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> The superseding indictment resulted from an investigation by the following agencies: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI); Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; U.S. Postal Inspection Service; and Newton (Missouri) Sheriff’s Department.

I'd rather take the chance that those several other law enforcement agencies couldn't have worked it out on their own than have thousands of innocent families torn apart and kept in cages.
Sounds like you missed the point of the article.
Who are these developers? Can I hire them? I am having the opposite problem. Our business team cares TOO MUCH about the edge cases and doesn't spend any time on the 80% work.

Tell your devs to come work in banking or finance, they'll feel totally at home. We have 100 clients on a credit card that we sunset 10 years ago? Equally as valid as the 2.3 million clients on the highly profitable new credit card. GRRRRR.
Any specific subreddits that you would recommend?
They could use timing to limit the distance due to the laws of physics but it’s difficult.
Probably because FM is typically purely analog. You need to record signal, then compress it realtime and send through BT. That uses up battery. When using plain FM Radio, you just connect signal from fm chip to output amplifier.
> In fact by default the files in a user's home folder (including Documents, Videos etc.) are inaccessible to other (non-privileged) users on Windows.

Sure that's certainly right but physical access doesn't force you to be "on Windows".

> This is true, and also why I lock down my BIOSs and set the OS as the only boot device.

I never talked about you specifically, you are a tiny tiny minority. Even then, that just block your computer. If you can't bypass that BIOS (seriously doubtful), the hard drive is still accessible.

> Encryption, however, cannot be broken without your credentials.

Is there an encryption on by default? That must be new because I'm pretty sure I never had trouble to access my user folders on some of my old Windows 7 installation (that's would be a good 20% of Steams users).

I can't find anything about this, if I have time tonight I'll try to see if I can access my user folder through another OS.
That’s pretty funny, I’ve never heard of that shirt. I just remembered the Palantir as the coolest thing ever when I was 8 and read about it. Years later learning someone named that company that made sense to me before I had any idea what they did. Was actually kind of let down because I was expecting some sort of AI/ knowledge company.
> Why is cross regional appeal of any value, if these region don't make up even 10% of the combined US population.

Because those people control a large fraction of the country’s food supply and it would be a disaster if they decided to stop selling it to the rest of us.
There's quite a fine line between "crap" and AAA actually, as evidenced by "any game from more than a few years back, looks like crap". And if you extend that line out to infinity, good art is on the crap side of it.

AAA |
------+--------------------------------------+------
crap | | good

AAA and crap have more in common with each other than with good art. Queen's Wish looks like Diablo-I-era AAA art, done poorly.
It's not working. That kind of childish parroting irritates even people who might otherwise agree with you.
Yeah, that's true, I guess you'd normally wouldn't say that. Although I've worked a guy once that said something similar and got hired anyway. He still works in the same place after a couple years and still has the same attitude. I think that most people make it up to be a lot less socially acceptable than it actually is.
I'm building one: https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug
It seems relatively easy to have Bluetooth not suck if you only have to build devices that don't suck with other devices you build. The original Wii Remote came out 13 years ago and worked great with the Wii over Bluetooth. Ditto for the 2007 DualShock 3 on the PS3.
For many folks, "we do business with the FBI" and "we do business with ICE" are still different moral realms.
How are airpod sound quality "unremarkable"? They sound good to me. . .
> ...mapping social networking relationships onto the Internet in a distributed, peer-to-peer fashion...

Quick, someone hop into their time machine, and go back and tell the author that the fediverse NOW exists!

(Note to self: Never dismiss my future self, if...no, when, he comes back to warn me of something.)
According to one old article[0], Geneforge 4 was $3,000 in the hole three years after launch. The current article sounds like he's supporting his family, but not by any great margin. Certainly not by enough of a margin to pay for a second salary out of profit.

[0] http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2009/03/so-heres-how-many-gam...
> Is "I don't want to see relevant ads" really the user's ultimate goal?

"I don't want to see ads, period" is my goal, and that of many other users. I don't want the distraction, mental pollution, bandwidth usage, loading delays...
"Again: the present situation isn't bombers. It's missiles."

