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As I said, who are you to judge Jeff's craftsmanship? Or who are most other game devs for that matter?
The zinc-bromide batteries are doing good work in Australia, aren't they?

They seem to have >5000 complete battery cycles. I think that's the best one can get for stationary applications.
He might be sacrificing some reputation for the short term thrill of controversy.

That’s something we all should be wary of.
Regardless of the question of whether or not J&J is liable or should be find, I'll just point out this slap on the wrist is basically nothing.

Such judgements are factored into large corporations' plans from the start. The politicians get to look good for "doing something", the company gets to be absolved of blame, and they're only out a small percentage of their profits.
> it is to improve applications of renewable energy.

Then they should have left SolarCity to die (it's not like there aren't other vendors), and focus on making great electric cars and maybe dabbling in the home-battery business.

Now SolarCity is an albatros around Tesla's neck and we may yet see it take them both down.
Yea getting winmodems to work on Windows was a chore good luck anywhere else. The era of managing irq’s, jumpers for cpu clock multipliers, and if there was the tiny twist in middle of a floppy ribbon to make it bootable couldn’t end soon enough.
We could settle this if the media and pundits documented their predictions and tracked how often they were correct.

Imagine knowing a particular pundit was right 99% of the time! When he/she spoke, I'd listen and invest accordingly.
Take a look at "A Book of Abstract Algebra" by Charles Pinter. It's published by Dover, so very affordable. I've seen it criticized as too verbose, but that worked for me.
HTML5 is supposed to be a specification of HTML, with conformance tests and everything.
Yes, but my original explanation seems far more likely than both? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20805156
Medicine is one of those weird cases where "the customer is always right" doesn't hold up.
Vogel is conflating 'good art' and 'good aesthetics', though. Many games 'look good' with 'bad' art because they spend the effort to cultivate a certain aesthetic.
At least on one ARM platform, I can clear/copy memory faster (perhaps 2-3x) with NEON intrinsics than with a byte adressing inside a for() loop.
Absolutely, I remember that until you could pass IO port, DMA and IRQ settings for things like Soundblaster cards on the kernel command line from LILO, it was essential to recompile your kernel with these settings specified in the kernel config. Compiling drivers for network cards and Soundblaster as kernel modules was error prone, and it often would only work if the driver was compiled directly into the kernel proper.

I don't think this situation improved until the PnP and PCI busses arrived.

Slackware was the distro I finally settled on from the Infomagic CD set, since some of the early Redhat and Debian releases were broken, they would install to the hard drive and then not boot.
It's nearly impossible to improve on something if you're convinced that there's no room for improvement and that anyone who offers constructive criticism is a hater. If you know you have a blind spot for something, getting constructive feedback from others would be useful. But there seems to be a strong amount of resentment from Vogel and a certain subsection of his fanbase whenever it's suggested that he might be able to do better. Such an attitude isn't conducive to improvement.
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For even the top models? How can that be performant?
I've been reading and researching about batteries online for long now. But I haven't come across any group/community that discusses on battery technologies.

Anyone knows of any such slack/discord/Facebook/whatsapp group, then please let me know.
You could argue that at one point French used to be the international language but lost its dominance over time so English might lose it too in the future.

However I don’t think Esperanto has a shot at becoming a major language.
I got started with Linux in 1996 (first Slackware, then Debian later that year), and all I had was dial-up access and floppies. I certainly didn't spend weeks downloading disk images. But then, having no way to burn CD-ROMs, I wasn't downloading CD-ROM ISOs. I'd just download the floppy disk images I needed to do the install, let the installer download the rest via FTP if the distro supported that over PPP, and then download software as needed afterward. dselect really was great, and then apt-get was awesome.
> Many who are unfamiliar with this industry are surprised to find that artists are some of the highest paid people. Good, reliable artists are rare! Check out this site https://www.careerexplorer.com/careers/games-artist/salary/, for salary estimates.

> [snip]

> If I'm lucky enough to find a good person, with bonuses and benefits and so on, I might be able to get this person for $150000-180000.

His link seems to suggest that "top" (90th percentile) game artists make $62k/year. Lets round up the extra costs to the employer (payroll tax, health insurance, retirement benefits, etc) and call that $75k/year. If so, that suggests $150k would be nearly 2 full time years of a top-tier artist.

I love Jeff's games and have bought and played many of them going back nearly 2 decades. But, I'm not convinced that the next step up from status quo is 2 fulltime years of a top tier artist. According to the same site, a median artist is $51k/year (with benefits/etc, lets say $65k/yr). Would hiring that person for a full year justify that extra $25k over his current $40k budget? I think so.
> do gun shops who sold the guns that did the crime make them as guilty when the gun shop followed the law

That depends. We had a case locally where a shop was repeatedly robbed, made little effort to improve security, and wound up shut down for it.

https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2018/08/16/d...

