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Yes. It depends on what the game is trying to achieve.

Subset Games, the makers of FTL and 'Into the Breach' have talked about this extensively. 'Into the Breach' deliberately has the enemies telegraph their plans one turn ahead of time, and the game is all about interfering with those plans.

The rest of the game's design carefully reinforces the message that the enemy units are not intelligent. The backstory has them as basically oversized insects.

If you have a game that pretends to give you realistic human antagonists, but they behave mechanically dumb and predictable, that breaks immersion like you suggest.

One big problem is that having very smart AI that's purely there to oppose you in a zero sum game ain't fun to play against for most people. The handicaps a modern chess or Go engine would have to give you a normal human for a fair fight are ludicrous. And people seldom want fair fights in their games. They want a feeling of accomplishment, but without actually putting in all that much work.

Even hardcore games like XCom cheat in your favour behind the scenes.

There are at least two ways out of this while still avoiding the boring repetition:

- carefully make the NPC make believable human-like (or animal-like) mistakes, instead of easily exploitable repetitive mistakes
- give the NPC goals that are in conflict with the player, but not 100% so.

A silly example of the second option:

Take a game like Thief that's all about sneaking around stealthily and stealing stuff. Now realistically, most of the guards are just hired goons. They don't want to die, but they don't particularly care about protecting the place. They do care about being seen doing their job, so they don't get fired.

So your job as a player could be, in addition to staying unseen, to provide plausible distractions and reasons for the guards not too investigate to closely.

Higher ranked guards, and owners, would be under higher pressure to perform and won't get away with excuses. So they would be more alert.

Using the same trick over and over again would lower it's effectivity: guards can't plausible claim to their higher ups to have been tricked again and again.

If you are starting to become aggressive to a guard, or he learns that you called one of his friends, the guard's priorities will change towards more self-preservation.

A pacifist run might even earn you respect and admiration from the lower level guards. Just like cat burglars are often admired in real life.

Seen a bit more abstract, the game now becomes one of three factions: the thief (that's you), the low level guards and their employers. All with partially overlapping, partially conflicting goals.

You can throw insurance companies into the mix, if you want to make it even more complicated.

Thanks to the non-zero sum nature of the partial conflict, you can crank up how smart everyone acts, without overwhelming the player:

Eg smarter guards might figure out a way to de-escalate that still looks like a plausible and even courageous move to their employers.
+1 for VSCode for its configuration portability plugin, settings sync. It’s never been so easy to sync editor changes across my machines, and I’ve only had 1 dependency issue using it in 4 years. No longer having to maintain my vim config and dependencies has been great.
Videos of some of the author's other works.

https://www.youtube.com/user/hopeslope/videos
Seems much more comprehensive than GloVe (https://nlp.stanford.edu/projects/glove/)
In this case, the business with the risk is the bank lending the money through the credit card. And credit card purchases made just before declaring bankruptcy are highly scrutinized as potential fraud. Paying the lawyer with additional debt you're attempting to get discharged would seem to fall under that category. As a result, in practice, you won't find bankruptcy lawyers accepting CC payments from their clients. If they accept CC payments, it must be from someone other than the client. (family, friend, etc.)

Given this, there is no reason to price the risk (a customer paying their lawyer with debt that will be discharged) into their pricing: it is already prohibited by statute.
Like Iowa, Northern Illinois and Minnesota, Wisconsin was historically pretty centrist and humanitarian. It's only recently that the rural areas have swung to the right.

The Revolutions Podcast also introduced me to the history of the Forty-Eighters, who had a tremendous impact on the politics of the Upper Midwest. Particularly in Wisconsin. And that's on top of a substrate of communitarian values brought by the original European settlers pushed westward from Massachusetts.

It's really a post-millennial phenomenon that the politics are now dominated by a pan-US urban-rural divide.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty-Eighters

https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-11-Rival-Regional-Cult...
> They need to see relief first if tenants are to also see relief.

You mean concurrently, surely? I don't see an issue with a mortgage relief, but the rent after paying for their portion of mortgage, tax, must go somewhere. Where does it go if not saving for value upkeep?
Interesting observation!

I wouldn't fault the authors too much, they just looked for an easy to remember name and the metaphor holds up well enough for that.
perl, used in command-line mode. This is my data munging superpower.
My personal reason is that zfs.ko entirely bypasses the kernel page cache, preferring its own internal cache (the ARC). Reimplementing kernel subsystems is a recipe for interoperability nightmare (c.f. the NVIDIA binary driver). For instance, this causes unnecessary memory pressure when you have a mix of ZFS and non-ZFS filesystems (e.g. SMB mounts).

