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And yet it works pretty well on Win10, judging by my devices (that have scale settings ranging from 150% to 225%).
Well, that was a waste of time reading...

I have spent nearly 1000 hours in Factorio and to me this game was about planning, optimising, getting perfect ratios, then you hit hardware limitations and start experimenting on how to get things more optimised.

So yeah, you take from the game what you want to take, if you will try hard enought you can make Tetris look like an evil game about destroying bricks...
> The most successful and ambitious mapping project of all time, Google Maps

Google map is indeed a commercial success, but it's far from “the most successful and ambitious” when it comes to mapping itself, quite the opposite. State projects (even those developed before satellites where a thing[1]) are way better, and even openstreetmap achieves a better coverage and higher maps quality.

It's the “most successful and ambitious” commercial project, which is coherent with the rest of the thread.

[1]: for instance: https://www.sovietmaps.com/
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Yes. But most domains eg. websites dont have Anycast. And Anycast is expensive if you just have a private web site or blog. And Anycast services have poor coverage, its only clodflare that has decent coverage. But they only offer proper DNS service to enterprise customers.
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What I think is interesting is how much worse the conversation experience is today vs. during the days of circuit-switched landline phones. There was no perceptible difference between a live conversation and one by phone between New York and Washington DC.

Today the conversations seem so stilted because there's 50+ milliseconds of latency at a MINIMUM that makes interrupting and a back-and-forth conversational flow absolutely impossible. Also lost completely are the little "ahs" and "ums" that add color to a conversation.
"What I’d expect to happen in practice when updating a DNS record with a 5 minute TTL is that a large percentage of clients will move over to the new IPs quickly (like within 15 minutes),"

That's not true. The vast majority of clients will move to the new IP within the TTL, within 5min (not 15min). Then there will be some stragglers that slowly update over the next hours/days (typically poorly written bots)

Source : my own experience updating a site with 500k hits per month and sniffing and watching network traffic at the 3 endpoints: DNS, old IP, new IP.
That's actually pretty great.
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No, it's not like that, GP has the wrong conception of the topic. Racism is the thought or ideology alone. This means that the hypothetical Hitler in Israel still fulfils the definition.

Conflating racism with the power to put the supremacist wishes and ideas into practice is somewhere between pointless and negligently dangerous.
I agree with the observations that you are pitted against nature in factorio, have to kill the bugs and claim territory from them. I've made those observations myself. I disagree on the conclusion though (seems to be a half sentence at the end that they indicate it's harmful).

This concept makes the game more truthful about what's actually happening here on earth. Because this is what we currently do. We are an extinction event for a large number of species (except for the subset of hemerophiles), and have been for large parts of our existence (why did the megafauna suddenly disappear? because we LOVED to hunt them).

I think the game is very helpful in teaching people this relationship, and every individual can draw their own conclusions from that.

Also, the main story of the game is actually good for nature in the long term. The TLDR is that you are stranded on the planet and want to build a rocket so that you can leave it and get home. If you believe that humans are a threat to nature, there is no better solution for it than us leaving earth and turning it into a national park, like Bezos suggests. If we build our rockets one day, we can leave earth behind and let nature recover.
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Why would he stoop that low?
Dragon fruit is actually native to Central America, not SE Asia. It's the fruit of a cactus. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitaya
It's kind of like rating composite armor by how thick a steel plate would have to be to achieve equal protection except in this case every manufacturer decided to use a different type of steel which makes the entire idea pointless.
A journalism license? I struggle to come up with a worse solution... No.
I have the exact opposite observation: In my company developers/engineers over use chat (in this case Slack) and email compared to other groups which causes unnecessarily long discussions. It's great that it's async, it works very well for simple factual information, but it doesn't work for topics where not everyone agrees. Those drag out over time, and cause a lot of misunderstandings, while a short standup meeting or video call would have solved it in less time.

And simple factual information belongs in good documentation, not being asked in Slack as a crutch and then claim "but it's searchable"
I 100% agree and talked about this a lot in j school. Would love to see some type of society body emerge with a coalition of Pulitzer Prize winners (the only real framework that possibly stands to live past the inevitable calls about its legitimacy from the News Corp -owned bodies of media, honestly) and ideally backed by the biggest news media companies in the world. I would love to see a further membership based element where members of the public and journalists could critique reportage and possible ethical lapses all publicly, adhering to principles set by the society itself.