> As a result, MCSO investigators obtained a court order to close down the business and take control of its inventory, which Baxter described as "hundreds of guns and pallets of ammunition."

> "For more than a decade, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office has attempted to work with the owner to improve security for his facility, Baxter said.

For clarity: Metal-tipped lawn darts were banned. You can get a foam Nerf one now, sure.
What model do you have?
Haha, I knew the answer was going to be obvious, and it was so obviously obvious. Thanks for answering. :)
Oh wow. Thanks for sharing this stuff.
With current low interest rates, I'd say this effect is sharply reduced. The twenties will produce infrastructure that will last a really, really long time because those maintenance costs will be incorporated almost without discount.
What if I were to tell you that it costs you 0$ for the air that you breath?

I'd it a bad thing that the market price for the air that we are currently breathing is 0$?
AFAIK FMLA covers at-will employment (which is the vast majority of employment in the US)
I'd imagine that's the same phenomenon that gets antibiotics prescribed for viral colds. You're a lot less likely to get a 3am page from a patient demanding "I'm not getting better yet! Do something!"
Science for the People does in-depth interviews about science and technology, including history and impact. One topic per podcast, and they stay on topic without unrelated asides.
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This kind of sudden malfunction, along with acceleration not due to firing of any engines, would be a signal for the self-destruction device, likely chemically powered (explosive) and mechanically actuated. It would be sure to shatter the interesting electronic parts, burning or detonating any remaining fuel for bonus points.
I’m fairly certain that it is not worth their efforts to cancel those accounts, evidenced by the fact that they either don’t do it, or the number of customers it affects is so vanishingly small that neither of us are aware of the practice.

If you believe so strongly that it is worthwhile for them to do this, then perhaps you have an idea for a lucrative career.

But as long as credit card fraud in the US is measured in billions, I’m going to guess that any manpower which can be assigned there is way more lucrative than any manpower assigned to demonizing their honest customers.
If you are claiming VIX/VVIX at these levels indicate recession, that’s wrong. We’ve had these/higher levels many times since last recession.
It’s a very simple 3D engine
You're assuming there'd be a winning system, that's a bad assumption, different systems would be acceptable to different sets of people. There isn't one right answer, there are many and people will gravitate to the ones they like. It's good that states can compete for citizens with each other.
I would start by not referring to people as resources
The cough syrup was probably codeine, which is a very effective cough suppressant.

In the past I had a persistent cough bad enough that it keep me up several nights. Mucinex would do nothing. Vix did nothing. Eventually each coughing spell was causing head splitting pain. Codeine was a crucial treatment option.

I have a feeling getting hooked on codeine cough syrup would be extremely difficult given a single bottle with perhaps 10 doses.

It should not be inappropriate to prescribe codeine cough syrup to an adult who actually has a serious persistent cough.
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Ah I looked at the UK site: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Unibos-Garden-Outdoor-Family-Tradit...

Thought they were banned in the UK as well, seems not so...yet.

[edit add] https://www.crowndarts.com/ sells them (metal tips) and will ship to the USA and Canada! that was just a quick look, so guarantee more avenues to procure them.
Your case is not only different from the one I'm claiming it helps (you already spoke Mandarin natively) but also I'm specifically claiming it helps monolinguals who are learning their first non-native language. So unless you went Mandarin --> Esperanto --> English and found Esperanto didn't help you learn English at all then I what I said doesn't apply to you. If you were either bilingual before learning Esperanto I don't think it'd have been very useful as a "diving board" to learning another language as you've already have the knowledge of speaking two languages. And I don't wish to make any assumptions, but if you've been bilingual your entire life I don't think you can even accurately imagine what it is like to be monolingual. Bilinguals have an easier time learning a third language than monolinguals have learning a second [0] [1] [2].

I personally give credit to 3 months of learning Esperanto for helping me get over a huge hurdle in my Japanese studies (after 2 years of studying). Not because Esperanto and Japanese have anything in common - but because learning certain grammatical structures in Esperanto helped the Japanese equivalents finally "click" after I had been struggling with learning them for so long. This doesn't seem to be an uncommon occurrence within the Esperanto community (for those with non-Esperanto target languages). The plural of anecdotes is of course not "data" but the studies (however criticized) and experiences of countless people (including myself) all point to it helping.

I hear plenty of stories from people who've never bothered to learn it saying they won't learn it because they'd rather learn their target language instead. It's difficult to even find a story from someone who's learned it and claims it didn't help them at all in learning a non-Esperanto target language. I've tried Googling around a bit - I can only ever find people who shit on conlangs as a concept and refuse to learn one.

The longest and hardest thing when learning a language is learning how to learn a language and that's what I personally believe Esperanto (or any conlang really) helps with. I would only ever personally recommend a brief stint (no more than a month or two) of Esperanto for monolinguals.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3583091/#b22-ce...

