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I would love to see something with a Flash-like UI. I'm not sure if there is a place for it in the middle-school market anymore, though. I'll explain why:

I think an interesting part of my experience was that it started with watching. I just loved the videos and thought they were hilarious. I admired the people who made those videos and I wanted to join that circle of creators. And Flash didn't prevent me from doing that. Not only that, but it was a specific low-effort style of animation. The path from consumer -> producer was short.

So really, I think you have to look at what people are consuming, and then try and make it easy for them to "participate." I'm not sure if people are consuming Flash-style animations anymore. (Maybe they are, and I just aged out of the demographic.)

It seems like a lot of that creative energy has moved to sandbox games like Minecraft for now, where that community of creators and would-be creators still exists, and away from animation and Web design.
>Maybe it's a pun?

In the years when it was produced the pun here would have resulted in "10 years in GULAG without right for communication with outside world". Not even speaking about intentional pun, to get how fearful people felt about making just accidental mistake - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_(1975_film) for example has a scene showing it pretty well.

I'm surprised by GP's translation and insistence. The translation is just simply incorrect language-wise. Just ask any Russian. While so totally incorrect the translation though has very deep Zen like qualities to it which would sound pretty profound in some other contexts and about some other persons. USSR and Lenin is just very far from Zen :).
You imply that Telegrams “Gram” has any buyers other than the early bagholders.
> I don't understand why the SEC (america) has jurisdiction to 'block' Telegram's operations (legal domicile in London)

Because Telegram “committed to flood the U.S. capital markets with billions of Grams by October 31, 2019” and “sold more than 1 billion Grams to 39 U.S. Purchasers, raising $424.5 million from the U.S. market” [1].

[1] https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2019/comp-pr2019-2...
All cloud providers have prepackaged VM/Containers with all the versions aligned and GPU libraries + DL frameworks preinstalled with full GPU support enabled. They are generally called things like Deep Learning container/VM/AMI.

I always try to use one of those.
I'll add two other benefits:

1. Poor people can group up to split both the membership fee and bulk items. Especially things like soap or razors with big discounts.

2. Costco also makes healthier stuff available at low cost that you might not match per ounce or whatever elsewhere. The Grow Right Orange Juice (2-pack), mix of rice/amaranyh/eyc (5-pack), and Go Organic Detergent are examples in our household. This will appeal to working-class and up mostly but some poor people still get some healthy stuff. Esp for kids or folks that are sick. Aldi is first choice, though, since remodel added tons of healthier stuff.
Yeah, 2advanced.com was a mind-blowing experience the first time I saw it.
The postmarketOS project is working on mainlining drivers for other devices. They're almost done wrt. the LG Nexus 5, which is their current flagship (though mobile voice/data support is still problematic)
Flash was to multimedia what Delphi was to GUI programming. They made it easy and fun. Then we managed to make everything complicated and brittle.
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Funny, I did the same thing at Uni and was accused of cheating. Never wanted to smack an old man before.
This twitter thread is about books being directly sold by Amazon being counterfeit, not seller marketplace items.
Coming from France, finding out that there is added sugar in most products abroad (corn syrup, fructose, lactose, etc), including bread shocked me (I mean, even in mustard... which is alien to me). That may be a lead to follow?

Or that may be due to different yeasts? I'd suggest she tries to bake with imported ingredients, then local ones, and mix/match to find the culprit.
Laid off from my first full-time job! Started at RIM/Blackberry in Jan 2012 in the BB OS group working on BB10. Was laid off in March 2013.

Got 10 weeks of severance so I was funemployed for most of the rest of that year.

Did some freelancing, projects, and went on a month-long backpacking trip.
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I understand what HiQ have done. I'm saying I believe there's a material difference between public data for consumption by individual human beings, and systematic commercial harvesting. I appreciate that in the US, there may be no legal distinction between types of consumption of public data. Public data is public. However, I'm arguing that any commercial use or of my data beyond fair-use, should require my permission and an explanation of how my data will be stored and treated, so that I can be assured that my rights (over further unauthorised use) are preserved.

EDIT: It occurs to me that HiQ's success over LinkedIn does not necessarily imply they would be successful against actual LI users in a GDPR-like jurisdiction. Also, what if LI turned around and allowed each user to specify a style of CC license under which their specific data is published (by LI on behalf of the user). If I specified a non-commercial license variant, would that disallow HiQ's actions (without seeking permission)?
Details including the exact amount of SoftBank’s potential investment couldn’t be learned, but executives at SoftBank figure We needs at least $3 billion to get through the next year

This is insane.
Add most electronics, IMO, especially things like memory cards and hard drives.
when what the user really wants to know is "How many more songs or photos can I store?"