Additionally I curmudgeonly have yet to come to terms with the blatant layering violation of ZFS being a combined block-device-manager and filesystem. But the benefits (file-level RAID behaviour) of that are indeed clear.
If we have posited a thing with unknown properties and say maybe that is generating our universe, we've pretty much taken the opposite position to Occam's Razor, which is often stated as "Entities should not be multiplied without necessity."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
how? it's not like you can magically skip the actual tokenization. you're basically saying you can do lexical analysis and semantic analysis in the same function. sure but that makes the code that much hairier - there's a reason why they're typically factored into a lexer and a parser.
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> Yes one is sane and the other one isn't

Agreed! Clearly you mean UNIX/Linux is the sane one, right? Before you fly into a hissy fit and say the UNIX toolkit theory is insane please learn, read, and respect a little history. So all the famous papers, IEEE, ACM, written by folks like DMR and Thompson are "bogus" arguments, right???

These guys might have done things in ways you don't grok, ways you don't like, or ways you think you know how to do better. The UNIX approach, like all complex things, has pros and cons. But until anything you or microsoft has built has stood up for 50 years, been academically published and cited, maybe won a couple Turing awards and Presidential medals, don't try defend an argument with a simple "it's bogus" or "insane" or "nonsense".
With all due respect, you have no idea what you're talking about.
It's such a b.s. article and is likely written by the nuclear industry. There are many factual problems but I'll just point out one: the idea that wind and solar will never be enough. Here's a study that includes wind, solar & storage and gets 100% coverage:

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2018/ee/c7ee03...
BTW, that "Nice Cyan" (#006969) is actually really nice (at least to me), I can imagine myself building a website/app with that color theme.
That's fine. I've been running various Linux distros since 1993 and FreeBSD since 1996. Each has its strengths and weaknesses.
Trump does make an effort to be orange. It’s sort of a trade mark like John Deere green.
I keep a clone of the main GNU Emacs git repository and build the emacs-27 branch (27 is the upcoming release) every few days on my MacBook (and the master branch on my Linux workstation).
Zsh, mainly because of shortcuts, shared history, autocomplete that works
so it sub-optimizes?

capitalism is at its best when optimizing industrial production (manufacturing materials)

knowledge creation is not quite an industrial process.

I would highlight the importance of open source as a key component for better tooling.

But knowledge does not quite play well with capitalist markets. there must be a better way, but finding it requires revising several 'fundamental' assumptions about how this (market) society works.
> This excludes a lot of non-free software, which is included in ports.

This depends completely on your choice of a distribution. There's nothing about package managers that makes a difference in this case.

For example Arch, especially with AUR will include all non-free software you want. Ubuntu offers them. Debian/RH have them one config edit away. Recently snap/flatpak also provide those to all distros - whether they're using free-only repos by default or not.

> In addition, LXC—in particular cgroups—is still quite young and unproven.

LXC was introduced over a decade ago. Cgroups even before that. Cgroups themselves are enabled per-session and per-service in pretty much every modern linux deployment for years now. There's less time between jails and cgroups than between cgroups and current day. Cgroups were added to linux in the same year as zfs was added to freebsd. (2007)

I'm not sure what you see as young or unproven about them.
I think it's just for fun. After all, the top name for black (#000000) is Lil Huddy (https://colornames.org/color/000000).
Not sure that is so simple unfortunately.

First, because if I recursively apply your argument, then no color would have a name. Starting from the very 1st lowest color frequency and the 2nd right next to it, no-one could differentiate them. Apply the same logic between the 2nd and the 3rd, the 3rd and the 4th, etc.

So you cannot apply this argument to "any" color pair. You would have to define a set of starting colors, and always do the comparison against them. Now you enter the problem of which starting colors to starts, and the fact that using any pre-existing color names would most likely not be evenly distributed on the color spectrum.

Second, it wouldn't work because color recognition is not a transitive process.

- If you show me two very close red variations side by side, I may not be able to tell the difference.

- If you space the variation, I may be able to tell that there are 2 different reds, but wouldn't be able to tell which one is darker/lighter accurately.

- If instead of showing me the two close reds side by side, you show them to me paired with an other color, I may be able to tell the difference. For instance, show me a board with half red1 + yellow, and an other board with red2 + yellow. I may spot than 1 of the red + yellow is matching that good compared to the other one.
I'm at 173 hours! I've liked Overcast (I've been a premium customer for two years), but I find myself wishing it has better features now. It feels like it was the best a couple years ago but hasn't done much since. Smart Speed is the one thing that has kept me from switching to something else so far.
+1 for Sublime Text for being so darn fast.
Planet rock is actually a decent insulator in large volumes/long timescales. You’d just heat up the nearby rock quickly, assuming you plan to compute for longer than a week.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_thermal_energy_storag...
What's the difference between UBI and a dividend?
This looks like a delightful environment. I'm going to put it on my list of things to try out.
Wow, thanks for sharing this.