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19648456

[2] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110201110915.h...
I've noticed that it's hard to build rapport with coworkers when working remotely (especially if they are in an office and you're remote). In my experience, remote communication is mostly transactional and doesn't facilitate building relationships with people.

I'm not saying I need my coworkers to be my best friends or anything, but I think that you are more likely to have a well functioning work relationship with people that you're comfortable around. In my experience, those relationships are usually built through informal conversations.

If any of you have this figured out, I'd love to hear tips. Most of the other aspects of remote work are fantastic.
Parts are hard to come by for their mass market models too, it's crazy.
No.

N64 emulators are all pretty bad (inaccurate, use a decent amount of resources) and upscaling is relatively expensive. At least, way too expensive for an rpi to handle.

It will work fine as an emu at 240p though
> it is always interesting to me to see how as companies grow, they become more political, less effective and generally suck more. All the good people, like this guy, get pushed out or leave on their own.

The skillsets required for a $100k company, and $1M one, and $100M one and a >$1B one are very different.

It's not even surprising when a CEO who launched a company gets replaced once the company goes big (oh hey speaking of which).
This is the same for me. I don't know what it is about it but when I get the notification that there's an award available for a certain holiday or season, I have to get it. I don't really even share that I've gotten the award or tell people about it even though I should. Just the thought of not being able to do one of these challenges physically makes me so much more motivated to do every one of them. It's almost like I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm not out of shape. Once that got me hooked, then I got to where I wanted to close all my rings every day. Now, it's just something that isn't really an option for me anymore unless I absolutely can't (because I'm on a long plane flight or somehow otherwise incapacitated). I'm not in the best shape of my life but I'm in much better shape than I have been in a very long time.

It's so stupid but this watch plus my AirPods are kinda life changing. I swear I'm not being paid by Apple to say this, either. There are still some issues obviously but, on the whole, it would take a lot to get me to stop wearing this thing.
Also, the 100 largest newspapers overwhelmingly endorsed Clinton, even though Trump carried 46% of the popular vote: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_endorsements_in_th....

> Among the United States' 100 largest newspapers by paid circulation, 57 endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, while only two, the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Florida Times-Union, endorsed Trump. Four (the Chicago Tribune, the Detroit News, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, and the Charleston (South Carolina) Post and Courier) endorsed Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, while three other newspapers (USA Today, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel) specifically discouraged their readers from voting for Trump.

To put that into perspective: even though reporters are 83% white—they are 1/5 as likely as whites in general to identify as republican. Asian, Hispanic, Muslim, and LGBT people are all twice as likely or more to identify as republican than journalists.
I first installed SLS Linux in 1992. It came as floppy disk images on a CD-ROM. I installed it on my girlfriend's new 386 computer, which had a monster 10MB hard disk. It booted up to the text console. I logged in, typed ls, was happy it looked like the Sun machines I had used in college. Then deleted it because she needed the space for DOS, Lotus 123, dBase IV, and WordPerfect.

I used Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, etc in my day job. I used to try to install Debian on my new computers and fail because the kernel on the installer CD was too old to support the latest chips. Finally I switched my desktop to RedHat Linux in the late 90s.

For a while, I ran Gentoo, which meant compiling everything from scratch as part of the installation process. One day for everything up to text mode, then another day to get KDE running.
Anecdotally, when dealing with lead acid batteries, 1 100% discharge is much worse in terms of cycle life than 2 50% discharge cycles or 10 10% cycles. Other chemistries dont have this problem, or are less affected.
Train a ML system on a range of parameters (whirlpool strength) until you have a decent port of the game to a neural network and/or tree-based algo. Then try to optimize the game based on people’s enjoyment.
It's only a matter of time until it becomes profitable enough to salvage that one orbiting the Earth...
A lot of concern here about the 150 cycle lifetime. But if they could be made cheap enough on a per-MWh basis, they might solve the (IMO) thorniest bit of 100% renewable strategies... seasonal supply balancing.
I don't know much about reverse engineering field, but more than 70% code is assembly. Is extracting assembly still considered decompiled?
Purdue knew this, too - as early as the clinical trials!

https://www.latimes.com/projects/oxycontin-part1/

> Purdue’s researchers, meanwhile, were conducting at least a half dozen clinical trials, according to the company’s FDA application. In study after study, many patients given OxyContin every 12 hours would ask for more medication before their next scheduled dose.

> For example, in one study of 164 cancer patients, one third of those given OxyContin dropped out because they found the treatment “ineffective,” according to an FDA analysis of the study. Researchers then changed the rules of the study to allow patients to take supplemental painkillers, known as “rescue medication,” in between 12-hour doses of OxyContin.
Disabled people need them, very old people need them. Drunk people need them.

