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>and often rampant unhelpful skeuomorphism.

That's the best part of it. They work like hardware, which if you get serious, you often end up buying and using as well, which means studio musicians immediately know what they do, computer musicians get to learn how hardware units works, and the designs are nice and life-like.

The bad about skeuomorphism is not looking like a hardware unit, but being restricted to interacting like it's a hardware unit.

Which is not the case in most skeuomorphic VSTs - you have all kinds of computer-only interactions to make your life easier (double-click to reset knobs, preset search, A/B comparison, draw curves, etc).

Skeuomorphism there is just the cherry on top, not a rotten core, like the skeuomorphic DVD player programs of yore.
> How are those two even comparable?

They're both locked down with fury and will eventually be rendered useless due to no software updates.

You can attempt to install Linux to those but... Will you succeed?
It’s like saying to a US state, would you rather have seats in Congress, or would you rather federal law be optional.
> absolutely incredibly well done

I completely disagree.

The worst part wasn't the unenjoyably convoluted plot, it was the director who insisted the dialog be spoken like a grade 5 play: utterly unnatural. Every spoken sentence ends with a unnatural pause before the response, like a grade 5 play. I could only force myself to get through half the movie before I had to turn it off.
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Not programming jobs but anything IT now is heavy on programming/scripting.
Great work! Just noted that the color space was already added to the culori.js library, including a cylindrical oklch variant.
Curious as to what is "Turing" in this context?
On the flip side Lebron benefits from dramatic rule changes in how physical the NBA isn't today. Both in his stats and longevity.

All you have to do is go on YouTube and watch the fights from the 1980s. And of course everyone is familiar with how Jordan was brutalized in the 1987-1993 era, playing teams like the Knicks and Pistons. Today's NBA is soft, fragile, weak, and little more than a three point shooting exercise. It's mediocre basketball. Do a comparison on steal figures now vs then; during his prime it was normal for Jordan to have 2.8 to 3.2 steals per game in a season, today the NBA leader will be closer to 2 to 2.2 per game.

Now you can barely sneeze on the offensive player with the ball or it's a foul. Combined with 3-point chucking and zero defense, it fully explains why scores are so comically high now versus the 1990s and so many players average over 20-25 points per game. It's the equivalent to the NFL becoming soft, watering down passing defense, so they can run up scores and turn the league into a 90% passing game so they can pump up ratings for the $$$ (same fraud MLB pulled jacking up homerun figures).
Mad Men. Solid to the end. Last few seasons answered a lot of questions. Don's devolution accelerated into a spectacular finale.

Donald Trump. Love him or hate him, he did actually deliver on many of his promises. Some speculate he followed through because he views relationships as transactional.
I think most people are more than mature enough to make their own decisions about what works for them and what doesn't. Good teachers are worth their weight in gold, but also, they cost money and if you are not doing this with a set goal of achieving a certain level but just enjoying yourself then that can be all the motivation that you need to keep going.

I'd advocate for the occasional review by a teacher to see whether you are picking up any bad habits but to most importantly focus on having fun so that you stay motivated. Nothing will kill interest in an instrument in the early stages of learning as much as drilling boring stuff, even if that has long term advantages, after all if there is no long term because of that then what's the point?
Not sure how old your good times, but relatively recently I played an indie game that first gave me a very subtle footgun without any warning, pressed me to use it and when I did the wrong thing, sent me in the wrong direction for the rest of the game. It was quite some hell.
It really was incredible, especially after watching Game of Thrones and seeing how that ending turned out. Episode 8 of season 4 was briefly at the top of IMDb, and it was an amazing revelatory episode.
Learned Tabla (a South Asian percussion instrument) this year at age 31. A teacher is must. Not only does a good teacher give you customized advice on what to practice, based on your weaknesses, but is also able to tell you when you are ready to move on.

More precisely, a good teacher, will constantly keep you in the slightly uncomfortable phase of not too easy, not too difficult practice.
I do this for a living and I am constantly amazed at the amount of money we are paid to make things worse. Of course we add in things like chat, email, and other channels but the day to day experience of the users usually gets a lot worse.

