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From Open3DMM project discussion[0] thread:

> Open3DMM is an open source re-implementation of Microsoft's 3D Movie Maker.[1]

> The goal is to completely rewrite 3dmm from the ground up using only original code and adding functionality and extensibility.

> Update October 9th, 2021:

> The project uses just the game's datafiles and does NOT hook into the game's code anymore.

> Here is a video[2] presenting the help machine and help balloons! It isn't fully rendered yet but it shows a huge amount of progress in the GUI system.

> This video[3] demos the spawning of actors, which works pretty close to the original game. Soon I'll be working on fleshing out the rest of the studio and editor!

[0] https://www.3dmm.com/showthread.php?t=53736

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_Movie_Maker

[2] https://www.youtube.com/embed/RBUuJJDUYTU?rel=0&fs=1

[3] https://www.youtube.com/embed/-9-jAbSN3sM?rel=0&fs=1
It would be more interesting if the status page also had a test function scoped to the specific user. For something Google Calendar it could OAuth, but for things like public websites/services it could do a HTTP GET (or whatever makes sense).
If someone could answer my question with a logical response instead of just down voting it I would appreciate it because it is a serious question I am trying to understand about the vaccines. I am debating on getting a booster but I have a risk profile that makes this more of an issue for me.

So, what was the science behind the different doses? Does anyone know if Pfizer and Moderna used different mRNA?
Group Backed by Top Companies Moves to Combat A.I. Bias in Hiring
Possibly to prevent fast clicks being registered as double-click user select, but with a too general a target.
Databases always stink There is no way around it! So why not to embrace it ? :)
This is similar to the problems faced by people recovering from Eating Disorders. You can't just NOT eat; you have to build a healthy relationship with the thing that almost ruined you. I wonder if anything in that field has been successful and might help people who DO feel like their internet use is out of control?
PowerShell Inventor Jeffrey Snover Interview
Is it this issue? https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/4653

Intel tends to break randomly its Linux driver for some of its gpus, it's quite annoying.
Is it possible to officially buy a BioNTech dose in Germany ?
That's unironically what these "rights holders" want. Mindless consumers...
> Dreamer ...

i thought you said you are a hippy

anyway at this point everything becomes hypothetical. however what is certain is that copyleft licenses could make life much more difficult for monopoly companies than permissive licenses, and i am ok with that, just as i am ok with FSF being agressive about matters pertaining to software freedom. could they have a better and more effective approach, i dont know. maybe. i am not involved in any shape or form with them, but i guess that right now they have my support
Berenson apparently was already caught earning money with false information about cannabis effects, and has zero medical background.
The first mention says "Stockfish 8, level 20" in the paper. This isn't a blog post that you can skim, you need to read the whole thing before critiquing.
I've been following the research closely and haven't seen this anywhere. Mind linking to the studies?
Why would I ever listen to something by someone too stupid to use a readable font size on their site?
I strongly feel like it's the other way round. There are already diseases where we have multiple doses, like Tetanus[1]. If they said "hey, turns out we need a third and a fourth dose like with Tetanus, and then maybe a booster every 10 years" then that would be fine, and I think most people would accept that. But the word booster suggests to me they want to become (I hadn't heard the expression before, but I love it) "the Netflix of vaccine". Especially now that the EU has declared that vaccination certificates will expire 9 months after the last vaccination.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetanus_vaccine
It's not a terribly complicated subject, but you do need a fair understanding of IP and UDP. TCP too, because it is possible to establish direct TCP connection through two NATs using the symmetrical open clause of the TCP handshake. Looks like magic when you see it work for the first time.

Stevens' book is a must read, yes, but it has nothing even on NAT (iirc), leave alone on working around it. Look at how NAT works, what types of it exist, etc. Then look at "hole punching". For bonus points skim through p2p-hackers mailing list archives from 2003 and thereabouts.

Very little has changed in this area since mid-00's, people just rediscover and re-implement the same thing over and over again. Few get it 100% right (IMO) due to sticking to prediction being done client-side. That's inferior to the server doing it, because it gets you more precise timing and better prediction rate.
Well, there are also a bunch of people who are by default untrusting of authority who will latch onto and give YouTube ad revenue to anybody who puts out material that matches their confirmation bias.

If Alex Berenson was saying we should all get the vaccine he would never have gathered the following he did. So don't pretend populist journalists don't have a monetary incentive to propound the material they show, either.
Given the amount spent on lobbying [1], the Pharmaceutical industries track record of deceptive tactics [2], and the profits they have made and stand to make [3], it's not unreasonable to question the underlying motives, intentions, and biases of stuff like this.

[1] https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/industries/summ...

