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> George Lucas created Star Wars [...] we feel like we're the place to take the chance on those types of innovative ideas and filmmakers.

I'm glad he acknowledged this. Great stories don't arise from committees. All of the great ones I can think of came from one or two people. Even so, I did not expect the final trilogy of Star Wars, groupthought up by Disney, to be that incoherent!
Sure, but without knowledge of MCAS, what would a pilot do with an AOA warning?

They would still most likely get an airspeed disagree warning (standard) because AOA is a parameter in the airspeed calculation. Again, they wouldn't know that was why the stabilizer trim kept moving to nose down, because the MCAS system was not disclosed to pilots.
I don't use it much but there have been times it has saved me a lot of wandering around...
Congress has been making noise about forcing Google to "unwind" the DoubleClick acquisition, which was in 2007.
The reasoning is that I have a duty to provide her with the standard of living established during the marriage. I was not able to previously pay her enough to give her the standard of living she was accustomed to. Now that I make more, I may be asked to pay more to improve her standard of living.

My case is somewhat complicated. I foolishly signed a bad agreement on the advice of a disinterested lawyer because I just wanted to get my divorce over with(after dragging on for 18 months due to an incompetent and biased mediator at the beginning). The ex has 'Steve Jobs cancer', although she had the primary tumor removed at 18, years before I met her. They found more tumors years later during a medical procedure needed because of her poor self-care, and we went through 6 years of seeing an oncologist only to be told that her tumors were shrinking and she would live a long life and die of something else. After I asked for a divorce, she got a small town doc to declare her a cancer patient, incapable of working. It's bullshit, but it will cost me a lot of money to disprove now.

I could go on and on about the unfairness in the legal system, but I'll just say that anyone thinking of getting married should understand what that entails. It's not about love, it's a legal contract. If you allow an exploitative relationship to exist, the state can step in and prevent you from escaping it. My ex is now 52. There is some precedent that a judge may deem I pay her until I retire in twenty years(or more, depending on the average retirement age in twenty or so years).

We never had kids. I was a 21 year old virgin and in a religious cult(in which she grew up and brought me into) when we got married. She was 27 and knew what she was doing when she trapped me.
Nice post. I look forward also to a future where Godot helps facilitate VR (office) applications as well.

We have developed SimulaVR (https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula -- a Linux VR Desktop) on top of Godot, and I think there's a lot of potential for this in Linux.
Countries summarized by their corporate income tax schedule in OECD tax database
Maybe streaming video games (Stadia)?
You have to factor in the 1.5x overtime that's standard on hourly.

I went back and did the numbers, it was closer to $6hr but well below minimum wage for a dev position. From the little bit of salaries I heard art, design and test had it even worse.
I thought that was the dumbest thing when I first moved to Canada. Then I bought a car and continued to think it was dumb for a couple of years before I realised that my car too used the brake lights to indicate.

They aren't red indicators, the car just flashes the brake lights. There's no difference for the observer between indicating and a dodgy connection.
Somebody read that visibility saves lives but assumed brightness = visibility
Micronation Hutt River to rejoin Australia after 50 years
I don't believe that is entirely accurate. Positive pressure systems are designed to blow 99.999% sterile air over the work area to prevent contamination. Commercial PCR workstations will typically take dirty outside air, run it through a prefilter, through a HEPA and then over the workstation either horizontally or vertically - blowing away any contamination that might be brought towards the sample. I'm not sure I've run into anyone who do this kind of sterile work who has necessitated the need for the kind of negative pressure system you're suggesting.

Also, I'm learning how to do DNA barcoding and typically, the PCR product isn't opened but rather sent off for sequencing or analysis. Anyway, thank you! Maybe I'm wrong so I'm happy to hear your thoughts. And thanks for the support.
Yes! If this was available, at least the second crash seemed likely preventable given the timeline of events. I didn't read the timeline for the first one.
Surprisingly, they won't.

Text input and manipulation is so incredibly ugly and hard, that basically nobody cares it enough to to it really well.

Unicode to start is complicated. Then you have things like bidirectional text.

Line breaking is complicated.

There are no accepted practices for a lot of use cases.

Hyperlinks. Embedded content like images.

Copying/inserting html and other formats.

Styling content.

Rendering 100 000 lines of styled content without screwing up user input.

Line-heights. Tabs. Font definitions that are ambiguous an inconsistent (a lot of font tables today still don't provide enough space for accents on capital letters, think Swedish - so you have broken looking text or have to 'fake it'). Screwed up Kerning tables.

No established standard for real pixelation and rendering - zoom in and you'll see font's can be rendered a variety of ways.

Emojis, fat finger cursor navigation on mobile devcies, input managers.

