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The 8110 has Google Maps as well as Uber. And food sites work just as well through their mobile web sites.
I really like the idea. Watching stuff together at a distance is great when you can't physically meet up. It would be great to know how this works and the requirements therefore too.

This doesn't work with multicast, does it? I surmise that the bandwidth requirements of the initiator increase linearly with the number of participants, but it would good to put that in the README.

Would also be good to say a word about latency. Will the host (or as they might be known in the project: projector) be 3-5 seconds ahead of the guests?
Yes, that's correct, thanks for finding it fast! I have obviously constucted the youtu.be link incorrectly: there should have been "?" instead of "&" in the link. The correct short form should be

https://youtu.be/_J4QPz52Sfo?t=4511
Well, given a choice between the 2 hypotheses:

1. Lots of people with lots of time on their hands did something that we'd be currently hard pressed to do but no one has really tried yet.

OR

2. Two aliens land on Earth and one of them says "Hey, how do we help out these poor savages to advance their civilization? I know, we'll teach them to build really cool walls from stone!"

...I know which one I'll pick. The wiki article doesn't offer any suspicions of extraterrestrial origin. In fact, a contemporary account suggests it's just hard work:

"to save themselves the expense, effort and delay with which the Indians worked the stone, they pulled down all the smooth masonry in the walls. There is indeed not a house in the city that has not been made of this stone, or at least the houses built by the Spaniards."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacsayhuam%C3%A1n

EDIT: Do you have a reference for the 0.005mm precision claim? Some of those walls look impressive but the pictures I'm looking at, definitely don't suggest such God-like precision:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacsayhuam%C3%A1n#/media/File:...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacsayhuam%C3%A1n#/media/File:...
I suggest you re-read the parent comment. The issue is not with the heuristic value, it is with the distance and predecessor (parent).
You assume that the thread pool which takes requests is the very same one that gets bogged down. It might very well be something down the line in the processing pipeline, and unless you poll these stages or they signal their capacity through the pipeline, you can't know that.

You're wasting resources when your application is already in a state where it knows it won't be able to handle the request. Eventually the memory taken by the partially processed requests is going to exceed what you can take in (unless you cap the number of concurrently processed requests, which is also an inelastic backpressure of sorts) and the service will crash.

What you mentioned is decent for inelastic blocking synchronous processing (you can have at most X concurrent requests, because that's how many threads for processing you've configured based on performance tests and production monitoring), but you can relatively easy fill in an internal queue somewhere if it's async.
If you start from scratch, sure.

But if you're e.g. repairing existing equipment, then the customary and SI units are incompatible. Say, a 1/4 inch bolt head is too large for a 6 mm wrench, but too small for a 8 mm (which is typically the next step up from 6mm).

For this reason I had to buy some wrenches in customary units to fix a lawnmower engine.
This doesn’t resonate with me at all: at those scales there are entire teams dedicated at tracking impact and outcomes of said spend on the advertiser side. Sure FB could lie about the metrics, but won’t be able to keep that up for long (matter of weeks).
It's very noticeable how "middle development" countries (east Asia, eastern Europe) seem to have coped very well with the virus, while several of the "advanced" economies haven't, and the US is worst hit entirely. None of the "advanced" political leaders want to learn from this.

It seems to be arriving in South America now.
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Oh cool, that explains why we see so little spam. Still though, Wikipedia is also a big site with a huge audience, they must have similar issues and perhaps protections. Assuming there's more to it than just IP bans, the same could be applied to Tor plus a review queue to make non-spam vandalism also unattractive.
> GA Tech experience isn't very good in any way

Can you elaborate?
I'm a MechEng by education who has found himself in a software start up, I'm not US based but was looking for something like the GT program to help round out the resume post career switch.
Yet they are marketing to 'minimalists' - i guess they meant the visual aesthetic side of minimalism only.
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India uses foot (that's 15% of the world by population)
I spent the last two years coding a reimplementation of A Game of Thrones: The Board Game[1], and I would use this paradigm if I had to recode it. Sharing the code between the client and the server brings a lot to the table.

