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The Forgotten City, My Summer Car, Quantic Dream's games, Supermassive's games, Cloudpunks, Mind Scanners, Sable, Obduction, Superliminal, Eastward, Beautiful Desolation, Dropsy, If On A Winter's Night Four Travelers, Desert Child, Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor, Legend of Hand, Draugen, Felix The Reaper, Firewatch, The Talos Principle, The Witness

I am interepreting great visuals broadly to include great art direction, but there are some very nice looking realistic 3D games in that list

Some other ones that I don't particularly care for but that many people love: Disco Elysium, Outer Wilds, Return of the Obra Dinn

There are also many great games that feature combat as a core mechanic but are no more "about it" than The Odyssey or The Seven Samurai are. For example: Yakuza 0, Kenshi, INSOMNIA: The Ark, Vampyr, Valakas Story, Pathologic 2, Ghost of a Tale, A Plague Tale
Stratolaunch to Build Aerial Target for U.S. Hypersonic Defense Testing
I also remember DLL hell and all the issues to make safely run on every Windows installation a VB6 program and its runtime. But I agree with the other commenters that the IDE and the visual part was really nice (too nice for the average skilled developer of the time, VB6 was the NodeJS of that time)
How about a diplomats wife? They can clearly also escape extradition. It has nothing to do with what title you hold but if the US state gives a fuck or not.
This seems a bit disingenuous. It's an advertising ban, not a ban on any and all forms of signage. In the pictures of Sao Paulo you can clearly see that businesses still have small signs out front, presumably with the name of the business on them.
> I watched a one-hour show last night

Why?

In the 80s there wasn't much choice, but today you can watch pretty much whatever you want when you want with no adverts, no catering for the lowest common denominator, and at least in the UK TV viewing has dropped so much that it's no longer needed to be social at work the next day (in the 80s everyone cared who shot dirty den or whatever in eastenders, as pretty much half the country watched it. Not so now)
The text-based format is certainly superior for a programmer, who can write a script to output POV-Ray data.

Blender of course has a Python API, but the text for POV-Ray is almost certainly easier to think and use. After all, Python's "print" statement is just easier to use than going into Blender docs wondering what bpy.context.blend_data is exactly.

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That's probably POV-Ray's biggest feature. It is truly a domain-specific language for describing 3d worlds and objects.
Be extremely wary of Oracle anything IMO
Fun idea! I don't tweet much, but one of my tweets was "When quarantined in Hungary..." and the rest were about open source. The result was "When quarantined in biohacking myself". Amusing.
The process that concentrated the iron ore we rely on does not operate anymore.

Fortunately, despite millions of tons of production every year, we are nowhere near using up the ore.
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World Paperback – Simon Winchester (2019 Paperback, purchased/read recently)
If I was going to write some propaganda to try and whitewash the staggering amount of wealth and power is held by American oligarchs this is what I would do:

1) Write an article about income inequality. Wealth inequality is 100x worse than income inequality - http://metrocosm.com/wealth-vs-income-inequality/ but if you just smoothly transition from talking about economic inequality to income inequality, not only is it not as bad, the reader becomes a much bigger part of it and hence you become less of a part of it.

2) Ignore PPP entirely. If a Slovakian gets paid 5x less than you do in New York and also has 5x cheaper haircuts, you should probably feel a bit guilty about that.

3) Focus on personal responsibility. This is an effective technique. It was used to turn jaywalking into a crime in the early 20th century. It was used to make the litter epidemic of the mid 20th century Not McDonalds Or Coke's Fault. It was used to shift responsibility from Oil supermajor CEOs on to suburban white middle class soccer moms and voila - reduced pressure.

Just remember, as the article says: "If you want to reduce global inequality and support poorer people, you do have this opportunity. You can donate some of your money."
Fortunately, it can be turned off in a lot of applications. I hate it the other way around too: someone's read it, but isn't answering. Why? What's wrong? Did something I typed make you hesitate? All irrational niggling thoughts when the other person probably just got called away by a crying kid, or sudden explosive diarrhoea, or their house is on fire — you know, normal stuff.
it is also worth noting that julian didnt jump any fence. He received and published data full stop. The only espionage was on part of the whistleblowers.
TiVo took the commercial value out of everything except live programming (mostly sports). Netflix took what was left.

It’s the same reason the TV money start pouring into college football contracts around that time.
> Saying that he "just wants Microsoft to leave us alone," Borland International (BORL) CEO Delbert Yocam today filed a lawsuit against Microsoft (MSFT), claiming that the software giant is hiring away Borland's key employees to put it out of business.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/borland-sues...
If you're fat and out of shape and have a poor diet, Covid will likely kill you.
They ruin everything they touch IMO (Java came to them ruined already to be fair)
> Hospitals make ridiculous profit.

