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> 'refugee, formerly expat-student.'

They want to go back to India, not go stay in another European country. What do you think they are going to do when they arrive in another EU country? They can't stay there as refugee since they have Indian passport and India isn't fighting some war. Also being refugee is no fun either. I can't believe some people feel like there is some fun to walk over to a country without any resource and legal means and stay there as a refugee.

Even if what you are saying is true, what do you expect is the solution? Keep them all in Ukraine and let them die in some war which they have nothing to do with.
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I enjoyed reading this, but had to filter so much overhype out of the article. The author should consider reducing the dose of caffeine.

One thing is that the ideas noted here aren't really unique to Miyazaki. The game industry once shared the same notion implicitly, but they lost it as their businesses got bigger. Many games these days are more like digital drugs that stimulate your peripheral nerves. Many of them go further and make players suffer, so that players pay money for relieving that pain (pay-2-win). I mean, it's the game industry went haywire, not that Miyazaki is doing something special. He has been simply preserving what should have been kept right there.

In the same context, I'm strictly against calling Miyazaki a genius. He's rather an opposite case of being genius. Geniuses do colors; something feisty and brilliant. Miyazaki does muddy brown; he silently does the due diligence within his scope. That is, his works are rather an accumulation of mundane tasks - persistence and craftsmanship - not some random gotcha moments, or a wrong electrical zap in brain synapses.

You can really feel this difference by playing his games carefully. Following through his works, I could sense how deep he went. There's something that word "smart" can't really cover.
> "The law of unintended consequences" ... what are they going to do if the target demographic (in this case Asians) start their own merit-based and academic-based colleges and universities?

You're asking what people would do if those who couldn't get into university address the issue by building a new university, thereby increasing supply?

"Celebrate," I'd assume.
They could also just get more flexible with the product they are offering. For example selling single articles for let's say 50 cents or so.
Were you using it on Linux or something? Or maybe with very large documents?

I use it every day and really haven’t had slowness issues, even when running via Parallels on the Mac side. Of course, typically my docs are <100 pages and light on images.

I have seen undo history go away when edits collide with multiple users, but that’s really the only way it could work. And you can still view old versions of the doc if you need to retrieve/restore something.

MS Word as a whole is definitely very far from flawless, but it’s still better than the alternatives I’ve seen, and it’s extremely entrenched. That’s why it’s hard to see “git for office docs”succeeding.
Come on, you literally think the Central Intelligence Agency, the poster child for psy-ops, is not doing psy-ops right now???

That's like saying there's no evidence the NSA has saved this exact message in Xkeyscore.
> And still no support for custom emoji or stickers

That sounds like a feature to me.
Yes, I've worked with this exact algorithm before, and others like it, and it should be much worse. Better than finite diffs or reinforce, but way worse than backprop's exact gradients, to the point of being unusable. Moreover the variance of the estimate grows with the number of parameters, so it gets worse still on bigger problems.
Doesn't seem like it to (untrained) me. Maybe if it were ham-handed and on-the-nose.
AFAIK Chechnya did not aspire to NATO and still Grozny got leveled.
> That's a trick they picked up from the ruby community.

Pretty sure they picked it up from Groovy, which itself picked it up from Ruby and Smalltalk first.
There is no threat, it is a bluff from the Cold War days. Putin’s cronies want a larger Russia and that won’t happen if everything is leveled.
No fly zones and the Russian nuclear threat
You're commenting on a post about quotas for Asians saying that everyone who opposes quotas for Asians is racist. It seems plausible that they could just be Asian parents or something.

Is the removal of gifted math classes from SF public schools due to the overrepresentation of Asians an example of wind turbines, in your view?

Were quotas for Jews at Ivies bad? Would quotas for Asians at the same time have been bad? Would quotas for Jews now be bad? Does the badness of racism against Asians and Jews depend mainly on whether AA for other racial groups exists at the same time?

Is it generally good in your view to divide people into precisely eight groups (White, White-Hispanic, African, African-Hispanic, AAPI, AAPI-Hispanic, Native American, and Native American-Hispanic), and then pick some of these groups to admit fewer poor people and disadvantaged people from and others to admit more wealthy and privileged people from? Would you like to explain in person to Arabs fleeing U.S. wars and applying to U.S. universities that it's important that we discriminate against them because they are white and enjoy lots of unfair advantages in their lives compared to other applicants?
Putin’s War Is Europe’s 9/11
> That only works if only a few poorer people make it over the bar.