Who's talking about the present situation? The OP was comparing the use of nuclear weapons against the Japanese to the use of conventional weapons against the Japanese in the same war. The bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima are sometimes treated as being qualitatively different from the firebombings of other cities because of the use of nuclear bombs and the OP was disagreeing with that sentiment. Obviously WWII era bombers don't compare with modern ICBMs but no one was saying otherwise.
This argument amounts to: "People freak out about nuclear waste. Therefore nuclear waste is bad even if it's not bad."
wow, we are literally working this problem right now, and I made an off hand comment that it'd be nice if Figma shared how they did their plugins. thank you for this!

edit: having now read the article, this is amazing, lots of get insights here. one question to the author if you are reading: it seems like it would be a worthy idea to open source the 500 line, security-sensitive interface Realm-shim. Selfishly, we would use it, but also, we (and surely others) would add eyeballs to it to ensure it's correct. Since it's a small slice of the system, and agonistic to the product itself, it seems unlikely to be part of any kind of technical competitive advantage. Any plans to do so?
Amazing result
I remember the paranoia involved in that, since someone couldn’t earn you unless you’d sent them a message. If you and A were warning each other, you’d stop replying to A, but A might recruit B and C to start a friendly chat with you and then warn you when you’d responded enough. So you’d get a seemingly unrelated “hey what’s up?” and try to figure out if it was safe to talk to them.
I was actually talking to their lead developer for their plugin architecture on Tuesday, and he said that it's likely very easy to allow this internally for org created plugins, or self-uploaded ones (similar to developer mode for chrome extensions), but it's an issue having it available in the wider market. Security concerns are a big one (as mentioned in this post since this is ran in the browser you can easily make requests as Figma.com) and scripts that run on non-user directed actions can be sneaky dangerous. The other thing is they want to make sure performance stays high, as slowdowns caused by plugins are often attributed to the program itself rather than the plugin.

That said I'm totally fine if they isolate any event-based plugin as something you have to upload yourself or is bound strictly to your org using the app. As long as there's some way to do it designers will find a way, but without it I don't see it as being nearly as flexible as Sketch.
ever listened to the shure se535?
I honest to goodness actually re-pair my Sony WH-1000XM3's every single time I use them. it's so lame.
How the Linux desktop has grown
> I make money from their install, and/or their use of the package (is this correct?)

It could be install, usage, usage without sending analytics, and eventually other tiers too!

The idea of the system being abused is a great point to bring up. There are a few ideas floating but it isn't fully nailed down yet because the project is still in very early stages :). We'll certainly get there.

Cost predicability is something I had not thought of, I agree that's a compelling use case for FOSS. I'll think about that moving forward and how Scarf can help bring revenue to developers while keeping costs predictable for users.
discord. reddit sucks these days, it's over the hill.
An an individual, I don't remember bundling Chrome into downloads from SourceForge to trick my elderly mother into installing Google's products.
North Korea not crazy, but incredibly intelligent and calculating. It's rather foolish and dangerous to think otherwise.
Fortinet SSL VPN vulnerability from May 2019 being exploited in wild
Out of curiosity: is there any limit on the CPU I can stick in one of the Blackbird boards (i.e. can I stick with the lower-end CPU for initial purchase and upgrade to the 22-core monstrosity later)? If so, then that might push me over the edge into investing my next paycheck ;)
> If the context of the discussion was about developers instead of artists, how would HackerNews feel about someone lamenting the fact that they can't get any "affordable" developers to work on their projects?

There are plenty of entrepreneurs here that hire all kinds of people, and always try to find good bang for the buck. Isn't that normal? I personally have hired artists, developers, marketers, lawyers, managers, you name it... I don't see why I would deal with any profession any different.
Press the version number repeatedly in the menu.
I have used Sketch a lot and can recommend it quite highly. I'm not a big fan of in-browser tools so it's not a knock on Figma at all, I haven't used it beyond a very short demo.

edit: I've used sketch from a design and a front end devs perspective and it was nice to use from both.
I've done about 5,000 Uber rides at night driving drunk people.

I once had a young woman who thought I was taking her somewhere that was not her destination. This was because I had the map on my phone set to "North always pointing upwards" instead of the usual of having the map facing the direction I was driving. I do this because GPS can not accurately point you in the right direction when you're making a bunch of tight turns--something that is common when you're an Uber driver.

About half-way through the 8 minute drive she started freaking the FUCK out. It took me a while to figure out why she was getting so upset as I hadn't been talking to her and I was driving towards her destination. She must not have recognized where we were. It was so distracting that it was very difficult to drive safely and I had to pull over. I eventually was able to convince her that I was driving to her destination after all by switching the map to point in the direction I was driving.

If I hadn't been able to quickly figure out why she thought I was trying to kidnap her, I could see how this situation may have spiraled out of control and led to me being accused of assault.
I think you missed the part where they said you don't need classes for POJOs and models i.e. things which only contain data and do nothing else. If you want methods that operate against the inner data of an object then totally write classes
This is along the lines of what I wanted to say. Going from the main screenshot, there's a lot of low-hanging fruit (in addition to what you said) that could be done programmatically like making the ground tiles look non-uniform or adding some "noise" to the land/water boundaries. Even some decals such as rocks or flowers on the ground would do wonders. The point is that there is big-bang-for-the-buck things that game developers can do with existing assets and I feel this may have been missed in the discussion.
Also LDAC on the Sony headsets
What a weird comment. The guy says he likes the style of his games, and that they make a profitable business for him. Why do you insist there's a "problem"?

