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I use both Windows and Linux on desktop. For personal web browsing, Firefox is my main driver but for work-related stuff I generally use Google Chrome.

The moment Edge-ium went GA on Windows I was able to uninstall Google Chrome permanently and I will be giving Edge a go on Linux as a potential replacement for Chrome there as well.
She she taki taki beltawala. Mi finyish vedi da lang belta da diye de.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCyGIJl1XUA
I take it you don't have children.
This is the Common Master Key (CMK) theory. How are they going to keep CMK secret (using encryption? which encryption?) and they can make sure the holders of CMK are honest (that they can't be forced/bribed/etc.) about their usage?
I had a similar experience, when a friend got hit by a car and hit his head when falling. After all due checks were performed at the hospital and I was allowed to see him, his memory would reset every five minutes. He would stare blankly at the wall for a few seconds, then ask the same questions all over again: where am I, what day is it, and so on. After a while we just gave him a piece of paper with a brief explanation of what happened and some FAQs. I must confess, I had some (innocent) fun.

Now he's fine, as if nothing happened, and we laugh every time we remember this.
The PowerVR issue was much bigger when netbooks were all the rave. They were usually sold with XP Home running on 256-512MB RAM which was barley enough to run the base OS let alone a single program. The first thought was to toss Linux on the system but you were immediately thwarted by missing graphics drivers. So you had to run in vesa mode resulting in worse performance than Windows XP. Shame because a friend had a nice Toshiba that was completely useless from the day he bought it and wound up tossing it after just a year. So many useless netbooks...
How you figure we would heard about it? I mean the only reason we know they can break RSA 50% of the time was because of Snownden and that was like 10 years ago or so.

I mean these people are really good at keeping things secret, I remember reading books written in the late 80's that still said the first use of computers was calculating artillery tables, not codebreaking.
> Is critical race theory the pseudoscience it sounds like it is?

It's worse, it's social science - not falsifiable, so you can build careers upon a foundation of nonsense.

The definitions section of the wikipedia page are clear on what the goals are:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory

Some more background: US universities today are heavily indoctrinated with variations on Marxism, communism and Maoism. Academic (radical) feminism has deliberately incorporated from those ideologies.

An example of what this means is that the Hoover Institution is based at Stanford University, but most of their world-reknowned think-tank members would be shouted down if they tried to actually teach in a school classroom.

https://www.hoover.org/

All of the -isms are tools to seize power at the expense of the current holders, without actually building anything first.

The "BLM rioters" belong to Marxist organizations, with funding likely traceable back to the CCP and Russia.

Besides the ideological appeal of communism to the left, the current generation of US students hope that electing a communist candidate will forgive their student loans, which are typically in the $100,000 range and non-dischargeable in bankruptcy. Some BLM protesters demanded that homeowners hand over their houses.
Good to know you're paying attention. Hopefully Flutter will be able to replace tons of Electron apps.
IMO "consequence" is the epitome of "gamey". Which is why Amnesia didn't seem like it was targeted at the resident evil/silent hill players who were used to "mowing" through enemies. It was for people who wanted to be scared, and have a scary experience, so they didn't give you any way to defend yourself besides hiding and covering your eyes. More like a movie or...a haunted hay ride. Very Lovecraftian.

That silent hill example sounds cool. They used anticipation and your own imagination to scare you. Amnesia is like 95% this.
While you're waiting, most of the entries from past years can be found on the Chip-8 Archive gallery:

https://johnearnest.github.io/chip8Archive/

Games are categorized as being CHIP-8, SCHIP, or XO-CHIP, include any necessary quirks-mode settings, and often come with source code.
I had therapy for years as well, didn't help.

Until one day. They had taught us a very artificial way to speak, a sort of very slow, very loose su-su-stuttering on purpose. 15-year old me hated it.

Then they made us go into stores, and ask for things using this technique. A couple of AA batteries, in my case, using that technique. I dreaded this, thought it was completely ridiculous.

But the guy behind the counter didn't care one bit, bless him. He didn't appear to notice anything and just helped me with my batteries.

That single exercise hammered home that it was ok for me to stutter. Completely unthinkable idea, before then.

That realization reduced the problem by half in one day, and I never really cared about it anymore. It gradually disappeared in twenty five years or so after that without therapy or whatever. It ceased to be a problem for me on that day.
Not true. E-commerce did just fine even without TLS in the past.

Also most of the e-commerce features don't really need encryption, but authenticity. That can be achieved with just asymmetric crypto and signing, but payloads can be in the open.