What's interesting about this is that around 75% of hospitals in the US are actually non-profit.

Source: https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/hospitals-by-owner...

All this ends up meaning is that any revenue above their expenses is plowed into hiring more and more administrative staff and building new facilities.
Too easily getting caught up in news. I tend to not really follow what's going on, but I get into these periods where I keep checking everything. Might take a week or two, then I snap out of it and get back to my life again.
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This doesn't jive with how pricing typically works. There is no such feedback loop, at least not one that is as simple as you're making it out to be.

Consider that your feedback loop implies a kind of symmetry by which TV stations could presumably also increase revenue by decreasing ads and attracting viewers in the process.

If TV stations have good reason to believe that increasing the amount of time dedicated to ads would increase revenue, they would have already done so a long time ago regardless of streaming.

My suspicion is that TV is increasing ads because people are moving to streaming without any kind of feedback loop involved. Those who are left willing to watch TV will do so regardless of increased advertisements. It's not that ads are pushing people to streaming creating some kind of feedback loop, it's that people are simply moving to streaming because it's a better product across a multitude of factors and those who are stuck with TV will continue to be stuck with it, ads or no ads.
A book that made a big difference in my life was feeling great by David Burns.

If you don't feel up to reading that either I understand.

Life has a lot of chapters. It won't always feel the way it does right now.

Hang in there friend.
if they only print on one side of the A4 paper you may never need to buy paper for rough notes again
Not specific to Borland, but this book makes for entertaining reading: https://www.powells.com/book/in-search-of-stupidity-over-20-...

He does get a few things wrong though, like open source. The best bits focus more on the 80ies.
Do you think natural immunity has any impact? If it turns out that Omicron has mostly mild symptoms, why can’t we infect the young and physically strong and forget about endless vaccines and boosters.
I've seen at least some of this effect covered by the term "shrinkflation", basically the concept of companies reducing quantities rather than increasing prices.

Customers tend to be most sensitive to price changes, so we'll probably see more and more of these non-price inflation changes.
I don't know about the others, but Canada is probably the easiest developed country to immigrate to. You can basically get a green card before you even land
Non-profit doesn't mean you can't make a profit, just that you can't distribute it to shareholders.

Big salaries, perks, and bonuses to executives is just fine.
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Hahaha I'll link this entire thread to their github
Edit: not John Stewart, John Oliver...
> We are far above the 2019 supply of goods in nominal terms

You're looking at aggregate. There are specific types of goods, the lack thereof, that's driving up the CPI. Right now I hear the car prices in US are pretty high and the production is lower because of the chip shortage.

The supply for a lot of other things is pretty elastic.
We had 60 years of TV getting to that 18 minute mark per 1 hour show.

I wonder how many minutes of advertising or signups will be involved after 60 years of internet.

I can imagine a 20 years from now - to continue watching Netflix Original Series "Idiocracy Now: Season 2 Episode 7 - Jim invents plastic soil mulch" sign up for this exclusive opportunity to get a new AI robot dog....
billable amount = (pain_and_suffering / 2) + 7
They threw amateur scene overboard and changed the price from $100 to $3000 per seat. People moved to cheaper options. When companies needed new people they couldn't find anyone with Delphi experience so they were forced to switch. Now nobody uses Delphi and it is impossible to find people who knows it.
> Why did you eat the dinner you had last night?

Is this really relevant? This is only a pertinent question if there was some fact that challenged his dinner decision and he decided to ignore it. Why would think that's the case?

I do usually choose what to eat based on proper caloric intake, nutritional value, and my mental model of human health based on research that I've done. Most people do. Most people fret all the time about what they're putting in their bodies. If I "cheat" and eat something I know is bad for me, that's not a case of a fact failing to change my mind -- my mental model is still correct. I know that the sugary treat is bad for me, and I am correct. Never in this situation has any clear fact been rejected. Never has an incorrect mental model been used when a better model was readily available.
Right the bet would be that a court-case will find the election was stolen.

We do have some trust in courts. There are kangaroo courts but only in corrupt countries. We do need to trust in some authority. It is another bet, do you believe that scientists are deliberately trying to mislead you?

That is possible and it is also possible that scientist are wrong by mistake. But how much would you bet that scientists are wrong?

Point is we trust some authorities more than some others.
Medical costs being high mean that you have to buy the insurance
Sure, so let's address the other point about cleanup not being a fine.

If you go spill a bunch of oil, you'll get a fine (a punishment) and you will have to do your best to fix the damage (as much as it can be fixed).

That cleanup is not a fine. It's distinct and separate. It is not the punishment.

