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Roadroller was the reason I was able to find the second level in. Thank you so much! :)
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The optics mentioned will project the light so the display appears to be much further back, and your eyes have no trouble focusing on that virtual image.
I'm typing this from my Unihertz Titan Pocket, which was very successfully crowd funded recently. It's a good little phone. Prior to that I had a Blackberry Key2 whinch was pretty much the perfect Android phone IMHO. I have a Gemini PDA which is a great concept but the hinge isn't practical.

Before that a blackberry Passport which ran BBOS. Loved it too, at the time.

These devices do exist, and the niche is strong enough to support a small market segment.
You mean 11 years ago
Scrollytelling of companies using artificial intelligence in DE, AT, and CH
Haha, yeah, I remember somewhere in Japan there’s also a temple with an information sign that casually lists the years in which it was burnt down and rebuild a bunch of times.

Actually, I imagine that’s true for a whole lot more than one temple.
That's a matter of opinion. For my friend group it felt like "fake difficulty", where you're fighting the controls more than your opponent, so we stuck to other games (mainly Total Annihilation and then Supreme Commander).
Without knowing if this has anything to do with these glasses I remember something called „in eye projection“. The trick is to create the image with a laser direct in the eye ignoring the focus distance, line a hologram.
A quick search shows something like this https://www.osa-opn.org/home/newsroom/2018/october/optical_d... .
I should clarify, that aside from the discordant samples he uses, his soundtrack selections are incredible and worth checking out. I think it's possible I'm just ever so slightly on the spectrum and that biases my experience of Curtis.

In other words, I have a weird susceptibility to loud music that hits certain notes. I suspect most people don't even notice how disturbing some of the music samples he uses can be to some people, so this is probably on me. It's likely Curtis isn't even aware of it.

I've had a strange reaction to certain sounds, colors, and textures all my life, so I'm probably projecting my preferences on to Curtis. I really enjoy the films by Curtis, but I have trouble watching them because the sound is so triggering to me.

Those samples he commonly uses, where it sounds like high pitched squeals (violin?) and overdriven metal on metal tones (synth or tube amp with reverb) drive me crazy. It's literally painful for me to listen to it.
I don't mean to nitpick, but I had to read it a few times before realizing what the quote was saying, I think removing one of the "the":s before a company would make it clearer.
Its just some standard applied to Eastern cultures where things are supposed to be unchanged from olden times. Large parts of the many monuments in Europe were reconstructed post second world war. Nobody says they are 'not authentic'.
> Isn't explicit better than implicit?

That's the point, isn't it. No, explicit is not always better than implicit.
Java was the only way to write applets and code for feature-phones early on. Nobody thought of writing application servers in java in early 90s, java was supposed to be the way to write code for internet of things.

C++ was the easiest way to write kinda-OO code and use C libraries. Then it became de-facto standard for gamedev and desktop app programming.

In Linux world it's still the case that if you want to write a desktop app you should write it in C/C++. Use any other language and you will struggle against the dependency management and package managers forever.

Python is the only clear example of succeeding without a platform out of these languages, and the fact that after decades still Python is less popular than PHP shows that historic accidents and having a good platform is more important than any quality of the language.

On the other hand Perl is dead so maybe it's not as bad :)
The downside in the extreme is that the original investor pulls the termsheet and you end up empty handed. I know of cases of this happening, but it's rare.

More commonly, you develop a bad reputation in the VC community, which is very close-knit. Next time you come to raise money, this can hurt.
One thing I keep wondering about is how this squares with the fact that the Mona Lisa we all know is, most likely, not what da Vinci actually painted. There was this recent article:

https://www.npr.org/2012/02/02/146288063/painting-sheds-new-...

about a copy of Mona Lisa that was apparently done side-by-side with the original, and looks entirely different. The article implies it looks the way the original would be, if not for the layers of centuries old varnish covering it. Viewed side by side, the two paintings deliver completely different experience.

I've read a bunch of similar articles about other famous work of arts (temple frescos, Greek statues) - it seems that the old art we see today usually looks nothing like it looked at the time it was made.
Rather unavoidable when you have types like IO() in the first place.
I find the price thing an advantage, personally.
> I would argue that python's popularity comes with numpy/pandas, jupyter notebooks, and the recent popularity of AI/ML/data science.

Python was hugely popular long before these were a thing. It was already seen as one of if not the most beginner friendly language at the beginning of the 2000s. It became the language of choice for ML because it was already popular with beginners not the other way round.
In France taxes come pre-filled. Cheating is equally simple: you just "forget" to fill additional fields.

No, TurboTax seems like a clear case of lobbying where millions are inconvenience just so that a handful of executive keep an underserved revenue.
> A bad Haskell programmer will get absolutely nowhere.

that's a feature, not a bug in my books! Maintaining code written by other bad programmers is the bane of my life (despite getting paid to do it, so i can't complain).
To be honest, I can truly say.

