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>Overwatch has been a big success and leaks suggest Overwatch 2 with more PVE.

I wonder about this though. While Overwatch as a game has been successful, I've heard some people say that they feel like Blizzard has lost their magic after Overwatch and Hearthstone. I used to always be interested in any new game Blizzard was working on, but those days are gone.
Oh, I completely agree that UI declared by code has much more potential than a frozen approach like UI declared in XML. It's only that presently, it's not a clear win.
What would be interesting is to limit the AI processing speed to human capacity, which is something like 60 bits per second.

In all these AI v. Human games I see, it is really apples to oranges because the human consumes vastly less resources and compute cycles to perform at the same level as the AI. And when I say 'vast' I mean Vast. There is like a quintillion factor difference between the AI and the human.

There is no way the AI is even comparable to the human. To be comparable, we'd have to parallelize the game and lock millions of humans onto the game full time for millions of years.

At the end of the day, the AI is just a more sophisticated lookup table. There is as yet no analogous AI to human play.
Mostly, my advice as a biomedical researcher and modeler/software user is this, which is not skills based at all and is instead just a reminder that you're going to need a really fundamental shift in thinking.

Get the notion that "biology is a computer that we can fundamentally and totally understand at the level that we understand Church-Turing" out of your head as soon as possible because it is incorrect. Biological systems are complex, they are deeply nonlinear, we do not even come close to understanding the functional behavior of their components (or, indeed, what those components even ARE) the way we can understand transistors or chips or API specs, etc.

The sooner you get used to believing that "I can't prove anything, but we have a pile of mostly not contradictory evidence that suggests that most of the time this idea is a pretty good heuristic and our error bars are reasonable", the better you'll do and the saner you'll remain.

Some recommended worldview reading for you:

The Andy Grove Fallacy: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2007/11/06/and...

Can A Biologist Fix A Radio: https://www.cell.com/cancer-cell/pdf/S1535-6108(02)00133-2.p...

Can A Neuroscientist Understand A Microprocessor https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jo...

And if you like, I can provide a basically endless stream of papers of the form "we thought X did Y and we knew what X was; it turns out that X actually does Q, it also turns out we don't know why X does anything at all, but when we do X we sometimes get Y so we've been confused for the past 50 years"
> Also, pro tip, I’d guess at least 50% of the airbnbs I’ve stayed in do not wash the sheets in a washer

It happens at hotels, too, and it's why I always take the sheets off of the bed when I check out. Putting the sheets on is the worst part of making the bed but taking them off takes two seconds. My hypothesis: if lazy hosts/housekeeping are forced to go through the trouble of putting sheets on then they might as well use a clean set. And if the host/housekeeper was going to change the sheets anyway then maybe I've made their job just a little bit easier.
Does a fact checking website really tell you how often a person is truthful? Isn't it more like the falseyness % of accusations?
> There really isn't one, but six people seceeding their house is not going to be a minimally viable country for very obvious reasons. When you secede, you lose a lot of benefits, including economic, military, etc, protection from neighboring states.

I don't think that's really the right reason for saying a house isn't valid. Catalonia is a well defined, self-governing region of Spain. That means the Spaniards have already admitted that they're basically a sensible territory for being an independent state.

You could probably argue, in a case like the US, that New York isn't a valid territory for independence since it was created a long time ago prior to much settlement in the area - but the self government isn't revokable under the US constitution.

Catalonia has no such problem, since its autonomy is a relatively recent gift and is constantly revokable, so the fact that the Spanish haven't done it is proof that they think it's reasonable.

Even then, you still have places like Monaco and San Marino, which are very small. It's hard to argue they're minimally viable countries, just places history forgot, but they are independent.
I wonder how different this might have been if he'd instead shouted, "MAGA!". I imagine the next election will present some similar situations for companies to traverse.
Let's Not Misuse Refactoring
That would have been the move.

- Destroy the flophouse
- Leave a 5 star review on your original booking saying how nice the place was
- If the scammers attempt to complain to AirBnB or charge fees, kindly tell them that's not the place you stayed and you have never seen that location. Refer them to the original listing for the beautiful home where your reservation was.

Scammers would be claiming you destroyed a place that AirBnB has no record of you ever staying in.
What Else Can AlphaStar Do?
Part of Southwest's competitive advantage has been that the vast majority of their aircraft use the same platform which simplifies training of crew and maintenance of aircraft.

