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I wonder how much of Sierra's demise was due to CUC vs. just the change in gaming landscape. Compared to the early 90's adventure gaming is non-existent minus nostalgic kickstarters. Sierra may still be alive today, but it may be on the same shelf as Nancy Drew mysteries.
The troule is they are as rare as hens teeth. The temptation to add a little more is overwhelming. I know I suffer from it myself.
Yes, but on StackOverflow, repeat questions are very strongly discouraged (or locked/deleted); the reader is pushed back to the older or original question which may be very much out of date. There are often useful comments or additional answers on those old questions, but it's a slower process to wade through the old content in hopes of finding a useful new nugget.

With general Google/DDG searches I often do filter to past year, but I've noticed increasingly that some sites have been republishing old articles with new dates, or minor updates (apparently to bump them up in search results?)
If you don’t want to participate in the ranked choice system, or find it too confusing, just put one vote in like you normally would.

For everyone else, this is a chance to break free from the two party stranglehold.
I think you're avoiding the alternative option, that there can be different levels of regulation based on size and power of a company.

There's a rather large difference between Twitter, which has a lot of people using it every day for information, and that of smaller companies. A company like Twitter can influence the fabric of society for good and bad by a large amount, but a smaller company has far less effect.
A single standard is a simple approach, but that doesn't make it the best option.
Yes. Between Pollard's rho, SQUFOF, ECM, the various sieves, etc, there is essentially no range at which this one performs better.
Your explanation doesn't make sense to me.

> "you commit the result if no other thread has stomped on your data"

What does "committing" mean here? If it means performing an atomic write (a-la CAS), then you're using a lock (see my next point).

> "If another thread has stomped on your data, you start over."

So you let your thread sit there in a spin-loop and CAS a condition-variable. That's a lock for all intents and purposes, and your system can still "dead-lock" (read: your thread will never get to "win the race"), if your "data gets stomped on" over and over again in-between reads (which are obviously non-atomic, otherwise you'd be locking there too).

> "Usually, there is some sort of guarantee that lock-free systems always make progress."

Getting a time-slice to continue running in a tight-loop while trying to CAS is not the same as "making progress".

"Making progress" would be - you'd get a chance to commit your changes and proceed to your next bit of business logic. But with contention, that's not guaranteed to happen at-all?
The years I've gone to SFN, I've been amazed at how fragmented the field is. People get into neuroscience from all sorts of places. Neurosurgery, C. elegans research, optogenetic studies, fmri studies, biochemistry: these approaches to neuroscience are often so different they don't know about the advances of the others.
> I mean it’s a video game high score.

It's a defamation case. Liar is outed as a liar. You can imagine how this can negatively effect your entire life. Look at athletes caught for doping. Imagine you are called a doper, your records stripped, when you were actually innocent.

It's not about high scores per se.
Why should the social class of people who work in Silicon Valley or choose to go into the relevant industries control the information that gets to all Americans? One of law’s great functions is to prevent such groups from capturing society.
Cute!

I’ll easily do that when every single western country stops subsidizing gasoline and shoveling the consequences onto younger generations.

End it there, and stop defending old people destroying the very foundation that humanity depends on.
Would there be any demand for an open-source, more code-oriented version of IFTTT for the devs around here?

So still the same concepts of inputs -> outputs, but you would self-host on AWS Lambda / Azure Functions / etc. It would also have more flexibility to add custom code if needed to transform data too.
It's really interesting to see that it could be done like that, but, that pseudo code you've given me would translate to a heck of a lot of MCS-48 instructions! 16-bit subtraction in particular is really expensive. Potentially not much gain there?
Not sure why your comment is getting buried. This is a very valid concern. If we're going to make a significant change to the way we vote it would be best to introduce it at the local levels first so people can learn the process and understand its impact.
I just setup shortcuts today for the first time on my apple device. Painlessly in 5 minutes I had two shortcuts for calculating prices with and without tax, and 2 minutes after that I created a shortcut to log my blood pressure numbers into the health app. All 3 now also run from my watch with siri.

With functionality like that, effectively for free (cost of device not withstanding), how can IFTTT compete?

edit: And now I've discovered I can create trello cards this way!
> Pedestrians do not have right of way in the UK if not at a marked crossing.

Yes they do - look at the case law in practice. For example Brushett v Hazeldean (that was cyclists but it's being interpreted as cars as well.)
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If you get banned from a mall for making a disturbance, you lose access to the stores within that mall, despite the fact that those stores may be valuable to you.

Just because there are network effects at play does not for a second mean that a private business loses the right to regulate who it has as a customer.
The semantic error you're making is redefining the general term compression as the more specific "isentropic compression". The process by which the compression takes place is not prescribed just by the term "compression" as you did originally. Just saying "compression" specifies nothing about the process by which it happens. Compression can take place (theoretically) through an isentropic process, or a non-isentropic process, with work being done on the fluid (increasing its total enthalpy) or not.

