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99% of games I play work with Proton, or Lutris, which is great most of the time. However, it's the small amount of time when something stops working or needs small config tweaks that really annoy me, as they cut into my gaming time.

Also, setting up games can be a little bit of a faff. For example, wanting to play FFXIV, well, nothing worked at all. I had to go into the config file and skip the cutscene, and also change the launcher to the old launcher. Now, that doesn't seem like much, and it isn't, but the first time I had to do that took me hours to figure out.
Storing content in a structured way – Content as a Service platforms
ManiSkill: Benchmark for Generalizable Manipulation Skills
Nice! Haven't heard about this before, must be something really new?

Anyways given extremely high syscall cost due to Meltdown workarounds, batching multiple operations makes more and more sense.
Related discussion from 5 days back:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27978463
> I don’t have as much issue with this particular switch as I do with the taped together ball of aggregated mud that is the existing set of git commands.

You're expecting the impossible. The current set of commands isn't great, everyone agrees on that, but they're too engraved in the minds of millions of developers to change. Thus, to solve the problem, the git developers come up with a new set of commands. By definition they won't be consistent with the current set of commands, as they're meant to solve the problems the current set has.

You have an issue with the new commands not being compatible, but you also have an issue with the old commands, that the new commands would replicate if they were compatible. What do you actually expect the developers to do?
I had to review someone's PR for one interview. Ultimately I failed it because me feedback focussed solely on implementation details and asking if there are better ways to solve the problem (with some suggestions as a nudge). Apparently, that was fantastic and showed all the qualities of good coaching...but they expected me to point out all of the instances of poor indentation and other aesthetic things. My justification that it was unimportant and that running rubocop would fix it wasn't good enough - the PR had to know all of the nitpicks.

You know, if I had to do that for every PR I reviewed, I'd be burned out in no time.

It was a shame, but if I didn't flunk that interview then I wouldn't be where I am now.
PfSense is not a bad fall-back IMHO (^_^)
Happy to see that many recruiters have lost touch with reality..

Is there a curated list of simpler, more human, more efficient for both parties, companies ?
Yeah, I mostly agree. I'm on a niche interest-based Discord server with about 20 other people and it feels exactly the same as it did on IRC 20 years ago, except that I can do it on my phone and I don't miss anything when I'm not connected.

People really look at this stuff through some bizarre rose-tinted glasses. IRC, Something Awful, etc. were on average just as toxic if not worse than the average modern-day online community.
Long Live Closed-Source Software (2007)
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Actually I agree with you as I would not be able to program much without Google today. But many reported here about interview situations where they had like white paper and task to develop something. It is something they never face in real work.
iacr.org is for cryptography-related papers, and a lot of pre-prints go there. I think a lot of them don't get to Arxiv.

Not one of the maintainers, just an avid follower :)
Then do it in a different way. Phrase it as a toy pull request that the reviewer has to review, and let that contain everything from minor syntax errors to logic errors to missing core stuff (like missing test cases).
> "Stick something in the way of the drivers seeing the thing from the road, and you’ve cured the problem."

Rubbernecking is not the only problem. The existing A303 road splits the Stonehenge landscape in half. The whole ambiance of Stonehenge is kind of ruined by the roar of the trunk road running right next to it.
IPV6 was a colossal mistake, with its 128 bit host addresses.

But IPV4 was also a huge mistake, with its 64 bit host addresses.

We should have stuck with NCP, with its 8 bit host addresses.

Everything started going downhill once there could be more than 256 hosts on the ARPANET.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Control_Program
I am in the 1 percent !
I'm not saying that's a bad thing. Google usually has a good reason for what they do (not everyone is always happy with the reason, but Google can always explain why they do stuff).

I come from an embedded background, and understand that.
So just to unpack this a little - there's a lot of different mechanisms going on in neural computation.

For instance one of those is spike-timing dependent plasticity. Basically the idea is that the sensitivity of a synapse gets up-regulated or down-regulated depending on the relative timing of the firing of the two neurons involved. So in the classic example, if the up-stream neuron fires before the down-stream neuron, the synapse gets stronger. But if the down-stream neuron fires first, the synapse gets weaker.

Another one is synchronization. It appears that the firing frequency of groups of neurons which are - for instance representing the same feature - become temporally synchronized. I.e. you could have different neural circuits active at the same time in the brain, but oscillating at different frequencies.

Another interesting mechanism is how dopamine works in the Nucleus Accumbens. Here you have two different types of receptors at the same synapses: one of them is inhibitory, and is sensitive at low concentrations of dopamine. The other is excitatory, and is sensitive at high concentrations. What this means is, at a single synapse, the same up-stream neuron can either increase or decrease the activation of the down-stream neuron: if the up stream neuron is firing just a little, the inhibitory receptors dominate. But if it's firing a lot, the excitatory receptors take over, and the down-stream neuron starts to activate more. Which kind of connection weight in an ANN can model that kind of connection?

