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It always surprises me when people completely overlook the evolution TV and film will likely undergo to become stereo 180 (for directed attention experiences) or stereo 360 (for passive self-directed experiences) when HMDs become cheap enough that they become ubiquitous.

Sure you can watch video without color, sure you can watch film without sound, but why would you?

By the same sense, for most cases watching video/film/TV with 3D depth is going to be superior to watching without.

The argument that 3D TV never took off is less convincing when you consider that content creation for 3D TV was way more costly than it is for stereo 180/360 VR today, and that 3D TV died before the chicken and egg problem was ever solved. (Even if the HMD market contracts 90% it should still be profitable for small Chinese manufacturers to produce crap-tier HMD for porn).

Today a good stereo 180 VR experience can be filmed with an Insta360 Evo or a Vuze XR (my preferred option due to out of the box color grading) which can be had for about $400 USD.

ZCam K1 pro and K2 pro can create incredible content (as seen in top pornography) for $3-4k entry price.

But it's really hard to convince anyone who hasn't tried it, especially someone who hasn't seen something filed with one of the aforementioned cameras. Especially people who haven't tried VR or well-filmed VR but have tried 3D movies and assumes they are the same the same experience.
very nice post
The best thing you can do is make friends with your neighbors. Surviving disasters is a team activity.
I am sorry for your loss and the pain you’re having conjured up today.
I’m kind of in the same boat. My parents were very conservative as I was growing up and it resulting in me growing apart from them and not feeling comfortable talking to them.
And sometimes you just need to hold a gun to the primitive brain and just make it do what needs to be done.
Spoiler alert:

In "The Futurological Congress", the protagonist is offered two potions to choose from, red or blue. The Matrix is like a 10x dumbed down version of it.
You mean you don't have it mapped to 'sudo $previous_line'?
As I understand it, the reason Madagascar is by far the leading producer of vanilla is because it's the only place where labor is cheap enough to do hand pollination economically. Good luck doing that anyplace else, particularly Australia.
“Problem Solving Strategies for Writing” by Linda Flower is the only textbook I kept from my brief community college experience. It provided a good foundation that approaches writing from a design perspective.

That book may help, but it sounds to me like you suffer from perfectionism. That may be the area you want to investigate for self-improvement.
It seems far simpler to maintain one blanket guideline ("stay at home") than multiple contradictory ones from region to region. And what do you do when a hospital does become overwhelmed? Re-instate shelter-in-place and change the guideline back?
WSL2 will be available in the Windows 10 May 2020 update that should be released end of May.

I tried during lockdown WSL and was impressed by the ease of use and how fast it started but there are a few quirks.

It is not a full featured Linux OS at your disposal. I tried the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for instance and systemd did not work preventing from starting services with systemd (there are some workarounds), I couldn't mount FUSE filesystems (lack of modules) preventing from mounting SSHFS, gocrypts volumes.

I don't know if these issues will be fixed in WSL2.
Is the Discord channel invite-only? The speakers mention it a lot but I didn't see a link anywhere.
This website: https://www.fgbg.art/, is powered by this spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W8RE885PVF2z3L9KU9LS...

The spreadsheet not being normalized is a bit annoying, but I could fix that if I really wanted to. All in all, I actually find using Google as a data source like this works pretty well.
Wall Street and main street are two different markets. OP specifically said we'll see consumer price inflation only if money trickles down to consumers, which is evidently not the case. Asset prices has gone to the moon however since 2008.
Couldn't be because of the incubation period, no? I think that trying to determine how well a state is doing so shortly after re-opening is fraught due to limits on testing etc. If death counts are dropping at the 6 week mark, I think you could claim "success."
Thanks! To be honest this isn't even a launch lol. I was just trying to find a few potential customers and ask for feedback. Now I have a lot of potential customers, and a lot of conversations to make.
General Motors is the company. Chevrolet is a band.
Both are unmistakably Israeli names.
> "Flattening the curve" is reducing the number of virus cases that happen.

No, that is absolutely incorrect. Flattening the curve was not intended to reduce the total number of cases. It was intended to reduce the rate at which those cases occurred, i.e. to spread them out over time, so that hospitals did not get overwhelmed. It is a rate limit.

In the long run, the only way to shrink the total number of cases is a vaccine.
I wonder if the influence of the rest of the solar system wouldn't impact it.

Consider: the reason we think there is anything out there is because we see a lot of bodies that aren't following the expected pattern. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, so perhaps those out-of-order bodies also pulled Planet 9 closer to the standard plane. Repeat a few billion times over a few billion years, each little tug moving it more in-line (and the rest of the solar system out-of-line).

