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> Video definitely gets paid. Streaming, snippets (Vine and now TikTok style), vlogging, sports, episodic TV, movies, miniseries (Netflix), etc. EVERYONE is paying for OC video. It's a strategic differentiator.

Most don't. You need to have a nontrivial following on youtube to make any money, and a relatively significant one to make nontrivial amounts of money. Unless you get millions of views per day (YT, or tens of millions on tiktok), your only path to good income is external brand deals.

You can look into the tiktok creator fund controversies recently for this. Tiktok created a "community fund" that paid creators. Creators who joined found that their viewership dropped when they joined the fund, and they made less money than expected. Most mid sized creators left, and the going theory is that the largest tik tok'ers (your Damelios and Derulos) make the majority of their income from special deals that aren't available to the average creator.

All of which is to say that funding for high quality content directly through the platform is usually not sustainable (see also: music streaming platforms paying pittances), so high quality OC is funded via specialized deals or other processes, like subscriptions or external advertising deals. So journalists are way ahead of the game there.
I don't think I'd characterize what they've been doing in the CPU market as "catching up" anymore. They caught up to Intel a few years ago. Now they are just asserting dominance for the immediate future.

They've definitely been far behind Nvidia for a while, though. I haven't seriously considered an AMD GPU in almost a decade outside of budget gaming rigs, and even then I ended up going with a used Nvidia card. Hopefully this is enough to give them a serious foothold in the high-end GPU market so they can give Nvidia competition for years to come.
>but I promise you nearly every American adult knows

If the next thing you are going to say is not "The current President of the United States", then sadly you are extremely mistaken because that's the only political fact you can confidently say that all Americans know (and even then, it's not 100%).

Source: A political science degree that I don't use, but this sad fact is well known.
Fortunately the criminal was dumb enough to use his home internet connection.

If he used public WiFi or VPN, he might have gotten away with it.
That "rage mode" nomenclature might potentially come back to bite them.
There's a trope here that the US is some incredible outlier when it comes to per capita auto ownership. It's not. It's in the same ballpark as other wealthy developed countries. It's poorer countries (in Europe and elsewhere) that have lower rates of car ownership. According to a recent Pew survey [1], the US has slightly lower per capita car ownership than Italy and is in the ballpark of countries like France, Germany, South Korea, and Japan.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-17/a-pew-sur...).
PBRT won a technical achievement academy award because it was a reasonably complete renderer from start to finish while being not just open source but extensively documented and explained. The source though is not a great example of modern C++ at this point. It is based heavily on inheritance and uses lots of memory allocation and virtual function calls.
> what if you could be strict during development but switch to forgiving for deployment?

That sounds like a debugging nightmare, where your production system is subtlety different in behaviour to your dev system.

Also how do you know that the forgiving behaviour is correct in production? Maybe it prevents a couple of scary error messages, but it could just as equally allow incorrect inputs to be processed and stored, creating a data cleanup nightmare later.
It burns a bit the first time you do it.

But that pain gets easier with each flushing, which leads me to believe that the pain is a result of inflammation and not because of some set of vulnerable nerves that I'm agitating.

It genuinely helps. Do it for a few days consistently and watch your sinus pain diminish long-term.
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While the threat (expressed as P(harm)*harm) from XYAgency surveillance is low or medium, the unmitigated threat from the things their surveillance practices protect against - namely, terrorism - is also low. The mitigation effect is lower still.

Objectively, even in 2001 terrorism was a negligible risk compared to everyday risks, and subjectively, there hasn't been a major terrorist attack for years. The only reason mass surveillance exists is a rationale by the US state that "more power is good". This may apply to the US army, but not to the spies.

Also, like you say, once the american spies start to (pun intended) "Interfere in american elections", then the problem affects everybody with P=1. Personally I could live with it trump were the only candidate they work against, but if they do it to trump, they likely do it to others. (I see no evidence of interference or other abuse of collected data currently, but I think it's dangerous to give them the power to collect all this info that can in principle be abused for selective prosecution and/or blackmail).

Also, it affects not just politicians, but also corporate execs, who can be further pressured using the other means of the state, and who themselves have power the state can deputize.

A democracy should have the surveillance powers that are proportionate to the benefit from these powers and no more. There is a positive value in minimizing state surveillance power; this concept seems lost on america. (In fairness, it seems lost on conservative parties worldwide.)
> I guess it would be nice to have Wobbly Windows

Wayfire got you covered: https://wayfire.org/
To a lot of people, what happens in a screen is just “stuff”. They can see “stuff” happening when they play videogames too.

Having something touchable that moves according to what you told it to is very captivating for some people.
Ended up with the last few weeks of December off last year and sat down with the mission of getting my Centos 8 box to work with steam. The RX580 worked lovely for VIM, but... went on a grand adventure to get their drivers working. Oh what a pain. Took me, with my limited knowledge most of that time to sort out the potion miscibility roles between steam, centos, and amd.

