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Apropos of nothing, thanks for your work on Recoil, it’s awesome :)

I don’t think the discussion on this post here is reddit-level - for example, I found the top level comment on the role of dreams, and the link to the commenter’s paper on psyarxiv super interesting. As I said in my comment, I too find the twitter thread format a bit frustrating to read.

What I was trying to say is that the author (Foone) has previously posted about this - for them, the choice really is between “blog this way or not at all” due to the way their mind works.

Of course the fact that this topic comes up every time is indicative, but I think what it indicates is that Twitter UX is terrible, not that the author is a bad person for choosing to share in this format.
You have a lot of laments about "media connections" to let people know about your business. I think you're looking at this wrong.

It's not about "connections." It's about doing business the old-fashioned way: advertising, and hiring a public relations agency.

Advertising is self-explanatory. But for some reason a lot of tech companies don't hire PR firms. They like to cheap out and do PR in-house, or they simply never think of it.

It's the PR firm's job to have the "media connections" you so desperately crave. Tech people are notoriously bad at public relations, so it's perfectly logical to farm this out to people who specialize in just this sort of thing. There are even boutique PR agencies for various industries, including tech. But in your case, you should have hired one of the several hundred that specialize in education.

You could have been the next Oregon Trail!
Civilization is a surrogate activity factory. Language and literature makes people's lives more hollow, less connected, less human, but in exchange, gives them the illusion that they are living principled, meaningful lives, living in caves[1], like brains in a jar.

[1]: figuratively speaking. Technically it's what got them out of living in caves, but bear with me here.
Raygun achieved a 12% performance lift migrating our API to .NET Core 3.1
So-called “anti-piracy” measures are futile. As long as something can be played back, it can be recorded, copied, re-played.

If watermarks become an issue, people will develop methods to mangle watermarks and make them unreliable in figuring out the source of the leak.

Any attempts to prevent copying by technical means are at odds with public ownership and use of general-purpose computers. The only reliable way to prevent people from making and sharing copies of data is to ban such computers or restrict their usage.
To follow up, in most rhythm games, the "perfect" timing window is around +/-33ms. In DDR, the "marvelous" timing is around +/-16ms. 80ms is almost a combo breaker.

Top level players can stay in the +/-33ms window for thousands of notes without making a single mistake, and "full marvelous combos" where you stay in the +/-16ms window for an entire song are not unheard of.

That's the kind of timing we are talking about.
It's closer to $200B.
It's this: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/powers-of-minus-ten/id42912355...

(note: I am not OP)
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Obviously you could build an aggregator with an API that gives you a stream of news. People have been building niche news aggregators on Wordpress for almost two decades by plugging in some RSS feed urls.

It's just the kind of obvious lame idea that stops me from seeing more compelling usages of this sort of cool API.
“Cloud” DOT Diagrams as Code
Diagrams as code is no stranger around here. This renders DOT files from your github repos by changing the domain in the URL. Would love feedback.
Those services charge corporate users. If uber develops nothing homegrown then it is subject to the whims of the major map services, mostly google.

Most drivers use a 3rd party app in practice but uber probably needs to run mapping to avoid a source of weakness/cost.

(Could be totally wrong about incentive structure)
> Long story short: it doesn't sell.

This can often be a problem with education in general, not educational games specifically.

Trying to make money in education is like trying to make money in news: you can’t. Both are vital, and both ultimately no one wants to pay for.

Disclaimer: I used to work at an educational startup, which failed. No, I’m not bitter. (Well, maybe a little.)
Good catch. Please investigate this story. After you find out what really happened, report back to us.
I am asking if there are any smaller/startup/independent companies that offer similar services to AWS Lambda/Google Cloud Run
Similarly, I prefer wireless charging on my phone and other portable devices. No worry about wear and tear. For about a year I used a tablet with a broken microUSB port that I used a wireless charger for.
> you've just committed to something sub-optimal/impossible

What about never making decisions at meetings -- instead, let everyone think 1 week after the meeting, and make the decision asynchronously? Eg vote via email

Combining meetings and async
I don't think this is the 'vilest' of misogyny, and I think the hyperbole does a disservice to women.

This isn't really about rape; it's about the legal power asymmetry in entirely consensual sex. I'm not complaining about this, or advocating any policy positions, I just find it interesting to think about out loud.

Your reaction is interesting, too. Why do you associate the gp post with misogyny?
As someone with very limited Microsoft/Windows background, I would be curious to somehow better understand how these lessons would apply to the Linux world.

