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>contemporary so-called casual games, which for reasons I can't explain, often give me unpleasant mental sensations.

Contemporary as in "of that era" or "current times"?

If the latter, I'd have to argue this is because modern games have become very, very good at being blatantly addictive and shamelessly peddling in-game purchases that it becomes obvious the purpose of the game is not entertainment, but to engage your eyeballs.
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The "proven" stuff is the stuff that was public knowledge at the time.

The salacious and new claims were those that turned out to originate from a Russian agent. The Steele dossier was Russian disinformation:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/...
you know regulators don't get to keep any money right?

This is exactly my point. They don't ... in America. In the EU anti-trust fines are both created by and collected by the Commission, specifically, a high ranking Commissioner. Those people are selected not for any particular expertise in their subject area but rather nominated by countries and selected for political reasons. The money goes straight into the general budget of the Commissioner's employer, and then handed out in "solidarity" payments, subsidies, bureaucrat salaries and other priorities of the Commission.
Yeah that is very probably true. I saw this up close with friends that had a baby that was very easy on them... and then they had a second kid which they confidently treated exactly the same... and it turns out to be a relationship wrecker ;)
You should try living there.
The Future of Energy Is About Technology, Not Fossil Fuels
they play a delicate balancing act between many parties. if the real trend of prices became too obvious on a platform so big, it would reduce the effectiveness of limited time sales and marketing spend by a lot.
I would argue that the real gas on the conspiracy fire is the combination of the ad/attention based internet economy and the power of algorithms. They plug in data and tell algorithms to increase viewing time and clicks, however you can. Well, it turns out that of all the topics people are interested in, outrage is one of the best ways to keep people engaged and to encourage them to engage others. So when person X clicks on one news item questioning vaccine safety, the algorithm starts sprinkling in more inflammatory articles and a few videos. So they click on a couple. Which leads them to groups of other people that reinforce the belief and leads to more clicks and more viewership. Very quickly, most of their online experience shows them that vaccines never worked, that it is a government hoax, and there are a plethora of “experts” to back up and continually reinforce this idea. We seem to have accidentally automated conspiracy theory propagation.
This is frighteningly complex and I would not recommend this for reliability concerns. Terraform makes it quite difficult to maintain a structure like this, mostly due to the inability to interpolate module versions.

I highly recommend anyone using terraform start with a mono repo. Still use modules and then spread out your components but definitely don't try to split them up in separate repos because keeping the version graph together will become a real pain and is easy to mismanage.

From there, ensure any logical components have their own separate lock and state file. If you don't do this, it is going to be a game of roulette to know when this resource was last run and what might change if you roll it out. It is easy to build your own directed graph between components using data sources. These allow you to have component B read component A's state file to get the outputs it needs.

All in all, I've found most of the documentation and "best practice" in the terraform community promoting dangerous practices. I talk more about these practices in this podcast[0]

[0]: https://packetpushers.net/podcast/full-stack-journey-027-und...
Very interesting machine, thanks! I wonder if it does an analysis on input to determine where the start/end marks on a stroke with a fountain pen are.
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Agree, but also nice to imagine a world where the most economically and militarily powerful country wasn’t run by corporate bribery.
Honestly I think a lot of ideas about where to go with Desktop OSs these days are just complexity fetishist slashfiction. I don't think we need new complicated paradigms, instead we should take a look at our history of what worked and what didn't and build based a simple combination of good ideas we already have.

My opinion, short version, hastily written, and incomplete:

1) Applications are self-contained objects that can be simply copied and deleted instead of installed and uninstalled. They should run from any location on any media. AppImage implements this in Linux and modern Mac application bundles are already this, but the concept goes back to almost the beginning of desktop computers.

2) Spacial file manager (MacOS), drag and drop saving (RiscOS), desktop and quick-launch menus are just views of a folder structures (Windows).

3) All applications in their own namespace and they only get access to what the user configures for them (do not do "allow/deny" popups!).

4) Everything scriptable and something like AutoHotKey built into the OS at a fundamental level.

5) Switchable "user profiles" instead of "user accounts", which are an artifact of giant shared computer systems. User profile just contains personalized settings and can be located anywhere, including removable media so you can take yours to other computers. If you want to keep things safe from others, encrypt them. Otherwise there are no permissions except those applied to applications themselves.

6) Sound and video should be routable like you see in DAWs. Plug outputs into inputs, add filters, split, mix, etc. This is of course scriptable so you can make it do what you want on arbitrary events.

