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> it's not clear to me why GLSL-to-SPIRV would be so slow. Would be great to hear back from Google.

Off the top of my head:

- glslang supports all previous GLSL versions and profiles, which adds many checks and corner cases throughout the code

- it's tricky to generate correct SPIR-V; for instance, it took me a while to properly understand the constraints around basic-block ordering

Disclaimer: I left Google in 2016 and haven't looked at glslang/shaderc since. I am only offering personal opinions here.
Progress is better than no progress..
Removing profit motives can only happen by reducing profit motives
>I had followed him for a few years on the MTBS3D forum when he was experimenting with various HMD prototypes (usually modding the heck out of the Forte VFX-1). He just seemed like a kid with a dream, and the will and ability to make it happen - and potentially revive VR for "Round 2".

He already worked in the military before the Kickstarter, I've seen posts on MTBS about his experimental VR stuff at Lockheed. He was 17 or 18 back then, most likely got the miltitary connection from a familiy member or somebody close.

If you're young like he was your political views are mostly shaped by the people who surround you. From interviews it's known that he was homeschooled and didn't have many friends, so most likely no punk rockers, hip hoppers, skaters or other street dudes who could influence his views in other directions.
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> 40% of the country is Trump supporters

Why muddy things? His approval rating isn’t analogous to 40% of our population’s support. It’s the support of individuals who bothered to spend time entertaining the poll. He has a very consistent approval rating with his base but you sound like the PR announcement after one of his rallies with inflated attendance counts.
dynamic types probably the first order reason and some unfortunate language choices being the 2nd order reason.
Sounds like you might be more of a lynchpin to the team than the other commenter (which isn't a negative to them). You could try being less available, say no more often, etc. But some people just can't get away from it.
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I hope they lose and have to pay more. While we are at it let’s close tax loopholes so companies don’t incorporate in other states from their hq just to pay less taxes.
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I'll be the first to admit I'm not the biggest fan of California (housing & homeless crisis spring to mind) but this is great.
The cynic and me sees this as a win... for the prison guards union.

It seems to me that whether public or private, prisons should have good, independent oversight. Pretending that the "profit motive" is the biggest issue overlooks the horrific abuses committed by guards in California's public prisons.
The US has been very hands on with South American politics (and not only those), so pretending now like their current state is solely the consequence of their own poor choices is ignorant at best.
They're still making a great point. Yeah it's progress but I think most people aren't aware of the extent of the problem, making further progress impossible. There's some really terrible abuses happening, like replacing visitors with video chat that you have to pay for.

More info: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/visitation/

Another example: getting rid of donated books and libraries in favor of paid tablets that also restrict the books you can buy, both for political and monetary reasons.
If our immigration laws were sane and humane I’d feel better about enforcing them, but sometimes laws are so unjust that the right thing to do is violate them.

It’s funny that you’ll see people on one hand talk about the laws Uber breaks or laws on piracy as bullshit inconveniences that need to be disrupted and on the other hand talk about immigration law as if it was holy writ.
As much some cities are struggling to figure out how to regulate them I think my city has basically nailed it first try. Give a license or two to certain companies to allow their scooters and other wise just use them like bikes. Keep them off side walks that are for pedestrians and otherwise use bike lanes. Just makes sense.
I think the parent is maybe using hyperbolic language, but I think, at least from my direct experience and second hand accounts, it is fair to say that, especially entry level and foundational, courses in STEM in US universities are used to "thin the herd". At my state school O-Chem and Physics I contributed to high drop and repeat-take rates. These things sure feel like "hazing" especially when you are told and then experience that the upper division courses are nothing like that, and you are suddenly treated better, from an intellectual standpoint.
https://get.thread-app.com/privacy-policy/

We may disclose personal information to:
...
third parties, including agents or sub-contractors, who assist us in providing information, products, services or direct marketing to you.

There's no marketing in iMessage, certainly not based on the things I type into iMessage.

Also, to be clear, "marketing" is advertising. You say "ad-free" but then you give yourself the right to advertise.

There's also nothing I can find about end-to-end encryption, which is one of the best features of iMessage. I almost exclusively use iMessage because I know Apple isn't spying on me. When friends message me on Instagram, I reply in iMessage.
I don't Terry Bogard.
So... it is antisemitic to notice that the Jericho-2 missile, equipped with nukes is capable of reaching LA? It is, you know! This is a fact.

https://fas.org/nuke/guide/israel/missile/jericho-2.htm

Also, it is illegal for the US to give foreign aid to non NPT compliant countries. Israel is a non-NPT compliant country.

