on

- In return for payment, you tell me that binary string that does something useful

- I can do whatever I want with that binary string within my private space, except tell other people about it

Hence, if there are "features" you don't want me to access for what I paid you, they should not be encoded anywhere in the binary you provide me.
Just like people don’t eat burgers for health (with a side of fries or a supersized portion), these aren’t primarily meant for health either. They could be a lot healthier than conventional burgers, and they certainly are when you look at the comparison chart.

> When it comes to calories, fat, and protein, the two options are pretty similar. Plant-based burgers have less cholesterol...However, the plant-based burgers tend to have more sodium...

Seriously, sodium is one thing that these brands could easily reduce, compared to other aspects, without compromising much on the taste. This article is a big nitpick on one tiny part.

Are these being marketed as being way healthier? I thought the main selling point of these alternatives is against climate change and the disastrous effect that current animal agriculture has on it (then come animal cruelty and health). We’d probably be better off if people like the author adopt these alternatives and cut their sodium intake from other foods.
This is why I entered tech first. I love acting and want to go drama school but after graduating a top uni with a Compsci degree it made far more sense to spend ~10 years working as an engineer first. I can save a ton, get into a good financial position with investments and learn the skills to get well paid flexible work (tech & agile/operations consulting). After that I go to drama school in my mid/late 30s, when it's easier to get in and to get gigs, due to less competition my age (most folk have either given up or gone onto bigger roles by that age).

It'll still be tough but if you don't need to worry so much about money and you have other skills to base self esteem on it'll be so much easier.
That it doesn't work in Russia is far from proof that it couldn't work elsewhere.

Edit: Prohibition on advertising is not prohibition on alcohol. I reject the relevance of this suggested equivalency. There is no risk of organized crime getting supercharged by a prohibition on alcohol advertisements.
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"why do you assume that the failure mode of a broken condom could imply unplanned pregnancy?"
Bah, yea, seemingly can't edit it now.
More importantly how about eating meat like smoking? That is a much more closer comparison. Don't believe me? Get educated, peon.
This piece cites a paper where researchers used IMDb as their database. Folks at HN have expressed concern with the quality of this information [0] [1]. Still, assuming the database has some validity, one point from the research paper is interesting:

"The first message that emerges from our quantitative analysis is that one-hit wonders, i.e., actors whose career spans only a single year, are the norm rather than the exception. Long career lengths and high activity are found to be exponentially rare, suggesting a scarcity of resources in the acting world. These results are in agreement with previously collected evidence, pointing to the fact that unemployment rates in actors hover around 90%, and that as low as 2% of actors are able to make a living out of acting".

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20099023

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20128467
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The tricky thing with paying for grid defections would be holdouts. If a group of 8 neighbors take a payout to leave, but #9 doesn't, suddenly the utility lost most of its revenue but maintains most of the same infrastructure.

And the holdout might need really reliable electricity for medical devices or similar.

I wonder what "fair" mechanism could be employed to handle things optimally?
You can do a lot cheaper than a PowerWall. But you can also depend heavily on propane if you are off grid. You can get propane based central heating, propane stove tops, propane refrigerators, propane freezers.

Going to propane also helps with the overbuilding, because that's more or less pay-as-you-go instead of having to build a finite supply all at once.
For people thinking like robots on this, and not seeing the social impacts, i suggest reading city of quartz. Or if you don't like to read books, watch Chinatown.

Both will show you how the Water & Power's corrupt officials used aqueducts being artificially shut down, and then magically repaired at their convenient timing, to control price of land for their personal riches.

Also, that cost is paid by city, yes, because this initial work is what enable news cities to eventually came into existence, offloading the first city superpopulation problems. It is not done out of altruism, like limited mind people like to boast when defending such short sighted measures.
So far the MO has been write a strongly worded memo and return focus to leaving the EU for some reason.
Thank you for writing this up! It’s a little above my head, but it helped me see some signposts on the question.

