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I'm a HUGE fan of Gibson's books, but let's be honest: he's 72 years old, and might not be the best judge of modern video games. He was also involved in (and wrote the screenplay for) the Johnny Mnemonic movie, which was one of the blandest attempts at mainstreaming cyberpunk ever.

The Japanese stereotypes and Haitian gangs are lifted straight off the pages of Neuromancer and Count Zero. I dig the retrofuturist 80s vibe, but then I love retrofuturism in general so that's not surprising.

In the end, CP2077 is a AAA video game. It has to appeal to the general population, so yeah, it's probably not going to be the most experimental take on the genre. As mainstream cyberpunk attempts go, can we at least agree it's heads-and-shoulders better than Netflix's Altered Carbon? :)
Some ISPs started integrating pi-hole functionality into their ISP routers, and that actually went to court.

On Android, some of the most popular apps are fake-VPNs which just register your own device as VPN with itself so they can filter ads.

This isn't about the pi-hole, this is about ad blocking becoming "too easy". You can always block DoH. But no ISP can include such a blocker by default easily anymore.
I feel a duty to point out the white washing. Nathan made his money on the basis of patent trolling, his firm being the world's largest patent troll.

Journalists never mention the "where does this persom get the money to spend their time on complex cooking books and unique camera rigs". The answer being "he is a billionaire by taxing every one just a little bit". Like a new age king he spends his tax revenue on vanity projects.

Sure none of us pay him much. At most a couple pennies every device. But if you ever wonder why the patent system is so broken: remember his face.
It's not even where you live but where you are located.

An American tourist in Paris is protected by the GDPR.
Ublock Origin seems to be working for me. I don't use YouTube that often, but I've never seen an add that I can remember.

Edit: I guess maybe you're just talking about on a smart TV.
For a 1% return? Hardly worth it.

As for the app, I don't want my phone polluted with even more crap. If I had a corporate loyalty app for every shop I wanted to go in, I'd have a hundred apps, a hundred data collection problems and a flat battery. Instead I have one called Apple Pay which works everywhere..
> Would it be better if we talk about...

Yes! Talk about the things that actually have anything to do with privacy, security, experience...

- Leanplum seems to be there for A/B testing and doesn't have access to anything sensitive.

- Firebase is partially unavoidable (GCM) and as far as I can tell, the only usage of it that impacts privacy is in Rocket (FF Lite) which barely exists anymore.

- Google Safe Browsing seems to be designed in a way that makes it nearly impossible to violate privacy, even if you wanted to. On top of that, FF takes extra measures to protect privacy "just in case".

So where's the problem? Yeah, Mozilla has done some dumb shit (like auto-installing some weird extensions and basically anything upper management does) in the last few years, and they aren't the Stallman* utopia some people want them to be, but they never really claimed to be. Just like DDG, they give you the best privacy level they can while staying sustainable enough to survive.
Citation for red hat’s commitment to support Centos 8 until 2029 please? One that is from Red Hat not a CentOS community member, please.
Where is this commitment written?
The Tech Revolution in the Beauty Industry
Simone de Beauvoir's 'remarkable' letters to Violette Leduc sold at auction
The paper itself: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0607

The BBC have a short video with the authors: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-australia-55312356
Although if your computer is slow compared to the size of the list this will not work due to race conditions. Still cleaver.
> They could just as well deploy their own custom name resolvers and talk to them via IP from applications like YouTube for Android.

The Chromecast has 8.8.8.8 hardcoded, but recently an ISP started integrating ad-blocking via DNS filtering (with 8.8.8.8 MitM) in their ISP routers. That case actually went to court.

It'll always be possible to do the filtering as prosumer, but the current state of the art of "it just works" ad blockers is something Google is fighting against (also see Manifest v3)
I thought this was going to be about people remote working during the pandemic not getting enough exercise and eating candy.

