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It's not just local news. Even the Washington Post's comments section is awful. Not just in terms of the content, but also the UI. For example:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/coronavirus...

Who wants to scroll through 1k comments in a narrow, awkwardly-paginated column? They also allow posts from anyone with an email account (mitigated somewhat by the paywall on most articles) which results in a lot of high-emotion, low-information spam. By contrast, the Wall Street Journal limits comments only to people with a subscription. Perhaps as a result, the WSJ comments section is generally of higher quality with e.g. better spelling/grammar, less flamewar, and a higher signal-to-noise ratio.
I have a copy of the Special "All Jaffee" Issue. The last issue to contain an original fold-in for Jaffee's retirement.

It is dated August 2020.

Pic: https://i.imgur.com/PGMqDGb.jpg
This resonates a lot with me. Aas a matter of fact, as a New Year's resolution I decided to view all of my side projects as a source of fun instead of potential revenue generators.

It has given me a lot more peace of mind, allows me to drop a project without feeling guilty or anxious and reduced the need for stupid marketing stuff (such as commenting on old blog posts).

As with all New Year's resolutions it's hard to stick to them; I need to remind myself frequently that I'm happier if I do.
I really doubt it's profitable right now.
As for the future - There's no doubt, VR is it.
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While your comment isn’t factually wrong it’s phrased to almost blame the poorer countries.

Brazil burns down forest mainly because of the United State’s desire for think like soy beans to feed cows.

Poorer countries use coal because it’s cheap and global conditions don’t enrich them enough to get better sources.

The sad truth is we force countries to be poor and exploit their own resources so we don’t have to do it ourselves. And of course then we’ll all pay the price living on a dying planet.
> Our review found that the commenting climate in Sports is better than elsewhere on the site. The conversations are more relevant to the stories, and there are fewer personal attacks. We’ll now be focusing all of our moderating resources on Sports, and our Community Guidelines will be strictly enforced.

I wonder if this is a common pattern. Perhaps sports stories naturally encourage healthier discussion.

Intuitively it makes sense. Talking sports with someone can be a great icebreaker if they come from a totally different background.
It’s just like you having a paper receipt with #1 on it, and me also having a receipt with #1 on it. Both can be on the same blockchain at the same time, issued by different NFT ‘creators’. Or maybe on different blockchain... Which one is the ‘real’ one? No-one can say.
Absolutely. DST makes no sense at your latitude, where rising with the sun isn’t always possible.

A long camping trip during the polar day would be sooo weird! I’ve only been to Reykjavik in the late summer, and it was hard for me to get enough sleep.

Has anyone started a Northern mystery novel with “It was a clear and sunny night...”?? ;)
An inconsistent and variable default would be significantly, unfathomably, worse than a "bad" default.

And I don’t even have to imagine it, because there’s an example right in the python builtins: open in text mode will use… whatever garbage `locale.getpreferredencoding()` returns. Fantastic way to create hard to reproduce bugs.
Of course all jurisdictions have an 'ultimate' goal of zero cases, using vaccines. But what I'm saying is that BC's health leadership has explicitly stated that their goal thus far has not been to drive cases to zero, and the reason is that it is not practical given imported cases. It could be done in the short term with a strict lockdown, and was in late spring 2020, but there would not be sufficient benefit to justify the cost of maintaining that policy, because as soon as restrictions were relaxed, cases would rebound.

That's not the same as blaming the whole thing on US mismanagement. I agree that some people are doing that, and certainly I don't approve. (Although I wouldn't chalk it up to an 'inferiority complex'. If anything I would say too many people here are feeling a largely unjustified sense of superiority. Trump may have provided a very visual display of incompetence, but for the most part on the ground the responses were similar. And while Canada's results have been better than the US's, they've still lagged the world on average.)

I do understand this policy though. It's convenient to think that if not for incompetent leadership we could be like NZ. But unlike an isolated island nation, it is not possible for a Canadian province to cut itself off from the rest of the world to a sufficient extent that a COVID-zero policy would have been practical thus far. Instead, the stated goal has been to control infections at a level where they did not overwhelm 1) the hospital system or 2) the ability to trace contacts. As the latter has been stressed over the winter, restrictions were increased.
> And how do you read those archives (or, for that matter, create them) using a ZIP library that doesn't know how to deal with compressed data?

You don’t because you just want to archive them not read them.
yes the best argument of those telling us not to worry for this planet lies in their plan to leave it.
In general, having a fused instruction is beneficial for performance in that it gives you code size savings which helps with respect to the instruction cache. There are likely other microarchitectural benefits, but that is the obvious one. However, there is a limit to the number of instructions you can support efficiently, so you generally only want to add instructions that will be commonly used.

Multiply-add is a good choice because it corresponds to the relatively common operation of computing the address of a field of a struct in an array so you can operate on that field.