COVID deaths mainly occur in old(er) people and people with existing health issues (of course those groups overlap a lot). So the lockdowns primarily benefit those groups.

Unfortunately, if those groups do not die of COVID, they will die of old age and/or their other health issues sooner than other groups anyway.

So, the benefit of any medical act should be measured in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year. The same surgery might be worth the effort and recovery when performed on an infant who will live for another 80 years; you would not perform it on someone aged 99 so they can live for 1 more year.

In short and very bluntly stated, they let 4 babies die (let's say conservatively about 250 QUALY's) to have some old people live 1 or 2 years longer.

Which is a disgrace.
Sadly, this case was treated as a dispute between two big corporates (and I don't blame the judge for it as that is what it essentially was). But from the perspective of right to privacy, consumer rights and the right to repair, huge issues of social concerns remains with the dangerous, yet highly profitable, business model of the Apple App Store:

1. It essentially takes away the rights of ownership from us as Apple gets to dictates what app we can own. A user can only install an app if it is available in the App Store. And they cannot roll back to a specific app version they want, nor have any guarantee of the app availability in the future if Apple deems it so.

2. It's a huge violation of our privacy rights as Apple gets valuable personal information on you based on the apps you choose to install. (E.g. Installed Grindr? Datapoint indicating you are Gay. Installed a religious app? A datapoint to your religious beliefs. Installed a political app? A datapoint to your political leanings.). These data allows Apple to better exploit you to make more money.

3. Forcing developers to pay a huge commission (30% - 60%) for what is essentially the use of a Payment gateway is a gross abuse as most online payment processors don't charge more than 5% for most transaction.

4. Worse still is that this exorbitant commission is passed on to the user without their knowledge - Apple knowingly and deliberately exploits all its users, who remain ignorant about how much money Apple undeservedly pockets from every transaction on the App Store.

5. To ensure this business model is not upended, Apple does not allow the installation of any other OS or software on its devices. This violates our right to repair to fix any issues and / or to extend the life of our device.

Consumers thus need to demand the following minimum guarantees from their government:

1. Allow installation of apps from outside the App Store.

2. When consumers pay, they should clearly know who their money is going to, and any commission or charges by Apple / BigTech should be listed and highlighted to the user on each transaction.
I read it correctly the first time around, then after your comment realized that I had skipped one ‘the’.
Also not how I remembered it, although my experience is from Civ 3 and Alpha Centauri. There are a bunch of people who don't have this experience so I wonder what's going on.
Nah. It's still no better statement of taste for Chinese tech companies to shoot their commercials in America, with white actors.

European fake CEOs are going out of fashion bit, by bit, but the demand for caucasian actors in China is still unrelenting.

Just go to AliExpress, and imagine just how mind boggling many models did it took to make all these photoshoots.
> Maybe wooden buildings make this clearer than stone buildings?

I think so: they don't normally require or get this kind of maintenance by replacement. The mortar might be repaired, but the stones tend to be original. The Roman forum, the pyramids, the Sphinx, Stonehenge: all original stones.
W3C's own design system uses SASS, enhances selects with JavaScript
Thought this was going to be about Dr Alan D. Thompson's Leta AI!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqJbCeNOfEK88QyAkBe-U...

https://lifearchitect.ai/leta
They have been investing in infrastructure, housing and energy. The return on that investment has been decreasing. The CCP has been kicking the can down the road as best it can trying to maintain growth numbers, which in part acts as justification for its single party rule.
"You can't compress noise." Well, humans can't tell the difference between two snippets of white noise.

It'll be fun. Remember jbig? (can't find the source, but iirc "most of what we're sending is text, so our fax can detect identical characters and reuse them! genius! [ten years and several bonuses later] um boss, our fax swapped a few ... 'identical' ... digits in someone's legal documents, so you have to appear in court now. also their entire scanned document archive is potentially corrupted and they may want damages")

I guess the 'no photos on the internet' people will have the last laugh; they won't be the ones seen criming in the background of someone else's blurry holiday photo.
Because it doesn't exist, which is the whole idea of the video. You should watch it
I'm guessing that is the brightness of the display chip which is only 2.4mm x 2.02mm, not the brightness at the projected size
I once was hiking with friends and met a pig's family (father, mother, two small children). It was surprising (I didn't know that pigs were monogamous, let alone run a family better than half human out there); we kept looking surprised so the male came on front kinda to assert his position on or protect his family. Then he led his family into the woods. A really unusual interaction.
The investigators did look at the fomite/supplies idea but couldn't find any records or recollections of new supplies being opened.

"Even if it were possible for someone to infect you from thousands of miles away with no intermediary save the wind it wouldn't be likely"

Isn't this just an assumption based on your pre-existing intuitions? How do you know?