My overall question would be, do you think back-propogation and markov chains are really sufficient to account for all that subtlety we have in neural computation, especially when it comes to specific timing and frequency-dependent effects?
What about Hamas's charter?

https://fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/880818.htm

" Israel, by virtue of its being Jewish and of having a Jewish population, defies Islam and the Muslims. "Let the eyes of the cowards not fall asleep." "

I posted it above and was downvoted. This quote, and the rest of their charter is filled with crazy stuff.
There are moments in life when I wish everyone was forced to learn NATO phonetic alphabet early in school.

"Charlie Hotel Mike Oscar Delta Seven Seven Seven".

The reason to cram into people a standard spelling alphabet is that it minimizes confusion over the usual "see as in $random-first-name". The reason to standardize on the NATO one is that it's already an international standard, and a subset of the population that goes to work with anything resembling a radio transceiver will have to learn it anyway.
Most of this are factually untrue. Do you use mac? Like you can play music with VLC and use VS Code or soma JetBrains IDE. Most developers who use mac never launched Xcode, because, you know, it is mainly to make iOS/macOS apps, and it by far the best tool I seen to make mobile apps.

Do you often run ML jobs on workstations? Why? Yes, macs are not great for gaming, oh well.
For this kind of situations xkill is marvelous.

I've used Windows xKill [1] for years, but I can't find a download link for which you don't have to sign in...

Alternatively, SuperF4 [2] looks decent, also with a separate CLI only xkill found in the github issues [3].

[1] https://www.deviantart.com/suprvillain/art/Windows-xKill-100...

[2] https://stefansundin.github.io/superf4/

[3] https://github.com/stefansundin/superf4/issues/39#issuecomme...
> The reason they want to remove the risk is because it takes years to prune bad talent.

I've never understood this given that the hiring is so often at will.
The treatment of Alibaba and Ant group is enough to reach the conclusion that Xhi Jing Ping doesnt think highly of these companies. They do add value but these are middlemen companies that part is correct, but that isnt the reason for this clampdown. I think that with the rise of Charismatic Entrepreneurs who have millions of followers both nationally and internationally they command a lot of followign and respect which directly threatens and undermines the Supreme leader. That may not be acceptable to CCP, as it poses a threat to long term viability of CCP, the future is technology driven and thus would be more and more important to the future of the nation and of its people, such decisions in CCP's mind cannot be left to the private sector. If they do China may turn into Oligarchy like Russia or a seemingly democratic Oligarchy like US.
No need to project your hysterical fears unto others. Your unfounded claims have been thoroughly debunked by skepticalscience.com [1] [2], together with all the other arguments [3].

[1] https://skepticalscience.com/global-warming-scientific-conse...

[2] https://skepticalscience.com/co2-higher-in-past.htm

[3] https://skepticalscience.com/argument.php
An interview with Nehru. Not to prove anything..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdkRwYkkSxk
It's not just Tor, their DDoS protection fails with JavaScript disabled, so sites that strictly enforce it (e.g. linuxquestions.com) are effectively censored for UAs with scripting disabled.
Notes from the Architect (2016)
What exactly do you disagree with?

I don't need novel thoughts to be stating facts.

Let's see, 2+2=4. Classic (well at least since arithmetic was invented). Do you take that to be false?

Bring counter-arguments, not sarcasm please. If anything the recent revelations show my point was hitting a little too close to home.
One of the more interesting aspects is that the idea of what (enterprise) 'architecture' is, depends on who you talk to. There is an interesting relation between agile and architecture.

https://ea.rna.nl/2018/09/01/agile-teaches-us-the-true-meani...
>And if you have a job already, why would you bother to apply there? It used to be attractive but is it still? With all the scandals and upheaval in the recent years?

$$$
Amazed by the shear infrastructure size to host the solution. Requires two 42U racks!

What's missing is the date of the manual, assuming it's maybe 8-12 years back? Would be interesting to see an up-to-date product manual and how these threat-enablers evolve over time.
> Instead of asking, "Is there a God", ask first, "Does anything matter in any meaningful sense?".

That's moving the goalposts and completely avoiding GP's argument. Interesting viewpoint nonetheless.
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Erik Demaine (approx spelling) has a course on origami folding too. Mit opencourseware IIRC

I'd love to know if people blended origami, pepakura and mechanics
I remember over a decade ago interviewing at a bank and being asked how much experience I had with [insert list of systems] and integrating data specifically between two of those systems. I had never even heard of any of the systems on the list. Got home and Googled them, nothing. Called up a friend who worked there and he told me those were internal names for their systems, no one who did not work there would have any idea what they were, and he was shocked they were asking about them using their internal names during interviews. Oddly enough, one was just an Oracle data warehouse fed by Informatica ETL and generating Cognos reports, and I had experience with all of that technology, but answered "no" when asked if I had experience with "the Pulsar system".
> "It's unfortunate that the ancient Britons built Stonehenge pretty much exactly where you'd want a motorway from Exter to London to run."

