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Torpedoes and missiles kill in a fundamentally different way.

Missiles impact the target (or in very close proximity) and explode producing concussive damage - very effective against anything sensitive to pressure like personnel. However an appropriately armored target can be made to survive these explosions. Hundreds of kilograms of explosive can do quite a bit of damage, but ships weighing hundreds of millions of kilograms can be made to tank such hits.

Modern torpedoes explode below a ship. This explosion creates a void of high pressure, low density steam in the surrounding much denser water. As this bubble rises due to bouyancy, the pressure difference causes it to expand. Eventually momentum causes it to over-expand, and the void collapses, creating an extremely high pressure region in the center, which re-expands. This keeps happening as the void keeps rising. If detonated at the appropriate depth, by the time it reaches the surface the bubble has expanded into a massive void comparable to the size of the ship. When it breaks the surface, the steam pressurizing it internally is released, and the void collapses rapidly. With the water underneath it's center suddenly gone, the ship's weight is now only supported on its ends, and it bends like an overloaded beam. Within fractions of a second, the water that rushed to the center of the void reaching extremely high pressures now takes the path of least resistance to rebound, which happens to take it straight through the most stressed part of the ship. This geyser acts like a waterjet, cutting right through the ship. On top of all this, for a well designed torpedo, those fluctuations of the bubble on its way up weren't random: the frequency of its cycles is close to the resonance frequency of its hull. Much like how a wine glass can be shattered by an opera singer hitting the right note, the ship is especially susceptible to energy delivered at its resonance frequency. The largest supercarriers may be too big to be sunk by a single conventional torpedo, but anything smaller will sink within minutes of a successful hit.

Now to achieve these results, torpedoes are far more expensive than comparably sized missiles, and of course they have much shorter range and speed. Missiles are more versatile and for many purposes totally sufficient. But if you suspect a hostile navy is sailing towards your shores, a few torpedo boats in strategic chokepoints that can each take out any vessel in one hit might be game changing.
While I agree that object tracking is relatively cheap to implement in a newborn colony, I can't agree with defending it being trivial. Every bombing will destroy precious and rare resources, and even if you seek shelter underground, Earth could just send a stream of cheap kinetic missiles and carpet-bomb for months.

Your only hope would be that Earth wanted to take over your settlement. The military would need to land, and at least you could die mounting some kind of pathetic resistance... or blow it all.
I don't agree. If this detestable practice causes a lot of people go buy Brother printers, then HP will make less money, not more. It seems like your whole argument rests on this flawed notion that licensing practices are always more profitable, but it just isn't true. They might be unit profitable, but it doesn't help if you move much fewer units.
You are hiring them wrong.

If they can't code or aren't from a top N business school, they have no place managing engineers.
I am sorry for your loss
Who would've thought that high-end chip manufacturing could be a (n enormous) bargaining chip.
Perhaps in Canada, but James McLean may feel differently about the poppy being political. https://deadspin.com/james-mccleans-refusal-to-wear-the-popp...
The old school roguelike community has been arguing about this definition tediously for ages. It's probably time to accept that "Roguelike" has come to mean little more than procedural generation and permadeath [1] and settle for a different term like Procedural Death Labyrinth [2] to describe games closer to the Berlin definition.

1. https://www.goldenkronehotel.com/wp/2020/01/15/the-roguelike...

2. https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/LarsDoucet/20131203/206159/O...
You joke, but after hearing that some countries will be exterminating millions of minks, and being an avid fan of ferrets... I am really glad a preventative method for ferrets now exists, irrespective of also hoping it informs help for humans as well!
And as far as (total) successful/operational missions go, I wouldn't call the USA as being ahead by that much anyways:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon
There is some limited use of poppies in America, but I expect most Americans are unfamiliar with it. It's primarily a Commonwealth thing.
As for our opinion (which is just that, an opinion) why we think that the statistical foundations and knowledge about more traditional algorithms is important, it's based on the business needs and our experience. While it might seem less necessary if the goal is to "learn deep learning", it is highly relevant if your task is to "solve this business problem".

Our perspective is the industrial one. And while there are certainly many complex business problems where deep learning is required, there are more cases where a traditional approach is sufficient and actually the better solution (e.g. due to the memory footprint, latency or other reasons). We routinely work on both kinds of problems on a day to day basis, but we would never go straight to deep learning approaches if simpler and faster traditional methods comprise a better solution in a given use case. So, our employees are expected to know both and to be able to judge when to apply which approach.
Robocode: A Java Programming game (2001)
> There is absolutely zero cost in not persecuting anyone for having a different opinion

Of course there is. If anti-vax and anti-mask advocates could be silenced by the state, public health would improve in the short term.

