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Halo 2 had the bxr bug (sequence of the “b” button, the “x” button, and the right-trigger). If you executed the sequence with the right timing, aim, and proximity, it would immediately kill a nearby opponent (“b” triggered a melee which took down enemy shields, “x” cancelled the cooldown animation of the melee to begin the “reload” animation, and the right trigger would cancel the reload animation and shoot the opponent. Headshots on does with no shields were one-hit kills. This was a great bug because anyone could do it, but it required a lot of skill to execute. https://youtu.be/H8HtTQOXKA4

Superbouncing on the other hand was just annoying.
>> These keynotes stopped being relevant when Apple stopped producing anything keynote-worthy. They're just routine at this point.

When the majority of the iPhone X keynote was demonstrating the ability to animate emoji's with your voice, that was it for me.
Depends on the app, if I can use one of these multiplatform framework thingy and make it work for both platforms with minimal impact on perf I'd go for that.

If it's a paid app aimed at a "professional" market I'd go for ios as, if I recall correctly, ios users are more inclined to spend money on an app than android ones.
I'm not complaining, it's just a barrier. I support regulation of things like this and am aware of ADP and Gusto. I am also glad that Uber and Lyft drivers will be compensated as employees if they are treated like employees.

But it's a mental leap to move from "just need to find enough clients to pay my bills" to "need to make sure the paperwork is right so I can pay someone to help me out".

I don't personally find it intimidating, but I've also done it before.
Last month LSE agreed to buy Refinitiv for $27b, so reasonable to assume the bulk of the value in LSE is that purchase.
This move will probably obliterate game developers more than it first seems.

Apple Arcade refused to port any existing games; they only wanted brand new, exclusive content that was painstakingly developed for all their platforms. Not only is this a giant “GTFO” to developers that have stuck with their platforms for years but it practically ensures that the initial game library, no matter how big it is, will take forever to grow. Players can blow through content really quickly. And a “library” of X games doesn’t really count because each person will always have their favorite genres, making most games unplayable (so we are really talking about an initial library where X/30 games are actually interesting).

At the very least, they should have invited existing App Store games into the Arcade, provided that they met some basic requirements (no in-app purchases, etc.).

It is also really rich to see Apple point out questionable game behaviors on their own App Store, when Apple has complete control and could have solved the entire problem many years ago without introducing Apple Arcade at all. Fix your damned App Store. I hate to imagine the millions of dollars that have clearly been funneled to all the wrong parties, Apple included, by simply scamming people for more than a decade while legitimate developers beg for scraps.

Also, the existing game market will be destroyed by $4.99/month. It was already like pulling teeth to convince anyone on mobile to spend money but at least on the Mac you saw almost-traditional pricing for some games. Now, if lots of cross-platform games are available for peanuts, it will be impossible to charge anything for games, even on the Mac. The Mac as a gaming platform will be completely incinerated by this: if you can’t put a game in the Arcade and you can’t charge for it because Arcade is cheap, where does the game belong? On Windows and Switch, apparently.
I'm not sure these ACH transactions are actually processed like reversals. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to reverse the same transaction twice, as happened here. They just pulled money back out.
They’re actually talking about Amazon’s delivery service partner program. It’s where Amazon helps people setup independently owned delivery businesses. https://logistics.amazon.com/
Hah, I was going to point this out. We already use MAT (Medial Axis Transform) - quite heavily in 3D printing and object/space recognition.
CO2 is not the only type of pollution. Particulate is a lot worse in most ways. And it's also a lot more noticeable. Heck it's probably even as bad or worse for the climate.
The person you’re responding to didn’t call anyone anything. Be sure to check usernames.
So whats the procedure for someone to recover an account if the 2fa is busted/lost ?
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-178
I feel like this article conflates 'smart device' with 'phone' in a way that can often happend

My 8 year old has one of our old phones with WiFi only. It's still plenty addictive with with the thrill of games and TV. If you wait to talk about smart phone addiction until your kid gets cell service you're probably going to miss the boat.

As my kid gets older - well the author may sneer at your kid waiting a few minutes to get picked up from soccer practice but that minimizes the issue. When I was a kid it was a collect call from "I'm-at-the-library-pick-me-up-by-5". I think there's a lot to be said for giving a kid flexibility in their movements. That may mean a 'dumb' phone, which I would consider, but it doesn't mean no phones whatsoever.

I think the other counter-point I would make to the author is that the best time to start talking to your kids about smart phones may well be while they're still on premise, and still respect and trust you. I've ( somewhat reluctantly ) setup my kid with ( facebook ) kids messenger and a Roblox account. She only has access on my phone so her time is limited, and it's also led to a lot of good discussions about internet predator and pressure to pay for in-game upsells.

