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I'm not sure how TIE Fighter's mechanics would translate to modern sensibilities, and I say this as someone who loved the LucasArts games (at least part of the reason I'm a graphics programmer today!) and currently has, well, a not-insubstantial investment in flight simulation hardware for modern titles like DCS/Falcon BMS/various IL-2 things.

House of the Dying Sun (https://store.steampowered.com/app/283160/House_of_the_Dying...) might be the closest thing going I'm aware of on the current market, as an arcade space fighter game in VR. Doesn't have the same theming, but it's at least space fighters doing space fighter things in space!

For me, the question of how you'd do a modern TIE Fighter remake becomes "how do you make assumptions about how space combat works in your game-universe that line up with the Star Wars films, and also lead to fun gameplay?" Since the space combat from Star Wars (at least ANH) was basically "Dambusters, in space!" you can draw lots of inspiration from World War 2-era aviation and combat. However, given an environment where gravity doesn't play and everything has ridiculous thrust-to-mass ratios, you lose some of the interesting bits re: altitude/energy trades and everything just turns into a "Pull as hard as you can" circle fight in the within-visual-range (WVR) / basic fighter maneuvers (BFM) space, which is where most of the iconic Star Wars dogfights-in-space happen. Beyond Visual Range (BVR) combat isn't really a thing in Star Wars, because Rule of Cool indicates that dogfights are cooler than slinging missiles at each other based on sensors. In the films, the writers/VFX people created the scenes they wanted by creative fiat -- in a game you need the mechanics to drive to the experience you want, and that's a challenge given Star Wars' apparent assumptions about how space combat works.

Of course there's all sorts of interesting assumptions you could make instead, but then you're just making a space arcade-sim game, not a Star Wars game.

Nope, I've clearly never thought about this. At all. Clearly.
I know this article is about Alexa/Echo, but I wish a feature like this is built into TVs :)

I have a young kid now and she's in bed by 8:30. I'd like to watch TV in the living room in the evening after her bed time. I want to watch a movie like say, Avengers. I want to listen to the dialogue instead of/in addition to reading subtitles. The problem is in most movies, you have low volume dialogues, and then there's explosions and stuff with high volume (intended effect; which is nice at the theater, but not nice with a kid sleeping in the next room). I don't want to wear headphones. So I end up with a remote in hand, keep adjusting the volume high or low on reaction as quickly as my reflex allows me to.
OH man I played a TON of Silent Service.

That could be some seriously tense gaming.

I wish they'd re-release that somewhere ... granted I haven't looked. It might not have aged but I could go for a something like that again, maybe not full sim... more casual friendly.
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> let's not pretend that Google is getting hit _that_ hard by the recession.

yet... Google's primary source of revenue is advertising (84% in 2019).

Marketing and advertising are the first things that companies cut.
Tell me honestly: do you really interpret OP as stating that, if you're not physically around someone, they (restating a little bit to make clear how much this is unlikely to have been meant literally) will not remember that you are a real person that exists? That they will come to think of you as an imaginary thing?

Maybe just give them the benefit of the doubt and engage with what they were actually trying to say. If they meant something more extreme, they'll have every chance to double down on it, but no conversation is enriched by shooting down the least charitable interpretation of what folks are saying. Especially when "least charitable interpretation" means "I will take all hyperbolic and/or figurative language and read it literally." It's boring to read language written like legalese, and it's boring to see people getting criticised for not writing in legalese.
We'll, they're certainly escalating. I don't think that Trump actually wants to shut Twitter down, nor does he want to get banned there. The banning would rile up his base, but it would do so at the expense of his primary channel of communication. This action puts the ball back in Trump's court and asks him how far he wants to actually go.
Interesting tidbit, thanks. Where does an IP auction tend to happen?
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Beautiful. Thank you.
In that case, I do have an obligation to unsubscribe rather than reporting the email as spam. I view the "report spam" button as a form of punishment, meant to disincentivize bad behavior. Misuse of email addresses should come with the risk of having all emails marked as spam. Losing interest in a mailing list that previously interested me is an expected result over time, and would not be appropriate to report as spam.
Posse Commitatus prevents the military from performing law-enforcement duties. The _governor_ can activate the national guard for cases like this.
I'm learning Machine Learning (without being a math genius)
Twitter is definitely allowed to do this, legally, but seems like a pretty short-sited decision. There's no way that poking the bear like this is going to lead to anything except a more highly regulated platform.
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Personal preference, but I feel like unsubscribing or hitting spam is you sending your sentiment back to the sender in two different ways.

If you unsubscribe you're saying that you're no longer interested in the list, you see the merit but don't want to receive it any more for whatever reason.

If you hit spam you're saying this email should never have come to me, or I don't want to expend the effort to stop it from coming to me.