It's hard to describe how messy it gets because none of it is academic, it's not some scary-hard algorithm - it's just an incredibly ugly pile of cross-cutting code with a zillion little bits and pieces of corner cases.

And a big one for gaming engines: they don't render text 'natively'. You basically have to create textures. Every big of text, it's own texture. How big is the texture for 100 000 lines of code? Big.

This is actually one are where Qt falls flat. In the 'new and improved' Qt, they do everything in the GPU, if you try to load 100 000 lines of something the app will use up 1G of memory and puke. So then you have to magically code your way around it.

All for what? Why would you want to render text in a gaming engine in the first place ...

Then you discover that 'apps' and 'games' are really different things, and they use different tech for good reason. It only gets ugly when they really have cross paths.
That ship has sailed.

When COVID was politicized, that chance died.
i dont understand why salaries should be same for a similar role. If I work twice as fast and with a better work quality than my collegue why shouldn't i get double his salary? are we in a communist country?
Location: Los Angeles
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We’re not affiliated with any of the researchers.

The many people taking issue with “v5” because it’s not by the same author as “v4” but not with “v4” even though it’s not the same author as “v3” are the “fanbases” I was referring to.

FWIW, the YOLOv4 author noted he's not opposed to Ultralytics's project (https://i.imgur.com/G00DyrX.png) as long as model comparisons are fair.

And Redmon has shared he's happy for anyone to use the YOLO name https://twitter.com/pjreddie/status/1272618558254534657

I don’t think I’m going to convince you that we don’t have some kind of hidden agenda, but we’ll continue to provide support and information about all of the new models.
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Tech: Anything except mobile apps, WordPress, PHP, Erlang/xir.

Resume/CV: https://GitHub.com/cris691

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We're planning to add new blocks regularly over time and all new blocks added will be totally free for existing customers.

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If you take the time and care to build the Qt libraries yourself and configure out all the stuff you don’t need, you can get an order of magnitude smaller. I think Qt even supports a minimal configuration nowadays and markets it as “Qt Lite”

In any case I think I’ve gotten a stripped static executable down to 5 or 6 MB.
That article is very flawed and also misses a critical point about UI in general, the reason why Windows feels like Windows in the last 20 years is because of UI/UX, I used Windows all my life and when I have to open a new app eventough I never used it before I can naviguate easily, everything makes sense, I click it does what it's supposed to, pop messages are all the same, menu looks the same, they all follow the same standard.

It's like driving a car, you can have thousand of different models and yet you get inside one you can drive it right away. You don't have that kind of usability if everyone was doing custom GUI running with a game engine.

Same reason why there is a learning curve with UI in games, every games are different so every UI are also different, it takes time to naviguate properly in a new game.

Consistance is key.
There are cars where all three mirrors dim. It was a hard requirement for my last car purchase because I live in truck country.
Relevant username...

Face unlock is complete BS, no disagreement there.

However... has anyone actually looked into how secure those phone fingerprint readers are?

Could very well be that the reason they're pushing face unlock so hard is they know their fingerprint tech is even worse.
you can do research on companies hiring h1b employees and salaries here. You can see some of the outsourcing companies paying very low.
https://h1bsalary.online/
Horsehair wigs and gowns might help mask some of that "physical attractiveness". The US chose to abandon that tradition but it's still alive in some jurisdictions.
I have a 2006 Accord that got a lot of things like this just right.

First press: locks car and flashes hazards, with no sound.

Second press within a couple of seconds: honks horn.

If no flash and no sound: a door is open and it's refusing to lock.

Most of the time I don't annoy anyone, but when I lose it in a car park I can get it to honk at me. Why is this so hard for other manufacturers?
Name a platform that you can actually install it on.
5'6" is the average height in the US, so they're both of average height. Someone engaged in height discrimination and not sex discrimination is, by definition, looking at their height and not their sex.
Also, you can buy a couple of cheap wall outlet timers and plug a couple of lamps in to create the appearance that someone’s home.
Mise en place - "Everything in its place," a french phrase for food preparation where you ensure everything is ready before even starting the act of cooking.
What a very weird article. My father spent most of his working years as a mason, it basically destroyed his body.

The article briefly mentions poor working conditions, extrapolates to the casual drug use to manage pain, then launches into Zionism somehow?

While also dismissing the worship of manual labor under the Soviet system.

> The revival of Zionism in the 19th century provides one notable cultural genre in which the common labourer received heroic treatment in a way that transcended merely socialist tropes. This included the so-called Muscular Judaism movement presented by Zionist leader Max Nordau as an answer to caricature of Jews as meek and cowardly parasites who got by on guile instead of effort.
For years I would get up at anywhere from 4:00am to 5:30am depending on the season and go climb a mountain. I'm naturally pretty lazy and a professional procrastinator. What worked was just throwing myself out of bed without thinking. By the time I started to think about what I was doing and started to come up with excuses, I was half way out the door.

