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> What if coca cola decided that they didn't like the color of your house

I'm quite certain that if I painted my house white and red with silver curly letters on it spelling "Cola is Sugar" there'd be multiple laws that expensive lawyers can help enforce.

Those laws (trademark, libel, etc) practically grant large corporations from taking over public space. In my country there's committees (seated by advertising industry) that monopolize the space and enforce this in even greater detail. Hell, we even have committees that tell what color you are allowed to paint your front-door (Schoonheidscommitee). This latter, however, is democratically ruled (local govts) so something that Coca Cola has no seat in.

So the answer to your question is: yes. They already can, while the opposite is not possible.

But the question itself is actually a false dichotomy. Me being able to oppose Coca Cola on their own turf: by running a campaign against them, does not imply that Coca Cola can automatically then decide the color of my house.
> often requiring giving long account and routing numbers that many of us were told not to give out. It also takes several days to process, and sometimes has fees of $25-30

I get there probably isn't a single answer to this, BUT WHY? The US is a mature, skilled economy with a competitive B2C market, why does it still lag behind even comparable countries in terms of consumer financial infrastructure?
> What I find most exciting about it is that a NeRF represents images as neural nets, one neural net for each image (in the OP paper generalised to image + deformations). By evaluating the net at various pixel coordinates it gives the color.

I actually had a similar idea and used it to write a lossy image compressor for my bachelor thesis in 2018: https://theses.liacs.nl/pdf/2018-2019-PetersO.pdf
The way I put it was how come a remote process has authority to load arbitrary code into the local process?
It’s for the Bluetooth piece. The optical sensor reads the result and the turns on the light and/or lets the phone know over Bluetooth.

Seems unnecessary, but if people want to buy it…
I just have the belief that civilization is a system that tames people into obedience.

Very obedient/normed people who adheres to a culture or lifestyle habits, will often acquire a high social status because they can get access to the benefits of a group.

You don't escape poverty through merit or effort, you just "belong" with people of a certain social status that identify with cultures and habits.

That's how civilized humans behave, and that's the role of government and modern society to mitigate those ingroup behaviors. That's the whole point of the job interview, to test if a person fits as a feeling of belonging to a certain group, not as a matter of skill or competence.
Is it similar to Programming Pearls?
At this point it's really better to automatize support. They can't do anything a policy rule-based bot couldn't do.
The compensation aspect is known as garden leave in the UK (probably elsewhere too), although you'll only find it in certain industries or at certain positions in the org.
Actually somebody should figure that out. Start a fund that stations it's founders in some cheap locale to build.
I think parent might be referring to the Red Cross scandal.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-...
> There are certainly a lot of useless majors. But that doesn't imply all of them are useless.

It's not so much a critique of the majors but rather the professional requirements of the job listing. For jobs that don't have an innate technical (technical in the loosest sense of the term) requirement, they only want a certain class of person working there and college degrees are just how they do that.

> I'm not in the US, but isn't the rationale for that construct to make people more credit worthy? Ultimately you have to convince somebody to give a random person a lot of money on the odd chance that they'll finish their education and earn the money back. I suppose if you don't like "educational debt", you could also try to convince somebody to give you another type of loan.

One rationale that I heard that seems reasonable at face value is since you can't give back your education, that's the justification for not being able to declare bankruptcy.

I mean, I could put it on credit cards or take a personal loan, but that just increases the financial burden (via the interest rate), and if I'm not going to do that for the explicit purpose of purposely declaring bankruptcy, it seems unnecessary.
You write a book and nobody buys it or reads it. What's your compensation then?
Great writer, great scientist, great human. May he Rest In Peace.
Nope. We just get overcharged.
I'm the submitter, but I'm wondering: "spend a month together in Silicon Valley" sounds like for meeting potential investors. But dont we have Covid preventing people from meeting face to face?
Driving away in an almost new car with a few basic checks of what condition the car is in, verifying you have a valid licence and means of paying is something I would expect to be less than 100% streamlined towards my own convenience.

I have rented from Enterprise several times and can't really complain. Not much of a story there, I guess?
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Well, the Sign in/Sign up with apple button automatically does the localisation. My guess is that you designed your own button and used your own localisation for Portuguese. On the first instance you found a Portuguese reviewer, and on the second a Brazilian.
They have their own partnerships (e.g. Wikipedia), own web scrappers [1] and they actually change the ranking of webpages with their own algorithm (don't remember where I read it). I still have no idea of how much is really Duck and how much is Bing, though.

[1] https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
WTF - then why are "booster shots" needed? In my country they are moving towards recommending them after three months already.

I don't have a English language resource ready, but this article in a renowned German science magazine shows protection against severe illness is drastically reduced after six months for the current vaccines: https://www.spektrum.de/news/wie-lange-schuetzt-der-impfstof...

