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This is a terrible development. MS is just messing up small time programmers jobs.
But good thing is that these new policy can be hacked and use offline account can be restored.
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He will help solve this problem
> sadly Linux is not really an option because I like my PC gaming.

This is changing and very quickly with Valve Proton. I would advise you try your gaming collection in Steam on Linux. It is getting to the point where one can purchase a game and it will likely just work, with the exception of a few DRM nasties.
Imagine you could store the hydrogen (protons) in a convenient, safe form called a "battery"
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In all fairness to the author, casually maintaining any major changes to V8 or Chrome for more than a month is borderline impossible. The whole codebase undergoes massive churn on a release-to-release basis. There are projects like LibCEF that have the rug pulled out from under them every release or two because some major subsystem got completely overhauled.

So, the difficulty of maintaining the v8 changes is kind of meaningless. The fact that it's possible at all is the interesting part!
The statement seemed anything but obtuse to me; to me it highlights one of the bigger problems that people who hire have, finding someone who is able to "meta up", someone who sees not just problems, but classes of problems and how to systematically classify problems and derive suitable systems that can solve those problems in a generic way. In other words, write programs to write programs (an obvious case of which is a compiler).
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Thing is, looks like that Valve would be prevented to forbid reselling of an account on these grounds...
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A lot of stuff is just there because it was always there. Go ahead and brake that. But understand first which ones can be ignored and which ones not.

Chesterton’s Fence:

In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.

—G.K. Chesterton, “The Thing,” 1929
It clearly is just the beginning of what is possible. And a cool thing to show people.
Good luck claiming the guarantee if something else breaks afterwards...
Whoopsie, guy has too many libraries ;) And yeah I got the 1st ed of PBRT immediately in 2004, have both his and Matt Pharr's autographs in it.
We use C++ and care about real time performance, but also use this JSON library, the thing is that we use JSON for loading and configuring data which happens during load time which is infrequent and don’t need JSON during the critical update path.

Previously we used rapid json which is faster but the syntax of the nlohmann json is nicer and it is much quicker to develop with.. we also use python a lot so the familiarity between the 2 is also useful, some of the other C++ json libs can have quite convoluted api’s for dealing with values, objects and arrays.
I have generally the same policy, but i have given perhaps 1% 3 or 4-star ratings on Uber/Lyft.

Why? Unnecessarily aggressive driving. Not road rage and not unsafe per-se but 10 lane changes in 3 miles, none of them smooth or signalled. Dramatically excessive perfume in the car. Neither is a safety issue; neither is worth a formal complaint to the platform; both are annoying.

For CS reps and the like, many (most?) companies using 1-10 scales treat 9 and 10 the same (promoter), 7 and 8 the same (passive), and 1-6 the same (detractor). See also “net promoter score”
The entire US power grid commits generators and dispatches them using MIP solvers. This is a pretty enormous problem with hard time constraints. We're talking about millions of constraints.

Edit: well to be more specific, commitment is done with MIP solvers (difficult problem) and dispatch is done with LP solvers (easy and fast).
Official Suport for Xilinx means "should work some of the time", provided you use this old and bloated daemon to communicate over USB. You will still need a separate hardware killswitch to work remotely, because the driver is flaky as hell.
There’s constructive criticism and then there’s just saying something because you normalize negativity. Try focusing on the positive.
>the hardest thing about using it was getting in the habit of using it, so I stopped using it.

I guess at this point, you could try another Habit app to help you use the existing one? :P

Jokes aside, I think it can take over 2 months for a new habit to be properly formed - so you'll want to stick out your habit app/gym routine/earlier wake-up times for at least 2 months before deciding if they're effective: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ejsp.674
An introduction to 99 percentile for programmers, With example in Go
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On the other hand: I'm a bit surprised at how many people are writing JSON and care about the performance.

The overwhelming majority of our IO is reading / writing data files, but those are stored in an optimized binary format. The configuration / metadata accounts for a much smaller fraction of IO. For this tiny fraction we care about flexibility and readability, a slow JSON parser is fine.
Self-Enumerating Pangrams (1999)
Except that the landlord recuperates (passes) the taxes via the rent, so the renter pays it all. It makes no sense to tax the landlord.
This for sure. I love my iMac 27” 5k simply because how text looks on it so much better than even a 28” 4K. 220 DPI is a magical number
The Church of Techno-Optimism
Your second paragraph there seems to refute your position. If you can't tell physiologically then how are you telling that "most vertebrates experience mental states". You seem to be arguing for an assumed position starting from that position (petitio principii).

And I agree that physiological responses aren't the best way to show mental states. I cry sometimes for no reason whatsoever, my eyes just leak; you can't infer fear just because a creature backs away from fire, either.
Sorry, not my rant. See here: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/12/29/the-perils-of-java...