7) Backwards compatibility should be a high priority, but accomplished via shim layers and/or emulation and/or vms when clean breaks are necessary. A wide array of such should be included with the OS from the beginning. In 2020, there is no excuse for not being able to run old software.
So on the drugging I wanted to lend my voice to the fact that while it is over diagnosed in children ADD/ADHD does exist, it is a real condition and at times in a persons life it can be debilitating. I personally was diagnosed with ADHD later in life and from the moment I took my first dose the transformation on my abilities was profound.

ADD/ADHD medication is one of the true success stories of mental health treatment. Unlike depression, bipolar and other conditions if a person suffers from ADHD, in the vast majority of cases, they will improve and improve significantly with medication and the improvement has a rapid onset from the first dose.

I actually choose not to treat it in myself for a long time because I had already suffered thru schooling and it was not until a life event stacked so much responsibility in top of me that I imploded to the point where I could not put one foot in front of the other that I decided to actively treat it. Immediately I look back at all the struggles I had especially in schooling and realized I choose the hard path.

So while I agree that we are over-drugging boys, I agree ADD/ADHD is over diagnosed and I agree that school sucks for all boys even the ones that do not have focus problems. I want to lend my voice to caution about rejecting medicating those that do have a legitimate disorder as looking back I realize I did myself a disservice by rejecting being drugged.
Smells like a lawsuit waiting to happen. Is this real? salivating
I would say,it is difficulty to access of technology. Inkjet Printers are either pizo or heat nozel based, both tech works at microlevel and are built with semiconductor based fabrication methods, which is mostly outof reach of enthusiasts.
As much as there are lots of people working on AI suggestion algorithms, I have not seen much suggested to me be close to what I want usually. This goes for Amazon, Netflix, Youtube, etc. They all seem to think whatever I bought/watched recently must be like the only thing I'm interested in.

Just some basic logic could weed out stuff from suggestions - if I buy a fairy princess doll (for a niece) but all my other purchases are tools, computer/electronics, video games, household supplies, etc. then obviously that was a gift or one time type of purchase, even if I shipped it to myself. Don't make suggestions for more fairy princess doll like products because that is the last thing I bought.

I would think they could group users together anonymously and provide trending suggestions based on that. I'm sure there are lots of people with similar sets of categories and they are buying/watching things.

The Netflix Top 10 in the US list is a start in that direction.

Unfortunately Amazon seems more motivated to suggest advertised products (actual advertised ones and ones with inflated fake ratings), their own products and probably stuff they want to get out of warehouses before caring or tracking what a customer is actually interested in.

Them caring about what you want doesn't make them more money.
In some respects I disagree - there are games I return to every now and then and enjoy thoroughly. However there’s definitely some I find are quite disappointing to go back to - related Limmy clip: https://youtu.be/DjikLCPeUdo
Sage Barista Express. Currently going for 550 pounds on amazon.uk, I got it 480. I have it for a year now and I can recommend it, with a warning that it has a unique filter/ion-exchanger requiring you to buy it from Sage.(Breville)
Every Muslim woman I know (hundreds) who wear hijab wear it without the threat of violence from their family. It's extremely common amongst the people I know for some women in the family to wear hijab and some to not. It's not as big of a deal as non Muslims seem to think, and it's frankly offensive that you assume that people would only make that choice due to threats of violence.
i actually think both Django and Tensorflow would benefit from macros. in both cases you spend a lot of time writing what's really a DSL embedded into Python (defining models using a magic metaclass thingy / defining computation graphs, basically writing ASTs by hand).

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for another example, consider

Foo = namedtuple('Foo', ['a', 'b'])

where the namedtuple function actually has to hack around the fact that it's not a macro: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/644e94272a89196801825...

tldr: Foo needs to have

__module__ = 'yourmodule'
__qualname__ = 'yourmodule.Foo'

or else stuff like Pickle won't work right. so namedtuple has to reach into the caller's stackframe to see what module it was called from! this wouldn't be an issue if it was a macro and just expanded to a class definition.
It is a disgrace. Even if you are for Biden you should be appalled. Also that you have been lied to about Russian collusion for years, which was just a campaign strategy. That doesn't mean the competitor tells the truth, it just tells you about the current state of democracy.

People cheering on social media regulation and censorship (both mainly from 2 different parties) didn't get to the core of the problem in my opinion.
Right, the US just stumbles into war and genocide like an innocent child while China intends to commit genocide because they are evil etc. etc. It’s a great narrative.
“Yet you participate in society! Curious.”

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:) this is great (I kind of hate shopping).

But on a more serious note: I work a lot with this kind of software but the biggest problem is reliable map data.