That depends on how large they are, and that can vary widely, which is why abstracting away files (or more specifically, file size) is such a bad idea.
> telegram launches anyway, and the SEC does... what exactly?

Refers Telegram to the DoJ for criminal prosecution, which results in bank accounts being frozen, any SAFT holders (or anyone else) who sold their Grams being on the hook to the buyers, and the seizure of Telegram’s assets in America and anywhere else with a mutual prosecution treaty, which covers much of the EU.

At the point of wilfully defying a court order to sell securities, it becomes fraud and potentially money laundering.
I mean, all of that still applies to small engines.

Even in cars, you still need to clean/change your air filter an change your oil and oil filter, even if you pay someone else to do it. There's still coolant, that needs additives (e.g. antifreeze), and windshield wiper fluid that needs to be checked and filled.

I don't think it's asking people too much to have a basic concept, maybe 1 or 2 why's deep, of how the devices they own and use function.
They're active in the US, selling to US investors, ...
Let me tell you a little story. There is an area North of Amsterdam, where they stashed some by-products of the Agent-Orange production during the Vietnam war.

2-4-5T and a bunch of other nasties (Dioxins). That's bad industrial waste, not radioactive but still, you really don't want it near your village or water supply.

Those vats were stored there at the end of the Vietnam war and conveniently forgotten (by Philips Duphar). It was only about 10,000 barrels of junk, a very small fraction of your initial 32x32x32 meter cube, less than 10%.

It took decades to clean it all up, and some parts of it will never be cleaned up because we can't dig deep enough. Because in the meantime the Dioxin had made it into the groundwater plume, the damage of which will not be known for another couple of decades.

If that had been radioactive waste they wouldn't have been able to do much about it for another couple of hundred years.

I don't follow your push to minimize this problem, it is a huge issue and just thinking of a 'a single city made of high-level radio active waste' makes my skin crawl. Such a place should not exist, and the Philips-Duphar story should give you at least one datapoint on why burying stuff and letting future generations deal with it so we can have our perks today is not - in my opinion - a viable strategy.

Energy is a great thing but we are not lacking for energy at all, it's raining energy continuously, we are awash in it. But just like with a rain of soup, if you bring a fork you're not going to do much.
That seems like illogical reasoning.

The fact that Blizzard has banned people for making political statements before does not mean that there were no ancillary motivations in this instance.

You may feel otherwise, but I don't think a pattern of previous behavior unambiguously resolves the motivation behind an action.
No, Papert's constructionism is exactly what I'm pointing at. My phrase, "making with code," was meant to suggest that like maker education, this approach to introductory CS emphasizes personal relationships with powerful ideas, through personally-meaningful projects done in a community of practice. By leading with Terminal, I hope to emphasize students' laptops as tools for making things, not just providing access to content.

A lot of current approaches prioritize scalability over everything else, leading to canned and sandboxed curricula.

I'm curious, though, whether this is in tension with your understanding of constructionism.
Have you tried batch inference on the GPU? In my experience it increases throughput by an order of magnitude.
animated vector graphics? Browsers only have data-intensive pixel graphics codecs. Also, the vector graphics support that they do have is pretty limited and slow. Anyways, I'm glad that flash is dead, because it was proprietary software and constant source for security bugs.
That would be an interesting situation.

I feel sure that the US would finds ways of shutting it down,
but the idea of just going ahead with their plans and maybe block the US from their network would be legally and politically interesting to watch.
If you feel the urge to animate something right now, try http://flipanim.com, it has an awesome non-commercial feel.
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Holy moly. I thought it was a thing with my phone and not a wider problem...
it would be a very slow re allocation
I feel like Stay is part of OS now. Not 100% sure, but I get window restore functionality without any third party apps. Doesn’t work after restarts of course.
Letting it sit in the fridge overnight works really well. It looks like nothing has happened but you get excellent over rise and a better taste.
It is the quality of the research methods used to support his ideas that are coming under fire. The fact that somebody published a study (or studies), even in well-respected journals, does not compensate for poor design. Likewise, poor design and unsupported conclusions in some studies does not automatically negate every other study a researcher has conducted. Designing, carrying out, and interpreting science is not something that can be done in headlines.
In addition to addition, consider testing it. Last time I was buying carbon monoxide detectors for myself & family, I also bought a "tester" - basically carbon monoxide in a spray can + a bag to put your detector in. Costed me extra $10 or something, but worth the peace of mind.
But these are foreign corporations? I think I’m confused about how Russians, with offshore corporations, and foreign bank accounts, can suddenly be banhammered by the SEC...
It seems to happen at least much less often when logged in.