That is not true. The per-capita endowment of Harvard (and other schools of its caliber) is so large that it could afford to entirely eliminate tuition[0]. Currently, approximately 60% of students receive some sort of financial aid, and 20% pay no tuition at all[1]. These figures are similar at other similar schools.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/harvard-should-stop-charging...

[1] https://college.harvard.edu/guides/financial-aid-fact-sheet
> Yeah they should have said "special non-millitary operation" instead, right?

What I wrote: THEY keep using the term "war" when referring to THEIR actions against Russia.

If a British or French minister says that THEY are at war with Russia, how is Russia supposed to interpret that?
Have you tried lobster[0]? I think it took a lot of inspiration from Smalltalk in how it handles closures and control structures, in that it tries to make function call syntax work like control structures[1].

Actually, looking at it's design history[2] it took a lot of inspiration from a lot of languages before ending up where it is now (or maybe "where it's taking a break for now" is a better way of putting it). So it's no surprise that Van Oortmerssen tried to keep the best bits of every language he visited.

[0] https://strlen.com/lobster/

[1] https://aardappel.github.io/lobster/language_reference.html (scroll down to function calls)

[2] https://aardappel.github.io/lobster/philosophy.html
Well, for my use cases it's required. If you run your own matrix home server feel free to ban it but for me that is an essential feature.
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Modern ARM CPUs go so far as having entire systems that translate external ARM instructions to an internal risc based one.

I hope you realize that any big instruction set can be reduced to a smaller instruction set. The only instruction set that cannot be reduced further is a single instruction set.
I spoke with several Russians on 4chan last night.
And screenshots!
>It would almost be easier to modify the bash source itself to read and use a regular grammar

It's an interesting idea that we're using for zio-cli [1].

[1] https://github.com/zio/zio-cli/pull/119
They do.

But if you believe they don't get help from western intelligence agencies, you're looking the other way.
Raku developers Manifest against War in Ukraine
Gonad size seems like an unsubstantiated hypothesis that’s unlikely to be borne out. Imagine doing the same analysis for any other animal. At least now it’s become a falsifiable hypothesis.

Note I’m discounting comparing gonad size across snails. Keeping track of it per snail as a relative measure to indicates fertility is likely going to be more effective (which I hope is what the scientists are looking at).
That "some" proprietary formats from the 80's and 90's are still readable is already causing real problems: because not *all* are. So text, possibly with Markdown or similar hints regarding emphasis and structure, is still vastly better than any alternative I can think of.
You're flattering yourself too much. Ukrainians had the last 8 years to train and practice. They're one of the best now. Others will be coming to ask them for help, not the other way around.
That's what I do today in my own app. I have a "table of contents" file in each folder. Ideally the file system would support that out of the box, but maybe a first step could be to standardize such a TOC file...?
You still get to die of the radiation, good times.
I actually don't necessarily think this helps but it does explain everything and suddenly Putin's actions, while horrendous, certainly make sense strategically.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4

Ignore the clickbaity headline and that it's from 2015 - it explains how we (you and me) understand the situation vs. how Putin looks at it. It definitely suggests the more we push Putin into a corner because of our values the more chance there is of nuclear war. It's still unlikely though because Putin and the Oligarchs are rational actors in all this.
I was very afraid about COVID; I went on a preventive personal lockdown 2 weeks before the government one. Then in April 2020, when the data rolled in showing ridiculously low mortality I chilled and I spent 2 years waiting for idiotic governments to stop infringing on my freedom.

Russia doesn't have enough manpower to conquer Europe and nukes are highly unlikely. The narrative that Putin is mad is ridiculous, he just decided that isolation from Europe is the lesser evil compared to being surrounded by NATO countries.

Nukes are highly unlikely because retaliation would damage everyone on all sides, Putin is just using them as leverage.

Once one side has technology to somehow defend from enemy nukes, then nukes could become a viable option, albeit an incredibly risky one.

This is just bluffs and media spreading fear.
Yeah the stormtrooper is clearly fake. I wouldn't discount the Tie Fighter, though...
3-player pong: two people control the paddle, one person controls the ball — switch off every time a point is scored? sounds like fun!
I go for a walk. I really dig into my work. I play games with my daughter.

I turn off the news
As much as I wish that were true, you are plain wrong.