Freedom of speech is effortful to maintain. It takes effort and self control for a society to tolerate opposing views within itself. Forgetting this risks the freedom itself.
Felt like it worked because it was Barney, a character known to hallucinate, that witnessed it. Also it gives the earlier joke about Nemoy claiming credit while doing nothing a bit of extra zing.
That doesn't stop people making their own, or wearing an old one.
The author is writing about this because nobody outside the old school roguelike community uses the terms consistently.
Okay, now I understand, but grandparent was talking about who was in the lead, not who was first. You generally can’t stake claims retroactively, so USSR could have made a claim, but failed to. On the other hand, it’s tough to distinguish regions of space, so I’m not sure it could stick.
Make it a part of their bonus structure. Why should I spend time to save the business money if I get paid the same? My incentive is to hit my KPIs to get my bonus and keep my team happy - pinching pennies rarely aligns with either.
A blast from the past.

I'm posting this to Hacker News because this is one of the foundational "games" that taught me programming. My personal journey as a programmer started before Robocode (with TI-83 Basic -> TI-83 Assembly), but it was Robocode that truly "sparked" my interest in the field.

Back in the day, there were competitions and discussions about strategy. Mods to the base game and more. I don't know how much the community is active... but I honestly never got "competitive" at the game.

Nonetheless, beating the demo-bots that came packaged with the game ("Wall Bot" or "Circle Bot"... and of course "SittingDuck") was fun enough to get me into programming. Hopefully this game can continue to inspire a new generation of programmers, even if things have changed in the past 19 years.
I'm not so sure if it's 'lack of understanding' of some other tech.

And it's not 'debt' or rather, only debt in a certain context.

It's highly rational to expend minimal energy trying a new feature, because time to market is key, and so is the fact that there's a good chance nobody will want it.

'Debt' is only ostensibly incurred once the feature actually works, thus there's real material value to be gained whereupon the ostensible refactor becomes impending, and therefore seen as 'debt'.

The 'debt' didn't materialize in a bunch of other things because they were dumped.

I also don't think anyone has too much trouble with understanding this, the operational issue is that 'technical debt' will always be put alongside 'shiny new feature' in terms of priority, in which case it becomes much less amenable for investment.

To put another way, and this hurts all of us Engineers at a deep level: The most efficient perpetual state of code may be messy, unfinished and have bugs outstanding.

Just let that one sink in: in a situation of ongoing feature development which yields benefits to userland, the optimal level of 'completeness' of most code is literally 'never really complete'. Bugs and ugly architecture likely represent a more efficient operating state when we consider value creation as the real goal.

The more 'core' and longstanding a bit of code is, probably it makes more sense to go after the technical debt because the yields of the effort are pervasive. But for many other things, nope.

If you're building a home to last 500 years (ie Europe) you want a solid foundation, if you're building it only to last maybe 50 years before they tear down and put up something new, then some things are less important.
The Royal Canadian Legion trademarks the poppy symbol in Canada and uses it for its own fundraising.

You can't therefore buy remembrance poppies from anywhere - they pursue people who sell them and describe them as 'fraudulent', e.g. https://inews.co.uk/news/consumer/remembrance-day-2020-fake-...
Small nit, verification is only meant to prove control over the domain, not ownership.
Depends on the state law. CA is generally an at will employment state. AFAIK, you are not eligible for unemployment if you resign in CA. If the severance being offered is more than you could make from unemployment benefits then you should get the severance check first and then resign. Otherwise don’t feel any obligation to resign.

I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. Please consult an employment lawyer if you feel that you really need definitive answers.
I sort of appreciate the idea of consoles as a way of tailoring a neat experience and a neat ecosystem for users. Taking advantage of the locked down hardware though in order to squeeze users is really gross and part of why I went with pc gaming for the last 15ish years
Are they willing to put their request in written form?
> Landing a booster was already a solved problem

It was solved on paper. SpaceX did it.

Note, too, that nobody else was thinking about solving this problem in 2001. Or 2011. Space had become a jobs program per ArianeSpace and ULA.
Gimp is a volunteer-run open source project. You ready to get cracking on that patch?
Whatever mental gymnastic you used here to justify the existence of this service, please reconsider.

Profiteering on free labor is wrong. Internships should be paid, freelance work should be paid. Labor should be paid.

Stop, take a hard look into the mirror and maybe pivot into a platform that respects the people and their work.
Can't believe this didn't get mentioned in the article.
Lucifero: seems a little too on the nose for an attorney's surname. :)
As new games appear the lines will continue to get a bit blurry. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and Hades are both roguelike by my estimation, but runs affect future runs in both games.
I have affection to many games in this article. While I never did know (or I guess care) idea that roguelikes were meant to be free. I think that is the reason I ended up at least trying many roguelikes you've mentioned.

