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Not sure precisely what point you're making, but it's possible that you're saying that the intention to apply for asylum provides you with legal rights to enter the US. That's not what the law says.

If you're not saying that, then what you wrote is not responsive to the person you replied to.
It wasn’t 161m customers that were exposed, it was 0.058m

Pretty big difference to what the headline implies
It's called landmark routing and available for a couple of years. Usually in countries without complete street name coverage where "go left after the post office" is what people used for ages (even if the post office moved).

https://googleindia.blogspot.com/2009/12/turn-right-after-pe...

https://ezdrivingdirections.com/ "[Mapquest] offers landmark-assisted routing by providing places of interest along the way for both driving and walking directions. For example, it may tell you to turn left on Route 19, right after the tennis courts."
> It actually was higher under Obama

The rate of deportations wasn't the issue, the incidence and conditions of detention of children was the issue; the incidence of that was not as high, nor the conditions as bad, under Obama. But, even so:

> and hit a Trump administration high of 282,242 this fiscal year (as of June).

The federal fiscal years ends at the end of September, so “as of June” is 8-9 months of the year, depending on whether it's June 1, June 30, or somewhere in between, so it's on pace for 376k-423k, assuming a flat line throughout the year though continuing increase throughout the year might be more consistent with the year over year change. So, Trump started low in fiscal 2017 (which started under Obama and occurred largely while Trump was still getting people in place, with immigration policy focussed on fighting over the Muslim ban), and has rapidly reversed the deportation declines of the last 4 years of the Obama administration in the two years since, coming back up to a pace around or exceeding Obama’s peak year. So even if deportation numbers were the issue, your presentation would be misleading.
If it's tedious, you're probably doing something wrong or sub-optimal. Or you're just dealing with a bit of hairy old javascript that probably needs a bit of refactoring in any case.

No, it's going to be more tedious 100% of the time. Now, if that tedium helps you in the long-rum is up for you to decide.
Something that never seems to come up when one of Jeff's art defense posts come up is that an RPG has a considerably higher asset load than most types of games, not just graphically but all around.

And historically, the genre has responded to this by sacrificing some aspect of polish - typically animation, but also often by just telling you about a thing with text.

What Jeff has done by stocking up and reusing generic assets is essentially a way of reducing that load so that the game actually gets produced on his microbudget targets. And what's really lost in that is any sort of "wow" moment where a distinctive scene, magic item or character design can make an impression visually.

However, I do think he could stand to leverage technology better. 3D might not be nostalgic, but it is the overwhelming preference of devs trying to use generic assets, since it gives you so much more utility(take the sword model and reskin it - new sword! same building with different decor - new scene!) and even puts some stock animation within reach, when relying on Mixamo or similar.

Jeff is already using these kinds of stock assets in the new game, it's just that faithfully implementing them into an old-style 2D tile renderer system makes them look worse than they actually are, since it guarantees that they look inconsistent in scale, perspective, lighting etc.

One productive way to respond to his challenge would be to give him an A/B: license his existing work to a small self-funded team, have them remake it aesthetically without changing how it plays. Have it launch on consoles and mobile. Then we'd really know if the assertions match the reality.
Thank you for sharing your project, Epiphany.

The introduction article [0] does a great job of explaining its motivation and purpose. I found myself nodding along to the points made, and the whole concept of a social publishing platform for interactive content.

[0] https://shi-yan.github.io/epiphany/
For me too.

Starbucks is train station or airport "ehh, what did I expect?" coffee.
I don't think people are skeptical so much as they are aspiring data abusers. They're taking the corporate side over users, over their friends and family.
Maintained by a single person.

Let that sink in. How many developers and admins rely on readline for their daily work? How many critical installations world wide depend on it?

As a contrast: How much revenue is generated with, and how many people work on, something as mundane as a chat application for mobile phones?