The systems we put in are easier to use and have more controls around who can do what. It makes the users more interchangeable and cuts training time. The cost of that is the top speed that users can get stuff done is drastically reduced.
That is an interesting positive for async/await that I had not heard before.

Why are there so many libraries that depend on Tokio then? If only the edges need to actually use an async runtime, the middle-tier libraries can just be plain futures.
In that case he might as well directly play Doom on his tree.
New office set-up for working from home. An adjustable height desk, an anti-fatigue mat for standing, and also a new office chair for sitting.

Also received my Remarkable 2, which I'm quite enjoying.
You don’t understand anything about fused fiber. There’s no useful theory. Everything is process art and exact replication. It’s probably true in semiconductors too. TMC and Intel use the same equipment vendors.
Nothing dramatic then again no mentions of it good or bad.
Why does toast land butter side down so often?
Ah. Gotcha. That makes sense.
I haven't seen Hamilton yet, but most "hyped" up musicals have lived up to the hype for me. Eg. The Wicked, Phantom of the Opera, Rent, etc.
I used it on nytimes. It just gave me the same title in pics. I don't think people needs in general
But with Cargo it's scoped to the crate you're compiling right? So it only matters if there's a collision in the dependencies of a given project.

Isn't it the case with pkg-config that everything is stored in a central location?

In any case, I think you can't seriously argue that the c/c++ dependency management solution is anywhere close to running `cargo build`/`cargo run` in terms of simplicity.
Unpopular opinion - Java virtual machine (JVM).
What do you think? And does it matter?
If you've got the space, you'll find that you can get a real upright for free in most cities in the world. Sure, it won't be the best instrument ever, but if you ask around you'll find someone chucking one out.
"Handshake uses proof-of-work mining, as it is currently the most reliable way to do compact light client proofs. Proof of work uses computational power, a lot of it."

No thanks.
- I use https://www.netlify.com for hosting landing pages qucikly.

- Mailchimp for collecting emails.

- Canva or Befunky for Graphics.

- https://frontendor.com for building landing pages.
Who in this situation is going to buy from them when you could just buy IBM and be done with it?

The whole point is that POWER actually exists (on 7nm etc.)
Being replaced with a new scheme (The "Turing Scheme") which will be very similar to ERASMUS but will be worldwide instead of limited to Europe. [1] Sounds like British students will have a little more mobility, not sure if it'll benefit the British universities themselves though

[1] https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1342138413831630849
I missed a Hulk as strong as in the comics. I heard that they audience tested Hulk busting out of the Hulk-buster armor that Bruce Banner was using, but it didn’t test well.
The McRib
I played TW3 on release. It had some problems, but nowhere near the issues that Cyberpunk has. It wasn't fundamentally flawed like CP2077.
I am in the US. Most midrange ecommerce companies will meet that total comp. I’ve had total comp north of that working for not-name-brand stock photography companies, education tech companies, payment processors and online shop / storefront companies.
Final fantasy 7 remake.
I thought we all knew that jetpacks are a thing - is there still some mystery I'm not aware of?
Great article! I wish I would have had this a couple of years ago when I was working on improving a very old lossy image compression algorithm. I don't want to into great detail here, but there's a highly compressed image format that's designed so that it's super easy for low power (think 1990's embedded processors) to read and render. Basically the decompression is a bunch of LUTs - not just palette lookups, but also pattern lookups. The hard part is creating the LUTs which can be done on fast computers.

As the images we were trying to compress got more detail in them we had to redo the compression algorithm so that we could keep as much detail as possible. The key was to do the compression in a new color space and then undo the color space transform before we saved the LUTs.

I ended up creating an empirical color space that was the best for each tile we were compressing (think PCA), but now that I look at this, it might even do better since the perception is so consistent.
> Take a Model 3 on an autocross track or even a windy mountain road

Why should I spend a lot of money to improve the 1% of use cases I don't care about?