Cleanup is also not a determinate amount. There is no inspector you can fly out who can eyeball the damage and give you any meaningful estimate. It's done when it is done and it costs what it costs.

That makes cleanup an expense, therefore diminishing income.

If you think the fines should be higher then that's great. You can totally charge them more fines, and they can't treat that punishment as an expense.

You can't however start weaponizing tax code against people you don't like. You can't use the cleanup as a second punishment.
>Information hoarding, distraction and FOMO

You know, I used to jump from one thing to the next never giving anything enough time. I would attend digital conferences, watch PARTS of courses on Pluralsight, LinuxAcademy (RIP) and youtube, hoard books, bookmark websites etc.

Something happened a few years ago where I was able to just turn it all off. I deleted all my pdfs and removed all my bookmarks. I began focusing on single thing at a time (usually in reference to certifications or new skills), and it made such a difference.
POV-Ray has a powerful set of solid geometry operations and is quite good for generating scene descriptions from another program and then invoking PV to render.

Obviously it's command line rather than a visual tool.
Are the extraction rules in the stack-graphs repository or other public repository, or in a private repository? It would aid understanding to have a fuller working example.
(Perceiver isn't a MoE, and Switch isn't DM.)

MoEs would work well with this paradigm. The whole point is to have discrete fully-separate experts, so if you train on one task and I train on another, our patches won't likely touch the same experts even without any special tricks. You could even go so far as to patch the dispatch layer and plug in a brand new expert(s). MoEs would be able to accumulate lots of patches and merge them with little difficulty. If this paradigm catches on, it might well justify MoEs on its own, regardless of the touted benefits of more efficient training & much cheaper forward passes.

Perceiver would have more trouble. Perceiver is like a RNN for Transformers: it's relatively few weights, applied repeatedly & intensively to a small latent encoding the knowledge about the input. Even with tricks, patches are going to fight over how to change those weights and change the encoded knowledge. A few patches might work, but a lot will get ugly.
It's a balance between doing what you want and screwing people hard enough to get voted out or violently deposed (transition mechanism depends on the system of government in question).
Saying the judgement is wrong is logically equivalent to stating that one of these assurances is going to be broken

No - that plainly does not follow.

All that is needed is to apply the standard of reasonable doubt: in this case, that the party in question (the U.S. government) can be trusted not to act contrary their assurances on these matters.

Which we are compelled to adopt, based on the very ample track record of their conduct in this regard.
"In the past 30 months, Microsoft has hired at least 34 of Borland's top software architects, engineers, and marketing managers", according to a complaint prepared by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. These actions have been undertaken “for wrongful purposes: to acquire Borland confidential information and to inhibit Borland's competitive position,” the filing states.

Borland's lawsuit seeks unspecified financial damages and an immediate end to Microsoft's unfair practice of targeting Borland employees in order to hamper the company's ability to compete. The suit claims that Microsoft's activities are illegal under California Business & Professions Code Section 17200.

https://www.eetimes.com/borland-sues-microsoft-for-unfair-co...
Trump is banned from at least Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube- so it's not like Trump supporters have zero basis for their complaints. I think these platforms are generally considered mainstream, so being forced out of them can be pretty impactful censorship. How many platforms have Biden, Obama, or any previous president been banned from? This censorship of major political players is unprecedented in US history afaik.
There is also this implicit form of -ism built into it, in that certain groups of people were "obviously" less intelligent so it is unlikely they could ever build something magnificent or intellectually obscure. Whether it is a belief that aliens must have built Mayan or Egyptian Pyramids because of a bias that they were dumb savages, or whether it is dismissal of alternate forms of successful government and social organization in "uncultured" parts of the world.

It is easier to assume something like "this mechanism shouldn't exist" if you (general "you") think a group of people are already beneath you due to your implicit biases.
I'd just like to point out there was a lot of easily broken crap back in the day, too. Durable items from the past are over represented in both our memory and in the physical world.

Furthermore, truly durable items still exist. One of my favorites are my Osprey packs, which I have had for nearly a decade and expect to last for another few decades.
> And why aren't there startups out there coming to compete for this gigantic money pool by offering a mere 400% markup?

Regulation. If you wanted to start a service that drives elderly patients to get their medicine, in some justictions you need the permission of the local ambulance company to make sure you don't cut into their profits. This process is called a certificate of need[0] and if you dont have one, you can't operate.

It's like this with virtually everything medical related. If you try to compete they have ways to shut you down or stop you from starting all together.

[0]https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2021-07-09/...

See also:

Controlling the supply of doctors by limiting residency slots (https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/medical-school-enrollment...)

Banning the reimportation of drugs produced in the US back from Canada at lower prices.