According to a cross-sectional web-based survey taken on 995 people between August 15 and August 30, 2020 across various cities, towns and villages in India:

"Almost nine months of the pandemic marginally improved people’s eating behaviour, yet a third of participants gained weight as physical activity declined while screen and sitting time increased, a study conducted by AIIMS researchers to evaluate Covid’s impact on lifestyle changes has found. Mental health was also adversely affected and quarantine-induced stress and anxiety showed an increase by a unit in nearly one-fourth of the participants."[1]

Even pets are getting fatter, according to a Kelton Global survey of 1,021 U.S. dog and cat owners and 257 veterinarians between November 23 and November 30, 2020. 33% of those with an overweight pet said their pet became overweight during the pandemic.[2]

[1]: https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/aiims-study-f...

[2]: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-study-reveals-c...
"I wasn't born. I just ... slowly coalesced over a year or so, just like celestial bodies do."
Incredible photos, makes me even more homesick. A few hours now, and I will be taking the train back home for Christmas. Can't wait to see the mountains and the snow!

His surname sounds very Norwegian, btw.
This is the first game in which I rather drive a first person view motorcycle than a third person view car. I don't know why they spent so much time recording real motor sounds if your vehicle is unmanageable at mid speed.
Your bad decision to base your business on something of value that is being given for free is no one else’s problem than your own.
"It is illegal to market to kids,[...]"

I only know the UK law (a little), but from Consumer Protection Regulations 2008 it's often technically illegal to directly market to children. No idea whether it's really been applied, but there is also a bunch of regulation and industry guidelines that limits marketing in practice.

This was an implementation of an EU directive concerning unfair practices, so presumably similar laws apply in other European countries.

(Inevitably this is a bit slippery, but as I understand it there are a number of very common marketing tactics that are specifically outlawed. Some countries like Sweden have just banned advertising aimed at children)
Slowing the spread is all about doing as much as possible to contain the virus.

A one-way filter does not stop the spread from both sides as well as a two-way filter.

Then again - as long as you're wearing any kind of mask, you're making a difference.

Wear a good one that protects you and others if you want this BS to be over sooner.

Wear none if you want to be that guy in every zombie movie that doesn't take the first infected seriously and dooms the planet.
I'll bite :)

let's say your mask protects you from N% of the droplets you inhale.

and let's say MY mask protects you from N% of the droplets I exhale.

Now, are you more protected if:
a. Only I wear a mask.
b. Only you wear a mask.
c. We both wear a mask.
How fast is this cable compared to microwave transmission?
This is creating many universes though.
Maybe worth nothing that these days Paul Graham recommends Clojure: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1240218967865778177
Here are my recommendations on this topic:

- Choose Common Lisp because it has been the most popular dialect of Lisp in the overall history of Lisp. It is more convenient than Scheme if one decides to develop serious software in Lisp. Clojure appears to be more popular in the technology industry than Common Lisp among organizations (my workplace included) that use Lisp. I still recommend Common Lisp because I believe that it is more likely that one would work on an independent open source or hobby Lisp project than one would encounter one of the rare organizations who use Clojure at work.

- Choose SBCL (Steel Bank Common Lisp) as the implementation.[1][2] It is the most popular[3] Common Lisp implementation and is recommended in many online discussions. CCL (Clozure CL, not to be confused with Clojure which is a separate dialect) is also another very good implementation.

- Work through this book: Practical Common Lisp: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ (available in print too if you search online). Just use a modern alternative to Lisp in a box when you reach Chapter 2. In fact, I encourage using vanilla Emacs and setting it up with SLIME and Paredit yourself. See Emacs4CL for example.[4]

- A Vim user may consider installing Slimv or Vlime[5]. Slimv and Vlime offer an environment similar to Emacs/SLIME. They display the REPL in a Vim buffer. Slimv also comes with Paredit mode that makes typing and executing S-expressions quite convenient.

