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Full Throttle remains one of my favorite point and click adventures ever.

I love how cinematic it is. I love the voice overs, the noir-clichè tone ("when I'm on the road I'm indestructible. No one can touch me. But they try..."). I absolutely love the soundtrack, "Legacy" is awesome and it fits the game to a tee.

I love how funny the game is, yet how emotional it can get. I love Ben and Moe as characters. I love that you cannot get stuck in this game. I love that it is about bikers.

I love that you get to say "you know what would look good on your nose? The bar!" (and push an uncooperative bartender's face to the bar). I love that Ben is a tough guy, not some helpless Roger Wilco type.

I absolutely fucking love Full Throttle.

Whenever I smell asphalt I do, indeed, think of Maureen.. and trouble.
theres a lot of talk about bias skewing our expectations, which leads to discussions about why we "probably" expect certain outcomds, and if we "update our priors" we could better adjust our thinking to the available outcomes.

i think he might be confusing the analog vs digital of probability assessment. one may be able to catalog outcomes into bins of good and bad and neutral, then count up each bin and predict the type of outcome.

but those bins are still just filled with discrete expectations and because of that, what matters more is your ability to imagine various outcomes based on some expansive maze like pathfinding.

so one way to interpret it is that no one has a bayesian thought process (eg, this outcome is 80% probable) but the more useful conception is that one can learn to identify appropiate categories of important outcomes and sort out scenarions into these minimally differentiable outcomes and come up with a derivative probably of a good, bad or neutral outcome and not any discrete scensrio.
The parent comment of this comes across as making a lot of negative assumptions.

The role was for coding, software-based testing, and test equipment.

I have a BS EECS from a top 50 university (passed on Ivy/Pac12 because none of them appealed to me) but didn't do a PhD because of the economic disincentives. There's no benefit to it other than being elitist.

I have a trinocular microscope w/ polarized light source, hacked Siglent scope, Fluke 289, random HP/Agilent/Keysight gear, a JBC clone station that works close-enough to the real thing, and have deep EE experience since I was very little. I know a bit about HBED (static) and proper mitigation in assembly/manufacturing, rework, and testing.

Father owned an electrical automotive shop, I did some HeathKit projects, and spent hours learning on those spring wire electronics kits. I could solder by the age of 11. These days, I mess around with IoT projects for things around the house. I'll make my own plated via'ed PCBs at home if I want a really compact solution, and 3D print a case.

My SRE (DevOps + SWE) resume makes recruiters horny. I wrote a Java to MIPS compiler, ported a nuclear reactor simulator to Windows, fixed crappy intern code for the embedded firmware of a GPS product line, designed/specified/acquired hardware/software solutions to run university research projects, cloudified an HPC setup for a university, lead sysadmin (de-facto CTO) for a $150m budget / 400 staff Ivy/Pac12 business division, and a number of things I can't remember right now. Oh, I've done the CTO role in several startups and client-facing Fortune 200 enterprise generalist technology consulting previously, including AWS consulting.

Currently, I'm a senior SRE also known as a PE in one of the FAANG.
If one party is willing to pay higher prices, isn't it basic Free Market Economics to say that it's good that the housing supply is now going to the people who value it higher?

You keep talking about how this is bad for some people, but that just means a tradeoff is being made, and you're not making any argument that it's a bad tradeoff. Why are the tourists "entitled" but the locals somehow aren't?

(Honestly curious here - real estate economics seem to run by different rules and I've never understood why this is so bad)
This is the type of article that hacker news was made for!

It would be cool if you could print console controllers that mold to the players exact hand dimensions (a teenager and adult have very different hands)
Good. Of all the people who deserve to be disrespected in death, Anthony Bourdain is at the top of the list. I hope the filmmakers use the profits to dig up his corpse and literally shit on his dead body.