"nor would it change the average dynamic where masks and lockdowns decrease spread in far more normal scenarios."

Lockdowns and masks don't decrease the spread. That's the point, that's why alternative explanations are necessary. Go look at case graphs for regions where you aren't familiar with the local laws, and try to draw a line on the graph where mask mandates/lockdowns were brought in or removed. You can't do it, I've tried. The graphs are always basically smooth and organic looking except for measurement artifacts. If these tactics worked there should be sharp, clearly artificial jumps and drops in case numbers 3 days after a mask mandate / lockdown is brought in or cancelled but that never happens. In fact in the UK, their "freedom day" where mandates were cancelled was followed three days later by a sharp DROP in cases. That's the exact opposite of what you'd expect. It doesn't mean anything though, it's just a funny coincidence, as becomes clear when you look at a wider span of data.

Now you're claiming that viral spread on the wind is incredibly unlikely. Epidemiologists do not agree. They agree for SARS-CoV-2 but for other epidemics in the past this idea has been taken very seriously and is the subject of entire research papers. Even Neil Ferguson at Imperial College London, Mr Lockdown himself, based his models for foot-and-mouth disease on the assumption of long range windborne transmission. Ferguson has never claimed those models and understandings were wrong, in fact after the event he claimed victory (the tactic that time was mass killings of farm animals). Somewhere between 2000 and 2020 his team lost interest in windborne transmission without ever explaining why. It's not for microbiological reasons. No epidemiological predictions have any link to microbiology.

You're claiming motivated reasoning by me, but that isn't true. At the beginning I thought lockdowns and masks would work too. I was very surprised when they very clearly had zero effect on case curves, and very angry when lots of people decided to simply ignore that fact for what looked like ideological reasons (like loyalty to the academic "expert" classes). I know about these cases where airborne transmission was taken seriously exactly because after the 6ft droplet model failed to generate useful predictions I went digging to try and figure out why.
Samsung chief resumes official business after release from prison
Absolutely no camera!
Maybe it's used to attribute the Japanese in the 80s?
The movie SimOne just got real
It seems Japan and South Korea was pretty unfriendly against each other in the past, to put it mildly. :)

Addendum: Hey, this is an impression I got from Palace Complex Pavilions' information cards. I have nothing against either nation.
> Viewed side by side, the two paintings deliver completely different experience.

They look nearly identical to me. It's just that the color balance is a bit different. You can apply a simple, smooth, monotonic, contrast change to the colors and change one into the other (except for the red shirt).
You hardly hear about Zig or Nim. Are they actually being used in production?
> If Netscape had decided to use a Scheme-like language or a BASIC-like language it would still be the most popular language in the world.

Brendan Eich advanced a Scheme-like scripting language for Netscape, which got a facelift from Java’s popularity.

“Scheme was the bait I went for in joining Netscape. Previously, at SGI, Nick Thompson had turned me on to SICP.”

“The diktat from upper engineering management was that the language must “look like Java”.“

“I’m happy that I chose Scheme-ish first-class functions”

JS actually made a few functional concepts mainstream, such as first-class and anonymous functions, and callback patterns.

Source: https://brendaneich.com/page/5/
I dunno if I agree with this. If you're early on in your career, jumping in as employee #20 can be an optimal time to learn a whole lot by working directly with all the key senior people in the company. If you're later on in your career, an employee #20 is likely jumping on board to work with people they know and trust.

From a strict compensation perspective, you are probably right, but even then, it is probably less stark than it was ten years ago, what with seed rounds and series A sizes being so massive that salaries are a bit more reasonable at this stage too.
Yes, even though I use a Blackberry Key2 as a daily driver I still feel like there is something missing.
I was using a Blackberry Classic before and the combination of the trackpad and BB10 was such a nice experience.
I see CG, I don't see an actual product. Does it exist yet?
> Getting a pet to do those sorts of behaviors usually takes treats and a lot of time.

My dog figured how to use the lever from watching us a few times. I can barely teach her anything else though.
Or it's simply because the voice acting industry is bad in China.
> my favourite highly blobbable unit for fooling around in single player was advanced construction aircraft. i guess if you've got enough resource income to support 20+ advanced construction aircraft rush building lines of long-range artillery, you've probably already won.

Hardly. My group had glorious 4v4 games where getting your swarm of 500 advanced construction aircraft to build vulcans and buzzsaws that would maybe get off a few shots before being destroyed by your opponents' counterparts was the name of the game.
It is part of the perceived importance. My wife's an (western :) ) artist and I have spend uncountable hours discussing exactly this subject with her and her artists friends.

Even if you could not see / proof the one picture being the real one, their believe is rock solid that the original has higher (emotional) value.