- In case you want to postpone setting up Emacs + SLIME or Vim + Slimv/Vlime until a time you have become more familiar with the language, you can also execute your Lisp source code files from the shell.[6]

- Optionally, keep another implementation of Common Lisp. Common Lisp is a standard that is implemented by various implementations. Each implementation may have its own extensions or implementation-specific behaviour regarding error handling, command line options, FASL format, unspecified behaviour, etc. Experimenting with concepts with another implementation of Lisp occasionally may offer some perspective about how some things could be different in different implementations. I keep CLISP around for this purpose.[7][8]

[1]: Install SBCL on macOS: brew install sbcl

[2]: Install SBCL on Debian-based distro: apt-get install sbcl

[3]: State of Common Lisp Survey 2020: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfg7UJRKrkI3OjOHWL4...

[4]: Emacs4CL: https://github.com/susam/emacs4cl

[5]: Lisp in Vim with Slimv or Vlime: https://susam.in/blog/lisp-in-vim-with-slimv-or-vlime/

[6]: Load (execute) code in a file and exit: sbcl --script foo.lisp

[7]: Install CLISP on macOS: brew install clisp

[8]: Install CLISP on Debian-based distro: apt-get install clisp

Disclosure: I am the author of [4] and [5].
I would rather have standard browser or web server attributes to opt out of analytics (google and others) and other annoying crap.

That would have been much more efficient than those GDPR banners and dialogs, but will never happen since it will be "too easy" to opt out just like the http "do not track" extension failed for being too powerful.
Question that perhaps someone can answer:

Can the company simply cut you off then?

You have no _right_ to the service, so if you choose not to agree, they can't force you to agree, but are they required to continue offering you the service?
For starters you'd need to have imperative control structures like `while`, `continue`, `break` and a `return` that basically returns from anywhere. That can probably be built with macros.

Then you would need to have ways to mutate variables, so you'd need to stop using Clojure's persistent collections and instead use the ones provided by the JVM.

Overall, you can do it if you want to, it is just somewhat painful to do so and the language will fight you. This is like my who tried to write functional Python which is possible but then it is just a much worse Clojure.
Apparently their ads work so well that they're running this in the newspaper.
The protocol is available as a PDF linked at the bottom of the clinical trial's published article webpage on NEJM. The exclusion criteria in the protocol include "History of severe adverse reaction associated with a vaccine and/or severe allergic reaction (eg, anaphylaxis) to any component of the study intervention(s)."
Boo fucking hoo. There's a lot that I don't like about Apple. But I'm with them here. Anything that fucks with FB's terrible privacy invading business model is a-okay by me.
> "While we've seen influence operations target the same regions in the past, this was the first time our team found two campaigns — from France and Russia — actively engage with one another, including by befriending, commenting and criticizing the opposing side for being fake,"

This version of cyberwar is rubbish.

But yes, it's good that Facebook is also willing to call out Western governments for their covert influence operations, even if that accelerates the hammer being brought down on it. There is no good reason for French military units to be interfering in former colonies in North Africa; let it go.
There's a hidden assumption in your statement.

AIUI, you think that HFT has driven various numbers far down, the rest of us benefit from them being driven down, but don't benefit significantly from them being driven as far down as HFT actually has done. Right? I can agree with that.

The hidden assumption is that if HFT hadn't done that, then something else would have come along to drive those numbers down, but not as far. If so, then the benefit to the rest of us would have been much the same as it actually is.

You may be right, but I don't see what that "something else" could be. It would have to be something where some actor benefits from quick reaction and low spread, right? AFAICT, that must be either HFT or something indistinguishable from HFT. Something with the same traits, blamed by the same people for the same reasons.
Getting started with C
> Humans are part of nature and the way we change the climate is also nature so we will always figure out a way to live with the new earth we have.