ADOM was a game I grew up playing with my best friend. There were so many mysteries that we were trying to solve playing game after game. (That mystery kind of evaporated after we found out wiki pages on the Internet)

IVAN and ToME were interesting at the time but didn't play them that much, maybe few dozen games each. IVAN with it's all graphics felt really bloody and brutal. I'm kind of bummed about how ToME was changed during the years, while I do understand the reasons. It's kind of foolish to build/sell game on IP you don't own.

I found Caves of Qud looking and feeling like roguelike I used to like, but I guess I've changed.

One "roguelike" I found very interesting during past years is "Invisible, Inc.". It has that buildup of excitement and surprise I had with older roguelikes, mixed up with some XCOM like action. Surely it's not free and as many others it also has this meta progression.
> However, I do not believe that this is the primary barrier to entry, but rather the fact that practicing the philosophy is hard, slow work. Just as effective CBT asks a lot of the patient, Stoicism is not a quick fix.

For me the primary barrier is that I don't see how they actually apply to me. Their explanations start from places that I don't recognize, let alone know how to reach. As far as I can tell, they simply don't talk about the sorts of experiences that I regularly struggle with (basically a bunch of stuff that sort of looks like a cross between a neurodevelopmental condition and a depressive disorder, but without any specific diagnosis or treatment really sticking).

Have you ever run into a problem with some software and gone to its tech support site, only to find that the knowledge base is just a bunch of descriptions of how the software is supposed to work, written for people who are using the software wrong? Click the X button, it says, and then when Y happens you can do Z. But you went looking for support because the X button was disabled, so you couldn't really click it in the first place. To me, CBT and Stoic explanations of the human experience hit a lot like that.
NYT has a map showing the states as squares with roughly the same concept.

Generally speaking, hex maps work a lot less well for the US because you have to pick between either extremely heavy distortion (to the point of meaningless abstraction), or a massive gap in the Plains and Rockies. https://simonrogers.net/2016/09/22/tilegrams-make-your-own-c...

The UK's population density is not quite so comically varied; a hex map of the UK still kind of resembles the UK.
The design constraints of a phone are much different from a desktop computer or a laptop. A good phone is not a good laptop and the corpses along the way more or less prove that.

A phone will run a benchmark faster than a laptop for a couple minutes. Keep it under pressure for an hour - say, render a 4K video with a couple layers - it'll have nowhere to dump the excess heat.

There is one way to really pull it off, however - when plugged, the phone hands over processing and RAM to the docking station (maybe via an image transfer from one hypervisor to the other), but there is very little to be gained here - coordination between the two, the way Apple already does it between macOS and iPhone, is a great experience. If the hypervisors keep the memory image in sync, say, every second copying dirty state to the phone, you can even unplug it without risking much.
I wonder if this was borne out of the success of NumPyro. Been playing around with, pystan and NumPyro recently. Mostly because pymc3 is going the way of the dodo.

NumPyro / JAX / PyTorch just seems like the most versatile offering out there right now

JAX
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It's an authentic screenshot of a real and massive error in a very important process. So people were asking about it - where's the problem? 140K erroneous votes for the other site would have caused a meltdown on Twitter.

Calling this misleading is misleading.
It's not just Canadian. I've seen and worn poppies in the US. But I don't think it's as well known or as big of a deal.
I've asked for written details. Not resigning unless I get a written severance offer.
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> Because you can’t just go to the store and buy it like you can MJ? We are already seeing an uptick in addictions from MJ, which is much less addicting than cocaine.

Responding to a request for source without a source is great.

> So, can you point to something showing how decriminalization doesn’t increase the availability

Ignoring a request for source and then asking for source.

> Also have you ever been an addict? Are you talking out of experience? If not, then kindly sit down and shut up.

This is a garbage response and shouldn't be welcome on this site.

edit Your response is also junk because decriminalization is not the same as legalization, and decriminalization is not the same as allowing dispensaries (medical or otherwise). So your point just kind doesn't make sense with the subject matter and scenario we're talking about.
Still better if they end up with $Y - $X not the full $Y.
Perfect timing! I just got a new machine with a Quadro RTX4000 card, and I've been looking for example code to see what it can do.

It still blows my mind that Mandelbrot fractals (and now ray tracing) that would take 10s of minutes to render at 640x480 on my first computer, now render at 60fps on a 4k display with real-time panning/zooming.
> runs affect future runs

That is more or less a rogue-lite in my opinion. Games like The Binding of Isaac, FTL, Rogue Legacy, Crypt of the NecroDancer etc. It's a fuzzy definition, though.
> China does not have a long established financial industry like developed countries

You can make a shady case for modern western idea of finance but China has had a strong finacial industry for centuries.
> How is it political - what party do you think it supports?