I remember seeing a documentary once that argued this was no accident. Stonehenge was a site meant to be visited, centrally located and easy to access. The route of the A303, more or less, has likely existed since ancient times, pre-dating Stonehenge.
Agile teaches us what Architecture _really_ is
NFT Projects You Must Know in 2021
Besides NFTs, the article talks about the best crypto NFT projects and the upcoming NFT projects that are expected to revolutionize the NFT market.
Not one person ever code reviews code that was not already compiled. Requiring you know the syntax of a programming language (in my case, Swift, changes syntax in every release) outside of a compiler is pointless. I remember in the early days of J2EE people asking you for the home interface of an EJB stateful session bean. Like who the hell cares about memorization in the era of Google, and that was 20 years ago when Google did no evil. This isn't first year computer programming 101, you are paid to make things that work, not regurgitate syntax.
> By Brave's own confession, there are 70 requests it sends "home" on startup…

"Confession" is a curious choice of words. You're correct that Brave issues requests on startup; this is necessary for a secure application. If your browser isn't updating its internal list of suspected-malicious domains and more, it isn't doing "security" properly.

> There is plenty of opportunity for your data to be stored and used (not saying that it is).

To what "data" are you referring? You cited my review of our (Brave) network activity, and that of many other browsers; which data/requests do you find to be worrisome?

A similar review was conducted in 2020 by Trinity College Dublin, which also found Brave to be the "most private" browser tested (even with these startup requests): https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf.

> …each of them [network requests] contains your PII (IP address at the very least).

An IP address is rather unavoidable. But whether or not an IP address constitutes PII is debatable—many users can (and do) share common IP addresses.

That said, we drop the IP address when and where possible. For example, usage requests are routed through a CDN which replaces the user's IP address with their inferred country.

Brave has no interest in trying to remotely monitor anybody's browsing habits; if we did, you (and/or those who actively monitor our project, looking for faults) would see clear signals in our network activity.

Instead, everything we do is designed from the outset to preclude this type of abuse. That's the case with our Privacy-Preserving Product Analytics (https://brave.com/p3a), our Private CDN (https://brave.com/brave-private-cdn/), and more. Brave isn't interested in your personal information; we have built a business model that doesn't rely on the harvesting of user data.

> The only way to actually trust a browser from a privacy standpoint is to check if it is indeed not transmitting any data.

This is a great point. Please review our network requests, and let me know which items give you concern. We're genuinely interested in your feedback.

> Disclaimer: I am in the business of creating a privacy respecting, zero-telemetry, browser. This topic is near and dear to my heart.

I'm curious how your product handles security; do you not maintain a client-side list of suspected-malicious domains (so that you can warn a user who might be stumbling into something harmful), or check for updates to patch zero-day vulnerabilities in the wild, etc.? Both of these (and more) require routine network requests if they are to offer any effective defense for the user.
> even the HR guy on the phone recognized it makes no sense to call me over it ...

Well, he had a quota to fill so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

There are situations where the market can be spectacularly efficient. Outsourcing hiring to third parties is definitely not one of them.

In this case, big companies can afford broken interview process, because it's not their time that's being wasted, and the inertia of a big corporation can hide a lot of inefficiency.
They used the acronym CRDT and explicitly asked for comparisons to it.

Don’t let the curse of not reading be an excuse to be rude to people.
The android versions mentioned point to 2012/2013
10$ bet: nobody was disappointed by win95 latency when booting their old 586 era machine
Covered here, consensus is more likely to be conservative:

https://skepticalscience.com/ipcc-scientific-consensus.htm
What does "open finance" mean in this context?

I have the same desire as OP to access my own data. I want to build a tool to track my assets. Maybe it's worth building this as open source. Would that be considered "open finance"?
> I get enthusiasm for FOSS, but enthusiasm to the point of delusion?

Nothing wrong with being honest. We sometimes have to keep hiding the fact that when we use something on a system that is not officially supported and comes with tons of issues or bugs, we quietly fix it ourselves with hacks and workarounds and try to move on if possible.

Unfortunately with most users, they cannot tolerate 'Graphical artifacts, freezing, stuttering, and even full OS reboots' and would simply give up and use something fully supported like Windows.

> Honestly, Linux is not up to par with windows in terms of running games that are basically designed for windows. Thus the experience compared to windows for these things is definitively inferior.

If it says it is designed and optimised to run on Windows, then that's a hint that it will perform badly on other systems. You can 'try again' on other systems but obviously the help-desk guys will say: 'Sorry, that's unsupported.'