Honestly I think it's time journalists take back some of the responsibility and importance of their roles that's been stripped by colleague and company malpractice (and the side effects of a business model twisted inside out in rapid succession), as many DO recognize their importance. But like politics any real "talk" of media quickly devolves into sports-like tribalism and never gets beyond hating the 'players' not the game itself.
Sometimes it's fun to do things that are pointless.
Satoshi Matsuoka is an "international rock star" in HPC circles. But I don't think he was involved with the K computer; before RIKEN he was IIRC at Tokyo Tech doing their "Tsubame" GPU clusters.
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I've cancelled my NY Times subscription and encourage everyone here to do the same.
Sorry for the unrelated question, but I'm not from the US and I'm curious, what does this mean?

844-NYTNEWS

Do landlines phones have letters in the US? Is it pressing a number several times?

And also mentioning that I'm grateful for SSC to exist. I rarely comment but it's a refreshing community.
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In Haskell two libraries that define conflicting orphan instances can't be linked together. Given the culture around code sharing and crates.io, this would probably be a big problem for Rust. (As I recall I was the first to propose forbidding orphan instances, although at the time I didn't realize they were called that.)
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I anticipated such a reply. Obviously you don't know anything about his law career and work towards the poor sections of the society[1].

As far as the tokenism goes, keep in mind that the current PM is from an OBC. So much for the 'lower human' theory.

1. https://m.economictimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/ram-nat...
Mapbox tries to replace Google maps, ESRI is different category which is only slowly challenged by enterprise vendors (Azure and other clouds) and FOSS: PostGIS and other sptially enabled databases which have more and more geo features, making specialized GiS to a niche.
That would be counterproductive. The reporter would get abuse from random people, the article would definitely get published with the blogger's name, with the twist of "blogger tries to suppress publication of article by leveraging an online mob."
You may find this relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_keypad#Letter_mappin...
I recall a Mario vs Sonic article where Sonic is described as peaceful and freedomish (Sonic only hits machines to free animals) whereas you could twist Mario's story around from Bowser's POV where he defends against a relentless invader that stomps, fires at, and overall kills everyone in his path.
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Hello,

Blockly is an application the generated blockly blocks based on apis, Odata and GraphQL actions. Note for the GraphQL, we have implemented, for the moment only the blocks for getting the data and now working on mutation actions.

The application is written in C# and Javascript.

The Github repository:
https://github.com/ignatandrei/NETCoreBlockly

The list of issues:
https://github.com/ignatandrei/NETCoreBlockly/issues

Thank you,
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i highly recommend the work of adam curtis, in particular his documentary "bitter lake", and perhaps "hypernormalisation".

he was influenced by baudrillard's critiques of narrative as well, one of baudrillard's essays that always sticks with me is "pataphysics of the year 2000", in which he predicts the 'news loops' in which narratives are obliterated in the 24-hour news cycle of our information age.

in the Matrix, at the beginning of the film, Neo hides some discs in a hollowed-out copy of a Baudrillard work, which isn't coincidental - baudrillard spent alot of time talking about how narratives often were confused with reality, though this is a very simplified explanation

my favorite essays he did to critique narrative were a series he did in the early 90's:
-"The Gulf War Will Not Happen"
-"The Gulf War Isn't Happening"
-"The Gulf War Didn't Happen"

i might be misremembering the exact titles, but the sort of point he was trying to make is that in our minds, the 'gulf war' is a story about iraq invading a country, and us saving the day. The reality of it was so much more complex, involving centuries of background involving way more participants.
Yeah, but the problem is the combination of these points:

* A certain percentage of infections lead to death

* Death usually only occurs one or two weeks in

* Pandemics follow a logistic curve in their spread (and this curve has an exponential part)

* Most infectious transmissions happen before one gets symptoms (otherwise staying at home once you cough would solve everything)

This is why a sudden rise in deaths would indicate that a few weeks ago something went terribly wrong. This also means that a decline in deaths does not mean you are doing just fine right now — if anything, it means you did fine 1-2 weeks ago.
> However, the amount of memory/core is surprising

I think it's a limitation of the technology. HBM2 provides amazing bandwidth, but capacity is quite limited. And it's not like DIMM slots where you can just insert more of them, the memory chips are bonded to the substrate chiplet-style.

This is very similar to high-end GPU's which also use HBM2 memory, e.g. NVIDIA A100 has 40 GB.
Judging by all the whitespace in the new guidelines, they are in fact preparing for a touch-based macOS.
Too late, don't care. I no longer trust Apple with my work. Ask me how many times I've re-installed macOS Catalina on my mid-2013 MBA since it came out? Ask me how many times I've had to restore my MBA to an earlier TimeMachine snapshot (local thank god) because the Apple Mail app shat itself unrecoverably while copying several thousand emails from one mailbox to another. Ask me how many more stories like that I've got. And to think, I'm an IT professional with 35 years in the industry and been an Apple user since 2004, having had a deep knowledge of many an operating system (including flirting with Linux in between Windows 2K and iMac (I'm aware one's an OS and the other's HW).