(Also, don't read anything into my user name. I just happened to make my first comment about something related to java and then never logged out.)
I have to agree. I am using SBCL for all of my Common Lisp work and highly appreciate it. I am able to fulfil my graphical tooling needs with LTk, but I think SBCL would have gained by officially adopting one of the available UI libraries and consequently offering more GUI tools out of the box.

But being as it is, it is easy to load a GUI library of your choice and as a Lisp implementation SBCL is just great.
What is the reasoning behind that? Putting a major desktop product as part of the cloud organization seems a bit ridiculous from afar.
Varroa destructor: the honeybee's most fearsome enemy
As long as the dilemma to the user is presented as no privacy and get the job done vs privacy but don't get the job done, consent will be given.
Trillions Upon Trillions of Viruses Fall from the Sky Each Day (2018)
That is how bullies are made, through emotional trauma.

The cycle repeats as long as it has to for us to see it, accept responsibility and build a better society where it doesn't need to happen.
The entire analysis is based on reports of abuse. AFAICT there's nothing to suggest the actual number has increased.

In fact, this could even be a sign that the system is working -- we're flagging, removing and investigating these cases.

It's ostensibly true that the government isn't equipped to fight the root cause, but I can't help but wonder to what extent this is paving the way for more mass surveillance.
NASA wants to send nuclear rockets to the Moon and Mars
This only applies in places like the USA where college is expensive. In places where is not expensive, the barriers are much lower. Perseverance is important and can be measured, in part, by how people go about completing long term projects like getting a degree.
My father is almost 80 and had hip surgery. Part of the danger of getting old & feeble is becoming isolated.

Any chance to enable mobility without compromising safety, theirs or others, is a huge win.
Elon Musk, Man of Steel, Reveals His Stainless Starship
Demo scene programming that will knock your socks off (2009)
> I think it mainly shows just how ineffective and inept the established players have become. The companies and organizations that got us to the moon 50 years ago still exist but seem to have lost a lot of their ability to get things done.

This is assuming the moon landing's objective was space exploration. If instead you think of that as a gigantic muscle flexing and chest thumping intimidation exercise, that ultimately led to the USSR's losing the arms race and the Cold War, then it was a very efficient allocation of resources.
It really depends on your video game tastes, I think. There are now essentially three types of games which I enjoy playing:

1) Indie games;

2) Big studio releases (some of them);

3) Competitive online 3D shooters.

My experience is that 1) usually work well on Linux and the small studios these days usually make sure it works on Mac and Linux, which is great.

I do not know of any games in the 2) category that really do work on Linux (Activision, Ubisoft and EA simply don't care) and this actually impacts me in 3) -- unless I want to play a 7 year old CS:GO, I am out of luck on Linux.

(Just to be clear, I am saying this as a person that has Linux at work & on my laptop and who would really love to get rid of my Win 10 on my gaming desktop PC. For gaming lovers with different tastes, I think the situation actually is not that bad if you are willing to have a console at home -- you can cover 1) and 2) this way, just not 3).)
They aren't aware of it though.

I guarantee you that if brand X would have explicitly stated what they were doing the outcry would have ended it all rather quickly.

They have nothing to fear or lose. So that one guy gets his promotion while everyone's privacy is sold for pennies.
Your life circumstances may not present practical uses... But I can assure you they exist.
US Social Media Platforms Will Be Forced to Share Encrypted Messages with UK
If you know you only get small JSON files, e.g. for configuration and so on, then - yes, you might not care about the parser performance and be more interested in the elegance of its API.
I’m confused as to what value GoodRx adds in the payer - provider - patient chain?

Is this another data harvesting play? Why would insurance companies give GoodRx a piece of their revenue? They all have their own PBMs.

Why would a pharmacy give them a piece of their revenue? They can just charge $0.01 less to the patient and not have to pay a commission to GoodRx.
> The rest of the list is mostly: I don't believe/agree with you.

All of what I mentioned is documented on my site and in a lot of cases I've recorded and published unedited videos of my WSL (v1) / Docker based dev environment.

You are free to believe what you want, but I'm not lying. If it were not as good as a claimed I wouldn't be using it for full time development / video creation.
> Building read models gets very tiresome

In what way does it get tiresome? In the increasing amount of read models needed?
You still need to be in sight of the vehicle, so the car would still have to be located near the store entrance. And as this article shows, you have to have a good, unobstructed view of the car in order to not accidentally run into something.
In some places, it is, but in many places is an exaggerated demand that cannot be easily satisfied. There are some hot sports on the planet where everyone wants to be there, of course that is not really possible and this leads to unhealthy demand.
Fraud is/was the main reason for receipts. Without the physical receipt it's possible for the cashier to make a transaction that is not recorded by the cash register/Point of Sale terminal and they can then pocket the cash. Used to be a print receipt was the only option. Things have changed...
This is one of the things that disgust me about dealing with Windows.

