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> You'd also be relying on the library developer to fix any issues you have, be it with the library or your own implementation.

what's the difference with literally every other stack ? do you also write your own libc ?
This is entirely dependent on whether the ebooks are DRM Free or not.

I prefer audiobooks, but I have a large collection of them which which will be mine forever, no matter what any retailers decide.
100% agreed on the increasing importance of video game interfaces. Nice to see I am not alone in that thought.
OrangePi zero is pretty cheap (at around the $10 mark), has 256MB RAM, 4x 1.2GHz cores, microsd slot and 100M ethernet/built-in wifi.

I have one I used to build a security cam system. Pretty neat little board.
> There's no way to effectively scale a sales team in the beginning to reach out to all these restaurants.

Sure their is. There's a whole system dedicated to it. You make a brochure describing the service you want to offer to the restaurants. There are then companies that will print as many copies of that brochure as you ask them to, put them in envelopes, and mail them to addresses on a list you provide. (There are companies that will make the list for you, too).

Combine that with phone calls to the restaurants you think would be most beneficial to get on your service. Three salespeople using phones could contact 10% of the restaurants in Los Angeles in under a month, and all of them within a year.

Restaurant delivery is local. You don't have to compete with the incumbents nationwide right from the start. You can do it one city at a time.
That depends very much on where you buy your ebooks.
The linked blog post was a good read about why the author went down this path, goals of the project, and some technical challenges along the way: https://czep.net/20/stasis.html

As someone with a Jekyll blog who's considered changing SSG's a few times in the past, this was interesting to read. I could see myself going down a similar path.

Gatsby adds a lot of complexity that IMO isn't a big benefit for a simple blog, and when I tried migrating my site to it, a lot of existing posts were broken in weird ways.

Eleventy is "Jekyll but in JavaScript" and way closer to what I want, but its flavor of Liquid is just slightly different from Jekyll's to the point where I would have to update a bunch of posts, plus there's no incremental build yet.

So I'm still sticking with Jekyll for now. Maybe one day I'll break down and build my own SSG like the author...
If you decide to go a different route and hand install an older Flash player that doesn't have the built-in time bomb, it appears the version you want is 32.0.0.371 or older.

Unfortunately, there's a free-after-use vulnerability. https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb2...

I'm somewhat surprised nobody has packaged up an old version and wrapped it with "only run flash for these urls" and "don't update the ppapi plugin" type functionality. All the pieces seem to be available: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7084871?hl=en
>It's not even clear to me that birds are a primary food source for domesticated outdoor cats. They might be hunting them just for sport.

This seems like a condemnation of hunting for sport to me.
You should not assume people keep their original account(s).

I have been active since 2009 here.
Introducing the Coherence Stack
I only meant developers don't necessarily need it to organize their team. Or at least they could get away with something simpler. But organizing the team is only half the battle. Or really less. Knowing what to work on and how to prioritize is more important. Especially if you're managing multiple products and projects. Developers may not need it to write code but they absolutely need it to manage expectations as much as managers need it to set expectations and track against goals and budgets.
On the DX7 thing, I expressed myself poorly, I didn't mean it made synth music as a genre mainstream, but I do think the original commenter was correct to say that it changed how synths were used in music simply due to it being so affordable and versatile. Now instead of cover bands having additional members or multi-instrumentalists to play brass or fiddle or whatever, they could just have the keyboard player fill that role too. With the DX7 it became "good enough" for a single synth to cover all of those sounds. It unlocked a door that later on the M1 and many other sample-based synths walked through.

On the 909/303, I don't dispute they were incredibly influential in the rave scene, especially in the 90s. I am one of those people with a 303 tattoo so I know very well what a reputation they had. But also I have some perspective on how small and dynamic that scene turned out to be in the greater scheme of things. Most of the ravers I know from back in the day couldn't pick a 303 in a song and don't even listen to acid or techno music any more.

I think a good comparison to an 808 is a Theremin. Lots of people, even people who don't listen to electronic music or hip-hop know the names of these instruments and can probably pick one out of a song. I'd see the 909 or 303 more like a Strat or a Tele - still very influential and recognizable to people who are interested, but perhaps not so much in the mainstream consciousness.

But this is all opinion just based on anecdotes, so I am open to the idea I might be overestimating the cultural impact of one bit of gear or the other.
I think you are looking for https://github.com/chirp-language ;-)
I would look at the smaller Chinese (not SMIC) ones. Without looking I'd guess they are already highly valued.
I have no idea though how long it could take to overtake TSMC/Intel/Samsung.
My first Debian system had 32 MiB of RAM or so.
He was inspired by C. S. Lewis' that hideous strength.
V: A go-like lang that compiles itself in 1s
The title of this article alone is misleading at best. Too much weak, bad, and pseudo science on this "hacker" website.
domain is insecure
The Slave Plantation of Eden
I improve my C code quality
How Graphviz thinks the USA is laid out
It’s not clear how that’ll work in the long run, since there’s no protective moat to protect GrubHub once they’ve outspent their competitors. Pizza companies can re-hire delivery drivers if GrubHub tries to charge monopoly prices, and the bigger chains are fully capable of making their own ordering apps.