Encryption is only needed for privacy.
UX is hard, not encryption.
The Oracle plugs are hilarious. "Enabled by Oracle high-performance cloud computing, a 3-D structure of SARS CoV-2 Spike protein was generated allowing the researchers to peer deep inside the Spike identifying its molecular composition." As if the cloud provider had anything to do with anything there.
I'd recommend going through one of the hands-on crypto challenges. Matasano did one a few years ago if I recall correctly.

Basically learn how to build crypto primitives, and how to break them. And eventually you'll get to those that so far no one managed to break.
Maybe hire another person?
I use an atom C2558 as a file server. It runs under 15 watts, has no fan, 32 GB of ECC memory, quad gigabit Ethernet ports and runs ESXi hosting a Debian ZFS file server.

It’s perfectly balanced. It can read and write at full gigabit speed, with ZFS encryption, and the CPU is ~90% utilized.
They should be getting a lot more done for the what $400million google gives them a year to pretend like they don't have a browser monopoly.
I was looking for the source of this quote and it's from an interview in June 2020:

"I learned that my pay was about an 80% discount to market. Meaning that competitive roles elsewhere were paying about 5 times as much. That's too big a discount to ask people and their families to commit to."

https://answers.thenextweb.com/s/mitchell-baker-aGY62z
Case in point, the last time the US formally declared war was 1942 (war against Roumania).
"Enabled by Oracle high-performance cloud computing, ..."

Anyone know why that phrase is in there? It sounds very much like product marketing, but I can't see why the researchers or this story's author would be motivated to promote Oracle.
I strongly second this opinion. After playing SOMA (and being seriously frightened by it - you need to play it in the dark at night, with headphones, full immersion style) I was an instant fan of the studio and tried Amnesia. But the entire historic-fantasy-style theme turns me off pretty hard. I'm having a hard time continuing to play it, though I want to give it another chance sometime.

But SOMA? Really, really great game. I'm considering repurchasing it on PS4 and replaying it in my home cinema setup for even more immersion. Though knowing the story beforehand probably takes quite a bit out of the experience.
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I'm one of the authors of this (along with Will Landing, CEO of FICO). would really appreciate your comments. I've been getting a lot of comments about good examples of standards that we forgot to include -- please list them here and I will update the piece.
Haha of course he isn't. Trained as a clinical psychologist.
This experiments has some similarities with cold fusion [1] experiments, for example those of Fleischmann and Pons, as they involve metals and hydrogen. But I am not sure that hitting stuff with photons in the megaelectron volt range would or should still count as low energy in the context of cold fusion, so one could probably consider the similarities rather superficial.

The Wikipedia article actually mentions that one proposed mechanism for cold fusion is the confinement of hydrogen inside of matter but also that this alone is not good enough to produce the claimed fusion rates. So in some sense some of the cold fusion people were on the right track, they just missed hitting the experiment with energetic photons.

Now it seems pretty obvious, get the hydrogen close together inside a metal, then hit it hard to overcome the remaining gap. But I guess the cold fusion community really wanted really low energies and so this was not considered. Or maybe it was and they just missed another detail or could not build or run the experiment, I really have no good idea what the could fusion - or low energy nuclear reaction after that name was burned - community considered and tried.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion
Adobe was part of the standards making process...presumably it wouldn't have been deprecated if they wanted to continue using it indefinitely.

https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2017/08/08/taking-document...
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I know you're saying this with a bit of jest in it, but it's a great point and there's a lot of value to asking "have you considered lowering your expectations for how this is going to go, given the situation at hand?"
How to make ML models smaller!
> Hollywood could unionize because no matter how famous no star alone is capable of walking out the door to make a new studio.

I don't think that's quite true: United Artists was founded specifically by stars that walked out of the door, hence its name.

And today lots of stars have their own production companies, and the studio simply acts as the distributor. They handle getting the movie into cinemas, but otherwise don't have a financial stake.

Some examples that come to mind:

* Will Ferrell: Gary Sanchez Productions
* Tom Cruise: Cruise/Wagner
* Adam Sandler: Happy Madison
* Brad Pitt: Plan B
* Shonda Rhimes: Shondaland

Both Shondaland and Happy Madison aren't beholden to regular studios at all, they simply have multi-picture deals with the highest bidder (in both cases, Netflix).
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How many jobs? I agree they are overpaid, but that salary covers maybe 10% of those job cuts.
If Dropbox is a substantially better product (real or perceived), yes, the users complain bitterly (been there, done that).

If Microsoft is simply using bundling as an advantage of market share and undercutting the price of a competitor to drive them out of the market, then the consumer is harmed by the reduction of competition. Once the competitor is gone, what do you think is going to happen to the price and/or competition of that bundle? This isn't new.