The idea that the original hand, in the original moment, with the original intentions made one object and the not the other, is of paramount importance.

YMMV.
I have made 43 angel investments in the last 6 months, 90% at seed and pre-seed. 75% in the UK.

The lowest valuation I've paid was £3m, and this happened exactly once.

My mean valuation for seed is around £8-10m.

It tops out at around £20m.

Perhaps my sample is skewed. Not many of the companies I'm investing in use SeedLegals. Investors often insist they use actual lawyers.
Having written Haskell for a few years, the concepts are kind of interchangeable in my mind. I think of recursion as being basically a loop, and a loop as basically the same thing as recursion. To the point where it seems natural to me to name a recursive helper function `loop`. Obviously they're not exactly the same, but with familiarity they can be translated trivially.

I think it's really just a matter of prolonged exposure to make recursion seem intuitive.
> bringing up the fact that you're South Korean for some reason

It's completely normal to qualify one's perspective, and often beneficial. in fact for people to know whether your comment is an opinion, or based on some actual experience, knowledge, skill, etc, it adds value to the discussion.

In the context of South Korean culture, it's absolutely useful to know the commenter is South Korean.

If we're talking about tea, crumpets, or the rain, I might point out that I'm British.
I’m not blaming anyone for it not being here (especially since I have contributed exactly nothing), but I am still waiting ;)
While I don't necessarily buy the panpsychism you're outlining, I appreciate the fact that you actually make the distinction between experience of qualia (the hard problem) and self-awareness, which we arguably already are capable of both modelling and implementing successfully.

I always found it dubious that people privilege self awareness so greatly in discussions of consciousness considering the fact that many beings that most recognise as at least sentient such as dogs and other higher mammals often lack it, and arguably many humans too (and I'm not just talking about those before the age of 4 either).
> I'm not really happy promoting a cryptocurrency these days, given that most of them are get-rich-quick schemes

I can't agree with that sentiment at all. Sure, there a those schemes, but most of the time they are easy to spot. If you have a look at the top 50 coins on CMC [0], you will find mostly solid projects that have large ecosystems with much brainpower locked in.

[0]: https://coinmarketcap.com/
Xiaomi has a history of using open-source to power their stuff like their cameras. Though I'm uncertain how often they strictly follow the rules like GPL they have published some amount of open-source. I wonder if these will be hackable and the source published. That would really make these popular I think.
There is no need to argue about what's better or more useful. Imho, it depends on a personality. For one weightlifting is the best exercise, for another it's yoga. I think we don't get obsessed with specific movements, we get obsessed with things we do well. I'm new to yoga. I just started practicing it with https://yanvayoga.com. It's hard for me at the moment, but I like asanas that I already learned. And I can definitely say I couldn't be obsessed with weightlifting, because I don't like it.
I couldnt see anything in their ad about how the HMI will work, the closes we got to an actual interaction was the guy tapping the side of the glasses to take a picture. Ideally it would use eye tracking to let you pick out menu options, but there's no way they've got eye facing cameras crammed into that thing. I assume it will be completely controlled via some proprietary smartphone app, with limited or non existent developer support. Unless they can nail the developer experience, and the user interaction experience, these are dead on arrival.
Let’s be fair here; quoting Goebbels is never a good idea unless you’re writing a history book or a research paper. If you don’t understand why, the problem is you, not Facebook.
> Great Pyrenees

I saw dogs very much like this on a mountain in Catalonia (although not in the actual Pyrenees). There was a pack of them wandering around on their own, with whom we crossed paths several times. Once, we saw them with their mistress. It seemed she had basically deployed them as a patrol, going around checking on the sheep without human supervision! They were incredibly friendly towards us, accompanying us along the trail for a while.
Are falling back to 1921?
Just have an eye projection made through some aperture narrowing lens system to flatten the depth of field
Yes, that's functional programming! I think you're right to say that many programmers use FP much of the time. The modern trend is definitely to borrow many FP techniques and use them inside an imperative shell.

Your example is strict FP, where a and b are fully evaluated before add() executes. There's also non-strict FP, where everything uses lazy evaluation by default. That has some big advantages but also a few pitfalls, and generally makes things significantly weirder when compared to imperative languages.

Pure FP is where you only have functions and expressions, no variables at all. I think that's where most mainstream programmers draw the line -- sometimes you just want to store something somewhere, without being forced to jump through what seem like weird hoops.

The original elevator pitch for Haskell was that it's a "non-strict, purely functional" language (aimed a unifying a bunch of different research languages, plus the proprietary language Miranda).
> These cows were trained to pee in a location with treat training, same goes for dogs.

I think dogs have an innate need to have their toilet not where they eat. Most dogs we got in the farm where not potty trained, but they always shit/pee in the same place which is a bit far and cornered from where they hang out/eat.