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How do I find these movies? Amazon has some old, mostly low quality movies, but nothing good or recent. They got rid of the criterion collection years ago. Sincere question: How does one even find or acquire films today? I’d love to watch a movie, but literally don’t know how to go about it anymore. Netflix is not an answer as most of their content are not movies and basically spam to me.
I think these practices make sense for math-oriented code.
In particular, I don’t understand the last objection. When you read math, do you need to describe the letters and symbols with English phrases in your head, like “Calligraphic L...right arrow with double staff...bold italic a with squiggle on top....”?
I can understand most of Dillers complains but not this one:

"These streaming services have been making something that they call 'movies,' " he said. "They ain't movies. They are some weird algorithmic process that has created things that last 100 minutes or so."

I'd like to know why he disparages writers and directors who work on streaming movies this way and if it has any validity
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An example of significant solar gain would be a car sitting outside in sunlight. A surprising amount of modern architecture would work just fine as a greenhouse. Assuming a 9 hour workday it’s going to get well above ambient before you get home.
Blender Python scripts need to be shared under GPL (compliant) licenses
That's my understanding. It's how the OS accounts for the overhead that's unavailable. So if kernel_task is using 20% leaving 80% for userland, what's actually happening is your cpu is throttled to 80%.

It's also why it's the go-to to blame for performance issues - it's the symptom not the cause. Your laptop isn't running warm because kernel_task is at 80% - but vice versa.

Over 8 cores this figure can start to look crazy. (eg 80% kernel_task can be 8 cores * 10%)
I think the issue is not that he would have made the best/only chair and now isn't, but that it stifled any innovation that he might have provided by putting a high legal/monetary bar on any commercial endeavor. That is a loss, but we'll never know if it was vanishingly small or extremely large.
Just so everyone is on the same page: violating a building permit is a regulatory violation in essentially all of the the West, including the U.S. The differences are in the size of the monetary penalties that the jurisdiction will impose (and in some jurisdictions, the penalties may even require that unpermitted buildings or unmpermitted portions thereof be taken down, regardless of the amount of work performed).
> nearly as easy and pleasant as WinForms with VisualStudio

Check out Lazarus: http://lazarus-ide.org

It is WAY easier than WinForms. WinForms' VS "integration" feels as if they started with what Delphi 1 could do back in 1995 or so, implemented most of it and then decided that is enough.

Lazarus' GUI tools are way above and beyond anything WinForms can do and the underlying LCL is crossplatform using native widgets wherever possible with backends for Win32, Gtk1/Gtk2/Gtk3 (though Gtk2 might be the best ATM), Qt4/Qt5, Cocoa and a few others (Carbon, fpGUI and some Amiga toolkit).

Here is a video from 3 years ago where i make a simple sliding image puzzle game under Linux using it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_01Xhd2EJM

Also here is another video from 6 years ago where i make a 2D tilemap editor in Windows:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3JgeIUo1X0

And another video from ~10 years ago making a doodle app:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZuddi3zR_0
Also just the novelty of it, in a world where it went away for a bit.

If vinyl records can come back, Boutique films in a movie theater and maybe even rental stores can too.
At this point, is anybody even surprised Amazon is acting in such a way ?
Ironically, this is actually the improved policy. It actually used to be even more locked down and pretty much disallowed you from doing any game development at all.

Source: I previously worked at Amazon for many years.
Just renegotiate that. I'm convinced that copyrights > 25 years are not a limited time via the constitution, and thus the treaty isn't constitutional in the first place. Of course I'm not in a position to do anything about this.
I managed a pretty good theater setup in a dorm room, using a projector, mounted speakers, and a pull down projection screen.
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Chinese firm behind acquisition of the UK’s largest chip plant is state backed
Not necessarily bubbles, could be just supportive, encouraging communities.
Did PyTorch increase or decrease demand for ML developers?

Did Ruby on Rails increase or decrease demand for web developers?

Did C increase or decrease demand for systems programmers?

Automation and abstraction is a complement, not a substitute.

If CoPilot works and we get to focus on higher level goals and developer throughout increases, it will be good for developers and good for the world. I hope CoPilot succeeds.
Can you find examples of patents killing innovation? Sure. But the idea of a patent is to give the inventor time to bring the invention to market, and it would be impossible for any inventor to have the chance without the protections offered by patents. Show me an inventor that hasn’t obtained a patent that successfully out competed an established competitor that freely copied the inventor’s invention.

The USPTO doesn’t care about innovation, and it is not their job to care about that…so why the question and why now? Lobbying and special interests of the big companies.