So we are just relocating 100s of million people and abandon all cities in the coastlines?
How does the cost of this compare to the cost of trying to solve climate change?
Uninstalling Java on macOS
Extracting sensitive information out of GPT2
Non-paywall link: https://archive.is/VvOTH
The Great Depression lead to the rules that made the US prosper in the decades after. The Great Depression is the start of a long increase.
I just got surgery in California and noticed I was asked to state my name and birthday anytime I moved rooms or saw a new person. Seems like this is now part of protocol in a lot of places.
Subscribe to high impact factor journals in various fields (Nature, Nature Reviews ____, Journal of Finance, etc) and try to understand everything you can.
foo@2001::01 is a valid email address, no? So is using the alternative dotless representation of the IPv4 addresses.
Should the US compensate China so they don't exterminate the Uigurs, they got to cleanse a whole continent of indigenous people.
Actually that's exactly what they and Dunnhumby do.
F*CK FACEBOOK.
I’d start with Clojure if I were you. Then the leap to a more traditional lisp will be much easier.

That being said you might have no desire to leap at all - Clojure is a powerful language with a great ecosystem (especially if you rope in Java interop)
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My coworker said that he basically started from this article[0] and then adapted a few things to his workflow. He also said that learnopencv "covers like 70% of what you really have to do and you have to figure the rest out, not hard but may take you some time".

[0] https://www.learnopencv.com/pytorch-to-tensorflow-model-conv...
This feature and fb's hate for it makes me seriously consider moving back to. iOS.
ublock origin can do url based filtering, which can't be done via something like pihole where it's only at the dns level.
> you're calling something "psychotic" that many on this forum aspire to or at least respect.

Both can be true. You've no doubt seen the CEO/psychopath studies.
https://wiki.c2.com/?ClosuresAndObjectsAreEquivalent
This is a weird rant
You could do it for a TLD without a subdomain. The TLD "tt" does in fact have MX records. But it's a very rare case that a TLD does, and prohibited for any of the new TLDs.

For non-FQDN hostnames, it's kinda pointless, as you can only use that on your own domain. So if you were to do that, just make up your own pseudo-TLD like ".x" with an alternate DNS system. You could even have it point to the regular DNS system through CNAMEs.
Nobody's making any points about developers

My gut instinct is that this is incorrect, too, but I don't know enough about surgery to make a compelling argument.

I'd back myself to pick up Ruby (a language I've never touched before) and be productive, more than I'd trust a surgeon who only has experience with heart surgery to operate on my brain. Maybe that's ignorant of me.
Which is kind of a shame - most of what I do on my corporate 8-core MBP could be comfortably done on a much lighter specced machine.

The only time I see the fans spinning up is when running Zoom. And updating IntelliJ.
No way, Waitrose is incredibly expensive everywhere I lived compared to Tesco, Sainsbury's, and Asda. Up there with M&S. But I guess it also depends on your typical basket...
Where are the actual high-resolution images? These are 720x540.
Facebook attacks Apple in full-page newspaper ads over ad-tracking
True. I think the issue is that for a platform like this to survive it will need community developers. Idk how much purism software they use or what they lend from pureOS but Pine64 has distros and projects like kde throwing themselves behind the idea with their mobile variants and probably contributing upstream. They also all help advertise. This is great especially when in the early stages it generally isn't purchased to replace a main phone.

Pinephone's pricepoint allows for people to get it on the side to tinker with, develop for it, etc and people that get it at that price don't really care too much bout the occasional bit of lag or glitch.

Additionally something like a better camera on the librem to account for the price doesn't appeal to a lot of people if they have to wait for drivers for it.

I also think pine64 has more people working remotely from all over the place and is registered in hong kong or malaysia since recently whilst purism with lots of remote stuff going on also has staff in san francisco and pays more taxes there? Correct me if i'm wrong tho.
So basically ublock is a better option?
"If an organization doesn't praise the rockstar mentality, they are lying".

The only that's said that is you.
This is quite interesting, although I'm worried about the policies being tied to the underlying programming language. While this does allow for additional flexibility, it makes them hard to share in a polyglot shop.
How many people have received the Covid vaccine (visualized)?
Can We Restore Nature?
Isn't this one of those examples about implicit ideology at play? Like, it's an unquestioned assumption that you need "entertainment" in the form of consuming attention-eating stuff all your free time. That you need to be "doing something", and that in some strange way getting through media is some kind of accomplishment, at least you didn't just do nothing.