Your point that the random low entropy Big Bang is a super unlikely event interests me.

I think the original thought came to me from Roger Penrose’s Big Bang theory that posits physics is scale free, and in that uniform gas state, something... happens, to allow a Big Bang.

In my (simple) mind it is akin to electron orbital collapse? Like quantum information collapse... the entropy at a certain scale becomes high enough that it Works Like low entropy at the next scale above, and that causes a Big Bang at a larger scale than we have physics for, which also basically erases this universe.

So, there are repeated big bangs but each one at a different scale.

I probably misunderstood him as much as I misunderstood you, but those are the points I am pondering. In practicality I am trying to figure out if these ideas could be used to make a video game engine.

In my current thinking, This would require some “rebalancing of registers” so maybe an as yet unknown quantum field which shifts all the registers so meters become centimeters, information is destroyed, and entropy miraculously drops?

Not sure. :)
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I was just starting high school when the handover of Hong Kong to China happened. Being pretty politically engaged at the time, I remember being surprised that everyone (in the US) was so blasé about it. This was the Clinton era, during the first tech boom. It was an optimistic, post Red Scare time. Everyone (here in the US) assumed the arrow of history pointed in the direction of progress, and that Hong Kong would retain the freedoms it had previously enjoyed.
Yes. Complex carbs are chains of glucose. Sugar has fructose which is much worse for you than glucose (assuming you are not diabetic of course).
> When I first moved here in 89, I never heard of a fire crossing a freeway (though no doubt it happened sometimes) because the conditions weren't typically so bad

The Laguna fire in 1970 crossed over I8. [1] (Be sure to watch the video at the bottom of the article, it's really interesting.) I know you acknowledge that it probably happened, but the reason is didn't happen more was due to the location of those fires, not characteristics of those fires. Most wildfires don't happen near freeways, so the data will show that fires jump freeways more frequently now. That may be true, but there are also a lot more freeways now. Interstate highways didn't even exist before 1956 and freeways were also rare at that time, so comparing freeway-jumping between then and now isn't really saying much about fire intensity.

Almost all of California's largest fires have had human causes.[3] There is a tendency to blame climate for wildfires increasing, but the real reason is that there are just a lot more people in the state. More structures, more people, more irresponsibility at scale. There is also a lot more misguided policy. For example, bans on cutting trees, reduction of logging activity and various other policies designed to "protect" the environment but fail to acknowledge unintended consequences. (To be clear, I'm not advocating mass logging, but bad policy is definitely contributing to fires.) [4]

> The problem with these recent fires is when you have like sustained 50 mph gusts and 5% humidity

Like the Santa Ana winds? That isn't a new thing.

[1] https://wildfiretoday.com/2015/09/26/the-laguna-fire-45-year...
[2] https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/a-brief-history-of-the-sa...
[3] https://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets...
[4] https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/08/23/california-fires-gove...
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I'm not a crypto expert. But I do know this stream is a firehose. Somewhere on the site is says how much data is generated. I forget. Naively I would think at least for some applications there would be no way to determine what part of the stream had been sampled. And the stream connection is over https.
How about you tell us why it is a closer comparison, instead of being insulting?
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The Scandinavian countries show that if you do not prohibit completely, but just make people jump through some hoops to get it and/or make it very expensive, it sort of works.
Dude. A bunch of billionaires just got away with completely tanking the economy and getting bailed out for it. Zero people ever even talked about the possibility of anyone going to jail. Everyone got their bonuses. Nobody suffered any consequences. Literally nobody.

If you think anyone cares about any conflict of interest among the investing class you're beyond naive, you're just delusional.
Some difference - definitely. Does it count as "much"? Depends on your definition of "much". Glycemic index is interesting starting point to look into this.

