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> But I feel like we have a number of years to go until we can really get back to where we used to be with vintage gaming consoles and CRT displays.

Interesting. CRTs also had a fixed framerate. Let's make that 60 fps for the sake of the argument.

It really depends on what you are calling "vintage". Most later consoles (with GPUs) just composited images at a fixed frame-rate.

Earlier software renderers are quite interesting, though, in that they tend to "race the beam" and produce pixel data a few microseconds before it is displayed. Does that automatically transfer to low latency? I'm not sure. If the on-screen character is supposed to move by a few pixels with the last input, it really depends on whether you have drawn it already. Max latency is 16 ms, min is probably around 100 µs. That gives you 8 ms of expected latency. And I think you still get tearing, in some cases.

There is also no reason it couldn't be done with modern hardware, except the wire data format for HDMI/DP might need to be adjusted.

However, and I've said that for a long time, one key visible difference between CRTs and LCDs is persistence. Images on a LCD persist for a full frame, instead of letting your brain interpolate the images. The result is a distinctively blurry edge on moving objects. Some technologies such as backlight strobing (aka ULMB) aim to aleviate this (you likely need triple buffering to combine this with adaptative sync, which I haven't seen).

I wonder if rolling backlights could allow us to race the beam once again?
QLED/OLED displays could theoretically bring a better experience than CRTs if the display controller allowed it: every pixel emits its own light, so low persistence is achievable. You don't have a beam with fixed timings, so you could just update what's needed in time for displaying it.
A significant portion of my childhood was spent taking things apart and (sometimes successfully) putting them back together. I'm curious if that's still possible - the kinds of things I took apart (telephones, computers) are significantly less possible, but it's entirely possible there are alternatives I hadn't considered filling that niche.
This is exactly that: Strong, humble, responsible, positive and encouraging leadership and guidance.
Well, when it was instituted, Nuclear Armageddon was the existential threat to humanity, and therefore that was the metric they chose. Everything else paled in comparison. They weren’t hugely aware of the threat that things like climate change, or trophic cascades, could present. They were pure hypotheticals.

They didn’t, however, call it the “Nuclear Armageddon” clock, rather the doomsday clock, because the point was tracking that overarching threat to the continuation of the human species.

As we have now recognised that there are other categories of threat which are potentially civilisation-ending, we, in my opinion rightly, include those in the metrics of the probability of doom.

Climate change is like having a slow growing but untreatable cancer. It’s going to get you, unless something unexpected and drastic happens. It may even get you sooner than you expect - right now we are tracking the upper bounds of every model, and the worst case scenarios are consistently getting worse.

So, nay, it no longer tracks the sole threat of nuclear Armageddon, but I think the estimation of how close we are to midnight is pretty accurate.
I think that's inertia.
Remember https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Most_Published_Research_Fi...
They just publish information they receive. They can't publish what they don't have. How are they biased?
> If you’re on something with multiple virtual consoles (like if you’re sitting in front of a conventional PC) then you could switch to one of those after you’ve entered the MD configuration part and modify /tmp/mdadm.conf then. I don’t have that option because I’m on a serial console.

debian-installer starts a screen session these days when installing over a serial console.

You can reach the previous and next consoles with Ctrl-a n and p.
> totally separate from any legacy system

It most certainly is not. It's a macOS and Linux userspace application, no more no less[1].

How on earth do you consider that totally separate from any legacy system?

[1] https://urbit.org/using/install/
Presumably this won't work on mobile because there's no hover to trigger the pre-loading. I wonder if there's something else that could be used there.
/me scowls at the Google Cloud console.
I suspect, though I haven't tested as I can not, that this would be the case for MOST papers in every field that uses code to reach its results.
The same, of course, was true about the industrial revolution. The emergence of capitalism forced previously self-sufficient craftsmen into becoming industrial workers, increasing the length of their workday and decreasing their quality of life, while invalidating alternative prospects for employment or life. This left a bad taste with luddites not only because they lost entrenched privileges, but the fact that they lost ownership of their means of production also forced them into a specific social relationship of production, whereas previously they could accept or refuse economic transactions at will.
There are many developments relevant for cybernetics that were not mentioned in the book Cybernetics, like discoveries of H.S. Black and other engineers in Bell labs, or early mechanical analog computers. Here is a short review of book on the history of control engineering before cybernetics: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/acs.839

"[...] general reader could be forgiven for assuming that Wiener was the originator of the idea of feedback control. Significant though these war-time contributions were, they were not the whole story: as I and others have shown feedback control has had a
much longer history"

That text includes more references to papers and books on the history of ideas relevant for control theory and control engineering.
I get frustrated over these pairs.