Ukraine's highest peak is 6,700, and the Carpathians are at the very western edge of Ukraine - if resistance merely survives in the Carpathians then the Russians have comprehensively won.
I’d support it, if it didn’t cost $10/month on each damn website to read one random article a month.
There is at least one now called the Sipeed Nezha, costs about $115 on Aliexpress with 1GB RAM. Seems like it's similar to an older RPi.
Been using it on Linux for many years but it does feel like their Linux support has gotten worse.
Or one truely bad election outcome in one those countries: USA, France, Great Britain, Pakistan, Israel, India
There aren't many though and almost none who haven't come up through the trenches themselves.
Depending on your definition of major, there are quite a bunch of places in France that would be more than 200 km away from one.

Only 7 "urban areas" have more than 1 M inhabitants. Of those, the first two have almost 25% of the country's total population [0].

Also, I'd expect the huge and sparsely populated Nordic countries to fit the bill, too.

[0] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_aires_urbaines_de_Fr...
The story of Shambuka is thought by many to be an unreliable interpolation within the Ramayana. And even then, Shambuka's violation of dharma is said to involve his improper performing of tapas, a kind of ascetic penance that's often criticized in both Buddhism and Hinduism; certainly, it's not considered universally good. It's not to be confused with meditation or reflection in a general sense, of which we are even told wrt. the Shudras that live in the forest (i.e. pursuing Vanaprastha).

(To top it all, apparently there's even a tradition which says the wise Shambuka ultimately managed to perfect his dharma by means of Rama's intervention, whilst the Brahmins who had requested that very intervention are criticized. Thus adding all sorts of nuances to the story that can hardly be described as "casteist".)
One thing I haven’t seen mentioned is looking at Facebook Groups. The advertising can be weird because it is somewhat of a grey area, but most Facebook groups pages are run by companies or moderators who are looking for a little extra cash. They will add you to their group and let you post a certain amount of ads per day. You have to make the posts interesting and provide value to the group members, as more engagement will increase the reach of your post.

On a side project last summer, I was able to work with a company running education niche groups. To join 10 of their groups (total reach probably around 30k audience) was $500 per month billed on PayPal. Could make a post per day in all 10 groups, so 300 posts. The conversion rate was better than any other paid advertising we had tried and the targeting was much easier.

It’s easy to get started: find a few Facebook groups you might be interested in joining, go to about this group, add the admin as a friend/send a message request, and ask about advertising opportunities. Be sure to show them your project, and why you think it would be beneficial to their audience, that will help your case!

Also - have you thought about going to teachers with your product (assuming it’s compass letters from your post history), getting them on a free subscription, and hoping the kids go home and tell their parents they want to get the letters too?
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You vastly overestimate the competence of the CIA.
It's a combination. The US releasing intelligence early on as it came out cut the knees out of the Russian disinformation campaign. So much so, I suspect it may become the new doctrine. Ukraine, and Zelensky in particular, have also taken full advantage of social media.
They don't send troops because Putin is threatening with a nuclear counter strike, that's not really a green light.
‘Local’ Russian GPS jamming in Ukraine hasn’t affected US support ops, so far
Your misplaced faith in the competence of the CIA is almost adorable. Small countries like Israel or Ukraine actually have to have competent intelligence services because their survival depends on it.
It's often claimed that a loosening of media restrictions post-Korean war contributed to the domestic lack of support for the Vietnam War.

But there are a lot of ways to shape a narrative in 2022 that involve amplification instead of censorship.

https://www.rewire.org/vietnam-war-media-shapes-public-opini...
You make some good points, and it would be good to discuss them in a post about those topics, rather than Russia's war of territorial conquest in Ukraine, which is what this post is about.

I'm sure you didn't mean to, and are a wonderful person, but the whataboutism detracts from the more important message about _this specific war_, and serves to deflect the criticism about the specific topic in this post.
You've got to be careful in Kotlin. if `list` is an actual `List`, `filter` and `map` will create intermediate lists.

To avoid that you must use `list.asSequence().filter { .. }.map { .. }.toList()`.
I get your points. I really do.

I know that standardized tests aren't devoid of faults.

But, if you want to replace them, you have to replace them with something better.

Just because something has faults, it doesn't mean we abandon it. We find something better, and then replace it.

That is not being true for admissions.

Double-blind standardized tests are not only safe against bias, but also against corruption.

If we were to simply abandon things with fault, we would have to get rid of democracy, marriage, and food, among other things.

This is a sad case of Goodhart's Law playing into reality.

People in power have chosen one metric as a measure of progress of historically oppressed races- enrolment in college degrees.

And that is costing us dearly.
I'd use whatever the rest of the team is using.