My 2 biggest worries when I'm driving a BMW are hitting somebody who is walking through the red light in the rain and looking at his mobile phone, and going into a pothole. I want the car with the best automatic emergency system and the room to improve, and Tesla is far the best in this category.
If we have research level technology now, it stands to reason that people will keep researching and improving it. So "Never" becomes "not for a while yet until we perfect this technology", which is a slightly shorter time-scale.

That said I think that there might almost be a (chicken/egg) commercial demand for an actual lunar mining+fuel processing facility as is. Refueling of earth-orbit satellites could extend their useful lifetimes.

And for the foreseeable future, yes (much of the) equipment would still need to come from earth. You can still get a big delta-V savings if you only launch the equipment into LEO, and then transport it onward using fuel mined on the moon. You save the cost of the-fuel-to-launch-the-fuel.
I like this analogy because it highlight the importance of so called soft skills in landing a job.

Walk into a first date confident but polite and full of charm and you'll have a good time. Same with job interviews, even the technical ones.

So much of getting a job is a firm handshake and speaking loud and clear.
Hasn't this been happening for a while?

At least locally with idiots pointing lazers near airports usually the culprits get apprehended in fairly short order.

Is it this usual for a repeated event near a busy airport to go on without intervention?
I find it interesting, that you can (and should) use this as a hack for good qualities: "I AM the kind of person who doesn't lie". Cultivating such a stance makes it easier to do the better thing in challenging situations.
LOL... agreed. Updated!
>1. Of course there are stupid people, almost regardless of the definition of stupidity. Not enough to explain the outcome, though.

Stupid != ignorant

Many folks who don't know math often have a significant level of skill in other areas.

There are many folks who just didn't bother to learn math, and either just regurgitated the material to pass tests and promptly forgot it, or flat out cheated.

It's sad, as math is extremely useful in many situations. I'm not even talking about algebra, trig or calculus. Just basic arithmetic, fractions and exponents.

Algebra can also be quite useful in everyday life too, and not just WRT numerical problems.

Algebra uses clearly defined rules to perform operations. If you can master that, more general problem solving becomes much easier.

That many people don't have such skills is sad. But our education system seems to favor moving people up and out rather than ensuring competency in the elements of the curriculum. And more's the pity.
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This is his main job [1], so I guess he had no problems at home. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Parker Also, his wife has a technical background and have some similar activities (but not full time, IIUC), so she probably even helped.

[1] Or at least this is the kind of potentially viral videos that can increase his internet presence and his revenue in the live talks and shows.
Merry Christmas from a muslim here. Have a wonderful time and a happy new year.

Wish 2021 will be better than 2020.
Mapping China’s Cultural Genome
I did a high school math project that was like this but with dice. After thousands of die rolls, I found out that dice with pips are not very fair, but dice with engraved numbers are better.
"What would pseudo-rationalism even be? Purported rationalism, yes, but the rationalism would be just a smokescreen for positions that are not rationally derived and therefore not addressable by means of rational argument."

The fundamental question of philosophy: how do you tell a rationally derived belief from an irrationally derived belief?
see also Kit FUI from waay back

https://www.saji8k.com/kit-fui/
The Wire does live up to its hype, but I think The Shield is the better series.
Tweaking org-table in Emacs org-mode
Re-usable first stage rockets from SpaceX. They hyped the hell out of this idea before it was possible. The reality (at least visually) is even cooler than anything they ever rendered and sold as a vision.
A Century After Phony Flu Ads, Companies Hype Quack Covid Cures
Top half of the main page, top half of the ask page, usually only comments (not visiting the pages themselves unless it is something very interesting to me).