Most importantly ( IMO ) is talking about how easy it is for social interactions to lead to problems - getting bullied, being a bully, the blow to her self esteem if her friends seem to be chatting with each other and leaving her out. It's really hard to navigate, and it doesn't go away if she gets her first smartphone at 18. I don't know if I really can protect her from it but perhaps I can let her know that I understand, and she can talk to me
The keynotes are relevant to those of us interested in updates to the Apple product line. They were created to hype Apple products, and they continue to be used for this purpose. That some people are not entertained is easily solved by those people not watching them.
The new always-on Apple Watch screen was a big surprise! But in general, yeah I agree. I wish we were surprised more.
What a perfectly normal way to celebrate the birth of a baby
Unfortunately, you can't just simply tell anyone, because that's how most enjoyable places get ruined.
Their title should really say "now" at the end. It was definitely possible before. I know people who did it, and they weren't just bragging about fake gains. I saw the accounts. I saw the rigs. And I saw them go from one small house to a bunch of rental houses and a big mansion using day trading profits.

And they all retired before 2008.
L cancelling is not a bug, it is an altered feature from smash 64, where it was called Z-cancelling and removed all of the lag from aerial attacks.
I also have a hard time to believe, that wavedashing is a bug, as they specificlly implemented a state transition for wavelanding (hitting the ground while in the airdodge animation), it is more a clever exploitation of this mechanic by jumping and immediatly airdodging into the ground, thus carrying over a whole lot of momentum.
There are no cues from parallax motion in a static image though.
Again - if you've got the talents to make $20k/yr day trading, you can do much better working remotely at far less risk. So higher sharpe ratio.

Also the UP is pretty much miserable.
I assume you trading US markets? The US markets have been very volatile the last 1.5 years which makes for more optimal swing trading. If the market was either going down or up in a linear line, most hedge funds underperform in that scenario.
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The problem with crazy people making stuff in their basement is that, sometimes, people die from it.
Wow. I hope you don't build models for a living.
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The DeepBlue one doesn't seem to be a bug to me. If multiple moves seem equally good then choosing one at random seems like a fine decision making process
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There's the other alternative: The company needed no HIPAA data at all to infer the approximate due date:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...

That's from 2012, it's no surprise that the tools for identification have gotten better, even without doing things that are illegal.
You are right that Snowden deserves special recognition, but not at the expense of Assange.
I guess they just fired 450 people so it'll be hard to find the programmers to implement something that even superficially gives them the argument that it's a two-sided market. e.g. let drivers set their prices (but make it really hard to change their settings) and give passengers "the best deal" (but make it relatively difficult to search for other deals).
> healthier cities

> move through cities

> cities populated with these vehicles

This article seems to be forgetting how many people don't live in cities.

> For long distance trips, inclement weather, or for the elderly or disabled, of course cars will still play a role.

In the part of the US I live in, about about 4 continuous months of the year could easily be described as "inclement weather" and many of my coworker's daily commutes would qualify as "long distance trips" (with no mass-transit alternatives). A more traditional vehicle is not an option, it's a requirement, and electric vehicles seem like the most intimidate route to meeting that requirement while reducing the environmental impact.

While I think focusing on alternatives to cars in urban areas is a great idea, and has potentially massive benefits beyond even the obvious environmental impact, any long-term view of the automotive industry has to take into consideration the needs of the roughly 50% of the population that doesn't live in urban centers.
I thought this was priced in, seems like everyone expected it at least. Uber I thought was up due to layoffs.
This is an extremely heavy handed law which would be destructive to large parts of the economy by making many people’s livelihoods illegal.

The drafters of the law knew this, which is why 90% of the text of the law is carve-outs for various professions. But forcing people to live their lives through loopholes never works well.

For example, they have this carve out for high skilled professions:

> (3) An individual who holds an active license from the State of California and is practicing one of the following recognized professions: lawyer, architect, engineer, private investigator, or accountant.

Sorry, software engineers. An accountant or an architect might be allowed to take on lucrative contracts, but since the state of California doesn’t have a special piece of paper for your job, they’re not going to allow you to work in the way you choose.

Edit: I myself am a software developer who has enjoyed working contracts in the past and would like the option to do so again.
The FBI sat on incriminating info about Epstein for years and even still has yet to raid his New Mexico ranch for evidence. Given that he had damaging info on many people with their hands directly on the levers of power in "Western democracies" you'll have to excuse my skepticism that these agencies are acting in the interest of their common people.
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It totally can. My mum needed spinal surgery; it was moderately urgent, certainly mandatory and she still found time to shop around. She was overjoyed with the surgeon she dug up too.