If anything get rid of patent protections for big businesses, it’s not like a big tech or big pharma patent is what’s keeping the small guy from competing with them, but if the small guy can not protect their IP from being copied by big businesses then they will never be able to compete.
I don't think that's the spirit of that blog you pointed out. Redis is quite different from traditional databases. And so things work differently and some features may be important in RDBMS, might not be that useful in Redis because of how different they are.

I think the blog talks about that in two sections. "First reason to use rollbacks: concurrency" and "Second reason to use rollbacks: leveraging index constraints" says why it's different in Redis.

Going back to the car analogy, if you are an electric vehicle, some things are completely obsolete when compared with gasoline vehicle.
At least in my experience, what went wrong is that ordering machines didn't really improve the experience. Maybe compared to a bad cashier they're preferable. But other than that, they are much slower and less convenient than just telling another human what you want.

To use a fast food example, I somewhat regularly go to a McDonalds when we road trip (I have kids, don't shame me) and they have ordering screens. It takes easily 5x as long to answer all of it's questions about permutations on the meal I want than to just say "gimme a #2 with Dr Pepper, no pickles" to a cashier.

Maybe if they put in a proper voice assistant it would be better. But the touchscreen is not in any way a superior experience.
Oh definitely, systemic bias in general is a thing, and I think that as certain industries get more insular there are more opportunities for that to happen, whether it's intentional or not. Tech is not immune to that, socially or politically.

But the idea of "communities shouldn't moderate themselves", or what the GOP is proposing, which is that the government should decide how communities are allowed to moderate themselves -- that is in my opinion is just really contrary to the ideal of free speech. I think that there's a risk of confusing the dangers of disproportionate and centralized power (which is a real problem) with the idea of moderation or criticism or freedom of association in general, which are themselves fundamental parts of free speech.

So I just think that we need to be very careful and precise about exactly what is meant by a claim that companies like Facebook or Visa are threats to free speech. I do encourage people and communities to try and examine their unconscious bias and how that affects the systems that they build, I think that's important for everyone to do. But the proposals that are coming out of the GOP are doing a lot more than that, there's a difference between examining bias and direct intervention into how platforms are allowed to moderate.
> otherwise you'd have to say that TCP/IP is dead because I bet less than 10% of internet users know what that is and even less know how it works.

Barely any user knows about TCP/IP, but everybody uses it daily. Using the Internet basically means using this protocol stack.

The same cannot be said about RSS
Not in principle; but the current practice of accepting highly dubious patents with little or no scrutiny is only serving the least innovative companies.

The fix would be to make it more expensive to defend a patent and cheaper to challenge one instead of the current practice of flooding the system with dubious patents knowing full well that challenging them is prohibitively expensive and the scrutiny from patent offices is minimal. When companies exists whose sole purpose is accumulating and exploiting such patents for profit with absolutely 0$ budget for R&D, something is deeply wrong.

The fact that some judges seem to be unwilling to actually lift a finger to do anything about such companies is not helping either. E.g. Texas seems to be a preferred venue for patent extortion where patent trolls and judges pretty much openly work together. Some call this justice, I call it institutionalized corruption. Plain and simple. Maybe no money changes hands but it seems corporations are actively putting their fingers on the scales when it comes to electing judges into very lucrative jobs and everybody understands there's a quid pro quo. Just putting a stop to that would be helpful. Something is deeply wrong when shady companies can just buy "justice" like that.

This would incentivize companies to file better patents and only file those patents that they are actually willing to defend as opposed to filing numerous patents opportunistically in the hope that smaller competitors will settle out of court and pay a license fee rather than risking bankruptcy through the courts. This also would free up patent offices to actually do their job properly as opposed to dealing with a never ending flood of largely BS patents. Rejection rates ought to be much higher than they currently are.
Important to suss out the two issues, because they are in conflict:

1) EProctoring is bad when it does not work as intended (racism, getting people wrong, etc)

2) EProctoring is bad when it works exactly as intended.

The second is the bigger issue, IMHO. I refuse to use it categorically. We teachers need to learn to adapt to the current world. This means understanding that there is very little use for this kind of testing in general. Very few situations in life require rote memorization in a time sensitive environment where you can't talk to people or use the internet. Teachers, teach better.
The TCK is the really big one. It is not Free Software, and it more-or-less necessary to get a license for it in order to successfully maintain your own JVM. Look at what happened with Apache Harmony, for example.

There are also some potential patent encumbrances? I know less about that.

I also don't know for sure if IcedTea is still necessary to get a 100% open build of newer versions of Java (I'm still one of those incorrigible elements who's still on Java 8), but, at least historically, there was an appreciable chunk of the official OpenJDK distribution that was not, in actual fact, open.
Fair point. The only places where you can pay a lower price when using cash is at small convenience stores.
Yea, i'm quite liberal but in my perspective it's not about what works best - but what's most moral. To me capitalism runs by greed, which isn't a bad thing, but you can't depend on greed to be inline with moral based outcomes. Competition might be best, but how often do companies decide that competition is not in their favor? Frequently it's gamed/etc.