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Sure - that's why I asked. I haven't seen any explanation for why VSCode is more productive than Vim. I hear about viewing files and folders, but you can do that in Vim very easily with no friction.
Oh, I took "politics" to mean how he runs the company. Not literally. My bad. I remember this.
My young son, now 7 (no stutter), did stutter at age 4 and had some level of anxiety. My wife and I discovered that he has an allergy to annatto, a natural seed used for orange dye & nutty flavor, that triggered the stuttering. The stuttering was likely due to slight inflammation in his brain. In this case, slice of organic American (orange) cheese caused him to stutter within 10 minutes. Then we could tell when he had goldfish crackers for snack at school (dad, they weren't purple crackers, they were orange -- said with a strong stutter). His stuttering disappeared within a couple months of removing annatto foods from his diet. What about the annatto ~triggered inflammation, we do not know (I have an idea, but it's pretty hard to test).
Mensa is for those who are insecure about their intelligence and like the idea that they can easily rank themselves above others with a number designed to check if you're mentally handicapped. I'm not surprised they can't communicate.
Well, it has been only few months since when a ""study"" released, ordered by the EU parliament, where the authors were asking for a european firewall similar to the chinese one.

Between drowning refugees and immigrants in Mediterranean sea, shooting them at the borders and throwing whoever survive in concentration camps, it's only logical to go after the local dissidents too.
Better modeled as a pinball machine... try to avoid ascribing motives, as they change too fast to build a coherent model.
I created an app that can read and verify the personal data on passports using the secure chip embedded inside.

The app works by first using the camera to scan the passport’s data page, a step that is needed because the key used for reading the embedded chip is constructed out of the visible printed passport data. Then it will read and verify the embedded chip and display the extracted information.

Here is a 30 second demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTdpOcG1NSw

I am looking for users/testers with different passports to try it out. I wanted to see if my weekend hackathon project actually works or if it is only my passport and my friends that works.

Feel free to use an invalid passport and/or use the app on airplane mode so that you feel comfortable.

The app is available for both iOS and Android and requires an NFC-enabled device (most modern Android devices and all iPhones starting with the iPhone 7 are NFC-enabled).
You will also need a biometric passport (sometimes called electronic passport) that you can read. Most modern passports issued today are biometric passports, and you can verify this by looking for a microchip icon usually printed on the passport cover.
For anyone that hasn't yet seen it, I'd highly recommend watching Ars Technica's video interview on Amnesia and how it created its unique atmosphere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMl2la8-3-o

Along with the rest of their War Stories videos, for that matter. The interview with Andy Gavin on Crash Bandicoot is great, even though I never played the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izxXGuVL21o
> Lue says the soft no should be only about three sentences long. A common mistake, she says, is giving too much of an explanation or being over-apologetic.

I used to over-explain in these situations. The advice that finally changed my behavior was this: only explain yourself if you're willing to negotiate, if new information might actually change your answer. Otherwise, the reason is usually irrelevant, and you only open yourself up to a discussion.
Don't tug too hard at that thread, the entire narrative might unravel.
Erlang is a particularly low-friction language, in my experience; it’s just as productive (for me, at least) to edit Erlang code in vim (with no active extensions other than Erlang syntax-highlighting) as it is to edit it in Sublime Text with the whiz-bang Erlang Language Server compiling it in the background. Code that won’t compile just looks wrong in Erlang, and it’s not subtle.

Elixir is slightly higher-friction; all that weird extra Erlang syntax that Elixir eschews (the comma and semicolon statement-binding operators specifically) has a purpose in making Erlang “mentally lintable”, so Elixir loses some of that.

It gains in other places, though; for example, Elixir’s hygenic macros impose much less of a mental load than Erlang’s parse-transforms do. (Just the fact that you have to explicitly require the definition-site module before using any macro from that module, is a big boon to predicting what’ll happen when you go to run the code.)
Book count being a predictor isn't the same thing as book count being the cause. It is likely that instead, book count is an easy to measure attribute of a household which has many other correlative factors that contribute to success.
Using established methods is not difficult, though making a good crypto to begin with absolutely is.
Free speech is a philosophical concept, it happens to be enshrined in law in the 1st Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America to prevent the government for imprisoning you for your speech, but it is first and foremost the philosophical concept, not the law. That concept used to be part of the social mores of the United States and much of the Western world, it isn't really any longer as your own commentary here demonstrates.