About January, they released a set of updates where all the planets aligned. Went from a grand adventure to a handful of commands. The rest of this year has continued to be a non-event for updates. I'll be looking at one of the ATI cards as lord knows I've failed to find any 3080s, of any make, in stock since launch.
Nvidia as well made “crypto mining” cards that were just a mainline card without video output. I recall a video by LinusTechTips who attempted to get video output from one of them.

Edit: Here’s the video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TY4s35uULg4
That also puts you in a morass of discussions you don't want to be in. The link between the car and the legend might be problematic because it perpetuates the idea of the "Hollanders" being the only Dutchmen. For the same reason people not from Holland (the region contained by the western most provinces of the country) do not like it when The Netherlands is referred to as Holland in English.

I jest of course. The official English name being "Flying Dutchman" could definitely work, and "Vliegende Nederlander" as the official Dutch name would be funny.
> Global hotkey bindings? Sure, that works on Windows, macOS, and X, but it doesn't on Wayland and its your fault for expecting it.

It's not that. It's that global hotkey bindings are out of scope for a Wayland compositor. But don't worry. An API for such things for the crufty d-bus broker should be dropping aaaaaaany minute now... then all you have to do is wait for your compositor to support it!
We're wayyyy past the point of vaguely political content being allowed.
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That's because JS is not a functional language. You are enforcing a functional style by discipline. Additionally a huge portion of benefits of the functional style are lost on untyped languages. If you're not using typescript you're dealing with a lot of unnecessary bugs.

If you guys moved to a fully functional paradigm where the language enforces the functional style you will see greater benefits.

Unfortunately for the front end the ecosystem for functional languages outside of TS/JS is not that great. But an easy one to try out to actually see the benefits I recommend writing a little app with ELM. With something like ELM, the functional style is enforced by the compiler. You will see that 90% of the bugs you typically deal with in JS/TS will disappear. One type of bug that will disappear is runtime errors. Runtime errors are not possible in ELM.

I find a lot of JS programmers haven't fully grokked the functional style. Example: You'll find JS programmers who talk about how much they like functional programming but don't understand why for loops don't exist in functional programming.
I'm personally concerned because I like to use "niche" tiling WMs (I used Ratpoison then StumpWM for over a decade, then I switched to a rather heavily customized DWM a couple of years ago).

Even with a relatively monolithic and "opinionated" protocol such as X11 it's not uncommon to encounter applications that don't play very nicely with alternative paradigms (because they expect a tray to be available, or to be able to place floating windows anywhere they want for instance). Still, overall with a few hacks here and there it works mostly very well. Basically I know that we're 2nd class citizens within the unix desktop world but at least the X11 model gives us enough of preemption to get things working mostly correctly.

From what I see of Wayland I'm very concerned in the long run. Not being able to just beat a window into submission X-style seems like it would create a world of troubles.

And because tiling environment are fairly niche I don't expect the ecosystem to organically evolve solutions to all of these problems.

And if you think "well just stop using tiling WMs and use whatever else is using you weirdo" please do note that these issues are also often the same that are encountered by people with disabilities who need to rig their UIs in certain ways to make them usable. Also you'll have to pry my tiling WM from my cold dead hands, you heathen.
What if you write a comment about it?
>Either way, I don't see how this is a problem with thr research group.

Which is a valid take, not trying to say that your logic doesn't make sense. It does. But it is literally no difference in terms of what happened during the CA scandal, so all the same rules apply here. If you are ok with this group of researches and think they did nothing wrong, and that FB should have let them have the data, then the CA situation was a perfect happy road scenario for you. Because in that case, CA just got that data, and FB didn't stop them. Win-win, right?

Also, regardless of how valid this take is, FB was ordered by FTC to prevent third party sharing of friend data like that from happening. So FB's hands are kinda tied on this one.
That code from the 1st line was most likely converted from existing graphics code in C

Can you rewrite it in a way that's readable, performant and understandable/maintainable to someone with an understanding of the knowledge domain?

I agree, the code is ugly. I disagree it would be better if converted to some OOP hierarchy, it would be probably less understandable even if the code was tidier

Code like

SnarfleBlaster = new SnarfleBlaster();
SnuggleNerfer = new SnuggleNerfer();
Guffles guffles = SnarfleBlaster->Blast();
SnuggleNerfer->Tumbles(guffles);

Is tidy but absolutely dense
Hand waving the economic viability of self driving cars because of assumed post Covid austerity is just lazy thinking.
Why are there not at-home tests for various vitamin levels? Is that something that would be difficult to do? Seems like it would be a huge benefit for personal health.
It's interesting because this study was done in Spain, which reportedly only has about a 33% Vitamin D deficiency in the general population: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21179052/
SpaceX Starlink Space-Based Broadband Goes Live in Beta
We could have displaced them almost entirely in the 60s and 70s with nuclear, and we can do so today with renewables and nuclear. We haven't yet because it turns out oil and gas are pretty profitable, and climate change became a recognized issue just as the US was moving toward a more laissez-faire style of governance.