What are the Linux equivalents of pass-the-hash, TAM/PAM/PAWs etc?
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I didn’t mean to imply that you said they should not blog at all. I should have been clearer - this is something the author
themself said in the past (linked in a sibling reply). For them, due to the way their mind works, that is the choice - they have tried long-form blogging and found themselves incapable of ever completing a post. I can relate to that experience in some ways.

I am not saying Twitter is a great platform for this type of thing - clearly it’s not.
Wait.. whats wrong with those dates? Ramanujan's widow died in 1994.
I'd take a twitter thread over medium any day anyway.
Games have certain advantages over real life in terms of providing experience:

--- shorter feedback loops: you can play through a game of Civilization in a few hours/days. There is no analogous real-life experience.

--- non-severe failure consequences: If you fail in Kerbal Space Program, there is no Challenger explosion

--- repetition: Real life usually doesn't provide similar conditions to make for valid experiments. Games can do exactly that

--- breadth of experience: In the same way books transport us, and let us visit other places and situations, games can do the same.
Hottest Arctic temperature record probably set with reading in Siberia
I take it Mark is a musician. Or he likes to have a room to probe with things?

Let's go with musician.
Good point. I’ve been meaning to write up my experience, because I feel that it was really poor and Australian students need to be more aware of how sub-par our CS education system is.
Learning via video games is so powerful for many kids because of the agency they're provided. Also they are intrinsically motivated to play the game and they can't help but learn.

"Stop the games", "put the game in context", etc. mostly kills this feeling for many kids. Only the most skilled teachers are able to do this without making the whole thing unfun.
I find this to be a bit more disturbing (in the first wiki article)

> On 14 July 1909, Ramanujan married Janaki (Janakiammal; 21 March 1899 – 13 April 1994),[25] a girl his mother had selected for him a year earlier and who was ten years old when they married.
I basically agree with you.
Computing saves millions of lives on a regular basis. Can't run modern agriculture or medicine or government without it.

Griping about the evils of the current gripeable is a lot of fun, though. One may even argue it's the more important of the two.
The only thing guaranteed about VC backed companies is that their investors are looking for outsized returns.
I get a bit frustrated by this view solely because internally, folks aren't _just_ your customer. They are your co-workers, and the same thing for them. Their co-workers are providing the platform.

The extra bit of empathy makes all the difference, because without fantastic personal communication, 'platform' could be a waste of time for everyone involved.
I read RSS feeds with an app on Android called Aggregator. Reuters feeds included a short description of the story inside the feed, but Google News doesn't have them. The descriptions in the feed allowed me to precisely filter and label the entries based on keywords.

Anyway, I also use the Google News RSS trick described in the article, as replacement for now. Not sure how long it will last, however.
You can look all people in their eyes at the same time

(But impossible in real life)
FPBase is a model for what open-access academic databases should look like for novel protein sequences.

It's a thankless job to do all of the comparisons/reviews of proteins with similar functions. And then even more of a challenge to take that hard-earned data and make it accessible and immediately useful. But it is foundational to moving the field forward.

Thank you, and keep up the good work.
> that it was an old school thing to give a raise for having a kid.

The old school thing was to fire the worker for having kids, or even for getting married (see: 1950s-1970s air hostesses and business secretaries).
> Half these problems would go away if USB and Bluetooth were like Wifi/Ethernet. Just a packet level protocol.

Every few years I have this thought:

If, instead of <X> on <Y>, we had just put more effort into Ethernet (and just Ethernet), we'd probably have reached <Z> by now.

Fiber Channel. USB. Thunderbolt. HDMI/DVI. SCSI/SATA. Bluetooth. BLE. Make wifi be ethernet over radio not the monster it is today.

Of the above, only Ethernet has the good grace to be driven by (relatively) simple software. It's also the only one that isn't getting obsoleted by the next complex thing coming along.
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This is definitely not true, chacha20 is frequently faster than AES even with AES-NI in use, especially on earlier implementations of the instruction extension.
It is true that making games is hard and making a profit on them even harder. I disagree, however, that adrenaline/story/polish necessarily compete with the educational aspect. I think The Learning Company soundly disproved that through the mid-90s.

I happened to be in the right place at the right time to benefit from the height of the education game boom in the early/mid-90s, so I got to play the fun Math Blasters, ClueFinders, Carmen Sandiegos, Incredible Machines, Dr. Brains, Zoombinis, and also a bunch of adventure games which featured some logical/observation puzzles like the Myst series (never mind others mentioned like Oregon Trail, Civilization, etc). So I'm a strong believer that -someone- could pick up the magic that The Learning Company (and Broderbund) once owned.
Ted Kaczynski got the bulk of his ideas from Jacques Ellul and the Technological Society. Ellul was emphatically a pacifist, an anarchist, and a well-respected intellectual.
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That is really interesting, thanks for replying!
They are blaming the suicide attempts on stay at home orders instead of the ramifications of having a deadly disease spreading through our communities, scaring people to avoid others.