This still depends on it starting relatively close to the same plane, but there may be selection bias involved. Those bodies that met with the solar system and weren't aligned well with the plane may have been more likely to escape again. The one (or ones) remaining are the ones that were well-aligned.
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Better returns alone aren't indicative of out-performance. What you would want to look at instead of returns is the Sharpe ratio of Hathaway and the market vs each senator. The Sharpe ratio is the excess return (return minus the risk free rate, usually the yield on a 3 month T-note), divided by the volatility of the excess return.

Another metric to look at would be each senators beta exposure and their R2: what percent of their returns are generated by their market exposure.
If insurers or sovereign wealth funds or newly unemployed need to raise cash by selling stock then ... naturally stocks like P&G should fall with the rest of the market ... because market action is determined in all but the long run by buyers and sellers, less so the companies that issued the stock originally (unless the company is buying or selling)
No I'm talking about how the "File Edit " etc menu is drawn in one and only one place like in MacOS so that every application doesn't waste screen space drawing their own menu.
You could say the same during invention of quantum mechanics: "They are looking at the effects on the scale of single atom/electron, hardly ever useful in our everyday life." Or about going to the space. You can never know what new discoveries bring.
Because the Fed isn't there all the time. Under normal circumstances, you can't just sit there. Aside from competition, you won't retain quality employees.
Depends on how the shifts are organized. Every-other-week, for example, gives time over the weekend for the viruses to die off.
But isn't this article very much presenting every nuanced piece of information as a black/white immutable fact?
I used to call my family every weekend, since I became a dad we talk 2-3 per week, the newborn has rejuvenated the family relationship and on my side I understand more what being a mum means. My boy is 1 year old and I would never understand some of the things mum did until I saw this little one grow. Call your mom's regardless.
I don’t have a day go by without thinking about doing something worthwhile with my (particle) physics phd. But that ridiculous combination of publish or perish, lousy pay and teaching not to mention the competition to stay in the field. Nah, I’ll choose living instead. But oh how I dream of a real career in physics with a higher goal than second-order marketing revenue.
There are considerable financial incentives to "fudge the numbers" regarding corona. It's to the point where if someone has a stroke, and he has corona, it will be counted as a "corona death".
Is it really "someone else's argument" though?

If you change the framing a little bit there's no reason this article couldn't have been titled "We Should Start to Think About Ending the Shutdown" or something. But if it had been titled that, most people who don't already agree would just write it off immediately. It's clear the framing was chosen to appear more reasonable and neutral in order to target those a little more open-minded or on the fence, to sneak past the out-grouping that leads people to dismiss the other side instinctively. That's not even really a criticism, given how polarized and partisan political discourse is; it's smart rhetoric.

So to answer your question directly: you can explain the argument without uncritically recapitulating it. The latter is what this essay does, which is why I think the idea that it's "someone else's argument" is a front.

For comparison, this [1] article showed up here a while ago. The authors repeatedly made clear that they disagreed with the skeptics, that they had "consensus views", that they weren't trying to Trojan horse a contrarian argument in under the guise of a call for open-mindedness and debate. That essay has flaws, and maybe it's naive, but I got the genuine sense when reading it that the authors were being forthright and earnest. I think they succeeded at making the case for the validity and worthwhileness of someone else's argument without looking like they're endorsing it.

[1] https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/27/hear-scientists-differen...
Nothing changed in the science between when they were saying that masks were not useful and when they said it was mandatory.
Seconding this - I’ve heard plenty of people talk about how they were going to be financially independent early. I think it’s worked for exactly one of them and even they didn’t get that missed time back.
> I can remember when Windows had no way to access the internet, only local area networks. It was much faster.

> When the user is done with her offline work or game playing, she can bring up the interface or re-add the default gateway and let Microsoft have control.

By that reasoning deleting System32 folder is also an option, and should make your computer 10 times faster /s
Your question just made me think that this happens everywhere, not just software development so maybe try to relate it to that to make you think about the problem in another context.

If you want to buy a piece of computer hardware, there's always the next greatest thing around the corner (a more efficient CPU, better GPU, cheaper SSD, etc.).

What about a car? Or an apartment? Is this a good block to live on? What about 1 of the other 50 towns in a decent radius -- or even thousands of towns in the general region?

At some point you just need to say fuck it and commit to something. If you've done a bit of preliminary research beforehand, chances are whatever tech stack you pick is going to work out just fine.

And now the question is whether you're building your side project for the sake of launching a product or for the sake of learning something new because that is a pretty big factor in what you pick in the end.

This topic just came up recently in a podcast I was on. Here's a direct link to what Todd Gardner said (he launched a very successful side project using .NET almost 7 years ago which is going strong today) on this topic: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/28-easily-find-repro...