Better to go for something that has official support and move on, not half way there. Or wait until the other system has official support.
Not weird at all, given the recent uptick in anti-israel sentiments in the left, and uptick of antisemitism worldwide
You're ignoring the tail-risk events of PoW, like an undetected 51% attack, or backdoor in / compromise of the work function.
> Makes a lot of sense, you could solve all these questions without knowing specific algorithms as long as you are good at problem solving - which is, I assume, the intent of the process.

You could solve all these questions as long as you are good at problem solving, *given enough time*.

However, with tight time constraints and perfomance pressure, the only way you could solve all these questions is memorizing and practicing all these algorithms.
Does this kind of trick question work well in practice? If they explicitly ask for syntax errors it would be a waste of time to also check the code for other errors. I can’t imagine many people opting to do that unless they know it’s a trick question.
I don't think the problem is offending the ones who know how to do things. It's making them think they're applying for a worthwhile job.

I remember thinking what you're writing about there, that there's a lot of people to be filtered out, and that good candidates wouldn't be offended.

So we had this simple two-part quiz question for people, starting with "what is the expectation of a dice roll?". Amazingly a lot of people can't figure this out.

But also a lot of people know the answer immediately and will wonder WTF you are asking such a simple question for. I remember this one lady who interviewed with my firm, the look on her face when she realized we weren't asking anything complicated. You could just tell she thought we were a bunch of amateurs, and she'd better be on her way to see some other proper hedge funds.
> I get enthusiasm for FOSS, but enthusiasm to the point of delusion

I see your point but consider this: 20 years ago you could make the same argument for all aspects of linux, not just gaming. Why use some hobby level OS for serious work when you have Solaris, HP-UX, AIX?

Today we have a very usable Linux desktop and pretty much total dominance in the server arena, only because people were at one point "delusionally enthusiastic" about making it work.
I hope Linux with this Proton compatibility layer doesn't go the way of OS/2 of being so easy to run Windows games that nobody writes Linux ports anymore and as a consequence the performance and overall experience is never as good.
> For example having a space or a slash between repo and a branch in a command.

Actually, this one makes sense, once you understand the underlying model of how git works with remote repositories, which (imo) is fairly fundamental to a distributed VCS.

They're different arguments (in your words, having a space) when you're accessing remote repositories and have to specify the location it should access. You can always substitute an URL for a repo in this case, and they fail if you cannot connect to the remote repository.

In all other cases (having a slash), you're referencing a ref in your local repository. This is a local copy of the remote repository. That means that it always works offline, but also that it doesn't sync with the remote repository. You can also substitute another ref, such as a "local" branch.
Did you bother reading the exact article you linked? Because it literally says the following (and directly contradicts your claim):

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"Article Thirty Six

...There is nothing of that at all. It will never set out against any Muslims or against the non-Muslims who make peace with it, here or anywhere else. It will only be of help to all associations and organizations which act against the Zionist enemy and those who revolve in its orbit."

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I mean come on, lazily copying and pasting something you spent 3 minutes reading is poor form.

I would encourage folks in this thread to bring a bit more objectivity to the issue.

I am not saying Hamas are good or bad (frankly that is besides my point here), but I am just stating this recent phenomena of painting any muslim organisation as some kind of "non-believer" killing machine as ridiculous.
Example rewrite:

I am _a_ brown guy._I have been in _the_ [US] for 2 years._One problem I have is that [I] [have] this thick south asian accent (and also _I need to_ [become] _more_ fluent speaking [E]nglish), because during _my_ internship, at the end, that's _the_ only feedback _I_ [received] from my manager, that "[Y]ou are [technically] sound, but you do lack communication skills." So _the_ reason for asking the question here is to get advice and resources to solve my problem _with communication skills. _:)
> And my point is that discrimination is an active effort, which this is not.

That is an absolutely incorrect and indefensible point. Discriminators can be individuals, but discrimination is systemic. It can be a result of collective acts of malice over years or generations, or can be simple ignorance- being left out of the scope of the discourse and never really given a chance to get in the loop.
FWIW, I'm running Steam on Arch and it's working great. I remember that there were occasional issues with library version mismatches when I first started out with it, but I have not had any problems in the last... 3 years at least.

However, it should be noted that I don't play much AAA stuff. Most of my playtime is actually on the Nintendo Switch. The playtime that is in Steam is mostly in Linux native games (Tabletop Simulator, Cities Skylines, Unrailed, etc.), but the few Proton games that I've tried have all worked great.
I’m feeling pretty relaxed and focused with https://timestripe.com Don’t think that this is the perfect app. I guess it’s different for everybody but I like time horizons feature which I didn’t see anywhere else.
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Mine is https://loan-free-ed.neocities.org
ungated: https://archive.is/U63lf

Subtitle: Few volunteer for new gun-violence team that comes with more oversight and a mission to combat racism after a history of profiling