Having to wait for the server for the set of legal moves feels like a hack. It's way simpler to have the client have its own copy of the game state, and allow "query" methods (methods that fetches data about the game state but don't modify it). This allows you to make _powerful_ UI, which can show any kind of information the user needs about the game like predictions about what would happen if a move is done, computing things so the user doesn't need to.

If I had to redo it, I would use a paradigm similar to how boardgame.io[2] works, which is similar to how fixed lockstep works. The server and the clients all keep a full state of the game and when a player makes an action, it is transmitted to all the actors, who apply this action to their own state of the game. Since the game rules are deterministic, the final state of the game will be the same for each actor. The only 2 complex to handle are randomness and secrets (the former can actually be solved by the later), but overally, the complexity is managed elegantly and you can separate networking code from gameplay code easily.

Actually, one of my future possible project would be to make a library similar to boardgame.io, but less opiniated, and in the future, offer a platform to easily host and launch a game coded with it.

[1] https://boardgame.io/

[2] https://swordsandravens.net/
That kind of sounds to good to be true... This [0] seems to suggest that the low-beta anomaly is essentially an artifact of how risk is measured. Toughts?

[0] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2503174
Having it easily installable on shared servers everywhere was a big reason behind its success.
We might be able to detect genetic engineering quite simply...

By comparing genomes, you can construct a philogenetic tree of known animsls, and thier hypothetical ancestors the instances where a mutation popped into being making a species and it's defendants distinct.

You can slot genomes from near extinct species and amber trapped insects into this tree and confirm where they sat.

So genetic engineering would look like - fish genes suddenly appearing in the dog family tree or butterfly genes turning up in a plant.

This would be pretty detectable with just a computer and open data. Has someone done it?
Three studies on whether media misinformation intensified severity of pandemic
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ARM, POWER, early SPARCs all have a weaker memory model than intel.

It is true though that with near total x86 domination i the server market for the las 20 years, newer server software might have a lot of x86-isms.
Or 3, some ancient people had better construction technology than we give them credit for. No need to bring up aliens every time someone questions orthodoxy.
> but not making a lot of progress

That part reminded me of Puerto Rico. Streets are marked with kilometer markers, rural addresses are street and km and hectometers. Also everyone miles for everything else.

I’m actually not sure which conversion failed.
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Just build something is not prevailing wisdom and most people don't learn that way.

It is non answer we give when we have no idea how to answer.
> They’ve also long been making similar moves in their hardware design, adding anti-features which are explicitly designed to increase their profit — adding false costs which are ultimately passed onto the consumer.

Honest question, what is this statement referring to?
Damn, I missed this. I hated having to install create-react-app (with 100s of MB of dependencies)
And it was brown.
About those "41 earliest cases":

"By Jan 2, 2020, 41 admitted hospital patients were identified as laboratory-confirmed 2019-nCoV infection in Wuhan." - from the source cited by the article. Those are not "the first who had it", they were identified hospitalised cases. It is guesswork how many people were infected at the time, but assuming ~ 10^3 in Wuhan at January 2nd 2020 seems likely.

Remember: France had cases in December, as did Italy:

- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/04/french-hospita...

- https://smartwatermagazine.com/news/smart-water-magazine/stu...
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After iOS 14, there's almost no reason to buy an Android phone anymore
We got a three crate subscription. The first crate was disappointing but subsequent ones were better.

We were surprised when the subscription renewed on us, since we thought we paid one time for three crates.
Thesis: Three studies have focused on conservative media’s role in fostering confusion about the seriousness of the coronavirus. Taken together, they paint a picture of a media ecosystem that amplifies misinformation, entertains conspiracy theories and discourages audiences from taking concrete steps to protect themselves and others.