But also if you glance the site, you'll see many different projects were shipped using tons of different tech stacks. I would say pick the tech stack that makes you the most happy to develop with. All of the major frameworks are solid at this point.
Above he mentions that “if it were there from the start it would obey the same rules”... so I guess he does... though where evidence for this comes from isn’t clear from me (unless it’s some kind of circular logic along the lines of “if it is in the same plane then it must have been there from the start, and if the perturbations in the Oort Cloud objects is consistent with an object in the ecliptic plane, then it must be that if t’s a black hole it was captured early on”, or something like that.

I dunno, to be honest. I don’t want to appear like I’m a polemicist with an axe to grind and sour grapes, but as I said in my original post... there’s something about this whole thing that just confuses me a bit.
Nope, this is just another case of overgeneralizing a nation of 325 million people.
I run my wishlist from a Google Sheets document. It's a bit annoying that you can't have gaps in rows in the spreadsheet, since fetching as JSON will only return up until the first gap.
I believe the US has been treated as a cautionary tale ever since January 20, 2017 ;)
Thanks a lot for the ideas, too. If you want to hear about the progress you can simply just register (we'll probably send a weekly mail) or follow me (@hkanaktas) or Dytto's account (@dyttoco) on Twitter.
Cool idea, but I worry about over reliance on Google or other big tech players, especially after their recent steps to ramp up censorship. Another example is that Medium blocked many informative COVID-19 posts recently despite them being thoughtful and necessary discussions, especially given the repeated failings of the WHO. What’s a great blog platform that features a lack of censorship or protection against censorship as a feature?
We are never going to "beat" the virus with lockdown restrictions. We could be in lockdown for two years, and the virus would still be there. We could try to hold out for a vaccine, but the optimistic estimate for a timescale is still on the order of a year or two. Meanwhile, the lockdown has real costs. Setting aside the direct economic effects (which I do believe are also important to consider), isolation and reduction of income cause real mental and physical health problems. At some point, the costs of the lockdown exceed the costs of the virus. I won't pretend to know exactly where that line is. The only real solution, in my mind, is to go for herd immunity as quickly as possible. That doesn't mean relaxing all restrictions, but it does mean tailoring the restrictions to maintain a high, but manageable case load in order to let the virus go through the population as quickly as possible without overwhelming medical systems. Of course, we should do our best to protect vulnerable people both to avoid unnecessary deaths and to limit the strain on health care. I believe the balance can be found, and as we learn more, we will be able to tailor our methods to control the virus while minimizing the impact on society.
Yeah, that's my concern as well. We have the worst of both worlds in my office; cubicles that don't restrict anything, and we're walled in with glass walls (a NOC) that limits airflow. The cubicle pathways prevent us from following social distancing, and there's over 30 of us in the NOC. Good times. Hope I can continue to WFH forever.
I'm a backend developer but after switching for Windows to Mac (and from C# to Go) about 8 years ago, I recently (in the last 6 months) adopted an almost exclusive Linux-only approach. My MBP has been great but ever since the Touch Bar and finicky keyboards that kept needing repairs from authorized retailers, I started looking more and more at Linux. All the production code runs in Linux and, while Docker on Mac is pretty good, it's pretty heavy (VM) compared to actual Docker on an actual Linux device.

So finally after taking a hard look at all the software I was using on a day-to-day basis including some JetBrains tools, Sublime Text, Slack, and a few others, I finally decided to go for it.

The only thing where the experience isn't working for me as well is 1Password. The Linux flavor (1Password X) is getting better and better all the time, but it's not quite as polished yet as 1Password.

To anyone looking to make the switch, go for it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-electron_laser

These things allow to create warm-dense matter in a laboratory:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warm_dense_matter
I can relate to some of the grief that people have with mothers that didn't fit the stereotype. I'm one of them: I know mom loves me (or at least I'd like to tell myself that) but she's been abusive to me and my siblings in ways that few can imagine. We've tried our best with interventions, but nothing really helps.

Here's how it's different for me: I'm a practising Muslim and there's strong exhortation in the religion to be kind and respectful to your parents, no matter how they are (e.g. "and to parents, good treatment. Whether one or both of them reach old age [while] with you, say not to them [so much as], "uff," and do not repel them but speak to them a noble word.") Note it doesn't say you have to love them, because you can't really control that. My learned experience (I'm 41 now) has shown me that on the whole, this approach and advice has been immensely helpful. I feel that despite the worse that's been dished out to me and my siblings, by controlling how I choose to react is very empowering. Plus it sets up a good example to our kids (my mom lives with us since my dad passed a few years back) on how to deal with difficult people.
Never Gonna Give You Up, but an AI attempts to continuously generate more
Yes, sorry! We sold tickets to that earlier this year.