I've been on here for years; under my real name. You just showed up shouting about Israel. Are you a Hasabra troll being paid to do this?

https://left.wikia.org/wiki/Hasbara_troll
I wonder if openalpr is helping.

https://github.com/openalpr/openalpr

basically:

alpr imagefile

will recognize a plate. It just as simple in python.
Yes, what I found interesting the growth in articles discussing the technology and even open-source projects for LPRs. It's like vehicle facial recognition. Because of this, I've always been intrigued by subversive/defense techniques that fit into the realm of ML - like adversarial patches. Essentially, surveillance in some form is becoming ubiquitous, and private companies especially in the US will probably lead the way. It seems necessary to keep these systems in check at the citizen/individual level because political systems are out-paced by the rate of technological developments.

I like the "Rolling QR code digital number plates" concept; are you aware of rolling QR codes used elsewhere?
well, one of the points to go with SPIR-V is to not standardize higher level languages that translate into it
Basically because it can be "meta-traced", and C can't (at least not easily).

The whole point of the PyPy project is to write a more "abstract" Python interpreter in Python.

VMs written in C force you to commit to a lot of implementation details, while PyPy is more abstract and flexible. There's another layer of indirection between the interpreter source and the actual interpreter/JIT compiler you run.

See PyPy's approach to virtual machine construction

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=36453268015981472...

This sentence explains it best:

Building implementations of general programming languages, in
particular highly dynamic ones, using a classic direct coding approach, is typically a long-winded effort and produces a result that
is tailored to a specific platform and where architectural decisions
(e.g. about GC) are spread across the code in a pervasive and invasive way.

Normal Python and PyPy users should probably pretend that RPython doesn't exist. It's an implementation detail of PyPy. (It has been used by other experimental VMs,
but it's not super popular.)
This is basically true but there are startups working on defense contracts (usually as subcontractors) ... Silicon Valley adds some cachet to the whole thing. The whole pitch is that traditional defense and government contractors are bloated, bid low, ramp up costs and deliver a subpar product (see the DMV as the referenced example #1) .. and that true innovation using off the shelf components can deliver results and value etc... It's messaging to catch the ear of politicians and/or decision makers as a way in and it's probably true in some cases. You do see big examples of cost overruns and failure to deliver.
> Or maybe cars should obey the speed limit, pass at a safe and reasonable distance, and not road rage at people? I mean, why does every new alternative travel mode need to work around the unacceptable and lawless US driver behavior?

Because this is reality, not a fantasy world.
True... the outrageous telephone call fees being just one completely unjustifiable thing that comes to mind.
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end of the legislative year, all bills are crammed in the last weeks
you just need to implement read-syntax ...
> Most fentanyl in the U.S. comes in via the unsecured border with Mexico

"Unsecured" is being asked to do an awful lot of work in that sentence. Smugglers aren't driving trucks full of contraband over the open desert through areas where Trump's (or Palmer's) "wall," whether real or virtual, would stop them. They're smuggling them through established checkpoints. If you want to reduce the drug trade, better techniques for catching smugglers at the checkpoints will help, and reducing demand -- which is being driven by customers in the United States -- will help even more. "Build the wall!" will not.

I'm sorry about your dairy-farming family in New England, but if we go by statistics rather than anecdotes, there's been a lot of studies on the modern industrial farming economy which conclude that trying to chase out all the undocumented immigrants is attacking the wrong side of the problem. If farmers weren't hiring them, they wouldn't come here to work. Most farmers will tell you that Americans won't work for the low wages that they feel they have to pay farm hands, so they have to hire those undocumented workers. They feel they have to pay the farm hands that low because the prices they can charge are largely set by their huge agribusiness customers. Going after the infamously exploited undocumented workers at the end of this whole chain isn't going to solve the problem.

In any case, there aren't actually many people in power in the US who are calling for "wholesale open border policies," the person you're responding to notwithstanding. The intense fight in the Trump era over this stems from the uncomfortable fact that the people we're seeing in camps and cages on the borders of the US, the people we keep trying to punish for coming here in ever more brutal fashion, are not trying to make illegal border crossings. They are coming here to legally apply for asylum.