Oh, you want to properly administrate your Windows? You can't unless you buy another Windows! But a more expensive one!

You are unable to wade through our byzantine licensing maze? Buy another Windows to manage that!

Expensive Microsoft solutions for problems created by Microsoft. And then there's this entire army of sods that think this is the best thing since sliced bread, telling you "Isn't it fantastic that Microsoft provides this wonderful solution?"
Not at all. Alexa in known for uploading plenty of audio recordings. If phones were doing the same on a large scale people would notice the network traffic!
These little steps towards usable QC keep coming. Is there a paper or doc that outlines what breakthroughs are still needed before we can consider ECC or RSA broken? Is QC interesting for signal processing? How would having a million Qbits in my iPhone change us?
An important bit of context is that this is a talk from the workshop "MoreVMs", which is about -- you guessed it -- language VMs and not systems VMs. In that context, the qualifier is not necessary.

In more general contexts I tend to write "language VMs" explicitly.
Thanks! Indeed I should have said "no more difficult to maintain than V8 in general... i.e. well beyond a researcher's means".
In your experience, does google's or-tools library have any chance in comparison?
> Nobody has tested it recently

Whatever worked is highly unlikely to stop working. You can expect better support than in past test.

> What does 'Gold' mean?

https://wiki.winehq.org/AppDB_Rating_Definitions
Isn't lisp older than shell? :)
SpaceX always beats my expectations, unlike Tesla.
Ok, so, from the article:

1. Lexus backed into Tesla

2. Nearly collided, on a busy lot, both cars stopped in time.

I’m really not seeing a problem yet.

Just an alarmist, fake news article.
Is Windows necessary? I used macs when I was a kid, and now Ubuntu. Never had to deal with any of this OS-level garbage.
They have been working on SVG backend for quite a while to get real vector printing, still not done.
Corporate surveillance "pollutes" democracy like a car pollutes the air we breathe.

You'll get away with using a internal combustion engine. You'll be fine.

But you are harming me and everybody else.
It's not just the price of the tuition. For example, in Europe a lot of the tuition is very cheap, but if you don't live on the same city as the college is, many can't afford to pay to have a child to live for years in another city, plus pay the frequent trips home, and all the other expenses that come with it.
Can confirm, was able to run Live 9 on W7 in VirtualBox on ~decade-old hardware earlier this year. It was easy and worked like a charm. Was running Arch Linux at the time, and used the VM images from here: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/v...
Woah congrats. I have watched a stream or two of yours and it looks really interesting.

I really liked your marketing document and think others might find it really useful, hope you don't mind me linking it here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TiSmB7IaWpIf_7cUWzk7GAtR...

(let me know if you are not ok with that and I'll edit the comment)
I definitely had to Google how as I missed this text in my latest install
Ouch. :-) There's a lot more to it than that, though wrapping malloc is certainly one part of it. (Reminds me I should finish my blog post on why wrapping malloc reliably is way harder than it should be.)

But the key idea is to avoid introducing new abstractions -- anything that liballocs formalises should be commonly "lurking" in there already. So types and allocators are OK, but apartments would not be. It's not a new programming model... the newness should be at the meta-level only, i.e. ways of describing what existing code already does.
I actively avoid companies that do adversarial interviewing like that. It's a key flag for a toxic work culture.
Or a Lofstrom loop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_loop

Or you could fly a high-altitude airplane into a skyhook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook_%28structure%29
And it doesn’t seem like you can leave your car at the entrance, which also means you are only saving yourself half of the round-trip.
I think Chrome (PC/Android) implements synthetic bold by expanding the glyph outline, then drawing it with subpixel off. It's prettier than Firefox's "horizontal-only extrusion", but sometimes leads to funny artifacts at sharp corners.
I think Qubes OS targets your use case. It has support for Windows 7 although I never got around to trying it out.
Hard pass on companies that "interview" that way. Toxic.
Conceptually you can't because you can put as a citizen any requirement to make a canary that the law cant compel you to do. For example, you can pay to publish the canary: the state can't compel you to spend money on it. Or you can make a small petty crime with it (say, an IP Violation).

In places where there are limits to what the government can do to an with you, its possible to resist.
What’s a “full mental model of the immediate world”? I’d argue that nobody has anything approaching “full”. You have “enough to get by” and that’s all computers need as well. This isn’t a full sentient AI, it’s just sensing the world and navigating a path, at an industrial scale.
I would def put Punjana in as super sub for Yorkshire Gold if I couldn't get YG.
AI used in UK job interviews to find the best applicants
All 3 books are interesting
And UNC is a top tier CS school, not even close to representative of "local branch campus".