It doesn't matter how fast your matrix is generated and how good your fleet/order optimization is, when a truck is routed in the wrong direction of a one way street because the map data was not correct, you might as well draw a route on a map yourself.
When You Don't Create Things
I think the reason is open source communities are more attracted towards tinkering and experimental technologies, and 3D print is much more interesting than 2D printing. 3D printing always has that idea of a manufacturing revolution behind it, 2D printing was a revolution centuries ago and it's a boring technology now.
There are a lot of micropython boards available, not sure why I'd choose this over any of the many boards that work with micropython.

Their "bangle.js" smart watch does look pretty nice though. A lot better than the TTGO smart watches.
Aside: Most Americans who voted voted against Bush in 2000, and he would have lost the election altogether if the votes in Florida had been properly tallied. Most Americans who voted voted against Trump in 2016. Trump might win in November as well but nobody, not even in Trump's camp, thinks he will win the majority of the popular vote.

This isn't quite on point, but all the collective guilt being slung about in these comments is problematic. I notice you use British collective plural -- "The US have". I don't know whether this is because you imagine the states collectively leading the world or the population of the states, but it suggests you assign collective blame.
I agree. On the other hand, how to put pressure (by, for example boycotting the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics) without providing propaganda-fuel for the CCP to drive one more wedge between Chinese people and the rest of the world?
An indictment is an allegation, as I said. An allegation is not proof

If you are indicted for a crime, the prosecutor must prove the allegations

If you are inclined to believe the allegation, your bar for proof will be quite low. Perhaps the accusation is enough.

For me, a destabilizing accusation like that requires more proof than anonymous CIA sources saying its true. I wish more Americans would put their dislike of Trump aside and demand that proof. It's not about Trump, it's about a destabilizing accusation from a government department. If they can do that about the President you don't like, they can do it about the President you do like

Again, the hard evidence, tangible and verifiable, is about the same for both

I am open to be proven wrong, believe me, but links to indictments is not proof
It's a strong point. Personally, I find it both hard to argue against and at the same time extremely dehumanizing.

Related to this is the phenomenon of turning everything into service. Why would you own things and accept responsibility for maintaining them, if you could just throw money at the service provider and have the thing be present when it's needed? Of course the thing will be extremely limited in what you can do with it, subject to Terms&Conditions, but why would you want to do anything non-standard with stuff? There's always another service you can throw money at to solve the same problem.

What's the end-game here? That we specialize into sub-species of humans, forever stuck in one role, with zero autonomy? No longer building wealth, we'll only be allocating the flow of money - from what Society gives us in reward for our work, straight to Services of said Society? Will we become specialized cells of the meta-multicellular organism Society becomes?

I can see how we're on the path towards that reality, and I absolutely hate it.
> Each time you reply, a new rep is assigned the ticket

This is insane.

> They also restrict your account so you can't do anything, but they leave the ads running and keep billing you. This bankrupts people who can't pause their unprofitable campaigns.

This is insane too.
The question wasn’t whether there was a need. The question was why there isn’t one. That agreement doesn’t prevent you or anyone else from making your own design.
Well whether or not Reagan's strategy of "we win, they lose" was the cause, what's beyond dispute is that America won and the Soviets lost. To which I say, thank fucking God.
I would assume that it takes your local iTunes library into account, but apparently it doesn't: https://www.reddit.com/r/HomePod/comments/advq56/cannot_make...
I work in the transit industry and one of the issues is mapping where equipment is installed in a standardized way.

Setting up a profile like this for transit based on GeoJSON would allow standardization of things like station maps, bus transfer stations, platforms, boarding points, faregate arrays, ticket vending arrays etc etc.

GTFS and GTFS-RT are starting to standardize the routing/vehicle/scheduling layer, so this would be adjunct to that.
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You're both right... the 32-bit ARM encoding gives every instruction a 4-bit condition field, but the 16-bit Thumb and mostly-16-bit Thumb2 encodings use the IT instruction to carry the conditions for the next few instructions.
I actually do feel a little fear whenever I make a comment like this online. That someday it will come back to get me. The United States government could easily bring back Mcarthyism anytime and start rounding up people with the wrong political views.

It's clearly worse in China, but I do feel fear, even in the US.
> things are going to need to be sacrificed

I say this for emphasis, not to personally attack you: Whenever I read or hear this it makes me extremely suspicious, because it often doesn't come from those who will do the sacrifice themselves.

Censorship and other forms of regulating free speech is simply never a good solution. Perpetrators of lies will even hide behind this, and create a false image of rebellious heroism, instead of facing public discourse and the consequences thereof.

YouTube is a private entity but they correctly assess that they have a significant responsibility here. But curating social media content is not unheard of, Wikipedia manages it surprisingly well. Instead they could for example certify and emphasize content that is grounded in science and verify content creators of such. This is from the top of my head but there are certainly other people who have smarter ideas that don't involve straight up censorship.