Fucking cunt of a human being, glad he offed himself too. He deserved to die for the fucking shithead bully he was. Anyone with half a brain could see he was a shithead little bully, yet so many dumb cunts are acting like he was such a major inspiration, venerating someone who was clearly a mean son of a bitch. Fuck him, and if you liked him, fuck you. Go think about why you liked some asshole who constantly tried to bully other people.
FARC is not the rebel alliance.
It's just as likely, perhaps more likely, that it will mutate to a less deadly form.
You sound like a real shithead. Fuck you.
> if I was capable of getting those clauses put in my contract when I was 24, others were too)

> It is true that employees, especially lower-level employees, don't always have the leverage to change the contracts they sign (especially at larger companies)

Confused, so do you think this is practical for people or no? There are only so many 3-person startups to go around that would change any terms for anybody...
She's not his widow, she's his estranged ex-wife.

I should hope people's ex-wives don't get authority over their lives later (unless it's related to kids/shared-assets/etc).

The family giving consent is way more relevant.
It's a great idea. It just doesn't work. HDDs don't have the right performance characteristics, unfortunately.

You can do about 300 random access per second on a good HDD, which isn't enough to keep up with Ethereum's transaction rate, and each transaction needs quite a few of those each.

You can do about 300,000 per second on NVMe. 1000 times faster. That's plenty.
I am well aware $200k is nowhere near the median wage.

The person I replied to wrote “How is anyone ever supposed to climb the ladder like that?”. Seeing as no one is “climbing the ladder” from earning a median wage their whole life, I looked at the tax rate for an “upper middle” wage salary (which anyone can earn even if their parents had 0 wealth).

Since tax rates for a median salary are much lower than this, I am not sure how it contradicts my point.
You're one step away from the venerable buildroot. You get deterministic builds of complete OSs from the Linux kernel up.
How do you do this when contracts are signed digitally nowadays?
Amazon asked Apple to remove an app that spots fake reviews, and Apple agreed
The only bad thing about Full Throttle is the iPhone adaptation has a critical bug that hasn’t been fixed in years. It makes me sad. I want to play it again.
What happens if you leave California for a couple days and do a bit of work in another state without a similar clause?
The Long Road to Linux-Only
This has to be one of the 3D printing "killer apps." 3D printing may have made prototyping an overall better experience, but something like this simply wouldn't have been done without it.
Inducement has a specific legal definition in this context that may not align with the dictionary definition (one of the many reasons nobody should represent themselves). Regardless of opinion here, the US legal system is based on common law, meaning that courts are bound by precedent. The precedent is that the state would have to coerce someone, bribe someone, threaten someone or otherwise compel them to commit a crime they otherwise wouldn't in order to mount this affirmative defense.

> In this case, a "simulated drug transactions" proceeds was presented by the Government, thereby bringing all the factors into place for a crime that wouldn't have happened except for the Government having facilitated it.

The idea is that the government didn't force you to engage in this activity, you chose to - they merely provided a venue. Therefore you would have chosen to engage in the same way had the government not been that one that afforded you the opportunity. It was your propensity to criminality.

Similarly, if the government hands me a gun and asks if I want to shoot someone, then I do, I'm very much still guilty of murder. It's no different in these cases just because the action was more 'white collar.'

I would encourage you to check out the comic @papercrane linked: https://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=633

I'm not a lawyer and I am 100% confident this is not entrapment.

> ... yet we have a special caste of people that are hyper specialized in making the determination whether something is conclusively illegal or not.

Indeed which is why if I ever start a money services business, I'll be hiring an attorney.
i hope this negative review doesn't affect it's sales
Don't have kids myself, but...how can parents feel good about having the lowest paid workers watch over their kids?

If I made $9 or even $15 an hour at a day care center, you can be sure I wouldn't give a fuck about the kids.
Except Kamau Bobb, who was simply removed from
Doing diversity activities at Google but still employed here.
To a point.

I think being credited with empowering right wing nuts can blowback though.
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." - Frank Herbert (Dune)
> isn't it basic Free Market Economics to say that it's good that the housing supply is now going to the people who value it higher?