We can't currently displace oil usage for certain fuels, but we can start creating it from renewable sources using the carbon-free energy sources to power the process. Basically convert nuclear energy (via uranium or the Sun) into chemical energy.
Not only is a design fee of $949 pretty high, but they're also upcharging significantly for the components they're placing. They charge $20 for an ESP32, for instance; the modules are $2.99 at Digi-Key.
Wasn't aware of this. Thankfully I haven't needed mine for that, just mainly keeping doctors abreast of other treatments and assessments, in summary.
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It's not like the virus has a brain. Statistically most could become less deadly, but it doesn't mean all will follow the same pattern. In this case, the virus becomes less deadly as we know how to treat it better and most infected and tested now are younger people.
That's never ending story.

As soon as you will have better GPU you will have better native native games that use HW at maximum extent. They will work at the magnitude of times better than what WebGL emulation layer will offer you. So hi-end games will always be native.
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How long would formal verification on something this big even take?
getting that sweet sweet seo backlink juice
> Senator Ted Cruz went after Twitter’s Jack Dorsey after the CEO said Twitter has no influence over elections.

Is the answer to Senator Cruz's question (from the headline) "The board of directors of Twitter"?
I don't think this would stop computers solving this at all... It would be trivial to write automation to bypass this, which defeats the point of it being a CAPTCHA
>So if you mention <= 64kb RAM, what kind of displays are you typically dealing with?

Typically displays with integrated SRAM. To give an example, a recent project used a 480x320x16-bit display and an MCU with 64kb SRAM. The display/drawing buffer took 38kb of that (i.e. 1/8 of the display).
Climate scientists fly more often than other researchers
I'm aware, and spent a decade living in that sort of neighborhood where most of the buildings are still original to their 20's construction.

The point is that suburban sprawl was something that was ultimately lead by a small group of people, and was done without a lot of foresight, particularly about induced demand.

Of course many people chose the new suburbs. One of the problems with this style of building is that it is indeed very appealing when it's at it's initial lowest density state. The problem is that as people move into the suburbs and congestion begins to rise, suburban sprawl has no answer. Those wide open freeways that felt so fast and convenient initially become the bane of your commute or even doing simple errands.

Then people get frustrated, and believe the only answer is still that same default idea to return to that initial utopia: just expand the freeways even more! Except as we see today, that simply doesn't work, and the pattern just repeats.

The whole context could have been different, and that would have resulted in very different decision making from consumers, particularly today.

I'll use Portland as another example, as I'm both familiar with it and it's something of an outlier on these issues historically. All the cool neighborhoods that are desirable to live in now are where the old streetcar lines used to run. The entire shape of these neighborhoods is different, with high walkability, because of the remnants of that transit system.

The streetcar system here was deliberately deconstructed here, again, largely due to powerful special interests. The auto and tire industry worked quite hard on promoting buses as the new modern approach, a vision local politicians also helped promote.

Today Portland is reconstructing the street car system, as part of a larger overall transit plan. 100 years later we can see we wished we'd just kept and maintained the original track system, and designed our zoning around it.

That's really the core point I want to make: suburban sprawl is a mirage, that appeals initially. However it fundamentally cannot deal with congestion, which means sprawl only has three possible futures: Door one is continued cycles of expansion and induced demand where congestion just gets worse in the long term. Door two is a mode switch, to provide a meaningful transit option to relieve the pressure of congestion without freeway expansion. Door three is economic collapse, where the whole question is mooted because entire subdivisions become blighted places no one wants to live in.

A large portion of US suburbia is headed for door #3 atm over the next half century. Hopefully we can be smarter than we were half a century ago.
is that it's only a matter of time, before they become "front doors."

Look no further than Plaid banking service. They collect your banking login information. I guarantee there are blanket warrants to monitor accounts from multiple agencies.
No. Spammers will create repos and user profiles and snippets and anything they can with spam in them.
"Ohhh yeahhhhhh"

Help me, this game makes me feel weird inside.
It's not just CUDA vs ROCm, ROCm has come a long way and is pretty compelling right now. What they lack is the proper hardware acceleration (e.g tensor cores).
Man reading this thread confirmed that I probably shouldn't even attempt to use Wayland in the near future, I basically use every single of the features you've listed.