Switching to Airbus would necessitate complete retraining of thousands of people and would increase costs at least in the short term substantially.
Agreed and you give a perfect example of the type of feature that is often the first to go.
Install a browser extension that can quickly disable JavaScript. That bypasses almost every paywall.
We Have the Tools and Technology to Work Less and Live Better
Heeeeeeeeere's Johnny!!!!!
Nope:

> > There are very few emergencies (in my opinion) in which parachute deployment would be the appropriate response unless there was an extremely unfortunate set of circumstances which led to the airplane being unable to fly or glide (like a wing snapping off)

> I've been a Cirrus instructor for 15 years. This attitude is completely wrong and is exactly what has led more people to be killed than needed to be, especially when Cirruses first came to the market and the chute was a new thing in production aircraft. We TEACH, intentionally, people to ask FIRST, "do I need to use the chute," and the answer is never "no." It's either, "Yes," or "not yet."

> There have been pilots - plenty of them - that had every opportunity to use the chute but kept gliding, or spinning, or whatever, and now they and their passengers are dead.

[...]

> Lose the engine - most of the time, pull the chute. Yes, even better than landing in a nice open field. The chute works. If I screw up the landing, or the field has ditches, furrows, irrigation, cows, power lines, fences, rocks, or who knows what else, I might just be screwed setting a plane down at 65-70kts. But not if I float down into it protected by my roll cage, high-g seats, air bags, etc.

[...]

* https://old.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/dp61qo#f5trzyz
I've run into a scam recently on AirBNB and several situations that ended up screwing me over. The scam was after booking a nice place in Orlando, Florida for a week through my wife's AirBNB account. The day after booking, the "owner" sent an email saying that they required a photograph of the front and back of her credit card, drivers license picture and full name. Not even a subtle scam, but that would probably fool most people. After contacting AirBNB support(which is a difficult task itself, good luck finding a form), they took 3 days to respond and responded with a "yeah, don't send them that. Sorry". Of course, the listing is still there now when I look.

I've also booked trips to Tokyo and LA recently, and in each place the reservation was accepted, payment was made, and 2 weeks before I was set to stay there, the owner canceled the stay. Why? Doesn't matter, the owner can cancel without penalty for "unforeseen circumstances". Of course the renter gets charged a massive fee for canceling including, naturally, AirBNB's fees.

My fraud alert is always on high now when using AirBNB and I think no one should put all their vacation eggs in the 1 basket with them. Too unreliable, too flaky on reservations, and too we-don't-care-about-you attitude towards the renters.
Virtue signalling only works because people fall for it. So it is really not surprising that it works on a lot of people.
I disagree. I've been both a host and customer for many years, and in general I've found the customer service to be good or even very good for resolving issues either as a host or as a customer.

In fact, many 'scare' articles about airbnb puzzle me, because it seem seems that the problems could have been avoided if the guest had read the reviews and/or booked with a superhost (or other host with a history of good reviews).

Having said that, I do think it's insane that the reviews are no longer listed in chronological order (or at least with the option to view them in chronological order).
Well, I misunderstood your gravity wheel comment for a static position too.
I do understand his point. There are just as many examples of people being so overwhelmed by the new strategy that they don't know how to respond to it and lose. And then learn how to deal with it in later matches. Also, downvoting me for disagreeing is a dick move.
My approach to DevOps has always been to enable the developers and move ownership of remediating broken processes to their responsibilities.

One, it allows them to be more self reliant, have faster feedback on their work. Two, you create visibility into where bugs and issues come from so the responsibility to fix is made clearer. They get the calls late at night if you've done your job correctly. That being said, you may still get called in because you will likely have gained unparalleled insights into the complex interactions not grokked by the developers of one component More often than not, the interaction of services is where things break down.

The goal for DevOps has been to produce systems where developers are more successful and productive. If you start reading I to the cult messages too much, and prioritize process over outcomes, you've missed the point.
This is interesting. Most of cell towers are on battery backup for at least 24 hours. As long as you have a battery backup for your device it should allow for Internet Service even during power outages.

It will all be interesting when Elon finally gets Starlink up and running. If there was a way for a mobile phone to connect directly via sat chip, you could do voice over IP and do away with cellular service all together. It could serve as your connection for everything. What a disruption for the Telco's.
One language that actually utilizes true dynamic scoping is PowerShell. It's true that this is an extremely powerful idea that can even override imported functions from a parent scope for things like testing, but it can very much be a nightmare. It leaves the programmer completely unaware of where a function or variable is declared or if it even is declared. Imagine the situation that while testing you have overridden a piece of code that is an interface into a real data layer in a real system, and you forget to declare it in the parent scope of the test, or worse yet, declare it and misspell the name of the function you should be overriding. You accidentally call the real function and start manipulation of data in a real system. It becomes a nightmare. DI and IoC don't have these issues because they rely on explicit passing of the dependency. So like many things, with great power comes great responsibility.
The biggest offenders are those colleges (the majority) that offered people who could not afford them debt-financed liberal arts degrees that are essentially unemployable outside the absolutely tiny number who end up employed in academia or maybe think tanks and non-profits.