Without comparing suicides to other countries or comparing states with severe lock downs versus others, the article is just a series of anecdotes and possible correlations.
Have you read Boehm's paper 'Threads Cannot be Implemented as a Library'?

It's the same reason.

Your dataflow semantics need to be part of the language semantics, otherwise they're bound to be loosely defined and even more loosely enforced.
FEE, the Foundation for Economic Education, is a libertarian thinktank with strong ties to the Koch brothers. This is not an unbiased piece in the least, and we should be very skeptical of its claims considering the wild statements it makes (such as the lockdowns having no impact on the spread of COVID-19).
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As has been reported, [1] the doctor at John Muir was speaking off the cuff, and impressionistically. And as it happens, inaccurately.

[1] https://www.redding.com/story/news/2020/05/29/no-bay-area-ho...
In this case though, you're stopping the game to teach strategies on how to win the game.
I hate that what we did here in the US is called a "lockdown". In my city of Atlanta, I could look out the window any day of the week and see crowds of people out enjoying themselves.

We didn't do a lockdown, and we don't know how a proper one would have played out in our country. We only have data for the half-assed attempt we made.

The only thing I've taken from this exercise is that it's a politically divisive issue and that our nation is in real trouble if we ever have to come to some kind of national consensus.
That matrix-style background animation wasn't known until 1999.
But as Alfred North Whitehead wrote in 1911,

"It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them."
Yes, but you move the logic for deciding which branch to take to an underlying function. It pollutes the parent function less, but results in more overall functions for places to hide.

Also, if the logic gets more complicated than just an if statement (if Permision... and date < cutoffdate: etc) you don't further pollute the parent function.
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> distributes corrupted files of the same film at a ratio of 1,000 to 1 via peer-based distribution.

If I have a list of the top pirate crews and their digital signatures, why would I DL one of the 1000? Why would a site list it?

Also part of the wishlist -

"The content distribution network 2100 may be implemented as a closed membership service, and records for members or subscribers in the following basic information:

Name

DOB (must be 18+)

Gender

Home Address

Email

Phone number (home and cell)

Own or rent home

How long lived at home address

From this information, and a social media scrape automated analysis of a member's social media profile and circle the movie distribution system is able to determine the applicant's suitability and grant or deny membership"

So it'll work, making every watermarked copy to a real human should stop the end users copying it. Not sure if people will go to all the trouble for dropped shipped movies, maybe.
How I Programmed Myself
quoting the unabomber, wow

http://xahlee.org/p/um/um-s06.html

as a countering antecode, everyone I know uses the utilities of the internet to no major ill effect. and like you can point to many valid criticisms of modern tech and it's usage, but painting entertainment sources like discord and social media platforms like Facebook as "destroying the very notion of being human" sounds a tad exaggerated
Winamp was close to pure assembly coding, wasn't it?

It's smoothness and performance at the time of couple-hundred-MHz CPUs was outstanding.
To an organization in France. Doesn't sound like concerning precedent to a startup that doesn't share much in common with google.
Just to throw in a wrench, I live in a van and I'm only very rarely in the same place for more than a month.

My expenses don't really change depending on where I park.
Unidirectional wi-fi?
"Does science makes the world better?"
"Does engineering makes the world better?"
And then you realize they are all tools and it completely depends of the beings using it, and of course it also depends what you exactly mean by "better" (better to who?, and all the other questions)

>Last week I was talking with my sister about how people in our society have gotten so toxic and tribal over the past decade,

False, there is even a famous meme of a fake book cover about it that is pretty spot on: "The world was always awful, a guide to world history for people who romanticize the past"
...I don't have one, the end.
On a related note, was there someone working in US Intelligence whose job it was to tell President Trump that possibly the WHO's early statement on human-human transmission of the "new coronavirus" depended on information from China, and maybe that information from China wasn't correct, because, you know, you can't always trust everything that the Chinese government says?
Privacy, Empathy and the Zero-Sum Game
last few times we tried this lots of people starved to death. Let us know if you figure out how to do it properly without that happening.
Naah, but at least that would make the decision simple and clear (if condition return doA else return doB).

Better would be for whatever ThingFactory or getThingService instantiates the Thing to make the decision, and compute it up front.