The social mores have shifted, and while you may not be imprisoned, real tangible consequences (which are arguably unfair and inappropriate) can occur for trying to have a real meaningful conversation with someone based on your own honest beliefs. You are arguing essentially that those consequences are not only acceptable, but laudable, because you see it as "just desserts". Trying to distract from the serious philosophical issue by hyperfocusing on the legal non-issue is a common tactic of people who endorse bullying and "cancel culture" tactics to suppress other's speech. Your arguments here have been subtly insulting and not in good faith, and I don't think are the way people should behave on HN, but ironically, I'm responding to you in good faith because I fully support (philosophically) your right to say those things and you are acting within the rules.
SML has many of those features. Sure, Haskell popularized them, but it doesn't mean that computer scientists began studying these concepts only after Haskell became a thing
So when do Fleischman and Pons get rehabilitated?
Why 435
I personally think that the most important impact that functional languages make isn't in their direct use (which can be very powerful), but more so in their influence. Bringing functional features into more main stream languages allows everyone to take advantage of powerful features/patterns.

The first one that comes to mind is pattern matching. All your ML derivatives have had it for years, and it's an extremely powerful concept. Unfortunately, most people (myself included) had never heard of it until it hit more main stream languages like Rust and C#. Streams and the more wide spread use of anonymous functions is another great example of functional concepts making imperative languages much more expressive and powerful.

I don't like writing in pure functional languages very much, but I do enjoy a lot of the power the have and how we can make these concepts more accessible to traditional imperative languages.
> Funding: ... This work received generous support from the Oracle Higher Education and Research program to enable cryo-EM data processing using Oracle’s high-performance public cloud infrastructure (https://cloud.oracle.com/en_US/cloud-infrastructure) ...

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/09/18/scie...

Why this summary of the work includes it prominantly, rather than in the footnotes like in the original paper, I'm not sure. Perhaps it was a condition the authors had for contributing to the article. Or perhaps it was Oracle's PR that got them the article in the first place. There is a comment from Oracle later in the article.
Worth following to the original story on Dr Drang's site: https://leancrew.com/all-this/2020/08/rss-and-the-pleasure-o...

Related. Such a pleasure to read a site designed to be read with a link that works the way web links work. So many articles are on sites filled with utter garbage, flashing adverts, notifications, and annoying newsletter requests that hitting simple links is just relaxing.

This whole topic made me realize perhaps I should set up an RSS feed with sites like Dr Drang's and this one just so I can have regular access to good non nonsense content.
Yes, try to experience SOMA without spoilers. "Figuring it out" is part of the experience.

If you're 5 minutes in and worry that you've figured it out and aren't impressed, don't worry, you haven't seen anything yet.
If you can extract materials from a gas giant it is probably best to just live around the gas giant. Short term Venus looks more amenable to life, though.
Hobbyist gamedev, kind of a concern to me too. There is no way to make such a project FOSS to any degree without treading on license obligations from the Engine or third party assets (most of which only allow redistribution within a clearly defined team).

A compromise I've seen (and what I do with my hobby projects) is to publish source code to github without a FOSS license, so at least the code I write has some value to others to look at, binary assets (including third party) are included in the project over git LFS so its possible to deny access to those by not providing LFS credentials.

An example along the lines is a project I follow a lot, the developer publishes their core gameplay mechanics code as MIT[1] and it's been very useful to me in a UE4 context (for things like understanding good practices re: building larger systems in UE4).

I guess I mean realistically impossible for you to release projects as FOSS but IMO there is still value if you can push any content you do have ownership to in an open way (at least for educational purposes for others).

1 - https://github.com/alanedwardes/Estranged.Core
good enough as photo reference!
The common cold isn't any specific virus, it's a huge range of viruses that cause "cold" symptoms. Some coronaviruses cause "colds" as well. Common cold viruses are research targets to discover knowledge that can be weaponized to prevent pandemics.
In Memento, Leonard doesn't lose his memory when he goes to sleep, he just can't form long term memories. This affects his whole day, Leonard can start a task or conversation and not remember starting it by the time he gets to the end.

There's a scene that starts with Leonard in a hotel room, sitting on a closed toilet, fully clothed, with a bottle of alcohol in his hands. He wonders why is he sitting there and if he's drunk. He then takes a shower. Because he doesn't know why he's in the hotel, he doesn't know why he's in the bathroom, etc. He literally forgot he broke into the room to ambush a guy as he was doing it.

Whereas in 50 First Dates, it is how you described. Lucy replays the same day, she resets when she sleeps. But during the day, she can recall what happens. She can tell you what she had for breakfast, where she got her pineapple, who she met, etc.
The real issue is that your wife is in control of the kitchen, if she wants to buy a new machine that looks nicer, she is the boss and you shouldn't be arguing. :)
What are they going to do if one app denies to comply(which will surely be the case)? Sure they can pull it from app stores, but installing an APK shouldn't be that big of a barrier.

Also are they telling that companies like whatsapp will have to do it across the globe? What happens to chat between EU region and outside EU.
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