I think this doesn't go without saying... People have always entertained themselves in various ways, like having rituals, singing together, playing, fixing stuff (clothes, stuff around the house), creating things like tools and clothes etc. But these tended to be more active "hobbies".

I'm taking issue with the template/implicit model whereby work sucks your energy out, and then you need to regenerate by sitting in front of some media device and consume some subscription content or some media item that has a title, author etc. As if unstructured time were scary. That you just go for a walk without having a podcast in your ears. That you just cook dinner without the TV on. That you eat without watching Youtube. It somehow feels non-productive and "cheating".

I don't think these are the best way to unwind or regenerate for the next day, as opposed to actually letting your brain just be without "content" being fed into it. Also a lot of content, like news and podcasts just work us up instead of relaxing and "entertaining", unless you consider "outrage" entertainment.
On the photos i see some snowflakes with similar shapes, do we know how many base shapes there are for snowflakes?
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As an advocate of checklists for specific tasks, yes that stuff is good. Oftentimes there are a lot of checks that one would go "yeah no duh." But most good checklist exist with a checkbox because that was an issue before.
And which stack.

Unless I am doing something very wrong (and sometimes I do), most of my Python development flows fit very comfortably on a 4GB Celeron laptop (that's currently with my 8yo daughter).

If they can't perform decently on this, I need to fix it.
Hope your thing is good. Because posh coffee is pretty great.
Kim Stanley Robinsons “Ministry for the Future”
This page is mostly empty now, but I hope that it will be one of the most useful pages to watch over the next few months to see how the vaccine rollout is going globally
a combination of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) and diet can help with weight loss, especially with reducing belly fat
Large tech company websites contain many spelling mistakes
Stick to the Essential lines and it's fine. The quality is also better than the generic fake brand crap that Tesco sell and it's the same price or better. Waitrose essential baked beans for example are waaaay better than any others.
Try entering any plane operated by Lufthansa Group with a mask containing a valve. Or phrased more accurately: Don't! They won't let you. Period.

N95 masks are fine, surgical masks are fine, masks with valves (or any other creative form of face covering) are explicitly not.

In the very early days of mandatory masking you could get away with a doctor note. Now you need a negative test not older than 72 hours in addition to a doctors note if you try such shenanigans.

I, for one, agree.

E: Clarification
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I'm aware of this. How do you achieve setters if the state you close over is immutable? Isn't that the default in Clojure, since it seems to aim for immutability by default?
Ok, well, it’s not about any of that at all.
In the US, the takings clause of the fifth amendment lays out the government's right to eminent domain if it provides just compensation.
What you're describing is very similar to Rubber duck debugging. The idea here is that forcing you to explain what you're trying to do makes it easier for you to catch your mistakes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
Tough EU tech rules: here's the what, why and what comes next
I'm guessing they target a population that reads paper newspaper and not facebook. And they want us to talk about it too.
But I think the discussion is not only about how much money, but who gets it. The government? Will they give it to local farmers?

The past administrations were happy about fighting illegal deforestation. In this case they still could leverage foreign aid using the argument you mentioned, yeah. But the current one is removing as many regulations as they can get away with so those farmers can go nuts, and they don't seem like they want to negotiate.
I went through the command trying to understand what you did and I realized I know nothing about using the CLI properly.
So cool!
Because there's sand beneath your statements. In which case better to avoid the comment altogether.

I wouldn't take it to heart though. The (!) was an attempt to make the accusation light hearted. I guess it failed.

Anyway, I'm no authority here. Just here for potshots!
We need a paradigm shift in how society treats data https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np5ri-KktNs
Contracting salaries are much more similar. Not the same, but in the same ballpark. The ability to fire people easily, less holidays and less perks leads to higher salaries in the US but contracting jobs pay relatively bad.
Sendmail also still supports uucp bangpaths as an email address: https://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/doc8.12/cf/m4/uucp_mailer...
Also down in the UK