If the world is serious about solving "the migrant crisis," then perhaps we should stop trying to desperately fight against people being displaced and driven out of their homelands and start trying to address the issues that are displacing them and driving them out.
Wearing a helmet is a good idea? Obviously, but you get much less fun out of that experience. Additionally you are suggesting we decelerate natural selection even more than we already have? Considering the number of humans around, I would consider the abolishing of common sense regulations to be a nett benefit for the Earth.
We have had border security being enforced for over 100 years.
As a tech person, I am treated like a machine, one that should be in a closet -- not seen or heard, they just want work output and they don't want my opinion about whether what they propose is a good idea or bad one (spoiler, most of them are astoundingly bad since non-tech managers are usually as dumb as a box of rocks). I hate my job and increasingly my whole life. It would be great to work for people who know the value of what you do, and the tremendous effort required to do things right, and to just ask the question asked here (with an obvious interest in a real answer and a compassionate ear to hear it).
The current legislative session is about to close.
Perhaps they are concerned that they'll end up in a private prison in another state.
"I don't think they want to hurt the USA, but I do think they would support an opponent of a politician that had been "heard" expressing a lack of interest in financial and military support for Israel."

Probably this. And they likely act with their friendly party in the know. "Feel free to keep an eye on your wife using my car when I'm away. But if she or anyone else catches you, I won't know who you are and will report a stolen car".
Maybe if they’re ambitious they can do something about the homeless crisis next.
Worldview 2 has a band that is specifically intended for shallow water.
They're a bit blunt, maybe, but I don't see any derision. They described factually how Texas prepares for their summer heat, and expressed hope that France can do the same now that their climate is changing.
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I feel like this is a common argument, but a bit disingenuous. One of the major reasons venvs are more complex and less portable than node_modules is it's fairly rare for node to bind to c/c++, but very very common for python to do so.
I can confirm. They might use your origin account country?
Really the "problem" of overtourism feels like a stack of pretenses but it does bring to mind an issue of concentration and trying to make a system to help coordinate information on crowding, prices, etc. and lead tourist distribution to become more even which would be a bit more optimal for all involved both for enjoyment of tourists and infastructure return on investment and reliability of industries. It almost sounds like a job for travel agencies except for the obsolescence of their model.
Many legislatures including ones in the united states have readings of many laws over time, and then revisit passing them all at once

Instead of sporadically throughout the year

California being the 5th largest world economy and relevance to the silicon valley population simply becomes of interest on this site

Other states arent just twiddling their thumbs but it is interesting what California legislature is passing
It makes you wonder what shady stuff that the public would never approve of could be flying under the radar.
Counterpoint: Paris is denser than Tokyo (by almost a factor of 3! 21k persons/km for Paris vs 7k persons/km for Tokyo, only a little higher than NYC). While I’ve never heard Tokyo referred to as “undesirable” (though I have heard “crowded”) in the first place, to say Paris is “undesirable” is to objectively fly in the face of mass media and popular perception of society’s regard for the “city of love”

Density does not automatically mean low quality of life, and in fact could just as easily enhance it: what matters is good city planning and design, and I’d very much argue that in e.g. LA (where I live) the vast majority of single family homes in the city are in areas where it makes no sense for them to be, lowering the quality of life for even those that own and live in the home (e.g. single family homes right next to highways and commercial corridors? why?)

In my opinion, the idea that California is “full” is immensely dangerous. Especially considering the fact that SF and LA are losing net population yearly — and yet the rents are still increasing and our suburbs are still sprawling further and further out. Density is the solution, not sprawl and not limiting who can come here.
September 13th is the last day for the legislature to pass bills in the current session.
It's okay to solve one issue at a time.
signing very important things at the last minute is part of negotiations strategy.. the bills can and do change overnight
It is feasible, although I would be surprised if it something like this were at play. For one thing the other CEO Brown and Simons himself are on the opposite side of the political spectrum. That's not any guarantee but my point is that these organizations aren't monolithic...if there were geopolitical impacts hopefully someone would leak. But even if rentech were completely amoral, they probably still wouldn't do it just because the risk/reward asymmetry is too great. Sounds like it'd fall more to the FBI than SEC; much higher penalties. Too much of the rest of the business is profitable. These people have a lot to lose. And when hedge funds engage in bad behavior, it tends to look more like this [1]. Perfectly legal, yet still harming society, in my (less informed) opinion.

What keeps me up at night is not rentech but state actors, like you said, hostile foreign nations. They have the resources to pull it off and plenty of motivation...trading profits would just be icing on the cake, really.

Here's an amateur-level manipulation example you may find interesting [2]. Could rentech do this more subtly with 10x impact? Like I was saying, it may be feasible...still kinda doubt it. If this happens my guess it would be a fund that was no longer profitable, on it's way out, they have nothing left to lose, all this computing power laying around...

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-27/windst...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-21/german-so...
It's complicated.