I thought this was a great article. Why do the games look "ugly"? Because 1) perfect graphics aren't even the point; and 2) this is a way to build a sustainable business.

Your technical complaints about the art entirely miss the point. And I guarantee that there is not a good supply of talented and reliable freelance artists charging $10/hour out there.
For clarity:

https://i.imgur.com/iqJ19W5.png

This is a DDR4 pipelined read timing diagram. The bank select and row select latencies are significant, "off the left of this diagram," and contribute to the latency of random reads.

Further sequential reads --- until we hit a boundary -- can continue with no interruption of output, and do not pay the latency penalty (because there's no further bank select and row select, and because the prefetch and memory controller logic strobed the new column address before the previous read completed).
best book i read in college
We girls at your pub will truck and stuck you right off, just drink a beer or two, and come down to the pub. It'll be fantastic.

I guarantee you will have luck. Let's truck it. Have some self-hope. It'll be grand <3
There Are at Least Eight Ways to Hack a Nest Camera
> Does switching the US to nuclear power bring back the lungs of the earth (Brazil's forests)? Does it stop carnival cruise ships from emitting 10x more carbon emissions than all of Europe's cars? Is it going to reduce the 640,000 tons of gear that are thrown into the oceans?

Wind and solar power do not do any of these things either. By comparison, maritime nuclear power could power cruise ships. Nuclear powered carbon sequestration can produce oxygen. I don't know why you're bringing up ocean waste dumping, since that's a waste disposal issue and has little to do with energy production.

For the same amount of money it would take to build up wind and solar capacity to 100% (or even close to 100%) of electricity generation, we could build nuclear plants that put out 5x as much energy or more. And then use that excess energy to sequester CO2 out of the atmosphere. That's what it takes to actually stop global warming. Even eliminating all CO2 emissions won't stop global warming because the existing CO2 emissions are enough to keep temperatures rising for the next 100 years.
I love Mayan but its huge learning curve always proves challenging. Glad to see it is being addressed!
We aren't at war with Iran right now, which we very well could be if Trump had reacted differently to them shooting down our drone earlier this summer.
Palantir is private so hard to know revenue breakdown. But hard to believe that over 50% of their revenue (what I would consider core) comes from ICE, military and police.

I found this article [0] from 2018 that said half of its $1B in revenue comes from government and the other half from corporate.

So if every penny of government work comes from ICE and ICE-likes maybe that’s core.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-16/palantir-...
I fixed the bug with "e", you can check again if you want. Thank you again for telling me!)
I think the representation's fine (but I'm a fan of skeuomorphism...), as long as I don't have to physically drag :) Clicking on or tapping one side or the other is fine by me.
Please consider making it work without JavaScript, or at the very least label your JavaScript files so it will work with LibreJS.
Not only that, but modern nuclear technology, especially closed cycle breed reactors of various types, not only produce far less waste and more energy per unit than the old-school enriched uranium reactors, but the waste is safer, and they can be smaller, far more geographically diverse, and cost a fraction of the equivalent for the same output in renewables when infrastructure and maintenance is fully taken into account.
Of course there's a difference. Instead of hundreds of advertising companies having access to my data, this way there's only one.

And that's even ignoring the difference between my ad preference data being stored on a company's servers, versus stored locally on my machine by my browser.
Winning the war required control of a large portion of the Pacific - it's not like we were doing it just to give B-29s a place to park. The atomic bomb required the same thing, as it was B-29 carried just like incendiaries.
I kind of understand why the graphics were redone for Exile III, since there was a need to add a lot of aboveground tiles, and also cave tiles were needed for caves that were not Exile proper but just troglodyte dens or whatever. But the gray cave floor never felt as alien to me as what Exile is supposed to be. It bothered me less in Exile III since you spend so little time there, but it was weird backported, as you say. And of course it also ended up affecting BoE.

Now I'm feeling nostalgic. Wonder if I could get BoE running again.
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I fixed the bug with Pi, you can check it again if you want. Thank you again for letting me know!)
Very well stated :). Scarf is still very early on and not remotely perfect. But I hope that people will give it a try, we can iterate and iterate and see if we can get more towards an open source model that works better for everyone.
But people can change their opinions as new information becomes available to them. Also, organizations are dynamic and change over time. Willingness to work for someone yesterday is no guarantee of willingness to work for them tomorrow should they change for the worse.