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True, but nothing prevents you from using dimensions which are a multiple of 12 in the metric system.

For instance, over here the standard size for a sheet of plywood is 1200 x 2400 mm.
> They use the British system prior to imperial standardisation, so one has both US customary and imperial units of inch etc measurements.

In modern parlance most of these should be identical under the 1959 international yard and pound whose entire point was to unify measurements which previously diverged slightly (as well as define them in metric/SI terms). US "Survey" units are really the pre-intenational versions.

The units which were not unified are mostly those of volume, so imperial volumes and US customary volumes differ quite a bit (plus the US has "fluid" and "dry" units): imperial units are the largest, then come US dry units (97% of imperial) followed by US fluid units units (83% of imperial).
On the Buy page (Shopify), there is a very good image of the ultra-mobile Palm relative to a man's hand [1].

[1] https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0063/0613/6154/products/Pa...
Because of its US roots, FB makes concessions etc about US elections, but for the remaining countries in the world - FB doesn't care.

FB announced their last electoral reforms _after India finished its last elections, where FB was majorly used with little to no checks_.
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I’m willing to sacrifice some karma on this. What a trash article that selectively picks information (some of it not really true and some of it easily overcome in today’s world).

Whatever diet you follow, if you don’t care about what you eat or don’t eat and in which combinations, your health will not be what could be expected for a person of the same profile who cares about what they eat.

Processed (also called “junk”) foods aren’t going away, whichever diet you look at. People want convenience. Try telling someone to change their diet to be different from what they’re used to eating and you’ll find out how difficult it is (without other motivations, external support, convenience of picking stuff off the shelves or ordering something, etc.).

Considering the environmental impact of meat (and the current agricultural systems), and considering that it’s absolutely impossible for everyone to avoid their supermarkets and convenience foods, these alternatives provide some kind of stop gap even if they may be unhealthy. Point the drawbacks. Give feedback to the makers to improve the products. But don’t pretend that the currently available junk foods (that aren’t vegan) are better overall, all things considered.

Personally, I avoid processed and junk foods most of the time. I also cook food by myself almost all the time. But I do indulge once in a while on some junk food. And I can feel its adverse effects. I’m under no illusion that this would be the same for others or even possible for others just because I’m able to do it.
I wonder why TechCrunch never seems to work on mobile. Every single time, every single article.

“An error occurred with this part of the page, sorry for the inconvenience.”
Junk food is junk food. It's called "junk" for a reason.

If you're a vegan for health reasons and eating a lot of junk food, you are missing the point of being vegan for health reasons.
agreed. More physicists (but not all) should be doing something like this. This is what tenure system for.
They already did that before smartphones existet.
And minimalists probably should choose a less technical way to meet friends?
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Any manufactured food will be less healthy than natural foods.

I'm rather suspicious of this article. It smells a bit like a meat industry funded piece.

Vegans I know are not trying to replace meat with manufactured substitutes. They eat while foods instead, including spinach and kale, which has a lot of iron.
And a chain is 22 yards and a furlong is 10 chains and a mile is 8 furlong (which is why a mile is 1760 or 5280 feet.
You're probably mostly right. I would just like to make absolutely sure.
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That is a pretty bad font they use, at least on my old monitors, parts of some letters are almost missing.
> But if you're e.g. repairing existing equipment, then the customary and SI units are incompatible. Say, a 1/4 inch bolt head is too large for a 6 mm wrench, but too small for a 8 mm (which is typically the next step up from 6mm).

Where is the problem? Buy a 6.35mm wrench for your 6.35mm bolt head.
Yes, and a more natural subreddit to do it with:

https://unim.press/#worldnews
> It gets particularly confusing when people start comparing mpg for US and British cars, as the two gallons are not the same

TBF mpg is a terrible unit to compare car efficiency regardless of which gallon you use. It's only more convenient to evaluate the range you have on a tank.
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Are these stupid bots the only way to really block spam content?
Pretty sure he did the Mad Men season 7 graphic, which was fucking awesome.