If the sender makes unsubscribing as easy as hitting spam (by making sure the Gmail unsub button works for example) then they make it more likely for their recipients to send the appropriate feedback - ie not hit the spam button.
Technological solution: Attach a laser to a gimbal camera. use YOLOv3 or similar to target the eyes of cops or armed persons within 100foot radius. Set up a few gimbal with mutually reinforcing fields of fire. If they can't see, they can't shoot. Everyone is safe with no killing.
Don't worry... he also criticized Obama for golfing too much, and has gone golfing more frequently than Obama.

And Senate Republicans have openly asked judges to resign so they can be replaced by conservative judges, and their justification for why it's okay to do this so close to an election but it wasn't okay to confirm Garland so close to an election literally amounts to "Obama's a Democrat, Trump's a Republican."
Poor people are certainly exposed to bad policing more often, but I don't think they see the entire concept of law enforcement as unequal. Most people across all income groups don't commit or approve of crimes.
Yes, just like the 2 week notice from the employee. I feel like we've gone full circle twice now.
They protected their tweets.
This is such a great idea for a VR game, minus the time issues and the whole thing with some of the crew members having nothing to do lots of the time.

It has no issues with needing to walk around, but still has a bunch of different types of gameplay.

Of course the only thing with all this.. they're trying to make a game that avoids motion sickness.. but flying in these planes during maneuvers could be a vomit fest anyway.. so the game still might make some people sick.

Still.. this is the genre that would make me consider getting a VR headset. I'd echo the call from others for a Tie-Fighter/X-Wing remake with a VR headset.. that'd be really fun.
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Those areas are everywhere; they’re only selectively enforced in neighborhoods of color. White people don’t smoke weed, for instance? The huge rush of white folks into “legal” weed business suggests that’s not the case. But how many teenage boys in the suburbs are harassed and arrested and need to be bailed out? Imagine if all white people were stopped when they’re out in their neighborhood and actually had all those “petty” crimes enforced. (1) the policy would change overnight and (2) the arrest rate and mistrust of police would skyrocket.
“Not as much” doesn’t mean no merit. Even empty storefronts with no broken windows, if they dominate, take out the spirit of a location. Cities could, if they have resources, lease and use them for community centered services to entice some form of vibrance.
The tiniest C sort function? (2008)
Thanks! ROOT itself looks interesting too.
If you only blame the billboard for the failure, then you don't really understand billboard advertising.

Placement, design, message, color, product, and a dozen other factors go into whether a billboard message works or not. It's why big companies hire advertising agencies to do these things for them. The agencies know the nuances of making it work, just like hiring an expert to do your AdSense buy.

I used to own a web site that advertised on billboards in the early 2000's. It worked pretty well. It helped that it was very geographic-specific, and the billboards were along major roads in those geographies.
This is also a difference, breakfast in Spain is typically a short event.
So, at this point, the Covid 19 death toll has surpassed 100,000. Even if we can only attribute a small fraction of those deaths to Trump's complete negligence and mishandling, Trump's actions have led to more deaths than September 11--Trump has literally killed more Americans than Osama Bin Laden. So I don't think we need to talk about Section 230 to show that he's a terrible president.

That said, I'm having trouble seeing how Trump is wrong in his application of Section 230. Section 230 was intended to protect free-speech platforms by allowing them to eschew editorial control without being held responsible for what users say. If Twitter starts exercising editorial control, then doesn't that mean that they should be held responsible for what's said on their platform? This strikes me as Twitter wanting to have their cake and eat it too: they don't want to the legal liability of editorial control, but they don't want the bad PR of allowing free speech on their platform.

If we're actually basing our laws and their enforcement on principles, then we a) have to decide whether Twitter is a content platform or a communication platform, and b) we can't just abandon our principles because Trump accidentally says something correct.
Nice! Do you have a source for that?
Because the exact phrase has historical context [1] in a sense of: if you loot, we shoot. Clearly it wasn’t said in a sense of: looting inevitably leads to violence.

That makes it sound like Trump used it in a similar fashion.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/where-does-phrase-...
One thing is minor is unquestionably more dissonant than major; a major chord (in just intonation) is one of the most powerful sounds in existence which is why Baroque music almost always ends on major -- ie not to "sound happy" but to end with a bang.

This dissonance is related to why a composer like Bach has many, many compositions in minor (and massive ones like the B-minor mass), but not much later, you see composers using minor less and less as they moved towards more consonance (along with modulation of course).

For instance, in all of Mozart's violin sonatas there's only one minor. And it's freaking awesome ... but he didn't want to write more than that.

I think that while dissonance was interesting to Bach, it was less so through the rest of the common period, so that favors major.

I would also add that Salsa as a genre uses minor keys for happy tunes all the time.
I’ve had no luck calling the police.