I'm not saying such degrees or programs shouldn't exist. I'm saying that if colleges cared about students' life outcomes they would be up front about the fact that this is not a degree or program of study with any earning potential benefit and discourage people who can't afford it from studying these areas (at least as a major, electives are fine).

You would still have a few who just totally want to study that and don't care, but they should know what they are signing up for and be fully aware of the implications. I feel like a ton of people were not, and we should not expect 18 year olds to show a 35 year olds' level of maturity when it comes to doing their own homework and career planning.
Can computers solve the halting problem? If not, then they cannot find their own Godel sentence, and thus are limited in their ability to prove things.
This is pretty wild, $50/month for unlimited data. It looks like between new cell tech and low orbit satellites we're finally going to see real competition between ISPs in the coming years.
Yeah, older ones had some issues with the blade geometry iirc which caused a fairly penetrating "Wump" noise which people complained about. There's a big one in the town I live in, and people were complaining that the low frequency noise it was generating was impacting quality of life.

I presume that's something which has been optimised away with newer designs?
Maybe we can call it FaceSpeech. Where the platform owner can decide who gets to talk. It's even better when we don't know who paid or how much.
> you are quite literally injecting other units into that unit

In tests, you will usually inject a mock of any dependencies that you don't want to test, in order to isolate the unit you do want to test.
For (some) much simpler first-order logic systems, the answer is certainly true. Tarski's axioms imply that there exists an algorithm that, for every proposition in (a restricted) Euclidean geometry, can be shown either true or false.
Unfortunately it probably won't be too bad, most blizzard fans have already moved on and are back to giving blizzard/activision money.
This is very self aware of you and not many in our field understand that. Youth is something most employers are willing to bet on, but as you age things slow down and it becomes increasingly harder to make the case for "you".
Sounds like survivorship bias.

x86's longevity is due to the amount of money thrown at the problem. You could surely start with a much cleaner instruction set like the M68k and wind up with a same-or-better result after spending billions on multiple projects to invent new ways of ameliorating the complexity of the ISA, some in parallel, over time.

Or you can start by eliminating most of the decode complexity and not spend those billions, like ARM.
Empathic Concern Fuels Political Polarization
Is it outside our imagination that society would change?

Would it be unreasonable that it could become more communal and unified?

(edit: spelling)
The success of mass protests depends on who is doing the protesting
Heh, you know, the funny part is that I'll spend just a little extra on my hotel stays (Meaning, I'm not staying at the Howard Johnson's behind Walmart, even if it is $40 a night). I've never had very few bad experiences as a result.

It costs money to run a hotel well. From the front desk to the cleaning staff. If a stay costs you $40 a night, you have to ask yourself "What are they skimping on? Are they not washing the sheets? Vacuuming? Cleaning the showers/toilets?"

Sure, there are some economies of scale at play. But by and large, it takes quite a bit of money to make sure things are well maintained. That is what often gets reflected in your hotel bill.
Hope they can Sprint's mid-band spectrum deployed quickly to deal with this influx of data.... at least until they have a viable millimeter wave plan.

This is probably more viable in suburban, maybe sub suburban/rural areas until they can get millimeter wave going.
In strategy games like Civilization the "preferred" difficulty level is that hard/easy to beat because it gets extra resources. It would be preferrable to have the same difficulty level through opponents that play better/smarter while having the same game mechanic consequences as players if they make the same actions, but we currently can't, so they get artificial production multipliers and such.
Wow, that's an epic freewrite! Some really great phrases in there, too
With sqlite3 package and
Go this doesn’t look possible, or at least not easy.

https://github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3/issues/212#issuecomment-...
Lying used to be wrong.

Now, apparently, many are convinced it is wrong to have any barriers to lying.

The con men have certainly gotten the upper hand. I suppose if we fall for this obvious and absurd BS we deserve the world we get (collectively).
The parent's version of empathy is pedantry and solely focused on forcing the person they're talking to to explain themselves and their thought process. It's pretty off-putting when done in the wrong way and especially at the wrong time. Understanding someone's thoughts is but one part of empathy however. Another, arguably more important part of empathy (at least when talking about interpersonal relationships) is identifying how the other person feels, and in that, meticulously picking apart their opinions is probably not helping. In fact, it's probably hurting.