I get your point that the shock contributes to the heating through irreversibility, and agree that has a significant impact on the sensed temperature. If we want to tie your point back to the original post, one could say that "compression and shockwaves" are the cause of re-entry heating to ensure you are explicitly capturing the effect of the shock.

Whether you consider the shock heating to merit explicit mention or whether you see it as a detail associated with the specific means of compression is largely a matter of perspective & practice.

The gasdynamic basis of shock formation is derived by considering what happens when pressure fields are no longer able to smoothly vary as the speed of a body exceeds the speed at which pressure disturbances can be communicated upstream, namely the speed of sound. The pressure jump across the shock is elemental to its derivation. Practitioners commonly view the shock as the means by which compression takes place and pressure fields reconciled. As I noted above, just saying "compression" doesn't imply "isentropic" and so the entropy-generating processes associated with a shock performing compression are viewed, for example, as thermodynamically similar to viscous heating of the fluid in a gas turbine compressor.
> You could go further and say "Defend individual liberty" is a neutral description of rightist policy.

Tell that to arch-conservative Anthony Comstock:

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

> The Comstock Laws were a set of federal acts passed by the United States Congress under the Grant administration along with related state laws.[1] The "parent" act (Sect. 211) was passed on March 3, 1873, as the Act for the "Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, Obscene Literature and Articles of Immoral Use".

Similarly, all of the other religious arguments for censorship, such as the Roman Catholic Church's list of banned books:

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

The Papist Church is definitely quite conservative.
Since I had to look them up, they are very early humans. See quote and link below from wikipedia.

The Denisovans or Denisova hominins ( /dɪˈniːsəvə/ di-NEE-sə-və) are an extinct species or subspecies of archaic human that ranged across Asia during the Lower and Middle Paleolithic. Denisovans are known from few remains, and, consequently, most of what is known about them comes from DNA evidence. Pending consensus on their taxonomic status, they have been referred to as Homo denisova, H. altaiensis, or H. sapiens denisova.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denisovan
I missed the part where I said we should stop writing tutorials. I do believe people should be responsible for content they publish, periodically reviewing and removing outdated, irrelevant, or immature/incorrect articles.
That’s like doing layoffs one by one instead of ripping off the bandaid. $1 might be ok, but if it keeps going up by $1 then it would seem like the sky is the limit.
Latest macOS Big Sur Beta Reveals That Apple Might Release Three New Mac Models
It's just weird how Republicans find the dumbest shit to feel oppressed over, this and motorcycle helmets...

Oops I said Republicans I mean conservative marginalized people!
I’m not your “buddy” and you didn’t respond to anything I said except with an irrelevant analogy. Like I point out, society imposes plenty of restrictions on private businesses. You don’t actually control who gets to sit at your restaurant’s lunch counter.
> Unpopular Opinion Time the Second: But there are other apex predators, such as the lynx, which can take much the same role without being nearly as dangerous to megafauna like humans.

They're usually more specialized than wolves, especially in terms of prey, and so the populations of species they don't prey upon are left unchecked.
You can publish on medium and chose not to be behind the paywall. The thing is that most individuals that publish on there want to get paid for it, hence paywall.
Introduction to Computer Programming with Flowcharts
Most wolf attacks are not reported. Wolves don't just attack once and leave. They come back.

Sometimes it's not livestock. Many have horses or donkeys, or goats and sheep that they don't turn into meat.

Also it's about the rights of your own land. If wolves kill the lives you take care of, they cannot be allowed to continue. The fact they are killing your animals means they're not finding other prey and are overpopulated at that location.
Oracle Continues Building DTrace for Linux Atop BPF
I cant say holy basil is the best anti inflammatory. Maybe. It is mostly used as an adaptogen to balance adrenals and bring down cortisol levels. It can be used as an all around herbal support because it will always ‘balance’ hormones and naturally occurring steroids(like cortisol). So as an adaptogen, gentle and no side effects.

Rosemary has good anti inflammation properties and it’s proven. However turmeric is superior to rosemary and CBD even better. But rosemary and turmeric* can be easily incorporated in food. Garlic is also good.

One must be careful with rosemary(don’t ingest ‘Rosemary tea’ etc..high in volatiles. you will likely end up with a headache or throw up)..but because it has mild to moderate vasodilation properties, it is excellent for circulation issues tho’ especially when applied topically. I want to say that rosemary’s efficiency is more due to it being a rubefacient rather than a powerful anti inflammatory. Example: you are better off using rosemary infused oil for massaging your scalp than ingesting a cup of even mild rosemary tea. The former application will greatly improve circulation to head as the oil topically works better and has less side effects.