So my view is that anything that matters, like healthcare, should not be managed by capitalism. It can play a part, but something motivated by human good should be at the core of some decision making processes. Which capitalism is definitely not. Government has far to go, but capitalism has no place in moral based decision making. Imo.
I can't imagine people paying 450$ more for a handicapped computer because battery life. Do 90% of people use a computer without it being plugged in?

I can see 90% of people buying a logo. "I say 123 take your hand and come with me bc you look so fine that I really want to make you mine"
QR and Cholesky factorization (QR is the most versatile and is always stable, so usually a better first choice)
> I've read books where the steam engine were encased in explosives so that it couldn't be reversed engineered

Stop! You’ll give the HW companies ideas.
If I pay you to invent something, and you invent it, I expect to get it. I'm not paying you for the privilege of inviting you to my office. I'm paying you for the output of specific thoughts you have.
Coursera's Learning to Learn class by Barbara Oakley and her book "Mind for Numbers" [0] really changed my life. Can you point to specific courses and or books, from MIT's OpenCourseWare, that helped you become a confident learner?

[0] https://barbaraoakley.com/books/a-mind-for-numbers/
> But, it needs to be for real inventions that took time and effort to develop thru costly processes

Be careful with this. I have a friend who has a patent (might be expired by now) that basically came to be because I asked him a question about a battery charging design he wanted me to write some code for. It didn't make sense to me but in the process of explaining it, a lightbulb went off in his head and that was the basis of the idea. It's actually funny remembering the sudden excitement crossing his face as he realized he was on to something no one had thought of before (he had years of experience in the field).

At the time I was already an experienced EE and I can assure you that the idea was definitely "not obvious to a skilled practitioner in the field" but yet it didn't take much development (we had it working about a week later).

Found the patent here: https://patents.google.com/patent/US5894212A/en

[edit] looks like it's been cited by quite a few other patents since then! I never asked him how much he sold it for.
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Programmers are a weird bunch.

Look at stackoverflow for example. Thousands of programmers giving away their professional advice, spending their valuable time…for what exactly? Imaginary internet points?

Open source is another one: here’s my code that I’ve worked so hard on, spent countless hours on - please have it for free, my labor is worthless.

It’s like they’re actively seeking to bring their own value down.
So your depending on money and the law to define truth then.
Is it any more entitled than people running a corporation thinking that it is acceptable behavior to push for the government to imprison someone for making unauthorized copies of a film?

I think the original comment wasn’t really meant in sincerity, but rather serves to point out the absurdity of the whole situation.
Imho, if above comment were a reason to be fired at intel, then it really wouldn‘t be an organization worth working for.
This is how it works. The prices are different in different countries. Most countries have renewals due every year. Many countries have increasing costs each year, and costs vary between tens of dollars and thousands of dollars. Costs are also categorized between "Micro", "Small", and "Large" entities. Different countries use different numbers of these categories. The US uses all three.

Some countries have fees per claim in the patents.

In the US, the renewals are only due 3 times, every 3.5 years after the grant of the patent. The renewals cost $1,600 for the first renewal, $3,600 for the second, and $7,400 for the third. Those are for large entities. Small entities are half the cost, and micro are 1/4th the cost.

Renewal fees, world wide, are a non-negligible part of a legal department's fees, and abandonments do happen before they otherwise would because of the cost to keep non-useful patents around.
Only if you can ensure no one ever replaces what you wrote with their own solution.

You become critical in the short term, but also critical to the business to replace in the long term, in the same way that a vendor tripling their price often results in short term profits while customers transition off of them, leading to a long term decline in revenue.
I wonder if the USPO is asking about whether the idea of patents kills innovation, or the implementation does (e.g. how easily patents are granted, which things are eligible for patents (I know many people who think that patents are a good idea in general but generics and software shouldn't be patentable)).

Also, if patents were removed entirely, wouldn't that just benefit the largest companies? That is, whenever someone has a new idea, their idea would just be taken and most efficiently built by the largest companies, because those would be the ones with the most engineering, manufacturing, and marketing resources. What's to prevent that from happening?
Your story absolutely isn’t a counterexample.

It’s blind luck that the situation you described led to innovation. Even if it did lead to innovation, it still wasted a month of time that could have been invested in more impactful innovations. You were still forced to hold out on shipping for a month entirely due to the patent system.