Certified crazy friend wanted to shoot people at a synagogue. Family, friends, employer and psychiatrist agree he needs to be taken in? Nothing.

Witnessed a person hit my car, give them the license plate? Nothing.

Multiple burglaries in a remote area, with video footage and time stamps? Do they run a Google location tracking query after I point out they can and should? Of course not.

Hand them the address of a repeated trespasser that’s threatened to damage my property, with video footage? They’ll enforce the law ($500 fine next offense, misdemeanor after that) if I spend $10k’s on a civil case, and the court orders them to do so. If I do nothing, they’ll encumber the deed to my property with a prescriptive easement for the jackass.

Nightly drug deals in my back yard keep waking me up? They’ll have a patrol car drive by in 5 hours.

That time the DMV received, recorded but failed to process my smog check? >$1000 in fines, and two days missed work.

Once a black lady ran a light in a car I‘d sold. That was the crime of the century! They tracked me down and threatened to take legal action against me if I didn’t say who she was. I had no idea; it went to an auction house. It took multiple phone calls and two letters to prove I hadn’t had a sex change and somehow switched races. They “resolved” it by saying they’d either drop charges, or they’d assume I waived my right to trial and issue an arrest warrant. They said there was no way for me to tell me which of those things they did. It’s been a few years, and no one’s arrested me. I guess I’m good?

Each incident happened in a different city in the SF bay area.
I have seen people getting paid a lot on contracts. But of course it depends who considered them high skilled - Company contracting them or contractor themselves.
This is a really, really bad take, along the same lines as "the US is not a democracy, it is a republic!"
She just made her tweets private is why that's happening
I agree, but the question is how to get from here to there. Releasing all the nonviolent drug addicts - which we certainly should do! - still doesn't get us close to those other countries.
While in general I agree that there are too many administrators at many universities, this type of argument is ineffective without pointing out exactly which administrators. And I find that once you try to do that, no one agrees which administrators should be cut. Do you want to cut the administrators responsible for diversity and inclusion? Or the administrators responsible for tech transfer? Or the Dean of the College? Or administrators that manage grants? Or administrators of admissions, or athletics, title IX, or school of medicine?

Give us some specifics to discuss. Because while almost everyone agrees administration needs to be trimmed, if everyone just wants to keep the ones they think are important and there's not much overlap, then there's clearly no way to do this.

Same as when people say "government should stop spending on useless things, government should be smaller and trim the fat / pork barrel spending". Yeah of course when you put it that way, who wouldn't agree with that. But when you get specific, "government should reduce veteran's benefits, national parks, border security, obesity research, food stamps, etc." well that's when it's not so easy.
Here's what happens: Voters vote for someone who says they will do this thing "more on-foot friendly patrols", "catch actual criminals". Police obviously continue what they've always been doing and stop & frisk, harass minorities, etc, because that's generally what happens when you stuff poor neighborhoods full of cops from a completely different background to the community they are policing. Everyone pretends this is not what is happening until some particularly blatant instance brings it to light.

Turning up the pressure to catch stupid, small crimes while letting actual large problems (like consistent theft of wages that outnumbers money lost to robbery 3 to 1) will lead to stupid solutions.
Because Google trains its spam filters on user feedback.

If people start unsubscribing by hitting spam, then those users who still want to receive the mailing may have to search for it in their spam boxes.
Nobody has rioted hard enough so far and most of the victims of this law are not white.
> The DOJ needs to break them up for violating the public trust...

Twitter, Facebook, et al are entertainment. There's not trust to violate.
I feel you almost were able to lawyer your way to something coherent, but ultimately, you are advocating for government regulation of speech, IMHO.
What is meant by "exploding" here?
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If you want to stick with WD, you can still buy WD40EFRX, which are not SMR, at many retailers. Of WD's current product line, you want to avoid the EFAX, EZAZ, SPZX, and SPSX models.
> As someone else said, this will probably cost the police and city in a settlement.

It probably won't cost the police anything, it'll come out of the taxpayer.
"extra-disposable and second class"

It's not a straw man. It's in there in the original comment.
So that you can't just pander to the top N population centers to win an election.
Minnesota does not have stand your ground laws. Instead, they have duty to retreat laws (basically, you can use deadly force to protect your life, not property).
Thanks a lot for the tip. I will check the series out. It's always great to discover those hidden program gems the BBC has produced in the past.

I believe it is important to view the revolutions through the eyes of the contemporaries. Then, we might find a more fitting lessons for our current search.
not really. its perfectly easy to write scripts that work with py2 and 3
#1 Security: no one knows how to secure AWS. But I also really, really hate how the Cybersecurity organizations operate in every job I've ever had so that would feel like selling my soul to the devil.