(e.g. &(points[5].x) is &points + (5 * sizeof(point)) + offsetof(point, x)).
i would write out a response, but this clip makes the point better than i ever could: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-RfHC91Ewc
Not GDPR, but school regulations and other privacy regulations may prevent such recording by students.
I'm the original author, and I certainly believe that there are all kinds of great CEOs. What I am saying in this article is that software engineering CEOs are breaking out due to the super-infrastructure that is software, and that guys like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are using software to speed the value fulfillment cycle -- see https://iism.org/post/glossary-value-fulfillment-cycle-68
Whether you call it 9 am year round, and in winter you only start working at 10, or you change the name of the hour in winter to 9, doesn't really make a difference. People will have to adjust to the fact that in winter light start one hour later.

And with people flighing across time zones all the time, and it's not stopping them from taking holidays in a different time zone, i feel people are making an issue out of nothing.
Your whole argument seems to boil down to "it's not natural, they add chemicals", which is a weird argument to make on a tech news site. The only additive you actually make a case against is acetaldehyde, which occurs naturally in cheap booze anyway.

The details of the process are certainly interesting, it's just weird you framed them as "problem".
> It's definitely something you attach to your roof and pointed at the sky, not something you want to be sitting in front of for hours.

I could say the same thing about a light bulb, couldn't I?

It heats your skin slowly, and it can't get far enough into your eyes to hurt your retina or anything.
> although in hindsight that explains why it's so simple and fast to extract and/or modify only a part of a .zip archive, even on old computers.

That is also because zips have a « central directory », so to modify or add one of the files you just need to add a new record then update the central directory. If you don’t care too much for size you can literally just append them to the existing zip file and leave both the old record (for updates) and the old central directory.
I don't think you have understood my initial point. Please, read my first comment again.

I'm not saying that Amazon won't overtake Walmart, but that tech companies benefit from future projections factored into their valuations, while other non-hyped businesses don't. If the argument is that "software engineers make the best CEOs", it seems more likely that companies in the software industry simply get higher valuations for the aforementioned reasons.
Yes? We know how to write scanline renderers for 2D graphics. They're not that hard, a simple one can be done in ~100 lines of code or so, see my article here https://magcius.github.io/xplain/article/rast1.html
VR has been 'the future' since at least the 90s.
Almost everything you describe is a product of bad urban/house planning.

House planning could require far less electricity, but it's not required by building codes, and the market doesn't acknowledge its value.

Urban planning puts workplaces far away from residential areas because they used to be heavy polluters, but never stopped doing it when workplaces improved.

My workplace office is 1km away from my residence. Someone had the smarts to put a small amount of office buildings in an otherwise residential neighborhood (as well as a few shops). I moved here for the job - it was the obvious choice.

Mixed use zoning has made it so I don't just not need a car, I don't even use public transit often.
I’d buy except for forced Facebook login - the brand is a bit damaged
Original 1987 DuckTales television series
“The series is notable for being the first Disney cartoon to be produced for weekday syndication, with its success paving the way for future Disney cartoons, such as Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers and TaleSpin”

I might just sound like an old man but I feel like ducktales was better than today’s kids cartoons.
I like that it was usually not really trying to teach anything. It was just a story.
Today’s kid’s cartoons, seem that they’re always trying to “teach” something.
What if I just want my kids to enjoy a simple story though and not be “taught” anything?
Never quite understood why comment section wasn't one of the premium subscription features for direct monetization. It could cover the moderation costs directly, provides an incentive for some to buy a subscription and sock puppet accounts are less likely if they cost money. Then, I would assume that if your comment is tied to your billing account, you may be more inclined to not write the worst comments (insulting, etc.).
If women are paid less for the same work, why don't employers hire just women?
First of all, I'm talking about the WHO team that went to Wuhan in January 2020, not the team that went there a year later. The WHO was on the ground in Wuhan within weeks of the initial detection of the outbreak.

Second of all, you should take the claims of Western media about China with more than a grain of salt. The WHO team that went a year later wasn't blocked from entering. A few team members began traveling to China before their visas were approved. The data wasn't "sanitized." One team member said he wanted to see additional data. The newspapers trumpeted that, claiming that China had hidden everything. Other members of the WHO team then criticized the newspapers, saying that they had been given extensive access to the data they wanted.
It wont shock energy, but maybe the semiconductor market. Already theres a huge shortage for gpus
My point was less on the benefits/drawbacks of individual decisions and more on the presence of democracy and therefore the need to convince individuals of public policy to make it happen.