Ditto with arnica..arnica gel is better than arnica tincture or herb for internal use. They are useful for hematomas and bruising. But will cause internal bruising and bleeding/inhibit clotting factor when taken internally or applied over an open wound or cut or used subcutaneously. Topical application? It’s golden!

*anecdote: when I was growing up, one of the home herbal lores I heard was how every mother needs three things: turmeric, holy basil and neem. So every home has neem in the front of the house, a basil shrine at the back(hence ‘holy’. It’s similar to elderberry. If something is ‘holy’, one never over harvests it and will keep propagating the plant species). The turmeric used to hang around the woman’s neck or the dried rhizomes given as gifts. Similarly on the kitchen, for food: Ginger, black pepper and long pepper.

I used to work as a chef and trained classical French. I gave a couple of classes to non indian chefs about loading up spice boxes. A typical spice box(South Indian. It differs regionally) will have seven compartments. cumin, coriander seeds, dried red chilies, turmeric, fenugreek seeds, fennel and cardamom. They are all medicinal. This is all you need in small quantities every day. It’s more effective in food everyday with a pinch here and there 2-3x/day. not as much when taken as capsules or a high medicinal dose sporadically. Herbs and spices don’t act like pharmaceutical doses. You have to think of them as preventative therapies rather than curative ones. Asafoetida goes separately in another shelf and clad in multiple layers of metal as does saffron because they are volatile and delicate+expensive respectively. There is another set of tempering seeds but my system was to use one box for flavoring spices and another for tempering.
To me -- a casual novice -- it sounds like a lot of recent CS work results in things like CAP Theorem/consensus, NLP/AI models, AGI, practical tools for verification/formal methods.
Interesting report. One thing possibly limiting applicability of the lesson is that applications are very regular and closed systems and free from having to adapt to arbitrary irregularities of the real world.
> Because when you go out to vote, you don't vote against a candidate.

I think this is clearly not true for this election year in particular.
I worked for several game publishers as a developer, and would be called in to firefight games at other developers in danger of not shipping or shipping past a critical deadline. The Sierra productions were typically nightmares, at least the ones that needed publisher bailouts. I never interacted with Ren or Roberta beyond introduction, as firefighting a failing production tends to be upper management scarce.
Sounds like burnout, wondered what caused the loss of momentum.
Everyone says this then lobbies to have banks, payment companies, registrars and hosting companies to shut them down.
The ICO is as toothless as our nation.

They had initially announced a fine against British Airways of 183M, and reduced it to about 20M.

Marriot's original was 99M, now reduced to 18.4M.

Cathay Pacific was fined... 500K.

In most cases, each fine has been announced as a large amount (presumably for publicity) after which it goes through appeals, tribunals, some private meetings and a substantially reduced fine.

I can only imagine why it keeps ending up this way - is money changing hands during these negotiations? Are the fines kept "low" in order to not scare businesses away from continued laxity?
Because a lot of your comments in this thread are "missing the point" or (unintentionally) misleading at best, and it's easier for people to use a downvote to make those comments less prominent in the discussion than to go through the trouble of trying to explain why the comments are missing the point or unintentionally misleading.

But, a lot of people have gone through the effort to leave explanations in this case. Isn't that good enough?

For one unaddressed example:

> You can still use standard kernel-provided synchronization objects (mutex/events/semaphores) in your "lock-free applications", as long as you provide timeouts to blocking wait() calls, and handle abandoned objects gracefully.

This might be technically true, but atomics provide significant performance benefits compared to using a mutex with a timeout, and I don't think of "lock free" as relying on busy loops as you seem to think in your comments. I'm sure a busy loop makes sense in very specific algorithms, and mutexes themselves often use a limited amount of busy waiting to avoid context switches. You can simulate atomics with mutexes, but that's not the point. Lock free is hard to do correctly. Mutexes create the possibility of a deadlock, which is incompatible with being lock-free, so you have to avoid all the footguns of lock-free and the footgun of using mutexes.

So, yes, you can use standard sync objects... but that doesn't make anything better in this case. It misses the point. "Technically correct" isn't always good enough to get an upvote.

If you don't agree, that's fine... but this is completely uncalled for and against the community guidelines:

> This community has truly deteriorated over the years.

No one is obligated to upvote things they consider incorrect, and downvotes are perfectly suitable for this purpose under HN guidelines.
I am curious how this will work with public campaign financing for third parties. Third parties who achieve 5% of the national vote are eligible for public campaign financing in the subsequent election. But would this be 5% of the first round votes? Or 5% of the final round votes?

Maine uses IRV, so the first round votes will probably make sense for the purposes of qualifying for public campaign financing. But if it were a Condorcet-style system you could have strange outcomes where a candidate wins the election, but has less than 5% of 1st place votes and therefore doesn't qualify for public campaign financing.
Multi-member electorates are far more likely to produce multi-party systems. Australia's lower house is single-member electorates and remains dominated by major parties. Its upper house is composed of multi-member electorates (one for each state) and consequently, that's where minor parties and independents most frequently show up.
Many people have animals they have as pets or otherwise are not selling as meat. If you think farms are simply cows you are incorrect.
> Asciimation may take some time to load...