Sometimes it is astonishing that our software eco system actually works.
The Fed explicitly does not involve itself in fiscal policy like this. This is a good part of the reason that people trust US currency.
Prof Richard Werner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Werner

The three theories differ concerning their explanation of where the money comes from when a bank extends a loan. Werner proved empirically that the money for a new loan is not transferred away from any other account inside or outside the bank. Instead, each bank has the power to create money newly. When we take out a loan from a bank, the money will be newly created and added to the money supply. This has important implications, which are shown in the Quantity Theory of Disaggregated Credit published earlier by Professor Werner.
Thankfully, file formats are actually one of the more tractable places to find bugs these days, thanks to the rise of fuzzers running on extreme levels of compute resources.
I believe many people, including myself, are caught up on the idea of taking "someone else's work". I personally would be much more comfortable with the items you suggest if they either had not been assigned to someone (new or backlog task), or organically offered up (someone says they probably won't get to a task during standup or somesuch).

Additionally, it would seem that you are assuming that the dev is doing something wrong by finishing early and doing nothing, when it seems to me that they are just acting on their incentives. If my incentives are to finish my tickets for the sprint, I'll do just that. Rarely am I incentivized to take others work; I'm not going to get promoted if my co-workers hate me for poaching their tasks. I agree that we should probably find work for said dev, lord knows I also get anxious without work, but the suggestion that we take our teammates work from them is one that many teammates will probably bristle at.

Finally, I have always found the focus on locking the sprint once we plan it a bit absurd. In agile, we acknowledge and even love that the ground under us is shifting constantly. We are always iterating in everything else, so why not the sprint? The idea that I should take others' tasks from them instead of finding something else that I can work on seemingly comes from this myopic focus on frozen sprints.

However, I would assume that is not your view! Maybe you can help me see why a focus on completing the sprint is more important than letting my coworkers do their assigned work. I might be a bit closed minded on this because of my experience, so any thoughts here would help me contextualize this!
The percent of open positions in Technology according to https://careers.wework.com is 25.8%. Glancing at Technology it appears to be mostly engineering or engineering management. Of course the number of open positions isn't the same because they're looking to staff up or staff down, but to me it seems about typical for a tech company with 20+ employees (a software-heavy 5 person startup might have 3 or 4 coders).
Bah! A life of parsing words and walking on eggshells is no fun. Speak your mind and give people the benefit of the doubt. In my experience they appreciate it.
I wonder if a mixture would help reduce how much He is needed. Like they’ll be less dramatic but still float.
> a[b] is literally equivalent to *(a + b). You can thus write some absolute madness such as 41[yourarray + 1].

Wow. This has to be the best C obscurity that I've ever seen.
Line comments have been part of the C language for a long, long time (added in C99); so much so that, especially when discussing the subject on the internet, more and more often they predate some of the younger participants.
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> I think it's worth mentioning that GDPR was basically exactly this.

There is very little the GDPR would have done to prevent this.

The data was legitimatly collected from customers. It was leaked because of badly configured server or firewall. The company is no longer in business so no fines (or minimal fines) would be paid.
Could not agree more about simplicity, although I don't think he's using "good" to mean "complicated." Simple, minimalist art can be nearly as difficult as rich, complex art, and these games are neither of those.

"Exactly as good as they need to be" means "graphics and interface are of a sufficient quality to not significantly hamper interaction with the game, but just barely."

For example, a chess board drawn freestyle in crayon with a bunch of black and white poker chips that have "pawn", "knight", etc written on them in sharpie is "exactly as good as it needs to be," but it sure as heck isn't the same thing as an elegantly minimalist chess board.
> the intention to apply for asylum provides you with legal rights to enter the US

Sort of, yeah. Check out Akinmade v NIS as an example: https://openjurist.org/196/f3d/951 . Akinmade entered the US with a fake Canadian passport to request asylum. He was granted asylum
Culadasa, author of The Mind Illuminated, charged with sexual misconduct
In the U.S., the bottom 47% pays zero income taxes. The tax rates on the middle class are far lower than in Europe. Look at the actual tax brackets (i.e. the data).