But yes, it is by far the jankiest thing I've ever seen in a supposedly serious tech company. No idea what failure has allowed that to happen for so long, it seems to be a permanent feature at this point.
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That's an interesting way to look at it. I know the Minecraft era definitely had its equivalent code-related fanbase who'd make plugins and mods in Java. The age of Minecraft has also faded away though (besides the most recent Pewdiepie revival) and I'm not sure Fortnite or the other shooter games of today have a programmatic side.
I'm inclined to disable SIP on my personal MacBook. Apple's attempts to improve the security of macOS are laudable. However, their execution falls short because of chronic problems in the management of their Software Engineering division.
I was recently looking for some dusk masks to have handy due to fires in my area. It's such a clusterfuck when you look on Amazon. They have special labels like "Amazon's choice" or "Editor Recommended" which have nothing to do with the efficacy of the mask. A lot of masks make claims about being NIOSH approved and N95 certified, but they don't provide the approval numbers and NIOSH has no records of the manufacturer. I even saw some masks that supplied an invalid NIOSH approval number (it had been revoked in 2014).

Some of the cheaper listings from legitimate companies sound like they're either counterfeit or some weird bulk reseller. A lot of reviews complaining about how the masks just came loose in the Amazon box with no packaging.

I ordered some legit looking masks but figure it's a bit of a crapshoot
If I didn't know better I'd say it was a drill to test knocking out power and ham radio.
Today’s internet is far more creative than the internet of the Flash era. Creativity has moved on to more consequential things than graphic design.
Transmission is actually one of the biggest problems identified by US ISOs. Not easy to get the power where it is needed bc big transmission lines are costly.
Thank you for a thorough reply. It would be definitely an interesting exercise to port it to another language. I’ll reach out. Let me do the homework, a deep dive so to speak, before reaching out.
They were all early to mid-stage silicon valley startups. For whatever reason, funding runways typically ran out between October and December. If you can't close your next round of funding by then, you run out of money and the whole company minus the founders gets laid off.

As for why so many startup duds that all failed in under one year? I was young and didn't know what the hell I was doing. I chose my jobs based on how cool I thought the product was rather than how viable the product would be in the marketplace.
The opposite is the case, actually. It's far easier than ever to make animations and write software.

I would contend Flash was a miserable developer tool, a near feature-free IDE, and rather than "balance", it took a kitchen sink approach to letting you put any kind of code anywhere...in an object, on the document, in a UI event of a button, on a frame.

Meanwhile, there are quite a few flash-likes for HTML5, and many of them are smart enough not to use Canvas (much)!
> The fact is that manufacturers want us to buy new phones so as to make profits and stay in business, even though most of our “old” phones are capable of running newer versions.

That's not the only logically sound story one can tell. Another story might be: porting OSes to old hardware raises their resale value, which means your new phones won't be competing against a cheaper version of itself. And people will be willing to pay more if they trust the phone they buy can be sold years later, or handed down their family.
Where are the two corporations that substantially control your app being on phones located?
You sound like me. I've always wondered how the hell do people tell all these stories about their life in such a great detail, while I was struggling with remembering what I did yesterday.
Then I learned that I have aphantasia. It was a mind blowing discovery, but it didn't affect me much, I just found it to be an interesting topic to think about sometimes.

Then, I found out about SDAM, and I was utterly devastated. I basically don't have memory when compared to other people. I can learn knowledge about something, but I can't actually remember anything, because for other people, remembering involves "re-living" that situation almost as though as if it was happening again.

SDAM stuff completely drives me crazy, as I feel that I'm missiog out on a something that is fundamental to the human life.
So I just try not to think about SDAM further, and pretend that it's all a joke and everybody's experience is exactly as mine.
There is an elsewhere.

The OP suggests bn.com (Barnes and Noble) for books. I haven't tried them myself. Yet.

For household goods I like walmart.com (the sold-by-Walmart items, not the ones from 3rd-party sellers). Free 2-day shipping (in the US) for orders over $35. A supply chain that (I hope and assume) does not allow 3rd party sellers to introduce counterfeits, unlike the so-called "sold by Amazon" items that are promiscuously commingled with items supplied by 3rd-party sellers.

So for anything where a counterfeit product could pose a health risk, I check walmart.com first.

(I feel a bit strange touting Walmart as the underdog, since it certainly comes with its own set of baggage, but it does seem to be one of the few companies big enough to keep Amazon from gaining a complete monopoly).
Or legal PDFs. No Starch Press books are regularly featured in Humble Bundles in PDF form, including the book from the Tweet.
I don't agree - the TypeScript code you link is "complicated" because it's modeling complicated types, or implementing higher-order types which need to handle complicated types. And honestly it's not that complicated - an explanation of what RecursivePartial must do maps closely to the type expression ("each key of the partial type is optional, and each value's keys are also recursively so").