I'm currently one of a few macOS devs in a primarily windows shop because I got involved in supporting a mobile app. Whenever I have to work on our none-mobile codebases I run into all sorts of issues that the other devs never have, and it definitely impacts my efficiency.

I also end up doing a lot of scripting, and now those scripts are either slower to write(if I consciously make them OS-agnostic) or unshareable.
Sure but the WINE folk don’t really know either way if a contributor who contributes has seen it, unless they do some background checks or their email literally ends with @microsoft.com (even then they could be in another Microsoft team away from Windows)
You do not need to replicate all features of Qt to make a GUI toolkit, especially since Qt tends to have a ton of stuff outside GUIs and actually has two "widgets" approaches (classic widgets and QML). For example the 3D API stuff are pointless beyond context creation, unless you use only that 3D API (instead of underlying window system functionality) to put stuff on screen.

Qt also recreates a ton of features found in C++ and if we're considering a new language, chances are the language itself has features that make Qt's unnecessary.
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F-Droid is about user freedom, so there are clients that are more like Linux package managers, for example https://github.com/mvdan/fdroidcl
Another business model... some kind of system that all sites could use. Wow how different that would be...
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I once mentioned something like Asian groups have a much tougher time and the guy just went "well, then why stay here? just go back to China" then he laughed and walked away.
yes, to the game creator, you should clarify that, happened the same to me. Something like "keep tapping spacebar"
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Corrent me if I'm wrong, but aren't most cloud providers already providing redundancy in their EBS/equivalent setups? S3 had quite a lot of nines too
I keep keep a stock of potassium iodide, a tyvek paint suit, and a gas mask in the trunk of my car which i always keep fully charged.

In this way, i am made to feel like my exposure is almost limited to direct hits.

Sometimes when i cant escape the anxiety, i go on backpacking trips to disconnect (and stay out of the crosshairs).
Hope EU will respond better to this crisis than the US after 9/11.
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His games are the siritual successor to Ultima games. You’re given very little to go on and you’re expected to create your own adventure and discover the main story. Mistakes are harshly punished so caution is needed.

Add in BotW and you have Elden Ring. It’s a masterpiece.
As a mathematician I wonder is there is some kind of equilibrium that we could propose, or at least promoting an scenary in which what each side want is clearer. There is no way to reason when the rules implie a contradiction, but at least we could try to find an unsatisfacible model in which to prove (the execution plan of MAD) is delayed. That would nee to entangle economic, geopolitical and psychological models. We could model that in a bayesian framework given some priors. I don't know how political science and bayesian modelling is now. Another analogy is in poker, how could you train the current models to detect the best move?

Edited: I am thinking about this from https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=2410
Then a striking 1976 result called Aumann’s Theorem states that their opinions must be equal. Or, as it’s summarized: “rational agents with common priors can never agree to disagree about anything.”

So it seems is fundamental to know what are the priors of the agents. I don't know if Aumann's Theorem and poker have been studied before.

Edited: Something related https://www.foxnews.com/world/putin-is-playing-poker-with-us...
What about a note of the dimensions of a room, furniture, or piece of equipment? Suddenly you need a diagram.
> Let’s not steal the credit from Boris Johnson and Theresa May for that.

They didn't have an original idea in their lives. The idea is Dugin's, the funding comes from the Russian tax payer, the public face was Nigel Farage, the campaign strategy and slogans come from Dom Cummings.
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Blendle is perhaps the most successful with that, but they're definitely not changing the world.

I'd post a Blendle link to the article, but they don't appear to have FT, just FTWeekend.
Friends are seeing escalating probes here in Canada. It's incredibly naive to believe they don't have the resources to attack pretty much anything they want.

They don't HAVE to prioritize is my point.
Ukraine reports losses only traditionally, because Ukrainians worry about their relatives, but losses are hard to count in real time. Dead soldiers are declared as missing until remains are found. Dead civilians are not reported by invaders at all. For example, we lost one MiG-29 just a few hours ago[0]. This morning report[1] is quite correct. Here is information[2] about death of Oleksandr Oksanchenko, one of the best pilots. And so on.

When dozens, if not hundreds, of soldiers and civilians die every hour, it's hard to track all of them. Usually, most information about losses will be available after the end of an intensive firefight, when officers will have time to fill reports. Some information about shootings is reported by civilians, but it is hard to verify it.

[0]: https://www.facebook.com/MinistryofDefence.UA/posts/26756335...

[1]: https://www.facebook.com/MinistryofDefence.UA/posts/26756335...

[2]: https://www.facebook.com/MinistryofDefence.UA/posts/26701995...

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