[2] https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/bigpharma

[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini/2021/04/06/meet-...
I agree. Wikipedia is supposed to be an encyclopedia, which explains some of that, but you can be encylclopedic without being Bourbakist.

It's great as a reference, though.
As a society we need to redefine what a public space is.
That's the usual way it goes, as long as relatively high mortality virus is circulating in most of the world population.

Both infection- and vaccination-produced immunity decays over time. So everyone's choice is between keeping up their vaccination, or getting COVID repeatedly.

Which boils down to a question of whether you think being vaccinated or getting COVID is less risky.

Yes, there's some +/- on the decay rate, but in a relative weighting between risk (COVID without immune system primed) and needing more frequent boosters, why pick the COVID option and roll the dice on death or permanent organ damage?

Personal choice, I stay vaccinated, at least until (fingers crossed) the circulating strains of COVID evolve to be less dangerous.
I think it's on purpose, I think they don't want you to be able to search but instead buy the ones they are "recommending" to you.
obviously any counterpoint to this will also be anecdotes, but to add another: I have heard from extended family and friends unrelated to the tech industry that they have growing discontent with Amazon, and have said they order much less stuff off there. For my wife, it has become a running joke on how poor her service has been with Amazon; It's more surprising when it _works_ for her nowadays. Our current record is 2.5 months for a "next day delivery", and it was the wrong item.
RabbitMQ has poison message handling in Quorum queues [0]. They are also FIFO.

[0] https://www.rabbitmq.com/quorum-queues.html#poison-message-h...
These short (~8min) documentaries are of outstanding quality. They cover various topics, from science, philosophy to some thought provoking topics while always maintaining a neutral stance and making sure that all the sources are stated so that the viewer can validate the statements and form his own opinion. This channel is marvelous.
The issue is that there’s an amazing amount of overlap between the people who pay and the people who receive, making the exercise quite pointless.

Even if you took all the wealth of billionaires and found a way of liquidating that at that price (you can’t, but let’s assume you can), then divide by all US citizens , you’ll see a pretty insignificant number.
> This is almost always why DRM is used.

No, DRM is used to extend control to media players and manufacturers via licensing. The rest are just excuses.
I observed this kind of behavior in many papers nowadays. This extremely painful for research, because some better candidates could be overseen and FAANG publishs a majority in the ML-paper section. Its a mess.
Well that’s news to me, very interesting. But they’re a member of the dolphin family. When you say dolphin people think porpoise hence my confusion. Thanks for the info!
Yeah, I agree there’s a spectrum but (like you) I’m definitely hearing it from the mouths of actual friends and neighbors, not just here. I think the split is “people who can afford to be choosy” vs “people who only make decisions based on price”.
I think we have starkly different experiences then. I’ve been part of several orgs that started out doing it “the old way”, and anything to do with servers was so difficult that it was relegated to a team of experts. Then we introduced Kubernetes and while there was a learning curve, the development teams were able to own significantly more of the infrastructure with the infrastructure experts owning management of the core and a few convenience operators. Stories like this are echoed all over—that’s virtually the DevOps narrative—container orchestration enables development teams to own their own infrastructure with a dedicated team maintaining a common platform.

Moreover, for single-server use cases, Docker Compose eschews a lot of the complexity that Kubernetes brings for HA purposes while also masking over much of the complexity of managing bare servers.

The Kubernetes (and other container orchestrators) learning curve is substantial, but it masks a lot of incidental complexity that operators would otherwise need to understand to do it themselves.
The difference between an enterprise device management feature and a web API are... pretty massive.

It doesn't seem particularly unreasonable that a company dealing with sensitive data would want to prevent their less computer-educated employees from falling for self-XSS attacks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-XSS
It’s the best we have, and history shows that this stuff gets more infectious but less fatal.
Yes, it's been really frustrating to see RKI predict this for weeks and just ... nothing happening. And then you still get headlines of "incidence fell slightly!" - from 392,4 to 392,2 (or sth like that), when testing labs are hitting capacity. We somehow lucked into a relatively good first wave and ever since then... so much unnecessary mess.
i've been getting a 'server problem [400]' in my music.youtube app on android for weeks when trying to play my own uploaded albums. reported through every channel i could find. i think nobody at G. is even trying to pretend they care.

companies die once their legal dept. ends up in charge of everything. at G this happened around 2010.
I started shopping at Best Buy again this year, specifically because I didn't trust whatever I'd get from Amazon anymore. BB is much better than I remember it being, and so far I've been more than happy with my purchases. Combine them with Target, and I don't need Amazon anymore.

I only look on Amazon when I'm purposefully looking for cheap Chinese merchandise. Like tea lights to put inside pumpkins or other holiday decorations. I shouldn't really be supporting junk products that won't last though.
I buy a liquor store for $1 million. A year later someone offers me $1.25 million for the liquor store. Would you argue that my million dollars was doing nothing?