What are Facebook supposed to do? They could spend billions moderating every comment and like, but they'd piss off every politicians world wide and the users would all cry censorship (and that's if they get it perfectly correct). They could pick a side, but the same would apply with slightly fewer pissed off people. They could do nothing and save billions and piss off less people.

And in the background, a small number of people continue to manipulate everything you see in legacy media, and no one really cares because we're used to it. Seriously. What the fuck?
> And if you ever stop running on the treadmill, you lose your house and ability to feed yourself and provide care for your family...

Not to mention: if, in a moment of weakness, you slow down on a treadmill, braking braces on your legs kick in and start giving resistance, making running harder. Thus any kind of slack or mishap becomes a permanent handicap.
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Actually the bats they suspect of carrying this virus aren’t from nearby.
Blog post with a little more explanation and links to exploits: https://www.tenable.com/blog/cve-2020-1472-zerologon-vulnera...
> CloudFlare doesn't sell domains

They do have a domain registrar intermediary [1] announced two years ago [2]. It's in cooperation with dount.domains and has competetive pricing. It could be counted as they do sell domains.

Not affiliated with them in any way.

[1]: https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/
[2]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-registrar/
They mention mobile in the page, they use the onmousedown to preload, which (they claim) gives in average a 90ms improvement, instead of waiting for the click evento.
> I wish the was a way to fix this attitude. So that project maintainers didn’t need to write two page apologies for finishing their thing.

One of the problems is that GitHub is full of OSS libraries where the last commit was three years or more ago and you have no idea (without forensically analysing commits, issues, etc.) whether it's because the project is done or because the maintainer(s) lost interest, had other priorities, etc.

And you have no idea because they haven't said. They haven't told anyone: it's just drifted into an unclear state of unmaintained-ness.

I would suggest rather that what the Moment.js team have done here should be the norm: i.e., clear communication of the situation. That situation, as here, might be "done", or it might be "the thing's only half finished but we don't care enough to carry on any more", or something completely different. These are all good reasons to stop working on something even if they're potentially frustrating for users. E.g., in the "don't care" scenario, people have the option to step in and pick up maintenance, fork the project, or simply not use it.

Doesn't matter: understanding the state of a potential dependency in terms of maintenance and development is the key factor that will enable people to make an informed decision about whether to use it or not.
You need a pause button, I can't use this without it.
Or it could go in the other direction completely, with the next Tesla sports car being an "electric 250 GTO". ;)
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Kind of click baity. They just ruled it was a contract under french law, and that a different court needs to decide.
Poor. He/she just insecure
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Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth…

- Mike Tyson
Specific to my knowledge base, timing is critical to applications in inertial sensors (IMUs that guide missiles, AR/VR, smartphone apps, and so much more). To that end, here is interesting work that DARPA is doing in developing inertial sensors that can navigate without GPS for significant amounts of time. Critical to that is accurate chip level atomic clocks.

https://www.darpa.mil/program/micro-technology-for-positioni...

Other uses as other posters mentioned is in traceability of measurements. Improving the means of measurement of the primary standard has downstream impact to secondary standards in metrology labs which ultimately (through transfer standards) would result in better calibrations of production systems.

Finally, an interesting thought I have is that in the future this could be an interesting way to figure out your absolute position on Earth. At a conference one of the NIST Boulder folks mentioned that the frequency of clocks in the development pipeline was so precise/stable that it could pick up time dilation effects from moving the clock from a desk to the floor! An instrument like that combined with accurate gravimetery data could be used to map the earth, find concentrations of natural resources, or possibly act as a standalone positioning system.

It’s a chicken and egg problem though. I don’t know if we will know all the uses for it until we build it, so instead of saying “why build it?” I think it makes sense to go and just build it :)
This paper is about differences between the academic community discussing open science and reproducibility. One main takeaway is perhaps unsurprising: the open science community is apparently more collaborative, with a more connected co-authorship network and more use of "prosocial" language in paper abstracts.

The more interesting finding is that there are more women in high status (first or last) author positions in the open science community (when the number of authors is smaller) and there is an increasing trend in this community of women occupying such positions. This would be predicted by theories that STEM is an individualistic enterprise less likely to attract people with communal values. Women are more likely to have communal values and this is often provided as a cultural explanation for gender gaps in STEM. But the open science community is a part of STEM that sees communal practices (specifically, the publication of data and code along with information about findings) as key to improving science. This is in contrast to the reproducibility community which has legitimate criticisms of established scientific practices but does not emphasize pro-social practices in the same way as the open science community.