Partisan != political. (Though everything is in my opinion political.)
Yes on both counts. I was contacted a couple years back about a machine learning contracting gig. When I asked what the hourly rate was the recruiter said $45/hour. I laughed and said that the going rate for that kind of skill set is like $120+/hour. That has not been an isolated incident.
I big rock tossed at earth could do way more damage than a bunch of nukes. Like I said, it's MAD in space.
I'm kind of impressed at the effort to be so prescriptive of the name of a type of video game.
Software engineering is different from many other fields. You're evolving a product over a long period of time, each step has uncertainty and requires creativity and exploration, and you can change not just you process but the materials and tools you work with.

It's tempting to find a simple metaphor to try and explain why technical debt matters, but if you ignore the things that make software engineering unique then you're probably not helping your case. Also, equating yourself to fast food workers is not a good way earn respect.
Input something like 10 bucks at goodwill for my canon laser printer and it works great, even if it’s a bit old and driver support is poor on modern systems.

I refuse to pay full price for a printer again. There’s just too many perfectly fine printers at thrift stores.
I have been playing NetHack[1] on and off for three decades now. It is a self-described rogue-like and no one owns or controls that moniker. It is still open source and being actively developed[2]. The current TNNT[3] competition is active this month as well. Now I must go and look after my unfortunate Cavewoman who had a bad encounter with a Master Lich recently...

[1]: https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page

[2]: https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/tree/NetHack-3.7

[3]: https://www.hardfought.org/tnnt/
IIRC, the optimization benchmarks Canonical did have indicated that JS hasn't been the issue in most of the Gnome performance issues they've worked on.
I wish Whole Foods would respect American culture too and reverse their ban on firearm carry.
Your books and copy look great! Why don't you prices a bit?
That analogy doesn't map by my logic. It would be more like putting up a plaque that says, "I'm proud of my brother for engaging in risk taking behavior until it caused him to crash his car and die."

Also, victims of car crashes aren't generally used in national pageantry aimed at causing more car crashes.
Your call really, if they have told you up front you don't have a position moving forward, negotiate a good severance and move on voluntarily IMO. It will be better for you in the long run. Being fired doesn't have major negative connotations like prior generations dealt with, but it also doesn't come with great benefits. Also unemployment can be more difficult if you don't have 12 months or prior employment in the state (across all employers). Check out the state rules if you are seriously thinking of going the "fired" route and understand the benefits. You most likely will get a tiny percentage of your annual salary and it won't be worth it.

One point, they are being douche bags in this scenario if the only fact is a company asking for a degree and dropping you because of it. When I had my consultancy we would occasionally have clients make a stupid demand about degrees and we always found ways around it. Many times it is a company "vendor manager" going down a checklist and once you challenge it they just skip it. We even had some government work that dropped it once we challenged it (mostly), in one case they just said we needed people in certain rolls to prove education which those made sense for what they were doing, but none were software/data people. I guess my point saying all that is to say make sure you are seeing/hearing the true facts and not just taking someone's excuse, cause if you need to improve in some way that is important to know.

Good Luck!

*edit - removed a word
I imagine USA would try to appoint a banana president on Mars. Everything goes fine for decades, until the colony is prosperous and self-sufficient, at which point it thanks Earth and declares independence. Earth would of course refuse, but in the following days every banana officer would perish in freak but plausible space accidents. Interplanetary War I starts. Ancient Mars aliens wake up and destroy humanity.

I've probably read too much sci fi.
>> $120+/hour

Even this would be a substantial discount for most qualified people.
That's not the impression I get from the Canadian Remembrance day posts I see on Facebook ever year.

Without fail, all of them describe WWI as a stalwart selfless sacrifice for freedom and the motherland. Then I ask 'exactly what freedoms were at risk', and the authors of those posts start hemming and hawing and tut-tutting.

I wouldn't go as far as to claim that wearing a poppy is a statement for any of the possible interpretations of Remembrance day in particular, though.
BBC is anti-trump, so take that into account when read articles.
What arbitrary threshold of popularity must an opinion pass before it is allowed to be criticized?
This is also true in Nethack. Possessions lost in previous runs may be found again in later runs in bones levels.
Good luck enforcing Earth laws on Mars.
Or what? A special SJW forces squad will be sent to harass developers team and do some hostile takeover of project because some group wrongly believes they're morally allowed to do so?

I knew at least one lunatic person will bring this "problematic" issue of Gimp name that nobody else gives flying fckgw about.
Hmm, rhymes don't really do it for me. I might even filter out rhymes if I built this. I've heard humans use this format often enough, and I don't think I've ever heard someone use a rhyme. It's just too easy. Putting "the cologne in colonialism" is significantly better.
But to have the whole modern web work you'll need to install more than one root.
There's no metaprogression (runs affecting future runs) in DCSS. You must be confusing it with a different game. It's a classical "Berlin Interpretation" roguelike in every regard.
It can be a mutually beneficial arrangement, perhaps letting TSMC US produce some defence-relevant silicon and providing a safe haven and nest-egg for Taiwans elites in case of invasion/unification.