Despite what CPC propaganda would have you believe, Cantonese and Mandarin are essentially different languages[0][1]. Even inside the Cantonese topolect, there are certain mutually unintellible dialects. A notable example is Taishanese, which is not mutually intelligible with Guangzhou or Hong Kong Cantonese, yet they speak it in Jiangmen which is a city just next to Zhuhai.

On the east side of the river: Shenzhen, Dongguan and especially Huizhou has/had a lot of Hakka-speaking communities. Hakka is not mutually intelligible with either Cantonese or Mandarin. In the PRD there were also many other local village dialects that have largely died out today.

The point is that in mainland China, the CPC mandated that everyone learn Mandarin (a "high class" version of the Beijing topolect) so that everyone in the country would have a common language. In China, Mandarin is called Putonghua which literally means "common language". It is the language of education and the lingua franca, but at home people still tend to speak their own language.

The impression i get in Hong Kong is that many Hongkongers only speak Hong Kong Cantonese, or if they do speak a second language it is English. Even ignoring the traditional/simplified difference in written Chinese, this lack of a common language can create a barrier for communication with Chinese on the mainland.

[0] https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=21415

[1] https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=42260
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End of legislative session (so a lot of bills that need to either be passed or die are getting final action), the first legislative session under a new governor that is slightly more progressive and much less a believer in relatively narrow focus on policy change at any one time than his predecessor, and a Democratic supermajority.
> Parsing Lisp in Lisp is so easy because it’s free.

You just have to implement an s-expression reader.

Plus an interpreter, compiler or a code walker, which can actually parse the Lisp code.
But most modern automation doesn't create new jobs or new technologies, the infrastructure for automation already exists and is stable. It just removes jobs, and at an unprecedented scale.

If that were true then we'd see record unemployment and virtually no open job reqs. We see the opposite, therefore, it isn't true. In the UK unemployment is at near all time lows, wages are climbing 3x faster than inflation. It's a good time to be a worker despite equally record levels of automation.

As for which jobs are absorbing people whose former work was automated, who knows?

If you insist on endless cynicism, a lot of the people freed up by automation of food factory jobs went and got worthless degrees and now sit in comfy offices creating pointless PowerPoints, earning/burning money to justify the bosses departmental budget. Don't assume everyone who started out burger flipping stays in food service forever!
Unfortunately no, my father had an intercerebral hemorrhagic stroke and in a coma with a bad prognosis as the bleed reached his brainstem and enter a ventricle.

I wish I could spend more time with him, work consumed me. Everyone please let your parents know you love them. Life hits you hard when you least expect it.
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The US is not a single person, spying on one doesn't bother the other.

But in general the US doesn't really care if Israel spies on it, and Israel doesn't care when the US does.

All countries spy on each other, and all countries know it. There's a tacit agreement to make some noise when it goes public, but otherwise move on and not care.
>Two of Ice’s largest immigrant detention centers in California

Can somebody explain to a legal immigrant why The Guardian keeps omitting the illegal part over twelve times throughout the article?
> Without support from the USA, it would not be possible for Israel to defend itself.

That is simply plain wrong.

Maybe they couldn't defend against the uncountable human rights accusation and other countries putting international pressure on them.

Maybe not under their current polices, ie forced land acquisition, forced demographic change and so on.

> Much of their spying on the USA is not to harm the USA, but to ensure the USA is still on their side.

In many ways that makes it worse.

> I don't think they want to hurt the USA, but I do think they would support an opponent of a politician that had been "heard" expressing a lack of interest in financial and military support for I don't think they want to hurt the USA, but I do think they would support an opponent of a politician that had been "heard" expressing a lack of interest in financial and military support for Israel.

They do that literally every day. This is quite well known and well document. You can actually go and read the stories from the congress-man who opposed Israel and what that actually means in practice.

They also heavily influence things like who is appointed for diplomatic and other positions.

They are currently very much directly influencing the democracy of the US so it will act with their foreign policy goals to the clear determent of actual US strategic interest.
I don't mean that structure in selectors should never be expressed, but I do think that selector complexity should be avoided. Nesting seems to encourage selectors of arbitrary depth, while having them always start with no context seems to discourage making them too deep.

In any case, I found this Editor's Draft[1]. I don't know what the current plans are for it, though.

[1] https://tabatkins.github.io/specs/css-nesting/
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That's neither clear nor unambiguous. The text I highlighted including their summary of it states there is a reduction of code. Not only that, the "both APIs" part you're mentioning isn't even pertaining to the code but rather the execution of the pipeline.

My point is, and has been, that they should focus on the perf gains and reduce the misleading sentiment that it has simplified the API footprint.
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