Also, to second your question: what the hell did happen to Windows search? I always just assumed I'd done something to break it (and honestly, could never be bothered trying to "fix" it... even after all these years), but apparently it's inherently broken.

I know very little about OS software. Could someone explain at a high-level how something as fundamental as file search can be rendered totally unusable? Doesn't windows have the best engineers in the world working on it?
Sure. They didn't practice what their preaching sounds like to use.

Sortition is still an interesting idea. Especially for filling up larger decision making groups like a parliament. So that the law of large numbers can work.

It wouldn't be that useful for selecting a single post like president.

As a slight modification of straight up sortition, I would suggest that instead of picking the members of parliament directly, we still have everyone vote for their preferred candidate, and use sortition to pick out as many votes as we have seats to fill. (With some sensible mechanism for when the same candidate comes up more than once in the votes.)

That procedure would sidestep many of the problems that come up thanks to Arrow's Theorem in more conventional procedures or citizen's commissions etc.
No one is being persecuted. It is correct to suspect.

In a murder investigation the police start with those closest related to the victim. If money is missing from a bank vault you start your investigation looking at all those who had access.

When a pandemic starts outside of a lab studying the same kind of virus tearing through the world you start with the lab.

We will likely never know for sure, but it is absolutely reasonable to suspect.
> Eventually, I realized that FreeBSD's mount command didn't really understand my ZFS root filesystem.

I couldn't find this direct quote in your link. But I'm using FreeBSD with ZFS on a few machines and I don't understand this comment.

You can absolutely boot with ZFS on root. The installer lets you do it out of the box. Including with geli for encryption.

And you can use mount(8) to mount a ZFS partition, I have done that all the time when booting from recovery media and mounting my root pool. This gets a little confusing at first because most uses of mount(8) require a device name, and mounting ZFS takes a pool name, so you may have to zpool import first, but once you get over that it's fine.
I've seen comments wrt this situation that there weren't any actual subsidies given to Foxconn. That was conditioned upon the plants actually being operational, and making stuff, which they, so far, have not.

If true (which I bet it is - that's how I'd structure a deal like that), this would mean those country folks in Wisconsin are not as stupid as liberal media wants you to believe.
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Lots of types of rock have better thermal conductivity than water or air. The subsurface of the moon is vast and would dissipate the heat far too quickly for an appreciable temperature change.
Entropy increase is a stochastic process though. The rules of nature do not result in a system that maximizes entropy at the maximum possible rate.
Oh, I was thinking of how eg GMail could do it.

It depends a bit on volume of spam compared to legitimate emails. GMail knows about all of your past outgoing messages anyway, but the bloom filter would allow to quickly drop spam.

Google is already using Bloom filters to eg check locally in one service whether a cache in a different service is likely to be able to answer a query.
What are you talking about? TDS is very very real and very very serious. You can say anything negative about him here too but anything positive becomes political and gets removed by the intellectual mods.
it is a lot more comprehensive and it is fast. Text classifier with millions of documents done in 5 - 10 mins on normal hardware.
So I can give it my name?
For better or worse, I find GUI git clients to be less useful than the CLI. But like any CLI tool, it's productivity is limited by your ability to type without errors. Git has an Autocorrect[1] that will help you out.

> git config --global help.autocorrect 1

Based on bash history data, I've also added a simple alias to my bash config:

> alias gti="git"

[1]: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Configura...
Thank you for this quote. I've long felt this. Another thing about the simulation hypothesis is that it seemingly offers no explanatory power. That is, I'm not sure how a universe that is "simulated" and one that isn't (thinking about it more I'm not actually sure what the difference is) would actually differ. Maybe would explain the observer effect in QM cause of lazy loading or something?
I’m not sure your last part is completely true. All parts of land development and land owning must be securely insured. there are hoops to jump through.
Any Linux or BSD distro could achieve best-in-class documentation for new users by simply adding example usages for most commands to the top of their man pages. Man pages tend to read more encyclopedias than practical guidance, and FreeBSD was no exception last I looked.

Command xyz

Common usage: xyz -s source_ip -d dest_ip:port
That's even one of they key attributes that makes differences between distributions: the package manager. Other major ones include the init system, and whether the distro is rolling release or not.
I had a theory around guano used for fertilizer acting as a fomite, but found some research an hour ago that suggests SARS doesn't remain viable via that route, so SARS-CoV-2 probably doesn't either.