If-else statements in application logic tangle the concepts of "what should be done and why?" with "let me do this Way 1" and "let me do this Way 2". Ideally a typical service (or model or similar) shouldn't be aware that "feature flags" as a concept exist, and this should be regarded as inimical to their encapsulation. It should just know that it delegates a decision to Way N.
All of these examples are equivalent to least squares :)
It's on my todo list, to start running OSC again, as soon as I start driving places again. Car's still got gas in the tank from February...
...it's interesting to note, though, that because DDR doesn't provide auditory feedback when you hit a note, it should actually be able to compensate for audio latency quite well. The big caveat being, you have to know what the latency is, and that latency must stay consistent, neither of which apply to Bluetooth headphones.
It’s just a small star shaped screw IIRC but nothing specific to Apple; other small electronics use these too.
> Can't do that with static languages either. Call it a type (or class), call it a parsing function, ultimately the result is the same. You need something to ensure that it is an url. Those exist in dynamically typed languages and are not obviated in static ones.

In a loosely typed language you cannot have compiler-level enforcement that a variable has been produced by a factory function that ensures that the passed in variable has been parsed and determined valid.

Additionally in a loosely typed language you do not even get the OPTION of labeling a value as "validated/unvalidated", you only have one option: Pass a string, and expect the new developer to read upstream code to understand where the variable came from.

> In short, ultimately everything you said was just, like, your opinion, man.

Is it my opinion though? Or did I pull it straight out of Building Secure and Reliably Systems, a book written by Google engineers to express industry best practice for developing software at a scale?
Exactly.

This is why this argument falls flat.

If FB plans to do shady stuff with Mapillary, they will and there is nothing anybody can do about it...
Factorio quickly demonstrates to the player the danger and cost of bolt-on / ad-hoc / spaghetti code solutions, and likewise the benefits of a bit of forethought.

Doing some pre-planning of your factory's eventual layout will have you advancing through the tech tree much, much faster (and without rebuilding critical sections all the time!)
OK but then that's ... not actually a criticism? And when the person I replied to says, 'doesn't address issues of the language itself', that's not actually even accurate. TypeScript addresses several large sources of errors in every codebase, like null or undefined errors.
>But the real blow to the intelligence community is the loss of default trust and the active denial by the open source community.

Their loss is our gain.
> The new patent (pdf[1]) granted this week sits in that same niche.

It's linking to a patent application publication, not a granted or issued patent.

[1]: https://torrentfreak.com/images/screening-room-patent.pdf
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In the face of the Linux kernel not taking care of known exploits, regardless of their usability, I'll take it.
I agree with everything you said. You seem to be arguing against someone else, not with what I wrote.

Where I don’t agree is your inference that using a less common but still readily available screw head means you have “no right” to open your device.

Minor inconveniences are not the same as a loss of rights, and it’s astonishing that anyone would try to conflate the two.
I wonder if Obama has any of these on video?
Breathing Easily: The ancient world's solutions for protective equipment
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Awesome, thank you for the info. Anki is a tool I use and love but I know very little about the behind the scenes work.

>* User onboarding & UX - We get tons of bad reviews: "All my cards have been deleted" - this is because we fail to explain how Anki/Spaced Repetition works and that we take control of scheduling. People download AnkiDroid expecting flashcards, and we can do much better in this area.

Somewhat related, but I would like a way to "cram" cards (ie. temporarily review all cards in a deck, in random order, without affecting anything about their spaced repetition timing). I feel like this must exist but I haven't found it. Do you know how to do this?

Also, how does Anki support the costs of Ankiweb? Is there a way I can contribute? It's not immediately obvious to me from clicking around on Ankiweb.

Finally, is this just a rip-off of Anki or is it legit? https://www.ankiapp.com/
There is no doubt that MI5 was effectively rubbish in the spy vs spy games during the Cold War. But it's also possible to go a bit far in judging them purely on that basis.

If you (allow me to remove the civil liberties issues for a second) look more towards Northern Ireland and assess its success (from a UK gov point of view), along with RUC SB (the most important UK org in the conflict), SIS and the FRU, then it's a slightly different assessment you'd have to take. Of course interpretation depends on your viewpoint and how you patch the pieces of the story together. Considering the amount of Islamic radicialisation in the UK, it and CTC/SB have arguably been fairly successful. A similar sort of assessment could probably be made about the Communist Party in the UK - it was effectively going no where and well infiltrated. Though there were blips around miners and bits of the Labour Party, MI5 and Special Branch had such a tight hold of them post 1950 to the point where they were actually chasing their tail and seeing conspiracies where none existed.

I think reading the various bits of information to come out since the Cold War about the CIA in Russia can also probably show how little they really achieved there in the spy game. There is a whole genre of similar sorts of stories waffling away about disguises and technology but recently there was are challenges to the orthodoxy around that. Essentially successes were pretty minimal, dangles were swallowed all the time etc.
Worth reading this on that topic "Fictitious Spies and Fake History"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08850607.2019.16...