So far I basically kept using X11 because it mostly just works for me, but I didn't expect that Wayland was still so far behind.
Law. https://xkcd.com/1494/
Third Time as LARP
There is no whistle to blow. It is fairly well known that all international calls into or out of each country are monitored by bots using speech recognition by the related agency for each repsective country. This has been the case for a very long time. Before bots, there were listening stations with thousands of people monitoring calls. There would be nothing for Snowden to leak in that regard. The only place this has been taboo is when the NSA is doing it within the country. They too use bots, as there is no way you could hire enough people to listen to the calls. Only flagged calls are listened to by people.
To power A.I., startup creates a giant computer chip (2019)
that's the idea behind assert in C/C++.
Build A Lighthouse: A pure CSS game
There are thousands of mutations which have been observed. Some are consequential - changing the virus' behaviour - others are not. What constitutes a "strain" is fuzzy, since viruses are constantly evolving and it's an artificial category or human construct. To get away from that, it's often helpful to think in terms of phylogeny or genetic relationships.

You can see a phylogenetic tree of the clades (essentially a "family tree" determined through mutations of the virus) & a map showing the distribution of the different clades of the virus worldwide on GSAID platform:

https://www.gisaid.org/epiflu-applications/phylodynamics/
> Meanwhile, what happens to the average person who is purged from the voter rolls?

The average person purged from the voter rolls incorrectly is purged my a mass, government-contracted-out process that, presuming the error was discovered in time, requires a lawsuit to fix.
You kinda just need to use new stuff when it's all so heavily dependent on an X server.

* swaymsg (no idea what Gnome or KDE do here)
* wl-clipboad
* wofi, or a Wayland fork of rofi (https://github.com/lbonn/rofi)
* I don't use a clipboard manager, so I'm gonna skip this one. :D
* slurp, grim, wf-recorder, mpv (OBS and ffmpeg work fine, not sure about the others)

I think I was lucky to get back into Linux this year because I didn't have to unlearn anything to use Wayland. You mention a dozen tools I've never heard of! If I had some X flow I'd been using for years with 10s of tools that no longer work on the other side, that would be overwhelming.
Calling this a "culture differences" is quite the understatement, unless you include politics, access to healthcare and other things under "culture". I do agree that there is definitly a cultural component to this too however.
For sure, Github should be lauded for its policy towards China, they have absolutely done the right thing here. Even so, there's no guarantee that that would last forever, so it makes sense for a company like Wikimedia to host this themselves.
Damn I never thought of doing it this way, how logical..
No? How would changing someone’s address on file lead directly to voter fraud?
I was able to mute it, there are controls hidden at the bottom.
Migrating interactive analytics apps from Redshift to Postgres, ft. Citus
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2020/10/27/202...
If this particular kind of fraud was common, it would be blindingly obvious. So, no, I don't think this raises that question at all.
:D Thanks Billy!!
I'm glad you liked the video.

Yes, it's from January and it was based on our prototype.

Now we re-built it from scratch and invited first 100+ users who are currently using Anytype and giving us a lot of feedback.

We are inviting alpha testers regularly from our community channel on telegram.

As a lot of things change (we re-wrote Anytype from scratch just recently), we want to open source with open beta.

Yes, I think it was a mistake to have Show in the submission
This ship has sailed for better or worse. The people who take these decisions don't hang out in forums to listen to every complaint and gripe. They work for the main corporations and foundations steering Linux development and they have decided that Wayland is the future, even if the transition is going to be ugly. Linux is no longer the "community" OS that it once was. In a way it has gone more mainstream than even MacOS or Windows, and that means it will cater to the larger market forces than the "community's" wants.
I love it - can you add rotation so you can scramble the pieces when you start to make it more challenging?
ML on AMD is currently impractical, the mainstream tools have hard deps on CUDA and the AMD projects are so far half-baked.
I imagine this means the Christmas special won't air this year, either...
I think "Too much software" comes from product and engineers not being willing to say 'no' to feature requests and product bloat, rather than any sort of strictly technical thing.

If your product or tool lacks a clear focus and goal, then the code base will reflect that, and will grow and sprawl endlessly.
Not quite. The X server ran on the client only. The "mainframe" (usually a Unix server) had client programs that would connect to your X server, send it display commands, and receive pointer and keyboard events. The client-server relationship was reversed from the usual way, because the server was sitting in front of the user. The end-user computer was providing a service -- access to the user -- to the big machine in the server room.
Yeah, as someone who works in 3D graphics, I was really hoping against hope that RDNA 2 would include better RT support, but alas, guess I'll keep waiting to try and get an elusive 3080.
You could argue Davis Square or Union Square I suppose. Bit, no, there's really no urban core the way Boston has one. I'd note that, in spite of that, Somerville is the 16th densest city in the US (with the caveat that comparing city densities involves somewhat arbitrary political boundaries). Cambridge is pretty much in the same boat and is at #26.