It's been sitting there like that for 10 minutes or so. How long does this thing take?
If you don't weed your online garden it will fester and turn into a sh*thole that nobody else wants to be in. If you didn't have strong moderation here on HN, you probably wouldn't be posting here.
Does your wife earn enough for u to quit and look for a new satisfying job? It might be worth a try. Otherwise, she is selfish, sorry. Hope you find remote opportunities otherwise, good luck!
Because someone may well maim or kill them sooner or later, if you're going to have cars, and will be a great bother for everyone involved. Look, I live somewhere people in all modes of transportation including foot mostly treat traffic laws as vague suggestions, but it's not so much a case of a driver refusing to stop for a pedestrian but the fact that pedestrians randomly crossing roads, especially at night and/or rainy weather, are running a non-trivial risk of getting hit.
The speedrunner Summoning Salt has documentary-style videos on his channel regarding the history of various speed runs for anyone interested in that sort of thing: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtUbO6rBht0daVIOGML3c8w
Yahoo introduces first-ever Yahoo smartphone
Yes, the writers get paid for it, but they can select not to put their content behind the paywall and just use it as an open blogging platform.
Yes, I speak english as a second language since grade school... And never stumbled upon this word until recently. This is the first time I read the actual meaning, also. Had no idea what it meant.
> I just think it's not so useful to compare jet to non-divergent colormaps.

I agree, in the "this should be so obvious that it doesn't need an article written about it" sense. But the continued prevalence of jet used as a sequential colour map suggests that the comparison is necessary.
From their 2018 annual report:

To date, we have not seen a meaningful impact on demand as a result of the Data Security Incident.

In 2018, we recorded $28 million of expenses related to the Data Security Incident, partially offset by $25 million of accrued insurance recoveries [...]

(EDIT) Also:

To date, approximately 100 putative class action lawsuits have been filed by consumers and others against us in U.S. federal, U.S. state and Canadian courts related to the Data Security Incident.
This is a common misunderstanding of the statistics. The sample size is more a function of the target variance and the confidence level, not as much on the overall population. 81k, if picked properly, would be sufficient for their purpose.
> Way too many financial interests are involved in keeping the status quo.

Indeed. With any major system (voting, healthcare, etc) if you find yourself saying "This system is completely broken", you need to understand that, no, the system is working exactly as intended.
Basically Node-RED?
Ranked choice has the benefit that the there is no point in "gaming" your vote, so your optimal strategy and nash-equilibrium is to provide your real candidate preference order.

This is very demonstrably false, both theoretically and in the real world. Ranked choice voting only solves the spoiler effect in cases where the spoiler candidate has a small enough amount of support as to be rendered non-competitive, but if you have more than two candidates who are competitive then the spoiler effect comes back in full force. This is not just theoretical; it happened in the Burlington 2009 mayoral election, and fallout from that election led to ranked choice being repealed shortly afterward.

So, not only does ranked choice still incentive strategic voting sometimes, but it does it in a way that is harder to see and understand. There are other non-ranked voting systems like approval voting and score voting that are much simpler and better in this respect.

Ranked choice also has other drawbacks - like violating the monotonicity criterion - as well as more practical issues like making it impossible to distribute the counting process across precincts.

No there are no real valid arguments against ranked choice voting.

This is also quite incorrect. Our current system of first-past-the-post is bad, yeah, but there are plenty of valid arguments against ranked choice and - in my opinion - there are much better systems we could choose instead.
It's hard to tell. In the 2016 primaries Trump had 44% of the vote. That's a lot, and it's more than the other candidates, but its not a majority of the total vote. In the earlier primaries he most of his victories were in the 30's. So now you have to guess where he ranked for the 60-70% of people that voted for other people in early primaries. He might have still won, or other candidates could have emerged with majorities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2016_Republican...

[edit] I guess that doesn't really answer your question, because you asked about this election...
Courts, laws, judges look at the end game. They often do not care about hand waving, distracting red-herring type logic.

This is how you get torrent sites taken down, even though they host absolutely nothing. Intent, you see, is key.

And what is the intent of all of this data collection? Is it to just randomly, happen-stance note someone in passing?

Or is it a dedicated, planned, targeted collection of data on individuals?

What is the purpose of the data collection? Hmm?

This is what counts.
Curious if you play/ed a musical instrument? I learned violin as a child and also experience the same phenomenon you describe, but I always attributed it to some neural pathway that was created during musical training (i.e. reading sheet music).
Isn't that the node-red solution talked about in the article?