Not all white bread is identical either. Sugar content may vary a lot from brand to brand. Glycemic index too.
I remember them billing themselves as free DDoS protection.
You're right. This kind of advertising isn't ideal but definitely not useless either. And GP explicitly wrote "in the broadest sense" which I missed.
It means if you make more than an average income in your area, spend as much as you would if you had an average income and save and invest the rest.
That's definitely a factor, but I'd say acting has proportionately more luck involved that most professions. If you don't fit the looks that are in at the time the only real thing you can do is write your own roles. But that requires being an excellent actor and an excellent writer.
No the body will convert all sugars / carbs the same. The only difference is how fast it will get in your blood.
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Sugar is 50% glucose 50% fructose while white bread is only long chains of glucose, unless sugar was added to it too (only a thing in the US AFAIK).
Blender’s built in tenderer is known to be quite good, but I’m not sure they used it on the movie.
Mentioning Flux - a free blue light reducing app that is beautiful and functional - as I’m always surprised how many people haven’t heard of it.

Takes exactly 5 mins to get used to it and after working with flux on I’m amazed how overwhelming default monitor settings feel.

https://justgetflux.com/
I actually went to a prominent theater school for acting before switching careers to tech. My school, unlike many, emphasized that unless you want to treat acting like a lottery ticket you are responsible for your own success.

Their general philosophy was:

- take everything seriously. Be 15 minutes early for everything, learn your lines, be a professional no matter how trivial or vacuous the role. Directors and producers remember people like this and want to work with them again.

- audition, audition, audition. Accept the odds are low and follow the above rules anyway.

- if no one is hiring you, create your own work. Start a theater company, do improv, teach children’s theater.

They took this to the degree that if you did a third year Of study there, your major project was to start your own theater company and mount two productions during the year - they had classes in marketing, business and legal issues, how to approach agents, etc.

The overarching message throughout all this is that it takes the typical actor 10 years to support themselves on their craft. For both men and women there is a steep drop off in employability around 35-38, for men it rebounds in your late 40s, for women, it never really does. So you need to have your act together before then.
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Fiber content, caloric density, and palatability.
(f.lux author here): the initial part of this press cycle was effectively scare-mongering, and was later mostly retracted by Karunarathne. See https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/17/17724658/screen-time-blue...

This (older) article says: "we don't spend that much time staring at the sun". But just seeing the blue sky gives your retina about 50x the dose of blue light (hazard) as a normal LED display.

Blue light hazard is generally considered to be "reciprocal" which means for most doses, you can measure total energy (power * time). So it is easy to argue that one hour spent outdoors (not staring at the sun, just doing normal stuff) gives you more dose than 12 hours at a computer. So for light seen during the day, nobody has yet shown that seeing a computer is harmful, and the risk should be lower than spending an hour outdoors.

At night, it's another story, and there is not clear evidence here. The retina experiences daily circadian rhythms, and so risks to your eye may be enhanced by bright light seen at night. Less light at night is good for your circadian clock, and it is almost certainly good for your eyes too.
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Your acting skills might make you stand out as a very effective communicator in the world of Tech.

It sounds like a good strategy, although I have to ask if being unemployed, struggling with what comes of that and having to interact with a whole bunch of people (while employed in part time gigs like restaurant etc.) is part of what makes actors great. They hone their skills through exposure to the wide swathes of humanity that you may not see while being gainfully employed in a nice software engineering job.
Sometimes I wonder if it's part of a broader trend as the war generation passes away and homo sapiens are itching back towards the "might make right" paradigm.
Sugar addict in next plane seat in long haul flight is definitely "second hand sugar".

Some people being addicted to sugar makes food makers add sugar where it's not needed or increase it's quantity a lot. So you have harder time limiting your sugar input.
It was, back in the 1920's.
> I simply don't buy that we all should be living off donations to support our software development.