My undergrad OS course didn't even have us implement malloc or free... CMU's sophomore systems course is a lot more rigorus, let alone their OS course.

And that's in systems courses where the variance is actually a lot smaller than in other subfields. There was simply no course in my undergraduate institutions curriculum where you could learn what a Turing machine or even DFA was! We never saw real asymptotic complexity analysis (our algorithms course spent most of the semester reviewing basic data structures as interview prep). Obviously no AI or ML course. Even where there was coverage the material covered was so different. For example, the PL course was all about using a functional PL and didn't include any of the type theory, logic programming, language implementation work, etc. It was a watered down version of SICP, which is an intro course.

If you think the difference in quality between UNC and CMU is large, consider the massive difference between branch campuses and top-ranked public research universities. For all practical purposes, "CS" means something very different at regional branch campuses than at top tier research universities like UNC and CMU.
I get that there are plenty of "job-hoppers" here. I wish they would start more businesses instead.
Minority rule: if a minority of disabled people can get around by summoning their car, then - all costs being equal - their families will always buy a Tesla. Apple's ecosystem also benefits from the iPhone having the best accessibility features, thus drawing in all developers working on accessibility software.

https://nassimtaleb.org/tag/minority-rule/
When you buy most Android phones and want to use them in the way most people do, you're going to be dancing with Google Services.
Interesting that the author makes no mention of CLR, Microsoft’s attempt at the same thing which has been around for 20 years.
Not putting effort into making Windows better is different than telling all the .9 billion Win10 users to go f themselves.

But still, if all those .9 billion Windows users still decide that FOSS is too hard, who am I gaf?
This is what the market wants. There are good alternatives like BSD, Solaris, various Linux distributions for those that want more control. And for those that enjoy the lock in there is also Apple devices and Chromebooks. It would be interesting if Intel and others would create an open Linux core enterprise pre installed OS with decentralized options for support and services.
My way requires a separate receiver but at least not a separate remote... TV speakers just weren't enough for me.

I have a 6+ year old dumb panel that has S/PDIF and RCA "audio out" connectors.

I run HDMI from a Pi to my TV, then S/PDIF to a receiver for full surround sound. Volume control is either done through the TV remote or Kodi, the receiver stays on 24/7. With CEC, the TV remote can also control Kodi.
It might be part of the technical spec but almost certainly not part of the product spec.

The end user does not care about the programming language.
Long life for a Linux!
> (makes money but there are maybe ten users per hour tops, why would I need kubernetes for that?).

The idea is that you move your low traffic app onto servers with other low traffic apps and save money. If they’re just moving your app to a kubernetes cluster by itself it’s probably not worth it.
> They don't have a general purpose quantum computer, in particular, they can't run Shor's algorithm to factorize numbers and break a big part of encryption methods.

What limitations does it have, other than not having enough qubits to run Shor's algorithm (Scott Aaronson mentions it would require thousands of logical qubits, translating to possibly millions of physical qubits due to error-correction requirements)?

Scott's FAQ says: "The key difference with Google’s effort is that they have a fully programmable device—one that you can program with an arbitrary sequence of nearest-neighbor 2-qubit gates, just by sending the appropriate signals from your classical computer."

Unfortunately, I don't know what "arbitrary sequence of nearest-neighbor 2-qubit gates" means and what kinds of algorithms are out of reach for that method.
> As other commenters have noted, this is more a testament to the phenomenal safety of nuclear weapons

Exactly, there were numerous nuclear accidents with B-52s, but due to the safety of nuclear warheads, no explosions. Googling the phrase “b-52 nuclear accidents” shows a long list of them.
Advertising? “We have a big group of users, and being featured with us will cost you X and bring Y more sales”.

Price comparison sites is not a new thing?
Thought provoking and it's be interesting to try out on a project. There were some hand wavy sentences around legacy systems:

"With proper buy-in, the organization can agree to not alter the existing system. Instead, dealing with bugs and adding new functionality is done on the side as a side-car solution."

But I understand their point. Kinda like strangling the monolith--sometimes the best way forward is to start over.

Has anyone actually done this and seen the flat cost curve? I worry that the components will be entirely independent in theory, but not in practice.
Her zines are awesome - she's good to follow on twitter too:
https://twitter.com/b0rk
I wish puzzles would indicate whether it's something language/decimal-notation based, vs something fundamentally mathematical based, before spending time on it
Also VMS was an operating system for DEC VAX and Alpha back in the day. Fond memories of it, it is still more advanced in some ways than modern OS’s. I believe there may have been a port of it to Itanium but I’ve never seen it.
640 qubits ought to be enough for anybody
A nice JavaScript utility function class for beginners
If it was major surgery, that's the only way they should ride in a car for now, as a passenger.