If you give yourself a chance to think about it, you probably won't do it.
When the nukes come, there won’t be any sirens. It’ll be instant vaporization anyway.
https://h1bsalary.online/index.php?searchtext=TENNESSEE+VALL... .. Looks like they don't have any latest hiring on H1B.
> they're going to want to do it in a way that achieves the goals of the business.

No, a business will spend money in a way that optimizes the goals of the various middle-managers in between those with money and those who make the decisions with that money. Those middle-people aren't paper-clip optimizers and so their decision making does not approximate that of a profit-maximizing firm.
All these arguments are strange, all companies operate within the law of the country they are in. All countries have an national security letters/demand
Let’s call it as it is, Americans don’t want China to have there data, but meh not my problem for the Rest of the world when it comes to Facebook and Twitter data
Mostly agreed.

John Backus seemed to think it was a big deal. See eg 'Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? A Functional Style and Its Algebra of Programs ' (http://www.ict.nsc.ru/xmlui/bitstream/handle/ICT/1256/1977-b...)

On the one hand, I do agree that in a language like Haskell it's almost entirely a syntax level distinction.

On the other hand, syntax level conveniences and inconveniences can have a big impact on how people use a language. (Eg in Haskell if-then-else is more hassle to type out than pattern matching. A slight nudge by the language design to make users prefer the latter.)

Once you have acquired the ability to see functions as objects in their own right, many more techniques become available. Think of eg parser combinators.

Technically you don't need the syntactic convenience to use parser combinators. But I am not sure they are worth the hassle without those conveniences. Eg Python has enough functional machinery to support parser combinators, but its options for defining functions (def and lambda) are just so cumbersome.
Interesting. I have code sitting on my pc right now that does exactly this. I was planning to release it on GitHub but never got to it. Thought not many people would be interested. Mine is more general - works with most file formats at the cost of some work in describing relations and so on. Subscriptions, AOC and rate limiting built in.
How exactly would an executive order ban an app?

Obviously it's easy to make Apple and Google remove it from their app stores but couldn't ByteDance just release a new app called TokTik or something similar? Could ByteDance just reincorporate as a different company if the ban was at the company level? Would the order ban apps with > X Number of users when owned by foreign investors?

Seems like this isn't something the president can actually do.
Clearly you didn't see what I mean. I mean you can't break the "app". A spreadsheet app like Excel runs and it's literally like a kid's sandbox where you can do stuff in the sheet and Excel will just keep chugging. And if Excel breaks hey it ain't your fault.

My point is people don't want the responsibility us devs have to build "apps" that they are afraid they will make broken.

I think we probably don't need no code tools to help people build "apps" we need a more expressive executable document the combine stuff from the web, Microsoft word documents and Excel into something that's a little more powerful and fits today's use cases.

Just my two cents. Feel free to try to crucify me cuz my views differ to yours.
I work in healthcare where this is handled by job titles and it seems a lot healthier.

Job title makes it clear that it's about greater responsibilities.

"Why is Jeff paid more than me"

"Because Jeff is senior dev and you're junior dev" is a much easier conversation to have, and everybody's job title is very visible.
> I like the idea of not supporting laws you're not willing to enforce by gun.

That's a really low bar.

For example, I think shoplifting should be illegal. 99.9% of the time no guns will need to be involved. But if someone is sufficiently willing to escalate, it becomes a matter of letting them steal whatever they want from stores, whenever they want, or enforcing it with a gun. You could fine them, but someone with that attitude would just ignore the fine. So yes, I'm willing to enforce shoplifting with a gun, as a last resort.

But if shoplifting is my point of comparison... I think right now that not wearing a mask is worse than shoplifting. So yes, let's enforce it. Try extremely hard to keep guns out of it, but don't just give up on making it a rule at all.

- On the other hand, -

all of the above is assuming that someone would go to ridiculously escalated and brandishing measures to fight the law. If we assume they won't do that, the situation is completely different. No guns would be necessary to enforce either of those laws, so just enforce them with safe measures. There's no need for your rule of thumb in that case.
These have been some of my main concerns in the beginning. What is the exit strategy? Nobody can tell you. Back in March, I get a phone alert ordering me to start inside.

For how long? What criteria must be met for this order to no longer be in effect?

There was no mention of that. It was neither time limited, nor data limited (e.g., automatically goes out of effect when infection rates drop below x per million).

Furthermore, this was an executive order by our governor, not passed by the legislator, which make it all the more unpalatable.