At this point I currently order my takeout through at least 3 separate small competitors to GrubHub. That these exist while GrubHub is still trying to use VC funding to push everyone out of the market makes me doubt that they’ll be able to recoup their investment without new competitors arriving.
Is this something you have personally done? Because this sounds like an internet fantasy to me.

But suppose we indulge your fantasy. A restaurant owner, who is already incredibly busy, decides to figure out how to register a trademark and sends the cease and desist. The venture-backed startup's in-house counsel looks at it, sees that it was written by an amateur, and just laughs. Now what?
I sunk over $2,000 in a game that shut down abruptly (Marvel Heroes). It sucked. I had no recourse.

But at the end of the day, I had well more than 2000 hours in the game. Which meant that my cost per hour of entertainment was less than $1. Which is really cheap as far as hobbies and entertainment goes.

Does it suck that I can't go in any play an ARPG with any of the 50+ Marvel heroes I had and adore? Yes. But that's what you should expect when playing any game that operates as a service or has an always-online component.
I think this is just how Motion Plus is for everyone? I got into the habit of re-centering my sword after each swing, which eventually become relatively natural.

It will be interesting to replay the game in Dolphin some day with a more accurate motion controller.
I don’t buy the theory. If you lose your vision, like the boy in the story then I’d expect that you’d eventually stop dreaming. It doesn’t make sense that other senses would start then fighting for protection of their neural circuitry. Why didn’t they earlier then?

What feels more likely to me is that your brain is trying to optimize something in it, which is why it is correlated with plasticity. The brain has evolved to turn off most of the body (since there’s probably strong selection against moving limbs while sleeping), but little selection against moving eyes while closed. REM is just what is left of our bodies movements.
Why is the popular conception of leadership "bossing people around?

I guess this is because it dovetails with common experience. A leader these days doesn't have to have subject knowledge, he has connections and charisma and knows where to find experts that work for him. Just look at Elon Musk.
I was actually just playing around with distcc for the first time last night. Compiling ungoogled chromium normally takes my desktop about 12 hours, and using distcc to share the load with my laptop (with a gigabit connection to my desktop) took a little under 7 hours. It definitely improved the speed considerably for me.
You can start with the US and Britain intervening in Iran in the the late 1940s to protect oil interests and work your way forward from there. You could arguably go back to post-WWI with Britain, France and Russia arguing over the remains of the Ottoman empire (Sykes–Picot Agreement). The last century has been one interference after the next by Western powers and Russia in the Middle East:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement

So to say that "most of the Islamic fundamentalism that the USA is fighting today can be traced back to that one event" (the US training the Mujahideen) ignores many significant events over the past hundred years:

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

At best, it's an overly broad claim.
My understanding is DoorDash started out by listing restaurants without their permission. Now DoorDash has this legislation which will protect them from any new startup who tries to do the same thing. (The assumption being it will be much easier for DoorDash to obtain permission than it would be for a nascent startup.)
"Why is the popular conception of leadership 'bossing people around?'"

That's a good question I've been pondering for a while and still don't have a great answer for.

I think some of it is that one degenerate form of leadership is to conflate it with authority, and a lot of people's experience with "leadership" is simply to receive orders.

I actually would call what you describe as the ideal form of management, which is not leadership either. An ideal manager is not simply an authority user/abuser, but someone who clears obstacles out of the way and works to enhance the ones they are managing's skills, but ideally, only a bit of authority is deployed, and a manager may in fact exhibit no leadership at all. (For instance, corporate goals may simply come from higher up, or market pressures, or things other than "leadership" per se.)

(There are also degenerate cases where raw, naked authority is in fact necessary and extensively used; I'm sure a lot of us worked a job at McDonalds or some rough equivalent and have memories of how much it was based on authority... fewer of us have experiences of managing in that environment and being directly exposed to the fact that it is just the only way to make it work, however distasteful you may find that fact.)

For me, leadership should be reserved for the cases in which one is visibly leading, e.g., you start a new initiative somewhere, gather up people to voluntarily follow you by a variety of non-coercive means, and then hold the group together in a variety of very context-sensitive means.