The alternate ending to that story could have very easily (and more likely) been “we had to scrap the feature because there was no way to do it without violating the patent.” Or the result could have been that they only alternative you came up with was worse. Or the result could have been that you needed to pay the other company a licensing fee.

Essentially you just got lucky that the competitor didn’t think of the best idea first, because if they had you’d be forced to ship something inferior.

For example, Amazon patented buying something with one click. How do you propose innovating around that? You can’t, you have to license the patent from Amazon or add another step to your checkout process. There’s only one way for one click to buy something.
If it remains a "free" (perhaps monopolized but mostly unregulated) market, we can expect that behavior to continue.

Not everyone in society seems to be equally vulnerable to those algorithms. We might reasonably expect a Darwinian loss of populations who are. More hopefulñy, at least some people are able to outgrow such addictions.
Do you mean there is some kind of memory leak? Maybe you should try upgrading to the latest Redis. It's a lot more feature rich and powerful these days.
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The third option is basically Flutter. Maybe Rust guys would like to do some Flutter bridge?
Should've used <input type="range"> instead of reinventing that particular wheel. They may not have liked the need to use multiple vendor-specific pseudo-elements to style them.
The answers are in this article but not explicitly stated that way. It's JS for grownups (Stanford just switched) and Scratch for kids.

I think those are the right answers and I would propose MS MakeCode as a beautiful marriage of both.
I tend to agree, although I would contend the shift is really due to market segments with short product cycles.

With short product cycles, it doesn't take a that much calendar time for a monopoly to sputter.
No, I hold a technical role in a blockchain/crypto-currency company. It is well-paid, and the company is well-funded, but I plan to quit soon. I am tired of the superiority complex and greed of people working in this field.
> if you want GTK and you believe API stability is the most important thing then you should just use GTK3. The API there is frozen

That is certainly not a solution, you just postpone the problem.

The real solution would be the Gtk4 to be 100% backwards compatible at both the API and ABI level with Gtk3 and similarly with Gtk5, Gtk6, etc.

Otherwise you're just subscribing to wasting your time - it might be now or it might be 5 years from now, it doesn't matter however as it will happen unless the Gtk developers finally decide to stop breaking their library every few years.

(of course don't get me wrong, it is their library and they can do whatever they please with it, they are giving it for free and they are not beholden to anyone - however that doesn't mean others like to have their code broken and waste time that they could use to improve their applications instead)
My last job just claimed to own all copyright I produced period while I held that job. If I wrote a short story or a secret note to my family, they would own it. I left the company largely because it made me so uncomfortable
The "system working as intended" would mean that blatantly obvious ideas could not be patented in the first place.

There are only so many ways to do basic things. I'm sure most engineering students could come up with an algorithm to go from a point cloud to a set of polygons, and their algorithms would likely violate a bunch of Matterport's patents, because those patents are so overbroad.[0] That's not okay, in my opinion.

It's like the infamous Mobileye patent that patented the idea of using a camera and a computer to read a speed limit sign while a vehicle was in motion, and then to react to that speed limit in real time. It is written so generically that there is literally no obvious way to avoid violating that patent if you want to have a self-driving vehicle (or vehicle with a strong ADAS) react automatically to posted speed limit signs. As human drivers, we are essentially violating that patent every time we read a speed limit sign, but somehow it's different when a human does it with their eyes (cameras) and brain (computer)?

[0]: Keeping in mind that I am, of course, not a lawyer. Maybe a lawyer would find those patents to be far more specific and complex than I did when I was doing some research, and therefore anyone can implement scene reconstruction without fear of judgment. If that were true, that would be nice.
Welp, glad I saw this. I have an application in with Amazon and a code assessment they sent me I was planning to complete in the next few days. But I also make little video games in my spare time. Time to retract my application.
Agreed. Everybody talks about encrypting backups like it's common sense, but almost nobody talks about the risks involved with failing to back up the encryption key itself properly. The entire integrity of the backup then depends on that sensitive piece of data, and it's not something that can be openly shared by its nature, or included in the encrypted backup itself. It's even deceptive if your measure for success is restoring the backup to make sure it works properly, because there is now an implicit assumption that the encryption key is still valid and undamaged the next time you restore.

I wish backup tools like Duplicity would warn you about the risks of encrypting backups instead of warning the user if they disable encryption, because encryption has the possibility of rendering all those backups useless when the moment to use them finally comes.

I have a similar feeling that large swathes of my digital life would be rendered permanently inaccessible if 2FA was enabled and my device was rendered inoperable. (That's why I keep meticulous physical backups of emergency keys.) I think 2FA and the like should be considered a tradeoff with its own inherit risks and benefits, instead of a universally better option than randomly generated 80-character passwords alone.
https://openjdk.java.net/groups/conformance/JckAccess/