Do we know that bats are the only (or only likely) nonhuman host? Was there a significant population of cases with a known connection to the lab?
More discrimination against us colour blind people. The basic names are confusing enough - my housemate mentions something "green" when there's no such thing, he's talking about the brown one.
A lot of flattening is also how you report numbers. If you die while you have corona and some other disease- Germany blames it on the other disease 100% and USA on corona 100%. I wonder how India and this particular indian state is doing it.
1Password - remove cognitive load and easy ass to all my secrets across devices. Including sharing with family and coworkers

Rubymine - Ruby And JavaScript IDE with powerful SCM, test and debugging tools.

Notion - Shared Knowledgeable and collaboration. Really easy to go from a free form unstructured draft to organized, structured and easily accessible knowledge repo.

Whimsical - My favorite diagraming and wireframing tool.

Notable mentions

Stoplight OPen API editor.

Sunsama - light weight and collaborative todo list with focus on Calendaring
Ruby on Rails. Still nothing better for getting a high quality product out the door fast.
Confirmation in local news:

https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/mercer/obituaries/covid-19...

And on Terry Tao's blog:

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2020/04/12/john-conway/

And of course on Wikipedia now:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway
"Consensus has determined that the Daily Mail (including its online version, dailymail.co.uk) is generally unreliable, and its use as a reference is to be generally prohibited..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Not...
This seems more so like a list of differences, without any details as to what makes them different, let alone which is better...
I believe this is what Deno tries to do.

https://deno.land/
A dividend isn't guaranteed. A dividend depends on the success of the underlying company. A dividend isn't a right. Just off the top of my head.
No need for weird opinions there.

People don't want a potential bomb in their neighbourhood in the same way they don't want a nuclear waste dump in their neighbourhood. No sane person would blame them and that's the whole story.

Germany is sitting on decades of dirty waste and has no hole to make it disappear. It creates ridiculous costs that have been shifted to the tax payer and they will pay for it for hundreds of years. Again: no sane person wants to do that or would blame them.

Meanwhile there is renewable energy getting better and better with every year and decade.

This whole story is a no-brainer.

Nuclear is dead. Renewables is the way to go.
2000 suggestions a hour seems like a success to me.
Since nobody else has mentioned it: Steam, over a long period of time.

It makes purchases easy, it makes reviews / researching games easy, it makes updates very easy, it often makes finding mods easy, it makes installs easy. And it reduces issues of lost games / keys after many years go by, as they're all in the library.
Wasn't there something like this in the book Contact? Something hidden in pi?
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I can hardly imagine a case where you would misspell "select" and not notice it at some point, nor use it in more than one place (the keyword detector) in the parser.
I sometimes wonder if there are actually that many colours, or whether people are just making up differences that don't exist.

They seem to have their conspiracy up and running pretty tight, though: when I ask different people, they usually give me the same answer. All very well prepared!
> Most life-cycle estimations argue that solar itself has a higher carbon footprint than nuclear. Solar+storage would be worse.

I'm going to add some nuance. As far as I'm aware, this is only true for photovoltaic solar. My understanding is that concentrated solar (mirrors heat up water tank and you have a steam turbine) has lower lifetime emissions than nuclear.

That being said, storage does have a heavy footprint that many ignore. This is a harder number to accurately measure the impact, but if we're talking about a sane fully renewable system you have to have a lot of storage. Places like Southern California can get away with a day or two's worth of storage because there is little variation in conditions. But if you travel up the coast 500 miles things get drastically different. Even more so as you get into Washington. You're going to have to have at least a week's worth of storage. Same thing for the east coast.

That said, these options are still better than coal. It is debatable if we're talking about coal + CCS though and likely doesn't beat gas + CCS. Though the counter argument to this is CCS in the manufacturing of your solar and batteries. Again, gets tricky and there's factors to include like tearing down existing coal and gas plants.

TLDR: this problem is unsurprisingly extremely complicated even though we make it out to not be.
Not to mention that the tiny increase is almost a decade of stored water (but not a decade of Tritium coming out of the reactor due to the relatively short half life of tritium). If it was just releasing enough stored water to make room for more untreated water to be processed the level would be even lower. Also unless something has changed wasn't there a plan for injecting the treated water into some stable geologic structure? In which case no radioactive tritium would be released to the environment and by the time the water could possibly permeate out and up to aquifers the tritium would have already decayed. The "dump it in the sea" plan is only on the table because it would be pretty inconsequential, especially in comparison to the standards the fossil fuel industry is held to in regards to naturally occuring radioactive material.