As for the idea that only non-essential markets can be free - I live a pretty spartan existence. All the markets I participate in are basically at threat of death or catastrophic lifestyle disruption except for my internet connection and book collection.

In particular that point falls apart when food is considered. We had an inquiry into the price of milk in Australia because the greedy corporations were setting it too low. One of my favourite bits of parliamentary theatre ever.
I suppose there's no point in putting this off any further, eh?

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At this moment it is total vaporware. I should have some time this week to clone the Python 2 code and set up a virtual server farm to compile it and run test suite on some different platforms, as a start. (Or I just remembered srht has a "builds" tool that might be just the ticket.)
yeah. i remember when they finally nerfed it (cs 1.5 era?) so that it reset your speed to the max speed when you touched the ground... some people were pissed. in half life deathmatch, they actually made a pro-mod (adrenaline gamer) to put it back in https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=78376...
The idea of universal health care hasn't been tested by time yet (and in principal it will fail due to things I described above), so it's very reasonable that the US public rejects it.

Uhhh... nearly every other country other than the US has had some form of national health service for decades and they spend less on healthcare per capita for comparable quality.

What you're spouting is nonsense.
Thanks for the update; I no longer roll and don't follow the sport very much, but it makes me sad to hear that all-devouring reddit is eating Sherdog.

I suspect the future of forums is going to be stuff which is kicked off of platforms. For example: right wing people kicked out of reddit, or nude enthusiast types formerly of Tumblr or whatever. There's probably a r/bodybuilding reddit, but I bet it's tame and lame compared to the forum.
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Generally speaking, everything is political but I'm afraid you're confusing ideas with actions.

Those politicians are not in prison for 'having an idea', they're in there for actively acting against the current Spanish Constitution, against the Spanish Law, and against the regional Catalonian Law as well.

All of that using Public Funds.

About free speech, it's a Right with some limits, as any Right. For example, tell me whether in your opinion, thanks to that Right, anyone can 'sing' promoting hate against transsexuals, or promoting to kill Afro-Americans, or to torture children.
Similar to Turks in Germany under the Gastarbeiter program.

"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastarbeiter"
Wouldn't that still be allowed by this bill? If Uber reduced their control such that they could be considered contractors again?
Government departments are turned over like businesses, with new administrations.

If anything there is more changing, and stricter controls on (if you don't include departments like defense)
Hopefully we start to see some system-on-module (SoM) standards established soon.

DLT one (Damn Linux Tablet) is a project I recently discovered on Hackaday that’s taking this approach. One of the two SoMs being considered uses a SoC very similar to the one chosen for the Purism Librem 5. The other SoM is a Jetson Nano.

https://hackaday.io/project/164845-dlt-one-a-damn-linux-tabl...
You can always put MIT onto your resume without mentioning Media Lab. Anyway, Media Lab was (is?) the coolest part of MIT; pity they messed up badly by taking funding from Jeffrey.
From the bill:

(c) The misclassification of workers as independent contractors has been a significant factor in the erosion of the middle class and the rise in income inequality.

It really irks me that they can posit this in legislation without supporting data. It seems like a dubious claim, at best.
While you're correct it's not fine, not everyone has a smart phone or a TOTP device. There are some cases where SMS makes sense as 2FA since it's a reasonable compromise between having no 2FA or a TOTP device.
One child policies where? Most of the developed world has stagnant population growth.

Do you suggest imposing those restrictions elsewhere? Via what means, and how do you intend to enforce this within those countries?
Until 2 weeks ago, I would have answered: that I can’t use the same app/site to read RSS as I can to read documents that I manually saved, so I have 2 apps and queues (Feedbin and Instapaper) for 1 resource (my casual/quick reading time).

But… the service I use, Feedbin, just implemented that: https://feedbin.com/blog/2019/08/20/save-webpages-to-read-la.... The saved pages could use better categorization (tags/folders), but Feedbin has those for RSS feeds so I suspect they’ll exist eventually. If/when I can categorize saved pages and stop using Instapaper, I can’t think of anything else about Feedbin I’d change.
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What is an overdraft fee? How much is it? Is it interest?
They're taboo because they're abhorrent. I don't suppose you've spent a lick of time thinking of the implications of enforcing such a ban?
Imho the most important part of the article:

One concern with the study is that the authors generated the objects specifically from skeletons rather than deriving them from shapes, either natural or human-made, covered by skin, metal, or other materials that people encounter in their day-to-day life. “The shapes that they generated are directly related to the hypothesis they’re testing and the conclusions they’re drawing,” says James Elder, a professor of human and computer vision at York University in Toronto. “If we’re interested in how important skeletons are to shape and object perception, we can’t really answer that question by only looking at the perception of skeleton-generated shapes. Because obviously in a world of skeleton-generated shapes, skeletons are probably fairly important because that’s the way those shapes were made.”