This assumes basic free market economics is good in all cases, which is not something I agree with. Especially with something this is an essential need (living residences) and in a finite supply.

> Why are the tourists "entitled" but the locals somehow aren't?

I mean, the locals actually live and work there. The tourists don't. They come in, do what they want and leave. They want to live like a local while they're there, though, even though they're not locals. And them living like a local actually harms the real locals. It's the entitlement that they feel that they should live as if they're members of the community when they're not, and that it happens at the expense of the residents of the town.

I find it hard to believe someone is "entitled" to be able to live like a local in their own town.

> (Honestly curious here - real estate economics seem to run by different rules and I've never understood why this is so bad)

Because it destroys the housing market for the residents of the town/city. Driving up prices for them, and driving them further out of the city, etc. Lots of negative externalities come from it for the people who actually need to live and work there.
>A company does not have the power of the state to impose its will on me.

Yet.
For example, Sony Walkman price range is $45 - $8500, https://electronics.sony.com/audio/walkman-digital-recorders...
Hofstadter came to Apple in 1987 and spoke on this exact topic. I gleaned two things out of it at the time:

- He looks and sounds so much like Gilligan from Gilligan’s Island that I found it distracting.

- His ideas about analogies in computing were incredibly vague.

I am a big fan of the guy. Godel, Escher, Bach was the first book that really taught me what logic is. But it’s fascinating to reflect on how little computing has advanced with regard to practical analogizing.

GPT-3 is a parlor trick. Making vapid systems that fool people who aren’t thinking deeply is not going to end in successful general AI.

I predict, when the day comes that real general AI lands, we will discover that it is chronically manic or depressed or otherwise uncooperative. We will have re-invented teenagers. And we will never, ever be able to safely trust them.
Ahh yes, but we're talking about it now aren't we?
Don't make a fuss yourself. Just cross out the bit that says you've read some other mystery documents and sign the truthful version. Let the receptionist be the one to make a fuss.
We need and will (and also do) have other alternatives. But as soon as it grows big enough to get public attention, censorship will come. Cause majority wants that.
Hofstadter has had some grad students since then in this research program, though I don't have the links handy. There are several code repos at https://github.com/fargonauts/ though, plus another Copycat implementation I ran across: https://github.com/jalanb/co.py.cat
...Actually, that's a real problem in the financial services sector. You can't satisfy KYC requirements without an address of record.

Off topic, but I'm jumping around a bit tonight.
Man that's extreme. I wish I had the guts to do that. Good on you!
"Editor"? He is a researcher who stopped the spread of WannaCry.

Here are other examples of google claiming researchers wrote the malware that they were trying to stop: https://twitter.com/MalwareTechBlog/status/14155321465931735...
There's a difficulty with testing perceived color by using a computer display, which is that the "blue" is the spectrum of the blue pixels, whereas the "blue" receptors in your eye may have a different spectral response.

Where I've noticed weird things with blue are with blue sources that have fairly short wavelengths, such as some of the blue LEDs used in Xmas tree lights, and the old blue lights that were on police call boxes. Both of those are very hard for me to focus on.
you can leave the phone ecosystem the same way you can leave society at will.
That is true in general. But 1. unsafe code in the standard library is of course more battle-tested than ad-hoc unsafe code, and 2. there are efforts to formally verify Rust. http://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/ and https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/announcing-the-formal-veri...
All true, but I never liked this explanation. How do you use it to analyze a given circuit?