The income the liquor store earned was income on my $1 million. The $250,000 may have been because of a change in tastes for liquor, or improvements I've made to the business through efficiency or reinvesting the icnome.

But what of the original owner who took my $1 million. He is retired and he has most of it in the bank (who will use it to make loans) while he spends the rest over the years as his retirement income.

The share of Apple is no different.
I no longer trust Wirecutter. Their humidifier reviews are obviously manipulated.

The only trustworthy sites are those that don't accept advertiser money, like Consumer Reports.
> In fact, if you don't have a lot of downloads, SmartScreen will block your executable even if you pay for the privilege of signing your executables!

There's more nuance here which OP is alluding to. If you form a corporation and get an EV cert, you will not get a SmartScreen block, not even on your very first download. Immediate SmartScreen reputation is the point of getting an EV cert for this; Microsoft says this explicitly. If you get an OV cert (the only kind that an individual developer can get!), you will get blocked and will have to build reputation.

As an individual open source developer, I have an OV signing cert :( At least it shows my name on the SmartScreen prompt.
Why would you be surprised that an account that was accused of being part of a content system spreading misinformation would be suspended?

A person can say what they want but no-one is forced to listen to it or help promote it.

As well, if this account was part of a system of bots and fake accounts that were spreading a particular message isn't that something that you want to see removed from a social media platform?

Isn't authentic information and material important?
We use Remotely at work and it's amazing: https://github.com/immense/Remotely
As much as I like dunking on Amazon and Bezos, I can't help but wonder if this could be applied to brick and mortar stores where you go in and ask for help finding something and they pitch you the product that's best for their sales commission
Budget doesn't really have anything to do with it. The vast majority of people on a team or working group aren't paid to work on Rust; they're volunteers.
If they said they people will need a new vaccine (which with the current mRNA tech will be relatively quick), I can imagine a similar comment pointing out suspicion that they want to sell something new.

Doesn’t make sense for them to market the current vaccine as still working if it’s not. Eventually more real world data will be coming in and it’s not something to easily hide from.
In addition to this, everyone has different requirements. A mix of opinions and a mix of requirements make a real variety of ways of doing it.
It could have also been much worse though no? If those 3 days turned into 5 in a hospital with another long tail of lung issues would it still be worth it just not to get jabbed again?
This was my understanding as well, but I might have read into it. The culture minds are in freaking hyperspace to get around lightspeed limitations on computations. He for sure can't beat that, but he could beat someone on another planet at their own game that he literally just learned in the year it took to get there. A game that permeates every aspect of their civilization.

I do assume his drone could beat him as well, but I'm not sure.
$20 * a_country is a lot
You put a filter over the front that blocks your charging wavelength, so it's only used internally.
There is absolutely no way to stop the spread forever. Just suggesting it is crazy. It is an option you have to forget about.

Stalling the spread is useless as well - we have already had two major mutations in less than two years.
> The leaves on a tree are not breathing,

Actually, leaves are the primary method that trees use to breathe.

> Acid, and therefore a hallucination, is altering your ability to perceive reality. It is not "unlocking" any form of reality that you cannot normally perceive.

Every new type way of seeing the world unlocks a new form of reality. I would disagree with the "fully experience reality", but it can definitly provide new experiences with time, space, perception, identity and causality. Those are the very topics covered by metaphysics and this it seems entirely likely that same/many people change their metaphysical views as a result.
> “Now imagine with this proposed Web3 that it’s true that users will own their data and experience. Why in the world would FB and Twitter and the mega corporations allow that? They stand to gain so much.” - my friend Auzzie, a pretty smart dude.

This defeatism is kinda almost the point. Why are we just conceding the internet to this small group of companies? Why not at least try to take it back? I really don't understand what this particular bullet-point is trying to say here.

People tend to forget that users determine the course of things, companies just build for users. Web2 gets better as things centralize, Web3 gets better as they decentralize and compose/interoperate. That is how we change this dynamic and "eliminate the middlemen."
They were? They say they use Stockfish 8 the very first time they mention it.
My understanding that not losing any messages and strict ordering correspond to "exactly once" delivery which is not possible in general case.
Is there a comprehensive white-paper anywhere with sample sizes and error bars? Otherwise this seems like an anecdote.

"The sera were collected from subjects 3 weeks after receiving the second dose or one month after receiving the third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine"

How do we know this study isn't just measuring the effect of that additional week?
Also how many subjects was this sera pulled from? Are the subjects materially similar between the second and third dose groups?

Not exactly surprising the people selling the third dose conclude that it is needed. It's like when the waiter recommends the most expensive option.
Detailed Report on Local Privilege Escalation in Ubuntu Desktop (Pwn2Own 2021)
Haystack 1.0 Open Source NLP Framework Released
Yep. Well is not this how many standards are gone ?