The marriage is over Apple. We're headed for divorce and no promises you make now will convince me to stay. I'm leaving. In reality, it's been over for awhile, but of course, having invested so many years in this relationship, it's been hard to make the mental leap needed to let go. Well - now I'm there. While I'm sure your new hardware will indeed be magical with industry leading battery life and performance, that performance is only as good as the OS that runs on it. Who cares if you get an extra 6 hours battery life, when I have to restore from TM yet again and walk away overnight while 200+GB of storage gets re-installed? I loved you, and will think of you fondly from a distance. All the best.
You press the number on the dial pad which also has the letter in question. Just once.

This is just a popular (in the US?) way to make numbers easier to remember.
You don't have a self-governing body for journalism?
Edit: Looks like they updated the link and title. Thanks!

@dang, you might consider somehow incorporating the name of the blog into the title. I almost didn't click on this because "his blog" is quite generic. Slate Star Codex is frequently posted on HN and is fairly notable.
This might be a controversial opinion, but I have just one word to describe most journalists nowadays: "scum".

They seek exciting and sensationalist stories without regard for any consequences in the real world. They twist their stories to manipulate the readers towards their viewpoint.

But worst of all, they have the gall to present themselves as the upholders of morality and the paragons of democracy. Any criticism you may have for these people is deemed "anti-democratic", which in most peoples heads already is a trigger word for "evil", no amount of arguments can sway them.
One thing that bewilders me is the time commitment to writing a blog article. It seems like a lot of these high-profile developers are churning out blog posts. It takes a lot of time to write anything meaningful and coherent. It requires research and experimentation. The time to do so just isn't easy to materialize out of a busy and occupied schedule.

I would love it if developers that wrote blog posts wrote, "Don't worry, if this seems magical, it isn't. I spend weeks figuring it out and writing this all out took several days!"

My advice, to myself and you is, just open textedit/notepad, and start writing! Add a little bit and keep revising until it's publishable. It will take weeks/months but I don't think anyone will care.
There are reports that Intel is using TSMC for manufacturing their GPU. If they could replicate what TSMC is doing easily, I doubt they would have done so. https://wccftech.com/intel-abandoning-10nm-after-dg1-plannin...

Also in the article:

> Interestingly, however, Intel's CFO has previously admitted that 10nm yields aren't great and will actually be lower in profitability than their older 22nm process
Please ignore their reply. Our Prime minister, which is the most powerful position in the country, is also from a 'lower class'. They're deliberately giving it a negative spin as it suits their policial viewpoint.
This refers to the letters that are on phone keypads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_keypad#/media/File:T...
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That's what I meant. Thank you.
Money is not good at capturing the value of potential.

It is one thing when talking about fungible goods, just things of which any two can be compared and evaluated. A box of crackers, maybe a brand of crackers. A donut versus a cookie or some other snack; compared to a healthy food or complex meal of some degree.

Money is supposed to be good at valuing things that are willing to be traded.

This is why placing money on quality of life, and on medical care, and the basics needed to live is unethical. Ability to pay does not assess value. As far as I know, in more morally aligned countries, waiting lists for 'spare' organs (from the recently no longer in need of them) are based mostly on who is within reach of viable transfer completion, first in 'line' first received. If our medical technology were better even that wouldn't be necessary. Those lines would see output from growth fabs and be fulfilled in that order.

Emergencies are one thing; triage is used by doctors to take a logical, predetermined, approach to making decisions no one should ever have to make. They're going to suck anyway.

The current global pandemic is a different kind of emergency. It's like some comic book villain has a death ray that turns n% of the population into sub-critical masses of radioactive material. Get enough together and there will be 'clicks' (on a Geiger Counter), maybe cancer. Get even more together and there will be an actual explosion (hospitals overflowing).

It's a __preventable__ emergency, where if people take the correct steps the risks are reduced or eliminated.

* Every normal person wearing a mask that disrupts outward airflow and reduces the spread of exhaled particles, REDUCES the exposure risk of everyone else to that person. That's why __EVERYONE__ needs to wear a mask, not just some people.

* The same is true for properly and fully washing hands, to reduce contact transmission.

* An even more effective strategy is to limit, or even eliminate if possible, exposure between people. That's what everyone avoiding unnecessary in person meetings is about and why working from home (when possible) is the best strategy.