Talk is talk. Actions should have consequences, which is why we have rules and agreements in the real world. I also very much doubt that censorship achieves what it is supposed to. People don't suddenly become enlightened (depending on context it might be the other way around) when you ban that stuff. It can easily become worse.
While I have no real clue about China, never been there, I don't believe that because:

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=china+highway+built+around+house&t...

and many more cases like

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holdout_(real_estate)#Nail_hou...

How is that possible at all with no liberty, no justice, no recourse ?
This particular example is far too embarrassing to make up. Why would you make up something which shows you being so incompetent?
How about laser engraving tech? Can a laser engraver be tight focused to 300 dpi and power set (or sensed) to just make a mark on white paper? Does the positioning accuracy also need to be improved to get that 300 dpi?

You'd never run out of toner at least.

Edit, answered at least one question: yes engravers do 500 dpi routinely. Here's one: https://www.troteclaser.com/en-us/knowledge/tips-for-laser-u...
It is really frustrating that this isn't obvious. One of the best features of terraform hidden by poor/unreliable practices and "getting started" guides.
Not really. We needed to industrialize to get the point we are now where we can manufacture clean energy. Coal and oil got a humans here from their simplicity (burn it) so that we can now have clean alternatives like solar panels and wind turbines.

So no, cleaning up isn't easier or we wouldn't be fucked right now. By the time we get to Mars as a colony we will, by necessity, have the tech to produce clean energy and will not be able to rely on oil. Thus starting fresh without polluting from the onset - something that was impossible on our own world.
You're the one moving the goal posts. If a reputable organization thinks their statement was incorrect, they admit to it and issue a correction. WHO did not do that.
> To be frank, that spy scandal is not in the same genre of the other abuses that are being discussed by OP/GP and others.

I don't mind if you are frank, sushicalculus, in fact I welcome it, so long as you are informed.

In the case of East Timor, you should know that Australia was happy to stand by while Indonesia treated the East Timorese similarly to how China treats the Uyghyrs. Australia only acted after the United States lead, and then did its best to weaken the fledgling East Timor government by cheating it out of oil rights.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/postcolonial-blog...

On the subject of Australian complicity "in the same genre of the other abuses that are being discussed by OP/GP and others", do you know what is happening in West Papua?

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/west-papua-end-australi...
The difference between charisma and narcissism may be in the eye of the beholder. However, I can think of a few people in my life that are personable and incredibly genuine; the kind of person that seems to draw the best out in others. I wouldn't be happy to hear them described as narcissistic.
Does someone know if anyone will film this event?
I really do think the hardware/software analogy here works quite well. In that sense, one could argue that the software has also become more complex, and perhaps more fragile, in recent times in order to better assist individuals in navigating this world.

To your other point, I think that "education" and "critical thinking skills" are often conflated as one and the same, or that perhaps one necessarily leads to the other, but this is certainly not the case. While I think being educated to some degree is important in order to share a "common language" with others and to become a contributing member of society, the ability to think critically, and to act on it, is really necessary if we are to succeed and not fail catastrophically along the way.

To go back to the analogy, having the ability to execute the software faithfully is one thing, but understanding when it might make sense to modify the software and how to do so responsibly given the fixed hardware we have available is really the critical piece.
All of these points sound like macos apart from 4, possibly 6 and definitely 7.

Your home directory is your profile/account (what's the difference on a single computer?).
OCR is only an issue if it is an image PDF that came from a scanner.

I'm in the staffing industry and deal with automatic resume parsing tools. They have no problem with text PDFs that are saved from the source.
More that we should be suspicious of others who are overly charismatic.
> Why did they shut down?

Because Spotify had an ad-supported free service based on selling data and paying the bare minimum it could get away with to artists, while RDIO had a subscription-only service for a long time focused on music recommendations from friends. Spotify squeezed RDIO with its free tier and monetized its user data. After a fruitless trip into online radio, RDIO were bought out by Pandora.
It’s always surprising to me to see an article like this that’s vaguely about a person, without seemingly any attempts to reach that person for comment. I’ve filed issued on a few of Michael’s repositories since he left Apple, and he was extremely responsive. I’d be surprised if he ignored Phoronix if they had actually reached out to him.
Yeah forgot about the sun. It takes 8 minutes for light to travel from sun to earth. If something weird happen to it, it will take us 8minutes before we see it.
I think it is the other way round; thinness makes gadgets look good and feel light but more importantly, it provides an excuse to make everything non-replaceable on that altar in the underlying aim of planned obsolescence. Plus once you make it thin, you can always say that we can't go back because that is the new normal and making it thicker will be a regression.
And why can't I find any research on using the magnetocaloric effect to achieve superconductivity? It's an obvious idea to try.