With the infinite gain concept you can use a limit to calculate the behavior of any circuit.
Check out the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos if you live near Silicon Valley. It has some amazing military tech from the 50s and 60s. Some of the aircraft have to be seen to be believed.
We'll see. Stablecoins are a workaround for the current price fluctuations, if the cryptos stabilize they might replace the stablecoins at some point in the future.
Paxos vs. Quorum-Based Consistency
You're making the mistake of assuming morality from your current time, place, and culture is universal morality. You find slavery morally objectionable because the current cultural understanding is that slavery is morally objectionable. Future obedm might find it equally abhorrent that you, for example, routinely consumed the flesh of sentient animals or openly released carbon into the atmosphere for personal gain, or probably a million other things that will be completely unimaginable in polite society 500 years from now.
Bitcoin is a fancy pants Ponzi scheme.
That’s fine… Randomly similar photos will occur in the real world just as much, so the good results for these will carry over.
> US politics has largely revolved around the prevention of interracial relationships for at least a century and a half

What
Out of curiosity: suppose a modern tank was (magically) transported to WWII. Would it be essentially invincible against the weapons of that era?

(Addendum: I do appreciate that repeated weapons impacts will degrade any type of armor over time.)
Bitcoin isn’t lumber.
Norway is the quintessential don’t get high on your own supply oil dealer. Subsidize green energy while fueling the world. NIMBY.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-norway-sweden-electricity...

98% power comes from renewable energies. Quite impressive.[2] They were in 13th place last year for oil production and about the same as Saudi Arabia if you look at per capita oil production. Per capita they are on par with most middle eastern countries.[3] Only difference is they fund their country via the oil fund not some monarch kleptocracy family.

[2] https://www.regjeringen.no/en/topics/energy/renewable-energy...

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_pro...
I'm really curious about the photogrammetry. It seems to share similarities with computed tomography only it's probably mostly for visible light with opaque surfaces. Like computed tomography, you can design a rotating gantry for your detector(s). Are there hobbiest versions of these?

For the software doing the actual reconstruction, is there anything like a radon transform underlying the algorithm used to recover the object? Or does that only work with attenuation?
I don’t see the big deal. When watching, let’s say, a Ken Burns documentary about The National Parks, they’ll have a guy who sounds as much like John Muir as possible, reading letters he wrote. They don’t add a single footnote or disclaimer anywhere in the film that it’s not John Muir speaking. You’re just supposed to know it’s someone impersonating what they think he sounded like. If it was AI instead of a voiceover actor, that would be the same thing to me, within the context of a documentary, where you’re trying to express that the guy that is communicating is the guy who’s voice you’re supposed to be listening to.
Analogies are a type of cognitive jig.

https://blog.cabreraresearch.org/jf
> It's orders of magnitude of orders of magnitude less energy to communicate with (including obscuring your origin, if you want) than destroy a civilization.

IIRC The Dark Forest addresses this directly - saying that wiping out a civilization must be cheap and casual. There's a chapter where an alien scout detects Earth, puts a dimensionality attack cartridge in a gun or something, launches it and goes on with their business.
"Vacation is accrued over the first year" and it turns out that means you can't take any vacation for a year. Benefits cost more than they would through the exchanges...and they get a kickback when employees do not use the insurance, so it's a moneymaker for them. Also, the insurance requires disclosing all health conditions on an unprotected form that goes to HR creating an incentive for hiring younger and healthier people. There is a core group of long-serving employees and a revolving door for others. "Family" atmosphere in general--that is not a model for a workplace, it is a model for a family.
Unlikely. The country that has done most development so far has probably been Japan.

They have managed small scale recovery, but nobody here is very confident deep ocean mining of clathrates will ever be economic.
"At what point is AI generated stuff like this libelous?"
Honestly a good question
Despite the hype around certain newish languages, and their promoters' desperation to denigrate what they see as the competition, C++ usage is still growing very, very fast. In any given week, more people pick up C++ for the first time than have ever heard of the new ones.

Up until the pandemic hit, for several years running, more people attended each ISO C++ Standard meeting (in places as far-flung as Hawaii and Prague) than any previous meeting. Attendance at C++ conferences, and at the same time the total number of C++ conferences, including for smaller and smaller regions, has shot up year after year.