For example from the chart, after 6 months the protection from Biontec is only 30% of the protection in the beginning.
Was there not a flaw in the jndi api for ldap? log4j was just the entry point from what I understood.
They’ll make up for it in volume!
Ignore any provision of the TOS you dislike and lodge complaints with the various regulatory bodies and see what happens, you’ll get your $70 back or the game back or $70 and the game long before they enforce the TOS.

You have lots of options, start by throwing a brick through one of their windows, figuratively speaking. See what happens, most people aren’t dumb. They realize that games cost a lot less than windows.

They can not give you your money back and deal with regulators or they can make the problem go away.

A friend of mine got citizenship just by filing a FOIA against the govt that wouldn’t issue it, they were up against the deadline and would have had to deal with the EU, so they just issued him citizenship in exchange for withdrawing his request.
> science of happiness

Yeah I'm not sure, I think it's natural to have ups and downs. But for me personally there's always something worrying me. I don't know if once I escape being poor "for good" eg. have money invested/don't have to work. If I will lose this constant anxiety.

I still struggle with the whole "altruism" thing like I help people but I also in the back of my mind have this feeling of "mine". "I'd be further in life if I was an asshole" etc...

I think productivity is also subjective... if you setup businesses/have passive income/don't have to work. If you don't do anything are you not productive? Anyway I know what productivity means for me (getting things done) but that's because I can't stop yet. Not that I want to stop but yeah. It's like I don't want to wake up/sleep 9-5 but I need to because I have a job.
The culture of money can also be a taboo in politics.

Money is a necessary tool and be well managed, but it should not be a priority.
The whole point of a search engine is getting you good results. Not alright result, or some random results in the wrong order, but the best possible results. Bench marking relevance is much more important than bench marking performance for search.

Lucene is a Swiss army knife for building you something to get you the best results possible. Those aren't enterprise features if you actually care about what your users do with search results. For example because your sales are directly correlated to that. The trick with Lucene is to do as much as you can possibly get away with as opposed to doing as little as you can do to call it a day that seems to be the strategy here for proving X is faster than Y with this particular benchmark. It's faster because it does less useful work.

The proof of concept here would be building something that is as good and as fast. By not even trying to benchmark how good things are, you kind of make the point that you either don't know or don't care enough to even bother to measure it.
Great video on chaos games, you can do a lot of these just using turtles in python. The wiki for barnsley fern covers this more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnsley_fern#Computer_generat...

The wiki for chaos games has animated examples that make it pretty clear how it works for the sierpinski triangle:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_game

I enjoy that in Rule 90 of cellular automata approximate Sierpinski triangles are also generated as a mod-2 version of pascal's:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_90#Sierpiński_triangle
Some other rules also result in the generation of sierpinski's triangle. Fun stuff.
That is of course true, but nothing lasts forever. The disc may deteriorate, or be stolen, or their house might burn down, but that's life. At least by owning the physical disc, GP commenter can take full responsibility of its condition and accept the risks of "shit happens", rather than being at the mercy of arbitrary decisions or failures of a remote faceless organisation or of its future owners/creditors.
Which is pretty much an impossible goal - the user still needs to be able to follow quite detailed instructions to get the sample, correctly mix in the buffer solution, and dose the correct number of drips. Sure, thats something 99% of people can do, but then 99% of people can see 1 or 2 lines on the test without the help of an app...
Because if those items are suddenly would be available as NFTs, they're worth a lot more.

Now it's just tough luck for the people... Old agreement about destroying someone's digital assets. People who want their items "back" are forced to play/pay again..
Learn how to use a profiler, so you know what is actually slow. Find your inefficient hot loops, your N+1 queries, etc.

I don't know what the standard tool is for node, but there must be one.
Hundreds is really a loose retail quantity if we talk about microcontrollers, the first real price break point is typically 1000pcs. Smaller quantities are cut and priced by distributors themselves.

In normal times, most products not marked as EOL would be available in tens of thousands with short lead times.
You have to deselect platforms first off but even then you will still see starlette and fastify on the list being compared to frameworks like nestjs and fastapi. The anomaly is workerman/swoole based PHP libraries which are significantly faster than other dynamic languages frameworks by 2-10x it’s not that express and Koa and fastapi etc are slow it’s that PHP is an anomaly. This is the problem with this benchmark it’s very misleading.
But if he creates a new account and transfers the NFTs (that function as your proof of ownership of a game in this case), then you're good to go again. Since they can't be deleted. It's a different story if your NFTs are banned of course, then it wouldn't matter if you transfer them to a new account.
Classes are loaded when they are about to be used for the first time.
>no technological problem //

What about proving ownership, on the balance of probabilities, to show tortuous damages in a court? Seems like a list of receipts that's somehow certified would be beneficial to that end?