In sum I think the paper is useful by

1. Showing that while "open science" and "reproducibility" have some superficial similarities they are distinct communities with interesting differences.

2. Showing ways that the open science community seems more collaborative and communal and thus it seems attractive to women (and likely may be this way because women are helping to drive it).

The paper also has some shortcomings. Names are not gender and gender isn't binary. There's a lot of discussion about diversity and team science which honestly doesn't seem to have much to do with the empirical contributions of the paper.
Yeah, this is beautiful. Razer has these "drivers" that does nothing, but yet requires you to create an account and login.

I bought a microphone from them years ago when I discovered this, that is when I swore never to buy from them again, I'm happy to see their idiotic strategy backfired, even if it means they've leaked my data (I am fairly sure I didn't input anything important there anyway).
Looks great. Any chance this could make its way into Blender? That would be really nice. The grease pencil tool could be used for the drawing.
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Quick correction, this problem is far from impossible. A multivariate model and about 5/10 years of data and you can easily get an answer to that.
Well, as I said, there is not enough "true geniuses" out there to reshape the world in their vision. And that's probably a good thing too, there were some experiments with radical simplyfying of social and economical structures and the results were truly disastrous.

Plus don't forget about such thing as politics (in the broad sense of the world). Get a 10 people together to work on anything, and there is already good chance they'll form 2-3 subgroups. Get 100, and now you have to actually think about management and persuading people to move things roughly in the same direction.
If spending billions is what is required to make their product not harm others, then that's what they should do.

If that means the business doesn't break even, maybe there should be no Facebook.
Quelle bonne surprise, n'est-ce pas?
Suppose you have enough resources to try to do it "right". How do you moderate in a way that's globally fair? There is disinformation (which should be moderated), but there are also legitimate disagreements (which should not). Even facts themselves are often open to interpretation, and people don't argue in objective terms.

The degree of nuance leads me to believe it's just impossible to do at commercial/global scale (though I would agree it could be done better than it currently is).
This misses the mark by quite a large margin. It's hard to measure the "productivity" of an individual who worked on the polio vaccine, that doesn't mean that it was a worthless product.

The fact that productivity is hard to measure has very little to do with the value of that work, but rather the difficulty of drawing boundaries around people, objects, and time in the functioning of a complex product.

You cannot measure the value of a software engineer without assessing how their work impacted the work of other people, whether it needed refactoring in the future, whether it took into account future requirements that wouldn't be known for five years, etc. You can't even do that with plumbers! One plumber's work may fail in 10 years while the other's is going strong 20 years later, and you may have thought the first one was more "productive."
I've always wondered if its possible to write software that will run on computers with arbitrary number of memory heirarchy eg. x amount of l1/l2 cache -> main memory (RAM) -> SSD -> HDD -> Archive storage where you can plug in a new type of memory as it becomes available (eg. 3dxpoint) and it will adapt to run optimally on that hardware without rewrites.
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Most important part of the Article imo:

"It sets in stone that software licenses are contracts and can only be settled in contract law / contract courts." (in France that is)

So it's not that the GPL is useless in France, they were just suing for the wrong thing in the wrong court
There is no science without reproducability. Merely stories, or formalized stories people call models.
The installer filesystem should be an initramfs, so it should all be in RAM and writable (at least in the netboot case, but I don't see why CDs would do it differently; I expect the extra storage is just used for packages), at least for d-i stuff.

Even for proper (not install only) live CDs where the rootfs is really read only, I don't think I've ever seen a distro not mount an overlayfs on top so that changes can be made in RAM. Too much stuff breaks on your average distro if you really try to have a read only rootfs.
Love the app! Straightforward with no extra stuff here and there. I’d like to share some suggestions after using it for a while:

- adding an option to partially omit or edit the address would be great since not every part of the world shows the exact address accurately

- inform what datas are stored (i did wonder why they show the latitude and longitude, because privacy reasons)

- add prompts for isp/carrier provider, subscription/plan type, and other granular details so people know what to pick or expect

- minor improvements on the user interaction, like autofocusing on the input so users can instantly type, or tap an entry to view more details

Overall, looking forward to share the app to my fellow iOS 14 users!
>I feel like you've misunderstood this.

>If you don't have symptoms but are asking for testing then you're asking for screening. We have strict criteria for screening because it has potential to cause harm.