The issue with that last step, however, is that our entire economy is absolutely not oriented to supporting that behavior. Major systemic changes are necessary to support it. Even things like the design of air-circulation which should be optimized to drive expelled particles down to the floors (much like in cleanrooms). At least in public spaces and work settings (including warehouses). Though it might be cheaper to have tele-operated robots controlled by workers in a videogame like way for the warehouses.

If 'we' as a society respond to the global pandemic correctly, maybe we can even start to automate a lot of the jobs that can be done by robots and focus less on everyone working as much as they currently do.
Wow! Love it. I use my own hand rolled framework but will consider switching to this.
I see, so it's not like in the old mobile phones where you have to press a bunch of times to get a letter, just once. It's a clever custom.
Hey Dang,

In guidelines it says "have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents"

tbh, I am really curious about the situation.

Why do Indian-Americans have a disproportionate numbers of High paying jobs i.e founders, CEO, CTO etc?

Why do indian-americans have a median salary of 120k?

What are they doing right?

I could have framed it in a better way but the question still stands.

Thanks!
"The game is not a didactic device that aims to teach a lesson about ecology, conservation, and the peaceful coexistence with nature, just like plenty of works of fiction do not address anything in the real world—they are simply figments of the author's imagination."

The concepts of Procedural Rhetoric[1] argues against this view of games.

"The term "procedural rhetoric" was developed by Ian Bogost in his book Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames. Bogost defines procedural rhetoric as "the art of persuasion through rule-based representations and interactions, rather than the spoken word, writing, images, or moving pictures" and "the art of using processes persuasively."

...

"Procedural rhetoric also views games as strongly rhetorical--we "read games as deliberate expressions of particular perspectives." The exploration of possibility spaces becomes rhetorical and instructive as soon as games make claims about aspects of human experience, whether they do so intentionally or inadvertently."

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_rhetoric
Easy to bypass was also an argument for locked down mobile OS. Software on these platforms is mostly useless aside from 2-3 social apps if you like that. I think locking down features is a mistake and does only draw in certain developers. The reason the pushback might not be as large is that competitors for desktop seem to be sleeping, or worse, try to do the same.

I still don't believe Apple on the privacy front. Yes, they are better than competitors. Anyway, I would like freedom and privacy and don't see them as contradictory. And you won't get more privacy if a manufacturer locks down environments.

We had OS without any privacy intrusion without any form of lock down. MS drops the ball constantly, agreed, but that isn't a metric anyone should look for.
i know it’s allowed, but it has the very important side effect of hiding the opinions that we disagree with. i would keep the downvote for low quality comments, spam... this sort of stuff.
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Scott Alexander was not the source. Journalists generally don't reveal sources and some have gone to jail to avoid doing so.
clang with "-Ofast"; I really wonder, which other options are there?! And imho this just doesn't explain the 200% difference?

And some other things which are bugging me:

- can you only optimize for A53 on Android with the big.LITTLE-configurations (they do!)?

- so they cross-compiled an AMD64-producing gcc 3.2 with Xcode 10 on MacOS-X for ARM? impressive.
I don't think for some it is about plasticity, but really to embrace change on one's own schedule. That's my preference and it's a little piece of freedom. I did this recently moving from GNOME to XFCE, to experiment with what XFCE offers specifically with memory consumption, usability, etc. and after some bumps, I am rather happy.

Optimizing things where the primary focus of attention is what I am looking at mostly is more relevant to me than a shifting design languages. But, I know others will have different views on this and this is based on what people are actually happy with.
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Now 0800-INFO becomes 0800-4636 — you just press the key corresponding to the letter once.
The iPhone SE also picks-up the market segment that prefers smaller phones.
This is totally offtopic, but if you don't mind me asking - are you the owner of https://www.masswerk.at/? If so, I just wanted to say thank you for hosting the ALGOL 60 papers there.
The constitution is not the end all be all —- I’m saying that the use of executive orders to accomplish partisan policy objectives is overreach by the executive branch and should be curtailed. I don’t care much if it’s the legislative or judicial branch that does it.
> I'm genuinely curious: why do you want to create new directories at the root level?

Why would Apple want to restrict access to certain memory locations?
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>Acknowledging what kind of x86 stuff machines are used for by showing VMs right away

I do believe they showed a Linux ARM VM. And not a x86 VM.

x86 VM's are probably going to take a massive QEMU performance tax. The positive news it the boost for the Linux ARM space, which will see a massive boost.

Games on Mac? Games on Mac with Windows Bootcamp? Yeah... Maybe buy a console or a second PC...
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