I looked into the paper first and thought: yea well it's really not surprising, that the skeleton models are most predictive for the kind of objects they tested. Their skeleton really is all that defines them.

The only thing they tested and proved is: Skeleton models are predictive for human decision when recognizing objects made just from skeletons with little flesh and hardly any texture whatsoever.

Nevertheless I think skeleton models are a good thing for object recognition
Thanks for the comment. 100% it is a naive random policy search. The intention is to help those who might not be familiar with RL concepts understand basic tools & how to start playing around rather than diving into things like DQL, PPO, etc right away
I don't think that's how day trading is supposed to work. Successful day traders are supposed to make money whichever way the market is moving, by taking short positions when the market is going down and long when the market is up. Buy-and-hold investors (quite the opposite of day traders) are the ones who make money when the market as a whole goes up.
Exactly. With all of these proposed DNS replacements, support at the OS level is the first step to true adoption. Perhaps Linux-based OSes would be the places to start...
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> The US public does not want this, though

evidence? from 2017 shows more support than not.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/62-percent-u-s-want-fede...
When you setup TOTP 2FA, the application should offer a few one time use codes (google offers 10, for example). These can be copied and stored safely somewhere.

If you lose the one time use codes, then you're screwed. But that's the risk you face if you want the most simple and most secure method.
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The SoC, baseband, WiFi, etc. chips are okay, but the charging isn't?
Another big change post-Jobs has been the increase in information coming out of Apple and its suppliers prior to these press events. It used to be that we'd have a few rumors, but not a lot substantiated. Now, almost everything was known before the event, or was easily predicted. There were a few details which may not have been released prior, but nothing of significance. The camera, known. The sizes, predicted. Even the idea of "Pro" iPhones was out before the event.

What was actually new that wasn't anticipated, predicted, or leaked for this event? I think the 10.2" iPad may have been an unanticipated announcement. At least, it was not something I'd seen in articles I'd read prior to the event.

None of this is bad, but it changes the dynamic and energy of the press event. Whereas before it was about anticipation and discovery of the new things coming out, now it's just confirmation and filling in details. It's not interesting anymore. Maybe it doesn't need to be interesting, most of these things aren't. It's certainly not hurting Apple's sales for it to be more boring (the event) so long as people still buy their hardware and services.
My claim is that SMS as the only 2FA option never makes sense. Wherever 2FA is enabled, a TOTP option (or equivalent that doesn't rely on third parties) should be provided.
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I use mine primarily for software development and systems administration, and I'm not super picky about things like graphics and audio, so as far as those things go, I can't say much that would be helpful. Nor have I been running it long enough to expose the kind of defects that started this whole thread.

Overall though, the laptop feels well built. I like the key action (but personal preference). The hinge seems to be well made. Nothing flexes when opening or closing it. The screen, to my eyes, is fantastic, and with the Celicious anti-glare film on it, it works well in daylight.

It's wicked light. I don't love ultralight laptops and originally was trying to avoid them, but this one has almost all the ports I want (except for a mmc instead of sd card slot) and appears to be more serviceable than most modern non-ultralight laptops. One of the things I looked for was a user-replaceable battery, and surprisingly, this one should be. We'll see how much it actually sucks to replace in a couple of years.

If you try to run any Linux on the Gram 17, you will need the info at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203617
I agree that it's an important difference! And it matters a lot. I am just saying that the concept of "copies" is no more mysterious than the concept of "superposition", and if you can accept the latter then I don't see why you complain about the former.

As for collapse, Copenhagenists can't seem to explain why an interaction between a photon and electrons in a polarizing filter does not collapse the wave function, but an interaction between a photon and electrons in my retina does. They're made of the same stuff and should be following the same quantum rules; why does one of them perform a unitary transformation and the other a lossy projection?
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"One of the biggest problems in physics right now is that there are no experiments (except possibly this one) whose results are at odds with the Standard Model."

What about Neutrino masses? Or the Muon 'anomalous' magnetic moment?
We’re not participating in the trade negotiations though.
> Thankfully, the laws themselves don’t need to be amended. We simply need judges who will apply antitrust law as it was intended to be applied.

The problem is that in the US judges on all levels get appointed by politicians/presidents or, worse, elected instead of being on a career track like in Germany.

To fix antitrust (and a whole host of other issues) the US first needs to fix its judicial and election systems.