As for the idea that the latest tax reform only helped the wealthy:

"The analysis Doggett referenced indeed indicates benefits will accrue to the very wealthy over time. Yet in the first year of changes, the top 1 percent are projected to draw a little over half the tax savings. The threshold of 80 percent going to the top 1 percent is projected for the tenth year. Also, Doggett’s stated figure for incomes is too low; it ties to the first year of implementation."

https://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2017/oct/20/lloy...
They're not saving on the % fee, they're saving on the fixed portion of the interchange fee, which is between $0.10 and $1.00 depending on the card.
It sounds like you're either trolling or deeply confused about what's going on.

The EU is not threatening to block shipments of anything nor to "let their neighbors die".
It's the UK government that seems intent on imposing economic sanctions unto itself by leaving the single market.

Actually, the closest thing to suggesting to let neighbors die was these outrageous comments by UK Home Secretary Priti Patel a few weeks ago (https://www.joe.ie/news/british-politician-says-uk-threaten-...), suggesting to cause food shortages in Ireland in order to pressure them to drop the backstop. To anyone who knows history between the 2 countries (actual famine in Ireland caused by Britain centuries ago), this is abhorrent.
Are you doing this for personal growth/satisfaction/enrichment? If so, more power to you. I'm personally more inclined to read a (non textbook) book or watch sports during my free time, but if that's what you enjoy then good for you.

Or are you doing this to maximize earning potential? If so, to me (maybe not to you) that's wasted time, unless you're banking over (arbitrary figure) something like $750,000 or more yearly.
Compelling take.
That's not an issue in Java.
Is there a comprehensive guide that explains the differences between the different libraries for fuzzy/approximate string matching?

There is SymSpell, agrep, fuzzywuzzy, closestmatch, fuzzysearch, fuzzyset, SimString, ukkonen and others in Github.

The problem is I don't have a clue which one to use for each case, which are the cases and what are the differences between the libraries.

A writeup illustrating several cases with a recommendation of a library and a practical example for each one would be very helpful.

Btw, if anyone has experience with this type of stuff I would be interested in talking to you (mail is in profile).
I think the US continues to be buoyed by it's reserve currency status, if say oil started to be priced in euros the US might find itself with a currency like everyone else's and giant debts, the dollar would crash (which would be good for US exports)
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Looking at the screenshots in the article, I actually liked the graphics in Avernum 3 and even Escape from the Pit, they seemed consistent and actually pretty well done if a bit simple. I understand the complaints about Queen's Wish. They're not necessarily bad, I don't mind a lot of the tiles, but something does seem off with it. That being said, I've seen far worse and if the gameplay's good then it doesn't seem like that big of a deal.

I've actually been tempted to buy Avadon the black fortress a few times. It keeps showing up on steam(after reading this I had to double check, for some reason I had a feeling it was one of his games), again i find the graphics to be appealing. I'm just not sure if i want to invest the time into an RPG right now.

It seems like an easy solution would be to allow the tiles in the game to be editable and let people make new ones if they're unhappy with the ones that ship with the game.
Disrespectful ? The dude says his games look like crap. He doesn’t say everyone else’s should. He’s explaining why it makes business sense for him to do so! This is business 101 from a sucessful indie game dev
A non-New York Times discussion of the issues: https://www.enmnews.com/2019/08/20/flaws-in-cellphone-eviden...
> For a non-mutable string, it sometimes just increases the retain count on the string, but that also shouldn’t be a problem, because the contents of a mutable string can’t change.

Perhaps this should have been "the contents of an immutable string can't change" ;)
> The Fed should be attempting to smash the cost of US Government debt to the floor

We have an “indepedent” central bank with a limited set of policy concerns which do not include this type of thing specifically so that “fiscal” concerns [0] like this are not factors in setting monetary policy.