True leadership is rare. Authority is inescapable, good management is a gem to be treasured but still not that rare, but leadership is a rare thing. Most groups are held together by other bonds.
Blaming "over parenting" has been around for at least as long as I've been a parent, possibly even going back generations.

I wonder if the micro-management of parenting by popular culture can itself be seen as a form of over-parenting at a societal level. As we helicopter over our children, we are constantly aware of an even larger helicopter hovering over us, ready to blame parents (especially moms) for every tiny little transgression that led to our kids not growing up to be perfect in every way.
Mind elaborate on the next state predicate approach? By next, I imagine the focus is on transition rather than state; however, if you have multiple transitions arriving at the same state, what makes the next approach better? At the end of day, the state machine is the same regardless how it is implemented.
Good approach, I enjoy puzzles but they do not verify if a person can think, problem solve, or learn how to learn.

Instead it's an indicator of being able to memorize, recognize patterns and regurgitate tactics.

Ask why something should or shouldn't be strategically used can be a realer indicator if there is someone behind the steering wheel.
I downvoted this, since it's a drive by insult without any kind of support provided.
Right, absolutely. But the pattern of “I’ll say something I may regret next year but I’ll just delete it if I really do regret it” isn’t present.

Thanks for highlight this, though. A lot of people are seeing it for the first time, I bet.
Swan song: German firefighters remove 'mourning' bird blocking railway line
I've given a lot of thought to this over the years too and come to a very similar conclusion. GAI really probably needs to create itself.

I think that intuition was at least partially confirmed by the successes of GAN's. ...not every problem can be solved that way, per se but it's a good starting place.

The big challenge here though IMO is computational! If you're going to use genetic algorithms to create organisms, you have to then let each of those organisms train themselves. It sounds computationally expensive. And the search space is absolutely massive! It will take some really intelligent effort to bring it down to a level that's feasible.

On that note though, the other thing is that I'm convinced that you also need to include for GAI is fundamental structural arrangements as evolvable parameters. You can argue that this is unnecessary mathematically, but IMO, a little bit of intelligent structure can make the same number of neurons a lot more efficient to train. We see this confirmed in some of the more successful deep learning pipelines. Different components of the whole system get specialized training which gives structure to the whole system.

From an artificial life standpoint, I thought about just offering resources based on correct answers to questions, with exponentially greater resources awarded to harder questions. Questions though would need to be generated in situ of course to avoid memorization.
> Such stories are entertaining, but there is usually no analysis of whether the outcome would have been materially different had the specific chain of circumstances not played out in the particular way they did

Well, most of these things are 'infotainment' for the lay public. I'm sure if you go into the academic literature then there may be a more robust examination:

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

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

Both Newton and Leibniz came up with calculus for example. Bell generally gets the credit for the telephone, but (a) he built past developments, and (b) there's Grey:

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

I think the shows are useful in that they help people realize that history can be messy and convoluted.
3 megs RAM and SLS Linux here, around 1993. This was a 386SX laptop with 1 meg onboard and a 2 meg expansion. X11 barely ran and I didn't dare try emacs, so I had to learn vi.
Oh, didn't know that. Can you point out where it says that? From what I understand of PIX, it is tied to your transactional bank account. If you have multiple bank accounts and you are banned by one bank, your account on the other banks are not automatically banned and you can still transact with it, I would imagine PIX would still work.
Hint: it's going to end up with the same results as European AI - a bunch of inept large companies getting money without any results. Top-down approach from basic MBAs down to engineers never worked.
Actually, all Adobe-provided flash distributions will refuse to run past a certain date. You’ll have to go back a few versions to find one compiled without the kill switch. To use it, you’ll literally have to run it in a VM on an outdated OS with the system time set back a few years.
Wouldn't this be a problem for any takeout order? I know some restaurants don't offer takeout for this reason.
Cutaway of 1913 Submarine Patent
Not all of them. msimg32.dll has no certificate and many system processes attempt to load that. There are more dlls in system32 if you look. Neither does Wldap32.dll, which gets loaded into lsass and is part of the knowndlls...
I'm not sure an addon is necessary for that. Firefox automatically unloads any tab that hasn't been used in a while.
Link/citation?
But not every R&D project can or should lead to a commercial product right away. I work in a big corp and sometimes the tech you invested in, even if the PoC was great and all successful, doesn't fit in any final product because of thousands of other constraints.

But I also see lots of small 'mindshare' changes thanks to those 'it can be done' projects. The important steps seem to be to first unlock the first TRLs, then find PoCs on real products to inspire (and increase TRLs) tech directors and product managers that they need to invest the next millions into an big and still uncertain shift, and to underinvest in other important parts of their products. In the case of tech push you often end up with a new shiny tech that can't be used right away. So, mostly, it's about climbing the maturity ladder, and be ready for the very small openings in the product development cycle to shoe your new tech in.