Most "software development" is internal software that exists simply to solve some organization's bespoke issues, and is not open to the public - FLOSS vs. proprietary is a non-issue there. As far as off-the-shelf, non-internal stuff goes, software maintenance is actually a bigger issue than software development per se, and it's entirely appropriate to say "I will not be putting any effort into maintaining this unless you pay me some real $$$ for the trouble." So, I'm not even sure that we're disagreeing about anything of relevance - except inasmuch as "being able to work on the project - or to sponsor work on the project by third-parties - no matter what" is often very important!
Cannabis.
For most people, alcohol isn’t addictive in the same way that smoking or sugar is. If you eat stuff with a lot of sugar it makes things without sugar actually taste worse. Whereas drinking alcohol doesn’t make water taste worse or whatever.

Also alcohol only kills 80k or so Americans per year, way less than smoking or sugar.
Actually often there is an abuse relation going on, certainly in developing countries where farmers don't know in the beginning that the "better" seeds they bought won't give them fertile seeds to reuse the next year - so they become dependent on buying new seeds each year.
While we're on the topic of telling people how to live, why don't we keep the sugar and simply start exercising?
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you're talking about thousands on PhD level work in autodiff and optimization and whatever else. you're not going to learn that in one PhD let alone one class.
Then it should be fine to ban it, right?
Flux is amazing I just posted below, always surprised this is not a default install for devs. thank you for the authorship!
and it's all essentially blind faith.

This just really isn't true.

I do think there is a problem with something I'll call "science-ism", which involves people picking and choosing from "science" to support a position or worldview they have, without any critical thinking involved. And to some degree, in some populations this unquestioned adherence to a vaguely claimed result from "science" has replaced a unquestioned andherence to one taken from "religion".

But that is not what science is. Science, for all of its flaws and challenges, is simply the best systemic approach for understanding the world around us that human beings have ever come up with. It's not even a close contest. It isn't perfect. It makes errors and is too slow to correct them. There are interesting a meaningful questions it can't really address. It is hard work to do well. But it does work - and has led to most of the large improvements in human lives that we've seen in centuries, at least. And it does that work by being the opposite of what you claim. Understanding that we too have it wrong, that we are building on the work of those who came before, and we are iteratively building a better understanding.

Your comment about cosmology is telling. The ideas behind the big bang theory are categorically different than religious cosmology. Consider two things 1) They didn't come from "just" and idea, they were arrived at by trying to understand the implications of the models we saw agreeing very, very well with observed physics. 2) If a better explanation comes along, physics will (begrudgingly perhaps, and slowly perhaps) adopt it and throw out the big bang theory.
> - the 2019 course (part 2) is vanilla python, and then the last couple of classes re-build everything using swift.

Implementation in vanilla python seems exciting. Do you any idea when lectures will be released?

I was a bit put off by the use of fastai library in 2019 part 1 course mostly because library makes it sound too simple.
I don't think it is fair to toss all infrastructure in the same bucket but for infrastructure projects where there are US federal dollars involved, the Davis-Bacon act is one reason why costs are high.

TL;DR Labor rates are above market rates due to the legislative requirements.

See https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2016/08/31/union-wa... for one point of view on this issue.

It isn't clear to me if these legislative mandates apply to power-line construction though.
As an example - app stores for android. Each manufacturer makes it's own and for years they are unable to cooperate.
Alcohol prohibition in the US that happened in the twenties doesn't seem to have helped as well?
I am not a Sun Microsystems alumni. I wish I was, just as I equally wish I were an SGI alumni.

Yes DEC did have clusters, and I remember booting my Alpha workstations from a Sun SPARCStation 20 over DECNet as an AutoClient and I know DEC had hardware clustering and VMS working together as a distributed system, but since I came at the end of that era and only worked with Ultrix and DECUnix, I don't know any more about it which is why I couldn't go into detail. I only go into detail when I know about something and usually I've done that something myself.
I'm suggesting that the reliance on a very fallible test (LDL Cholesterol) for asymptomatic individuals is bad. People could be started on statin treatment and yet have no underlying pathology. I understand CAC imaging is expensive, but so is decades of statin treatments and potential side effect issues.
If you want to bet on yourself performing better than 98% of others, you should have a safety net or no dependents.