Probably first we need legislation to make digital purchases resalable, and to require DRM free versions to be made available if a product is EOL-ed.

Companies world copyright against the populous who are [in a functioning democracy] the ones who give them the copyright in the first place.
Thanks, I hadn't heard about the Foley balloon.
You can view ipython notebook easily with nbviewer. (sometime github rendering fails for large notebooks)

This year AOC 2021: https://nbviewer.org/github/norvig/pytudes/blob/main/ipynb/A...
In the tech industry, they are commonly enforced in sales roles
Depressing to see a “reboot every 20 days” hack / workaround for whatever stuff doesn’t work correctly. OTOH the xfinity Arris modem I used to have rebooted almost daily whenever it felt a bit sad (I think if the BER crossed a threshold or something), so I suppose it’s an improvement if that’s your baseline.
Beautiful, but did they remove the trees with all its roots intact to draw? I’d like to know how they did it.
P.S. If Silicon Valley is inaccessible due to Covid, we will re-create the IRL period in another startup hub, such as London. We will try our damnedest to make Silicon Valley work.

Taken from https://pioneer.app/blog/announcing-pioneer-3/
I recently rented a car for the first time, with a co-driver. The rental was paid in advance online (which seemed to be the norm here in the UK) and I thought it was going to be fairly straightforward and quick to collect the car.

Instead, after waiting about 15 minutes for the single person ahead of us in line to be processed, we were met with a series of demands for various sorts of verification and documentation that has not been mentioned in the online checkout process. This included having to use a .gov.uk website to get a code that would allow the company to validate our driving licences, and provide a proof of address (despite our addresses being printed on our government-issued, just-verified-authentic driver's licences.)

The whole process took nearly half an hour just at the desk. I am glad that there was no one waiting in line behind us most of that time.

I've now joined ZipCar and will hopefully never have to deal with a traditional car hire company again.
I work on a project that leverages Kong's API Gateway, which is essentially Nginx + Openresty (Lua) + Kong (More Lua). The killer feature wrt Kong is the plugin ecosystem, which (among other things) allows you to act on the request/response lifecycle at various stages. Developers coming onboard to the project usually have little to no experience writing Lua, but we've found that coming up to speed on the language and it's runtime to be fairly painless. These days Kong has shims to write plug-in code in a few different languages (javascript, python, go, and more recently a wasm runtime) but despite our teams unfamiliarity with the language we still go back to Lua because performance can't be beat.
> Intel recommends against running it because it will damage the CPU

Citation? A cursory search suggests this is a fable.

And your argument boils down to, (or it seems to), the fact that there is always an imperfection so might as well not try/care about other imperfections. Which I kind of understand, but I don't think it's a good mindset. If we didn't have to waste cycles on stuff like "&255" because of language or other self-inflicted limitations, no matter how fast those cycles are completed, we'd have faster software.
JMH is a standard tool we use for performance comparisons.

For context, see Scala's battle with specialization to get reasonable performance of collection transformations. Once you start using lambdas to define e.g. a filter condition, and once you want generic implementations working on different item types, this pushes you into a boxing hell and the JVM is surprisingly reluctant to remove all that overhead, and you end up with >10x penalty. So instead of relying on JVM, they specialize data structures for primitive types. It is even something that you are supposed to do in Java manually (see IntStream, LongStream classes).
Shit. I'm sure my account is removed too. Had quite a few games.

Is there something I can do about this? This is unclear to me.
Most people, particularly in the west, believe that merit can be acquired, "just do it", "self made man", free will etc.

Liberal economics are surrounded with those kinds of ideals that always explain that the poor deserve their status, that they only have themselves to blame.
1. For tracking purposes, I assume that I fall asleep immediately after putting my phone down. That's generally true enough, although sometimes I do find myself still lying awake and having to add a "Not sleeping" entry before putting my phone down again (for hopefully the last time of the night)! After my alarm goes off or as soon as I'm otherwise conscious enough to do anything, I mark "Sleep" as over.

2. It's not surprising that lack of sleep can get you feeling down. But since starting to track myself, I've been more conscious of the fact that whenever I'm feeling down, it's almost always after a night or two of bad sleep! I now take sleep a lot more seriously and ask myself first whether I've been sleeping well whenever I'm feeling down (as opposed to blaming other people, etc). This is especially important since I tend to ignore what my body tries to tell me.

3. The 7.5 hour average has remained roughly constant month over month for the entire decade. It's hard to say how much of an effect that other variables like exercise have since I always aim for 7-8 hours regardless. I do notice that if I get like 4 hours one night, I'll end up sleeping more than usual for the next night or two.
>In China where I emigrated, white people arent poorer than their yellow counterparts in average because immigration is done differently (no slavery, no low income, leave if you cant make it etc).