If you're interested in attending future !!Cons, sign up for our mailing list (on our website) and we'll let you know when tickets go on sale.
Those benchmark results are pretty impressive. In particular, io_uring gets the best performance both when the data is in the page cache and when bypassing the cache.
I agree w/ this sentiment. Might be a thought to have a pro version that maybe lets you bookmark and write 'notes' about things seen on these. I get startup ideas and app ideas from these sources, and it'd be nice to be able to star them in one place, order the stars by priority, have one unified inbox, and stuff like that.... probably a lot more work, but it'd be cool as hell.
Recant! Ezra Pound showed you the way, but you would not listen!
Thanks for the feedback. Good point
They also pay big bucks to ex politicians to give speeches and some politicians and regulators get big money jobs there after leaving office .
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Can you provide citations to which countries exactly you're referring to by the phrase "most countries?"
> In short, I found two vulnerabilities on an Indie Dev's site that allows anyone to download his product, and pay any amount for a license.

Would anyone really be brazen enough to obtain a license this way and expect legal protection?
Yeah it's true that C# gives you more access to Windows than any other language, e.g. for GUIs and such. Java became popular without Android, but Sun was very much a platform company (Solaris -- they just didn't succeed in the long term.)

So basically the point is that the first reason is a special case of the second... Marketing alone does a little bit for a language, but having the platform is more important.

People choose platforms and not languages. Big companies are the ones that own platforms (Linux being an exception).
Oh right, that's effectively the same thing...
That's what the LEP did. It was replaced with the LHC.

Strange as it might sound, I think technology being developed for the next generation of mobile networks could be what opens up a new regime (with likely candidate theories) of high energy physics. - Terahertz beamforming for wakefield accelerators, to throw some lingo at you.
Did you mean Ubuntu 16 (from 2016)?
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Stock prices are discounted future profits for about 15 to 20 years. Those profits are still there when Corona is over. From that perspective, why should share prices fall by more than 5-10% for every year that Corona is locking down the economy?

Thats the theory. In practice stock prices wildly oscillate around expected value (which is a gradual curve up and to the right), with no apparent logic. As shiller points out in irrational exuberance, stock markets do not consistently reflect expected long term returns.
While the prosodic contour of a sentence does help in parsing, there's a reason no writing system has ever taken notice of it. It's not necessary.

The most obvious way to see this would be to think about synthesized speech, which almost never uses natural prosody. Think of the voice of Stephen Hawking, or just a splicing of some prerecorded options. ("At the tone, the time will be / TWO / TWENTY / THREE / and / TEN / seconds.")
First, when influenza spreads too much in some place, few schools are closed to control spread. Also, hospitals get closed to visits. Typically that is enough to get it under control.

Second, confirmed covid deaths already exceeded estimated influenza deaths. This is covid with lockdown and not finished yet versus influenza overall.

That is without comparing how long are you sick if you get sick and without comparing possible long term consequences of disease.

I mean, by the start of it influenza comparison made sense. At this point, it does not.
> [...] these days, so as time passes, removing their stock price from the price at IPO, their stock price becomes based on perception--not even perception of the reality [...]

John Maynard Keynes developed this idea (that came to be known as Keynesian beauty contest[1]) in 1936. This isn't a new property of the market, it has always been the case.

> when companies do pay dividends or buy back stock, it's sometimes done by borrowing money

It's not clear that this is a problem, given that cash is basically free (though they do have to pay back the principal). I'd be interested to see what proportion of dividends and buybacks comes from borrowed cash. I suppose calculating such a thing would be very difficult, but it'd be interesting to see some analysis on this.

> if 90% of people pull out of the stock market, it's quite possible for the stock market to go up

What if 90% significantly cut consumption? Ultimately the companies have to sell their products to somebody.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest
As an alternative, Gatsby — a JS-powered static site generator — has a plugin for Google Docs that appears to be in active development.

https://www.gatsbyjs.org/packages/gatsby-source-google-docs/
at this point Windows 10 LTSC will be the last version of Windows I use
Inflation was seen in asset prices. We're seeing it again in asset prices right now.
"What’s the problem (with Elasticache)? It is expensive, and no one notices for months."

So you just click on stuff without knowing how much it costs? Really?

> Secondly that cache.* prefix means this instance costs $0.216/hr instead of $0.126/hr, a 71.4% premium. Then you might think you need one for dev, qa, and prod

Ok and you pick a cache of the same size for dev/qa/prod? Again, really?

> But, not all data/records/events should go into Kinesis. It is not a general purpose enterprise event bus or queue.

Yes, there's SQS for that. But it seems another case of clicky-go-lucky. "Hey it says queue here so we'll just use this right?!"

> Lambdas are great for the following tasks:

Yes, agreed. I would generalize it as: it is good for specific small tasks, especially when plugging into the rest of the AWS infrastructure (reacting to/from SQS, S3 events, etc)

> Lambda is horrible for:
> A replacement for REST API endpoints.

Sigh

General advice: if something feels weirdly hard, then you're probably doing it wrong.