For the record, I think of democracy as a strictly positive thing even when it seems like democratic societies have erred.
your situation is pretty common. it has a small effect, but vote for candidates who will reduce car dependency and support public transport measures. the developed world got this right in the early 20th century, we can do it again.
As Facebook is one of the worst companies in existence today, I really hope they will not succeed in that new market.
Skia renders paths on the CPU. There was a prototype of a GPU based approach called skia-compute but it was removed a few years ago. I believe some parts of skia can use SDFs for font rendering, but that's only really accurate at small sizes.
The good news is that you could use both libraries. `sqlite3cpp::database` supports "attaching" mode that won't close a `sqlite3` instance after sqlite3cpp::database going out of scope. Here is an example for coexisting with SqliteModernCpp:

// db inited by SqliteModernCpp
sqlite::database db(":memory:");
{
sqlite3cpp::database attached_db(db.connection().get());
// create the SQL function as you like
attached_db.create_scalar("mutiply", [](int x, int y) {
return x * y;
});
} // attached_db is going out of scope

// SQL scalar function `multiply` is still availble
db << "CREATE TABLE numbers (n1 INTEGER, n2 INTEGER);";
db << "SELECT multiply(n1, n2) from numbers;";

Note that SqliteModernCpp provides customization of SQL function as well as sqlite3cpp. Though it doesn't seem to have aggregate function supporting
(i.e. sqlite3cpp::database::create_aggregate).
He wrote one of his best poems about St. Brendan: https://englewoodreview.org/poem-the-death-of-st-brendan-j-r...
Is wine bullshit?

https://priceonomics.com/is-wine-bullshit/
There are both good and bad animation from Netflix Originals. Castlevania was a treat particularly.
Also, apparently fifty percent of the world’s carbon emissions are produced by the world’s richest 10%: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/12/richest-10-percent-ca...
> Why compare the US to Europe?

Why wouldn't we compare the US to other places with similar GDP per capita?

> The US is roughly 60% Europe, 25% Latin America, 10% Africa and 5% Asia.

I'm not sure if you're trying to claim that people commit violent crimes at different rates based on their genetic makeup, or if you're you trying to claim that multicultural societies lead to more violent crime, but both claims are preposterous.

London and Singapore are giant multicultural melting pots, and tremendously safe. Even New York City is safer than many major European cities. (Really, look it up.)

Violent crime in city is the result of poor drug policy more than anything, not the city's ethnic demographics, nor gun laws.
I think the same can be said about most great powers. Maybe this whole nation state hegemony thing isn't such a good idea.
This is a lazy analysis. You can read that table as only men can be best CEOs or Americans are best CEOs.
There is a company called Urchinomics that is catching the purple urchins, then feeding them in a land based environment, then selling them worldwide as high quality uni.[1][2]

The reason this is critical is that purple urchins can effectively starve themselves and go into hibernation with a virtually empty body. This virtually empty body is not desirable for either (a) traditional fisherman or (b) any predators (e.g. even fish that eat urchin know to not eat the urchins that have overgrazed a kelp forest as they know they are empty.

If Urchinomics can get the unit economics to work out such that there is a financial incentive to catch a significant number of these urchin, that could change this situation.

[1] https://www.urchinomics.com/

[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/09/09/756929657/sa...
Also, was how the lunar rover handled cooling. Big block of wax used as a radiator. Well, not radiator exactly!
Almost anything you find on shelves of your local supermarket is going to be heavily procesed industrial wine. The price itself will determine use of more expensive/time consuming proceses, but at the end they are all just drink products.

If wine is just a drink for you than there is huge amount of good wines for $10 - $15. Nicely done, good products.

For me, huge wine nerd (and also owner/winemaker of small organic winery) the wine is more like a postcard from faraway place and book of poetry at the same time. I am sure I am not going to be able to tell difference between cheap and expensive wines sometimes, but that is not a point. There is a more into wine than primary aromatics if you want to dig deep into into.
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Well, you could always implement a fallback for unsupported devices and advertise for better performance on supported devices. Implementation will usually be "sponsored" by the one providing the technology. If the feature then gets adopted enough others will have to come up with something similar or support it native, too. This happens all the time with GPU and CPU vendors, both in gaming and industry.
I don't know about this - it seems to me that all you need to do to shut down a community that threatens you is harass it systematically. I think we should be looking at more intelligent solutions.
Turning clocks back is terrible for kids. A week of schooling is next to lost. Source: wife is a teacher.

Effect on adults is less pronounced, but it still puts a strain on us to shift our schedule by an hour.

... yet for what? Original reasons why this practice was started barely apply today. Light bulbs are efficient and we waste much more electricity in other ways. Let alone that many offices are lit up all day anyway.
Would that not make a great argument for more European integration in energy infrastructure?

Where Spanish solar, Danish and Dutch North Sea Wind, Norwegian Hydro, or Swedish Geothermal, power Poland on the days when its own wind and solar is below whats needed?