Not saying you're wrong about white people, but I've heard some very different stories about Filipino/Indonesian maids in HK, as well as Black and Domestic Migrant labourers holding a rural hukou on the Mainland.
Overwork means the manager can't manage time and doesn't get work done on schedule. Is there some memey site that explains this? Like https://www.managersresourcehandbook.com/lessons-from-bad-bo... (but that site focuses a lot on fluffy stuff like giving much attention to employees).
GraphQL schema file loading with GraphQL Tools (screencast)
An any-to-any IO multiplexer turns out to be pretty large in silicon area. You're paying extra for that feature as opposed to devices where each pin has a choice of just say 3 functions.

For most users, they prefer to have the chips cheaper and spend an extra few minutes of engineer time figuring out which pins need to be hooked up to what.

I can see for smaller volume devices where engineer time dominates, and devices that you want to be really field reconfigurable, the all-to-all mux is worth it though.
Is this computational "simple" (efficient?) enough that it could be used to create better interactive graphics in things like games?

Or am I understanding this incorrectly? Sorry, this feels very much beyond me.
Unix shell isn't usable by normal public. It's just a stash of random symbols everywhere with unintuitive semantics. You'd loose your brain if you begin writing one. There are so many quirky considerations you've to take in mind to handle for all cases just gets even more complex then remembering C++ rules.

The substitution and shell-quoting are the things that piss me off. Why in 2021 would ever want all that legacy cruft? I better write a Python script that is far more readable and intuitive than figuring out all the symbol combinations in shell programming. We deserve better, don't we?

Shell programming is like necromancing, one simple mistake leads to big disasters. Also, these shells never point out the actual mistake, like are very unhelpful.
"Because I'm living in poverty. People who live in poverty don't have money to invest."

You have your time and energy to invest, and you can get an educational loan.

" then work at your job for 5-10 years to pay that debt off"

I don't think all of your money goes into paying off the debt during that time.

"I'm philosophically opposed to getting a piece of paper for a job that I could do just as easily without a college education as I could with one"

Well if you don't need it and don't want it, obviously don't get that degree.

" I also feel really uncomfortable with debt in general, especially debt that I cannot choose to have absolved through bankruptcy."

Since you have established you can earn as much without a degree, and it takes 5 years to pay off the costs, you could also work for 5 years and save money for the degree.
So, how is that declining rate of hospitalization going?

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It’s insane to me that people can’t survive a trip without a car.
Also rule 90 tends to generate them from the nil seed - try clicking on the banner I made and set window size to something even and the seed to zero.

https://rileystew.art/posts/banner
This however, throws out all productivity, that a language like Java gives developers in contrast to C, plus memory management. The C equivalent most likely would be a buggy version with the typical memory management issues, or consume much more time to create.

I am not a big Java fan. We are not talking a Haskell or Rust or similarly safe language here. However, Java is still far ahead of C in that regard.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but why do you call that the cloud again? Mutualized hosting is what we've been doing since "forever".

The part where i disagree: don't go with Microsoft or Google, they're the worst. They've got less-than-stellar service, abysmal support, and they're capitalist assholes. Go with a local tech coop or non-profit (or even just a local tech artisan for-profit company) with friendly support.

I think it's been said in many other threads, but it's always worth repeating: by using Microsoft/Google email services, you make it impossible for others to use a solution of their choice because they will be blocked despite having perfect server configuration.
Education hasn't been free for a long time. You have to spend money on private tutors, books and laptops if you want your children to compete in the rat race.
What if you could opt in to a penalty in exchange for being guaranteed the car you reserved?

You’d have to find a palatable way to present it to consumers, but that seems surmountable, you’d just need to do some delicate copyrighting.
Yeah, honestly this makes me think that the warez scene may be increasingly important in the future.
Why did you offer lucene as a counterpoint, if you deny that there’s any equivalent implementation elsewhere that isn’t lucene? That just means lucene cannot be a counterpoint if it just so happens that the only implementation is in java.
Uber and Lyft have car rental options, although the experience between the two differs quite a bit, having used both in the past few months.

Uber car rentals is just a proxy for traditional car rental services like Hertz. All the aforementioned problems like reservation flakiness and weird fees applies.

On the other hand, Lyft car rentals is operated in-house and feels delightful in comparison. I usually reserve a few days before, take a Lyft to the fleet HQ with the provided credit, and roll out in <10m. Overall a super nice experience both times I’ve used it.
Sweden is funny. Their society is explicitly designed by the well off to convince the poors that all is well.

It's all very equal, just don't look behind the curtain. We all earn our 50000SEK here.

The CEO? Oh, just ignore him