So any perception that C++ use is in decline, or even not exploding, is wholly a product of propaganda. C++ people code while others hype.
Yes, but if you want the generator to power your house as if nothing had happened, the details of installing it are both complex and important. You'll need an electrician and a decent-sized checkbook.
On the face it seems like CPU manufacturers should be able to put actual performance numbers out; until we realize that the temperature characteristics - and therefore performance - are non-deterministic.

This fact allows hardware RNG from thermal emissions on consumer grade CPUs to output at least 3 megabits of 'entropy' per second. The same as 3,000,000 coin flips.

I may be misunderstanding what is going on, though.
Bad Apple!
This was covered pretty extensively last year as a brushing scam, so it’s odd the article still paints this as an unsolved mystery.

https://www.newsweek.com/mystery-seeds-china-brushing-scam-1...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/08/04/free-amazon-...

https://fortune.com/2020/07/30/what-is-brushing-scam-china-m...
Everytime this question is asked, it leaves me more confused than before.

Finally I just settled for RemNote.

My answer is, just try out the alternatives out there and choose what suits you. There is no ONE alternative that fits everyone's requirements.
Just last month, Norway made changes to it's Advertisement Act, that states:

"The advertiser, and the person designing the advertisement, shall further ensure that the advertisement where a body's shape, size or skin has been changed by retouching or other manipulation, shall be marked."

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https:/...
Does this only affect people with Blue eyes ? As someone with utterly black eyes, I don't have a problem looking at glowing blue signs and don't find them fuzzy either.
We're not talking about being fat, but eating suger to the point you neet to start taking medication to keep the suger in your blood from ripping your veins apart. At some point there's some personal responsibility. It takes more than a little suger added to your food to do that.
It might seem like a lot but it is not enough to betray the FSB, even if you defected/emigrated. Clearly they've demonstrated their capability to strike targets in other countries. $10M can't buy enough security or safety and who wants to look over their shoulder for the rest of their lives?
Can confirm that the only way I could buy a subscription tool would be with my own money, they stress of buying it at work would be insane. Every monthly credit card charge would require someone to code it against the requisition, have that approved, then file in the records management system. Just purchasing software once is painful. We haven't even got to the part about installing it. You can imagine their happiness about mitmproxy.

Generally I try to buy the tool and three years of support upfront. Otherwise I'm at risk of it being deleted because we can't have software if it doesn't have a support contract 'in case there are bugs'. These rules are written by cretins in 'IT' and accountants.

Anyway, put the bit about flexible licencing on your order page.
So tell me in what realistic scenario can any of the tech companies “impose their will on me”?
Well, it's not like he will stop or governments will move against him. Him dying is the only thing that will stop him from doing what he's doing, if you don't want him doing it.
Tesla Releases Full Self-Driving Subscription ($199/Month)
So tell me in what scenario can any of the large tech companies put me in jail, take away my money or arrest me?
Similar era and state school and I had a 3.99 gpa, and I only got 1 offer. Most companies are more thirsty for experienced devs.
I have been using Joplin + WebDAV.

Multi device, conflict resolution

Another good tool is ZimWiki but the limitations of desktop only applies .

But to me cross device Joplin works brilliantly.
Perhaps this could help: https://hackaday.io/project/18140-serial-to-parallel-printer...
Arab countries are those where the majority of people speak Arabic. Iran is not an Arab county, but Iraq is. Turkey is not an Arab country, but Egypt is.
> That means you can lay claim to an exact bill, just like with Bitcoin.

Hmm? AFAIK there's no such thing as a particular bitcoin it's all just totals in the ledger that is the blockchain.
Bad Apple! Rotten From Inside.
> But hey, you can instead distribute with Epic, a storefront so advanced it doesn't even have a shopping cart.

Which is kind of odd, since the Unreal Marketplace in the same launcher does have a shopping cart.
>However, since then it's been widely accepted

It's not widely accepted at all, except maybe in the small circle of Silicon Valley elites whose ideas align with yours politically.