Yes, covid is deadly. More deadly than the flu. But the flu is also deadly. We take none of these precautions for the flu. How much more deadly than the flu must a virus be for all of this to be justified.
Its also an American centric view.

Travelling around Korea and back home I noticed the distinct difference in consumption habbits.

Korea data isn't capped, so everyone streams news/twitch/YouTube while on there commute.

Back home, everyone reads articles and spam scrolls static images on instagram.

So "do people need bandwidth" no. Will they use it if they have it? Absolutely.
The average CEO is 6' in height, women are ~5% of CEOs, the percentage of women over 6' is ~1%.
The argument from rationality sailed once COVID became a political tool
1998-99, there were at least 5 movies about simulations: Dark City, The Truman Show, The Matrix, Existenz, and The Thirteenth Floor.
Glad to be of service.

(Slight pedantry: I wouldn't call it the 'loop monad' in the same way as 'list monad' or 'IO monad'. The monad loop library provides looping combinators you can use with many monads and some you can use with all monads.)
> Maybe a better way to put it, an 'average height female is more likely to be in management than a below-average height male'.

Average adult female height in the US is 5’4”, so 5’6” is noticeably above average, almost as much as it is below average for an adult male (average 5’6”.)
Ah, I can see how what I wrote could be confusing.

For the workspace where you're prepping your reactions, yes the work bench you described is what you'd want. I was referring to a workspace for working with post PCR product (which is what you'd need to do to run a gel), for which you'd want the opposite - since effectively what you're doing is handling a super dirty sample, and you want to contain that as much as possible.

Even if you're pretty confident of your PCR workspace, dealing with random PCR amplicon contamination in your overall lab space can just lead to random frustrations. It's not like it'll for sure ruin everything forever, but it can also just... be very annoying at exactly the most inopportune times.

But right, if all of your stuff is going to be sent off for sequencing or analysis, then my warnings is totally moot - just be care to not accidentally open your post run tubes =P. I just got hooked by you asking about gels.
> A quick lookup and those Porsche headlights cost ~$2K EACH.

That sounds low. My Toyota's headlights are $1,200 each.
Someone should write a story about speakism, judging a message based on how it's said instead of the content of the message. They can posit some AI that extracts the facts from each person's message and removes how it was expressed. This would be see to help people who are not proficient in the local language, people who have accents that are perceived as less intelligent/trustworthy, people who deliver their message in harsh ways (Linus was apparently an example)
Anything that adds thickness is a feature to me at this point. It's already awkward enough to use phones as phones.
It might seem like I’m being pedantic, but companies like CK don’t usually sell your data to companies. It wouldn’t be good business.

The companies have certain parameters for who they want to advertise to and CK shows you ads and gets a commission. Your data would only be shared if you initiated a transaction with the advertiser.

Whether that makes the situation better is a judgment call. But, your data is never shared without your permission.
Looks awesome! Now there's no excuse to not build that SaaS service side project...
The average person doesn’t even know what a Pixel is.
https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1258391908319137797

>WeChatApp spies on the content that all users send to each other, including Americans. The results are fed into their censorship of Chinese users.

https://citizenlab.ca/2020/05/we-chat-they-watch/
Kubernetes up and running (free e-book) [pdf]
Yeah but with Bluetooth headphones you are paying the same price as audiophile headphones, but getting mediocre quality.

A couple of phones did have a decent dac/amp combo built in (HTC 10, and some LG phones), FWIW.
IMO I think that section in the docs is missing quite a bit of things when it comes to module resolution. I had the same issue when learning Go. It was quite confusing trying to figure out the node_modules(JavaScript) or _deps(Elixir) Go equivalent.
Thanks! I wonder how hard it is to set up an x86 container on ARM. It seems like qemu’s transparent binary emulation should make it easy + clean.
But need a public license to operate which could be revoked unilaterally by a government
no tracking :)
please don't be offended but if you find yourself saying "please, don't be offended", LPT, you can generally reword what you are about to say so it's simply a compliment instead of containing the negative messsage.

You are impressed by how much variation a veterinarian must account for in a single species, and they handle multiple species.
> Legality is supposed to be the public's opinion of the morality of an action

Does that mean that all legal acts are also moral?
People are thinking about this way too much in terms of personal data. I don't think this really is about that.

Editorial control over what a significant fraction of people see is significant power over those people. Even seemingly benign editorial actions could have serious effects.

Facebook and Twitter are clearly being pressured by all political sides to favor content they want favored and disfavor content they want disfavored. What does that look like when the CCP weighs in on what American TikTok users see? Maybe prioritizing posts about protests or just petty crime (even more so than the internet tends to do by itself)?

I think there are endless ways to get creative and subtle here that could cause problems.