This isn't at all close to CRTP or SFINAE, not just because TS/JS lacks the dispatch features necessary, but because in both cases you link it's still just about type declaration. CRTP and SFINAE are both ways to hack the type system to _run_ differently.
Unfortunately, nuclear is just too far away from being a popular option for it to be considered by politicians, policy-makers, or anyone else that makes important enough decisions. Politicians will continue to silently approve the creation of new nuclear centrals (because they know we need them) but won't publicly push for them. Public opinion has been biased so much against nuclear that no one of those people sees a benefit _for themselves_ to solve the environmental crisis with nuclear.

Which brings me to the core point of this post: a lot of people care about the environment, and would like to help as much as they can, learning what's best to pursue. But politicians, policy-makers, and public personalities in general are not among the ones that really want to help the environment. For them, being an environmentalist is just a _mean_ to capture some votes, some money, some power. _That_ is what the seek. Paradoxically, I think they will attempt to delay the solution to the problem as much as they can, because that would mean they lose their power.
This has been going on for so long they simply must not give a shit.
Security breaches used to be so much more aesthetically pleasing.
Yes it’s still very commonly used by animators. They actually changed the name of the application to Animate but not too much has changed over the last 10 years. We still use it heavily at our studio for 2D game animation and short form animation for TV/web.
Windows has a relatively stable driver ABI. Old drivers can run on new builds of the system.

Linux doesn't. So OS updates leave behind old drivers.

So manufacturers don't have to do anything for their drivers to continue working on Windows, and it is often the case that updates will stop shortly after hardware is released.
During Great Recession, I lived in a rural area with a small town and big one nearby. I had 3 roommates. Everyone except me (union job) got laid off.

Everyone in area were competing for few jobs available. Most new jobs were openings like restaurants often followed with cuts when they stabilized. Other businesses were hiring followed by reversal from top bosses to lay people off. We had like 10 or 11 layoffs in my household over several months. Ended up losing the place and my credit trying to keep us off the streets long enough to find new roommates or family help.

Good news is I just finally built it back up to point that I got some rewards cards a few months ago. It just took a heck of a long time. :)
It's worth noting that quite a lot of the VCs in question had already written off their investments in 2017-2018 shitcoin ICOs.

This is why said VCs were suggesting to Coinbase last month that they list all these shitcoins that nobody even trades now, but which the VCs just happen to be holding massive bags of: https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-continues-to-explore-supp...
Different issue, but yes, I very much hope so too. There aren't any good alternatives for long haul flights so I shouldn't judge people for doing them for work or visiting family (even if we should avoid them for holidays), but that doesn't mean we shouldn't collect money for projects like compensating the emissions, literally pulling it back out of the air (Climeworks), developing alternatives, or something else I can't think of right now. And for short haul we need to push people to trains (or in the USA, to create proper trains).
No they can't, not legally.
Local handling seems more Appley too.
I remember sideloading the Flash Player APK on my Android phone around 2013 (they stopped official support in 4.1) and most of the Flash content was effectively unusable even then.

Pecking on a tiny video player with your finger to change volume, quality, or playback position was a terrible experience and the battery drain wasn't great either. Watching videos outside of YouTube was a terrible time for phone users before sites transitioned to HTML5.
These questions aren't useful for evaluating pg's work (or frankly that of most PL implementors) because it concerns things, like syntax, libraries, user culture, etc., that is outside of the rather narrow domain Atanassow cares about.

He believes languages are utterly defined by their type systems, saying in the LtU comment you linked: "Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, Tcl and Lisp are all the same language". I'd assume that he would say the same about js, lua, etc.. AFAICT, he's quite knowledgeable about PLT, formal methods, static typing, category theory, etc., but he disregards
everything else.

It's worth considering whether he is right to do so. A waspish answer is to observe that companies built on languages he deems to be "in the corner" (c, java, dynamic languages) constitute the entirety of companies with significant market capitalization, and ask (apologies to Aaron Sorkin) "If your type system is so smart, why do you lose so always". A better answer is to note that a bunch of stuff that he deems trivial (generally anything outside of the type system, but specifically libraries, syntax, bindings to existing systems, etc.) matters, so javascript is different than python despite being identical in his eyes. Specifically, js runs in the browser and has a pretty good runtime for building web services, while python has exceptional ecosystem support for data science and machine learning.
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You can find the SWF spec at:
https://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf.html

Macromedia / Adobe released it quite a bit ago (while Flash was still popular).