20-30 years ago companies like Yahoo and Oracle were innovators. They had robust software engineering and R&D operations that could attract the top talent in the field. Now, not so much...
Every tech company I've ever worked for has done a project, in some way, with the government. I worked for a small healthcare startup of 5 developers, we had government contracts. I worked for a medium sized dropbox-like startup, we had government contracts.

Unless you're some dinky, meaningless, retail company, you will do business with the government at some point. That's not a bad thing, it means your company is actually doing something important.
What was intelligent and calculated about the incident in question?
I do not know why it's so bad, but I do make a point to rant about it whenever I can (around friends). I've had terrible luck with it, absolutely never works for me. Another thing I've noticed about it which drives me crazy is that some devices will try to make up for issues by stretching/shrinking audio. This will either distort the tonality, or the rythm... but either way it messes up the song. And it blows my mind. Aux cords are cheap and foolproof.

In terms of alternatives, I have heard "zigby" mentioned. Also, aux cords Just Work. And I know this wouldn't work for everything, but I always wish I could have infrared transmission wherever possible. Even if I can't actually hear the transmissions, it still feels very loud to be blasting bluetooth out in every direction.
My idea of better is things like walls instead of chain link fences and beds instead of sleeping pallets.

Is your idea of better actual cages and thin mattresses on the floor but with the cool president instead of higher quality conditions but the crass president? That seems quite self serving and inhumane.
Why would a special case be necessary? The edit distance for two identical strings is zero.
That's optimistic. I have what I think has to be about as close to optimal a bike commute as it's possible to get in the US (nearly all separated bike paths, minimal risk of getting hit be a car). I wouldn't call it particularly enjoyable, much less one of the best parts of my day. It's just a thing I do a couple times a week because I hate going to the gym even more and it saves a bit of gas.
I don't think this is about "your employer owning you". I also don't think this is about capitalism (which is just private property, economic freedom, and a government to enforce those two things). Instead, I think the pressure to work so much comes from society, which wields incredible control over all of us.

More specifically, I believe that the 40-hour work-week is a consequence of the ascension of wealth creation as the primary goal of our societies. Past civilizations, rich and poor, did not see the creation of wealth as their raison d'etre. Modern civilizations do and, as a result, we're sacrificing everything else (autonomy, privacy, free time, family, etc) at the altar of wealth-creation.

It's not all bad: wealth makes people's lives better. But there are downsides (like overwork, the feeling that you have no control over your life, the feeling that your life lacks meaning, lack of meaningful social relationships, and so on).

I'm borrowing this argument from Hannah Arendt. I find her incredibly convincing: she sees this whole process as having kicked off with the Reformation, which resulted in the expropriation of ecclesiastical property in Europe that had been serving as the commons. Since then, we've never had much of a commons and wealth creation has slowly become the primary goal.
So ban all types of internet-based or IP-based calls? That's an extreme solution for a limited problem.

The problem is the lack of threat validation by police. There are many options now to validate threats, we have tech that can see through walls, robotics, drones. The fact is you have a very real chance of being shot by police without a trial and based on a phone-call.. and we are considering that a problem with the phone company?
Your comment is completely out of touch.

a) "Scheduling a baby" or children in general isn't a thing. They are full time commitments. Which is the entire point of the original comment. To say nothing of the fact that MMOs like WoW are extremely time demanding games. Its pretty hard to play WoW casually, for small amounts of time, and actually get enjoyment out of it. Which again, is the point of the original comment.

b) Possible, but unlikely. MMOs are pretty niche, and again, giant time commitments. Its unlikely his entire family will be into the idea of all grinding away together online. But sure, its a possibility.

c) At no point was the comment doing anything resembling whining. It was simply pointing out that much of the fanbase that would potentially be enticed to come back to the game by WoW Classic has aged into a stage of life where it will be hard if not impossible to enjoy it the same way they did previously. Its simply an observation, and a good one at that.
If you've ever watched any of the "Mind's Eye" CGI videos (which were just older CGI of the 70s, 80s, and some early 90s set to music) - you can get an idea of what your fantasy might look like in full motion.

Most of those old systems and animations didn't use texture mapping and relied on heavier polygon usage, because that's what the hardware could do, while still generating a frame in a reasonable time for transfer to film (still - we aren't talking any kind of "real-time"). While texture mapping was known how to do (sometime in the late 60s or early 70s - can't recall) - doing it with the hardware at the time was extremely slow, so it wasn't used much (IIRC, one of the first CGI films to use it was Sunstone).

Instead, most used hardware that could either do flat-filled polys, or some form of shading (Gouraud, then later Phong). So to make things look good they relied on more detail (more polys and colors) and less on textures (which can hide low-count vertex polys).

The original Tron might also be a good approximation (though from what I recall, it was hand colored from black-and-white computer rendered cels - not sure)...