3-5 times a day. On average, I open 10 discussion pages a day, and visit around 3 links.
Kindness Is Scientifically Proven to Make You Happier
Tendis distributed storage engine, compatible with Redis protocol
Tendis high-performance distributed storage engine, compatible with Redis protocol.
Have you posted this in HN? It could be a nice submission. (It would be nice to see also the original video.)
That "lowest score possible" for the Army is a 31 percentile on the AFQT, which is a proxy for an IQ score. That means about 100 million Americans are too stupid to carry a rifle. My understanding is that the real score is actually higher than the advertised minimum.
How Author Farley Mowat Smuggled a V2 Rocket into Canada
I’m not familiar with the term but

Motivation is the reason for acting a particular way.

Intrinsic is value within the self.

Therefor any kind of motivation is intrinsic since motivation is produced by the self so you’ll have to elaborate for me by what you mean.
The key to breaking this potential advantage is to let someone other than the coin flipper call heads or tails while the coin is in the air.

That’s how I was taught to do it as a kid when we were playing for fun. I never really thought about the reasoning until now.

If you talk to people deep into the performance magic community, there are myths and legends of people who practice dice rolling to the point where they can influence the outcome of a dice roll. I suppose training for hours a day for years on end could have some such influence.
I started playing guitar when I was 25, with the help of some random youtube videos and a growth mind set. And now piano at age 39, so far just doing random things, as long as it sounds nice.
If you flip toast rather than drop it, it doesn’t. Also, if you drop it it doesn’t really land “butter side down” but “top side down”. Just butter the bottom of your toast to solve the problem!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttered_toast_phenomenon
Consider the case of betting with a traditional bookmaker. The bookmaker lays (bets against) an outcome. You back (bet for) the outcome. Each party is betting against the other.
Love it, thanks for sharing!
Probably it's made with the same technology used to build Scratch, namely Blocky (https://github.com/google/blockly)
"A guy flying out over the ocean in a jet pack at around 3,000 feet, especially one without any lifting surfaces, is a puzzling proposition, to say the least. Jet packs that do exist have very short ranges and are not equipped to be flying in dense airspace, especially thousands of feet in the air. "
If anything it's the opposite, that historically Intel did have unfair advantages but now it's as simple as AMD failing to deliver.

I mean take things like the Ultrabook... you realize your article is literally a decade old?

I remember those days Intel was literally inventing a term and paying developers to come up with "ultrabook app ideas" and stuff. Now the usage of the term is pretty much toothless: https://store.hp.com/us/en/dlp/amd-ultrabook

And that was a bizarre example to choose anyways if you're willing to dig into ancient history, there was a point OEMs were afraid to work with AMD because of Intel...

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Now a days their iron grip has waned, but AMD literally cannot produce. It's that simple.
Bollywood, Reeling from the Pandemic, Shifts to Streaming
> Doesn't mean the whole world should join the EU

Maybe this is a stupid question, but why not?111
All those ads are shown by scripts. No scripts - no ads.
Using a bot is acceptable under their terms?
My N95 did more, and did it better. Style over substance won.
Illuminated? It's clearly for the Chinese market then. I'm talking about the grille on the iX. I wonder what's next, an electric X6 with this grill, the pinnacle of ugliness?

Compare that with the M2 which is a looker and a badass car.
Global Top Companies [pdf]
0 is even because 0 = 0 (mod 2)
China and the U.S. Make Antitrust Moves Against Domestic Tech Giants
This was their use-case. They build it to help students learn SQL.
It’s a Wonderful Life. As a father of little ones now, there are some scenes in that movie that cut me to the core like nothing else.

The Iliad. Hard to put my finger on one thing in particular, but after having finally read it earlier this year I continually find myself doing some task and randomly thinking about it, pausing, and just saying “wow”.
Mystery 1) Who is the unregistered flyer?
Mystery 2) This jetpack is outperforming known jetpacks. How?
This was what I did when I was playing with Rails, but I felt like I was missing a lot about the fundamentals of the language. Especially because Ruby has a very free syntax, and steps far away from other languages in terms of syntax, I was able to copy things and make it work, but it was harder for me to really get the language than with many others.
Last of Us 2. It has your standard zombie tropes. But playing it this year and experiencing the politics of Covid-19, the conflicts among the different groups felt more realistic to me.
Yeah! And Ron was a pro juggler too. (as have been I!) Sadly Ron died this year.
I apologise for the phrase I used. I was not aware that it had a slur built into it.