Keeping older, safe, and well known drugs behind the counter (albuterol is a good example) to drive office visits and keep pharmacy revenues up. In other countries you can just buy many common drugs like that over the counter, cheaply.
Ruthless. Just pure evil to target one specific company like that!
The single tool that AFAIK every other advanced-economy state (OECD, if you like, but even some outside that) uses, despite all the different approaches in the wild, is: price controls.

The more-free-market ones simply dictate prices on some things and services (with, for the more-free-market ones like Singapore, the very real implicit threat of dictating even more of them if the market gets too greedy, with the less-free-market ones dictating more prices from the outset), and at the less-free-market end of the spectrum you have state monopsony (single-payer) or even direct state control of healthcare service providers, so the price controls are more de facto.

I'm not aware of a single system outside the US [EDIT: in a developed state, that is—I've not looked into developing-world systems] that doesn't achieve their results with price controls. Even the relatively "free market" ones—again, Singapore is usually the prime example people bring out for that, and they use some price controls and a very credible threat of further intervention to make their system work. Given this, I don't have much hope of success for any reform that doesn't either directly set at least some prices and threaten to set even more, or take even more control over price-setting (monopsony power, or nationalizing providers), given how universal that element seems to be.
That’s such old news, it hardly needs stating.

The linked article looks at one possible mechanism why that is.
That is irrelevant if the hacker isn't at the base or in the US. This here is US law being applied outside the US to someone doing something outside the US while not being a US citizen. There not a single way to twist and turn this where it is lawful to apply it to Assange. It's just another corrupt court bending its knee.
Do you have a link or more information regarding the pyramid block formation?
> I basically don’t encounter any ads in my day-to-day life, digital or physical.

The only ads I encounter are physical. Adblockers don't work for billboards. :D

> As for television ads, ugh! Maybe once every year or two I happen to be in the same room as a television that’s turned on, and how anyone can stand to watch the stuff when such ads are part of it, I don’t know.

This I realized when I was 19 while on LSD and it was a revelation. I put the TV in the closet and never had one since (or, well, one that I only used through HDMI so it was a monitor rather than a TV).
hey apparently someone made a dosbox distro to play with borland c++ https://developerinsider.co/download-turbo-c-for-windows-7-8...
Next week and losing fat can't be in the same sentence.

1 kg of fat is roughly 7500
Cal. Healthy deficit is 500 Cal a day, which means losing 2 kg of fat per month. 50 kg overweight means two years of suffering.
A figure like that is meaningless unless u know how many people are supported on a pay like that and what is their purchasing power and whether they own any land.

I know that many people in my home place earn less than 10USD a day and are able to support their families. This is largely because they own land and despite the roughest of times are able to have shelter and food.

So it's not extreme poverty.
I’m a health economist who works on hospitals. There is a long-standing question in our literature about whether non profit and for profit hospitals actually act differently. My sense has always been no.

You also leave out one important place for “extra” money to go: salaries within the hospital.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon#Precursors

> Modern emoticons were not the first instances of :) or :-) being used in text.

> In 1648, poet Robert Herrick wrote the lines:

Tumble me down, and I will sit
Upon my ruins, (smiling yet:)
By moving to far better country you gain much more than just money. Its tons of things usually, that completely redefine overall level of quality of life. Health care, social care, low crime rate, better schools for children and generally much better environment for them to grow up and have better lives (again, not in monetary sense, this comes just as consequence of the rest). It can be very stimulating.

Its a huge step, too big for way too many people, but definitely worth it for many others. It looks much worse from far than actually doing the steps though, you break them down into atomic parts just like any other problem solving.

I've done it twice and when looking back to those 10/15 years, it was the right choice, probably the best in my life. But its best done before starting family.
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This very much depends on the GC you're using. But yes, a full GC will take longer the more memory you have. Therefore you want to avoid full GCs like the plague.
> I have always found it important to actually understand the things I am using.

> I think there is a certain 'magic' in not understanding certain concepts fully.

With magic everywhere I wonder how many lifetimes it would take to understand the things we use. And I wonder how much of our knowledge is, should, or must remain tacit[1].

And sometimes “surface explanations” kick off deep understandings that you can’t surface at once, or ever. Jordan Peterson tried rationalizing faith in this way, and it was quite a show[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_knowledge

[2] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL22J3VaeABQD_IZs7y60I3lUr...
Single payer is not really a solution to the healthcare cost problem. All it does is give government more power that it doesn't have Constitional authorization to posses.

A real solution to healthcare cost is making healthcare a functioning market where the buyer knows prices before they purchase.
They usually tie it to caps on executive salary and bonus, but even without it's still better than for-profit.