I'm from the Netherlands, and many fellow countryman and politicians have similar excuses for not going renewables (there is little Sun, no space for windmills). Both of which are easily debunked. But even if true, easily solved with better integration.
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> Tesla batteries are sweet, but ~22 days isn’t long enough if you’re off grid full time.

If you start running low you can stop letting it idle.

> More solar could be added, but there are some space and weight limitations on a vehicle.

It can be a problem if you're off-grid and moving around, yeah.

For general off-grid use it's annoying but not a big deal to set up an extra panel or two.
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So how about using revenue growth?
Same, my next upgrade from the Oculus v1 will probably be a valve index for this reason.
When you lack the ability to discern the quality of a product, the least expensive one will always win.
as a former rates quant, this is cute
At the point we have all that stuff in there are we really drinking "wine", or are we drinking some kind of alcoholic mixed drink? I personally would not expect, regardless of price point, that something I buy called "wine" has anything other than grapes and yeast, with maybe a bit of added sugar or honey.

After reading that article and the above comment I think I'd rather just mix some grape juice and vodka than some of that really cheap wine.
This is the second link I’ve seen recently to this website, and it’s pretty dumb that Wikipedia is required to find out what “BMJ” stands for or who they are. It’s literally not on their site.
(And yes, I’ve heard of “The British Medical Journal” but there’s Chinese in the footer, so “Beijing Medical Journal” also fits. I guess you just have to know already like you do with KFC)
In Planetes an old anime series of hard scifi which I loved there is an episode of exactly that, the protagonists need to recover a "space burial" coffin launched into deep space which accidentally after decades does a flyby of low earth orbit

So yeah, maybe, look forward to billionaires launching their dead bodies into space, after all that tesla car is still somewhere out there floating about heh
I recently replaced afl++ first with honggfuzz, but then llvm libfuzzer, which is superior in all aspects.

Much easier to use. Finds tons of bugs in seconds, not hours. Can be externalized to be run similar to a CI instance via oss-fuzz.
First I thought Radamsa was pretty cool, until libfuzzer replaced it. Best is to run all of them.

For the exploding state problem with cmdline options, I usually create a special executable which randomizes all available options.
> they have no choice to argue that point because they were driven to it deterministically

In the same vein: why bother running deterministic programs, if we know that their results are completely predetermined?
The Oculus Quest 2 is the most interesting standalone VR headset available. Unfortunately, it requires a Facebook login.

There was a competition to jailbreak the device to enable its use without handing your data to FB and it seems like there were several successful jailbreaks, but none of them were released to the public.

With a working jailbreak i would be very tempted to take advantage of the subsidized pricing of this device.
"I allowed this ip"
"I denied this ip"

that these are stored in a particular data structure isn't the important part IMO
Because believing things and taking a position are different things, maybe? It's actually one of the hallmarks of a cult (like wokeness) that to become a member, you must openly declare belief in obviously false things. Religions are another good example.
Yes, longer term. A new road doesn't help you today when you have to choose between paying the mortgage and buying groceries. Giving money directly to banks to cover their liquidity while people get thrown out of their homes because they can't pay their mortgages with the same banks is monumentally stupid and I don't give the people who made this decision the benefit of the doubt. If they are that stupid they are not qualified to be in their jobs.
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Still not particularly useful if we are comparing new companies to old ones. I'm sure the brand new oil companies of 1875 had incredible revenue growth in the ±20 years after their founding, too. Does that mean that oil men make the best CEOs?
> Is there a logical gate on the processor that does this?

It’s an ALU, way more complex than a logic gate (of which it’s composed), but yes fused multiply-add units are standard on every modern CPU. In fact if your processor is recent (more so than Haswell) odds are good it only has FMA FP ALU, no pure adder or multiplier.
> Vector graphics suck for artists

Someone mentioned Flash in this thread and that was a very approachable vector graphics tool. I don't know how many games translate to the vector style though - it's almost invariably a cartoonish look. The tools are very geometric so it just kind of nudges you towards that. Pixels these days are more like painting so it's no surprise artists like that workflow (they all secretly want to be painting painters).
The real game changer will be wide deployment of AR with comfortable lightweight glasses or at some point brain computer interfaces.
What you most sound (or read) like is an extremely angry, resentful human being who carries a nearly misanthropic disdain for others in contexts well outside the scope of the current pandemic. I genuinely feel sorry about your health situation but feeling outright hatred for the majority of relatively healthy people who do certain otherwise normal human things near you is a problem you have. It's definitely not a problem the rest of them should then "fix" by severely curtailing their ordinary behavior.
Before custom runtimes it was still possible to ship your own binaries and shell out to them from the official handler function.
Philips also sells an actual wake-up light alarm clock(s) (such as HF3519/01 ). They have smaller models too which probably would be OK to pack for travel.
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