[0] MMT correctly points out that the category is based on a fiction, but even MMT advocates (while they want Congress to consider monetary impacts of what has historically been considered fiscal policy instead of the fiscal myth) don't generally want the central bank doing the kinds of things that have been considered “fiscal”.
Sorry - I don't know much about chip design: Will this increase the heat produced by DIMMs and will they require active cooling?

Does increased heat decrease the life of RAM?
> Jean-Pierre Marquis, in his contribution to the volume "What is Category Theory", wrote: 'Category theory is the Architectronic of Concepts'.

As a mathematician, I feel that I have a reasonable understanding of category theory, but have never heard the word 'architectronic' (and Google, or at least the first page of Google results, knows it only as the name of a Red Snapper song). What does it mean?

EDIT: Ah, notfashion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20772313) clarifies that it is architectonic (just one 'r'): https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/architectonics#English .
> And people often forget that we didn't have these agencies at all before 9/11, and we did just fine.

ICE wasn't created out of thin air, it was formed by merging and reorganizing existing organizations including Customs and INS.

> We're giving people license to commit whatever thuggish, nationalistic fantasies they want, all sanctioned under some vague "rule of law" argument where the letter has far, far outstripped the spirit.

I agree this is happening and we need to do something to stop it. At the same time, I don't believe this is the only thing that's happening in ICE, as it's a large and complex organization.

> if ICE were abolished overnight, I would throw a party.

If that happened but the fundamental issue of nationalism and lack of concern for human rights was not addressed, I think we could end up in an even worse place than we are currently.

I'm not against abolishing ICE, but I don't think it's a solution in itself. The fundamental issue, in my opinion, is a lack of empathy and understanding for people who seem different, and it's happening on a large scale. I believe that is a much harder issue to tackle compared to restructuring our federal bureaucracy, but that's what we should be focusing on to make a real, lasting impact. Restructuring without addressing the underlying issue seems like a placebo that would do more harm than good.
WOW, I just discovered two cross-platform programs (both are Qt-based designed same author[0]) on GitHub:

Astree — app for optical design and optimization.[1]

Foucault2 — app for mirror design and polishing.[2]

But seems like both has some issues with compilation (according its commits history).

Also just found free simplified optical simulator app for Android, but seems like it not in active development since 2017.[3]

[0] http://edeforas.free.fr/

[1] https://github.com/edeforas/Astree

[2] https://github.com/edeforas/Foucault2

[3] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.raytrace
It uses a custom CPU and ISA that's specialized for the application: https://www.anandtech.com/show/14750/hot-chips-31-analysis-i...

> Internally the DPU uses an optimized 32-bit ISA with triadic instructions, with non-destructive operand compute. As mentioned, the optimized ISA contains a range of typical instructions that can easily be farmed out to in-memory compute, such as SHIFT+ADD/SHIFT+SUB, basic logic (NAND, NOR, ORN, ANDN, NXOR), shift and rotate instructions

Re. CPU cache coherency, they have a software library that automagically hides that: https://images.anandtech.com/doci/14750/HC31.UPMEM.FabriceDe...

Not exactly sure how it works, I'm not super familiar with the internals of CPUs.
sizeof ('a') doesn't reliably tell you whether you're compiling C or C++. It yields the same result in an implementation where sizeof (int) == 1 (which requires CHAR_BIT >= 16). (The difference is that character constants are of type int in C, and of type char in C++.)

So if sizeof ('a') == 1, then either you're compiling as C++ or you're compiling as C under a rather odd implementation.

Both POSIX and Windows require CHAR_BIT==8. The only systems I know of with CHAR_BIT>8 are for digital signal processors (DSPs).