Blood/urine test =/= testing. Also from the link you provided: "Screening is the process of identifying individuals who may be at higher risk of a disease or condition amongst large populations of healthy people." People who are not at risk might want to do blood/urine test to check if they currently have underlying issues.

> Here's a blog that explains why testing people who don't have symptoms causes more false positives.

The link you provided talks about Covid19 situation, don't think that was part of the discussion.

>> It's much cheaper and better for the health to treat things at the earliest stage possible

>This is often incorrect.

Last time I checked that was the thing suggested, can you please clarify and elaborate why you say so?
I wouldn't bet on proofreading even if the address was all ascii. It's inherently unsafe to click a random link, think you ended up in the right place and start doing all sorts of things.
Does anyone know how long wildfire season normally lasts in OR/CA?
The title is inaccurate and somewhat alarmist; it is not as if the GPL just has been proclaimed unenforceable in France.

The major take-out from the article for me is that in French law, licenses are contracts and therefore the litigation should be judged as a breach of contract, not as an act of counterfeiting (as it would happen in the US).

A court that was asked to act on a counterfeiting issue therefore has nothing to do, and has essentially told the suing party to go and sue on breach of contract instead.
Every time this comes up on traditional media I scream at TV How on earth can you be guilty of TREASON of a country you are NOT A CITIZEN Of? Can anyone explain this twisted logic to me how an Australian can be prosecuted for treason of US?
Nature exists? Surprise, haha
You're right, moderation at Facebook's scale isn't feasible. It's the scale itself that's the problem. They've focused so much on "making the world more open and connected " that they never stopped to think how that could be weaponized.
They're developing an upgraded tunnel boring machine that is 10x faster than existing ones, and can be launched directly from the surface instead of needing excavation.
That PageKite pricing slider is really great. https://pagekite.net/signup/?more=bw
I find it interesting to imagine this with software. Most websites today would be almost all npm modules with a small sprinkle of site specific logic tying everything together.
would be nice to see what each track playing is and who made it, rather than have it reduced to anonymous muzak
It doesn't happen as much in plumbing or painting because these fields have not had rapid change in the last few decades, so common practices have stabilized. Plumbing also has standardized code and inspections which pretty much make sure that everyone is doing the same thing the same way. And still there are differences in quality. Look at what two painters will do to a piece of shitty material like an oil-painted unprimed piece of plywood. One will sand it down to the wood and prime, the other will just slap a coat on top, and you'll have flaking in a few months.
> The plaintiff sued for counterfeiting, in French law (fair enough that’s a thing covered by intellectual property).

> The court was the Tribunal de grande instance (TGI de Paris) that handles civil cases related to authors rights and intellectual property.

> The court dismissed the case, stating it has nothing to do with counterfeiting (author’s rights or IP), it’s a contractual dispute. There is a contract between the two parties, the GPL contract, that puts obligations on both parties [and Orange didn’t fulfill its obligations].

I'm a layman, and as a layman, that sounds reasonable. GPL is a license, and under local law, a license is a contract. So the court asked them to fight in a commercial court that deals with contractual dispute.

Is there a controversy that I failed to understand?
Because Russia Today promotes official Russian policy, with Stalinism whitewashing being one its major component.
That would be fine if they didn't recommend not to use it for new projects.
Not only that, but Miles Guo claimed that the virus was intentionally released by China to defeat America via biological warfare. He also made many other interesting claims:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/a-site-t...

It's hard to doubt Miles Guo's credibility: it is as solid a zero as they come.

To be fair, it's not like he's the only one who spends money to publish lies to brainwash people. Nearly every political party and government does that, although only select few would lie to such an extreme degree.
Well, for one, China is not interested in keeping ARM around so using ARM would be a pretty poor choice.
> However in my (limited) experience once you get badblocks the disk detoriates often.

This used to be my experience as well. However I've had a couple of WD Reds that developed a few (~20) bad sectors, one two years ago the other three. Both have been stable since, and I run periodic scrubs on them.

When the first one happened I had planned to swap it out, but was a bit low on cash right then so waited a bit. Then I saw it didn't deteriorate further so I go curious and decided to wait. Still waiting.
The author affiliations are listed as "Rule of Law Society". A quick google search shows that it is a political non-profit dedicated to "investigating Chinese corruption" and is led by Steve Bannon of all people [1].

Given the extraordinary nature of the claims, the fact that this didn't see any peer review and isn't published in a real journal as well as the clear political motivations of the money behind the study, my BS meter is going off the charts. Even the name of the document "The Yan Report" makes it sound like a political hit piece cosplaying as a scientific article.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/steve-bannon-guo-wen...