My linguistic humor is based off the internet - English is not my first language.

Im Indian and most definitely not white. However will still apologise for it.
Yes, an economic driver for a larger population. They will have to act to anticipate a huge migration of Asian people into the area with their low birth rate being unable to avoid their own inexorable loss of people to their below replacement birth rate.
The wiki on Demographics of Russia tells all. How will they block a Chinese walk-over?
I think you’re making the classic mistake of confusing Ruby with Rails.
I retired from EMS a couple of years ago and have run on several cyclists (and pedestrians) hit by cars (and trucks (and a train)). I advise you to carry your ID in a pocket on your person, if your cycling clothes have pockets. The first place law enforcement or EMS looks for ID is in a pocket, especially a wallet.

While it is standard practace to "trauma strip" a patient by cutting their clothing off, the simple fact is that if a patient is clearly DOA (say due to massive head trauma), the EMTs may not do anything other than check for a pulse. Particularly if the accident happened on a desolate stretch of highway that took the ambulance an hour to reach. If there is a chance the person is still alive, it is not uncommon to place EKG pads on their chest, but some EMTs just slip them on under the shirt, rather than expose the chest. This is especially common if the patient is a different gender than the first responder, or if the assessment is being done roadside, rather than in the ambulance. Part of this is that EMTs are trained to disturb crime scenes as little as possible, so as to not to disrupt police investigations.
It basically is a fraud with the leaseholder the victim.
The system has failed.
The government issued occupational permits.
The fire services signed their ok.
The cladding companies used false reports to get approval.
The construction companies made a mess.
The solicitors approved the title deeds for signing without checking realities.
Now everything is false and needs to be renewed with costs beyond belief.
The leaseholder is the consumer and must be protected by
consumer protection law and also will need to be compensated for any loss.
The government will need to foot the bill and then can claw the costs back from their own departments,cladding and construction companies as well as other parties who failed the leaseholder.
The waking watch is another fraud forced upon leaseholders.
Two guys walking about with their smartphones playing games or sitting somewhere catching up on study books will not cut it. The freeholder getting kickbacks from the building insurance company , which is saying that anything can be insured at a price , is also laughing on the way to the bank.
Some of the ride cost is VC subsidy. Some of the ride expense is Uber corporate (thousands of programmers, pay for officers, managers, building rent, etc).

Do we know which is greater? Maybe there is room for an app with low overhead to compete.
Brian Sanderson (and others) have written plenty of magic-filled books with more interesting endings. If you want a 'hard magic' system, the one in the Mistborn series is pretty interesting (ingesting and 'burning' particular metals for particular abilities):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistborn

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Sanderson

'Booktuber' Merphy Napier recently did two videos on magic systems in fantasy novels:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcMQk4ltJa0

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd6f3tAOUHk
If I remember correctly, this was not originally true but type unification happened early in the life of 2.x.
So, John can you explain the Science behind these things? Thanks a lot.
Doubly absurd that they tend to be near the top when I "google" a thing as well.
I have read it many times.

Why was the book centered around a children’s story that we didn’t hear about until book 7? Why were the deathly hollows items not mentioned at all throughout the entire rest of the series? Why do we not find out until the last book that the invisibility cloak should have faded a long time ago? That last point especially irritates me because it just smells like lazy writing.

I love Harry Potter. I have read the series many many times. I sincerely wish I had never read the last book. It felt rushed, unplanned, and almost desperate.

There is a fluid cohesion between books 1-6 that completely disappears in book 7.
Yeah you don't need that downloaded.txt, youtube-dl can do that all on its own with the right flags :)
SpaceX reusable first stages. They were pretty hyped by SpaceX and they delivered much to the astonishment of their detractors.
SideKick, Turbo Pascal 7.0, GIT, SSD drives, Moore's Law