Lots of people could do with a driverless car.
2 years later, Knoppix (one of the first popular live CD distros, based on Debian) made it much easier for people to experience Linux.
This is becoming more and more of a problem as everything becomes more complex. I remember when I was a child my dad repaired the power switch on the vacume cleaner by going to the local electrical store and buying the exact same switch. Now every single device has its own custom part and the switch isn't just connecting 2 wires, it's contacting a main board telling it the button has been pressed triggering the power toggle code which will probably perform a bunch of checks and processes before powering on. If anything goes wrong you either have to replace half of the device if you can or just bin it because it would take you a lifetime to work out everything that happens when you press the power button.
Yes, unfortunately. My 130USD cherry keyboard ended as an expensive toy for my toddler (he was using it without being connected). :(

The issue is not only the switch but the resonance with the keyboard (even with plastic rings).

(Gaming with it was superb, but I needed one for programming. Different use case.)
I'm not in the industry (well, we made one game!) but I bet there'd be loads of cheaper artists, especially through Asia. You'd get incredible artists much cheaper than that.
Try and understand how you learn. A lot of intuition in technical fields, not just in mathematics, is understanding the material in a way that you understand it.

For me it was trying to frame as much as possible in a geometric lens. Draw pictures of anything and everything as much as possible. Graphs, number lines, 3d animations, whatever it takes.

Also, understand the "bold print" from the "fine print". I mean to say, every theorem will make a general statement, and then have a bunch of conditions where it holds. So worry first about the bold print, then try to understand the fine print.

Much of mathematics is about making the strongest and most general statements in bold print with as little fine print as possible. Basically the less fine print you have, the more important probably your result is.
Well, in the case of bread, no. It's hard to find even decent bread here. But a lot of them are indeed learning very well to make good bread and pastry making in France. A least one baker in my region is taking advantage of this focused and hardworking workforce.
Also metallic iron anode.

I think an issue with alkali ion batteries is you need zeolite electrodes which adds bulk weight. Thus doing a number on your energy to weight ratio.
They're talking about the people that aren't his customers because they value art.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/07/23/former-secaf-...

Long term heat management hardware for space electronics. Among other things no doubt.
3blue1brown is a special kind of awesome.

I'd love to filter the internet by "content that can give you insights right now that would otherwise take years of study in a specific discipline to even know exists".

Another that I saw recently on an HN comment (thanks tptacek) is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfY0lrdXar8

A quick google for "3blue1brown awesome github" (my usual strategy for finding good similar content) landed me here: https://github.com/rossant/awesome-math

The awesome lists are pretty good starting points for finding good content, but there's a ton of them of variable quality, so you end up with stuff like this: https://github.com/jonatasbaldin/awesome-awesome-awesome (which has 68 forks...)
I wrote to SGI in high school asking for some info on their computers and they sent back a stack of beautifully printed, full-color brochures. The Indy had a webcam, which was very rare in those days. Also included was a brochure on the Indigo workstation, which Industrial Light and Magic used for Jurassic Park, etc.

Nintendo is a little mysterious when it comes to what their actual tooling was, but I remember Donkey Kong Country being the first time I read they were using SGIs (or at least the studio "Rare" was).

It's somewhat surprising they used the Indy for developing Mario 64 – I always got the sense that it was somewhat lightweight in performance compared to the Indigo, but a very cool machine either way.
"Mo" not "More". Respect.
There's a youtube video about a hybrid version of that, some famous civil engineer forgot a tiny detail in a massive project. Student of his raised the issue, he actually listened, and managed to plan a last minute redesign/overhaul without anybody knowing (at first).
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Would this replace income and capital gains tax as well?
Timeline is bewildering to look at when crammed full of stuff.
> You are not representative of his customers.

I've been buying Spiderweb Software games since the Exile: Escape from the Pit shareware days.
Backdoor? Hmm, I wonder how useful it would be when everything is encrypted to the brim.

It could report the orientation and thus e.g. the telescope direction. But this can be done remotely, too, with a large enough telescope, maybe on the same orbit.
What's your use case for the notifications? I took some time to pick which notifications get sent where and it helps me keep off social media and keeps me focused on what I'm doing. If it doesn't come to the watch, it's not important and if it comes to phone and watch, then it's not time-sensitive and I can respond whenever. If it just comes on the phone, then it's an alert for a game or something mindless that I only care about when I'm bored.
$17 billion is what OK said it would cost to manage the crisis over the next 20-30 years.

J&J was only 1% of the market for these types of drugs, and also this;

> Oklahoma wanted J&J to help it address the epidemic for the next 30 years by funding addiction treatment and prevention programs.

> Balkman said in his written ruling that the award covered only one year of addressing the crisis because Oklahoma did not demonstrate the time and costs needed beyond that.

So it’s worth considering the amount that J&J was fined in that context.