If you want to tell whether you're compiling C or C++:

#ifdef __cplusplus
...
#else
...
#fi
The first games I bought online were Spiderweb games (Exile 2,3). I had to convince my parents to let me use their credit card. I got the code back in email to unlock the game, and I got to play the second half of the game! I remember agonizing over stats of things like the waveblades and halberds.

The way I knew I absolutely had to go to bed was when I lost over an hour's worth of progress due to forgetting to save.

I remember reading The Story of the Baby on IronyCentral back in 2002. [0] The Baby is now almost an adult.

The Spiderweb Software forums were my first major forum presence.

I love Jeff Vogel's crappy looking games.

0. http://www.ironycentral.com/babymain.html
Yeah the savings would be on the flat rate (Stripe charges $0.30, who knows that Starbucks pays). Grocery stores, convenience stores, etc, are also not selling Starbucks gift cards for free.
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Is the source of this the ~900GB torrent, or is there another Geocities backup?
Lol seriously the dude runs with sprites from 20 years ago? That’s seriously amazing
see http://conal.net/blog/posts/the-c-language-is-purely-functio...

old but gold
If I had to guess, it is not an inquiry into standard riot police procedure.

2 days ago a video surfaced of two hong kong police officers torturing a 62 year old man:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/cstj3u/hong...

Do you not think it is fair for protesters to want to launch an inquiry into this behavior?

> incentivize rioting as the proper form of making demands going forward

what evidence of rioting is there? afaik these protests have been peaceful.
That and 2FA. If a service fucks even 2FA up, then I don't know.
I am curious to know who you are in the context of having an opinion about these "handful of developers"? Engineering/Project/Product manager? CTO?
I didn't get salty from the article at all. Just an explanation about why their games look the way they do and why they haven't tried to improve it(money and risk).
China's currency controls actually made the problem worse--a lot of non-Chinese companies immediately backed off on Chinese investments (i.e., factories, etc.) as soon as the controls were introduced.
Don’t know what article you read. He said the art being shit makes business sense to him
Out of curiosity, the author mentions a possible alliance with another companies (McDonald for example) that would share savings, breakage, and data.

Anyone would know if this kind of idea is behind or maybe related to Facebook Libra?
Of course it's a negotiation game...but that tactic works a lot better when the stakes aren't so public. In this political world, you have now tainted your proposal and any future proposal you make because the media on the other side will paint anything and everything as a slippery slow toward your original goal or plan. So this particular tactic doesn't work here, not anymore.
Free cash flow and Amazon: Bezos' “ultimate financial measure”
If you are crossing the stair steps orthogonally, or at an offset, I suppose it would be possible to dwell longer when you're over the low point of the stair step? so your motion across the offset plane would be jerky instead of smooth? thus putting more material in the low part of the stair stepped support layer, and less material on the high parts.

or if you moved the head "with the grain" you can move faster when you're on the peak of a step and slower in the valleys.

or maybe if you can place the planar ridges closely enough, you can always go "with the grain" when you are off-plane, always in the valley, and thus improve flatness. of course this requires an axis of rotation or stepping in {x,y} simultaneously.
As an embedded dev, I didn't know these things were actually obscure. Granted, we never used such things in production.
And if the San Jaoquin Valley became its own state conservative votes in San Jaoquin valley and San Fransico would count more if they were seperate states. Which is the whole point. It's telling that my point about economics and representation got turned into a blue / red thing.

>> I don't buy that slave arguement..
And you are a historian? The slave states that were large like Virginia wanted the electoral college, contradicting your argument.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/electoral-college-slav...
https://time.com/4558510/electoral-college-history-slavery
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/opinion/electoral-college...
Looked at the source (F12 not Github) and I see the old "registerServiceWorker" code meme, probably from one of those "create-react-app" type jobbies. We really don't need that do we?
Don't forget that a common argument that ISPs use to suppress muni broadband is that the muni will cover highly profitable customers while leaving the ISP needing to support only extremely rural customers... even though genuine private competition could do the same thing and the government has already footed the bill for that rural build out.