#2 "Big Data"

#3 Containerization (working with it on AWS specifically)
If you want to know how the decentralized oracle problem is solved, scroll down to “dispute round” in this paper https://www.augur.net/whitepaper.pdf
I work in an environment where we do super high speed deep packet inspection for commercial customers. We use FPGAs. If all you want to do is split and exfiltrate (send to other servers for analysis) the packets as they come over the wire and maybe send them into different buckets then an FPGA is more than enough. You only need to be as fast as the slower of the two devices you're between.
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If you have assets you need to care about debt but the same is not true of an income share agreement. You can have assets without income from sources other than selling those assets.
It was obvious while I was a student that the ratio of administrators to faculty was ridiculous. And the growth rate ratio between them was 3:1. At no point was it clear to me what real value they were adding. I was the captain of a more capital and real-estate intensive than average student group, and it was absolutely infuriating to try to figure out how to get anything done. There was always some new bureaucrat condensing out of the ether who needed to be appeased. No meant no, but a yes was never enough.

To be quite honest, I see the same thing in my professional work. Everyone feels that their problems deserve more headcount. And heads make work, justifying more heads. Further, those heads want to get promoted, so they make-work to justify that too. And to compound the problem, people try to magnify their power and impact by becoming gatekeepers. More people to say no and more overhead and drag to every action.

It's unfortunately difficult to ask and to honestly answer why we do things and whether those things are worthwhile. It's even harder to take corrective action even if you admit that what you're doing is not worthwhile. I think it's one of the pillars of cost disease that is nibbling away the on-the-ground productivity of Western societies.
It wasn't because software bug, but this is how "Mamonas Assassinas" died, basically during a missed approach the pilot turned the wrong direction (but with the correct radius and all) and crashed into a very tall hill near the airport.
Bullets don’t have names on them and tear gas doesn’t discriminate between peaceful protestors and looters. The use of force should be a final response, not an initial one. It can and does hurt innocent people, inciting even more violence.
> I have seen tweets from blue check marks essentially calling for violence and Twitter didn't remove them

As a Twitter user, I've been concerned with this as well. Clicking on the Minneapolis riots "trend", roughly 1/3 of the top tweets were promoting violence while the overwhelming majority of the remainder were merely sympathetic toward the violence, with only a small sliver denouncing the violence. Note that I don't follow violent or far-left accounts (generally a-political tech accounts, and I'll unfollow people who have especially authoritarian or hateful views in either direction), yet these are overwhelmingly promoted to me (in general, not just in the particular case of the MN riots) either in trends or in the random "here, have this extreme, toxic Tweet from another follower of someone you follow" Tweets that Twitter tosses into my feed. I'm not sure that Twitter is actively promoting extreme left-wing views (it could be that Twitter's user base is really just so far left that its algorithms just can't find any moderate content for me or something), but I don't blame anyone for thinking it does.

EDIT: I'm aware this is a controversial topic, but I'm curious if I'm being downvoted because people don't believe my characterization of my timeline/trends or because my tone was less than thrilled with the volume of left-wing tweets I'm shown or something else. I'm a heretic and I don't deserve my Internet Points, so take them away, but indulge my curiosity about your specific objections! :)
> There's no way that poking the bear like this is going to lead to anything except a more highly regulated platform.

How? Attempts at regulating Twitter's ability to fact-check on their own privately owned platform would almost certainly fail a First Amendment challenge, and the Democratic House isn't gonna go a long with new laws to crack down on it either.
It's not clear whether a parameter in a neural network maps cleanly onto a synapse in a biological brain.
Do Google contractors make more than Google employees? If yes, the premium is the priced-in risk. I sincerely don't know, but US government contractors make more than the GSA schedule counterpart.
Forgot to answer about Open Source.

userTrack is not free (open-source) but sold as a product for a one-time fee. As for the soure code: currently you get the original PHP backend code but only the bundled front-end code. I am also adding soon the option to download the original front-end code (TypeScript + ReactJS + MaterialUI).

I have thought about releasing userTrack as open-source, but I currently work full-time on it and I need to sustain myself, otherwise I couldn't spend the time to work on it. If I find a sustainable way to open-source it, I will.
It comes down to judgment. It's the difference between a cop writing a ticket to someone who's going 5 mph over the speed limit but driving safely and someone who's going 30 mph over while weaving in and out of traffic.

While both are technically illegal, one is low risk and socially accepted behavior, while the other presents a real threat to many people's safety.

When police seek out and punish the first kind of behavior, people see it as predatory. When it's the second, most people are thankful.

In many poor communities, police seem to have their priorities exactly backwards: they zealously seek out and punish petty victimless crimes, while not investigating serious crimes due to a lack of resources.
What's the big deal? I had that suspension of disbelief in Zork I.