In the case of customer pull or market pull, the lead time of such projects makes it too late to ask for external help, and no research grant wants to participate in 'product development' (not their job). So the tech is usually badly implemented and leaves a sour taste.

What I see as positive: if you have a great tech idea and available resources, and great academic/labs contacts, you can get the money, with little resistance (but yes, lots of admin work) with either European or national/regional grants.

IIRC the 2014 version of SPARK was designed and developed through a French civilian R&D funding project : http://www.open-do.org/projects/hi-lite/
The project was clearly a success there (although I don't know about ROI or profitability for AdaCore on this tech). Working with innovative SMBs is a great way to get funding in France and most of the projects that I've seen tend to conclude in new products... for the SMB. But the scale is low there (<4MEUR), so it also helps to accept failure ('only' 4m 'wasted'...).
Skills associated with great leadership have many applications outside of leadership itself. Traits such as high empathy, confidence, creativity, flexibility make great leaders, but also just generally make great people. It would be no surprise the two are correlated!
Dreams made a whole lot more sense to me when I learnt about idea of the brain as a predictive processing machine. It asserts that the brain works as a sort of recursive two-sided process, with theory creation on one side and evidence collecting on the other. Recursive in that the visual processing system might get a "is that a door?" theory from a higher level system, which it'll then answer by collecting and trying to match evidence from multiple lower level systems ("is that an edge?" "is that a shadow?" etc.) until it eventually reaches the level of processing stimuli directly, with each system on the way acting as both questioner and answerer.

In this framework dreaming is when the evidence collecting side becomes a lot less rigorous than it usually is, so it says "sure, why not" without reference to a stimulus (i.e. a way to be falsified). In other words it's the brain's predictions continuously coming true.
Is there a equivalent CSS for Mac?
What's the motivation for creating an account if you aren't going to comment?
This lines up with my experiences using it last time.
> due to shitty consumer behavior

This is not shitty consumer behavior. It is lying... a company pretending to be another company or a representative of another company... when they are not.

If you buy a fake Toyota car and it sucks, do you blame Toyota then complain when a law is passed making this fraud illegal?
Makes perfect sense to me; many other benefits are also obtained from having to struggle -- persistence, determination, confidence in the face of new challenges, resilience, empathy....
> Skyward Sword's overworld is kind of a weaker, larger dungeon to be honest.

Notably, if you read interviews with the developers, this is precisely what they were going for with the overworld.

It was a great idea that didn't pan out because, for whatever reason, the over-world areas simply weren't as well designed as the real dungeons. Fi interrupting you every 30 seconds didn't help either, of course.
Similar collection of jobs: https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
Stop Writing Shell Scripts
“The greater good” is clearly not the actual legal requirement...
Yes - interesting and important. Dweck's "Mindset" (Growth, vs Fixed) speaks to this, as does "Free-Range Parenting".
Unless they come DRM free and downloadable outside the service, I consider them "rentals"

But for those that are, Calibre keeps those nicely organized.
The point is that yes, an authoritarian government can definitely just shut down bitcoin, so authoritarian government resistance is not a feature of bitcoin.
Johnny Castaway: the legendary screensaver from the 90s
If the EU treats this as a strategic capability and not commercial, the spending is much less of a consideration.

The advantage that the EU has is in fact ASML. No company can make the 5nm litho systems today, and catching up with the decades of R&D they've invested is not feasible. They are the greatest achievement of science and technology on the planet. [0]

The strategy that can work is for the EU to partner with TSMC to build a foundry in the EU that produces at the node they want to intercept (2 nm?). Then, make a business arrangement that puts European scientists and engineers into high-value roles. That would enable the EU to develop the technical skills and keep China from locking it up.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25361028
Why is #1 a goal? I’m assuming because of some desire to maintain the independence of a central bank in the occupied country?
The problem with company C style work is when you do really small incremental changes. I have had 40+ commits for a single issue, being very gradually rolled out.

The time taken to manage tickets in that case would easily have exceeded the time spent on the task itself.
This is very astute. Some of history’s “best” leaders have been humanity’s greatest villains.
The first book is a slow burn, but the payoff in the second book and third book make it worth it.
Every article like this should mention that observation can only show correlation, but cannot prove causation.

I personally do believe causation is more likely here, but I cannot be sure based on the study.
I assume you’re talking about this guy?
https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/AP11061802...

Edit: Lol. I love the downvotes. I mean, who are you talking about? Tiger Woods? Jack Nicklaus? Or were you dragging politics into this just to make a cheap shot? If so, what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
You think we are not there and beyond yet?
Companies rarely do basic research. Yes, there are exceptions.
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