I think MongoDB did a great job figuring out developer experience for Document Database
German government staff is as un-digital as you can get. They have no idea how a small modeling group would have helped. Maybe the incoming government will do better, but I am not holding my breath.
Could we start a DAO to this end?
worse even if you explicitly type in a product name you not only still get the knock-offs you might also get them listed before the product you searched for without any "similar results" indication and without it often being "obvious on the first look" that it is a knock-off.

I don't want to know how many people accidentally under time pressure ended up buying the wrong thing, or parents not very familiar with a product accidentally buying the wrong present etc.
As noted before, the reason for including old tech is to look better. Why not mention the current state of the art and show that with a general player we can come close to this results?

This is just benchmark cherry picking and does not reflect real performance or comparison.
Twitter isn't a public space. It is a privately owned platform.
Like I said: mushroom clouds. And I am sure Chinese military staff knows it.
Alex Berenson relies on attention to sell his books (remember when he was telling parents that cannabis causes psychosis and violence? Great way to get on TV telling people about your book.) and his COVID denial sells ads on his substack and almost turned into a Fox show.

Pfizer also has a potential conflict of interest, which is why people are talking about what they've done going through the scientific process. That's very different from where Berenson makes up something outrageous, hits send, and then complains about being “canceled” if he gets criticized by real journalists or scientists because Pfizer employees people who are experts in the field, runs studies following standard methodology, publishes their data and analysis and it's critically examined by independent experts. That doesn't mean it's perfect but it's a completely different level of rigor than a self-published screed.
My state in the US has already been back to near 2018 normalcy for probably close to a year. The biggest change is that it's now faux pas to cough or sneeze in public, so people stay home when they're sick, so I can't remember the last time I heard a sneeze or cough in a store. Most schools are in-person, and temperature checks on entry. Some didn't require masks during class last year though that policy was reverted due to Delta, and local public schools are now maskless. Doctor's offices and government buildings are some of the only places requiring masks and the few companies with mask signs have about half their employees violating their own policy. However, masks can be only be recommended and not required for entry and the majority of people (probably 3:1 at least) don't wear them.

Most people have accepted COVID is here permanently. We're at ~50% vaccination and most vaccinated people I know says they won't get a booster because "it was supposed to make things go back to normal the first time."

Apathy is set in hard, and control of the message is outside the hands of the government and media here. Delta scared people a bunch, but after about a month, most people reverted back to not caring. I don't know anyone who is talking about Omicron, so I think every additional event just numbs more people.
And that’s not including the recent studies of high death rates for those with severe covid within a year.
Apart from your unit tests, there is no such thing as "Messages do need to be strictly ordered and messages cannot be lost". You can WISH for messages to come in the right sequence, and even count on it in terms of optimization, but if an event tracks something that happened, and that event comes late - or after a week - your system cannot say "Too bad, I told you, only events in the right order here" (which, at this point, is invalid in itself, as you missed some).
By the time you're experiencing symptoms, the infection has been present for some time. Most of the symptoms you experience are from the immune response mounted, but do not represent the time your immune system was exposed to the virus.
As opposed to using Twitter to "naturally" amplify information, just like our forefathers did out in the wild back when we were still in touch with nature and Twitter didn't contain any pesticides or plastic :)
> Serious question, where does this line of thinking end? Gaming rigs use upwards of a thousand watts, no practical value in gaming. Watching sitcoms on a television has no practical value. Phones capable of doing things other than making calls have no practical value, but we charge them all the time.

All of those things have practical value. Humans need relaxation and entertainment in order to be productive, which gaming and sitcoms provide. (I'm not going to explain how smartphones have practical value because I assume that was included due to some sort of editing buffer mix up or similar while you were simultaneously writing something else while commenting here).

> Honestly I think providing an alternative financial system is more practical than most of the other energy intensive things we do these days.

That can be done for orders of magnitude less energy. The high energy use of Bitcoin and similar is not due to its providing a financial system aspect. It is due to the particular implementation details of its ledger.
That's strange. I seem to remember the Pfizer/Moderna being advertised as a 2 dose regimen earlier in the year, anyone else remember that?

Seems like we'll be on to "akshually you need 4 shots to be fully vaccinated" like Israel in a few months.
I may be mistaken but I think ToroDB never tried to be MongoDB replacement but rather something you use as MongoDB replica to get your data in PostgreSQL so you can query it with SQL for analytical projects ?
Or they pay to silently implant a positive false memory of the film so you think you liked it.
I think government backed is not government controlled, right? For example now in El Salvador bitcoin is government backed. You can pay your taxes in it and I think eventually you can settle contracts with it.