Edit: https://images.amcnetworks.com/blogs.amctv.com/wp-content/up...
I experienced the exact same thing. Wonder if it's a psychological hack or something?
Darn, can't believe I didn't catch that typo until now. I don't think that was the issue -- unbound variables don't cause exceptions in JS until that variable is dereferenced -- but not sure what else it could be if the reddit api hit is succeeding with a 200. Maybe a wonky JSON Decode?
I would be interest to from mentioned tech entrepreneurs and VCs who have been into this and what is their first hand experience.
I think I read about something about a subscription bankrolled by the US government in an early edition of Make Magazine (2006-ish). Every month you'd get an item + a booklet of some sort which suggested an experiment. Apparently you got things like small fossils, and if I remember correctly, a small chunk of some radioactive material. It got cancelled in the 70s... I'll see if I can find it again.
So how do I send things to it? Text? Svg files?

This looks amazing and is love to hear more.
desperately needed, going to check this out. we tried this gitbook enterprise product.. definitely headed in the wrong direction for our needs.
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Its almost 100% certain - if your vegan diet looks exactly like a standard American diet (using substitutes) - you will gain weight unless you're meticulous about counting calories.

If you want to be healthy on a vegan - do not eat vegan junk food. Being healthy on a vegan diet means eating whole foods - minimally processed. The food you eat should be high in fiber, low in fat, and high in water content. Most of your calories should come from minimally processed starches.

The incomplete protein thing is a myth.

https://www.forksoverknives.com/the-latest/the-myth-of-compl... Frances Moore Lappé retracted her statement about incomplete protein.

These articles are essentially Vegan FUD - hoping to get you to worry about health minutia. It tries to poison the well essentially. A whole food plant based diet is a great way to maintain your health.

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/uprooting-the-leading-cause...
It's mostly binary -- 16 ounces in a pound, 16 drams in an ounce, 8 pints in a gallon, 8 furlongs in a mile, 4 rods in a chain. Then you've got a few odd ones, like 10 chains in a furlong or 22 yards in a chain or 3 feet in a yard.

In general, the secret to happiness in customary units is to only ever work in a single unit and never convert between them. If you are working in construction, you probably only ever want to deal in inches. Ceilings are 96 or 120 inches tall, doors are 32 or 36 inches wide, etc etc etc. The moment you start using two units at once you are going to have a bad time, so if you pay attention people tend to only use one, even if it confuses people who don't know why doors are 80 inches high instead of 6 feet 8 inches.
Or it is more reasonable to assume the findings are wrong. At this point I think we can conclude that any analysis involving race is wrong.
Did you miss the part where they pointed out vegetable sources are often less bio available and less well absorbed?

The article is not funded by the meat industry the BBC is not PBS. The article is talking about a culture where junk food is ubiquitous (the UK) and where vegan junk food is being touted as a healthy alternative.
I haven't played Advance Wars, so that definitely affects my answer, but by looking at it and reading a couple of reviews it seems rather like chess (and was directly compared to it) - and chess is something I've implemented like I describe with no problem. It's surprising how far you can get by putting some thought into the data interchange format between your client and server.
Assuming you mean storage, this device apparently ships with 32 GiB of storage.
> Where the memory model of ARM differs from X86 is that ARM CPU’s will re-order writes relative to other writes, whereas X86 will not.

May. Not will. The difference here is important, because the actual memory ordering presented is an issue of hardware implementation choice (and of course the local vagaries like cache line alignment, interrupt order and the behavior of other CPUs on the bus). You can't just write some sample code to demonstrate it and expect it's going to work the same on "ARM".

In fact I'd be really curious how Apple handles this during the Mac transition. I wouldn't be at all surprised if, purely for the sake of compatibility, they implement an strongly ordered x86-style cache hierarchy. Bugs in this world can be extremely difficult to diagnose, and honestly cache coherence transistors aren't that expensive relative to the rest of the system.
It's beneficial in that it lets you score points in theoretical arguments on the internet.