That the parent is highlighting sexual assault as where this line of questioning breaks down is indicative they haven't fully internalized the lesson: it applies everywhere, to everyone. There are times and places and people and topics for whom picking apart the argument is a good thing. There are also times and places and people and topics where that doesn't apply. It differs person to person and topic to topic.

It means we need to empathize with the people we're talking to and recognize the boundaries and when we're getting into non-productive territory.

I occasionally hang out with non-engineer hippies, and they don't get in these kinds of arguments (they get into different arguments). They're much more about feeling what the other person feels, and supporting them in their feelings, with maybe some edging around on solutions.

I still struggle with the need to pick apart the problem and try to solve it. Frequently, that is not what the other person is interested in at that time. Often enough, they've already attempted most of those lines of attack and they're just venting.

Sometimes we just need to be empathetic, sympathetic, and supportive.
start building it locally and then only buy the domain once it's close to complete?
Scaling the community is an existential growth problem for ABNB ... unfortunately their policies haven't kept up with the problems that have been introduced
Because they've determined they can make more money by not doing that
I was surprised as well! But this is from the author so one can't argue with it.

As I think about it more, it makes a lot of sense. The only people willing to put up with something flaky are programmers. For most people, it can do little but it has to be reliable.
Aside from your home address, the field doesn't validate data input for practical correctness. This is important because t-mobile forces you to consent to marketing in order to find out availability, but you can still check for rough availability with garbage information (incl. an e.g. 1-nnn-555-nnnn number and a mailinator or equally disposable email address) and an address near you, ideally an address that's an empty lot or nonexistent/halfway between homes.

It's also why I flagged the post -- t-mobile is seeking marketing opt-ins with this effort, and that's about it. A genuine lookup service wouldn't force opt-in consent in this manner.
I still run into people convinced "leftist infighting" turned the election rather than the handful of votes in three states that really did it. People need better civics education. They find out about the Electoral College and can't believe it exists, or that a handful of votes for one person can offset millions of votes for the other.

Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin are not leftist strongholds, where "infighting" might allow the Other to win, but people prefer the narrative that "Bernie Bros" ruined our beautiful democracy. Clinton got millions more votes, but it didn't matter. The Electoral College turning it doesn't fit the narrative they've been fed that people further to the left are responsible.

You're right about polarization though. Less than 100k votes wouldn't matter if the country wasn't divided right down the middle. Choosing the future of our country shouldn't be a matter of who can influence a coin toss more.
You would just fall back to earth, gaining a lot of speed and then getting destroyed by the atmosphere. Even the force of gravity where the ISS is is pretty similar to at sea level.
The thing is that American and European law enforcement generally play "fair". They generally won't arrest employees travelling into their jurisdictions for things that are more "civil"-like offences - notable exception being the arrest of Huawei's CFO by Canada. Since there's basically no personal risk or deterrent, there is little or no incentive to fix bad behaviors.
First time I stayed at an abnb with friends it was set up as home that hosted 8 people with 4 rooms... I was situated in what I would consider to be a mud room with a space heater next to the garage on thin, uncomfortable mattresses. I moved into a hotel room a couple miles away and just came over for dinner and activities.

I'd much rather plan ahead and stay in a hotel. At least then there's a corporate culture who actually cares about their brand name instead of an IPO. There's no accountability and massive amounts of low key fraud.
Microsoft collects telemetry in onnxruntime Python module
This is a perfect example of something I have been thinking about. Facts are funny things: Consider that if the media was pro-Trump for example, they would have omitted the "But there is no evidence" part. The opposite is also true. Since the media is nominally anti-trump, they must sway the story by including the no evidence part
Is that possible on a mobile device?
The "ban-on-dispute" technique is popular with tech companies. Uber, AirBnB, and Steam (among others) all enforce this strategy.

With Steam, you lose your entire library when banned.

With Uber, you lose the ability to create an account tied to your phone number (i.e. you need to get a new phone number to ever have a new account).

I don't use AirBnB because it is a scam haven, so I can't comment on how their dispute process works.

FWIW, "back in the day" chargebacks used to be done in a manual way which made it harder to automate the banning process that tech companies utilize. But the likes of Stripe and other processors have made it part of their API so you can easily trace the chargeback to the transaction and determine what recourse you have.