In practice it doesn't matter. For example, the floor of my bathroom is ten feet wide. I recently had to replace it, which in practice meant I had to cut a plank 9 feet 11.5 inches on one side and 10 feet 0.25 inches on the other side. It seems that the original carpenter, when dividing his plank by 3, eyeballed it it more or less so it looked right and just sort of waved their saw in the general direction of correct. It turns out that in reality, the actual arbitrary units are irrelevant.

But you know, bikeshedding on which arbitrary system of units is best is a pretty effective way to procrastinate finishing off that bathroom renovation.
> If it is shipping with Android 8 - an old version of Android. What are the chances that it will ever see any updates?

Android 8.1 to be precise. As long as google is releasing security updates it should be okay.

https://developer.android.com/about/versions/oreo/android-8....
Yeah, maybe. I don't really know much of the Windows internals, so I try not to assume too much (hence my question in the top comment[1], which was very much a "curiosity"-question, and not a "omg, wtf"-question).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23656237
There seemed something fishy about this article. I looked up the first stat that caught my eye,

> One study found that 25% of vegans had very low blood iron levels, compared to 3% of vegetarians and 0% of omnivores.

That just sounded like rubbish – although "one study" has found almost everything – so I clicked the link to the paper, Nutrient Intake and Iron Status of Australian Male Vegetarians which turns out to have involved 39 ovolactovegetarians, 25 omnivores, and 10 vegans. 10 - so already the "25% of vegans" must be nonsense. I couldn't find the 25% figure in the paper, but I think it comes from this:

> One ovolacto-vegetarian aged 23 years and two vegans aged 41 and 36 years had serum ferritin concentrations below 12ng/ml (11, 8 and 10 ng/ml, respectively).

At that point I lost interest.
I recently read that saturated fat in coconut oil is actually much better for you than unsaturated fats in regular vegetable oils due to the effect on sugar metabolism[0]. This seems like a total reversal of what is presented in the article.

[0]http://raypeat.com/articles/articles/unsuitablefats.shtml
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> Vegans I know are not trying to replace meat with manufactured substitutes

"Meat replacements" are rising in popularity, and I'd consider those one of the worst things you can put in your body, just look at the ingredient list[1]

- Soy-protein concentrate

- Coconut oil

- Sunflower oil

- Natural flavors

- Potato protein

- Methylcellulose

- Yeast extract

- Cultured dextrose

- Food starch, modified

- Soy leghemoglobin

- Salt

- Soy-protein isolate

- Mixed tocopherols (vitamin E)

- Zinc gluconate

- Thiamine hydrochloride (Vitamin B1)

- Sodium ascorbate (vitamin C)

- Niacin

- Pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6)

- Riboflavin (vitamin B2)

- Vitamin B12

It's also not more convenient than real food: I can cook a steak in less than 10 minutes, and it will be way more healthy than this industrial sludge.

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-in-impossible-burger...
I was expecting. „Just use early returns. Only in rare cases you might need an Else statement „
Oh cool, I wonder if a similar program like this could work now. I’ll try to find it also.
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Or when they collected the wrong passwords you entered and used then to try to access your other web accounts to collect data?
Weak secrets is also a common issue. HS256 and similar algorithms allow for offline bruteforce attack.
a machinist told me that when he had to start doing metric stuff it was all the same dimensions, but converted to metric. so instead of 1/64" he had to mill 0.396875mm. even if everything new designed was in metric with fairly round numbers, you still have a ton of existing stuff designed with imperial units that needs to be taken into account and designed around. the result in some cases is that you get none of the benefits from metric or imperial. and your machinist needs to buy new equipment.

the main thing metric has going for it is that it's the same radix as our counting system and is consistant (as opposed to base12 and then base5280).
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